КЕҢЕС-ГЕРМАН МАЙДАНЫНДАҒЫ СОҒЫС ТҰТҚЫНДАРЫНЫҢ ХАЛЫҚАРАЛЫҚ-ҚҰҚЫҚТЫҚ СТАТУСЫН АНЫҚТАУ МӘСЕЛЕСІ

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of determining the international legal status of prisoners of war on the Soviet-German front. The object of the study is the telegrams and letters of the governments of the USSR and Nazi Germany to the embassies of neutral countries. The Hague Convention of 1907 and the Geneva Convention of 1929 provided real protection to prisoners of war. The Soviet government did not recognize the international treaties concluded by the former Russian governments, including The Hague Convention of 1907, and also did not join The Geneva Convention of 1929. The outbreak of hostilities on the Soviet-German front required the determination of the legal status of Soviet and German prisoners of war. The correspondence between the governments of the two countries, carried out through the mediation of neutral states, did not affect the legal status of prisoners of war on the eastern front. The results of our research show that the problem of prisoners of war has become an object of ideological confrontation between the authorities of the warring totalitarian states.