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were able to send news to their families. Well over 500 deportees could
not be retraced. In case they are still alive, they are probably in one
of the two above-mentioned camps. Reasons for deportations ean never be
establishedg even prisoners who are released and allowed to return home
refuse to reveal the aecusation, if any, under which Soviet authppities
have detained them, They are also very reluctant to give any information
as to their whereabout during deportations There is a wide range of
seeming reasons for which people disappear, An important number of young
boys, between 15 and 20 years of age, for example have been missing in
the last years, They were detained by Russians usually under pretense
of a small derogation to the law and never released eagaineg Other cases
were for example a 23 year old girl serving in a restaurant in Mistel~
bach. Taken away by Russians and recently returned after 18 months of
deportation, no apparent reason could be figured out as to either
detention or release. Simple farmers and workers, just as well as local
officials, polieemen, professionals, newspaper men and economic experts
are among internees. These unpredictable and constantly menacing
repressions, reported from every class of the population and from every
part of the mmurtxey Russian Zone, points towards a policy of terrorizing
the population into submission and silent acceptances a policy that is
doubled by cases of merely personal revenge from Soviet authorities, ee
As to prétgoners of war, 943 are still missing. Since the beginning of
1951, letters or posteards have become extremely rare; individual and
direet néws from most of them are lacking. These prisoners are eonsidere
war criminals by Soviet authorities, because they had belonged either
to the SS, to one of theelite troops, to those of the "Landesschuetzen"
or of the police units which during the wer had guarded camps in which
Soviet prisoners were detained, Some of them finally are labeled as
"spies", because they had traveled abroad before the war, Among these
Austrian prisoners, 450 are detained in foreed labor in the huge camp
# 6118 located in the district of Swerdlowsk. They work in mines
querries and in woods. Others, broken up in smaller units, have been
retraced in 13 labor camps in the Donez basin, in Kiew, Minsk, Brest¬
litowsk, St&lino, Leningrad, Moscow and on the Black Sea,
_ Russian control over Austrian production and exportations =
Austrian authorities have no way of knowing or controlling What products
are taken over the Eastern border into Czecho-Slovakia and ungary, This
blank spot constahtbly upsets Austrian economic prévisions and makes
any planning or balancing of export-import trade an impossible task, The
produets most needed for industrialization and rearmement a such as
petroly machines, cables = and for which there is the greatest demand an
the best prices on the world merket are for obvious reasons those
materials that leave the country over its Eastern border, The most
compared with 1.2 million in 195le Despite that high wealth of productior
official statisties reveal that Austria is not a petrol exporting, but
purely a petrol importing country. The explanation is evident: 60% of th
crude oil is sent direetly to Czech, Hungarian and East-German refinerie
and further quantities are taken by ers pm tanlers down the Danube
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