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Merten, Ulrich (2015). Voices from the Gulag: the Oppression of the German Minority in the Soviet Union, (American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska 2015. Lincoln, Nebraska: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.ISBN 978-0-692-60337-6; pp. 151, 152, 153, 156, 157. the section on the Soviet Union is incomplete. It omits the most important fact about what occurred during WWII. Stalin exiled almost the entire German Russian community to the Gulag in Siberia. Over one million weere in the labor camps and special settlements. It is estimated that between 200,000 and 300.000 died due to starvation, over-work and disease in the late 1940s. 