Exhibition of the Krasnogorsk Branch of the Victory Museum

About exhibition

The exhibition of the Krasnogorsk branch of the Victory Museum is housed in the two-storey building of the former Central Anti-Fascist School, which operated in Krasnogorsk from spring 1943 until 1949 and trained more than 6,000 propagandists (of whom 5,000 were Germans). Currently the branch is the only military-historical museum in Russia and abroad that covers the topics of wartime captivity and the history of the anti-fascist movement among foreign prisoners of war during the Great Patriotic War. In Russia only at the Krasnogorsk museum can visitors see, thanks to original materials, a detailed depiction of the events that preceded the Nazis' rise to power in Germany, the seizure of power and its consequences. The exhibition presents a number of aspects of Russian–German relations in the 20th century: prisoners of war of World War I, the revolutions in both countries, economic relations in the 1920s–30s, and the Resistance movement against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany. Sections of particular interest are those devoted to the ideological confrontation between the Soviet Union and Germany during the Great Patriotic War, the operation of POW camps on the territory of the USSR from 1942 to 1955, the use of POW labor in the construction of Krasnogorsk, and so on.