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Finding no contacts at the safehouse both Hahn and Leja
returned to their jobs at the experimental station. On 25 June
Hahn left the station and proceeded to Riga in order to clarify
the present situation and to attempt to locate some contact or
other which could then give him an idea as to further action.
While in Riga he accidentally met Sternberg; who asked Hahn to
come to Lielupe, where Sternbergs was in charge of a "Pioneer"
(Communist Youth) group of summer camps. Sternbergs told Hahn
that he wag hiding several persons at this camp, one of whom
was KarligIR4AgYs.ZE7.
At this camp Hahn also found in hiding FNUAaris L7.
In the next few days several more undergroun4 workers arrive
their identities beingithe following JanisVekabsons,
1 Ai' D9- s_Cambe r ag Visvaldispzelzitis L4.§7,-GFOitariinnenoys
rijs ArievITS—ZI87, arid -TdiattlOtolS. Not knowIngivha to do
ind- haVing'xió arms these:in this"Pioneer" camp where
they had sufficient food and shelter. On the 27th of June German
forces had entered Liedida and on the 28th were approaching
Sloka. In view of the impending German occupation of Jurmala
(where this "Pioneer" camp was located) t the Militia that was
stationed there, retreated toward Riga on the 27th of June.
On that same day Hahn and his friends found that the Russians
had blown the railroad bridge across the river LieluPe prematurely
and were unable to move one armored train and one weapons and
supply train. No other Russian forces being in the vicinity the
Militia, just prior to leaving, ordered the Bulduri volunteer
fire department to guard these trains. The members of this
volunteer fire department found a stock of liquor on the supply
train and proceeded to get inebriated, which enabled Hahn and
• . his friends to take command o i,rain under the leadership
iVtEtiv; of a local inhabitant_Teodorg eDln LE17, whom they chose as
their leader because they fel t ey had no one experienced or •
old enough to assume this position. During the day from dusk to
dark this group guarded the trains and moved arms and ammunition
to the camp; at night the train was left unguarded, since they
feared that in the dark a superior armed forced might come upon
them. On 28 June the members of the voluntger fire department
advised the group to abandon the train ugh they run into diffi-
culties with the retreating Russian army which was about to
arrive. Nevertheless on 29 June they returned to the trains and
found that an NKVD detail had just arrived and was preparing to
blow up the pontoon bridge leading -across the river.Lielupe.
Hahn and friends disrupted the effortt . of this NKV0 detail which
• hastily departed after Hahn and his friends opened fire on them.
On 30 June Hahn and friends watched the Russian army -retreat across
the river toward Riga and on 1 July 1941 saw the advance elements
of the German army pass through their area.