SITUATION AT HENNIGSDORF PLANT AFTER THE JUNE REBELLION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600700005-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGEI.Cf AGENCY
INFORMATIOI REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY East Germany
PLACE ACQUIRED
Situation at Hennigsdorf Plant
after the June Rebellion
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This Document contains information affecting the Na
tional Defense of t e `nheed*a .es, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
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2 November 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
SOURCE:
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1. On 19 anc 20 June 1553, the workers of Sore - und Walzwerk Hennigsdorf (iron
and steel works and rolling m ll so) w to work by force of arms.
About 250 ,SW1i workers were ar`rested`and taken away-to an unknown destination.
All workers were continuously shadowed`an~quea~ioned`. Two'were,aummar y
shot at the, works. Washrooms, an' sioiaer rooms as wed "aa looker rooms,
were a guarded by Soviet soldiers and s.NT Every ~ror3nnan' was searched on
etering or leaving the works.., The lookers of 800 workers who had not
red f6r work"were marked with a red cross. Regular work was impossible,
_t -The workers were questioned by a
since the labor force was insuff3:cien_
Soviet officer with three stars wrNo was ass-fi ed By'wo other Soviet officers.
They pretended to be.looking for a reasons for the strike. If-- one- o-those
questioned called the withdrawal of the Soviet occupation forces desirable,
he was in trouble. Source believed that a total of seven persons were
summarily shot ail that .'about one iousand _we'e arrested in Hennigsdorf.
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2. As of 4,, July 1953, three 100-t6n open yhearh furnaces were not yep operating.
The workers of the steel plant planned to strike again, if traffic on the
Berlin elevated railroad was not back to normal by 6 July 1953. The pro-
dtction of the wire plant decrease to one-third as a result of a breakdown
of the Garret-type fastenings, whose'drums had cracked and were unable to
prevent the leakage of cooling water. Attempts to- weld these drums electri-
cally failed, and the seams cracked again.
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