Soviet special camps
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Special camps were a former Nazi concentration camps in Germany, re-opened as a prison camps by the Soviet NKVD after the liberation.
Those held included people sentenced by Soviet military tribunals, minor Nazi officials, members of Wehrwolf, German army officers, democratic political opponents of Communism, people arbitrarily arrested and people arrested because of false accusations. Russians were also sent to the camp, including Nazi collaborators and soldiers who contracted sexually transmitted diseases in Germany.
Many of the inmates were civilians, including women and children. Tens of thousands while died in captivity, including estimated 12,000 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where mass graves from the Soviet period were discovered in 1990.
