MILITARY INFORMATION FROM JUETERBOG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800930008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Between 2 and 19 September 1953, the Dam .t'li gerhorst installation, Jueterbog,
was less occupied than indicated in the preceding report. Several groups. of
about troops wearing red-bordered bl- ek epaulets were daily rotated to the
training area for advanced corbat training duri ng the period under review.
Troops observed in the bar -racks yard and at the firing ranges daily engaged in
drill, and training in firin - wi th carbines, submachine guns and i achinc, gnuas
respectively. T-34/85 tank dally en ed d .?i ng practicz: in the ? 50X1-HUM
trainia,_ area. Motor vehicles we- s se::_z en route to and
2. Be : wean 14 and 17 September, 60 to 70 troops -rwes:rin;; .A ed-bordered black eiiaui ::ts3
with artillery insignia, armed with carbines; 3ubtachine guns and machine guns
and equipped with gasrcasks and rucksacks w:. ro alr:ost daily observed on Bahnhof?-
strasse in Jueterbo., marching toward Altes Lager. A group of soldiers of about
the same strength entered the Damn Fiiegerhorst installation on 15 September.
3. Between 14 and 19 September, about 20 to 30 soldiers wearing red-bordered black
epaulets eng_,ged in entrenching Mork, air-1 '30 to 40 soldiers e.igaged in advanced
combat practice in the area of the Fuchsberg Kazerne, while a bridge, 8 to 10
meters long, 4. ;peters wide and 1.2 to 1.4 meters high and with sle.nting ends
was. between two quartering buildings of the installation.
Ab,:>ut 35 Germans had been hired for worm in the hospital during the period under
review.'.
5. Between 0", and 15 September, the Forst Zinna training area was only partially
and tempoarily restricted. On 10 Sept'-rtber, 3 T 34/85 tanks and JS-2-tanks
were seen at firing pr^actice. Heavy wooden disks or. wooden sled;.e,3 were towed
along the embankment in Jagen (forest section) No 40 from, the engine house. The
disks were fired at by tanks from a distance of abut 40) meters. About 300
troops almost daily practiced firing with small arms at the firing range. Between
10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on 12 September, AT guns from. the Adolf Hitler camp Lured at
heavy wooden disks in Jagen Nos 62 a jd 70.
6. On 15 Sept::mber, the Adnlf Hitler camp in Forst Zinna was occupied as previously
by about 2,00: troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets, neluding so. ie with
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oy civilians. Motor vehicles seen en route to and from the camp
artillery and tank insignia, Drilling tr?ooLs were r peatedly seen in tae 50X1-HUM
billeting area during the period under review, e twee:i 10 and 12 September
six tanks were detrained at the Forst inna railroad station and subsequently
left for t.'ie c Tl;4 A about. 5 on 12 Septet berg, 10 sedans left the camp,
and after about 20 minutes, returned frc:.:i the direction of Luc ens, ald : ncetit i-ed
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tent carix a t the trai.nin - -rounds.
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2. c,ogment, Several indications for reemployment of Germ G:;ris with Soviet
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the iiq Third Cars ? ecz Armtyo The tanks and AT guns repeatedly observed therL
resumably belong to the 50th I tr?cl Jtegt of the Third Gds '::coca Army.
This i nform ation only vaguely indicates units of the 14th G
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