Olga Leonidovna Chernobay,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Anti-Fascist Underground in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the Testimony of N.S. Simakov (1946–1947)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-3-22
The article is devoted to the organization of underground groups of Soviet prisoners of war in the Buchenwald concentration camp to coordinate work with civilian Soviet prisoners under the leadership of N.S. Simakov, his fate and role in the implementation of the connection of the Russian center with the international center and in the organization of the uprising of April 11, 1945. The work of the entire camp underground is covered, all directions and forms of resistance of the Soviet prisoners of Buchenwald are analyzed, and a detailed plan of the uprising is presented. The role of the camp resistance networks and the participation of Austrian, German and Czech communists in them are characterized. The article is based on the testimony of N.S. Simakov in the Department of the Ministry of State Security in the Novosibirsk region. A fragment of the interrogation of N.S. Simakov from a series of interrogations conducted before his arrest and placement in prison is authentic, published for the first time. The testimony is in the filtration and verification case of N.S. Simakov as part of the archive fund R-208 of the State Archive of the Novosibirsk region.
Publishing: 28/06/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 12.05.2021
How to cite: Chernobay O.L. The Anti-Fascist Underground in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the Testimony of N.S. Simakov (1946–1947) // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 3 (17), pp. 191–199. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-3-22.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2021
Keywords: soviet prisoners of war; Buchenwald camp; young prisoners of fascism; international anti-fascist underground; armed uprising; resistance of Soviet prisoners; filtration and verification case; interrogation protocol