German Communists in the Soviet Union after 1933

Production of a database of all German communists
who emigrated to the Soviet Union after the seizure of power by Hitler
with particular consideration of their fate there in view of the
purges by Stalin after approx. 1937.
Through the opening of the archives (also KGB)
for the first time it was possible to resolve the puzzle
of the whereabouts of many German communists in the USSR.
Currently the investigation encompasses over 2000 cases,
but is not yet completed, in part because
access to the archives has again become more difficult.

Topics: The database encompasses information on name, origins,
school education, occupation, party membership and function, emigration,
whereabouts and activity in the former USSR, as well as information on
arrests, trial and possibly death sentence.
(Through recording data with phonetic transliteration into Cyrillic
in survey on the occasion of entry as well as the re-transliteration
into German when entering the data into the database
much information contains gaps or has become unclear.)