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- 1995 Dec 2 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Karl Mautner, former US Army intelligence officer, and liaison officer for the Berlin US military government, 1947-1948, relating to intelligence provided by German refugees from eastern Europe, 1945; German's attitude to Soviet occupying forces, and Soviet dismantling German industrial plant for removal to the Soviet Union as reparations in kind. 1945-46; Soviet pressure on German political parties, and the activities of the city government in Berlin, including the Ella Barowsky, German Social Democratic Party member of Berlin City Council (Stadt Verordneten Versammlung), 1946-1950, Louise Schroeder, German Social Democrat and Deputy Lord Mayor, and Acting Lord Mayor, Berlin, 1947, Ferdinand Friedensburg, Christian Democratic Union, Acting Mayor, Berlin, (1948) and Ernst Reuter, Social Democrat Mayor of Berlin 1948-1953; conditions in West Berlin during the Soviet blockade, demonstration rallies, 6 Jun [1948] and 9 Sep 1948; and the impact in Berlin of the West German currency reforms, 1948. 35pp
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