Soviet Special Camps - Camps

Camps

A total of ten camps existed, set up in former Nazi concentration camps, former stalags, barracks, or prisons.

• NKVD special camp Nr. 1 in the former Stalag IV-B near Mühlberg
• NKVD special camp Nr. 2 in Buchenwald
• NKVD special camp Nr. 3 in Hohenschönhausen (later Stasi-Arbeitslager X)
• NKVD special camp Nr. 4 in Bautzen (since 1948 Nr. 3)
• NKVD special camp Nr. 5 in Ketschendorf / Fürstenwalde
• NKVD special camp Nr. 6 in Jamlitz near Lieberose
• NKVD special camp Nr. 7 in Weesow near Werneuchen (until August 1945) and Sachsenhausen (since August 1945)
• NKVD special camp Nr. 8 in Torgau (Fort Zinna)
• NKVD special camp Nr. 9 in Fünfeichen, Neubrandenburg
• NKVD special camp Nr. 10 in Torgau (Seydlitz-Kaserne)

In addition, numerous prisons were either directly assigned to or seized by the NKVD.