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with'the result that the housekeeper and Kulitis were from then
on favorably motivated toward Hahn. After he had served a while
as the organizer of the Atheist Section, Hahn was asked why he
had accomplished nothing during his term of office. His reply
was that he neither had supporters nor was there any interest
among the students, which resulted in his being removed from
this position.
(7) Since in a routine personnel questionnaire Hahn
had declared th0 his mother owned a house at the beach, his
scholarship was rescinded, forcing Hahn to work evenings for
seau "Geklu Eksports".(seed export) as a laboror carrying seed bags.
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Twenty to thirty Academy. students who had also lost scholarships
because of either too high social standing or because their
families had been members of Aizsargi, or for other reasons,
were also forced to seek this type of spare time employment
with the aforementioned company. Toward the end of the school
year Hahn's "visible reform" which was evidenced by his excellent
performance as Chairman of the Culture Commission, resulted in
the procurement of the position as bookkeeper for the University
kitchen. This enabled Hahn to disgard his job as physical
laboror and to get free meals at the Academy kitchen.
(8) In the end of January 1941 Hahn, as one of eighty
students from all over Latvia, went to Sigulda, where a winter
rest camp for pro-communist students and college activities was
located. The head of this camp, which was located in the . •
Rakstnieku Pils (author's castle) was A.4Talcis,4227. According
to Hahn there were some cases of students who-were permitted to
attend this rest camp on scholastic merit,-but those were very
few and the camp was always considered as a camp for Communist
sympathizers. Hahn and his friend; Janis Jekobsons, were per-
mitted to take advantage of a . two week rest period in*thiecamp •
upon the recommendation of Vippers. In this camp Hahn' had a
chance to acjuaint himself with many leading young Communists •
such as Vera Kacena M.7, who was a polltica organizer at the
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- (9) After his rest at this camp and his subsequent
return'to Jelgava Hahn had his first contact with the NKVD.in
February 1941, the circumstances being the following: In the
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