MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BERNBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100200004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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l From 20 October to 13 Movember 1952, the Adolf Hitler Kaserne on the west 25X1
side of Dlberstaedter Strasse, Bernburg, was occupied by an engineer unit,
probably with a signal Platoon, and a tank unit, totaling an estie .ted 600
to 700 troops. On 20 October, at the 1?,'aldau railroad stop, sections of a
st-:el bridge were bei n loaded on trucks by troops wear; ng blackk bordered
black and red-bordered black epaulets The sinerrrisin ; officer wore tank
insignia. The Mucks subsecuently went to the 25X1
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nstallation, On 1 Noveb 36 T34/05 tk l
mer,-ans wereined up in the train-1
On 4 November, 3 T-34/d5 tanks were. seen 25X1
en route on -Iighway No 71, coming from Bernburg and proceEdinc_* toward a dehi ?~_
Gn idoveaber; about 30 troops Practiced the cons-`arictior25X1
of telephone lines near the am nuniti.on depot.a
the engineer unit st .ticned 25X1
Dessau and oethen aiirfields> From 15 iiolre,- ter to 2 Dece'. ber, numerous trucks
continua l-y hauled logs and beams to the installation. The lumber was stored
and later large details processed them into corduroy roads of various sizes
and trucked away. No training activity 61b.er than basic training of recruits
was observed., During the period of observation., several o.rfir: ers, probably
replacing discha.,rgeea, arrived at the ins tallationa A colon ,l who a-Par?ently?
had been in Germany for the first time, was seen with the tank unit. It could
not be determined whether he was commanding officer of the unit.
i ,arras s installation in Berri: urg was ordered to construct bunkers on the
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/ L Corzi? .int. Informnation ecnta`ined in the present report crnfirms -the
unicaentis iec. engineer regiment of the GOFG in Bernrurg
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However, the occupation strength of the installation is fairly definitely
believed to be underestimated, as.,[ the
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regiment nuibcrs about i GLO me~1 in ad dition to tank unit of about tank
company strength. the tack unit is equipped
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with either 10 JS tanks and T-314 tanks or with l(; T-3)- tails and h JS tanks
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The number of tar s mentioned in pa'.graph s aprear too iaisgha The
corduroy roads were pc ,sibly cozap .clod for a :La `-e c:'rercise; they serve
to make swa.:kpy areas passable for Wheeled. and tr~..ck-la.R, ing vehicles.
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