INFORMATION ON KVP UNITS AT EGGESIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2005
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• Publication Date: January 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 26 and 27 November 1953, four.J5.?and 2 T-34 tanks r spoctively were unloaded at
Eggesin. The tanks then moved to Installation VIII. the T-34
tanks had been dispatched from Neubrandenburg. On 30 November, seven T-34 tanks were
entrained at Egesin.I these tanks were to be re hired at
Leubrandenburg,
55 recruits had arrived on 29 November.
The recruits were assigned to one company.4
la new training year was started on 1
December. Great stress was to be laid on military discipline and intensified trai-
ning. This trend was reflected in the establishment of special itinerant military
courts. On 25 November 1953, such a court, which had assembled at Installation
VIII and was headed by a colonel from Berlin, sentenced several KVP soldiers to long
terms at hard labor. and a death sentence was pronounced against a deserter. About
20 Nov.mber 1953, tree soldiers of an engineer unit stationedat the installation
were killed by negligent handling of antitank close-combat munitions. The officer
In charge was sentenced to one year at hard labor.
4. Py late November 1953, plaster work at barracks installations in the Eggesin area
las nearing completion. However, only some of the buildings were occupied, among
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installations would not be serviceable before 'larch 1954, although their completion
date was 26 December 1953. The drainage facilities had not yet been completed; the
same applies to the motor vehicle garages.
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at the Eggesin and Spechtberg main clothing depots or the division.
Prior to late November 1953, a total of 280 model Holotov sidecar motorcycles arriv-
ed in Eggesin for distribution among the units of the division.? On 3 and 4 December,
a total of 20 T-34 tanks were unloaded at Sggesin and then shipped out toward Karpin.
The tanks had apparently undergone reaair.1
7.. About 10 December, 64 new Soviet instructors 'arrived at the division headquarters
In . 4ggeein. The same number of Soviet instructors ii nm.viouo17.been transfer-
4 Shortly before Christmas, about 40 percent of tea aaiktaee etationed in
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the Eggesin area were sent on leave.
80 Betveen 2 and 13 Decekber, the former Eggesin ammtuutiondrots, Shich erior to
1949 had housed a police school, quartered 350 to 400 KVPs. Blue, yellow red,
black-bordered blue and green collar patches were observed with these soldiere.
Sedans were continuouslee
parked in front of a building which housed a high-echelon headquarters. Fiuht
new houses with four flats each were scheduled to be completed on the site of
the camp by 1 January 1954. Driving school with trucks was daily conducted,
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Between 9 and 11 Decemberetwo detachment;
1. officer and enrEM each who wore black-collar patches were daily seen being trainee.
in close combat.)
9. Section A of Installation VIII at Eggeuin quar-
tered an artillery regiment which had previouslybeen located at Altwarp, IlaAr
Auerbach was chief of staff and Captain Salchow was supply officer of reglient.
Four 122-mm-howitzers were observed in the billeting area of the regiment, Seetion
B of the installation quartered the artillery regiment, the. commanding officer of
which was Colette). Durweiler.. The latter regiment. consisted of three bettaiione and.
one motorcycle company. The regiment was not up to its full strengtt? Mau 72-mm,
122-mm and 152-mm guns were observed on the parking let of Section B. Seetion C
of the installation still quartered the regiment from Schwerin02
10, Between, 10 and 15 December, the formee Saxon regiment which was quartered nn Section
D of Installation Viii numbered about 150 officers and 1e200 mere, The forecr Rostock
regiment, which was stationed -in'Sootion I, was commanded by Captain elanneen whose
chief of staff was Captain Schulz, tic training, activities were observed. Reports
of firing carbines were heard from the firing range,4
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About 40 T-34 tanks, 25 armored scout ears and 25 trucks were on
the parking lot Of Section C0 All these vehicles had their fuel tanks- fillud9 and
they were ready or immediate employment. Each unit was equipped with onlr two
supply vehicles.'
Between 16 Vovomber and 18 December, there was no champ in the status of Ita troop
camp on the ? southern perimeter of Eggesin and the barracks installations in the
forest. The troop camp quartered an estimated 1200, to 1,500 men most of wLom with
yelloyebordered black epaulete? while the bee-racks installations in the forest :re
occupied to 6,000 to 7v000 mon who wore 'redeborderedliack, black-bordered blue, and
black-bordered red epaulets, The troop camp, allegedly, quartered also about 30
Soviet officers,, At least 50 to 60 officers families moved to the officorep settle-
ment during the reported period, On 17 November, work was started on the erection
of a 2-meter brick wall around the barracks installation.)
1,30 The afternoon of 16 No:ember, 60 VP-sea officers arrived by bus at
the troop camp from the direction of Torgelow, On 16 December, about 80 hiEh-rarkinc
KW officers had a long conference at the troop camp, The officers involvee: arrived
in. about 30 sedans.
In, Between 23 November and 12 December, the following observations were made in the.
vicinity of the barracks installations .
Alloyeetere At 10 a.m? eight men practiced the felling of trees by demolition
charges, At 11 a.me, about 50 men were making a cross-country run.
0.7eltiOer. At 2 p? m., there was lively carbine firing in the wooden area, From
2.30 p.m. to 4 Nal" 10 T-34/85 tanks made practice runs in the Neumuehl area.
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8 December, From 10 am,- to noone about 100 man were being given field training
on the meadows west of forest district No 258.
10 Decemter.A. 3 p,m. 10 T-34/85 tanks practiced near Teerofen, Pbout 30 Men
were practicing the, throwing of training grenades.
altojahex. At 10.a.m,? about 120 men were engaged in close order drill on the
meadows west of forest district No 258.
During the entire period of observation, artillery fire was daily heard fron
the Hoelkehaum area.
15r, On 5 December,sbout 700 motor vehicles were observed parked in the open in forest
districts Nos 203 and 204. Prior to 18 December, 12 semi-underground ammunit5.en
bunkers were built near these parking sites,
16- On 30 November, about 15 T-34/85 tanks were toyed by tanks of the eame type to
the Eggesin railroad station where they were loaded on flatcars.1
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Ikapipet. The tank repair shop at Neubrandenburg which was opened in the .
summer of 1953 mainly serves the component units of Armeegruppe Nord It was
repeatedly observed that tanks previously used by the Soviet occupation forces
were repaired at Neubrandenburg andthen assigned to KV? units.
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25X1 .I tc&meent? The data on the occupation of Installation VIII at Karpin agrees
with previous information. The installation quarters three mechanized regiments,
the engineer battalion which had previously been located at Fuenfeichen? the mor-
tar regiment previously stationed at Altwarp? and the howitzer artillery regiment?
The 122-mm and 152-mm guns presumably belonged to the howitzer artillery regiment?
This would be a deviation from the Soviet pattern, because howitzer artillery re-
giments of a Soviet meehanized division are only equipped with 122-mm howitzers.
The 7uns mentioned probably were 76e2-mm field guns of the artillery battalions
of thi(mechanized regiments.,. Previous information indicated that military juris-
diction was introduced for the KVP.
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[goal& These motorcycles were delivered by the USSR between mid-September
and mid-November 1953. The distribution point for this material is at Oranienburgo
25X1 4l lConmnt,, a largo portion of the Soviet instructors.
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25X1 5J ICowaae This troop camp quarters the division headquarters, the signal batta-
lion, and service units of the division Eggesin.
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