ONCE - GERMAN AREAS TAKEN OVER BY POLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02771R000100060003-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: NSPR

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Forriier German Pfrtionsof Poland
Show Negicet on rms and in Cities
Wroclaw-a new community; of ago. For the
strangers to the city and' to turies, the
The same thing has happened
all ov;:r the sections of Vrestern
and northern. ' Poland which
yet done
developin
irnakes no more than a third ofjthey hay t had underst
present-day l'o'land A few fig-help fr their .Cora
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what's happened, 'j throughFQ _"recovere
than six mlion Poles hav fern eq meat the go
moved in as, ew settl I rs,? Mo -' in Wa air had btagged about.
ern Europe as never know ' We.,psked a ffarmer near
mmeni of Opol ~r whetK r.. lid`': had ma-
any pe9ples on ch Er'. "Oh, yes," he uid, 1'il
? Ch a scale.' What Churchill show you. He took to his
once called the "disentangle- barnyard ands shows a
meat of populations" i astern collection of Morse-drawn lvwsl
Europe has started a n after and beaten?up harrows.
corning to a halt duri recent! This "machinery" w o u 14
Stalinist years. ,have been antique 50 years ago
. As a concession to polish o a New- England farm. The
government under mulka, efitire area suggests a vast neg-
the Russians have op d their lest of aggr~iculture by a govern-
borders to permit Po caught Trent whielh until last year was
in the Soviet Union return putting all its effort and money
to their own country les are into heavy industry.
crossing at the rate 10,0001 Warsaw Had Priority
a month, taking who ey can
carry on their hacks, d most, The picture of neglect is just
of them are being r ttled in as. bad in war-damaged cities.
former German terr ries. Wherever a ceiling stands in-~
At the same time, e Poles,tact, new settlers have crowded1
have opened their ders to in, usually a family to a room,
let the- few remai g Grer-
marts emigrate, if y wish.
Every week or so, a cial Reds
Cross train steam out of
Gdansk, formerly D ig, filled
,iatiwith Germans. Mor than "60,-
inl000 are' expected to ove this
Ily,year into West, Ger any alone
to to rejoin relates t y haven't
ss seen for more tha 10 years.iinto ' the next for nearly 25'
,ari .. _. . _ .. {miles. What the Poles need here
ar In human terms, this "disen- chinery, which they're hoping
,y tanglement" of^ Pales and Ger- to obtain with United States
alimans has been~ard and bitter credits and better management,
to{for both, but in political terms, a thing which will- take years
it ofl'ers some nsurance for to develop.
1e the future pea of Europe. If Germans were here in-1
d When the Poles n say, "These stead of the Poles, no doubt.
nterritories are Polish," their things would look tidier ands
y claim rests on more than the more efficient. A few Poles will
d,fact that they were part of admit this --even to foreigners;
n~Poland 300 or even 600 years like ourselves. But what no
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been slow in coming. "You see,;
Warsaw had to be rebuilt first,"',
a newcomer in Wroclaw told us.
The only part of the area
which looked bustling and vig-
orous was the mining and
factory complex of Upper Si
settlers hav
I in rcbuildi
these new
Germans we
is tnat the'
-inewly acquired territories cans
!ever The
be w
ld anything but Polish.!,
y
ou
h
e Polish way than ever'
nd
submit to German di
rection and
ads. German "efficiency" and all
the that, it implies.
and NEXT. What th
e Germans
dinKlthink about their lost lands.
Grip
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