Chentsov, A. S. FIGHTING THE ENEMY'S SABOTAGE AND TERRORIST UNDERGROUND IN EAST PRUSSIA. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2024;46(8):71–78. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2024.1112


Russian history

FIGHTING THE ENEMY'S SABOTAGE AND TERRORIST UNDERGROUND IN EAST PRUSSIA

Chentsov
A. S. 		Federal State-Owned Military Educational Institution of Higher Education «Prince Alexander Nevsky Military University» of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Keywords:
The Great Patriotic War
East Prussia
the authorized NKVD of the USSR on the fronts
the troops of the NKVD of the USSR to protect the rear of the active Red Army
the internal troops of the NKVD of the USSR
German sabotage and terrorist formations		 Summary: The object of the research is the activities of the organs and troops of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR in the territory of the German province of East Prussia against the sabotage and terrorist underground of the enemy in 1944–1945. The relevance of the topic is due to the insufficient study of this issue in both domestic and foreign historiography, which allows us to reveal little-known pages of the final period of the Great Patriotic War. The purpose of the study is to consider the composition of the German sabotage and terrorist underground, the main methods of its actions in the rear of the Red Army, as well as the forms of counteraction of the organs and troops of the NKVD of the USSR to sabotage and terrorist actions in the rear of the active army. The article is based on documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian State Military Archive, previously not introduced into scientific circulation. The object of the study is the activity of the organs and troops of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR on the territory of the German province of East Prussia against the sabotage and terrorist underground of the enemy in 1944–1945. The relevance of the topic is due to the insufficient study of this issue in both domestic and foreign historiography, which allows us to reveal little-known pages of the final period of the Great Patriotic War. The purpose of the study is to consider the composition of the German sabotage and terrorist underground, the main ways of its actions in the rear of the Red Army, as well as forms of counteraction by the organs and troops of the NKVD of the USSR to sabotage and terrorist actions in the rear of the active army. The article is based on documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian State Military Archive, which were not previously introduced into scientific circulation.



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