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Between 24 October and 23 November 1939, a total of 42,492 Polish prisoners of war were transferred from Kozelsk and Putyvl camps across the Nazi–Soviet demarcation line and handed over to the Germans. [10] Both Gestapo and NKVD expected the emergence of Polish resistance and discussed ways of dealing with the clandestine activities of the Poles.
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
In 1933, Lehmann joined the Gestapo. The NKVD code name for the Gestapo was Apotheke (pharmacy). In the Gestapo, Lehmann became director of the division combating Soviet espionage. Thanks to Lehmann's information, the Soviets were able to free their agent Arnold Deutsch, who later recruited Kim Philby. [3] Lehmann joined the SS in 1934.
[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 ...
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.
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]
Employees of Trzynastka in the street Building at 93 Solidarność Avenue, formerly 13 Leszno Street, in Warsaw, 2014, which was in 1940–1941 the HQ of Trzynastka. The Group 13 network (Polish: Trzynastka, Yiddish: דאָס דרײַצענטל) was a Jewish collaborationist organization in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Soviet authorities brutally treated those who might oppose their rule, deporting by 10 November 1940 around 10% of total population of Kresy, with 30% of those deported dead by 1941. [123] They arrested and imprisoned about 500,000 Poles during 1939–1941, including former officials, officers, and natural "enemies of the people" like the ...