Ilya Semenovitsch Kremer – War Veteran, Thinker, Human

The article is devoted to the life path of professor Ilya S. Kremer (1922-2020), a famous researcher on the history of European foreign affairs and on Germany of the 20th c. Ilya Kremer studied in the MSU, where he became a fellow-student to a bunch of historians well-recognized in the future. When the Great Patriotic War started in 1941, Ilya Kremer labored as a military industry worker. In 1943 he was drafted into the Red Army and finished the war in Berlin. The significant places in the biography of prof. I. S. Kremer are taken by his friendship with the figures of the German establishment, his guiding activity in the International Federation of the Resistance - the Anti-Fascist Association (FIR - AA), and his outstanding teaching activity lasted to the end of his life.