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The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 marked the end of the Volga German ASSR. On 28 August 1941, the republic was formally abolished and, out of fear they could act as German collaborators, all Volga Germans were exiled to the Kazakh SSR, Altai and Siberia. [4] Many were interned in labor camps merely due to their heritage. [2]
The deportation of the Volga Germans was the Soviet government's forcible transfer of the whole of the Volga German population from the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Gulag camps which were located in Siberia, Kazakhstan and even in arctic locations.
An Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR, Russian: ... Volga German ASSR (1918–1941, divided between Saratov Oblast and Stalingrad Oblast) Ukrainian SSR
The displaced Germans are unable to return to their ancestral lands in the Volga River Valley or the Black Sea regions, because in many instances, those villages no longer exist after being destroyed during Stalin's regime. In 1990, approximately 45,000 Russian Germans, or 6% of the population, lived in the former German Volga Republic. [29]
Germans of Kazakhstan. The Germans of Kazakhstan (German: Kasachstandeutsche; Kazakh: Қазақстандық немістер) are a minority in Kazakhstan, and make up a small percentage of the population. Today they live mostly in the northeastern part of the country between the cities of Astana and Oskemen, the majority being urban dwellers.
Rank. Private. Battles/wars. World War I. Caucasus campaign. Konrad Hoffmann (Russian: Конрад Генрихович Гофман, romanized: Konrad Genrikhovich Gofman; Pokrovskaya sloboda, 1894 – Andijan, 1977) was a Soviet – Volga German politician. From 1938 to 1941, he served as the last head of state of the Volga German ASSR.
Labour Commune of Volga Germans. The Labour Commune of Volga Germans was a polity established in Russia following the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917. The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic passed a decree which established this [1]
The USSR had a large population of ethnic Germans, especially in the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, who were distrusted and persecuted by Stalin from 1928 to 1948. They were relatively well-educated, and at first, class factors played a major role, giving way after 1933 to ethnic links to the dreaded Nazi German regime as ...