RETURN OF UNITS OF THE 6TH GDS MECZ DIV FROM THE FALL EXERCISE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008400050003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 12, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASS! HCATION_al
COUI TRY ..._ bet German
TOPIC Returr_
4PAi-RH-11,.... I`? October 1;?55
9 oolumrns totaling some 30 armored personnel. 25X1
car.r_, ro,170 trucks, 9 x 122--mm field howitzers, 7 x 37-mmn AA
,,,was. 12 x 57-,nn AT guns 8 x 35-,mm iIT guns 15 x 120-11m2 mortars
and approximately 3 200 soldiers entered the Artillerie Kaserne
13.,1 j in Hberswalr'e. In the evening of 55 October and in the 25X1
norning of 66 October, noise of track--laying vehicles was heard t, om
th
`;he direr ,ion of the .installation, After 6 0(,tober the installation
vas again occupied to capacity;,
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2..: 3,9"E. een _ a.nc 5?_0ctob2Z, the military installations of the Bernau
post were only about 50 percent occupied, The units had apparently
returned on 7 0etober,, After 1700 on 5 October, 3 columns entered
,he iuftzaachrichten r:aserne (42/+1) in ?ernau from the direction 25X1
andliur. The columns included 5 trucks wi-,h AT guns,. 5 trucks with
23- :,r mart .rs, 8 s decar motorcycles 4
BA-64 armored scout carsp
22 6x6 ormcred pc,? on:iel carriers, approa.im; tcly 45 trucks, 2
radio :.ruck!3, 2 reznaL' 4;ro, trucks and 500 to 'COO soldiers., F
On le some day.. 8
rocket 1a,unchers and ,3o ne 20 trucks
nt as ed the former Ar:r Clothing Depot I (4:24, in Bernau by
c from the direction of Wandlitz,, On 7 October,, 13 x 76. mm
,,rid x 37-rua At? grass were seer-, in the former SO.-Brieft aubenstation
Homing 1 igeon Station) (4243) in Bernau,;
one shipment each went from Gross
hoenebeck to Berlin I'aulsdorf on 6 and 6 October? 2
Cnrtmentd The return of the units of the 6th Gds I'Iecz Div
prom the fall exercise in the area of the Temnplin training grounds-
Joa hi.=rte"Ghu, ~ 'inow tll~'{~.i2- Gross Ochoeneteck was T]reeviously reported
The information
on the 3ernau units of the division,, of which only 3 to 4 shipments
:.'ron Eie nau to the Fuerstenberg-1ychen area had been observed so
far, i '; obtained for the first time and definitely indicates that,
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all units of the division pa.rticipateo in the exercise;,
Oomment0 Units of the 68th ads Tank itegt of the 6th Gds
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?-eca Div; which transferred to the trainin area on -I t ins on
30 September, returned..
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