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Soviet Prisoners of War – An International Research and Documentation Project

The Max Weber Network Eastern Europeis conducting the archival research on Soviet prisoners of war as part of the international project Soviet and German POWs and Internees. Together with its partners, the project team is cataloguing documents in German, post-Soviet and other international archives. Project work took place in Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Serbia, France and Switzerland. The aim of the project is to trace the individual lives of Soviet prisoners of war and to make the relevant archive documents and data available in the Memorial Archives of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Mmeorial, a project database for humanitarian clarification of fate, research and commemorative cultural activities.