ISFCRU/.TIOH RES CUT COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zoneerlin)
SUBJECT Issuance of Heir Identity Document
date:
IfcFO,8
C'ST.8
PAGES 2
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1. tbe new passport previously roforred to as the "Inlmdspras" is to bo introduced Id the Russian sons beginningt has now been decided to Introduce It In Berlin es well. ovembor Major Qchkin, Chief of tbe Civil Administration Section ofSoviet Military Ooverniwsnt for Berlin, notified the Berlin Ststlstiosl Office that the new document was to be issued to the entire population of Berlin, end Instructed the Folico .President, fMarkgraf, to arrange fop the replacement of the old Ferae-nnlouswclse by the net documents.
Tiie yaubdH are being printed byevrlent inordei* colls0 poaees, which arc sufficientell Individuals over the age ofn the Sovlot rone There are to be three types .offor
Gormen nationals, with serial nucbera precededor the five atstes of the zone andor Berlin: (b) atetuleaa end (c) foreigner, bothetter In tbe serial nimbor. The passes ere to be printed on special paper, and to hove entries mode with special ink only,necGuv.onied by "dry atanpa". The official title of the document is "JJeutscher PnrscnelPnewels". It will.contain twelve pagesith the serial number on eeoti right-hand page, the first four pagesontain the usual personality Informetlon (picture on tho rscRcnfl put*); th- nextgc3 ere blanfc, to reaelva official entries. The laat three pages have spseeshrono-lORical record of change* of address, to be filled-in by local police authoritiesf this willesns of shncklnr the genulnenes8 of the pass.
3* Onowcnber classes began In the Advencod Police School in P'ttrlln-Fnnkow for the purpose ofeeibers of the Administrative Follow from the Russian zone fcr theof the nuw pass. Six consecutive olaeaeaen eaoh were to receive two days of Instruction. In addition to the men froa the Zone.erlin Adoinlstretlve Foliconen haveordered
he course. Personnel of tba Administration of the Interioraore informed during their instruction in the use
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pf the newhat one of lta purposes Is to catch Jllejtal residents rnd travelers in tho Sovietpartlculrrly /acrlecn agerita*.
tnwt. th* hoed of the Idclnletrttlvw Police Detartaent of th* CM- laresslnr the teller that It ledoubtful that personnel end teohntcal difficulties cm be overcome ln tlae to start laaulng the new passwcecbrr. Purtheraore, responsible officials of the CAI eatlnate that at leaat one third of the population of the Soviet acne will not have ill the documents ronulred to establish Ibwlr right to the "deutacher >er&an*lausaels"> In the Inventlfftlon of pcrsms laoKlnr the required documents, difficulty is sr.tlti-pstod teccuso many personal snd public records have bean destroyed, either wilfully or through wtr dcrtge. ecil-Ities cf the police la tbe eastern icne would beovertaxedareful investigation of tbe affidavits which jrtientvfl -ifl-iJn.^dtiutch^ -
applicant* lor peases euulti, u,x*>i
functions of the Criminal Follow for nonths.
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