German prisoners of war in Azerbaijan

[3] As of January 1947, in Azerbaijan there were 23,266 Axis prisoners of war of various nationalities (Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Romanians).

[6] The daily ration for one prisoner of war was 90 g of vermicelli, 10 g of fish, 15 g of lard, 15 g of butter, 30 g of salt, 600 g of potatoes and 320 g of vegetables.

The residents of Baku and Mingachevir, despite the ban, fed the weakened German prisoners of war walking along the street or working on sites.

[citation needed] So, the actor and film director Vladimir Menshov recalls that, as a child, he exchanged bread for wooden toys with German prisoners of war who worked on the construction site of the Government House.

Here, with their help were built parks, squares, five-story and two-story residential areas, a palace of culture, government institutions, etc.

[citation needed] In particular, in the construction of the Government House, according to Behbudov, about 150 prisoners of war took part, performing the roles of civil engineers, carpenters, stone cutters, facade craftsmen, etc.

001078, issued on 15 October 1947, 1750 prisoners of war in Azerbaijan were subject to repatriation (1,000 of them from camps, 400 from the Individual Workers’ Battalions, 350 from special hospitals).

From May 1948 to August of the same year, 1800 prisoners of war were repatriated from the construction sites of the Mingachevir hydroelectric power station, 550 from the Sumgait pipe-rolling plant, 300 from Dashkesanstroy, and 950 from Glavneftestroy.

People of nine nationalities (Germans, Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Swedes, Slovaks, Italians, French and Austrians) are buried here.

In the village, they were involved in various kinds of rural work, and later died here and were buried in a separate cemetery that has survived to this day.