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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 ...
[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 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 ...
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.
People were arrested because of alleged ties to the Nazis, because they were hindering the establishment of Stalinism, or at random. [7] The legal basis for the arrests was the Beria-order No. 00315 of 18 April 1945, ordering the internment without prior investigation by the Soviet military of "spies, saboteurs, terrorists and active NSDAP members", heads of Nazi organizations, people ...
Mass operations of the People's Comissariate of Internal Affairs (NKVD) [1] were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people. As a rule, they were carried out according to the corresponding order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov .
The NKVD special camps in Germany 1945–50 included the former Buchenwald (1983 photo) Mass surveillance in East Germany was a widespread practice throughout the country's history, involving Soviet, East German, and Western agencies.
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]