Memorandum from Russell Thayer to Belle Mayer, April 23, 1947 - page 1

INTER- OFFICE MEMORANDUM HMShea/kk 81285 23 April 1947 TO: Miss Sells Mayer PROM: Russell Thayer SUBJECT : Information re Krupp Case 1. With regard to our telephone conversation of yester¬ day concerning your acquiring information for Trial Team III during your trip to the United States, the following is the materiel which we will greatly appreciate having for use In- preparing the Krupp Case : Item 1. Interrogation reports and documents of Mr. Alexander Rafaeli. a. Explanation : In response to request to War Department Mr. Cecil F. Я ubbert. Acting Chief, or Crimes 3ranch# sent notarized statement from Mr. Rafaeli but no interrogation reports or documents which represent the findings and results of Mr. Rafaeli»s investiga¬ tion as special agent of CIC Detachment which worked on the Krupp Case shortly after the occupation of Germany by Allied forces. On 9 April 1947 request was made of Mr. Olbeter, War Crimes 3ranch, War Department by OCCWC teletype Subject. No. 22 that a search be made at War Depart¬ ment to obtain the abovementioned interrogation reports and documents. Teletype answer from .Var Department of same date as message was sent stated Rafaeli does not have material. It Is possible that Rafaeli does not have these reports and documents but they should be a part of U.S. War Department records and so should at present st with this Department. Item 2 .у/ Affidavits of authenticity for the following pages and paragraphs and ghotogranhs from the book by Margaret Bourse-White ; title, Dear Fatherland. Rest Quietly;: pages 117-118; 96; 98-99; 101-102; 103; 105; after page 134 the following photographs : A If ried Krupp before portrait of Alfried Krupp; two photographs on following two pages; Street scene in Essen, Bomb shelters were somehow overlooked In Krupp civic warfare programs; the Ruhr: Wars plotted and calculated in Berlin, etc.; Krupp open hearth; Krupp: