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Decree of 28 August 1941 on the Germans of the Volga region

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ordering the Volga Germans moved to Kazakhstan and Siberia.

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  1. 28 Aug 1941 Decree of 28 August 1941 on the Germans of the Volga region
  2. 28 Aug 1941 Supreme Soviet of the USSR signed into law Decree of 28 August 1941 on the Germans of the Volga region
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  1. Our Memory Is the Future: The Soviet Experience and Remembrance of the August 1941 Deportation of Volga Germans, volgagermans.org (talk given in Portland, 25 October 2008), 25 Oct 2008. Scholarship & press
    The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued Ukaz (Decree) No. 21-160, ordering the deportation of the Volga Germans to special settlements in Kazakhstan and Siberia
  2. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1941, Volume I, document 643: the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State, 9 September 1941, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 9 Sep 1941. Primary record
    the presence of such great numbers of spies who have not been denounced by the German population proves that the people there are harboring enemies of the Soviet Union.
    I have no means of judging to what extent disaffection or fifth column activities exist in this area
    that this removal had actually been started before issuance of the decree
    the carrying out of this decree will undoubtedly place thousands of innocent human beings in tragic circumstances.
  3. On Resettling the Germans, Living in the Region of the Volga (decree of 28 August 1941, translated by J. Otto Pohl), J. Otto Pohl's blog, Aug 2006. Self-published
    According to reliable reports received from military authorities among the German population living in the region of the Volga exist thousands and tens of thousands of diversionists and spies who are now awaiting a signal from Germany
    In order to avoid this undesirable occurrence and to prevent serious bloodshed the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet deemed it necessary to resettle the whole German population, living in the region of the Volga, to other regions
    Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M. Kalinin Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. Gorkin
    On 30 August 1941, the two largest newspapers in the Volga German ASSR, Nachrichten and Bolshevik , printed the deportation order in its entirety.
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