MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE DESSAU-ROSSLAU AKEN TRAINING AREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Military nformation from the .Dessau--PoFslai: Alken Training Area
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were seen at the engineer training site
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soldiers at the engineer training site on the Elbe Rivers, about 200 Yeteters
upstrear, from Schlangengrube. The unloaded material included heavy iron
T-bmtm. An undetermined number of pontoons and al-out 12 pneumatic rafts
1. On 16 Nay 195 35 truck~~i -ere unloaded by engineer 25X1
were hauled to. tae constructs
branch of the Elbe River et tween autobahn "riche and Schlanaeriartbe. Pontoon
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towirmu, a th_re --r amphibious vehicle,
was seen en route
4. On 22 NNay~ a bridge was being constructed.across the dead
1952. Several one-.story brick buildings had been nawly built in Jagen (forest
section) No 53. The troop quarters, mostly torus, ?zs well as 8 to 10
permanent buildings, which served as officers h s.ll its, were in Jagen No 1.~? .
Infirmary and hospital were in Jagen. No 45. A siza ale quantity of logs was
stored nearby. The filling station, which consisted of two pups and an
undetermined number of underground tanks, was in Jagen No 52.' AU the trucks
of the unit is-ore parked nearby. The administration building as well as the
headquarters building were or, hill 56.0. The amphibious vehicles were seen
its ?Jagen No 61, and 5 JS-3 tanks and 11 T='34/85 taHrk5 were in Jagen No 5.3,
Tir- tanks -i re covered with tarpaulins.2 From 7 to 34 May, the bulk of the
the occupation strength at about 2,000 troops. the c mp was organized as in
was o^cupied by an engineer unit from 8ern?g,,
Beginning 15 April', the engineer camp near Akan, south of Rietz 'ieck-b ambach
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refers to the engineer training area east of Rosslau,
unit was at Rosslau for a water exercise, On 14 14a;r, the troops returned,
organized in small groups The trucks carried pontoons, footbridges and
beans. During the exercise, small elements of the ?~roops, and the tanks
were in the camp,3 On 15 May, an undetermined num Der of enginee.?r. . soldiers
were seen digging trenches in J"agen No 30, and a large trench system was
determined south of Obersee (lake). Every Tuesday, the tanks would leave for
practices in the Loedderitz Forest, south of the K iehnau- en road. Between
18, and 25 Say, 4 new assault 'boats and 4 now outboard motors ar-,?I-sred,, The
boats with the motors underwent test runs on the lake. They had a very high
speed? Assault boats of a sinil.ar type were determ) ned at a Rosselau ship,
ard.
60 At about 6 a.m. on 8 .}'^ s, an engineer column of abut 100 to 125 vehicles.
including trucks loaded with pontoons, assault boa :,,s.. bridge sections, logs and
cranes; 10 to 15 small amphibious vehicles, and if) to 1.5 sedans and jeeps,,
passed through Dessau, coming from the wooded area near en and rroceedir
towerd Rosslau ?i c lumn included 40 to 0 vehicles
,rhih 'be 'e factory-never
observed, The camp had been enlarged tow ~d east a s for as Sehla engrtxbe
Several new to sporr ary buildings were observred 0 One section was divided, off
7. On 16 May, the water training site southeast of o 3slau was occupied by about
2,,000 to 2,500 troops, About 180 to 200 tents, mostly 8 to 10-man tent, were
a headquarters was located there. Between 8 to 17 ''.!, no bridge cons' uct ons
but a large rammbera of three .-;section pontoons and steel sections were observed.
Prior to 13 May, fatigue duty and the construction of lomlooden, 'buildings, as
well as training in firing and advanced combat training., were observed. After
14 May., ferry construction of three section pontoo-as end test runs Without
load were observed ?a1no4st daily. Between 1 and 16 "V, logs were continually
trucked to the camp.1
and the road to this section was blocked by a barrier,
8. On 7 May, the aaa?ter training site at Brar!{hx ch-Rietpmeck kw as occupied
in which U -e-36t tai r7crr~ 1 e ~nc7~ac9t i ~a r r i nir~~ in tote
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unidentified engineer egiment of the GOFG from Bernburg in this area,
uirich is bordered by the Elbe River, the Aken-Klein Kuehnau road and the
straight line bet-seen Klein Kuehnau and lrambaeh o The in 'ormation on the
pin-point location of the re iment in a cw-r!ip east Hirsch eckerdaman
wola eavrs .redible
l omyientI The information of paragraphs 5 and 6, indicates
that the unidentified engineer rogIment of the GCFG from. Bernburg conducted
a major exercise in tho Ros Blau area about 8 A ye
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