MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE POTSDAM AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100510001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY t Germany -.-------.REPORT
militarj, Imformation from the Potsdam Are.
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DATE OF CONTENT.
DATE OBTAINED s ATE-PREPARED
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1. On 10 March 1954, the Kavvll.erie Schule in Kramprsitz
an e ircated 3,000 troops. The following materiel was identi
Installation between 1 and 10 March: numerous T-34 tanks
several JS-2 and JS-3 tanks
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com'oat training and training with tanks in the barracks area and on the
training grounds north of the installation. On 4 ?arch, a large exercise,
obabl.y at regimental level, was held in the t;: aining area north of the instal--
"lation. Observed were 11 T-34 tanks. 2 SP guns, 2 JS-3 tanks, 5 armored personnel
carriers AT guns 16 x 122-mn mortars and about 35 trucks occupied by troops.
7some of the troops from Kr ampnitz were transferred to the
1 riegsschule in Potsdam. It was said that about 300 Soviet dependents of Soviet
n ftears have been living in the settlement of Yrampnitz since mid-M reh
was occupied by
fled at the barracks
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al armored personnel carriers, several ?6=-tin : Mans, 25X1
T? nuns. 5 x 57 nm AT guns and 16 x 120--mm mortars.
nt of March. several hundreds of soldiers CAIJILY rece vea
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Z, On 3 March. a column of 40 driving school vehiciesl 25X1
drove from the ICavallerie Schule in
'Y, rarpnitz to the terrain nor? o he installation. On 4 March,, a colum= of
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towing 57-m AT gun 2 jeeps and other trucks loaded
with billeting equipment, luggage. st. a n ition boxes left the f netall ation 25X1
and drove toward M quardt . Each of the trucks and personnel carriers mounted
about 8 soldiers. On 6 March, &. col= of 8 x 152 rn field howitzers
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drove to the Doeberitz troop training 25X1
grounds from the direction of Needlitz via Fahrland. The column returned
F rounds
the afternoon. At noon of the sane c ,lunn including
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roved to Doeberitz from the direction of NNN'edlitz End returned at ndlghts
3. On 15 Yarch, the Krieg: Schule in Potsdam was occupied by about 2,000 troops
who wo n i..riia. A T-'~ 8 tank and
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firers identified in the barracks area. On 15 March, the
Adolf Hitler Kaserne was occupied by about 2,000 troops who wore red--bordered
black epaulets with artillery insignia. About 20 armored machine guru carriers
Front 2 1 i aht RTS_% field Puns were identified in the billeting area.
On 15 March, the north and south section othe e us ..aserne r~ quartered
nbmit 2..000 troops, A 122-mm field gun, 152-min gun howitzers and trucks
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On 4 March, the Hohenlohe Kaserne and Ludendorff
Kaserne (2291/2292) were only partially occupied by troops who wore red-bordered
black epaulets. with artillery insignid.2 On 4 March, the Leibgardehu sarerz
Kaserne (2282) quartered a KV.P unit and about ZOO Soviet troops who wore red
armileta and, some. red-bordered black epaulets. 25X1
On 4 March, the Schutzpolizei seine was occupiea
1,000 troops who wore red-bordered black epaulets with artillery insignia.
Four light field guns and 1 x 122-m field howitzers were identifi: ; in the
'barracks area. 3 On 2 Yarch, about 50 flatcars with sideracks and flatcars
were assembled for loading at the Potsdam railroad station..
On 15 March, the Kriegs Schule in Potsdam quartered a mortar unit and an
A.U. unit. Materiel identified in the barracks area included T-34 Tanks, 37
AA guxls about 30 .X1.2 m, mortars and 40 trucks
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Ceveral tanks includi , t?:. . and several armored personnel c~:r~iers9~
of us s u. seems *co occupied only 50 percent. Three x 120 -mm field
guns and truck In mid-41arch, the Hoh.enlohe Kaserne
ccup e y coops who wore red-bordered black
was only about 50 percent occupied--
. aulets with motor transportignia
The windows of the Ludendorff Kaserne were about 85 percent lighted
curuai fie evenings. Three Diesel prime movers towing 122-M field guns drove
to the installation on 11 March. 2
On 11 March, the Adolf Hitler Kaserne was occupied by about 1,000 troops who
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wore red-bordered black epaulets with tank and motor transport insignia.
T-34/85 tanks and trucks were
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identified there. The Kriegs Schule in Potsdam quartered about 1,000 "roops
wearing black e ulets with artillery, insignia. Thirty-five 120-mr;,, mortars
and trucks
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m~aa.~tafl_~ components of the
4th Arty Div were a Al engTa Wo in early March. This is su :pox ted
by statements in the present reports according to which the strength of
troops at the installations decreased.
3 aL__Co_ ent v This is the first infor ration on guns in the Poiiizei Kasea ne. 25X1
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