Mr. JENNER. I think this is a good time to stop, because that is the next phase I want to get into. We can go to lunch. (Whereupon, at 12:35 p.m., the proceeding was recessed.) TESTIMONY OF GEORGE S. DE MOHRENSCHILDT RESUMED The proceeding reconvened at 2 p.m. Mr. JENNER. On the record. Before we start on the next phase of your life, I would like to go back a minute to your father. You left there about 1931 or 1932? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; but I came back many times. Mr. JENNER. You came back to see him? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; almost every summer vacation. Mr. JENNER. Now, what happened to your father, with particular reference to World War II? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He was living in Wilno, the same town that I went to school in, during the war, and I arranged for his visa to come to the United States at the time. Mr. JENNER. Now, is this at a time when you were in this country? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I was in this country, and I knew that--this was before the outbreak of the war. I arranged for the visa to come to America, and he did not take advantage of it. Mr. JENNER. That invasion was in September of 1939. Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. 1939; yes. Mr. JENNER. And you made these arrangements before September 1939? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Before September 1939. And instead of that, you know, he did not take advantage of those arrangements. Maybe he was too old, decided not to come to the United States. And then there was the German invasion of Poland and the Russian invasion on the other, and he happened to be in the Russian part of Poland, and naturally went into hiding. Mr. JENNER. Excuse me. You mean Russian part in the sense that the Russians invaded Poland? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. Mr. JENNER. To meet the Germans who were invading Poland from the other side? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. Mr. JENNER. So he then became engulfed by the Russians? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right. He became engulfed in advance of the Russian Army and had to go into hiding because he had a sentence of life exile to Siberia against him. And at that time the Germans and the Russians were not at war yet, so the Russians and the Germans made an agreement that all the people of German or Baltic or Swedish origin could go to Germany, and they could declare themselves openly and go to a special German commission set up for that effect in various towns. Mr. JENNER. You say declare themselves openly. What do you mean by that? Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Declare themselves that they they are willing to go and live in Germany, instead of living in Russia. Mr. JENNER. Declare allegiance to the German Government?