grigorievich shtymelya, corporal punishment in the camps was used very widely, according to a citizen stepanova tatyanaly passwords, a in the evenings 670 people. moreover, the number of blows was considered the smallest from 25 and reached 150, when a person was already unconscious and turned into a piece of meat with blood. sometimes cold water was used. their snacks continued if the person. to give him back on his feet, they immediately forced him to work again. the most terrible was the camp of the peat mining settlement, the prisoners there were forced to work for 12 hours and were subjected to bullying and torture. people did hard work there on knee-deep tarkha and in the water, bloated some were harnessed instead of horses, and they carried bricks, timber and water. moreover, the german got up on the cart with a whip and barely whipped people moving from hunger. after the war, an emergency state commission to investigate the atrocities of the nazi invaders and their accomplices compiled a list of camps. on the territory of the ussr, 34 out of three hundred and fifty-nine were in the leningrad re