AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS IN THE RUSSIAN ZONE

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 31, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Goriaany/Rueeiasi ZONA
SUBJECT Agricultural Conditions in the auselara Zone
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PAGES January. 1947
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I. It le renorted tn ngiafarziers have had to de/iver
sucii a h hat i
igh quota of their many z-roduction that there is insufficient
food left fo.r them to feed their families and their farm labor.
Pal-niers in this category who have arplied for :food raticn cards
, vision made for'such cases.
ha%re been terned down by the Food 0..3:Tice, becatse there Is no pro -
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' uringle.i 2t5hXelXbellef is wide.sproad among farm-
tiox of al/ farms,.
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e ?ussinns are preparing for collectivize-
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eat poverty and misery' Ecmong' the farmers
!rg as a result of the high quotas L'et. LI!iny have been
,zcaditIons,
_.1.-risoned for not havjn fUlfilied their quota. Because of these
4.' sentiment; as deve/c.eed. 25X1Xan anti-Soviet, and also an anti-SEDI
t..-0e.kleriburg have 'be2enSec:r1tXasbltehttoYlidaefirl' ver only five percent of their
'Heavy penal ties, jail sentences, and dispossession of farms
'farmers in Brandenburg arid
EtTO imTosed with great frequency? In Angerratizrle county, seventeen
sED mayors we.re 4.1.rrested Lecause, their vi'14.ages ...vere delinquent.
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to scrielohat less then half Whit': might be expected in
the gratil an .,. ,o4..ato craps in BrtIndenburg
norrAelik-?,s-,?,-result, mnny farriers have been unable to meet
their quotas and have been fir:el:or ileprisoned. Others met their
(4uotaa and -hatce ..nothing left fvf..,:themselves; they must now live ori -
they are claF.,s..1.-fied..es?-selft-pr
their brenci.cards; 'Which entitle-'them only ta bread and sugar, Sinee
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In:Ahe'cauktv of East PrIgnitz vege-
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qu y rot -at' the 'colle4Von eojnts, because of
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have been forced to delleer very young :is altheugh many of
these pigs die because of the sedden ohaage of teorereture from
the stall to the o!en air. All the -grain collected in this
county is shipred east to Lublin. Eany fereaers hav.i. had to
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quotae for fare product i- in Branden-
3-er. Thnringia,and the Prov!nee of Saxony are set on the basis
oe tota eoreeze eened be a fofmee lnd not on the basis of
otierebo LZTWf,;E. 2his Inetho6 i7 setd tc. ha used so that
farners who fall ec feffill their ineZ.ee can lie disposseseed,
If the Russiane desire to dispossess them.
8. New settlers are said to be hardest hit by the high quotas,
because of their infer erience and lack of rror,r equipment.
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settlers have abandened their holdings, usually sel]ing their
i.vestock end farm imelements and going to teen to look for
Industrial work.
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In Kreis Teltow, Russians, in conjunction with the German police,
have conducted house searchee of farmors who kve delivered
their quotas, on the suspicion th0: farmers iNI:c1 did not deliver
their quotas hed stored vome of their prodnoti.on with farmers
who heel &aivred their quotqs. In many rice.; the local Russian
comfnander has verbally deelared the whole commemity guilty for
insufficient fulfillment of agricultural Quotas and has made
every citizen responsible under threat of fine and imprisonment.
Such statements of collective guilt have as yet not been .put into
written form in. Kreis Teltow.
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co7loctIvizot:10P ce;La arried on': under the direction
of the SEA Fred eti L. Jul Stete rnd Land
Administratioos have ben ordered CD torn in re:orts on the fulfill-
ment of quotas, Usting by name all those farmers who are delinquent.
These farmers are to be punished with fines and, in extreme cases,
imprisonment up to one yeer. If whole distriets are deinquent,
all farmers in the area are to be interned and their land is to be
farmed collectively. After their release, tlese farmers are to be
allowed to return to the land which formerly belonged to them, as
helpers, on condition that their whole family work on the land.
Source estimates that at least 4,000 farms may be exprotriated in
this Aanner before the next planting.
11. The mayor of Telz (Z92) called together the farmers of his village
and told them that those who failed to meet thetr quota would be
sent to the Sachsenheusen concentrat5on ceerp. In many cases, it
5s imroseible for a farmer to fulfill ?his-quote, in one case a farm
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Pr had to fulfill a milk quota for a cow which he no longer had.
The farmers try to help each other as much as eos,-Ible.
the farmers generrlly fear that corectivized
will be introduced during 1947.
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