THE FIFTH PLANNING SESSION OF THE GERMAN PEACE COMMITTEE IN EAST BERLIN

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• Publication Date: March 11, 1952
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jLcI The I'lftn Planning Session
Cormfttes in East Berlin
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rHIS IS UNEV kLUATED III FORMATION
Ftftli .Plenary :!:,ession of t eaerP[an Peace 1;:oirimittice
t-lierlin on 214 .1'Sovember 1951. The persons
invied -received ar in-Jitation kr letter which- had t: _:::a pr.-"Auced in the Iris
der ::)rasse and I./ad checked a7.7,ainst a list. They werc LVOfl par.ticiparit and
seat tickets 1711:7..ch, tozether with V-lei:' ide:74,:ity card they had to show -to the
double z.-entry 7,uardinc., the dbei of -the conference rook . Those rizid security
r1047t3..tret ;ere taken for the first tine rritl) .even hi3h- 'anking functionaries of
err,o.,-nizations who wore not admitted if the' failed to corTly? -with
these fernalitios.
- 2,, The zleetin: was presided over b;-, Professor 14... Friedrich 'fru) and Ztoinz
secretary -7,eneral of the !7.1rmarg Peace Cormittee. ::embarc of the committee in,
eluded. Twin Ickort, chairman of the -Peace Committee in stern Gormany Who is
no ion-Er in 7.3reanschweiz, but lives alternately either in .-uesseldorf or in Frei-
burf,?,,treiswi; dein Fink KPD mouber and !Jember of the id Peace Council, 17ho
llVea in ifamburc:; ira djth tooreth-2:en,:;e? of junich; Ar.. \o,7i,d Zweig, $D member,
of flerlin; l`knna 3e7herti 4 -3n member, of Berlin; Dr :lora (J''-si)t pastor in Leip-
zic; Dr.. .4edemann (fnu), of :falle; and Thomson Baker, a no c. o from 5oath
Otho;' members of the committee were common people troll the 3c riot-'Lene 0:Ls Gerrianyt
usua:..ly activists the -vier? no admitted to the corrrd.ttee table ;, -Johannes P?
Becher, noted Writor? was absent becausc of an alleced illness. Persons recently
admited Co the All-tlerman Peace Cortnittoe included g Profeor Dr. 1:einan ? (fau)t
of LecTrach n 3aden; 3eneral (retired) Ka1Ifentschelt of '...1nonster in :.0017,r
roa,r-Ildmirel (retired) :.;tuririel (fn) ,;alter Diehl, stvdent of divinity ?
in .7?? -Linz ITrt. Edith looreth.-:lene of .,,unich; Arnold Xweig, ricr in Borlln;
Colonel (retired) alter Lewess-Litzmann; Dr Ilnrs (Thu), pa:;tor in Leipzig;
Lothar Bolz, Deputy Prime :l'iniater and leader of the IMP. Dr. I.. c0 Johannes
3e-cher- res57,ncd from the cerpt.ttee.,
3. Professor Friedrich opened the meeting and ronorted on the meeting of tilo
Peace Council v.thich was held in Vienna from 1 to 6 ITovonber 1951. ..alter
Diehi
and !Ye, ifeareth-7.7enry) reported on the work of the ?zorg7ittee in ,(natera lermary stati
that their .cause had stronc appeal to the zlemborc -:3f all parties, particularly
the GDU and PD, ohi rtni thoi activity vran sucen s .i on' 3t conn tern
....4,,r many and Was furthered by "rtajor Llener.al (retired) Tiontachn".\_
Admiral (retired) Stummel and Pastgr Tohannes Oberhof whose influenc-, war, of
port.cular irTortance.
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lollro ,or at lon 7 'het foie oto,', in Baoburf! alonn
proved benoficai for .rireoran o;,e was seconded by
rro 3a000 (fou)? princioal cf a school_ The ebato then concen-
trated on Collier;-; -A-azino nhieh was said te have a four million
citl?oLn the ILC A0 anti to have a pronounce arzressivw ten-
dency anainst the U,,5,S.Tn It was said that this nasizine would
tJavo to be ove3uated in deta,J, specifically rep:arding its articles
on Atonic war at7airot the 1,S-CoJ?:? The articles would have to be
diseeminatnd as wi?neli as nossible to spread anti-Ancrican propa-
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5, Professor Friedrich mentioned in the debate that he had recently
boon to Ooettinn.,en where he received a favorable reception He
stated that the attitude of the population toward the Soviet on
of Germany improved considerably, particularly among his colleagues
in Oestern Germany, Friedrich told
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academies. of sciences in the .:cnt and that ho was promised that the
Soviet hone Academy of Science would be admitted to this body,, Prow
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Semen Ponoo Committeo inwo a niuilar report concerning a mooting of
the Goorros Society in -union which ho attended rocontIy le said
that the attitude toward the not was considerably mono favorable
? than it had been at a ueetino hold nix nontno earlier in Colone, He
cated that at that time he V.TAS bigoted by his colleagues in Bonn for?
boito:; a mother of the L;oviet-orman Academy of Science while he was
now received with cordiality, 1!e added that there was a 7:rcuinc
aversion both for the Americans and Adensucr's policy and. that Grote-
wohl's bids had been more oueconoful in- the .est than he had boll'eved.
6, Another onboot of discusoion was the nectinr of lode' officials in-
clodiTr,-; officials of town, oity and district adninistrations (Land-
raote, aticrormcistor and Aadtraote) which was attended by apibroxi-
mately 400 persons includino, 200 from ';estern Germany, Dr. Doerinc
(fnu) of thn Lardrat in Hof rAS especially eefv:ended and it was said
that the attitude of almost all Bavariana was rather positive -
Pastor Dr? lorz of Leipzig nave a report on oboorvations he had made
durinr the nocting of the oorld Peace Council in Vienna o lo said that
Austria and Vienna were definitely pro-American and, like Uestern
? Germany,, were governed by Oatholics.. He stated in the presence of a
selected croup that Kock (fnu), an Evangelical pastor and the leader of
the Peace '7ovenent in Austria, was. particularly clever and had invited both
Berz and Profosoor aromatka .(fnu) of Czechoslovakia to the Synod of
Evangelical Pastors in Austria which was held simultaneously with the
obrld Peace ounci1. Ho said that the two mon .made nonoo appoals at
the Synod which, hover? were only partially nuocosofnA In converna
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71ransre1ical Theology at Prainle University, this school of theolocy was
? attended hy not more than 30 students and that arematka wan very pessi-
oiotic aboot the fate of the church in Czoohosiovakia,
Air Force Colorel (rotired) ,w-aoso-titariann made a spooh on the
atomic bomb and said that Ito effocti,oneLo oas oreatly reduced because
or the tremendous development of the Sovict air defense,, lie stated that
the :''ovtot air defenses and? L'inhters were nnch stronner than
those ol the Anericans do said that the enonnoos losses which the
S. Air .'ore suffered in 4,eree suoportcd his stater,ent lo indicated
that he had hio information from Litzmann
:.00tioned in a private 'or,Arn sat!,on that t',on former officers and 4 pme-
oolo were no?ive nem'orro of the Peaoo :'over;ent in ?';estern ?ermany,
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Irs .Joereth-enge statod.that approxi,
:lately 2000,0 peace corrnttees existod in cstern fieromny which
arqbered about 1475?o0o nombers, 6ho statod that about 20,000 wonen
rezistered by the Gernan Peace Committee were orje.nized in the
Dwlecratic League of '-ooten. She said that the number of local peace
comrdttees in the bender was 11,000.:
Professor liensolmann (fnu) of the Hanaltademie (Academy of Architecture)
that Roar-Admiral Stummel is to maintain contact with
.i7ArsAelene Wessels ex-linister-Uustav neinemann and their organization.
4oalmann , secretary general, who joined in the convcrsation. said
that 11mmol was suoces6ful his liaison capacity and had already delivere
-speeches to the orL;anization of Helene oessel and iteinemann0
jironatka? the. Czechoslovakian profesoor, and bombarski (fnu)? a Polish
professor, were restrained in their mutual conversation, Dembowski
stated that this an due to the unrelentinn: attitude of Czechoslovakia
with rocard to eccelniastical problems, The .two professors were?.haw-
ever, rather candid in conversation IHromatka was very 25X1
critical of :.estorn Germany and the German rearmament while Dembowski's
attitude ave no indication of alarm on this subject, He only empha-
sized that his country was not in a position to stand 4 new wttr,, It
was noted that Dembiwski aitheuh ho aosumed the usual eastern atUtuda,
particularly anins.-.; te j.,SA? was rather partial toward Groat Britain
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Groat i,ritainyas alqost definitoly pro-ritish, Professor Hromatka,
thoth convorsation, discussed chiefly iiilitary probloms stated. that
Czechoslovakia. roceived a number of loncT-rano bombers from the U,S,S0R
hav-in!:: a raCius of action of 3,200 kilometers and a maximum speed of
1,100 km/h. He said that Czechoslovakia also received jet fighters
eoich, hoOtver, are flown by ,-,oviet pilots,
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