The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, romanized: Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, IPA: [nɐˈrodnɨj kəmʲɪsərʲɪˈat ˈvnutrʲɪnʲɪɣ dʲel]), abbreviated as NKVD (Russian: НКВД; listen …

NKVD special camps (German: Speziallager) were NKVD -run late and post- World War II internment camps in the Soviet-occupied parts of Germany from May 1945 to January 6, 1950. They were set up by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) and run by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). [1] .

The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (German: Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen) is a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen, part of the former borough of Hohenschönhausen.

Under the control of the Moscow People's Commissariat of the Interior (NKVD), it primarily served as a transit camp for more than 16,000 men, women and adolescents. From here, transports were organised to the special camps in Ketschendorf, Weesow and Sachsenhausen.

During the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) brutally murdered between 10,000 and 40,000 political prisoners in Western Ukraine over the course of eight days, which sparked waves of ethnic violence following the German occupation of the region.

The special camps in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) are under the administration of the Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). The camps were established pursuant to order No. 00315 issued on 18 April 1945.

Nov 19, 2019 · In 1941 the NKVD was responsible for the Border Troops who patrolled along the frontier, and these look a very active part in the initial fighting of June 1941. The war also saw a major expansion in the NKVD Internal Troops. These units were organised like rifle or cavalry divisions and were intended to maintain internal order in the Soviet Union.

Mar 4, 2017 · October 1938, NKVD units arrested over 150,000 people, 111,000 of whom were soon shot. The 'Polish Operation' marked the zenith of the persecution of Poles in the Soviet Union, which had begun in the early 1930s when the party leadership embarked on systematic mass terror against the Polish minority. Between 1930 and

Hasselwerderstraße 38/40, 12439 Berlin An der Hauswand der Villa “Offensiv” wurde am 09.11.2007 eine Gedenktafel mit folgender Inschrift befestigt: “In diesem Haus befand sich im Jahr 1945 \ einer von bisher 20 bekannten Haftorten \ des sowjetischen Geheimdienstes NKWD \ im Bezirk Treptow – Köpenick.

Mass surveillance in East Germany was a widespread practice throughout the country's history, involving Soviet, East German, and Western agencies. Map showing the division of East and West Germany until 1990, with West Berlin in yellow.