Acts of Commissions for the Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders as a Source on the Topic of the Hijacking of the Civilian Population of the Rostov Region for Forced Labor in Nazi Germany

The article analyzes the acts of the State Extraordinary Commission and the Rostov Regional Extraordinary Commission for the Registration of Damage and Atrocities Inflicted by the Nazi Occupiers on Institutions, Enterprises and Citizens as significant sources that allow for a systematic study of one of the main crimes of the Third Reich against humanity - the enslavement of civilians. Within the framework of a comprehensive source study reconstruction, a significant role is played by personal statements of affected citizens and identified eyewitnesses, which contain valuable information that allows for the restoration of the general sequence and substantive features of significant events that took place in the occupied territory of the region in question. Research practice, based not only on surviving historical evidence, but also on a large-scale historiographical tradition, allows for the formation of an adequate collective memory of the numerous victims of the Nazi occupation regime among the civilian population of the Don. In the methodological dimension, the proposed article relies on the basic trends of modern microhistory, oriented toward the consistent identification of not only general patterns, but also anthropological phenomena of social significance. The presented analysis clearly demonstrates not only the real scale of the criminal activity of the Nazi occupation authorities, but also the tragic fates of individual Soviet citizens who became innocent victims of unmotivated terror.