“This book contains many excellent features, but two of them are particu-larly useful: a timeline listing major historical events affecting Germans

in and from Russia, and a truly comprehensive listing of even the tiniest villages and other places where German Russians ever lived east of, say, Hungary. The latter consists of simple descriptions, alternate spellings of the place name and, best of all, coordinates for locating the place on maps such as the popular ones by Karl Stumpp.

For anyone interested in ancestral villages and other sites, this aptly named Handbook should be of great help. While I was doing some translating for this version of the book, I personally found in its place name listings every single vil-lage in Ukraine in which my family lived up to 1944.”

Alex Herzog, Boulder, Colorado

German-Russian HandbookA Reference Book for Russian-German and German-Russian History and CultureWith Place Name Listings of Former German Settlement Areas

by Ulrich MertensTranslation by Brigitte von Budde and Alex Herzog, Edited by Allyn Brosz, Alex Herzog and Thomas StanglPublished by the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, 2010, 799 pages, 3 Color Maps, Hardcover

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“The German-Russian Hand-German-Russian Hand-German-Russian Handbook, the new English version of Ul-rich Mertens’ Handbuch Russland-Deutsche, is an impressive hardbound book. I highly recommend this book to the serious German-Russian re-searcher, being in the same realm as Dr. Karl Stumpp’s book, The Emi-gration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763-1862.

Its contents include several time-lines which outline much of the his-tory of both Czarist and Post-Czarist Russia, with emphasis on how that history impacted the Germans in Russia. There is extensive information about the treatment of Germans from Russia in the World War II and post-War eras, including deportations and resettle-ments. There is also a flow chart of the process required of those who have “returned” to Germany from the former Soviet Union in recent years, seeking to become citizens of today’s Germany.

The Orte list, an essential element in the original German version of the book, has been greatly expanded to include many new locations, as well as numerous cross-references to alternative spellings or names for the same location. A listing of German language newspapers published in North America has been added.”

Thomas Stangl, Ashburn, Virginia

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“The English-language translation of Ulrich Mertens’ “The English-language translation of Ulrich Mertens’ German-Russian Handbook is an important reference for all German-Russian Handbook is an important reference for all German-Russian Handbookresearchers studying the political and geographical history of the Germans in Russia. This nearly 800-page volume com-piles information from numerous sources and presents it in a well-organized manner. The listing of places, updated for this English edition, is the largest section of the book, spread over more than 550 pages. It combines information from many fragmented sources into a single integrated listing of all lo-calities where Germans settled in Russia, “from the largest cities to the smallest smallest chutors” in the Volga, Black Sea, and Mennonite regions, as well as in Volhynia. Map ref-Sea, and Mennonite regions, as well as in Volhynia. Map ref-Sea, and Mennonite regions, as well as in Volhynia. Map references, alternate spellings, cross references between German and Russian names, founding and dissolution dates, religious

and historical data, and population figures are also given for many places.

Mertens’ listing of German-language publications is supplemented in this edition with “a new section” listing the North American newspapers most likely to have been read by German immigrants from Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailed timelines, discussions of depor-tations, martyrology, Russian and Soviet currency, and many other topics make this a veritable vademecum for the research of Germans from Russia.”

Allyn Brosz, Washington, D.C.

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