NKVD special camp Nr. 7
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NKVD special camp Nr. 7 was a NKVD special camp that operated in Weesow until August 1945 and in Sachsenhausen
from August 1945 until the spring of 1950. It was used by the Stalinist
Soviet occupying forces to detain political prisoners.
In August 1945, the special camp Nr. 7 was moved to Sachsenhausen, the area of the former Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp
. Under the NKVD, Nazi functionaries were held in the camp, as were political prisoners and inmates sentenced by the Soviet Military Tribunal. By 1948, Sachsenhausen, now renamed "Special Camp No. 1", was the largest of three special camps in the Soviet occupation zone. The 60,000 people interned over five years included 6,000 German officers transferred from Western Allied camps. Others were Nazi functionaries, anti-Communists and Russians, including Nazi collaborators and soldiers who contracted sexually transmitted disease
s in Germany.
With the fall of the communist east Germany it was possible to do excavations in the former camps, in Sachsenhousen the bodies of 12,500 victims were found, most were children, adolescents and elderly people.
One of the camps commandants was Roman Rudenko
, the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
.
By the closing of the camp in the spring of 1950, at least 12,000 had died of malnutrition and disease.
Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg)
Sachsenhausen is a district of the town Oranienburg, which is on the outskirts of Berlin.It was notorious as the site of the Nazi concentration camp also called Sachsenhausen....
from August 1945 until the spring of 1950. It was used by the Stalinist
Stalinism
Stalinism refers to the ideology that Joseph Stalin conceived and implemented in the Soviet Union, and is generally considered a branch of Marxist–Leninist ideology but considered by some historians to be a significant deviation from this philosophy...
Soviet occupying forces to detain political prisoners.
In August 1945, the special camp Nr. 7 was moved to Sachsenhausen, the area of the former Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Sachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May, 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD...
. Under the NKVD, Nazi functionaries were held in the camp, as were political prisoners and inmates sentenced by the Soviet Military Tribunal. By 1948, Sachsenhausen, now renamed "Special Camp No. 1", was the largest of three special camps in the Soviet occupation zone. The 60,000 people interned over five years included 6,000 German officers transferred from Western Allied camps. Others were Nazi functionaries, anti-Communists and Russians, including Nazi collaborators and soldiers who contracted sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease , also known as a sexually transmitted infection or venereal disease , is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex...
s in Germany.
With the fall of the communist east Germany it was possible to do excavations in the former camps, in Sachsenhousen the bodies of 12,500 victims were found, most were children, adolescents and elderly people.
One of the camps commandants was Roman Rudenko
Roman Rudenko
Roman Andreyevich Rudenko was a Soviet lawyer. He was the prosecutor of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1944-1953 and Chief prosecutor of the entire Soviet Union from 1953. He is also well known for acting as the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the main trial of the major Nazi war...
, the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....
.
By the closing of the camp in the spring of 1950, at least 12,000 had died of malnutrition and disease.