Monday, November 14, 2011

Another Labor Army Document

Here is another document on the mobilization of Russian-Germans into the labor army. The translation from Russian to English is my own.

To Deputy Chief of the Special Settlement Section of the NKVD USSR Captain of State Security com.[rade] Konradov
April 1942   
 Mobilized according to the resolution of the State Committee for Defense No. 1123ss from 10 January 1942 into work columns Germans were moved to the following construction sites and camps of the NKVD:

  1.  Bakalstroi - 11,772 men
  2.  Ivdellag    -  12,899
  3. Sevurrallag -    8441
  4. Usol'lag      -    4940
  5. Viatlag       -     6800
  6. Kraslag      -     5084
  7. Bogoslovstroi - 6900
  8. Solikamstroi  -  2396
  9. Tavdinlag      -  1918
  10.  (point ten is missing from document)
  11. Taglistroi       - 2870


    Total   -    67,961
     During the course of March were mobilized according to resolution of the GKO 1281ss from 14 February 1942 mobilized into work columns Germans moved to:
  1. Construction of the railroad Sviazhsk-Ul'ianovsk - 17,823 men
  2. Bakalstroi  -  14,752
  3. Bogoslovstroi   -    5,411
  4. Umal'stroi  -    952
  5. Tagilstroi  -     501
  6. Sevzheldorlag  -  900
  7. Kraslag -   339
  8. Solikamstroi  -  141 
  9. Viatlag  -        45

               Total                         - 40,864


      Of this number on 9th April arrived at their place 7400 men. Found in transit 22,000 men. The remainder will also be dispatched in a day or two as arranged. 
Chief 2nd section GULAG NKVD USSR Captain of State Security Granovskii

Source: N.F. Bugai, ed., "Mobilizovat' nemtsev v rabochie kolonny...I. Stalin" Sbornik dokumentov (1940-e gody). (Moscow: Gotika, 1998), doc. 47, pp. 70-71.

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