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POW labor in the Soviet Union

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and "special camps", 421 "worker battalions" (рабочий батальон), 214 "special hospitals", and 322 camps for handling of repatriation, over the whole territory of the Soviet Union. Many POWs were used for the reconstruction of cities damaged by the Wehrmacht during World War II.
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was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs (Главное управление по делам военнопленных и интернированных, ГУПВИ, transliterated as
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In 2000 a collection of Soviet archived documents related to POWs in the Soviet union was published in Russia, with an introduction, map of POW camps, and comments.
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and covers the period of 1939–1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the
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The POW and internees were handled by 24 frontline camps, 72 transit camps, over 500
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POW, estimated over 5 million(of which estimated 15% died in captivity), as well as
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By the end of World War II, the Soviet Union amassed a huge number of
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World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union
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Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
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Index

POW
Soviet Union
World War II
Kwantung Army
forced labor
GUPVI
NKVD
Invasion of Poland
POW camps
German
Japanese
Axis Powers
interned German civilians
labor camps
Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union
Forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
WW II forced labor reparations
Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union



POW in the USSR 1939-1956:Documents and Materials
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5-88439-093-9
World War II
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