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such information the following per ons were active in the Riga
Wt Zo1 area; Ilgvaregilevics /07, Brum:, Smits (E7, and traAs.. •
'.- Sterrib-qts /427 -(and some oth-e-FF- Tiiii-Hillin cannot recall).
(17) Through several Academy students in Jelgava Hahn
got to know another underground group which however, was only
a local group. Hahn soon learned that this group was getting
arms from somewhere and was distributing them in the Latvian
province Zemgale. One lot of such weapons, Hahn was told, was
LAuti . buried in Landenwald, near iJelgava. One of the leading personali-
ties in this group was FNU Lossbergs, Through Kilevics, a mes-.
senger for this group;-Cfbr-tife -Riga area) Hahn was put in con-
tact with Tirumnieks, a member of Lossbergs' group. Tirumnieks
gave Hahn a safehouse address with an accompanying parole to which
Hahn was to-proceed in case of war so as to receive arms. This
address was six kilometers from Feternieki in the direction of
Riga. It was to the vicinity of this safehouse that the Germans
were to send paratroopers as soon as war broke out.
- The night of 13-14 June 1941 disrupted all activities in
Riga because of the extensive raids, searches, and deportations.
Hahn looked up Mitrevics who advised him to sit tight and wait
until all quieted down. During this night Hahn was in Liepaja,
having just come from one of the safehouses on the Lithuanian-
Latvian.border. The owner of this house was also deported during
this night, after Hahn left. Hahn stayed with his Godfather in
Liepaja during this night and though they arrested a nextdoor
famil neither Hahn nor his Godfather, the famous Latvian patriot,
Janis'.JfezciemsA.were disturbed. The following morning Hahn re-
Mi-Higi-Where he checked to see whether his parents were
deported and found them alive and well. After that he returned •
to his experimental station and remained there without contacting
anyone until the breaking out of hostilities between Russia-sand
Germany.
On the following day the Germans began to bomb Russian
units on the Riga-Jelgava road. Having the first indication
that warh 4 begun Hahn proceeded to the aforementioned safehouse;
with Janis1 eja, whom he recruited as an aid and who had been
working-it' the-same experimental station. At the house Hahn and
Leja found that the inhabitants were not knowledgeable of the
parole and therefore Hahn and Leja left. They asked some passer-
by who the new occupants-might be and:zwere_told that the old in-
habitants had been arrested. and that-trrside• were Communists.
(Later after the Germans had Chased the Communists out of Latvia
Hahn learned through Tirumnieks that the Communists inhabiting
the house had followed Hahn and Leja, but since they had gone
through the woods they were unable to catch them. Tirumnieks
further told Hahn later that the Lossbergs group had been com-
pletely disrupted by the deportations, Lossbergs himself having
also been deported.)