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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.
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SECItt 1 to. Nd‘ q- lknsALti ULit I. • 11.IVA • 5. Nationalital The following nationalities aro stated to be in the (=apt Geramn, ?proximately 9q, of the total 4,000 Yu:,oslavs polish Czech Approx. 10,s, of the to4A1 Hungarian 4.000 Ru.k-tnian Jewish and Ralf Jewish Other nationalities Russians are hold in the ca,rp only temporarily. They aro detained in tao separate huts pending cora-Action of a trannport. When a tranaport is completed they are sont to the Soviet Union. Russian inmates consist mainly of those prisonern who were sentenced to long tern imprisomont. The last "Russian" trans7)ort loft the camp at the boginning of .b.ugunt 194.9. The trans-)ort comised about 500 Russian subject. In addition were includod in the trans-?ort about 300 Gorman WOMOn and about 1,030 Geman male --)risonurs. 6. The rate of influx is rather hard to state in detailed returns. Informant states that t:ans7)orts with fresh nriconez's arAve the camp eriodically in such a way that the strength of tho cal,p is held u) to 4,000. T7:ans?e::-ts com?risu somettata inmates from the ca,:ip at HOT= which is a ca-dp vhez.-e there arc detained prisoners sonteaced to over 15 yea:s forced labour. Pz.isoners frut BAUTZEN whose sentences arc shoAenod are transferred to Sr....-31iTITH0DIEN. Other trannfezn arc very seldom and comprise eventually those -.)risono:ez WzIone sentences are prolonged. Transfers of Russian subjeots4as, mbatieneciallove undor -oara. 5 arc treated separately. Only those iniatcs who served their sentanoes are released. This is carried out punctuai.ly. Ever released inate receives a discharge papor, a u.Aall eJAuunt of food (broad, sugar and jam) an4:. 20 Eastuarks for journey hale. On releacovery ;)risoner is bound to siLji an obliEation to the ofPeot that he will not ineveal any details of the camp. In ease of nan-ccuplianaQ with this a 25 years sentence may bo imposed. 7. Subject was ar:estud by Genaa.n polio:, on 29 October, 1949, mbile urossin the frontier illegally from the Amerioan Zone into the Russian Zeno,, It a-dpea.-.:s that subject crossed the frontier before that date sovoraLtimos both ways. German .)olice handed over subject to a Kim detaehaent in go:M102.314RWAil. near V1E11142.. Subsequently ho was accused by the NKVD of sWinS against the Russians and investigations carried out by several NEVI) offi008 resulted finally in subject's taprisonilent in the Sachsenhausen camp.. 8. II.:_nonIgne_oll by open court In the course of the NEVD investigations subject 'Jas brow,ght a military court mailed "Rusnian Military Tribunal" in MT.TP.. The .TribtAnal is also known under the nalao "Zuchthaus Rotor Ocilla° in HALLE". •SECRE1 . "At 1 WiC
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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.