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not as serious as in some others, thanks to the ingenuity and num­erous local connections of Dr. van Ackere.

Supply - Engineer Items

In the early part of 1946, the Supply Officer of Junkers Camp made several trips to the engineer depot at Mainz Kastel where he obtained a certain quantity of glass, nails, cement, roofing paper, and so on, upon a simple requisition. It was still possible in the early part of the year to obtain some of these items locally upon the basis of a requisition on Form 400 approved by the Supply Officer of the local Military Government Detachment F 14, but not many of these items were available locally, and the F 14 officer was somewhat capricious in his decisions to approve or disapprove a requisition.

Later, it became necessary to submit engineer's drawings and specifications covering winterization, repair or new construction, and the 333rd. Engineers received the plans for the addition to the camp hospital, after it had been approved by the UNRRA District Eng­ineer, Mr. Franz Esanders1, and finally obtained what is known as a "project number" which carried with it authorization to obtain build­ing materials and labor. The Kassel detachment of the 333rd. Eng­ineers supervised the work on the hospital addition until December when their functions were taken over by a so-called Area Engineer, whose office was set up in Kassel.

Light bulbs were the engineers item most difficult to get, and although it was learned on good authority that there were hundreds of thousands of light bulbs in the engineer depots, it appeared prac­tically impossible even for other army units to get any, a condition which was said to be largely the result of shortage of staff in the depots.

Supply - UNRRA

UNRRA supplies, except for amenity items and clothing collected

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Our best guess is "Mr. Franz Esanders." Digital image contrast-enhanced.
This content transcribes an original report of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), a separate copy of which is filed in the United Nations Archives (UNA), Reference number: S-1021-0081-05, Title: Monographs - DP-US 20 - Displaced Persons - United States Zone (Germany) - Histories of Individual Camps - History Report No. 30, Report: Baltin Camp in Bettenhausen, Kassel by D. F. McGonigal, Date: April 13, 1945. The UNA grants rights to reproduce with attribution. Additionally, this content is protected as a derivative work under Latvian Copyright Law Chapter 2 § 5 ¶ 3 and as part of a collection under Chapter 3 § 5 ¶ 1.2.
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