BERLIN OUTER FREIGHT BELT; MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC INFORMATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R010500210005-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 27, 1952
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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BERLIN OUTER FREIGHT BELT; MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC INFORMATION (1 p; German;
October 1951)
dated 1 October
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19510 The report deals with the following items:
Work on the strategically and economically highly important outer
railroad freight belt around Berlin is being expedited to the utmost. Its
most important sectors will be completed in 1951. The Marzahn-Oranienburg
sector was completed in 1950, the sectors Grosabeeren-Seddin and Grossbeeren-
Sohoeneweide in July 1951. The most important traffic hub will be the area
between Gruenau and Adlershof. This sector will have 20 bridges including
five with lengths ranging from 60 to 100 meters. The shunting stations
Lichtenberg, Sohoeneweiie, and Rummelsburg will be repaloed by new shun-
ting stations to be oonsgruoted tt 3eddin, Wustermark, and Wuhlheide. The
latter will be eight kilometers long. The most sensitive sector is the
so-called "H.oher Datums (High Embankment), between Alt-Glienicke and Pankow.
In 1952 262,000 youth will graduate from schools of the German
Democratic Republic. 80,000 of these will be drafted for work in the
uranium and coal mines. -
An attempt to introduce a collective work contract lead to distur-
bances at the Leuna plant. As a result several SED party officials have
been arrested for lack of alertness or have been subjected to party trials, -
A purge at the Reiohsbahn Directorate Halle seems to be completed. Several
high officials, all BED members, went to jail. (Six names in all are
mentioned.) -
The turnover in the stores of the Trade Organization (HO) during
the second and third quarters reached only about half of the planned
figure, due to inflated prices and extraordinarily poor quality of the
merchandise. HO store-houses are bulging. (In the mean time prices
have been slashed considerably and textile rationing abolished.)
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