Ph4 / Germany / Dresden

Since 2000, the Documentation Center of the Saxon Memorial Association, Dresden, conducts research work on camps for Soviet POWs stationed in the Reich and helps To receive information about former Soviet citizens who died during the Second World War in camps and working teams in the territory of the former German Reich.

There is a database on this group of people in the Documentation Center and regularly replenishes. Information is drawn from two source categories:

1. Documents from the archives of the former USSR

• materials of the former Wehrmacht Information Service (VAST), which after The Second World War was exported to Russia and is now in storage in various archives of independent states – Former Soviet republics;
• protocols of interrogations of former German servicemen who during the war served as part of security teams or personnel of camps for Soviet prisoners of war and who fell into Soviet captivity during or after the war

2. Documents from the archives of the Federal Republic of Germany Germany

• Wehrmacht documents
• reports of German construction firms and other documents on Soviet Prisoners of war who worked in labor teams on the territory of the German Reich, medical documentation
• documents of German citizens' interviews about foreign workers who, after the Second World War, were held by the occupation authorities and German authorities
• documents of the communities in which the Soviet citizens were buried.