FORCED LABOR CAMPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011100270005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Forced Labor Camps
DATE OF
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 193
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM 15 PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR.27 March 1952
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1. The total number of inmates at the Targu Margurele labor camp was
estimated as follows: 3x,000 Germans (Volksdeutsche), 3,000 Hungarians
and 200 Germany (Reich d ,ai: ~s .e.~ ) All ages, professions and classes
were represented among the inmates including about twenty percent of
female prisoners. The death rate was about three or four per day.
2. Most of the prisoners had not received a proper trial and
the real reason for their arrest had been non-auniania
. They had no opportunity to contact a lawyer or friends,
3.
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Prisoners were transported to Targu Margurele in railway freight cars;
the top openings were covered over with barbed-wire,
4. The labor camp was guarded by the Militia who wore uniforms similar
to the Army. Weapons consisted of rifles and machine pistols.
5. Food was insufficient and all prisoners, after a few months in camp,
showed signs of undernourishment and became ill with dropsy, et cetera.
The morning meal consisted of half a liter of watery soup along with
which was given the daily bread ration of 400 gr. At r.;id..-day three-
quarters of a liter of cabbage soup was issued, without meat and with
only a small fat content. In the evening a half liter of soup was
again given or sometimes a salt herring or 50 gr. of sugar for putting
on the bread. Accommodation in the camp consisted of wooden huts each
of which held 60 prisoners who slept in 3-tier wooden bunks. Through
the center of every hut there was a long bench which served both as
table and chairs. Heating in winter was supplied from a small, iron
stove which burned peat and gave out insufficient warmth. The inhabit-
ants of the huts were plagued with vermin.
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6. In most cases released prisoners were not given any chance to return
to their home towns as their possessions had been confiscated by the
Mate and they no longer had accommodation there. When released the
prisoners were told which part of the country they had to go to and
were handed a -rail ticket and food for three days. A return to normal
life was in no case possible.
7. A new forced labor settlement is situated approximately 18 kilometers
southwest of Fratesti in an open steppe-like country.
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