POSSIBLE CLOSING OF PW CAMP AT FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500160006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 17, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone) -- DATE DISTR.17 T. :arch 1940
SUBJECT Possible Closing of PW Camp at NO. OF PAGES 1
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1? It is rumored that few major shipments of ?Vs from .Russia may be expected
at Frankfurt/Oder and that future transports will be routed via Fl1rstenwalde.
The so==called Hornkaserne`(u.sed as a military hospital) and Lager Grdnen-
felde are to be evacuated and possibly turned over to troops..
2, During December 1948 and-January 16140 no new patients were admitted to the
Srestkreuz and Infektions hospitals in Frankfurt/older. Only a few returning
e1iis,, all. TB cases,, were taken in at the Lutherstift and Seuchenkrankenhaus,
:sue k4.s passing through Frankfurt/0der in January 1949 amounted to approximately
18 500 men, Of these,, some, 1 ? 000 were well dressed and weal fed Activists
who usually were sent on in large unit;:. (Destination not reported..)
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