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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 ...
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 .
On 5 March 1940, after the Gestapo–NKVD Third Conference was held in Zakopane, Beria sent a note (No. 794/B) to Stalin in which he stated that the Polish prisoners of war kept at camps and prisons in western Belarus and Ukraine were enemies of the Soviet Union, and recommended their execution. [39]
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 ...
In 1929, Lehmann began providing information for the NKVD. He initially did this not out of communist sympathy, but because he was married, also had a girlfriend, and needed money. In addition, he had a fondness for horses. [2] In 1933, Lehmann joined the Gestapo. The NKVD code name for the Gestapo was Apotheke (pharmacy). In the Gestapo ...
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
NKVD Order № 00439, signed by Nikolai Yezhov on July 25, 1937, was the basis for the German operation of the NKVD in 1937–1938. The operation was the first in the series of national operations of the NKVD. [1] [2] The order commanded to arrest citizens of Germany, as well as former German citizens who assumed the Soviet citizenship.