This subseries contains letters written to Paetel in response to his article entitled "Freunde im Ausland," published in the German newspaper Die Zeit (19 June 1947), and reprinted in Union Flchtlingsdient (September 1947), in which Paetel asked readers to write to him with descriptions of conditions in post-war Germany. Paetel later published many of the responses in issues of Deutsche Gegenwart.