WHITSUN RALLY OF THE FREE GERMAN YOUTH ( FDJ ) IN BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004800300005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Whitson Rally of. the Free Gorman
Youth (EV) In. Berlin
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1. Criminal police and AK-Section personnel are greatly in-
volved in the preparations for the \ibitsun rally of the
FDJ in Berlin. At the tioviet Zone SED (socialist Unity
Party) headquarters on Behrenstrasse in Berlin, continual
conferences are 119).d with Gerhard Eisler or jendretzki
presiding. AmoneTholice representatives attending are
usually Kommandeur Riegel and Kommandeur Fischer of the
Last Berlin pollee headquarters.
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In the afternoon nucErous trucks occupied by FD3 members
are usually dispatched for propaganda sorties along the
,iest Berlin sector boundaries. The EN propaganda teams
are accompanied by some criminal police or AK-Section
personnel for protection and by some SED propagandists,
mostly from Saxony. At major rallies, e.g., at the 10
itiarch rally when Gerhard Eisler spoke,
among the demonstrating masses well-known Communists and
leading criminal police and AK-Section officers, such as
Schwan ( AK-Se c ti on Chia f ) Tschechlok, Franke, Rehberg,
and Kaaros, who presumably were to match the reaction of
the masses and spot any anti-Coramunists.
3. Propaganda orators made the most of the disadvantageous
events in destern Geraany (such as the Saar issue, dis-
mantlings, unemployment, refugee problem, etc.) and did
not fail to impress the riasses.
4. The nationalistic propagarda slogans of the liational Front
affect the. masses of the youth that are easily filled with
enthusiasi and min over many adults to the belief that the
masses of the East, organized under the leadership of the
Soviet Union, will come out strongest and will therefore
be the potential ally in the struggle for freedom of
Germany.
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be effected in the Last Lenin police on 1 April 1950.
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