I. GEHEARD VON MENDE, 6 Georg METRIVELLI

Born: 25 December 1904, Riga.Latvia

Citizenship: Became a naturalized German citizen in 1924.

Languages: GednenRussianUkrainianWhite RuthenianPolishCzechSerbianBulgarian

_french•,Swedish. Danish

-EnglishTurkishTurk dialectsSpanishItalianLatvian

Employment and Professional Experience:

a. June 1923-October 17, worked as an office clerk,then as a shipping clerk for the Shipping and dis-patching company of F. H. Bertling in Lubeck.

b. 1934-1937, advisor for the Nulturpolitikin the German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin.

c. 1935-1937, advisor in the foreign section of the Educ-ation Ministry.

d. In December 1935, became instructor of Russian Affairsat the College of Economics, Berlin.

e. In April 1936, was recongized as unsalaried teacher forRussian National Affairs at the College for ForeignAffairs in Berlin.

fj In October •939, was appointed university lecturerfor Foreign Affairs at the University of ;lain.

g. In October 1942, he became full professor at theUniversity of Posen and in 1943, at the University ofBerlin.

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h. In June 1941, ordered by the Wehrmacht to reportto the Ostministerium. Not given agy responsibleassignment but served in various minor assignmentswhere an intimate knowledge of Eastern affairs wasneeded. Eventually became head of the Caucasussection which was later changed into Section forForeign i.e. non-Russian, Nations. In this capacitymaintained contact with most of the Eastern nation-alities through national control offices of theOstministerium and through AM.1,ea.el-imlotsthostetzezthe national liaison committees. His office alsodirected activities at the Ostministerium camp ofWustreu, a training camp for collaborators of Easternnaticoalities. His contact with the RSHA was alleged-ly limited to requests for clearance of non-Germanswith when he intended to work. Also helped organizethe propaganda program for Veneta of the PropagandaMinistry.

i. His Ph.D. dissertation, Stuslies on the Colonizationof the Soviet Union, was published as a book in1933 by Briebatsch in Breslmi. In 1936, be wrotea paper entitled 'National Struggle of the Turksin Russia. In 1938 'Die Valker Der Sowjetunicalwas published and used as a standard work in theOstministerium. All the first editions availablewere later destroyed and a second edition publishedentitled, 'Die Volker des Catena.' In addition hecollaborated with three other Georgians all beingheld imam US interrogation center, on thrity-sixpapers dealing with national groups in Ruisia, Naziadministrative problems and methods in EasternEurope and the organization of the Ostministerium.(45).

Education:

Secondary school, Pforta,1923Seminar for Oriental Languages, Berlin

Diploma for Russian, 1928Diploma for Turkish, 1930

University, Berlin, 1927-29 and 1931-32'La Sorbonne and School of Living Oriental Languages, Paris,1929-1930University, Breslau, 1932-33, Dr. Phil.Higher School of Economics, Berlin, 1933-35, Dr. Phil.

I,,,Physical Descriptioni . rla

104irregular, badly

aligned teethblond hairno BOO'Squiet, veil—poised

175 on.blue oyesova/ faceaverage heightmaleerect posture70 kg.

Political Affiliations;

No party membership, no membership in relatedorganisations. Written statement on unblemishedpolitical record issued by British Military Gmern.in 1946.

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In his diary, von Orme:gassed hope of gifting Mertes confides*.Be eaglained about special privileges accorded foss Aegis and SSparsonne/ br the Allies. fie oondesed onpletely ESA= and ROSES..HMI, head of the Owteinisteris. Be apparently felt that he yes beingedam:ailed Wf the Anerioane at the interrogation center sad protestedthe check nods into hip pest activities. Be fait he WI emetaing tooffer the Americans and complained of indecision shunt his see. Bewes aloe fearful that the Allies did not appreciate the tine elmeantbnend in the Aste4set straggle and that the Bolshevists wouldtolanik•Opinions and Preteilose

Is his diary, von MSNDE said that the ohnnoterisation (presumablyNazi) of the Poles WM perhaps not unjustified. de wrote that the T,Poise he had net at the I.R.G. camp in 1.945 were the mistplined people he had ever met. He expensed a dislike of Poles andRangerians (hedonism), Ay contrast, Osman are decent and active.AVVisabaden, he noted that Americans, with the exception of sergentsrvas vss7 Pslits and TrinsAY.. Later be otsggefeed about Americantreateent saying that he had not net a single Amnion Who keep hispraise.

Ivo.4.4/7In his diary he betr4ed his Germs nationaist. Bs

nistated that the

German soli:tiest he a national so/ution. A now *mills wouldherald in the TO1A of Europe. The tuveddisup or Oersey■ sena eter-slehsos. A struurdermsey in nessmary to fight off the Estes(huger.

During an interrogation on S August 1945, he warned against the Rus-sian emigration. Pelt that the Russinaliedgres had the politicalconeepts of the lath. Century and no idea of modern social institu-tions. Their idea unto return to St. Peterelarrg and be reinstatedin their antiquated functions. On 11 knguet 1945, he said that theplan for Osman colonisation of kamsls is fares the Dnieper wassheer nonsense. Said that the Caucasians, Whits Ruthenian. and Obran,ism were even more highly individualistic than the Itemise and there-fore originally sr* mond to the Soviet wets of oonsotivisation.

S. Operational Suggeetione

During interrogations, in his diary and in %mitten reports sehmittedduring the interrogation period, von MENDE frequently disused themanse and extent of Osman opersticonsinto flexile.* Details Of then

operations and project,' such an tho ZEPPELIN Project, with which vonBENDA se partioulerAy weu aogninted l an elremly known. There wasems inforcation of a more general nature which might be interesting.

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In vies/ of the total mobilisation at SovietThas

manpever, the Germs* foundthat a civi/lan waver for an agent e net safe. e Rassiene did netMars the German erase for doeumento and am, person in Soviet territoryIan subject to a detailed interregatten about hie /mines., his movement°etc. Only a very fevarente could be expected to pass soh interrogationssafely. Von MENDB did not recommend the use of soiree as sputa /scenesUm/ mere net acquainted vith recent developrante, are easily disoevetedin view of their !perdu°, or the recent Oft and can not be gives en up-to-date twisting teases. of cenetent changes in local Soviet administration.According to von MENDS a German vas never used fora long range Simian.leasuse of the distances involved, mite contact from utWiinftesia wasdifficult.

•You MENDS said that the route taken into the Camases, particular);the Amerbsijans, mes, Tehereweehrie.Reast (port)-bain. A geed deal oftransit trade awed slang the Reast-Baln line. There vas also an over-land connection into the *mums by may of. mnuthmllisseralimu Tuv-lusting vent primarily hr may &Meshed. Geruans could not easily. ohm*there routee au there mut no direct informatian obain totemonTeheren andarrinnY•

Vann= nenticaed Tarter gnus in IIALbvki %Ad& did good service forthe Plnalib Intelligence during the first Ruese-PinnixthClr (1996). Meetof the Tartars /lee In Helsinki and Taccortere. Fock NEEDS maid that evensa/segirle in fnr shore in Stechhalmhad anted an intermediaries lateenCanstantinople and the finniSh grans or Tartars. The routs wolves •Eartdnararkey-4ermacy4teakhols-finc14. Van MOB indicated that theTarter group in Finland vas very Wirt* the Caucasian amuse and loreseeeessful in their attempts to menet' emus Caucasian menders of theRed Army, taken priaonare *the Finns, to the U.S.

•TenliESDS conedered the Tartars definitely interested in an intelligencework directed against the U.S.S.R. though wall offer their services 64,to those %to could neke commute °fibre to them in terms of their tenpolitical plans.

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