SOVIET TROOPS IN POTSDAM AREA

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 19, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY S `lt 4~+ REPORT NO.-
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EVALUATION_ -_PLACE OBTAINED
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DATE OBTAINED
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1 An artillery unit with which the following, 'troops and materiel
were observed. was detrained at the POTSDAM (N 53/Z 63)
freiLht station;
About 20 officers including; three lieutenant colonels
About 200 E
Seven canvas-covered mains of 100 to 120.mm caliber on low
four-wheel mounts
Seven canvas-covered high rectranSulor. boxes an two-wheel
c arr aF ;e s 25X1 C
About 30 trucks with numbers of the aeries. in--
cludi.ng, the numbers 25X1C
Two field kitchens.
The unit left in the direction of 1'TEDLITZ (II 53/Z 63)
6 ~Iuj: us t ._L949
2, as `s'he fo1lo:fita convoys passed through POTSDAI;I and pro-
ceeded towards UM: LITZ:
(1) =a convoy of ten trucks, pulling 100-mm howitzers and
four trucks, loaded !rith cluarterine equipment. The trucks
puili.n; guns Were each occupied by 8 to 10 soldiers. The
truck number E 5-46-xx was secured. The convoy had come from
a southerly direction.
(2) A convoy of ten trucks with mounted, canvas--covered
searchli;hts followed the first convoy about two hours
later. One of the trucks had the number and 25X1 C
another truck also a number of the series. The 25X1C
convoy had dome from a southerly direc Ron.
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letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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b. follo;.iii; observa 4iono iicx+e made at the PLI2Si)ri3.:
m.ilit.;i'y post. . +
(1) i]'ormer a3eriu.n "3.Gari".e Ulanen" Kasexne:
About two hundred recruits iere obwerved being trained.
Officers voce tank insi nia
follotiillLi, motor vehicle. goere i;~entifiod.
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(2) Adolf Hitler Kaserne:
The fo21o lii. motor vGjile os as! ed thxou-,h the kaoorne
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(3) Garde Husaren Kaecrne on Bcr linerutrae:3e :
(dccupica by only a -uL' d i etail. Construction vior~f
was per oriaad in ~e i uss ^YLB.
(4) artxllcr~eLaserne on l:culitzerstxw;se:
? i ; o11c ire . rya for ve ii; s )used tl ouch the
kw3er:~c: ;;ate :
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Dui ei bei 1 o erne on 2; jolt lice
ccu AoLI by only c u;.: u detail.
(6) exerci cb .it.z three atisuult
bouLz on t~1es'_avel _i_;.ver no .:r ~ ivia .. on 16 uWu: t 19490
(7) A ovie?1+ trZ:CIin en -'6,cz )ri. o motor pool t':wto loco 4ed
at 25 Jf.iCti;:,j'ollee. 'the e1Lt %'~~['-Pac hod the rind 25X1C
vaao Sul) ~r tte to Col :. ~, li Vulsi, chief of eeul~),?ly drainis--
tioii,, .:Iie Moto vehicle o bobon-ed to 'utle
t1 z:
niotur pool:
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c. 'ton tanks corning i.'x'ora te direction of DGiiLL-LiiIT Z. (L 53/
Z 65) i moved into the kasorl.e on the . roi:,d to GL{vSoGLI NICK
53/Z 64). The truck.
,acre .Mod seen enterin;; the kz:sexrie za^eaa
1 jeptember 1949
d. About 1QG trooL)s carrying entrenchin ; tools move6. into
the former J nzer Kaeerne, VAl;i2IiIT2 . the troops h:.,d come
from the direction of DOB _~I~Z.
25X1A
25X1 C
2 _ e,? tember 1 42,
ea he ~:o~rnc;r rtillerie 1~aoerne, s~'~'. )IIa2, was only li fitly
oeeupir-:d by ertillcryraen. :.e-x;ir ?::orlti Fees done at the kaeerne,,
NEWomment 1.
a. l..c report indicates t'w-,- artillery uni?s re turl_od to
; G :;Dn-,~ in 1~ ,ca July and earl u? us 1949 (upon cam .>loti on
of o euvers in its the units, v are seen leaven--
i2 the 2C1 ~'aDiA: iaiiroa; std-:;ion toward ; UEDLI Z9 it can be
ta?suse' th iu they were s;tioned in the tirtillerie Kasernes
saut__i oz =' ,ed.litzer : ruecs.e''. Sorile troops from these krz;;errkeo
had not teb rned by 2 Set ;ber 1949.
25X1 C b. he motor vehicle nurabf:,rin;_. aerie s
we e previcur :'y obaerve in t awe kaBerneo. The 25X1C
series i, :1on-s to the 6th Gds I'lecz -iv (Cadre) an. s therefore
bolicve to hove been misidentitiied.
cn Col ;,MA ;II:j(jVSKI was reported by the some source to hove been
chief of t. e P roue of Occupation i orces Ccxnany Supply and d-~
rain iotra ~,i on Division (AP11 16 455) in July 1940,3. Cat L A IiTOVS
KI's of .Ace is located in the former :;golf Hitler Fescrne, his
a,artr en a at 25 Jae ;crallee. :A motor pool is said to be loca--.
ted in the former G-uzr .e Ulo:i(,,n Kaserno (also caller} Ilohn elope
Kuoerne).
25X1C do lie is acsi ~cd to a ,'~ovict cot:iaercial eriter?--
.L)ris e in . .
? acco-,..in to previous reyir soues;all unit of the group(]
o-~.LCeupi. ,~ oil lorccs 4cruuny .ILkA -.Ile 1~ay Fa are Rltt 1J~~i~J4~ 111 tae
ka.,,er'nct;S :?rizic. t?.exe rcportcu1y occupied by only ;uirc- deto1l
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