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The first Gestapo–NKVD meeting took place in Brześć nad Bugiem reportedly on 27 September 1939, [1] while some units of the Polish Army were still fighting (see: Invasion of Poland) resulting in mass internment of soldiers and their extrajudicial shootings on both sides of the Curzon Line. At the meeting, the German and Soviet officials ...
The NKVD had to open dozens of ad-hoc prison sites in almost all towns of the region. [28] The wave of arrests and mock convictions contributed to the forced resettlement of large categories of people (" kulaks ", Polish civil servants, forest workers, university professors, " osadniks ") to the Gulag labour camps and exile settlements in ...
[1] [2] The NKVD is known for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations on the Eastern Front of World War II. The head of the NKVD was Genrikh Yagoda from 1934 to 1936, Nikolai Yezhov from 1936 to 1938, Lavrentiy Beria from 1938 to 1946, and Sergei Kruglov in ...
The Geheime Staatspolizei (German pronunciation: [ɡəˈhaɪmə ˈʃtaːtspoliˌtsaɪ] ⓘ; transl. "Secret State Police"), abbreviated Gestapo (German: [ɡəˈstaːpo] ⓘ), [3] was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
Gestapo–NKVD conferences: Multiple cities Poland: September 1939 - March 1940 Gestapo and the NKVD officials German–Soviet bilateral planning for Polish nationals in occupied territories Salzburg Conference: Salzburg Slovak State: July 28, 1940 Tiso, Hitler Slovak capitulation to German demands Berlin Pact Conference: Berlin Nazi Germany
Some 1,100 metal steles mark the small mass graves where 7,000 of the dead from the Buchenwald NKVD special camp Nr. 2 were buried.. NKVD special camps (German: Speziallager) were NKVD-run late and post-World War II internment camps in the Soviet-occupied parts of Germany from May 1945 to January 6, 1950.
In Zagreb Srebrenjak became a head of the Soviet intelligence network of the NKVD for the Balkans. [8] Srebrenjak operated from this centre in Zagreb together with his wife Frančiška Srebrenjak (nee Klinc), who was a secret agent of the Yugoslav police and later the Gestapo. [9]
NKVD Order No. 00485; German Operation of the NKVD ~41,898 killed [6] Greek Operation of the NKVD 20,000 [7] —50,000 killed or disappeared [8] Latvian Operation of the NKVD 16,573 killed [9] Korean Operation of the NKVD ~40,000 killed [10] Chinese Operation of the NKVD 3,932 killed [11]: 54 Estonian Operation of the NKVD 4,672 killed [12]