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Sun12 Apr11:20am(20 mins)
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Teaching and Learning M209
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The Kimpersay correctional labour camp in the forced labour system for mobilised Germans: a new interpretation
Sundetova Akmaral
West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University (Aktobe, Kazakhstan)
Following a series of decrees issued by the highest party leadership of the USSR in 1941-1942, the following category of persons began to arrive in the Aktobe region: Germans mobilized to work on construction and industrial sites supervised by the NKVD. Based on the decree "On Germans residing in the territory of the Ukrainian SSR" of August 1941 and Directive N 35105 of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters of September 1941, construction battalions were created from mobilized Germans to work at NKVD facilities, one of which was the Kimpersay correctional labor camp.
The Kimpersay camp (hereinafter referred to as a subdivision of the Aktobe correctional labor camp of the NKVD)was created by order of July 31, 1941, and officially existed, as indicated in the reference book "System of Correctional Labor Camps of the USSR" until April 1942 to serve the industrial extraction of nickel ores in the Aktobe region. However, there are a number of official documents about the camp in the files of fund 1550, "Orders for the NKVD's Aktobe Combine for 1940-1946," of the Aktobe Regional Archive, indicating that the camp existed as a separate economic and administrative unit after the date stated in the reference book. The Batamsh camp was finally liquidated by "order No. 1ss of December 27, 1944, of the city of Aktobe," and all Germans were transferred to the Don camp department for the extraction of chrome ore. Later, the mobilized Germans were dispersed among seven divisions of the NKVD's Aktobe Correctional Labor Camp.
