Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, forwards copies of British interrogation reports from about December 1949. The main report covers a defector from the East German Volkspolizei school at Prenzlau and describes its strength, weapons, artillery training, staff and political character, with captured training documents attached. Another report describes the Sachsenhausen camp under Russian administration, including its guards, food, housing, medical care and death rate. The text contains no UFO material.
• • SECREI• EREWIRLINk -allaola REPORT NO; 606CONtRUL - U Ott ICIACS Ni"' • -31a SUBJEOT: pligprupp 0412. (Interrogatod in accordance with IQ INT DIY/P2AMM/10032.of 24th Nay 1949) 1. 121410. al.P171A2 Subjeet WAS detained in the eoncontration °amp S.AOHSENHOSEN noar 02:,NIENBuRG from 18.3.4.7 until 9.11.4)• Period of timc_au,nt in Cal2 2. He spent two yuars and seven months there. Before ho Was brolOtt to the camp ho . mas arrested at KOI4E1)A Er. WEIMWA whilst crossing tho frontior illegally on 29 October 1946. He wap hold by local Russian security do-bath:dont in OLLEDIA. from 29.10.46 until 21.12,46. Subsequently he was undor liKVD arrest in MELSEBURG (22.12.46 - 6.1.47) and 'VILLE (6.1.47 - 16.3.47) -,;cadingcompletion of investigation and trial. Finally ho vas sentenced to three yea's forced labour and was sont to SOBSENBAUSEN camp. 7 §IgSalth• The nuMber of inmatos hold in the op is as follows; a) :emu capip , known also as a special camp, 4,000 inmates including women b) internment c< .., a?, known also as a fore-zone, 10,000 internees including women and former Nazis. The .:bove quoted figures do not vary p ,u(th according to subje010 (stiu-tos roleamcd inmates are re , ,Ianed by new ca,.tors. In 1947 tho strength of the camp was estimated to bo 18,000 inmates altogether. Nthabor of wouon amounts to 1,000. This figuro.is considered not oxagoratcd and deco not cem-,)rise the ohildron, Thera are a number of 3hi1dron hold in the camp. Informant cannot give exact figures in this resIlect. He however estimates that the number of children in the oamp varies from 100 to 150. It comprises tho chilren brought to the oamp or born thoro. a60 groul)s a:o represented Ln the camp, nal.lely from 12 to W. years ace. There are no s2coial limits fox' age. 4. Classes of ,)risoners °lassos or the 70pUlation, from taliversity to lanCworke:.-s are rol)rosonted within the camp. NumeriCA-1 j.von. estimates cannot be SECRET u I ALS ONLY -•.-
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 45 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.