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    "ocrText": "No.\nTown\nRussian Report\nSummary of U.S. Information\n8\nGera\nFrom the Siemmens-Hallske electro-technical enter-\nAssessed by CIOS 12 May. Assessment of priority nil.\nprise were removed: The most valuable equipment and\nUSSTAF disarmed signal speaking system and other new\nfinished production, for example the newest signal-\nitems of equipment at Siemmens-Hallske plant but did\nspeaking system for railroads; all technical key-\nnot evacuate equipment. Siemens-Schuckert Works files\npersonnel including Keyser, the manager and Patz the\nand Russian Non-military manuals removed by XIX Corps.\nchief engineer; from the Califon-Fabric were removed\n3 technicians evacuated by Seventh Army. *\nall chemical experts and the manager of the factory.\n9\nHadmersleben\nThe Junkers underground plant in the salt mines:\nVisited by USSTAF. No record of any removal.\nAll the optical instruments were damaged, the micro-\nscope and micro-photocamera's lenses were removed.\n10\nHalberstadt\nFrom the works Malakhite for production of engines\nUSSTAF visited the factory and reports that they poss-\nBMW were removed: Model of reaction turbine 004;\nibly removed the documents, probably evacuated experts,\nits drawings; expert engineers and technologists - 6.\nengineers, technologists.\n11\nHalle\n24 scientists including the outstanding physiologist\n241 scientists evacuated by Seventh Army to Darmstadt.\nthe Nobel prize winner Prof Dr Emil Abderhalden were\nDirector Klozy of Siebbel plant evacuated to Darmstadt\nremoved from Institute of Physics and Chemistry. The\ndocuments were removed by CTOS and NavTecMisEu in-\nlaboratory of the Institute was removed; from the\ncluding the draught design referred to. No record of\nSiebbel plant was removed the draught designs of new\nevacuation of equipment. *\nspeed aircraft, chief designer of the plant.\n12\nIlfeld\nThe equipment of plant producing Faust cartridges\nNo record of removal of equipment. 4 technicians\nwas partially removed.\nevacuated by Seventh Army. *\n13\nJena\nThe Zeiss plant was removed of the following: the\nCIOS assessed and investigated the plants from 18 April\ncentral optical control lab; the reproduction lab;\nto 23 June. Radar and signal personnel evacuated a\nphysics lab; electro-technical lab; range-finder lab;\ncrystal growing over and specimin plates of KRS 5 to\ncrystallo-graphic lab; metallographic lab; micro-\nevents 1\nUK. Air personnel exploited TSA bombsight. NavTecMisEu\nscopis lab; medical lab; geodesic lab; 20 million R.M.\nmade blue prints of drawings of synthetic training\nworth of finished optical mechanical divices; all the devices; engineer Intell, UK Base evacuated a Dahlta\noriginal draughts of all kinds of optical mechanical\nTheodolite to Mapping Branch of the Engr Board. Other\nt\nproduction; 77 leading experts, including the chief\ndocuments and equipment were evacuated. A 6 meter\n0\nengineer of the plant, 3 professors and 35 doctors\nmobile AA instrument was found and evacuated to the\nof technical sciences; from the Schott optical plant\nU.S. by a naval officer. USSTAF reports evacuation\nwere removed: the optical control lab; physics lab;\nof documents, personnel, and almost all types of\nrange-finders lab; crystallographic lab; microscopic\nequipment, including aerial cameras for use in Pacific\nlab; geodesic lab; 3 million R.M. worth of the fin-\nand commercial records of Jap developments. Personnel\nished production; 50 key experts including the chief\nevacuation from Zeill plant are now in various places\nengineer of the plant Dr of technical sciences Berger. in Wuertenberg, those from the Schott plant including\nDr. Berger, are in Heidenheim. 213 technicians evac-\nuated by Seventh U.S. Army."
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