English Translation

3/a -20 - there is hardly any intelligence left and no individual inclinations are discernible, they form an amorphous mass. b) His career. The servants were patterned at the age of 18 or 19 years and very soon after they were drafted. The patterning was apparently carried out in the larger centers and supplemented by specialist examination. The must-ing commission consisted of a representative of the armed forces, the Bolshevik party, the GPU and the doctor. Until 1939, sons of the deculakists, i.e. the liquidated bourgeois and peasant comrades, as well as sons of pre-criminals, or even pre-prisoners, were not drafted. No exceptions were made after 1939. Since 1935, the Wehrmacht is said to have expanded five to seven times. However, the distribution of the conscripts does not always seem to have been well organized. For example, a prisoner of war reported that he had been assigned to the 48th Donkey Cossack Regiment in the city of X and had set out there with a dozen kamerades. On the spot and at Stel- le, it was declared that there was neither such a part of the troops there nor nearby. After much to and fro, he had finally experienced the correct location of the regiment at his convocation site.