MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE DOEBERITZ MILITARY POST

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CIA-RDP80-00810A000800070007-9
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2
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December 22, 2016
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January 6, 2010
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7
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Publication Date: 
March 5, 1953
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/06: CIA-RDP80-00810A000800070007-9 2 n n-rr r~nrnwne-i'~ 5 March 1953 -ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE).. ... I 25X1 s l'ilitary' Information from the Loeberitz Military Post consisting of 12 converted boxcars and 36 flatcars at the Dailgow railroad station. The train was bound for Neustr?elitz.l At 7:30 p.m., 12 x 57-em AT guns, about 20 trucks and 150 s^ldiers I wring red-bordered black epaulets were being unloaded from a train which consisted of 2 boxcars, 7 nv rted boxcars and 24 flatcars and had arrived from Bernfu. Troop trains arriving at the Dallgc.w railroad station from Wittstock included: a train consisting of 1 boxcar, 13 converted boxcars and' 26 flatcars, carrying 12 x 57 AT guns, about 20 trucks, and about 1.50 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets, at 4:30 pars. on 15 February; a train consisting of 12 converted boxcars and 35 flatcars, and carrying 12 x 100-m AT guns, 13 prime movers, about 10 trucks and 180 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets, at 2 an. on 16 February; and a train consisting of 12 converted boxcars and 38 flatcars, and carrying 12 x 57r AT guns, about 30 trucks and about 150 soldirs wearing red--bordered black epaulets, at 3 p.m. on 16 February. Beginning at midnight on 18 February, the power supply was interrupted in the Adler Naserne and the Loewen )Kaser?ne in Doeberitz a At 12:15 a.m., alert was sounded. Between 3 a win. and 4:30 a.m., an undetermined number of trucks, towing guns, and an undetermined number of tanks, were seen on route to Highway No 5 via Wusterm...ark toward Falkenrehde. the column included all vehicles and tanks stationed in the two in ta11at n e tracks of the vehicles were observed as far as FIoppenradeo trucks towing guns, and tanks passed through the village for three hours, bnytnntnss at t &,m. On 20 February, Unit 1 naribered 450 soldiers. soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets were loaded on a train truekks nd 160 1. On 11 February 195; 10 x 100-n AT s, 12 prime movers and 10 No loading operations took place at the post. CLASS I FI CATION E Ef"PIFT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/06: CIA-RDP80-00810A000800070007-9 25X1 25X1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/06: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000800070007-9 `ab1-4 "z Ina , Conn ant d The shipment of units of the 2d Light Arty Enid to Neustrelitz on Ui ea trains was repeatedly roper ed n The mute o the brigade, along with units of the 9th ids wank Div, probably roved from Neustrelitz to tho TWittstock area for joint winter maneuvers, from ,,hero they returned to Doeberitz on 15 Fcbruaan, The AT units, rarer a raine oaa l5 February therefore Wrest probably belonged to the above nentione brigade n CoE,rIen No other inforv ation is available on this shipment Cn 15 Februa ?y, two trains went from uernau to, 1)oeberitz, press .rably c --rrying units of the 6th Gds MMecz Div and/or the unidentified ar y? IT artillery brigade of the Fourth Gds T eez Pra:iy. Q These units possibly lc-Me to participate "in the field exercises in the area west of Berlin. 11, is not irn sf b f; that the train which arrived from Bernau carried 'nits of the abov neni i:ioned brigade. lijan?L v The bulk of the, units of the 1st Metz Div carried in the installation, i.e., the 19th Mecz Regt, the 219th Tank Rea and the ?2d Gds Hv Taal SP Regt-, probably left for winter maneuvers area west of Berlin, a rotor vehicle colu. with artillery p1ecc s on kii . hwa y No 103 in the area west of Dallgow on 19 February. "Unit 1" probably refers to the 19th f ecz Regt4 SYM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/06: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000800070007-9