Page "Joseph Stalin" Paragraph 44

In the Soviet Occupation Zone of post-war Germany, the Soviets set up ten NKVD-run " special camps " subordinate to the gulag.

These " special camps " were former Stalags, prisons, or Nazi concentration camps such as Sachsenhausen ( special camp number 7 ) and Buchenwald ( special camp number 2 ).

According to German government estimates, " 65, 000 people died in those Soviet-run camps or in transportation to them.