English Translation

14 (b) The French Labour Command, in exchange for the same or similar means of consumption, also arranges items of use of the same kind. In addition, chocolate, smoke, etc. are sold to the population by the guards and Frenchmen. For a pack of American cigarettes were paid in Fürstenberg as well as in Frankfurt /Oder 3o.- to 4o.. Reichsmark. d) On the occasion of a raid, which the commander of the school personally attended during his visit, was discovered in a barrack of the American Kgf. an excavated room under a bed in size of about l5 cbm. The prisoners had penetrated the concrete floor by means of the tools they had procured and had so cleverly lifted out that the opening could be closed at any time. The room was only discovered by a tent which was lowered from the roof. There were in the room: a German receiver "Mende* as well as a detector position. By means of these facilities, English Wehrmacht reports were intercepted by the prisoners and distributed to the other barracks of American Kgf. as well as to Russians and French. The reports were hand-written and passed on by several prisoners, and thousands of cigarettes, canned, chocolate, soap, German and English map material were found in the room, as well as ready-made escape plans with some very precise information. It included all border crossing points from Dämemark to the south and south-east, with information on the possibilities of bribery, as well as whether sharply or less guarded, etc. During this raid, it was also found that the prisoners had tried to put bundles of twenty-mark seem to be on fire.- In order to avoid confiscation, 5.ooo pieces of toilet soap were thrown into the latrine. (e) In the camp, small quantities of fresh meat, such as tomatoes, cartofills, onions, which the prisoners obtain by the same means, i.e. neither through the mediation of the French labour command nor through the guards, are confiscated. Move from department to department and become less and less, as admitted by the officers themselves.