I.F.F.J. REPORT : PROBLEM OF EASTERN EUROPE IN WEST GERMAN POLITICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000800350003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Ll~vailable on loan from CIA Library is a 29-page photostat copy of a report entitled
Problems of Eastern Europe in West German Politics, prepared May 1953 for limited
dissemination by the International Federation of Free Journalists of Central and
:Eastern Europe and Balkan. and Baltic Countries, 14 Stanhope Place, London W. 2.
Summary.:
This report discusses current trends in West German political thought on future
relations with Eastern Europe and the USSR.
It analyzes the aims, partisans and propaganda mediums of the two chief trends:
1. "The trend of 'limited' political aims"
2. "The trend of 'unlimited' political aims."
1. The trend of limited litical aims advocates a return to the status quo prior to
1939 only a small fraction of this camp supports the more drastic aim of return to
the status gtto prior to 191~~. This trend enjoys support from the masses. It finds
expression in the definite program of an organized group: the political party
Gesamtdeutsche Block der Heimatvertriebene and Entrechteten (GBHE), established 1952
to represent the several million deportees and refugees from Eastern Europe who
"want to go back home". It also finds expression in an important group of newspapers
and periodicals.
2. The trend of unlimited political aims encompasses several political doctrines "still
in a stage of research and. discussion" among groups of elite--politicians and
scientists "working discreetly behind the scenes". These doctrines include:
a. "Return to the Rapallo System" (i.e. system of division of influence between
Germany and the USSR over the territories situated between them).
-The "neutralist" group envisages co-operation between Germany and the
USSR.
-Such groups as the Society of German-Russian friendship envisage
co-operation with a democratic Russia "of the future". Certain news-
papers promote this line.
b. "Reconstruction of the pre-World-War II Central European system with
Germany dominant". This concept is being developed by two main groups:
-A civilian group concentrated around the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur
?steuropakunde (German Association for Research on Central European
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Questions) established 199 in Stuttgart. The report lists the
leading members and active collaborators.
-A military group developing "within the frame of a future German
General Staff." This group. is evolving a "colonial" policy based on
traditional Mitteleuropa principles.
The report also notes certain minor trends in German political thought concerning
Eastern Europe:
a. Current research by the Eastern Department of the SPD (German Socialist
Party).
b. Activity of the Arbeitskreis psteuro~a group, Stuttgart,
The report concludes with a review of the influence of such trends on the official
policy of the Bonn Government.?
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