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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nIV-5\ndestroyed, and what remains could not be\nbut former Reich landing fields and airdromes\nrealized quickly in the event of war. In east-\nin both eastern and western Germany have\nern Germany a large amount of industrial war\nbeen rebuilt and expanded by the occupation\npotential was dismantled and shipped intact\nforces in each zone. During the second World\nto the USSR along with the trained staffs to\nWar the German canal system moved about\noperate it. The remainder is employed to ca-\n30 percent of all freight, thus releasing the\npacity in turning out war material on the So-\nrailways and highways for military purposes;\nviet account. The USSR also single-tracked\nthis would be impossible under present cir-\nall railway lines running east and west across\ncumstances.\nthe Soviet Zone as a defensive measure and\nThere are no effective natural barriers in\ndismantled much additional trackage. As a\neither western or eastern Germany to impede\nresult, rail movement across eastern Germany\nthe movement of armies in the event of war or\nis by no means adequate for large troop con-\nprovide points at which local resistance could\ncentrations.\nbe organized for any length of time. Neither\nOn the other hand, the rail systems of west-\nwould any large-scale resistance movement\nern Germany have been restored without con-\nmaterialize to hamper the operations of an in-\ncern for strategic implications, and, while far\nvader. Strategically, the trizonal area offers\nfrom efficient, are adequate for normal pur-\na land mass scarcely 200 miles in width be-\nposes. Restoration of the highway system\ntween Western Europe and the frontier of the\nhas also proceeded further in the western\nzones than in the Soviet Zone, but in both\nSoviet Zone behind which lie the armies of the\nareas motor vehicle transport is scanty, in\nUSSR and its satellites. The defense of west-\npoor condition, and dependent upon imports\nern Germany would present almost insuper-\nfor at least 75 percent of requirements for\nable difficulty to the US, while its invasion\nPOL supplies and spare parts. The Germans\ncould be accomplished with little trouble by\nmaintain no air force, military or commercial,\nthe USSR.\nSECRET"
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