UNEMPLOYMENT IN EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800430007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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At a conference of SED representatives held at the office of Ifinister President Ottc,
Grotewchl on 29 April 1953, it was admitted for the first time that large-scale
unemployment existed in East Germany. The conferees were told that this unemployment
'n:' only temporary urAd that it had also been experienced by the USSR in i ta
correTonding stage of development.
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