Leningrader Deutsche in Sondersiedlungen des Gebiets Kemerovo (1941-1956)
The attention of the authors of the article is focused on the fate and fortunes of the German natives of Leningrad and the Leningrad Region resettled to the Kuzbass special settlements and also on the fields of application of their labour in the enterprises of the industrial region. The article is based on the information from the personal files and memories of the German deportees, on the scientific publications by Russian historians who have studied the regime of the special settlements. Brief description of the personal files and the extracts from them, the description of the individual cards for the personalized record-keeping are given. On the basis of the memories of the Germans from the Leningrad region the conditions of their work and common life are being characterized. The authors pay closer attention to the fate and fortunes of the people who belonged to such a category of the personal record-keeping as “the Germans according to the resolution of the government”. The authors conclude that the only “fault” of people and the main reason for their resettlement to the special settlements consisted only in being of the German nationality.