Dispatch recuperated prisoner-of-war officers of the former Polish Army under convoy [to] Kozelsk camp, Kozelsk Station, Dzerzhinsky Railway. If among these officers there are officers of the police or gendarmerie, they should be sent [to] Ostashkov camp, Ostashkov Station, Kalinin Railway.

Sick and wounded Polish officers were in the care of the UITK, which had its own hospitals and rest centers.

You may dispatch the officers [in] a vagonzak [railway car], which you are to request [from] the Kiev brigade of convoy troops.

Send the rank-and-file soldiers and NCOs of the former Polish Army [from] the territory of Poland now part of Germany under convoy [to] Brest-Litovsk [Brześć-Litewski], [to] the Fourth Army transfer point for handing them over to the German authorities. Send home the prisoner-of-war privates and junior officers of the former Polish Army who are residents of western Ukraine and western Belorussia. Inform me of these departures. At the same time, immediately send by telegraph the surnames and detailed basic data on all soldiers and officers of the German Army being held [in] hospitals, indicating the circumstances and dates of capture.

Soprunenko used the word “plenienia” [capture] regarding German soldiers and officers wounded and taken prisoner by the Poles in the former eastern Poland. They were taken over by the Red Army and cared for in Soviet-run hospitals. The German Embassy in Moscow asked for their return on 28 October and again on 18 December 1939; see DVP, vol. XXII, book 2, nos. 737, 869.