NKVD special camp No. 48

The NKVD special camp No. 48 (also UMVD POW camp no. 48[1]) was located in Cherntsy [ru], Ivanovo Oblast. Russia. Initially it was established during World War II as a POW camp for most senior military commanders of the Axis powers.[2][3] In German sources it is known as Kriegsgefangenenlager Woikowo,[4][5] the latter location translated in English as Voikovo.[6][7] Later it housed a secret Soviet biological weapons facility.

The location of the camp was a former Dedlov family manor, where the Soviets established a sanatorium for railroad workers named after Pyotr Voykov,[3] known simply as Voykov sanatorium, hence the (corrupted) German name of the camp.

  1. ^ File:Приговор Отто Гюнше от 15 мая 1950 года военного трибунала войск МВД Ивановской области.jpg
  2. ^ Люди-брёвна и салат из хризантем
  3. ^ a b Разжатый Гулаг
  4. ^ DER ARZT VON STALINGRAD (1958) (The Doctor of Stalingrad) with English subtitles
  5. ^ Das Zeitalter der Weltkriege. Völker in Waffen p. 395
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference bee was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Howard Margolian, Conduct Unbecoming The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy, p. 184