MEMORANDUM FOR: (Sanitized), CHIEF, EE FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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25X1 25X1 25X1 NFIDEN1 1AL Approved.For Release 2cgc8/2,1 ? plATRDP8OR01731R001800,150002 9 um In! FOR, Chief, , 1953 Please see Vie /attached papers left with no. by I ind let re have your 'flame* You night also wish tn discuss them with someone at State. I did not 4vo any encouragement that CIA could get into this type of operation. abash AWDtat Distribution% Orig CAE 1 cc - Da File 1 cc - ER micopy of Encls. 1 cc - Reading ES 16-e/ Approved For Release 2002eal/FRAMIROIR01731R0018001500 2- Security Information / Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 en th ton 7. D. Dear Allen: I enelose s memorandum which auuriiee the hihlihts of ermen expellee problem in relation to the great *w pressure fuves into lerlin, still flowing at the rate of 2,0(7,0 a day. ugh few or the facts and euggestions will :->e new to you /y, this smeltery (as well as the attached charts) may 're to you in explaining the inportance of this prolem to our government oolleazues who may not be fie-Altar with it. T wen however. to add a personal and more oonfidential word her*, and explain a specific, proposal I have to make. Ao you tre aware, the problem of the lerAan expellees may 1 a crucial part In 'the eominz Jlerman elections and their nee may well be the decisive factor in eleterinini?: whether ?many resists any blandishments the Soviet peace offensive :rimy offer. Friends of mine Who are close to Chancellor Aenauer have repeatedly stressed their anxiety over this issue and, as you know, the Chaneellor himmelf asked for some help on this problem in his dissuasions with our government. The qt.estion is weether the united $tates can do somethings even if it is only in the nature of a token gesture, to inerease hope among the expellees that they will receive further help and recognition in the west, The tin* for preperine eu40% a ;Asture in pressin6 if it is to affect sloe tion attitudes. have one such gesture to propose in c described at the end of the enclosed memo ell be used to handle any new grants and of view. The idea would e to at leas for and preferally for a longer time, an Amer kind or private or seni.officiel ambassador o ious expellee groups. In olooest cooperati ion with the Eepellee dust, which could ns from a technical PPotn. the nex crucial wto would eat ae0a-will with wftL er.Conent he ehoull be able to go into the field and to work well with the existing organisations. .1.e should have an amount or 1.4,c,0,091,0 equivalent in Tweirks au his disposal to be used a fowl perdu,* or Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 - 2 - at a nuMber of very obvious key points to help up expellee groups in gainful enloyment, in small and business concerns and to provide retraining The beneficial results of this plan would be speedily t.lt. The mere appointment of such an emissary would give he expellees and refugees a sense of international recognition for Which they have long pleaded, Moreover, the estern and particularly the American interest would thus be shown in actual performance, The extremists among the expellees, of a uree lake radical demands ror temporary assistance while basing All their future hopes on eventual return to their homelands. Such radical leaders try to prevent the expellees from becoming integrated and satisfied members of the West German community. But most of the eXpellees and many of their leaders are eager to accept anything that Gives them hope - whether inereased job opportuniti 'within Germany or opportunities for work abroad, One of the main sources of bitterness among thell., wflich has been encouraged by the extremist leaders, is the feeling that their problem has never been recognised by the eat as an international prol4lem, in contrast to the non-German Displaced Persons. Therefore, any move which shows a new American interest such as the establiahment of the fund outlined above, will etrengthen the hands of their moderate leaders out of all proportion to the actual amount of money involved. Larger loans or 701,3,4, aesistance should also be worked out but that will take time, whereas this smaller project could be started immediately* If you are interested in this idea, have a -;ood men to suggest who might be willing to endertake the proposed good-will mission at least for the present critical period. Another reason why such special U. S. help to expellees may be of special interest to you is the protest of German expellee groups against some of the Caeoh and ?olish broadcasts and broadcasters on Radio Free Europe in Munich. As you know, some of the extreme leaders lave repeatedly brought preesure in Bonn against any broadcasts from German soil which are critical of the expel2ees. Doubtless there may have been some juslAfication for certain of the criticisms, 'Alt the extremists will never be satisfied by any moderate compromise, thet only way reduce the volume and influence of these proz,ests Is to aken the Influence of the extremist leaders by Allowing American interest In finding new work opportunities for the expellees. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 It is clear also that the larger the nuMber of expellees who can be permanently resettled and absorbed in west Germany, or elsewhere, the less violent will be the German demand for the restoration of every square mile of pre-war German territory east of the Oder-Neiese line, hence the easier it will eventually be to arrive at smne final frontier compromise which a free Poland could be induced, however unhappily, to accept. In the meantime everything which increases friction over the future between Germans on the one hand and Poles and Czechs on the other is of course grist for the Communist propaganda mill. Hoping that you may find these suggestions of some usemad with best regards, Cordially yours, P.S. President Eisenhower's proposal to admit 250,000 this year, with special emphasis on refugees includini; would also be a most hopeful gesture, but I understand slight prospect of this being passed in time to affect German elections. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Europeans expellees, there is the Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 . CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM on the PROBLEM 07 GERMAN RIOUGEAS AND EXPELLEES jntroductlogi One of the greatest problems facing the German Government and the *flied Governments In Western Europe today is the greet influx of refugees from lest Germany through Weet Berlin, which almoet amounts to a mese migration. Over 100.000 refugees have come to West Berlin in the last tbree months alone, and the flood continues at the rate of 2.000 day What makes this new influx even more difficult to cope with it the tremendous unsolved problem of the 10.000,000 refugees and expellees already in Western Germany before this new flight from Soviet terror 'began. It is almost unknown outside of Germany that over one-fifth, or 22%, of the West German population are refugees who entered an area where over half the housing bad been destroyed. Mince the memorandum is concerned not merely with this newimergency but with the basic refugee problem as * whole, which decievely affects the German economic andpoli- tical future. The burden of the refugees is the key factor in determining the ount which Western Germany is able to pay either for the occupation costs of the allied armies or for prospective German rearmament. It also increases the dangers inherent in the rise of neo-Ntslem and Nationalism in Germany It may well be the decisive factor in determining whether Germany continues the great experiment of a United Europe, or succumbs to the blandishments of the Soviet Peace offensive. For if between now and the elections next September nothing is done to improve the refugees, sit- uation, or at least to give hope of such improvement, the danger of defeat for the Adeneuer Government and for the whole pro-Western policy he repro- Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/041,1 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 be greatly increased. Although the German refugees have benefited indIrectly from various farms of generous U. S. aid to Germany, no international government b. 11 has been given. hom the start this expenses were officially des- Oribed as a purely German problem, arut they were specifically excluded from any assistance from international organisations such as WM. IRO, and Interaational Children's lend of the U. 14 It wave not until 1951 that the 111 Oomalgitioner for Rgragess. Dr. Goidharit. recognised that this problem =corned not only Germany bat the whole free world; but that view ham set yet been implemented. This feeling of neglect and discrimination has made many of he refugees eusceptible to the reckle** proxies' of extremists. The strenuous efforts of the German Moral and State Gov- rnments. plus the spectacular reoovery of the German economy since currency reform in 1948, have so far prevented or at least minimised the disastrous social,economic and political consequences which appeprei inevitable. lot althouh this encouraging fact has tended to obscure the refugee problem, tt has not solved it. Despite phenomenal recent progress, the German icon- omy lap behind that of other West 1Uropean countriee because it hs4 more ground to make up. The measure of recovery already achieved attU ins on a fragile basis but only tecaums the ten million refugees represent a great relief load on German economy. bat because of the large LOt ayments Germany has assumed under the London Agreement of 1952, as vati as to Israel. It is also true that the German economy, like that of the rest of lurope, has benefited indirectly from the 'orison war boom which Lay now be over, and that German industry. lonli,ke that of other Western countries, has been able to concentrate on winning export markets for civilian goods without diverting production to armaments. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/0, CIA-RDP8OR01731R001800150002-9 bination of the new r.fue. influx through D.lin, plus efforts of the German radical parties to exploit the discos. e refugees. demands that mamething more fundamental should be done t be begun at once if it is to affect the results of the approach- ng German elections. 'Phial; may decide the fete of ltrope for the immediate Lt 23'e, natio ?be total of nearly ten and a half million raft*** now in West be broken down into stoat 3.0006000 escapees from the Soviet pone (increasing ACM at the rate of 40.000 a month); plus a bard core 000 former DP** who remained after the disrolution of the fug?e Organisation; plum approxinatel7 50.000 recent non74ermaa rsftgees fronCommunism. who *Reaped from Czechoslovakia. Shagary. etc* Dinally, the large* single group is that of the 8.124.000 expellees* Thia group consist, mainly of GAM= sit tame who were compelled to leave their homes in ...war German territory east of the Oder-Seisee line, plus ethnic Germane who were expelled from other countries now behind the Iron Curtain, in 1945/46. Three and a half million came from Osechodevakie alone, the so-called Sudeten Germans. 109010 5or40944 possibilities for solving the probteg of her xpel lees t nomic integration at ion migration CAA only be of secondary importance as tar sa Germany d since the immigrtton countries above and beyond other restrio- so far generally fixed an upper age limit (35 years in most cases)* Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved ForRelease2002/08/21:UA-RDP8OR01731RD01800150002-9 04w in the 7cungsr age group of 23 to 40 years that Bea: bee one-half million men through the war. As a revolt of Mt hes today in the 35-year-old age Croup. for example no more the age group of 66-year-olds. Comparet with the annual influx tries beyond the Iron Curtain, emigration from Germany in terms an insignificant part and will continue to to so in the foresee& 0. task thus remains the integration of the expellees German economy. In this context the leder:a Reentlic as e-fold problem: Rebuilding of the dwellings and enterprises destroyed by: vex. Closing of the gape ca ed in the economic structure of the lateral R bile by the parti ion of Germany into leatern shad Western helves, Provision of dwellings and jobs for 10 mil on expellees and refugees over and RIO,* the 1939 level. 8tnce currency reform in 1946, the integration of the expel osa and refnge.e within the Moral Republic has been pursued with great energy. Dy 195 ? 1,200,000 new dwel:ings bad boon built and two million additional jobs provtd.cd. More than 6.000 artisan and industrial enterprises were newly estelaished. More than 40,000 farms were distributed to expellee farmers. In the years after 19466 the German people hmve spent, so far, 25 billion Marks (six billion dollars) for the maintenance and integration of the expellees and refugees. As against this, 3.3 billion of Marshall Plan sit was r.ceived in the years 1948 to 1952. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP8OR01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/3g.: CIA-RDP8OR01731R001800150002-9 In spite of these tremendous efforts it has so far been possible to integrate only 35% of the expellee*. Another 4$% could only find employment below the social standard of their former work. Public assistance authorities must look after the remaining 20%. A,German-U. S. Commission of experts which met under the chair- nanShip of Han* Christian Sonny, in 1950, assessed the costs of the integre,- t 12.3 billion 1:04, or three billion dollars. The loan Government passed the Immediate Aid Law to bridge over the interim period pending a final law on the equalisation of burden*. In August. 1952. an Equalisation of Hardens Lew was passed which provides for the mortgage of up to 50% of the value of any kind, of property, and for the retirement of the mortgagee by 37 annual interest- bearing installments. These annual payments are collected in a fund outside the normal budget of the rederal Republic, for the purpose of paying compensa- tion to expellees and to other persons who suffered material los* as a result of the war. Ntwithstandin,g these great efforts undertaken on the German side. Owe are still hundrede of thousand* of expellee families whom it has not been possible to assist through the measures already taken. The West German Govern- Rent, however, has made clear its determination to continue the integration of expo and refugees by every Tellable means. Since the expellees in Vast Germany entered an area suffering: from critical housing shortage and came with few, if any, possessions except the clothes y wore and Whet they could carry, assimilation into the economic stream of West German life has been extremely difficult. When the flight of roe the last began, naturally most of them wore set tied in the more tape Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved ForRelease2002/08/21:UA-RDP8OR01731RD01800150002-9 -4- remote agricultural parts of Western Germany, including Savaria and Schleevig- Solstein where the fewest houses had been destroyed simply becaus there Weedless to say, however, the places were fever worthwhile bombing targets, where most housing was available were the very places where fewest jobs sere available. *cord fug.. persons So there in a great need, not simply for increased housing, but for industrial areas. The normal population increaee requires the building new dwelling units a. year. The persistent housing shortage, despite lding during the rest two pare, still limits the effectiveness of *distribution programs, which called for the transfer of 300,000 year in the fiscal years 1949/50 and 1960/51. Although the move- fugees from rural areas to areas offering employment oprertunitiee is oonsidered 4 vital link in plans to utilise the available manpower only 320,696 had moved from 1949 to 1961. Some emcees* has been achieved in resettling on farms many of the refugees formerly engaged in agriculture, althamgh the relative scarcity of farm lends in the Western Zones makes this undertaking t difficult one. The quo iton of farm resettlement is especially important,. because to feed over 22amore , people there is only 40% of the total food-raising area which was Germany's before the var. The other 60% of the farm land. it now. under Soviet-Polish control produOing food for the Soviets. It is as if the total population of Denmark and Switserland, completely destitute-, bad to be absorbed into Western Germany. While Germany in 1939 had. to meet 20% of her food requirements by import*, the import requirement has now risen to more than 40% as a result of the influx of rengees and the loss Of ?astern Germany. sent of r Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 ??74* ta *11 es where no assistance can be given Df the es initiated Tor the German authorities, It is ds are not avrilNitle or because certain other prereqnttites do ot t, such as collateral security to cover the credit applied for. In this onnection there Is, however, the possthtiit7 of rendering, by mean* of amounts which in the individual cases are comparatively small, a really deal-. sive *U nce in building up new livelihood, in preserving a threatened exieteno in facilitating study, or in the training of young people, etc. Capital investment, particularly for small concerns employing specialised skills, i* a requirement which is beginning to receive Score's's& attention. In the Spring of 1950 the Pavel Ministry for 9xeellees created. the Upellee Dank, based on an Initial grant of DM 20,000.000 from SRP funds, and further financed by inducing local banks to take 10% of the risk involved in non *enured loans. while the Land (state) banks took 50% and the Mere' Government 30%. DT, Middelmann, assistant to the Minister for ftpelleee. toted, 'It is to the interest of the Govan 'Federal Government to utilise the capitol of skill, to reduce the welftre payments. and to enable the,* who f reerlycollooted welfare payment* to earn enough to to able to pay tax** for the help of new refugees.' My January, 1952. this Doak, in conjunctionwith other credit had financed 1,473 investment loans, amounts to DM 50,348 000 uxante.d 1,174 operating loans, amount to DM 48,422,000. lp from abroad granted for such objects can be used to beet ad. various ways and. by T*Tionn moans. Insofar as the grant of lease nab or agricultural onterprieee is considered, the ft:pollee Bank ts to be the beet medium for such loans, and for residential building. ante-In-aid. The German lateral Government would welcome a trustee lenders to participate in the allocation of funds from foreign lands. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 use and h Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 SOME FACTS ABOUT EXPELLEES IN GERMANY 1 9 5 2 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 SOME FACTS ABOUT EXPELLEES IN GERMANY 1 9 5 2 PUBLISHED BY FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR EXPELLEES, BONN Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 vailable Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 ? ? ? - II II ? ? ? ? ? II 44004-8004-50002--9 DISPLACEMENT OF THE GERMAN POPULATION SINCE 1945 WiHIN 1 i ,i 1131 riffif , ii II LI I , Iffiff friffili rifilif iffiffif WW,WW", Ifirif FROM FAST OUNTRIES?1 1,000.000 INDIGENOUS 1,000,000 EXPELLEES FRONTIER I FRONTIER . F FRONTIER ( EXPELLEES 19 51 ? :including surplus in birth's since 1945) 4 12. 1937 O. 1939 (i. e. Germans expelled from the territory east of the Oder Neisse Line, as well a fr Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Jugoslavia, and other countries) Number of expellees living in the Federal Republic of Germany in Berlin in the Soviet Zone .000,000 150,0(10 .000,000 :150,000 19 3 9 : Number of inhabitants of: Germany east of the Oder/Neisse Line :600,000 Sudetenland ,500,000 100,000 Of these, in 19 50 there were living in the Federal Republic of Germany 6,100,000 in Berlin 100,000 in the Soviet Zone 3,200,000 ,400,000 persons remaining in their native land persons missing 1 There are no final figures as yet available in respect of the extent of ethnic Germans from other countries; the total 0 rt-0 therefore, considerably higher than has been computed above. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 700,000 .400,000 .300,000 missing pee.ons is, Approved For Release 200 210 SOME 9.6 MILLION PEOPLE, FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES, FOUND REFUGE IN WESTERN GERMANY. 1 : CIA-RDP80R01731R0918Opili59900&9 8 million German expellees, there (1-? some 1.6 million refugees ei the F Jeral Republic of Germany: Displaced Persons '313s) (formerly car- ed for by IRO): Displaced Person, Ire non-Germans, mainly from Easle European States, who had been bro iht to Gem-any as labourers during t-.}. Hitler regime or had preferred to q- to Germany after 1945, in order to ./ctil themselves of IRO protection. The, were unable or un- willing to return to ftleir former homes. There are, at mese, some 140,000 DPs left in the Federal :public, who have not, so far, found An opportunity to emigrate. Other non-German refugees (not with- in the mandate of IRO) They came into t1i Federal Republic from behind the li i Curtain, for poli- tical reasons. In ii) middle of 1951, there were some ,L 000 political refu- gees in the Feder,: Republic. Refugees from Ihr Soviet Zone of Germany (not withm the mandate of IRO) These refugees ar 3ermans who had to leave the Soy:: Occupied Zone, frequently for polit, -al reasons Some 14,000 of them ar? ossing the eastern border line each ni nth to seek refuge in the Federal Rep 8,000,000 Germo expellees 140,000 Displo..?d Persons 50,000 Politic Refugees 1,600,000 Refuges s from ihe Soviet :one and Berlin 11.// , 77 ;yr / / /ft / fig Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 More and more political refugees are seeking protection and asylum in West( r-F rmany. They leave their homes for fear of being persecuted by the governments of their C Dt r es. At present, the German Federal Republic harbours some 50,000 NON-GERMANS who have left their homes since the end of the war for political reasons_ - nalor part of i!iese refugees came from the Baltic States, from Poland, Czechoslovakia, a 1, the Ukraine whilst the rest came from Hungary, Roumania, and the Soviet Union. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Population of DENMARK and SWITZERLAND: 9.0 million Expellees and refugees from the Soviet Zone and Berlin in the Federal Republic of Germany: 9.6 million Populat e of AUSTRALIA: 8.0 million The situation is about the same as if more than .he total population of Denmark and Switzerland, completely destitute, had to be absorbed into Western Germany r as if Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 ... considerably more people than the total population of Australia were compelled to find accomo- dation, work, and a living in the Federal Republic of Germany. TABLE 5 .inr.3[:3C7,1CM:][711' = 1,000,000 Indigenous I 1,000,000 Expellees, DPs and Political Refugees. MORE CONSUMERS ? LESS FOOD 1939: The German territory east of the Oder/Neisse Line produced ? under normal conditions ? food for 15,400,000 people which fed its own population of 9,600,000 and yielded a surplus for 5,800,000 people 1950: The German Federal Republic lacks this surplus food for 5,800,000 people while its consumers, including Western Berlin, have increased by 9,900,000 people. The non-availibility of this food surplus, plus the tremendous increase in population, require a corresponding increase of food imports into the Federal Republic. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731 Tly misp,q279 k. EXPELLEES IN THE PO F ATION OF EACH STAFF As of .3a u in I 951 The expellees are very unevenly distri- buted over the territory of the Federal Republic. They make up 16.7 percent of the total population. However heir proportion in respect to the total population varies considerably from one federal State to another. SCHLESWIG- HOLSTEIN Ilk 31.8 H HAMBURG BREMEN LOWER SAXONY NORTH- RHINE- ?A WESTPHALIA HESSE SCHLESWIG-HC _ IN 31.8? I, LOWER SAXON ' 27.0? 11 BAVARIA 2' .0 ", II WUERTTEMI3ERc 1- DEN 17.1 ",II HESSE 17.0" WUERTTEMI3ER, HOHENZOLLE RI 10.80 NORTRHINE- WESTPHALIA 10.8" 1, BREMEN 7.4"II BADEN 8.8" HAMBURG 7.9" RHINELAND-PA / NATE 6.5" I, GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC R HINELA ND-PALATINA1 WU ERTTEMBERG-BADEN BAVARIA BADEN 13.8 WU E R TT EMBE RO HOHEN ZOLLER N A10.8 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approvedi EFprsR7?lriar fici)0?/0a2g acwriNt7f311RN?0'\14 R.5.o0 It KN 93 E RMA NY TOTAL POPULATION OF THE FEDERAL RE PUBLIC: 11111/ RIR, Of each 100 inhabitants, 16.7 are expellees. PROPORTION OF EXPELLEES TO TOTAL UNEMPLOYED: Of each 100 unemployed, 32.3 are expellees. 111 OF EXPELLEES TO TOTAL PERMANENTLY UNEMPLOYED: *I Of each 100 persons who have been unemployed 18 months or longer, 51.5 ar UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: Total Paid Out: `;11,1re Paid 4c, I-xpellees: 1949 649.8 million DM 37_3.8 million DM 1950 942.5 million DM 450.0 million DM expellees. 1 592.3 million DM 825.8 million DM Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 EXPELLEES AND THE LABOUR MARKET IN WESTERN GERMANY -t2.1111111111111111111k. r Of each 100 gainfully occupied expellees, 35 were independent or unpaid family workers. TODAY: Of each 100 gainfully occupied expellees, 7 are independent or unpaid family workers. iMrtniiiMMEMINIEW 11 ; Of each 100 gainfully occupied expellees, 65 were wage-earners (civil servants, employees, workmen). TO DAY: Of each 100 gainfully occupied expellees, 93 are wage-earners (civil servants, employees, workmen). Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 TABLE 8 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01sfl3IFIMS8CR&Ock4AXAT ION An analysis of the category of gainfully occupied expellees according to their economic and social position reveals a sharply pronounced social decline in comparison with the corresponding categories of the indigenous population: Annual income fax paid by the average independent indigenous person: Annual income tax paid by the average independent expellee: DM 220.00 DM 743.00 Annual wages tax paid by the average wage-earning indigenous person: Annual wages tax paid by the average wage-earning expellee: DM 39.00 DM 180.00 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 PROCEEDS FROM WORK PT FORMED The percentage of expellees among those employed in these various occup 'Pions is lower in proportion as weekly wages paid are higher. GROSS WEEKLY WAGES EARNED IN: PERCENTAGE OF EMPLC EES WHO ARE EXPELLEES: PRINTING TRADE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY DM 60.70 LEATHER INDUSTRIES DM 59.40 BUILDING TRADES DM 53.20 TEXTILE INDUSTRY 10 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 TABLE 9 1?1?1?1?1?1?1?01?11.1?10.1 AGE GROUPS IN THE USA: MALE AGE FEMALE over 85 80-85 75-80 70-75 65-70 60-65 55-60 50-55 45-50 40-4S 35-40 30-35 25-30 20-25 15-20 10-15 5-10 0-5 50 40 30 20 10 0 0/00 PER THOUSAND OF TOTAL POPULATION 0 10 20 AGE GROUPS IN WESTERN GERMANY: MALE AGE FEMALE SO 40 30 20 10 0 over 85 80-85 75 ? 80 70-75 65-70 60-65 SS ? 60 SO?SS 45-50 40-45 35-40 30-35 25-30 20-25 15-20 10-15 5-10 0-5 0100 30 40 50 1950 0 10 20 PER THOUSAND OF TOTAL POPULATION 30 40 50 1950 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 - - - AGE GROUPS IN THE USA AND WESTERN GERMANY 1950 TABLE 9a AGE GROUPS 0 5 PER THOUSAND OF TOTAL POPULATION USA MALE WESTERN GERMANY 48.0 40.7 PER THOUSAND OF TOTAL POPULATION FEMALE USA WESTERN GERMANY 46.1 20 25 25-30 30 - 35 35-40 43.1 39.9 36.5 38.5 40-45 31.7 35.9 33.4 21.0 34.2 43.9 37.9 39.9 42.1 43.9 35.1 38.1 37.6 34.0 42.9 28.7 43.5 80-85 85 - 2.8 1.3 499.0 2.8 0.9 472.7 6.8 3.3 1.8 501.0 44.3 39.6 34.6 28.9 24.0 18.5 14.1 8.2 3.6 1.5 5273 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 THE HOUSING PROBLEM allthilflpft,Ji !: f uttaluattaw Oat 1.1 1939: Housing space available in Western Germany 10,628,000 dwellinc: Despite this tremendous loss in housing space, the population of the Federal Republic oi (7? 'any increased from 39.5 million to 47.9 million, i. e. by 21.7 percent. Thus, requirements expanded to 121 -rcent must be 'satisfied" by only 80 percent of the housing space formerly available. Consequently, average occupancy per dwelling has increased p r - Before the war, every room fit to live in was occupied by 1.2 persons on the average, where is )day 2 persons on the average must share each room (in numerous cases as many as 3 persons). Sociologists consider an average occupancy of two persons per room as overcrowding, and th as a condition of cultural and social emergency. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 3ABLE:11 Approved For Release 2002/08/29A-RDP8OR01731R00180 1 002-9 5.2 BILLION UNIMMINI1111111111ft. BILLION DM} L111111.111 1949, 1950 Whereas occupation costs for and amount to 16,1 i bon DM, 1951 direct expenditure on expellees for the same period amounts to only 5.2 billion DM. Direct expenditure on expellees comprises: a) Individual welfare assistance b) Communal welfare assistance c) Maintenance grants to expelled former professional Wehrmacht members d) Pensions for expelled war invalids e) Unemployment benefits f) Pensions for widows and orphans of expellees. g) Dwelling and transit camps, resettlement, emigration, and productive refugee welfare. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9 GRAPHIC LAY-OUT AND PICTURES: ADOLF WESTERDORF, BAD GODESBERO PRINTED BY GEBRODER MULLER KG., KASSEL Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80R01731R001800150002-9