tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post3546677004832130533..comments2023-05-31T14:16:36.022+03:00Comments on Otto's Random Thoughts: Russian-German Mortality CalculationsJ. Otto Pohlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-65360559049066449292012-12-28T23:50:25.247+03:002012-12-28T23:50:25.247+03:00Strictly speaking, there is one more category that...Strictly speaking, there is one more category that was exempt from "special settlement", that is those arrested either in the Labor Army or in exile. I suppose, it was also higher than the average, due both to the increased vigilance towards Germans, and their own reaction to the exile and Labor Army conditions.<br />Dmitry @ RGIT.P.Felishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10212756094554866537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-52040888774700538142012-11-21T15:20:54.385+03:002012-11-21T15:20:54.385+03:00
Virtually the entire able bodied adult population...<br />Virtually the entire able bodied adult population of Russian-Germans including women were conscripted for forced labor during the War. The ages were men (15-55) and women (14-45) over 316,000 people. Over half of these men and women 187,000 served in GULag camps. Deaths caused by poor material conditions in the labor army are estimated by A. German at 65,000, V. Krieger at 75,000, and A. Eisfeld at 100,000. Most of the survivors were not released until 1947-1948 and some were not released until 1958.<br /><br />The overall excess death rate for the Russian-Germans was similar to that of other deported peoples such as the Crimean Tatars and Kalmyks. D. Ediev puts the excess deaths of Russian-Germans at 225,000 or 19% of the population considerably higher than the Soviet population as a whole. Other estimates place it even higher at close to 300,000 or near 25%. These men and women were all wards of the NKVD and they died because the Soviet government refused to feed, house, or clothe them. They had food and houses before the Soviet government confiscated them in 1941. The deaths are not at all comparable to the general deaths during the war because they were not caused by the war. They were instead caused by the deliberate Soviet policy of depriving them of all of their property and deporting them to Siberia and Kazakhstan followed by using them as slaves in the Urals.<br /><br />In the future you must put your full name and employer if you want me to publish your comment. I am not making any more exceptions to this rule. It exists for a reason.J. Otto Pohlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858950.post-6244630023849198542012-11-21T14:17:14.696+03:002012-11-21T14:17:14.696+03:00
War deaths accounted for 26 million out of 196 mi...<br />War deaths accounted for 26 million out of 196 million Soviet citizens between 1941 and 1945 (around 14%). Were the Soviet Germans and others exempt from conscription or only in areas not occupied by German forces? If not, their death rates are comparable to that of the general Soviet population.Peter Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13289172253358199028noreply@blogger.com