Memorandum from Committee I to Edwin Pauley, Report of Marshal Zhukov on Removals by Allies from Russian Zone
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OCR Page 1 of 10MEMORANDUM
To:
Ambassador E. W. Pauley
From:
Committee I
July 29, 1945
Subject: Report of Marshal Zhukov on Removals by Allies from Russian
Zone
After analyzing the report of Marshal Zhukov on the removal
by American and British armies of equipment and other properties from the
factories and other institutions in the Soviet zone of occupation, we have
the following comments:
1. The report is probably largely correct, but compared to
the removals of industrial equipment reported and observed in the Berlin
District and elsewhere, the removals reported by Marshal Zhukov are
trivial.
2. Most of the removals listed, of equipment, documents and
personnel, have to do with recent German technical advances, for immedi-
ate use in war or war production, and are clearly war booty.
3. The removals of gold and artistic or cultural objects have
been made public and are subject to action by the Reparations Commis-
sion.
1. Much of the damage to instruments and equipment, in the
light of our observations, was caused by looting and destruction by for-
eign slave labor; souvenir hunters, as in all armies, also played their
part.
5. Personnel removed were those suspected of being war crim-
inals or of contributing to German war potential.
6. The removals of equipment described in Marshal Zhukov's
document are not those required for Germany's peacetime economy, but
rather for war purposes, whereas the Russian removals observed, such as
agricultural equipment, sewing machines and textile machines, are cer-
tainly not war potentials.
is ARCHIVE *NATIONAL SERVICE"
AND
RECURDS
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or DE)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972
By WLT-WC NARS Date 6.29.26
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