BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

13/04/2006

KGB of Belarus places lists of Soviet POWs in WWII Germany online

The Committee of State Security (KGB) of Belarus has started to publish the lists of the Soviet prisoners of war lost in the territory of Germany during the World War II, news agency Interfax reports.

On the official site of the Belarus KGB data on 77 victims lost in Germany has been placed already, Interfax writes. In 2002 an agreement on the joint studying of archival documents of the period of the World War II was signed between archival service of the Belarus KGB and the Saxon Memorials Association, agency notes. According to the agreement, the Belarus side, scanning archival registration forms on the Soviet prisoners of war, has been creating a corresponding electronic archive. Interfax was informed by the Information and Public Relations Centre of the Belarus KGB that filtrational materials on approximately 280,000 persons, allegedly the prisoners of war, are stored in the archives of the KGB of Belarus. For the last years, employees of the Central Archive of the KGB of Belarus have processed more than 6,000 German-registered cards on almost 3,000 prisoners of war who had been born in Belarus, Interfax says.

Source:

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=793

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