Voikovo prison camp
Voikovo prison camp, or Camp No. 48, was a prisoner-of-war and internee camp maintained by the Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees of the NKVD in the Soviet Union. The camp was designated by the Soviet authorities for the high-ranking officers of the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS and was unofficially known as the "Generals camp".[1]
The camp was situated near the city of Ivanovo, Russian SFSR and was in operation from 1943 to 1955, when the last prisoners were repatriated to East Germany. The camp was located in an old inn and health spa and, although at times overcrowded, was dubbed "the Castle" for its relative luxury.[2]
Select prisoners held at the camp
- Wilhelm Mohnke[1]
- Friedrich Paulus[2]
- Arthur Schmidt[3]
- Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach[2]
- Arthur Schmidt
- Karl Strecker
- Gottfried Weber
- Kurt Peter Muller
- Hans-Joachim Baurmeister (died 1950)
- Louis Tronnier (died 1952)
- Walter von Boltenstern (died 1952)
- Karl-Wilhelm Specht (died 1953)
- Friedrich Bayer (died 1953)
- Gerd-Paul von Below (died 1953)
- Heinrich-Anton Deboi (died 1955)
- Friedrich Hochbaum (died 1955)
- Hans Boeckh-Behrens (died 1955)
- Reiner Stahel (died 1955)
- Max Pfeffer (died 1955)
Notes
- ^ a b Margolian 1998, p. 184.
- ^ a b c Beevor 1998, p. 200.
- ^ Beevor 1998, p. 422.
References
- Beevor, Antony (1998). Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942−1943. Harmondsworth, United Kingdom: Penguin Putnam Inc. ISBN 0-670-87095-1.
- Margolian, Howard (1998). Conduct Unbecoming: Conduct Unbecoming: The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802083609.
Further reading
- Zeidler, Manfred (1996). Stalinjustiz contra NS-Verbrechen. Die Kriegsverbrecherprozesse gegen deutsche Kriegsgefangene in der UdSSR in den Jahren 1943 – 1952. Kenntnisstand und Forschungsprobleme [Stalin's Justice versus Nazi Crimes. The War Crimes Trials against German Prisoners Of War in the USSR in the Years 1943 – 1952. Knowledge and Research Problems] (PDF). Berichte und Studien (in German). Vol. 9. Dresden: Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism. ISBN 3-931648-08-7.