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— page two s 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, Brestlitowsk, 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 6.