RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 19, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION, .REPORT
COUNTRY East Germany'
SUBJECT'. Rail Freight Traffic through East German
Border Stations
PLACE
.ACQUIRED'
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
Of THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION Of ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
13 PROHIEITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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DATE DISTR. 19 November. 1954
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East Germany via'Forst. These shipments included 78,233 tons of
coal and 21,674 tons of Prom coke.]
2. Bteen 1 and 25 July, 4,522 tons of gas coal'entering East Germany
via Forst and Hora were consigned to the Martin Hoop Plant in
Zwickau. The shipments directed through'Forst were included In the
figures given in paragraph 1.
3.
L-Ithis coal was to be stored as a state reserve.
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Date in Number of Dispatched from.'
In July, the following empty grain shuttle trains passed through
Hangelsberg
Berlin-Rummelsburg
Berlin-Rummelsg
Berlin-Rummelsburg
Berlin-Rummelsburg'
Berlin-Rummelsburg
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55
60
28 to 31 not repor=ted
Dispatched Prom,
Berlir~Rummelsburg
Berlin-Rummelsburg
gape. k ne s7h-irpu-ents
s n nc ud`_ea 4W n cars one and 4PV t
a
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ices one 20 Jul r.3
Between 18 and 29 July, the f"ollow Ing< s'hipments were observed at the
Frankfurt/Oder railroad statiea:
B - boxcar
F - flatear?
Data in
July -
Number and
TY]P"t Cars
G - gondola car
T - tncar
Load
8G
pig iron Frankfurt/Othe
border
r
, Hennigsdorf
6F
iron tubes
Chemnitz
28 G
ore
Ziltendorf, 4.
26B
ire
F,raankfurt/Odes
8 B and F
enamel;, wine casks Thale
Brest-Litovsk
8F
crane parts ' Eisennpaltere
i
12 F
machine,, Magri-MA u gl
machinery harts
6F
Leipa~Lg
12 B
cotton FreW-Urtf/Od!e
bordler
r'
Rie sa
6 B
I,
C-hemnitz
6B
lei,, red brava.
Ruimmelsiburg
4 G
o aril
sheet iron
Wit4tenber9g-
Roatoek
4F 1
N
SAtr~-a~lvaund
18 F
Magdeburg
ma'chiner parts
Erfurt-0st,
Brest: ab tovsk
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Date'
in
Number and
Type, _of
Load
July---Car? s
chemicals
films
4B
furnitare
lO T
fuel
8B
sheet aluminum
6F
machinery
8G
cables
4.F
iron constructions
4F
wine casks
21
2 B,
undetermined
16 G
'pig iron
8; G
8G
6G
coal
16 F
undetermined
machine-;
machinery pants
6F
10 B
6d
4B
22'. 4 . B
14 G
16 G
8G
20, T
n
printed material
cables
ceramics
pig iron
coal
,empty,
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Bitterfeld, ''
Wolf en
B. ,1,64 en"w"~erda
Gro?;"s."slcorbetha
Hetts
Goerlitz
Rummelsburg
Wiede,rkttsch'
male
Eberswalde
Brest-Litovsk
?M
Riess
Frankfurter
95912
Frankfurt/Oder
border
e
Magdeburg
Stassfurt
Leipzig'
Lichtenberg.
Sommerda
F rankFur,~t/Odes
border
'Groeditz
Hennigsdorf
Brandenburg
,Wittenberg,
Frankfurt/Oder-34198
Brest-Litovsk;
=art/Oderr
D. D.S.U. 2
Riesa
Boehlen
Wittenberg
;Ruhleben
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Date Number and Load
in Type of
July Cars - --- -
22 16 B , ration supply
border hausen.7
8 B
'undetermined
6B
4 B ammunition Finowfurt
6 F enamel, wine casks Thale)
,18 ,F machinery, Magde"o
machinery parts
6F
10 B sheet aluminum
24 8 G pig iron
12 G
6G
,14B
4 F.
4F
26, 39 B
ration supply
'Frankfurt/Oder; Niederschoen-
A
Bitterf eld
Lieberose 8
Brest-Litovsk
/U`deT Hennigsdorf
" n
enamel, wine casks Thale
machinery, Magdeburg
machinery,parts
Wittenberg
Niederachoen
hausen'7
Riesa-harbor
Dresden ..
Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder Fiankfurtpder
border D.S.U.
,Leipzig
14 G
pig iron
"
8G
"
12 G
coed
8F
machinery
6F
"
Aue
4B
textiles:
P.auen'
18 F
machinery' and.
machinery parts,,
Magdeburg'
6F
'Stassf'urt
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Date' Number and Load
in Type of
July Cars
27 78, B
14 B
6F
2 F
4B
,military goods
cotton
structural iron
tubes
ceramics
about 40 motor
vehicles;
18.0
8F
4B
,machinery, -
machinery parts
NagdebrJ.
Plagwitz
Plauen
;29.
12 B .
Frankfurt/Oder
border
2F
sheet metal
4,F_
structural iron
2F
tubes
14 G
coal
M
6G
pig iron
28, G
ore
M
'16 F
machinery
Magdeburg
12 B
printed material
Leipzig
6F
machinery
Goerlitz
'6 F
Stassfurt
6F
Chemnitz
4B
Finsterwalde
Frankfurt/Oder
D.S?. 2
Stralsund
Wiederitzsch,
Chemnitz
Wittenberg,
Ziltendorf
"Brest-Litovsk
7. On 29 July, a shipment of 60'trucks proceeding from Frankfurt/Odor i the.
direction of Cottbus was observed at the Muellrose,,railroad,station.Yl.
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Date Number and' Load
in Type of
J - Care
From
30 ,24 care ore Hamburg
33
13 " a a
38 a " n
24 " .' Kapen Brest?Litovsk
13 crash
care
31 35 cars ore Hamburg Hungary
35 ". " Hamburg (IHungary
46 " uranium ore Aue
30,F,l B Cottbus
To
Hungary
'Brest-Litovsk
?1 59 care ore Hamburg Hungary
August
34
43 ~" gasoline
~30F,1
Groaskorbetha Stettin
Kummersdorf Brest-Litovsk
Comment. In June 1954, 133,940 tons of hard co t,' and 81,950??tons
6_ere w m r e from Poland to East Germany via the Forst border
station. Pte! coal'is Polish coal which was
;original earmarked or e t was put at the disposal of the GDR
by theSoviets in view of the critical coal situation in East Germany.'
Comment. Fuel deliveries by the Leuna Works to the USSR. The cargo
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,was ransloaded to water at Stettin.
omment. Soviet crude ore deliveries to'the Foundry Combine East
,at Fuerstenberg/Oder.
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Comment. No Soviet or KVP ration supply depot was reported to be:- 25X1
located in Niederschoenhausen in the northern part?of. _Greater,Berlin..
Possibly these ration supply cs_hipmentpl iere~ (earmarked` 'fob (civilian'.
consumption. _
Comment. Intra-zonal, munition ;shipment., to, the; Lieberose;;troop-, _"25X1
training grounds.,.
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stt~
10. Comment. This shipment probably involved deactivated motor
ve c es which were returned to the USSR. Crawinkel is one of the
railroad stations serving the Ohrdruf troop training grounds.
13.
14.
Comment. Uranium ore shipment to the USSR.
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