BALTIC COAST CLOSELY GUARDED; VON PAULUS TRIAL RUMORED

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• Document Release Date: August 30, 2011
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• Publication Date: June 14, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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BALTIC COAST CLOSELY GUARDED;
VON PAULUS TRIAL RJMORED
ILLEGAL EXITS, SMUGGLING REPORTED -- Morgon Tidningen, No 123, 9 May 50
People's Police Commissioner Niepsch annoui.ced at the navigation school
at Wustrow that a close watch was to be kept along the Baltic coast in the So-
viet Zone. About 7,000 persons have been ferried illegally to Western Germany
or Scandinavia since the German collapse in 1945, he said. According to the
People's po'.ice, there is also widespread smuggling of nonferrous metals from
Eastern Germany to the Western zones.
POLICE GET 2,000 NEW RECRUITS -- Svenska Dagbladet, No 111, 26 Apr .50
According to the Berliner Stadtblatt (formerly Social Democratic), the
People's Police in East Berlin has recently recruited 2,000 new members. The
number of new recruits has reached such proportions that the supply of East
German police uniforms has run out.
VON PAULUS TO BE TRIED BY SOVIET COURT -- Morgon Tidningen, No 123, 9 May 50
According to a German lieutenant' just returned from Soviet imprisonment,
Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus will soon be brought before a Soviet court
for trial. The informant reported further that Gen von Seydlitz-Kurzbach has
11 already been sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment. This report is quite pecul-
iar, as it had been rumored previously that both these German generals had
been selected as leaders of the German prisoners of war in the USSR. They were
said to head an army of these prisoners, which was to be'placed at the disposal
of the Eastern German government.
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GENERAL DENIES VON F'AULUS TO BE TRIED -- Svenska Dagbladet, No 127, 13 May 50
German General Schlomer, captured at Stalingrad and recently returned to
Germany, reports'that the Russians are still holding about 100 German gener-
als in a prisoner-of-war camp outside Moscow. Thus far, 85 generals have been
freed.
Schlomer reports that- he lived for several months with von Paulus in a
summer villa in a suburb of Moscow. Von Paulus had a certain freedom of move-
ment. For example, he was permitted to stroll in the immediate vicinity,'al-
though he was under constant guard. He also had permission to visit Moscow,
accompanied by a Soviet officer, but he seldom took advantage of this opportu-
nity. Schlomer doss not believe that the Russians intend to bring von Paulus
to trial, as has been reported recently in a number of newspapers.
USSR PREPARING NEW CONCESSIONS TO EAST GERMANY -- Svenska Dagbladet, No 121,
7 May 50
According to the French-licensed Kur'ier, Eastern Germany's three Commu-
nist leaders have been called to Moscow to confer with Soviet leaders.
Western circles believe that the USSR is preparing new concessions to
Eastern Germany, as a countermove against possible admission of Western Ger-
many to the London Conference. These concessions ould probably be the sus-
pension of Soviet control over certain Eastern German industries, the taking
of certain preliminary measures to end the state of war between Germany and
the USSR, and the acceptance of the SED into the Cominform.
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