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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400700009-8
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• Document Creation Date: January 12, 2017
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tl P PI C Information on K VP Units Stationed in the Tore Blow-.Eagesin Area
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EVALUAT!O N
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DATE OF CONTEN
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EPARED.~~. 4 .Septemt?er 3.953"
PACES --ENCLOSURES ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
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REMARKS
I. On 30 June 1953, a KVP infantry.regiment left the Torgelow area toward; the_
south -by rail, The regiment did. not carry along its heavy weapons and
vehicles o On 5 Jul a convoy of about 50 tracks ;hawing
light artillery pia es, pro e _ om rf'orgelaw toad asewalkdI I 1bXl
I I not 40 percent ,but only 15 percent of the
ea z ec'ivev 01 axis rtv r uEu. ua we. t to be discharged ? Yost of the dischar gees
were soldiers with a prolonged period of service and unreliable elements o
Among others, 16 officers were discharged in Eggesina Of these officers,
two had been demoted02
3, In July,. firing with live ammunition by 152--i . howitzers was almost daily
practiced about 5 km southeast of Eggesin4 The howitzers fired at targets
set ur at a distance of about 11 1ui in the direction of BorkenG
4, In late July, work on the construction of barracks installations in the
Torgelow-Eggesin area continued. Work on the. construction of 10 garages
with a capacity of 100 motor vek isles each had been started recently.
About-DSO completed log houses near Torgelow which were scheduled to serve
as officer billets were offered to the municipal administration of Torgelow
for use as private dwellings. Construction material for further log houses,
which was piled up on the Eggesin-Ahlbeck road was to be sold to private
persons. The two blocks of dwelling houses in the Eggesin bsrracks instal-
lation, which were occupied by dependents of KVP officers were to be
vacated for Soviet officers dependents 4 The German families were to move
to Karpin
5. on 6 ,August 19539 about 1,OOC0 KVPs, who ware red collar patches, entered
the vent carp in Droegerheide from the direction of Torgelowa About 50
percent of the soldiers were armed with submachine guns, 40 percent with
rifles and 10 er cent with machine ns o The luggage of the unit was carried
on trucks The camp, which had a
quartering capacity of about 3,000 men, was occupied by only two companies
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totaling about 300 men after 17 June. Of the soldiers previously stationed
at the camp, about 40 percent were discharged. They had completed their
term of service o After new recruits had arrived, the camp was occupied by
an estimated 1,300 men e About 60 trucks and an undetermined number of
37.-mm AA guns and 45-m AT guns were parked at the camp,
6. On 10 August, four quartering buildings of installation No 6, Drcegerheide,
quartered about 640 men who wore red epauletso A large portion of the
units stationed at the installation slept in tents. A total of 120 to 150
T-34 tanks and SP guns besides about 15 armored reconnaissance cars were
observed in forest districts No 112 and 113, southeast of the installation.
7. Fourteen garages with 10 stalls each for tanks and trucks were completed at
installation No 9, Droegerheidee The installation was connected to the
Oumnita :M lroad station by a spur truck. Eight T?34 tanks were seen parked
near Neumuehz m
l Comment. it is believed that this information refers to the dispatch
o units to be employed in East Berlin. It appears that the KVP units from
the Torgelow Pasewalk area employed in East Berlin were replaced by units
from ora in early August 1953.
2 ~a~ent a
2s perc n of the persornel of Armeegruppe Nord was to
dischar ed a,nd 30 percent to be transf erred. to other units ,
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