Travel Guide "Remembrance Connects Region Oder-Warta"

74 The Space of Fat e The Space of Fat e 75 After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet NKVD (secret police) set up several internment camps in the Soviet occupation zone, where members of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces), the Waffen- SS ( SS special forces), the Volkssturm (German Home Guard) and Nazi functionaries were detained, along with people picked up at random. As an instrument of terror, politically disapproved people were also imprisoned in these camps. The special camps in Buchenwald, Jamlitz, and Sachsenhausen repre- sented a reuse of concentration camps or of their subcamps, which the Soviet occupation forces used for their own purposes from August 1945 onwards. After the arrest, interrogations lasted for days or weeks, depending Special camps in the Soviet occupation zone The subject of the Soviet special camp system, which had been taboo for decades, has been documented at numerous sites since 1990. on the charge. According to estimates by Western historians, about 160 , 000 to 180 , 000 Germans along with 34 , 076 citizens of the Soviet Union, and 460 citizens of other states pas- sed through these special camps. Around a third of those arrested did not survive the special camp period due to lack of care or severe illness, and almost 13 , 000 people were deported from the camps to gulags in the territory of the Soviet Union. The camps existed until a few months after the founding of the GDR in 1949 . Until the collapse of the GDR regime, this chapter of the Soviet special camps was considered one of the taboo subjects that were not allowed to be discussed among the population. Special Camp No. 4 Landsberg an der Warthe Chopina 52 66 - 400 Gorzów Wielkopolski Special camp no. 4 was established as early as the end of January 1945 in the buildings of the former „Ge- neral-von-Strantz Barracks“. Around 13 , 000 people passed through this camp and some were taken to the Soviet Union for forced labour. About 2 , 000 people died due to the prison conditions and from hunger. With the dissolution of the camp in January 1946 , the prisoners were transferred to Speziallager Nr. 2 (Special Camp No. 2 ) Buchenwald. Special Camp No. 5 Ketschendorf Ring der Freundschaft 15517 Fürstenwalde/Spree Special Camp No. 5 was built on the site of a former workers‘ settlement of the German Cable Works and existed from April 1945 to February 1947 . At the same time, up to 18 , 000 people were imprisoned in the camp without having been sentenced. 4 , 722 people did not survive their imprisonment in Ketschendorf. Special Camp No. 6 Jamlitz Kiefernweg 15868 Jamlitz Between September 1945 and April 1947 , Special Camp No. 6 Jamlitz of the NKVD Soviet secret police existed on the site of the former Lieberose con- centration camp (subcamp of Sachsen- hausen concentration camp and previ- ously located in Frankfurt (Oder)). Out of 10 , 300 inmates, at least 3 , 380 did not survive their detention period. Special Camp No. 7 Weesow Willmersdorfer Chaussee 2 16356 Werneuchen Immediately after the end of the Second World War, Special Camp No. 7 Weesow was built around five abandoned farms in May of 1945 . The camp existed for only a few weeks, until the summer of 1945 . Around 2 , 000 inmates were trans- ferred to Sachsenhausen after dis- solution to the special camp there. siberia Deportations Memorial Daszyńskiego 7 69 - 100 Słubice Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, a memorial in Słubice commemorates the people deported to Siberia. The memorial commemorates all the victims who were deported between 1940 and 1990. Between 1940 and 1941 alone, approximately 1 million people were deported. For the years after the war, around 100,000 people are documen-ted as having been deported to Siberia.