Abstract
The article analyzes from the standpoint of modern domestic historiography, a scientific publication devoted to the complex problem in the history of the last war which is collaborationism, on the territories of the Reich Commissariat «Ukraine» and the military zone of occupation. This allows the researcher and just the reader to delve deeper into the understanding of such a complex historical phenomenon that covers many areas of human life on the territories occupied by the German invaders and their allies. This area was quite large and reached about 479, 3 km. sq. The first included such districts as: «Kyiv», «Dnepropetrovsk», «Zhytomyr», «Volyn and Podillya», «Nikolaev», «Tavria». In the military zone were economically developed areas of the then USSR. In the Donbass before the war about 800 mines mined coal. Therefore, the occupation regime in these lands had its own specifics, and therefore the situation and behavior of the civilian population was somewhat different. Therefore, the author considered this scientific problem taking into account this specifics.