The mobilized Germans ended up in special units or so-called gangs, which were controlled by the NKVD; they were organized by the military commissariats on Siberian territory and in Kasakhstan early in 1942. The contingent made up by prisoners of the special units were kept separete from other prisoners. The whole system of custody, the whole regime did not differ in the least from the camp rules being in force in any corrective labour camp of the GULAG.
During and after the war (1942-1946) hundreds of thousands of German trud armists were kept in such labour camps; there were also Russians, Finns, Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Latvians. Estonians, Italiens, Austrians, Romanians as well as representatices of other nationalities.
Beneath we are going to publish fragments from documents of the State Committee of Defence and the NKVD about the mobilization of Soviet-Germans into the trud army, as well as the way of how this was done.