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NKVD special camp Nr. 7 was a NKVD special camp that operated in Weesow until August 1945 and in Sachsenhausen from August 1945 until the spring of 1950. It was used by the Soviet occupying forces to detain those viewed as enemies of the people by the Soviet regime.
Three months after the end of the war, in August 1945, the Soviet secret service, the NKVD, moved Special Camp No. 7 from the small village of Weesow near Bernau to the core zone of the former Nazi concentration camp at Sachsenhausen.
Special Camp No. 7 (from 1948 No. 1) in Sachsenhausen was, with 60,000 internees, by far the largest of these camps. 12,000 people died here of hunger and disease between 1945 and 1950.
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. They were set up by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) and run by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD. [1]
Eduard Stadtler (February 17, 1886 in Hagenau – October 5, 1945 in NKVD special camp Nr. 7) was a German journalist and nationalist politician who formed the Anti-Bolshevist League in 1918. Stadtler had begun advocating the creation of a "national socialist" dictatorship in 1918.
NKVD special camp Nr. 7. NKVD special camp that operated in Weesow and Sachsenhausen. Upload media. Wikipedia. Instance of. NKVD special camp. Location. Oranienburg, Oberhavel District, Brandenburg, Germany. 52° 45′ 57″ N, 13° 15′ 51″ E.
The special camps in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) are under the administration of the Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). The camps were established pursuant to order No. 00315 issued on 18 April 1945.
