761.6211/200: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, September
21, 1939—5 p.m.
[Received September 21—3:55 p.m.]
[Received September 21—3:55 p.m.]
584. My telegram No. 578, September 20, 6 p.m. In addition to the German military mission at present in Moscow which according to the German Military Attaché23 is here for the purpose of fixing exactly the line of demarcation in Poland between the German and Soviet forces, there are present in Moscow a number of German civilians, apparently industrialists or engineers. The exact purpose [Page 479] of the civilian mission is unknown but it is presumably to further economic collaboration between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Steinhardt
- Lt. Gen. Ernst Köstring, German Military Attaché in the Soviet Union.↩