For the first time it was possible to find the Soviet occupation zone of the Soviet occupancy zone and to be systematically documented. The historic warehouse landscape is now being recorded on a new website. They are destiny that shocks and move. The researchers now ask for their help.
Lagers are the places where the social, political and human consequences of war and crew are in particular clarity: in the Soviet -Obserting Zone of Austria – in Lower Austria, the Burgenland, parts of Upper Austria (Mühlviertel) and in various districts of Vienna – there were about 250 camps for a wealthy vary.
This research project camp is funded by the Austrian science fund FWF and the state of LoWower Austria is now accessible to everyone. This was possible thanks to contemporary witness memories and interviews, literature and source analyzes.
The results of the project offer an insight into an earlier almost forgotten warehouse landscape in the occupied Post -War Austria, which only formed the reality of hundreds of thousands of people from different nations in the first two post -war years, but all the more sustainable.
Many Russians did not want to go back to the USSR
The case of the Russian Kremnew attracts special attention: in August 1948 this was in contact with the Soviet repair committee there. His wife then lived in the American zone of Austria. Kremnjew agreed to return to the USSR with his wife. The Russian was arrested two days after the arrived in Wiener Neustadt – the background remained veiled.
The consequences in the camp were devastating: because the repeated desperate requests from the wife of Kremnjew were not answered (or not to her satisfaction), the general mood under the warehouses quickly turned around. They rejected strictly repatriation of the USSR because many other repression feared them. Private letters from the USSR to various other warehouses in which the harsh conditions were described at home heated the rumors further. Correspondence also made the information about the arrest outside the camp.
Difficult circumstances for Russian sanctions
The research project, which is based on the website, has been carried out since the beginning of 2022 under the leadership of the renowned historian Barbara Stelzl -Marx at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for War Successful research – in collaboration with the Ilse Arlt Institute for Social Inclusion Research, The FH St. Pölten and the Institute.
Because of the Ukrainian war, the researchers had to do without research in the Russian archives. Fortunately, there was enough material in Austria of previous activities.
Source: Krone
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