Uluslararası Suçlar ve Tarih

Yazarlar: J. Otto POHL

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Forced Labor,Germans,GULag,Labor Army,USSR

Özet: During World War II the Stalin regime made extensive use offorced labor in a variety of industries including logging, mining, andindustrial construction. Although the conscription of civilians forindustrial labor was common in the USSR during this time, oneparticular component of this labor went far beyond the meremilitarization of factories and definitely crossed over into the categoryof forced labor. The NKO (People’s Commissariat of Defense)conscripted about 400,000 Soviet citizens belonging to “enemy” and“unreliable” nationalities and handed them over to the NKVD(People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs) as a labor force in theUrals, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia and other areas of the USSR.Ethnic Germans formed the largest contingent of these forced laborerswith 316,000 men and women mobilized during the war. This particularinstitution of forced labor became known as the labor army(trudarmiia). This labor army consisted of civilians and dischargedmilitary personnel mobilized into labor columns to work in correctivelabor camps (GULag) and civilian commissariats under police (NKVDMVD) supervision

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