Liste der mobilisierten Personen (in Deutsch übertragen von Elena Klassen siehe weiter unten)
Eingesandt:
Олександр Сидоренко / Oleksander Sydorenko, директор / Director
Консорціум із удосконалення менеджмент-освіти в Україні
Consortium for Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education (CEUME)
The beginning of the war in 1941 was particularly difficult for the residents of Alexandrovka. Ethnic Germans were considered particularly unsympathetic.
The first from Alexandrovka mobilized boys born in 1918-1922, and among them – Born Gerhard Herhardovich (1920), Born Petro Andreevich (1920), Gibert Dmytro Mykolayovych (1921), Hrube Leontiy Petrovich (1921), Leven Hryhoriy Petrovich (1920), Lemke Petro Yakovych (1918). First, they were sent to the 38th construction battalion, and then to the 13th reserve rifle brigade.
The 1st platoon of the 3rd company of the 29th battalion during August 4-14, 1941 was made up entirely of ethnic Germans, Greeks and Poles, and they were obviously being prepared to go to the front. However, on August 31, 1941, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Ukraine (B) adopted a secret decision “On Germans living in the territory of the Ukrainian SSR”, according to which all men aged 16 to 60, including those from the Dnipropetrovsk region, were to be mobilized into construction units ( “labor army”).
So, instead of the front, these guys were sent to the so-called “Trust 58”, located in Ulyanovsk. The unit was unique and consisted of 634 soldiers, among whom 45.4% were Germans, 40% Western Ukrainians, 10% Poles and Czechs, and the remaining 5% were of other nationalities.
They did not dare to entrust weapons to these people, and therefore they were sent to the “labor front”. Their names – we will assume – were preserved in military documents almost by chance, although they were obviously removed from the lists of those mobilized by the Petropavlovka Military Commissariat. All other ethnic German men were already mobilized into the “labor army” by the NKVD authorities of the USSR after the aforementioned resolution, and the names of the rest of those mobilized from Alexandrovka remain unknown.
Source of information: Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, F. 8214, Op. 44874.- File 8. – Sheet 28.
