Soviet Germans in the Labor Army in the Ural: The Factors in the Formation of Camp Identity
In article the labor army period in ethnohistory of the Soviet Germans on the example of Germans of the Urals is considered. Special attention is paid to such characteristics as humiliation, loneliness, slavery, hunger, death. Interest for the anthropologist - an ultraboundary state, other world in reality, the person inside out. Having been able “lagernost”, isolation and stigmatization Germans adapted to new conditions. All aspects of life have undergone changes: territory of accommodation, dwelling, language, clothes, consciousness. A gap with the homeland, deleting of ethnocultural features, isolation, closeness have changed identity of Germans of the Volga region, they became Germans-trudarmeytsami.