GREEKS INTERNMENT CAMP IN DZIWNA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800600008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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DATE DISTR. 16 April 1953
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Greeks Internment Camp in Dziwna
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SOURCE
In 19h9 the former German barracks in DQiwna, Wolin district, Szczecin
oivodship, were taken over by the Poles and used as billets for in-
terned'Greek refugees and prisoners-of-war from the civil war in Greece.
The barracks' complex consisted of 20 three-story buildings; it was corl-
pletely surrounded by barbed wire and kept under heavy KPW guard. Source
estimates that the compound could hold approximately 10,000 persons.
in 1950 the local populace was prohibited from moving about in the
vicinity of the barracks. Prior to that time the internees had begged
local citizens for food and cigarettes; the prisoners were allegedly very
poorly fed and unusually thin. As of December 1952 the Greeks were still
being held prisoner in the compound,
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