[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] After WW2 Women to Russia

[Greg Mason]

Somewhat related to these two stories was the situation described in  
the book by Christian Graf von Krockow, "Die Stunde der  
Frauen."  (available both in German and in English.) This is about  
the detention of German families (generally women and children) in  
West Preussia and Pomern for a number of years following the war. One  
of my wife's cousins was "detained" in this manner for about 5 years  
and finally her family was expelled to West Germany.  As far as I  
know, these women and children were not sent to Russia but simply  
held prisoner in Pomern.  Greg Mason
On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Karl Krueger wrote:

> I don't know about the women but the Russians were definitely  
> literally imprisoning German men to be brought to Siberia for  
> labor. My father made the mistake of going from West Germany to  
> East Germany planning to bring the family back out with him. The  
> Russians did not honor his papers and put him in a secure camp with  
> many other German men. While there he ran into someone he knew who  
> told him what the Russians were really doing. Fortunately my father  
> was able to escape this camp, elude Russian police, and sneak out  
> to West Germany with the rest of the family who did have permission  
> to leave.
>
>   I did not hear much about them sending German women to Siberia.  
> Their interest was for hard labor as payback for what Germany did  
> to Russia in the war.
>
> rlyster at telusplanet.net wrote:
>
> Does anyone know about this?
>
> After the war (2) was over, my father is still a POW in Russia and  
> he says one
> evening about 50 German women came to the camp for a few hours  
> only. They were
> nicely dressed and didnot appear to be in distress. The Russian  
> group seemed
> to pay them quite a bit of attention.
>
> Dad says that they were taking German men and young boys to Siberia  
> to work.
> Were women volunteering to go?
>
> Does anyone know anything about these type of women?
>
> Rita Lyster
>
>
>
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