The author explores the problems of labor use of Soviet Germans during the Great Patriotic War. During the last months of 1941 – the whole 1942. Soviet Germans, men aged 15–55 and women aged 16–45 were mobilized through military commissariats into the labor detachments, which later received the general name «Labor Army». The peculiarity of these formations was that, carrying out a variety of production activities, they were of military organization, and the camp regime of detention, that is, Soviet Germans in the detachments practically had the status of prisoners. The disbandment of these units occurred after the end of the war (1946–1946). Considerable attention has been paid to the creation of a socio-psychological and political portrait of a German labor army serviceman. The author relies on his previous studies of the Labor Army, uses the work of other authors, affecting the history of Soviet Germans during 1941–1945. The article is based on a variety of documents from the central and local archives of wartime and the first post-war years.