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Prof Dr Donath - University professor and East Asia expert of the
Foreign Office (Ehrenamtlicher Leiter).
Dr Reichel - Japanese expert and assistant to Donath. He was also
in charge of the study group of Indo-Chinese students
in BERLIN.
Martin Steinke - Expert on East Asia religions and China.
Dr Kaufman - Expert on India and turma.
prof Poppe - Russian collaborationist. Expert on Mongolian and .Soviet
nationalities.
von Hopfgarten - Expert on Indo-China. Reichel's assistant in working
with Indo-Chinese study .groups.
Frau Hartmann - Donat's secretary. Had good knowledge of Japanese affairs.
c. Study Groups
The Korean Arbeits Gemeinschaft had only four members because VI - C/4
id net want to cause the Japanese Embassy to become. suspicious. It was headed
y the Korean Dr Han.
d. RSHA and Affiliated Groups
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In 1942, the Cds (Chief SD) ordered,all-agencies ofthe_RSRkto,pasS
n to VI,r0. any information about Far Eastern affairs which . they might Obtain
n thetr'own ' fields. Weirauch says that of all of these agencies only VI -.4!P
antributed regularlvtothework of his own,office.Covering western,Europe,
d Switzerland, VI - B representatives were.frecinently..in:.a.positiolOo;,Obtain_
nformatiOn:which they passes on to Vi - c/4.,.,Some4nforthation came from E
n the Balkans. Schellenberg maintained personal contact with a Japanese Colonel
odera,-,V .Tman T-100 in STOCKHOLM and two members of the Chinese colony in
itzeiland, Dr Robert Chitsun and General Kwei.
e. Pooperatinglgencies-Outside of thejtSHA:.
. f,y,Auslandsbrief Pruef Stelle, BERLIN (ABPS) was originally controlled by
he Wehrmacht. The ABPS saw to it that all political news that passed through
his organization was made available to Amt VI.- When Amt IV. .took overtheJABPS
1943, al]. jar Eastern material was submitted:toApt-VT.-"°/4*961.79d
otters and. of newspapermen, businessmeniPiisionariee,and,p*ate
rsonscthOugh the , ABPS. , l!eirsuch remembers the'report:of Brieseni.00rrespon
ent of the Koelnische Zeitung in SHANGHAI . as being 'excellent: Until4P44mber, _
943, NU . - 12/4 also rfteived'material concernink-EastA gia that passed through
e Italian censor. The letters came to VI' - C/4:either_ihotographe&Or
ensored