MILITARY INFORMATION FROM POTSDAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001900240007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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`' ASSIFICATION 5!"G ,"I
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On 22 Pay's, the iae3. gardehusaren Kaserne was occupied by about 20
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candidates with :rer-d and green service color? except for the building in. -she.south?
rhih was occupied by a Soviet uni or office. Between 1/+ and. 22 Na up to 200
troops were aee drilling in. the bar racks areas end about 200 to ;250 troops received
flol.d train: rif, oai~sid.e the barracks in::~ta11aticn, individual ~: oups of goidiers were
once seen a` practice' marches with. map reading imd con ase orienrta.tio . The south
building, in the 1n~itallixtlon was o r
era, ~-ed by about', 100 trr?o s e~Q,az ~~zzt black-bordered
cx :,Ison apa.~.e .osts Trd,chi_I' .s
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On. 20 May 1:53,, ,he b---zrracko insta llat: on Goilin P toda: ~t, had beep;. vacated from the
vi et Any , dual Ws al::.~re drab are {. 'o rye with _re epaulets were seen in
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25X1:. O 22 1'fay, '`.t e ~it?LC:?.:iu orps Krse 'ne ` ad been 'vacated by t., ' r a
25X1 ;~1$e UAL vro:' e .t.l,ve drab uxeif or i)s with lhack service c Aloz'a
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the a5 n: .i ! .?. ' on hoed not Tet even occupied by I~'.,, as neither 'i,2 ain n i nor
'i lcu1 traffic .x e observed.> The iwwty.tch -oweer ;5revicftu sl observed at the r taZiaticr
was no icmg& r Seen..,
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()n 22 Play. the igdo3.f Hitler K sxn.e corteary- to the other ~r installations of
the post, was occupied by 1 500 to 2,000 troops wearing red-bordyred black epau .ots .
a few ith artillery i.rjaignia0 Between 11;. any' 22 Maya, about 200 troops area.o
r z a t.: nr; : + the barracks area o -a several days. About 120 troops Left the :~ nstaj.la4iuA..
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: ,. r, the `_raining area. Intensive vre:dcula..r traffic to and fr -.q insta-11
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Stir; 22 May, the h?u .nenberC. aserue was vacated, except for an undetermined riu~rrber' of
uraitior ied women stationed ther-e~ No sentries had been observed for some time". or dint
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any training activity. Motor vehicle at the
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On 22 May. all the barracks installations in Nedl itz were vacant except for guard
af3.:?say.vae! and a few soldiers. Only a fd~w win.-lows of the barracks b,l -i -1
1-dings atere
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7. On 20 May the north section of the Delius Kaserne was occupied by about
1N00O troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets with artillery motor
transport and signal insigniao At about 2 p.m. on 13 May,, about 30 soldiers
armed with carbines and carrying practice targets left the installation toward
Potsdam,, About 10 soldiers received telephone instruction in the barracks yar'1
On 15 May, about 150 troops engaged in physical training ands on 18 May,
about 100 trop s entered the installation coming from a cross-country run.
Sedan II entered the installation.
8. On 20 May, the Kavalllerie Schule, Krampnitze was occtkried by about 400 troops
wearing red-bordered black epaulets with tame artillery or motor transport
Insignia. On 16 May, 14 driving school vehicles were seen en route from
K'ampni.tz to Potsdam., and about 70 troops received field training and 20
troops practiced the throwing of .hand grenades in the training area north.-
vest of the installation., On 18 May, detachments entered the installation coming
from the direction of bullenwinkel and about 40 troops were seen at aiming
practice in. the terrain,, while 80 troops received theoretical instructionb
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On 15 May, the north section of the Delius Kaserne was occupied by an
artillery unit wearing red-bordered black epaulets with artillery or motor
transport insignia. On 10 Nay9 70 to 80 percent of the windows of the two
barracks buildings on the road were lighted at dusk. On 7 and 12 May,, about
30 soldiers received instruction on three 122 -am field guns at Bornstedter
Feld opposite the barracks entrance. After the instruction,, the guns were picked
up by Diesel prime mover. s ; which came from the barracks installation. On 11 Nay,
about 40 sold4e 1
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loo On 15 May,, the south section of the Delius Kaserne, the Hohenlohe Kasrrne and
the Ludendorff Kaserne were occupied y guard details. On 11 May,, three
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l1. On 15 Maya, the Krlegsschule was occupied by about 29000 officers and KM,
organized into sic battalions, On 6 May, three battalions left for an
exercise, according to a local resident, On 10 Mayo two officers and 24 officer
candidates wearing gold-bordered black epaulets and armed with carbines left the
installation toward the firing ran.e. Motor vehicles observed or
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.12. On 7 May, about 15 soldiers. received instruction on three 76-Mm field ,guns,,
at ornstedter Feld in the vicinity of the Adolf Hitler Kazerne; 15 soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia. 25X1
marksmanship training with carbines in the vicinity of the e z fiasernei
about 40 soldier, wearing red-bordered black epaulets trained with rifles in
front of the high lookout pasts; and 8 trucks driving school 25X1
practices in the terrain.
13. On 3 May, the Adolf Hitler Kaserne was partially occupied by troops wearing
red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia. About 80 percent of the
windows of one building and. 30 to 40 percent of the windows of four other
buildin
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U n he b c and 50 to 60 officers engaged in Plxvs-ic
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Between 1 ar.d y May, billeting equipment was continually hauled away from he
barracks inst ll.ation in Golm. he barracks installation was occupied by a.
rear detail o 100 troops wearing black-bordered black epaulets with sig si
insignia. On ,l May, the rear detail had left,, except-for a small guard
detail. All ' he officers', deperAents left the Installation and the
infirmary was dissolved. only part of the
units previcusly stationed In the installation were entrained, and that
the unit of troops wearing black bordered black epaulets moved to the
barracks `Installation in WildparkWest, whereas the troops wearing black-
bordered 1rimson epaulets probably were entrained. It was rumored in CYoim
tr,at the ~'nstallation would be occupied by KV?.
16,, Beginning 15 April, the $5D) school in the area of the barracks installation
in Goim vas unusually strictly guarded. Everybody passing the installation was
being cot trolled.l?
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serr~.e; which is occupied as previously, are probably scheduled to be
opcupie3 by KVP and/or partially occupied by the Torryau cadre unit whic
moved to Potsdam as early as early Aprils the
barracks installation in Goist occupied by &VAr.
However, the transfer to Wildpark .Jest of the signal unit Previously
stationed in Goim appears . robable
indications are.tha,t this
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r?ans erred to the barracks installation on 3ohumke Lake, Kummeredorf.
I It is not impossible that these units were also quartered
in the Wueasdorf area. The occupation by a VP officer candidate school of the
Le+ibgardehutaren Kaserne is known.
25X1 2 I The occupation of the barracks installations in Nedlitz is
confivmed by this information. The entire 30th Gds Gun Arty Brig is station X1
in the north section of the Delius Kaserne; while the south section of the
Delius Kaserne as well as the Ludendorff and Hohenlohe Kasernen quarter
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The information' in paragraph 6 is, therefore, only of
25X1 3. .i. The Kriegssrhuil:e. is carried occupied as reviously by the
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The th nenberg Kaserne was occupied by 400 to 600