TRUE STORY REFERENCE - Aleksey Bris

The story told by Aleksey Bris offers an insight into both the German occupiers and those whom they occupied. Aleksey's actions come as a direct result of the attitudes and actions of the Nazi's who took up administration of occupied Ukraine. Aleksey is a valuable insight into how people found themselves 'being changed' by the decisions of others imposed upon them. He initially welcomed the Nazi's, but in the space of just a few short years found himself a part of the resistance against them. He found himself consumed by hatred for those he initially welcomed.
"PART oF THE difficulty in understanding history is that events lie inert in the past, certain, unchanging, as set as concrete. The Red Army won at Stalingrad; Churchill became a national hero; Hitler lost the war: these factual statements appear as sure as the air we breathe. But in order to try to penetrate the minds of people at the time, we have to envisage a moment when the facts were not certain - when individuals were faced with decisions that could have gone either way."
"Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII" by Laurence Rees.
See in the gallery the full story as an extract from "Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII" by Laurence Rees.