LIVING CONDITIONS, SECURITY, AND RESISTANCE IN LAZDIU, POGEGGEN, AND AUCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2002
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• Publication Date: August 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR (,Lithuanian and; Latvian SSRe )
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Living Conditions, Security,and
Resistance in Lazdiu, Pogeggen,
and Auce
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tional Defenee of the United States, within the mean-
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2. Starting in 191l,62 many German refugees from East Prussia entered Lithuania
illegally, and by 1947 there were thousands. They scattered all over the
country and even went to Latvia'. In the beginning they were hiding, but
in 1949 they were registered in Lithuania by the Soviet authorities and
their status became semi-legal. In 1947, in Kaunas, the militia tried to
detain the German refugees and to send them back to Kaliningrad, but the
expellees came back again, and the militia was not able to cope with this
problem. By 1949 the first regular repatriations to Germany took place,
but the Soviet authorities realized that this was a failure because the
repatriation was carried out without any registration, and thus many
persons from Lithuania managed to pass as Germans and be repatriated.
Therefore, the Germans were registered, and each case thoroughly checked.
This checking took place until May 195l,when Germans throughout Lithuania
and Latvia were repatriated. However, many Germans remained. Either they
did not want to be repatriated, or did not appear at the assembly centers
for fear that the transports would not really go to Germany, or were
detained by Soviet authorities for additional checks. In Skuodes, a
young man of 22 was taken off the transport because there was a suspicion
that he had had connections with the partisans.
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the following market prices in Pogeggen`'iin 1951:
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Sovetsk were black marketeers. They were arrested and fined. Despite this
risk,Lithuanians came to Sovetsk often with food, which was more expensive
there than in Lithuania. On the other hand.,there was more food available
in Sovetsk than in other East Prussian towns such as Chernyakhovsk or Slavs,
and Soviets from other towns in former East Prussia came to Sovetsk to shdp,
even from Kaliningrade Railroad fare from Riga to Sovetsk was 60 rubles.
6. The local militiaman in Pogeggen was a Lithuanian. who said unofficially in
1949 that there was a possibility of repatriation to Germany. The repat-
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Boots, artifiaialieather 150 rubles
Boots, leather 500-600 rubles
Work shoes0with rubber solescalled. tanks 120-200 rubles
Manes suit, good quality 1500 rubbles
Bicycle, German make 1500 rubles
Grain, 100 kg 150-250-.300 rubles
(It ad.dirtibns - the farmer or kolkhoz respectively received three rubles for
each centner from the States)
Wages were low-, an unskilled worker received about 100 to 350 rubles per
month, an office clerk 400 rubleo,"a; d only in such jobs as loading lumber
was it possible to earn good moneyi e.g.a120 rubles for a 12-hour day.
there were market
days on Tuesdays and hursdays, and on these days begging was profitable.
The market was held in the usual marketplace. Admittance for those who
wished to sell was five rubles per person and 15 rubles for a horsecart.
Auce could be reached from Lithuania by the train Kaliningrad.-Riga via
SovetsklClaipeda-Pripkule-Mazeikiai. This train ran every other day anA.
arrived in Auce at about 0900'ho'a.ra. From Rigc A -w sreanhed
return train RigaSal.ningraa9t;'~ Rig" 'very other day at
0630 hours. Besides this train there were otherplocal trains from
Riga to Auc?. Until. early in 1951 these trains went as far as Renge, but then
they went tsnlg" .c4 Ate
When returning by train from begging trips" other Germans from
Pogeggen used to ride as far as the railroad station at ovetsk and go from
there to their camp, which was located between Pogeggen and Sovetsk, because
from Pogeggen many rivers had to be crossed and from Sovetsk there was only
one bridge to cross. The border was not strictly gu.rded, and the German
riation in May 1951 was managed in Pogeggen by an MPD officer. The regis-
tration in 1949 and the interrogations before were carried out by the
rayon militia in Pogeggen.
The following are some market prices in Lazditao
A pack of 20 cigarettes
A pack of 20 papirosi cigarettes
Loaf of rye bread, per kg
Work clothes for men (poor quality)
A good manes suit
Shoes r leather in heel and toe only"-(These
shoes wear out within four months.)
as of the fall of 1950:
1.10 rubles
4$ kopeks to 1.60 rubles
2 to 3 rubles
124 rubles
800 to 1000 rubles
24 rubles
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