1) INDUCTION INTO THE TERRITERIAL FORCES AND REFUSAL OF GERMANS TO JOIN THE ARMED FORCES. 2) GOLLNOW STATION. 3) MILITARY UNIT(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007800360005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 2, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1) Induction into the Territorial I Forces and Refusal of Germans to Join the -25M
Armed Forces. 2) Gollnow Station. 3) Military Unit
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED-
REFERENCES
DATE PREPARED 2 August 1955
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was forced to apply for Polish citizenship, was not required to serve a term
of active military service alt the summer of 1953
and 1954, he was required to that Prussia. Since
he was his parents' only son, icultural work at
his parents' farm which was le t"to them as their private property. Under
certain prerequisites, the only sons of farmers were allegedly required to
take short-term training only. This privilege was granted provided that the
subject farms exceeded the determined minimum size, surrendered agricultural
products in conformity with the scheduled quotas, and had no tax arrears. The
privilege was given to both ethnic Poles and Germans who had applied for Pol-
ish citizenship.1
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1. A young German of Maradtken (R 54/A 06), 24 years old, who with his family
2. On the"occasion of the inductions in November 1954, three young Germans from
the Sensburg (R 54/A 27) county disobeyed the order to report for active mi-
litary service, reas6ning that they as Germans disliked serving in the Polish
Armed Forces. After being heard in court, they were sentenced to three years'
hard labor in the mines.
3. It appeared that a young German who was forced to apply for Polish citizen-
ship and was drafted into an infantry unit in Sensburg in November 1954 was
reassigned from that station to Gollnow (6 54/Q 77) on 24 January 1955
4. On 24 May 1953, military unit was located in Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki 25X1
(R 53/K 83). This unit also worked on Sundays. An ethnic German, born 15'May
1933, served with this unit from the fall of 1953 to November 1954.3
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been drafted into the territorial forces. Under the legal provisions, indi-
viduals subject to the draft into the territorial forces have generally to.,
spend 4 months on active duty in the first year, and 2 months in each of the
following 3 years.
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omment. The 54th Rifle Regt of the 15th Rifle Div is assumed to be in
Sensburg. No previous reports have mentioned Gollnow as an army station. 25X1
military labor *nit in the area of Warsaw.
comment. Several previous reports have mentioned unit) las a
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