• East Karelian concentration camps were a set of concentration camps operated by the Finnish military administration in the areas of the Soviet Union occupied...
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    This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country. In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government...
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  • Finnish occupation of East Karelia during World War II the Russian-speaking population was held in East Karelian concentration camps. 1941 to 1944: Expulsion...
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    Continuation War Lapland War Diplomatic history of World War II East Karelian concentration camps Nazism in Finland Finnish Armed Forces History of Finland...
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    Karelian (/kəˈriːlɪən, kəˈriːljən/; Karelian Proper and Livvi-Karelian: karjala, karjalan kieli; Ludian: kard'al, kard'alan kiel'; Tver Karelian: kariela...
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    soldier's property. Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union East Karelian concentration camps Prisoners of war in World War II War children § Soviet prisoners...
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    been put into concentration camps, along with communists and people who could not speak Finnish or Karelian. Former prisoners of the camps recalled that...
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    by natural borders encompassing the territories inhabited by Finns and Karelians, ranging from the White Sea to Lake Onega and along the Svir River and...
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    (Solovki camps for special purposes, Solovetsky forced labor camp for special purposes OGPU, SLON, SLAG, Solovetsky and Karelian-Murmansk camps, SKMITL)")...
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    exclusively Finnish-Karelian place names (Russian names are given in parentheses). List of the administrative divisions of East Karelia: Aunus (Olonets)...
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  • selected sites of the Soviet forced labor camps of the Gulag, known in Russian as the "corrective labor camps", abbreviation: ITL. Most of them served...
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    Naftaly Frenkel (category Chief Directorate of Railroad Construction Camps)
    which he tried to make the Solovetsky camps not merely self-supporting in accordance with the concentration camp decrees but profitable with the result...
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    half of whom were Karelians. A significant number of civilians, almost 30% of the remaining Russians, were interned in concentration camps. The winter between...
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    Petrozavodsk (Russian: Петрозаводск, IPA: [pʲɪtrəzɐˈvotsk]; Karelian, Vepsian and Finnish: Petroskoi) is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia...
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    Olonets (category Articles containing Karelian-language text)
    Olonets (Russian: Оло́нец; Karelian: Anus, Livvi: Anuksenlinnu; Finnish: Aunus, Aunuksenkaupunki or Aunuksenlinna) is a town and the administrative center...
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    Soviet POWs out of 5.7 million died in Nazi camps during the war. In addition to concentration camps, death camps were created in Nazi Germany to exterminate...
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    the Ingrian selsovets were closed. Many Izhorians were sent to concentration camps or executed. During the world war, many Izhorians fell in battle...
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  • Himmler tried to persuade Finnish leaders to deport the Jews to Nazi concentration camps, the Commander-in-chief of Finland Gustaf Mannerheim is said to have...
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  • Reich Gestapo and SS Benito Mussolini Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps Partition and occupation of Poland and Polish...
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    communist East Germany. Both governments were under the influence of their respective former occupants. After Germany's concentration camps were liberated...
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    Karelians moved to the peninsula. By the 1897 census 9,291 people were counted in the Kola uyezd; 63% Russian, 19% Sami, 11% Finnish and 3% Karelian....
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    responsible for the Drancy internment camp near Paris and in charge of deportations in Slovakia to German concentration camps; Erich Priebke, who was responsible...
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    suicide. German Shepherds were also used widely as guard dogs at Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. When the German Shepherd was introduced to...
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    half. Then the Finnish territories east of Lake Ladoga were to be recaptured before the advance along the Karelian Isthmus, including the recapture of...
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    and after June 1941 deported them to the Jasenovac concentration camp or to Nazi concentration camps in Poland. The racial laws were enforced by the Ustaše...
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    society. As many as 15,000 gay men were rounded up and imprisoned in concentration camps, where up to 60 percent died. Amid the German invasion of Poland...
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    Union Republic in March 1940 and then incorporated into Russia as the Karelian ASSR in 1956. Between July 1956 and September 1991, there were 15 union...
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    Crusade was ongoing and the Finnish tribes such as the Tavastians and Karelians were in frequent conflicts with Novgorod and with each other. Also, during...
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    attained without great effort. The Soviets demanded territories on the Karelian Isthmus, the islands of the Gulf of Finland and a military base near the...
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    by attaining control over Karelian territory, occupied by the Finns in 1941. Hitler also considered the Finnish and Karelian climates unsuitable for German...
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