This list contains the camps for prisoners of war on the territory of the Soviet Union during and after World War II . The locations of the warehouse administrations with warehouse numbers are arranged in tabular form and provided with links to today's cities.
The more than three million prisoners of war in the Soviet Union were brought to assembly camps and from there transported to the individual prisoner of war camps. A prisoner of war camp had a main location with the seat of the camp administration and administratively connected sub-camps (up to 25 sub-camps per main location).
216 camp administrations with their respective administration numbers and 2,454 individual camps were determined from the information provided by the former prisoners of war who were released and returned to (West) Germany. In addition, 166 labor battalions of the Red Army and 159 hospitals and recreation centers for prisoners of war were recorded with their administrative numbers. In addition, camps that were initially set up further inland were relocated to the west because of the reconstruction after liberation from the enemy. B. Camp 126 , which was founded in 1943 in Shadrinsk .
A total of 2,125 locations were determined where German prisoners of war were staying. There was also a number of special camps that is still unknown today.
In the course of the existence of many locations, administrative shifts in administrative responsibility or reorganizations led to the renumbering of the individual locations.
Since the information about the administrative system of the camps was obtained from over 100,000 returnees surveys and does not go back to the original documents of the Soviet administration , errors and gaps cannot be ruled out. However, given the large number of individual details, they are likely to be reduced to a minimum.
Regional organization of the prisoner of war camps
The administrative locations of the POW camps are summarized in regional tables. The division follows the economic areas of the Soviet Union, which were an essential element of the state's economic plans. After that, the Soviet Union was divided into 15 economic regions.
The tables contain a collection of the cities and towns in which there were warehouse management locations. They are listed with the respective administrative number. Renumbering was not taken into account. The locations are provided with links to today's cities and towns, distances (beeline) are indicated from the nearest cities with a compass direction.
Central region
Ivanovo
Woikowo
Kineshma
Michajlowo
Map 1: Ivanovo Oblast . Woikowo was 25 kilometers southwest of Ivanovo . Michajlowo is 40 kilometers southeast of Kineshma .
Map 8: Uzbekistan . Pachta Aral, located in Kazakhstan (approx. 80 kilometers southwest of Tashkent ), consists of several small settlements, two on the southwestern outskirts of Ilyich, others north up to six kilometers away.
There were seven warehouse administrations with 50 individual warehouses. They were in what is now the state of Kazakhstan .
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Vol. 4: Werner Ratza: The German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. The work factor . 1973.
Vol. 5: Kurt Bährens: Germans in penal camps and prisons in the Soviet Union . 1965 (3 volumes).
Vol. 6: Wolfgang Schwarz: The German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. From cultural life . 1969.
Vol. 7: Kurt W. Böhme: The German prisoners of war in Soviet hands. A balance sheet . 1966.
Vol. 8: Gert Robel: The German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. Antifa . 1974.
Supplement 1: Michael Beck: Diary from Soviet captivity 1945–1949 . 1967.
Places of detention of German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union (1941–1956): Finding aid . Saxon Memorials Foundation, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-934382-22-0 .
Gerhard Kaliski: From the swastika to the pickaxe. Youth behind barbed wire in Siberia. The fate of East Prussian youth, boys and girls, some of them still as children, who had to endure difficult years in Siberian camps. Years of deprivation, hunger, disease and often enough death. ISBN 978-3-95627-540-1
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