Werkschutz

Identifier
1376
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

One of the command’s most well documented concerns was the Werkschutz, an industrial security force armed and trained by the Soviets and commanded by Soviet officers. They were used mostly to guard industrial sites, such as the OROP oil enterprises.

Sources

  • Waltzing into the Cold War: The Struggle for Occupied Austria / J.J. Carafano. – 2002. - p. 161