Savchenko, A. S. PLACES OF FORCED DETENTION IN THE TERRITORY OF CRIMEA DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2024;46(8):79–87. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2024.1113


Russian history

PLACES OF FORCED DETENTION IN THE TERRITORY OF CRIMEA DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION

Savchenko
A. S. 		V. I. Vernadskiy Crimean Federal University
Keywords:
Crimea
Nazi occupation
places of forced detention
genocide
prisoners of war
Holocaust
“ostarbeiter”		 Summary: This article examines the system of places of forced detention, as well as its role in the regime created by the Nazis in the occupied Crimea in 1941–1944. Based on the use of a wide range of literature and sources, it is shown that this topic has not yet been the subject of serious scientifi c research. It was established that the system of places of forced detention in the territory of Crimea included about 100 different institutions, among which fi ve main types can be distinguished: prisoner of war camps, prisons and concentration camps of the police apparatus, assembly points for the Jewish and Gypsy population, labor camps and transit camps for the civilian population. It was revealed that the most numerous type were prisoner of war camps. In them, as well as in prisons and concentration camps of the police apparatus, the occupiers killed the vast majority of the victims of the Nazi repressive policy on the territory of Crimea. In most of the places of forced detention, a very strict regime was established, which made them, in fact, “death camps” (for example, the concentration camp at the “Krasny” state farm). As a result of the conducted research, it was found that the Nazi system of places of forced detention performed a dual function in Crimea: the exploitation of the Soviet population and prisoners of war and their destruction within the framework of the colonial policy of Nazi Germany.



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