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""I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It… Mehr…

""I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a quote from "Requiem" a book of poetry by Anna Achmatowa (2). She wrote it for her son Lev who was incarcerated for 17 months during the period when Jeschow was head of the Secret Service. Astrid, Gabriele, Roland, Renate, Bärbel, Thomas, Jürgen, Birgitt-Elsa, Klaus, Wolfgang, Joachim, Felicitas, boy (name u" ""I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a quote from "Requiem" a book of poetry by Anna Achmatowa (2). She wrote it for her son Lev who was incarcerated for 17 months during the period when Jeschow was head of the Secret Service. Astrid, Gabriele, Roland, Renate, Bärbel, Thomas, Jürgen, Birgitt-Elsa, Klaus, Wolfgang, Joachim, Felicitas, boy (name unknown, born in 1947 in Bautzen) - a long list of names. They could all be on a list that would never be completed and never will be. They are the names of the children, who were born between 1945 and 1950 in Soviet Special Camps in Sachsenhausen or Bautzen, in Buchenwald, Ketschendorf, Fünfeichen, Mühlberg, Torgau, Hohenschönhausen or Jamlitz, who lived with their mothers in such misery and sometimes, like so many inmates, died. More than 150,000 people, of whom about 123,000 were German, were incarcerated in these Camps in Germany between 1945 and 1950. Exactly how many young people and children were kept is difficult to establish today. According to Russian law, 12 year olds have criminal responsibility, which explains why they are not entered in the books separately. Children who were born in such camps are given no mention at all. On their release, mothers had to insist that their sons or daughters be included on any discharge certification just so that there was proof they existed at all. The grounds for the mothers' detention varied and were mostly absurd. They ranged from an accusation of "Distribution of Supposed Anti-Soviet Slander" to "Tendency to High Treason". Only a few cases cited "Concentration Camp Guard" or "Gestapo Employee". Even if one or two of the accusations were true, they did not apply to the children. Nevertheless they remained prisoners. Relatives were not allowed to fetch them from the camps. When the Special Camps were closed in 1950 the suffering of" European General, History, A Childhood Behind Barbed Wire~~ Alexander Latotzky~~European General~~History~~9781465906274, en, A Childhood Behind Barbed Wire, Alexander Latotzky, 9781465906274, Smashwords Edition, 10/31/2011, , , , Smashwords Edition, 10/31/2011<

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I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It i… Mehr…

I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a quote from "Requiem" a book of poetry by Anna Achmatowa (2). She wrote it for her son Lev who was incarcerated for 17 months during the period when Jeschow was head of the Secret Service. Astrid, Gabriele, Roland, Renate, Bärbel, Thomas, Jürgen, Birgitt-Elsa, Klaus, Wolfgang, Joachim, Felicitas, boy (name un I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a quote from "Requiem" a book of poetry by Anna Achmatowa (2). She wrote it for her son Lev who was incarcerated for 17 months during the period when Jeschow was head of the Secret Service. Astrid, Gabriele, Roland, Renate, Bärbel, Thomas, Jürgen, Birgitt-Elsa, Klaus, Wolfgang, Joachim, Felicitas, boy (name unknown, born in 1947 in Bautzen) - a long list of names. They could all be on a list that would never be completed and never will be. They are the names of the children, who were born between 1945 and 1950 in Soviet Special Camps in Sachsenhausen or Bautzen, in Buchenwald, Ketschendorf, Fünfeichen, Mühlberg, Torgau, Hohenschönhausen or Jamlitz, who lived with their mothers in such misery and sometimes, like so many inmates, died. More than 150,000 people, of whom about 123,000 were German, were incarcerated in these Camps in Germany between 1945 and 1950. Exactly how many young people and children were kept is difficult to establish today. According to Russian law, 12 year olds have criminal responsibility, which explains why they are not entered in the books separately. Children who were born in such camps are given no mention at all. On their release, mothers had to insist that their sons or daughters be included on any discharge certification just so that there was proof they existed at all. The grounds for the mothers' detention varied and were mostly absurd. They ranged from an accusation of "Distribution of Supposed Anti-Soviet Slander" to "Tendency to High Treason". Only a few cases cited "Concentration Camp Guard" or "Gestapo Employee". Even if one or two of the accusations were true, they did not apply to the children. Nevertheless they remained prisoners. Relatives were not allowed to fetch them from the camps. When the Special Camps were closed in 1950 the suffering of European General, History, A Childhood Behind Barbed Wire~~ Alexander Latotzky~~European General~~History~~9781465906274, en, A Childhood Behind Barbed Wire, Alexander Latotzky, 9781465906274, Smashwords Edition, 10/31/2011, , , , Smashwords Edition, 10/31/2011<

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"I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It … Mehr…

"I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a quote from "Requiem" a book of poetry by Anna Achmatowa "I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a quote from "Requiem" a book of poetry by Anna Achmatowa Office Supplies > General Office Supplies, Smashwords Edition<

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""I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It… Mehr…

""I wanted to call them all by their names" appears on a memorial stone for the victims of the Stalinist repression in a park in St Petersburg just next to the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is a quote from "Requiem" a book of poetry by Anna Achmatowa" European General, History, A Childhood Behind Barbed Wire~~ Alexander Latotzky~~European General~~History~~9781465906274, en, A Childhood Behind Barbed Wire, Alexander Latotzky, 9781465906274, Smashwords Edition, 10/31/2011, , , , Smashwords Edition, 10/31/2011<

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