Soviet special camps

Soviet special camps

The term Special camps refers to former Nazi concentration camps and POW camps in Germany, re-opened as prison camps by the Soviet NKVD after their capture by the Red Army.

Those held included people sentenced by Soviet military tribunals, minor Nazi officials, members of Wehrwolf, German army officers, democratic political opponents of Communism, people arbitrarily arrested and people arrested because of false accusations. Soviet citiziens were also sent to the camp, including Nazi collaborators and soldiers who contracted sexually transmitted diseases in Germany. Many of the inmates were civilians, including women and children.

Tens of thousands died while in captivity, including estimated 12,000 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where mass graves from the Soviet period were discovered in 1990.

ee also

*Buchenwald concentration camp

External links

* [http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/SpecialCamp.html Special Camp Number 2 in Buchenwald]
* [http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/GermanMuseum.html Special Camp No. 2 Museum]
* [http://www.stsg.de/main/torgau/geschichte/speziallager/index_en.php Soviet Special Camps Nos. 8 and 10 in Torgau, 1945 - 1948]
* [http://alex.latotzky.de/english/Emain.htm A Childhood Behind Barbed Wire]
* [http://www.idoc-human-renewal.org/gelbe/readingroom/horrors.html Ex-Death Camp tells story of Nazi and Soviet horrors] New York Times on December 13, 2001


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