EAST GERMAN PARTIAL REVERSAL OF TREND TOWARD COMPLETE NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600620006-9
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
INFORMATION REPORT amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized. person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form U prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT East German Partial Reversal of Trend
Toward Complete Nationalization of
Industry
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 27 October 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
he recent decision to reverse the trend toward complete nationalization
of East German production was based on a previous policy ruling made in Potsdam
by the Russians in 1945y that only the country's basic industries were to be
nationalized. This ruling was lost sight of in the following years; it was,
however, the original plan.. Therefore, the recent reversal of the trend toward
nationalization was not a new policy, but the restoration of the old one,, and
it had nothing to do with the events of 17 June 1953.
ber of applications for the return of confiscated property had not been large.
be granted if it is considered to be in the interest of over-all production.
Instructions have been received to show great latitude in the interpretation of
this clause, and.i o people or a loan under these terms
were granted one. taken as a whole, the num-
nisters, the former owners of industrial property which had been compulsorily
nationalized would, on application, have it returned to them provided it did
not fall within the category of "basic industries" (iron, coal, steel, chemical,
and transportation industries). The former owners of these industrial firms may
also apply for a loan to enable them to start production again. This loan will
according to a recent decision of the Council of 50X1-HUM,
returned. 50X1-HUM
most owners of industrial property had.left
mas Uermany immediately after -the-,property was confiscated and had not yet 50X1-HUM
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