RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER AND INTRA-ZONAL SUPPLY SHIPMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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CLASS I FI CATI!
East Gear
TOPIC Rain n_ i ht Traffic through Frank:
EVALUATION BTAI .
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS This is UNEVALUATED Information
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1 April
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3. The fo11ow4r. .:umbers of T-3y-'05 tanks were loaded at, and dispatched from,
the Satzkorn railroad static.,.:
17 IMax-ch. Three tasks to TPra '__furi;'Q
23 Larch. Six to -s to I`cie ?ste . Tall,
Eight tanks
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H a.' 2. Previous in;for/iation on tanks u:_2 o.ded at the Satzkorn railroad station
0~70 ch is corrected as follows: Twenty tanks of the new
ct.ree . 1,
a -d 22 March 1>955 , t,_e following shipments were
t 'hrouL'hh the Muellrose railroad sta';ion.:
-- boxcar
flatcar
:a~ .. l-.ea;r-~:.uL~y .P~lat~car
D c i~. .=umber aid
a.:.
r.'hi.~c Val Type T/ pe of Cars Load
l 21 SSy 21 ca: vaS-Covered
to ,'_?_s ;resuauably
of type T--54 with
crates JIMMOM,
20 20 SSy 20 tai s
presumably of
type T-54 as ox
19 March
2 ? 2 B, 20 SSy 20 tai Ins
presumably of
type T-54 as on
19, Llarch
24 B a m r 41 tioil
12 crashcars
observed passing
From To
Brest Litovsk 0schat z
direction of
direction of
Frankfurt/er
Cottbus
direction of
direction of
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Tr-o'_, Brest Litovek to Satzkorn or. 18 Marsh
and another train of 25X1
and 22 six-ale I_"'-atcare from Brest Litovsk to 0schatz on
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to 'lac ensleban,
Each of the s~ipn:ei s was esccrtad by a detail of 1 officer and
o 10 E 5
O_ 10 Iiarc,, 1 railroad to :,h car with gasoline dispatched from
F i:furt j Oder,
ra ox ad station.
bser-\7ed passing through the Wustermark
a traix of 3 boxcars and 22 six-atle 25X1
flatcars was dispatched
3 boxcars
The e pty s iu`tle trai=ns which had been reported on 16 March were
,.ispatched to the East. t :t l 20 March, 5 shuttle trains had been
handed over at Fra?t furt j Oder. A total of 18 shuttle trains are
sc'Led led_ to be dispat':hed. 1'.ach of the trains consisted of 2 express
tra3.__ coaches, 1 heatin_, car, 5 converted boxcars, and 22 two-axle
flatcars. 7
c. The dispatch, of empt; to k cars from Frankfurt/Oder to the East
contii ued. So far these cars have not been observed returning from
t ~e East. 6
a train of 1 eonvertad boxcar and 18 flatcars
sideracks loaded with 10 tracks was dispatched from Kumersdorf,
Comment. It cannot be determined to which ammunition depot this
shipment was corisi;med.
Gggent. This shipment
standard measurements, the.sh.
consisted of T-54 tanks.
believed previously to have
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Co went. From the shit e nt record numbers mentioned it is inferred
in Giese were irtra-zonal sh ;u: . rahber than ah . + te*ts of tanks which
were returned to the USSR... nce * #at Oder are
military posts of the 7tb Gc T ec arks of the
10th Gds Tank Div in Satzkorn wkiel e.iyed new T-54 tanks were transferred
within the Fourth Gds Ylecz Army.
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Fra?~kfurt; Oder-border on 18 IVlarch
probably i th a shipment on
212 flatcars
as also reported
Because of a load indicated as exceeding
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elo_s s to the forwarding a ens:
fuel depot at Radexsiebex.
The dispatch of these trains may indicate ax
fer' of satire units, possibly of the air force, to the
i. tee dad trans
GDR. The use of express train coaches may indicate that a sizeable lumber
of officers are sc'_ieduled for transfer with these units.
Comment. For previoi.,s i ?:formatiox ox that -dispatch of empty tank , _ , i
.-Few to a cars dispatched
to Velte3., Parchiri, Dies e t1 al, Q .exburg were observed between
a cl 1 P! T'arr.l-i nryl warp no.s1E1v mn:m ntPd with this program. `_ "..
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