List of POW camps in the Soviet Union
- List of POW camps in the Soviet Union
Prisoner of War Camps in the USSR during WWII
The following list is an attempt to create the most complete list of POW Camps in the USSR during World War II.
On September 19, 1939, Lavrenty Beria (the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs) ordered Pyotr Soprunenko to set up the NKVD Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees to manage camps for Polish prisoners. The following camps were established to hold members of the Polish Army:
*Jukhnovo (rail station of Babynino),
*Yuzhe (Talitsy),
*Kozelsk,
*Kozelshchyna,
*Oranki,
*Stolbnyi Island on Lake Seliger near Ostashkov,
*Putyvl (rail station of Tetkino),
*Starobelsk,
*Vologod (rail station of Zaenikevo),
*Gryazovets.
"Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article."
The USSR had not signed the Geneva convention in 1929.
External links
* [http://users.pandora.be/stalingrad/allerlei/decisive.html German POWs, intro, Stalingrad]
* [http://www.gendercide.org/case_soviet.html Soviet Prisoners-of-War (POWs), 1941-42]
* [http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/germanpow.htm German POWs]
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