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?trot of ell I am -ritinE lo you 4hat I already said in ay Janua-ry latter tome which I c4.pied 27 tines and which was intercepted 27 tinesThere are many things you will be east= at. I hope everything will toOL....since all the= letters have been di3covered an becsuse 2 loiterswhich I had melted into gloss tubes which were hidgen in melted fet.4,-ye also bean intercepted, I an this tine only copying those letterswhielvare alreody knoen to tir: local Secret State Police. I shall thanawait your acknowledgement and on receipt *fit wilr write you cormabout what is not yet known at those places. One has to look out and bevery careful.

and worlanc eounitiens here are increasingly developing ina way which fere= me to considers/y=1f as a civili q n prisoner. That iswhy for some time already I have with increasing inaiatenas, been pm-shine ny efforts to km bone. Bveiywhare I meet with politeness, but alsosith refusals. everybody displays on obvious attitude of reserve and ab-aolutely everything ie being kept away Creams. Min clearly originateswith the public a'1n4 atxmtions ahich awe conning the =etre= and which.are vary eager to further it. Tot I have never fail= from the vary b.-_____ to confidence and good will. Bowever, shadily mounting

of d4n4 n I aistrust obviously' begins to generate in myselfa comprehensible =Nolen. I have therefore given up all hope of doingany useful work. ny main target is thuss" Bone I.go, I have had enough:-Severthelase, from all the experienee I have gathered I iully realisethat chances of 'noes= for rogue= and petitions in thin matter are ve

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again and again my request% I doubt ...nether the ! elit verry small. Although I shall centime to grudge OD pains invepeat -

Stow weary Of them. It will end by taming a deaf Oar, endlessly delay-ing and =spending everything. Therefore, the boon country hoe got to gorbuoy!

An initiative in this direction would possibly be to get the CDCto address the Control Council by depicting my situation and ay ferventendeavors. I expressly declare 40 be fully aware that ay case and mywish reprosent an example for a greet many others in this =entry whothink exactly as I do./ this ma the letter which was inter:rod 27 tines and later Uncove-

red after being melted into gloss tubeIn order to expedite my return home, I will have moonrise only to

you end the IBC /International Red Crone/. I shell also rely only on-the Control Council. This agency has the charge of the German nation andits °wooer= within Germany and abroad. I have nO intention of applyingto local Legations of the tester& Powers or other foreige States. Such

.comare On ny pert might well be taken vary ouch mass by the local Go-vernment and I do not want to risk =W. a tontingeney. Apart from that,our attitude is probably the reason 4:1 for months every stop of oursescort, aad we are conveyed aligttetber, under escort, to and from ourMa been watched over. de are to step out only under organised

Z:2f place and to and from our domioilet. Many other things are did/-' end spoil aur stay hare. The so-called he rights are still

constantly being interfered with. Cu nuot therefore leave no steno un-turned to obtain my return. Plea= do write to the IRC in addition 110ay letterrequirating them to spar:* theCont:ol Council' it is quitepostale that ay initiative from so is not sufficiently mar. to bring=come.

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▪ The letter co tho IC net xith many resistances an. left Mootedonly at the end of June through the good offices of a foreiAn Lega-tion. For incomprehensible reasons, my comrades also made things dif-ficult.• One has to be extremely careful hare. Absolutely everything is be•hag spied on. Life here is one in a police state of the worst aort. Th.Hitler State coulo not be compared with it. de are not trusted out ofeight here. True, there is no lack of politeness, but we meet with die-truat everywhere end in the hogbast deoee. All our former Russianfriends shun us as much as possible and are visibly embarrassed whenspoken to. They certainly have instructions free above to avoid anyintercouros with us. In the Institute we are confined to one smallroom and the library. Mornings I always remarks " Here 40 are againfor eight ho;.rs in our prison cell". For menthe we have not been allo-wed to go out alone. Always end everywhere an escort is present. Yetour identity cards state in writing that we are peraitted to freely a0vs about the OSall. This is the purest aockery. At first our escort weerecruited from the house- and kltchen personnel. Sow an interpreterand three young girls speaking Garman have bean charged with the taskso that they can listen in on our conversations. I an only permittedto stroll alone around the house in the evening. Row long will this 130

. on? Tbs work tasks set to se ate small and insignificant /only deskwork/. As references, I have to rely upon my own memory and the leoallibrary, that is public literature; in addition, various file-materialfrom LrSA and other German booty. Russian sources are being anxIoullyConcealed or withheld. Any insight into the Russian chemical industryis being obstructed or at Least veiled. In other words, one comes toknow nothing. At present I knew just as little about it as a year and

• • half Argo. Therefore my presence here is completely unnecessary-even, wrong, becenee I could with the materiel on hand do better work In Le*

es where I could interrogate their experts. Here I an not permitted tohave any exchange of ideas with local experts. Such objections homey&

theon deaf Oars in , higher-up places. The spirituel muzzling ofthe natives by the government can not be imagined. In com-arisan wein thelidiratate were a truly free peo le. There can be no quewhonhers of a true denocrem, as I had it. Sere there reigns a

MILdespotien which is such worse than the one we formerly had under. Our human rights and whatever claims we can deduct nom them,

are not being cassidered. Sot a single one of the dozens of requestsand oelePleinee have SS far rersirad a reply. S O OZe nothing but regale:civilian prisoners, at the aerey of governmental arbitrariness. I nonor. believe in the possibility of our voluntary release by the Govern-Mat for repetrietion. One will probably have to wait until regularlibevetion tram the outside happens. A lot of patience will be neededfor that.

. This is the end of the repetition of the many letters which tineand again were intercepted and with which I was reproache “ by the Mi-nistry in Mosemw.

As soon es you observe that the political -tura:An is pointingtowards war and there is an urgent danger of war, see that you disap-pear fvoe Leona- that is ey urgent advice. The Russians are extremelyunreliable and mendacious! They will probably draft into silitary ser-vice all young men. Remarks in that sense have already been made here.

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Our countrymen who are civilian internees here, are also to be draf-ted. What will happen co us in that case is totally obscure. There-fore go West, as soon as things begin to look bad.•... I have no rights of any kind here. Dozens of muests a&ressedto top administrations, Ministries and the Superior Council of Minis-ters, have elhcited no answer,either verbal or written. The letterswhich I have always sent registered, reach their destination, but thereis in reaction to them-Nevertheless I continua writing. I express my-self very unreservedly. I ask rather awkwnrd questions I opp::1 tothe each-praisedhuman rights of which the efficient Mi.VIsh4 kY elmnot say enough in the US Assembly. L22 this, however, is nothing buttheory. In practice the Russians foal absolutely unfettered by obli-gations of any kind. This is entirely in line with the national cha-racter of a people who ignore the notion of "love of truth" end arebasically mendacious. I Consider with my ccaredes that we are in aparticularly Wad situation, eines we do not know whet is going tohappen to us and can learn nothing in spits at repftatad inquiries.Inthis respect our situation is worse than that of the worst convict.?very prisoner, every pergola detained, including prisoners of war, isinforeed about the duration of biwdetention. So knows that after sosanryears be will be sot free, and be has prospects to shorten hisdetention and speed his release by good conduct. ge, however, havebeen deprived of our liberty without any indication of reasons forsuch punisbnenti and without any indication as to how long this de-privation is to be continued. Where we are, good work is making us in-dispensable and yet produces remelts contrary to what ordinary priso-ners obtain- our detention is being prolonged. Is this not insane?That is what this State, allegedly the fresest in the world, callsDemocracy! One could laugh about it, were one not rather inclined toweep, and no and to this state of affairs can be perceived.

. Dean the old mother of Free Dr./Mitch who is over 70 years old":a ailing, was refused her return by the Russian Government withoutany indication of reaeons. How often have requested, verbally andin writing, my rote= imme 'm will as hose leavel All petitions endrequests, to Ministries end higher up, rennin without reply.

Os are not wren pamaitted to go outside a radius of 5 kllanaters,but I disregard this rule. I have already hod more than one discus-sion on this natter. Since the fall of 1947 I an nursing plena to as-cep., but we are so such spied upon and watched over that escape ispractically hopeless. Nevertheless, I an continuously watching outfor litA opportunity to get away with forged identification papers, be-cause the Russians will nor let us go before 3-5 years. Only diploma-tic or war action can liberate us fres this desperate prison........ My life hero is very monotonous. aork.wh:ch is pure desk work-starts day in, day out st 0900 hours. Ae sit fiv:i of us in a mallrem with prinitive wooden tablea and on hard ordinary etsirs. Therefor too and • half years we have been writing repozte from memorywithout auxiliary means. Literary assietanee is scarce, es well as

all other material. e have to transacribe these reports oursal-ves on our own typewriter. This, Nith a Dune:nal stop of onehour for the midday meal, is our life in the office. :hat 1 nejoyless existence of the Snviet iedustrial slaves.Prices, indicated in IC Esse: and per kilogram', ere* hard seuesge130-1/0, rice 40-50, roasted coffee 155-170, cocoa 390, t a 400,*!..c 70-90, oil 60-80, lord 120, hag 110, sugar 30-40.Consumer -oods ricess abo•ss 600-70 , ho to aill sto-ckinds 80t100, cloth for suite 600-1000.

You have no L.44 of the incredible eoverty everywhere here.I nave to make ay own drewings; In chart, I have to co thingswhich I did not have to do even as • young chesaist, lot alone -hen1 was department chief and later director. Condition hors and al-so in Moscow /which is not e bit better off/ are so poorly as wecould not imagine thee in Geraany even when tines vase at their1.orst. ;mite everything hors is In short supply. Te,:! only thingsin which wo Germans are not lacking are food and clothes. Our

.liviag quarters are princely csOapered to those of the guasiana.fbere is also an idea that we receive incredibly high pay, 440,..cially I. However, when you compare prices to the purcheoing po-wer of the Ruble, I an earning lass than what I had /in Genaany/after the lest tremendous reduCtion and the enormous tax deduo-tions. The only advantage I have is the bango rate of the hark.This explains wny I an able to send you scuffic ent money. If youwere hero withal', we should have to calculate vary, very closely.

Poverty here is gigantio. Living conditions are dreadXulorvory fa-mily has nornel/y only one room and must share the kitchen withothers. Incomes are very low. There is little order aaYabere. Sa

-nitary Conditions ore devasteting. Most ordinary people possessno bedstead. Many have to sleep in ons bed with others. As togoods, usually most of them ere unobtainable or bad, then sudden-ly everything can be had for a time. Piquant of wages is very jr-.regular. There is a lot of starvation and dirt. The few better-.situated people have no WAMOVe and no culture. This town hasOne rote noels, nothing else. Social intercourse with thepopulating is being prevented. There is no freedom of conscienceOr speech. The people are no intleidated that all this; talk aboutthe fromet country on earth in • complete mockery. There are agreet aa natives in penitentiaries.

officers visas I knew in Leona, look the other may 'whenmast me, as if they did not know no; there hove, however,

been sea* ixeeptioss. invitetiens do not exist, of course. de n•-ver beer anything *bout on: reports. no one is asking us anythingabet* then. Such conditions, I saul::* unimaginable. 0*. has todefend oneself with an elephants

York on the plant is very such in arrears. It is planned tobecome a second Leung . Almost all the aggregate* which were die.*naatled In Irene, are here in immense depots of nachinsry on aMadly under the open sky where the material is steadily deterio-rating through atmospheric influences, while • good dee' of it isbeing stolen or transforaed into kitchen utensils clandestinely.Yet nothing le available and there are shorusgea everywhere.•• - ,•• e.. •••

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If we are really to complete the teak of gettihg the plant tOthe production stags, we must hold out here for another two orthree years. Veahils a great many people among the licalRelation are hoping fors war amd a change in State leadership.Considerable numbers of the people are dissatisfied with the pre...sent government Incense poverty and governaental terror are grest.The people are frigh due to severe puniabmeat dealt outeven for minor offenses. Mose of us who are in Rubsabnaja arenot allowed inside the plant. They are brought under escort totheir laboratories and back from there to the factory gates when-ce they go hems in a closet: bus. I think that we here, the other.loviot industrial slaves, will suffer the same fete same day.

You wo.ld not believe the suspicion which reigns here, norcoul. you imagine the complicated system of supervision and spy-Lug applied co us. ThisUystes nee been built up to ths lost de-tail and requires an immense opperatus and a colossi number ofpeople. Zech letter of sine is reed most ninutely..... Now about something else concerning the possibility of war.As soon as signs of an faiminant war art discernible, Ban. uniteat ewe,. to a safe plats, because the dassians are likely to draft

taunt not Melt that since that would be the end of hisfreedom. HA =ant by ell means escape that fate. In case of • mardo not worry about me. The local inhabitants foil kindly about48 Germans aid will do nothing to us. They would not area let usant or privations. The important thing is that in case of war weremain hero. This, of course, is sot certain, so let us hop* forthe best. It is important that Rand end r any oirousstances avoidsservice in this Rod A. jangling eon irregularities are the rulahere,ever7tn4wg is disgusting and repulsive. One must mistrust::::i

thing coming from the Russians. Only the country people artems and nine.You can trenemit all my new*, even the secret ones, to Or. .

A. in all details, if you want to word by woe .. Ant I told youarc unadorned facts, neither tigured nor ....%ggireted.There isno berm in thmir bsoaaiag known, on tbo contiery. Therefore en-plain to him that everything is told here according to the truth,and that be can believe everything. Ask Dr.A. easy behalf to as-sist you in writing to the IR. One must repeatedly infant the UNthat we prisoners urgently want to go home, but that all applies-tions remain without reply. Set to it that such letters de netget into the abode of the Redstone. I have now had my well.eub..stamtisted request for home leave rttneed, slthougn I offered toittlm

ey word of boner thatnoat I would return. newever, since the

word Of honor has velum here, I suppose that mine iseVelnsted squally. I wrote a violent letter to the State Giver.-sent. feu will soon receive a copy of it.

eoently I wrote already that one should try, with the bun:If4DANIA., to create at the UR a clear knowledo of the reelClone here and the staidpoint at hone, as regards our retina.

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in whet I promises •• I rappels* that the :titian Gov*.rnment keep opeating overthere bow inportant we are to them. l'hn truth is that our wickis so secondary tad is to such an enoisouo el:tant entrefrom leek oC confided* that nothing wuefUl can cone ourl it.Aimee we are meter informed. w e arw trotted as spies and sabo-teurs and are preelicolly prioonora kept in a %olden *ago".2..1 an convineed that the Ruction Goverment losses no opposes-pity to declare in font of the UN bow well we are here and howfebulouely'we ore being treated. I wa confirmed in thle oft!anby the eurprie•-with which se moot continuously - at ourtied Umpire to return home, we are told that our life is rahDotter hare than at home, that we have plenty to eat end todrimk, live well and ire being paid mush better daces than theRussia* experts of the seas professional canes. 5eeing the pa-v. here, all this is mimes. Believer, not long ago I repliedto tillosomv who mode sock observations, that Gemmone value theideal aide of life hihr then the editorial. one. In anterialle■tic Reedit however, this. is no comprehension for such a pointof view. The UN are kept im the belief that we do not wish atalit* that we live better thug s* ever did before. TheRussians figure that a cood nany of no Germans will gotatclimatisedead remain. It is possible that tha =will hi die■p4eed to believe the IWO:lama. They can hear nothing di:wallyfrom me, as everything is being intercepted,

Recory e00 :14014 : lettere is read. I wonder -whether letters37 ad 40 will I some copies of violerx re vsquestsgevertuseat evades /ritrkt these lettere did not swivel/.ue please skis. to the 111 with Mr.A.e 'Wert. If they are notinformed from home, Ibsy wallower leave the teeth. Free theRealise side they s.ndnly gel nothing but lies.

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