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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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A 'CL-.4.7 Vk ,vi?;itlioak eattasum 0_1_ OFF IC. !ALS ThoWire''ns atttmpts St :pi:Attie:a/ OUi*tion,of prlannr.ra, ucither art they encotiraged'to 0,14X , ‘..AA4iT 1 a. .guitUrl life I 'Y The cultural life in the camp comprises: Ale camp theatre with a camp band accommodated in a separate hut. As the hut is small ) evcry prisoner hadd chance to be admitted to the camp theatre once in 8 wetko, .There is no library and no books in the camp. Eastern Zone papers were admitted about a year ago and comprise Russian sponsored papers such as: TRgliche, Runtlachau Ncues DeutSchland, Berliner Zeitung, National 7citung, The paper8 are on an avcrace 4 - 5 weeks old. Allocation of papers is very limited and amounts up to six numbers per hut. Th•rC was also a loudspeaker installed between two huts. illay transmit the official programme from the stations Berlin and Potsdam, 22. Medical faoilitics There-is a sick: bay and hospital in the camp oomprising some A BigAl an doctor is inshlrEa. of ;bhp hospitals Thc`remaining staff, rre German medical Isrsonnel from amonelgt fellow prisoner's. Only serious oases are admitted to the hospitals The death rate imounts at present to .appliRely 19_941v3:11,mit, The reakokror death is r A,0eomilonly, undern;iiiishment ., diarificeaciraieisa . ,TB.,-edadala: :ThatdeLti.:4., rate was higher in the plyntrlaru. of Vo714.n8O...1h t the narip_1241mii t It 1i-C14thakt.tc,c1..thr t eirc,x. 30,000 „pcbgc_gi 1 si*s • War sinee—tatiz tmaril ods' 1945 until May 1949, This inaltiacs inraaten of the1.nt6rna 25. Housing oonditions The . SACHEENHWEEN camp covers an area of 1,000 x 200 metres and Is divided into two parts. The larger part is °coupled by the _internment camp where some 10,000 inmates arc held. The smaller part 'Oohstitutes the aatual penal camp with 4,000 inmates. The camp, apart from the wat40i5ters with sentries, is fenced with 2.5 cm high and 40 cm wide'brick wall, followed by 2 in wide gangway for patrols and barbed wire of similar height. The barbed ,wire is charged with electrio'current. Coils of barbed wire laid out 'c.' the inside of the camp complete the fence, Each part of the camp is additionally walled up and separate gaardroomm installed. Similarly, inner camp strcets and every seoond hut's imurdiate grounds arc walled up, Entrances to complex of huts or rick bay are provided. • #11. A- • et", F 7 • ^1.4* 1-441F4 The common typc of the camp accommodation arc huts, wooden or skone ones, of about 50 x 7 m. Bach hut accommodates at present 150 inmates. Pormcrly, however, up to 350 prisoners used to be accommodated in a hut.. Every hut has in its central .tashing and toile* installations, dividing the rest of the sl)acc into two large rooms. Two entrances are 'provided to the hut. Inmates sleep on three storeyed wooden beds similar to those Uscd in. German oonoentration camps. There are tables and wooden benches in the middle of • each room. Palliasses, sheets and pi/low oases were supplied about a year (41'). At thc sank time when newspapers were admitted to the camp. Since May 1948 the prisoners have been allo . ed to leave thc huts for a walk within the surrounding grounds of two huts. SECRET Al CONTROL _ U S OFF IC I ALS ONI.
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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.