TREATMENT OF GERMAN SCIENTISTS/LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE LENINGRAD AREA, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL. INT ELLI.GENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Germany/USSR
Treatment of German Scientists/
Living Conditions in the Leningrad
Areas USSR
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFPECTINO THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OP THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 19, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RE VE?
CATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHOR IZEO PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM II PROHIBITED.
eke Soviet Military Administration
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2. I believe that the SMA laboratory was established in order to`''/
gather Germ.mn Rnj Pnti3ts in oreDaration for their transfer to25X1A
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?Later, . since - it LooK ai ruo L S. 1vt; wtyt,gS.o tov o;= L, ut' L,ss~ av.ww u the authorities could not have expected positive results before
our departure, The entire laboratory was designated Me-214-C.
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1~ -3 TION 1 qe , o d ao a,elly she did some
shopping for us We did not reAll; ttmat her as we all had the
organized social parties, X1X
limited, For one tiny ,. oar, e.*-t1 i. th ; U OR did not break
down ter rnan social barriers. 'Vor l e' when the acientista
tremely limited, particular1y a "tMMM " l48x~ the Soviets became
afraid to be seen talking to us. 'During the first two years
of our stay, the school children- were quite embarrassing . They
ran behind us and shouted, 'Hitler pigs? a or simply '"Hitler".
By the winter of 1950 such insults stopped. However, at the
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occasionally. kept for their reserve. on political matters,
they were Just like ordinary "X%
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text books were printed in 1 nseo'w. 1 de not think these ta4 C1A
were the same as those used in the Soviet Zone since all the25XlA
material concerned Soviet life.. fore 'm .ple, arithmetic
problems concerned distances between cities in the USSR.
very Young were sent to the regular. Soviet elementary
Sestr?oretek where all instruction ' was in Russian 4
Departure
schools in
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one knew about it. M Jor hsvoi-ov had gone to Moscow and
people ? etursned to German, -vas made in Moscow and
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agaixa.at but to no avail i The decision as to whit
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belief
an article of faith .onjr : gne ? . err, of the (o fnrxx .st Party of the
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would no longer be any borders between Germany and Poland,. Me
Institute employees had said several times before., that the borders
would fall and that it would be possible to travel without a,
This was said seriously, na t an a joke' , and it seems to be a most
'frig Rome
17, We were allowed three t ,s in whop Uri paa k.: our belongings in
f ed 'ue as were some
Sestr?oretsk,n. A special le ae r : o a s
baggage care for r6 wrtlly posy :ssion a li is train was very clean
and newly painted. The trip 'a a Ka. o~q, huo ever, as our cars
were hitched to frels,;~Tht tra1n ? We papasd through Vilna, ftnek,
Brest (where we changed to .a x a t ~$,i.xr, , Warsaw and Frankfurt/
Oder. Major Sakharorov..arid iAii ;Personnel at the fT*IF
Institute, Iclu cov, aoooxmpani,; ei t hl Journey. I. think that
they `both belonged to the MVz T era wa . also a military guard
on the train, an effiae r and. three se .dire . Although no
restrictions were put on . ua. during the, journey, we saw very
little besides woods and swsarapso: I. cam remember very little
about the track except that it wa . muoh better than in 19k6., in
some places it was si le in others double. At Brest we changed
to the narrower gauge when we were transferred to the.-Germ8 5X1A
train). From there we traveled third class, one family to a
compartment. At Reppexa,. the lat station in Poland, we were held
rnere was one large sneer ror eaon person except ror tape cniiuren
who were listed with their mothers0 Our first reception was
given at Frankfurt/Osier where we were. greeted by a representative
of the German Democratic Republic
rival
18. From Frankfurt/Oder our train was routed through Wittenberg to
Wolf en, Where the transport was broken up. At Wolfen we were
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picked up by a bus which took ue D
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was waiting for us and the next day I was assigned a house. s
house was better than the one fir. which.: I lived before leaving
Germany; it had steam heat.
official reception was given.: : ser.;a,e or speeches was made
Eckhardt, Director of the LeuaraG `lant,# the Soviet manager of the
plant, representatives of the trade 'unlorx n ),d by members of other
S.T sponsored organizations. E khardt promised us many things and
gave us many warnings. In fact, h.is,speech consisted primarily of
warnings -_ cautioning us not to do . oolish things. Rather than
going West, he suggested we let . him anew of our wishes and,needs.
Wyzaamir?ski made a general ans errs for all of us.
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19, After this reception, we were invited to make speeches to the
Soviet Friendship Society and some other groups, but, for the
benefit of the shop groups, we were-interviewed over the fac or7
loudspeakers. At first. this created considerable embarras.-
nee the people who questioned us did not know that we had
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the questions asked concerned our faith in the German Democratic
Republic and its leaders. Most of the discussions were obviously
held for propaganda reasons rather than to inform the listeners.
1. was
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was approached several.times by Soviet agents who wante
very suspicious when they hear that these scientists who hay* exl
20 thousand in Leningrad ; which were transferred to a blocked
r Idt was the first who left for the West.
d of June. Then rm d , and I oeter?hoa
disappeared, The Soviets.are very careful to hide facts co YHing
find out-about the men who had disappeare
oreover, they
that the Soviets wanted to send "a the USSR in order to
help in setting up plants there.
I became eat
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