Testing and filtration camps of the NKVD of the USSR are special institutions of the NKVD of the USSR for checking persons who were in German captivity or in occupied territory .
History
They were organized in December 1941 . Until January 1945 , they were called special camps of the NKVD .
From December 1941 to July 1944 they were subordinate to the Office for Prisoners of War and Internment of the NKVD of the USSR. July 19, 1944 were transferred to the GULAG . Colonel of State Security G.M. Granovsky was appointed deputy head of the Gulag for special camps of the NKVD. On August 28, 1944, on the basis of the GULAG special camps department, an independent Department of special camps of the NKVD of the USSR was created, headed by Colonel of State Security N. I. Shitikov .
In January 1945, the Department of Special Camps of the NKVD of the USSR was renamed the Division of Inspection and Filtration Camps (OPFL) of the NKVD of the Union of the SSR, with N.I.
From December 1941 to July 1944, 375,368 people of the "special contingent" passed through the NKVD special camps:
- 1942 - 172,081
- 1943 - 127,628
- January - July 1944 - 75,659 people.
By composition:
- military personnel of the Red Army ( RKKA ), who were in captivity or surrounded , - 328 365 people;
- police officers, elders and other accomplices of the occupation authorities - 25,571;
- civilians of military age who were in the territory occupied by the enemy - 21,432.
For the same period:
- verified and transferred to the military commissariats - 233,887 people (62.3%),
- aimed at the formation of fifteen assault battalions - 12,808 (3.4%),
- transferred to permanent personnel of the defense industry - 20,284 (5.4%),
- 11 658 people were arrested and convicted (3.1%),
- no data - 96731 people (25.7%).
According to more recent data, 78 - 79% of those tested were returned to the field army .
See also
- Field recruiting office
- Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial