Friday, December 07, 2012

Tagillag Intake 1942-1946

Between 1942 and 1946 the Soviet government forcibly conscripted 6,519 Russian-Germans into the labor army and sent them to work at Tagillag. Below is a breakdown of the various waves of conscription and transfer of Russian-Germans into Tagillag.

1942 - Conscripted from Russian-German men deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia according to GKO Order 1123ss of 10 January 1942 - 2,982 (44.9%).
1942 - Conscripted from Russian-German men already living in eastern regions of the USSR before 1941 according to GKO Order 1281ss of 14 February 1942 - 621 (9.5%).
1942 - Removed from the ranks of the Red Army - 495 (7.6%).
1943 - Conscripted from Russian-German men and women deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia according to GKO Order 3960 ss of 19 August 1943 - 1,652 (25.3%).
1942-1946 - Came from place of incarceration after completing sentence - 180 (2.8%).
1942-1946 - Transferred from other NKVD camps - 319 (4.9%).
1942-1946 - Other - 322 (4.9%).
Total - 6,519 (100%).

Source: V. Kirillov and S. Razinkov, "Sovetskie Nemtsy - Trudarmeitsy Tagillaga (1942-1946gg.), in A. German (ed.), Nemtsy SSSR v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny i v pervoe poslevoennoe desiatiletie 1941-1955gg. (Moscow: Gotika, 2001), pp. 148-156.

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