TREATMENT OF REFUGEES AND FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600640008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 17, 1947
• Content Type: IR

WILLOW 23
IWELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELUGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Zone
SUBJECT Treatment of ogees and Prisoners of war Former
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ction V11, headed by Rentmeister, has charge of the d4stributiox?
., h Principal " officials of the Central Administration for Re-'
Settlers are the following;
President Rudolf Engel (SED), born 12 3e t tuber 1903.
1st Vice-President (fn u) Daub (S I:
2nd Vice-President Arthur Vogt (31D), born 21 P st 189 .,
~'rsonn l " $ ch Lange OED), born 5 May i04,
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k ert Rentmeister (SEED) p described as "a
a..ntatical Communist". born 23 4Octobe-r 190 9.
:;' a total persor-ne`l.. numbering 104, it is stated that ninety- .
one which are variously classified as traa~s t camps
quarantine
camps, and returnee" camps (in one case specified as "homeless
returnees"). Locations, capacity, and nu tber of inmates are as
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gifts from foreign countries collected by the International Red
Cross. In this function it has the close co-operation of the
Central Comm a ttee of the Volks o1.IdaritUtt. The goods delivered
by the Red Cross are stored in Berl in-L~i hte grade (American
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for Resettlers. The chief of Section VII rakes recommendations
for further distribution after consulting with representatives
of the Volkssolidaritilt of the different states and of the
Central Administration for Health and with the chief physician
of the Sanitation Section of the Central Administration for
ResettlersG The goods are then passed on to the state committees
of the Volkasolidaritat and by them to the local committees.
4. The chief of the Central Committee of the Volkssolidaritfft is
a Mrs v Sandner, who replaced. Mrs 9 Tachesno on 1 April 1947
Comment? The latter is the wife of Michael Tschesno (by
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car n a RuSs1an ~meme resurnalaly Chesnov) , a journalist (SED) ,
husband and wife resigned their former posts to establish a
Central A m n s ra on or ese Lens until. 1 March 1947 Both
publishing house to be called Volk and Welt.
the Russians are supporting their project and have provided a
building and printing presses o
In Saxony-Anhalt the Volkssolidaritat goes under the name Hilf's-
werk der Provinz Sachsen-Anhalt. It is reported that in Calbe
(P77) the Hilfswerk before Easter 1947 made a collection of
money, clothing, and furniture for refugees and then turned
seventy percent ,of the receipts over to the Strassenobleute
for distribution.
6m Order Non 1578 of the SMA, of Thuringia, dated 2 August 1946,
prescribed special rations for former prisoners returned from
Russia. (This order is not applicable to prisoners coining
from the western zones.) For the first fifteen days while
lowing
in the quarantine camps, they were to receive the M lowing
daily allowances (in grams):
Bread
600
Wheat flour
10
Groats
90
MMacar3ti.:i
10
Meat
30
Fish
100
Ba c on
15
Tomato puree
10
Oil
15
Sugar
17
Tea
2
Pepper
3
Vinegar
2
Potatoes
600
Cabbage
170
Carrots
45
Onions
30
Beets
40
Pickles and vegetables
35
Soap
10
Returnees who do not have to stay in a quarantine camp receive
travel ration coupons representing approximately the same
quantities for a fifteen-day period.
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