Fur hat transport
Transporting fur hats was the term in camp jargon for the deportation of prisoners from special camps of the Soviet occupying power. From January 1947, around 25,000 to 30,000 people from Germany, which was occupied after 1945, came to the Gulag camps on these transports .
For example, on February 8, 1947, around 1,000 prisoners from the special camp of NKVD No. 1 Mühlberg / Elbe were brought to Siberia for forced labor - actually forbidden for internees - to camp 7503/11 Anzero-Sudschensk and 1,086 prisoners from special camp No. 2 Buchenwald to Karaganda (Camp 7099). These two transports in freight wagons took 33 and 42 days respectively in extremely cold weather. Because of these extreme conditions, the prisoners were equipped with cotton clothing and fur hats of the German Wehrmacht (hence the name fur hat transport). The first prisoners returned in 1949 and 1950, while the last ones were released in 1952. 122 prisoners from the transport from Mühlberg died during the camp in Siberia.
literature
- Rudolf Butters, Herwarth Metzel: Everyone their own? As a teenager from Pößneck via Saalfeld to Buchenwald and Karaganda 1945–1949. TLSTU-Verlag, Erfurt, 1/2005, ISBN 3-927313-37-8 .
- Herbert Hecht: Siberian bells. Gernrode 2006, 1st edition.
- Siegfried Rulc: Incomplete Chronicle 1945–1950. 3. Edition.
- Helmut Leppert: Odyssey of a Youth (Seven Years in Stalin's Gulag). Plauen 2008, 5th edition, Initiativgruppe Lager Mühlberg / Elbe. A short version can be read online.
- Werner Teltow: Fur hat transport . Self-published, Fürstenwalde 2002
- Erhard Krätzschmar: ... from Wurzen via Mühlberg to Siberia ... those affected remember. (Bitter youth 1945–1950). Swing, Colditz. 1995.
swell
- ↑ Eva Ochs: Today I can say that: camp experiences of inmates of Soviet special camps in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Böhlau Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-01006-5 , p. 84.
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke Politics and Justice in the GDR , p. 95, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-8046-8568-4