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Lavrentiy Beria, head of the...

history · 17 September 1939 · 86 years ago

Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet NKVD, established the Directorate for Prisoners of War and Interned Persons (UPVI), which would run camps for 240,000 Polish prisoners of war in the near future. 

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