SOVIET MILITARY RAIL MOVEMENTS IN THE SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
CLASSIFICATION.-;
COUNTRY Soviet Zone of Germany
T 1i'. NTiljtr)L /US, OF!'ICIiL:; vi
REPORT N'
TOPIC Soviet Military Rail Movements in the Soviet Zone of . -Gernar_,
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES el,
REMARKS
ENCLOSURES (No. & TAPE)
The following is a list of military rail shipments observed at the
Frankfurt/Oder railroad station from 20 September to 4 October 1950
Shi anent
Five boxcars
with foods
item 14f-
From-To and Date Dispataw
Juoterbo r--Altes
Lager to Brest
Litovsk
23 September
Sixteen tank ]]rest Litovsk. to
cars with Velton
bonzol; 28 Suptonbor
Five gondola
cars with
briquettes
Three boxcars.
with military
goods
Setif enberg to
.Freienwalde
29 epterabor
Lberswalde to
Fuers tonwalde
29 September
Brost Litovsk to
Ketschendorf
29 ?5eptember
Two boxcars
with medical
supplies
Ui.ttweida to
''ialdfrieden
29 September
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ArahiVlat of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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Fifty-two boxcars
with soldiers;
Thirteen boxcars
with military
goods
Fifty-eight boxcars
withm ldiers
huttlo--train
Lborswalde to
Cottbus
29 Septennber
i:',uellro: e to
wberswalde
29epteinber
"Jerbig to
Grunc 'r
30 bepteribar
Forty-seven
boxcars and I
gondola car with
soldier's;
s utt - i.n
Two boxcars
with military
foods
Two coaches,
2 boxcars and
2 tank cars
Fifty empty
boxcars
with bonzol;
Two boxcatrs
with medical
a tfln^uils
Two flatcars
with nine large
contai Tiers
=one boxcar
with mess kits
Three boxcars
with animuunition:
"hrbig to
Grunow
1 October
Liarkersdorf to
Fuer; tornvalde
2 October
Schkeuditz to
orneuchen,
2 October
Frankfurt/Oder to
Eborswalde
2 October
1?re; t Litovsk to
Velten
2 October
Brost Litovsk to
I"uorstenivalde
2 October
Jueterbog to
Brest Litovsk
3 October
Frankfurt/Odor to
Jueterbog
3 October
Brest Litovsk to
Pad Saarow
3 October
1)
Three boxcars
with ammunition,,
Thirteen boxcars
with :arau .tion;
Brost Litovsk to
Lamitsch
3 October
Brest Litovsk to
I ohonleipisch
3 October
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One boxcar
r ith aMnn '3itiony
One boxcar
with am, njtion
Three boxcars
with ammunition
with benzol;
Eleven tank cars
with ` erizol
Thirteen boxcars
with ammunition
Fifty-four boxcars
empty :AhII
Fifty emty box-
cars
Fifty- four boxcars
with soldiers:
1:3rest Litovsk to
Muellroso
3 October
Brest Litovsk to
f3erlin RZurmnolsburg
3 October
Brest Litovsk to
Pad Saarow
3 October
Ik ost Litovsk to
Volten
3 October
Brest Litovsk to
Velten
3 October
Brest Litovsk to
Hohenleipisch
3 Uctobar
.Erfurt to
Kuostrin
3 October
Frankfurt/Oder to
Mhrsralde
3 October
ctober
:','erbig to
Cottbus
Fifty-five boxcars 'Verbi ; to
with soldiers Cottbus
# 1 October
Three boxcars Jessen to
with military Strausberg
goods 4 October
(1)
(1)
(1)
The follow is a complete last of military rail shipn:3nts conveyed in the
3d subdistrict of the Berlin railroad district between 23 September and 3
Hospital train of 10
boxcars and 19 coaches;
98 axles, 397 tons;
Fifty-five boxcars;;
eta:'ty shuttle-train
from-To and Date
foolitz to
Gubon
28 Septerabor
":ustertaa.rk to
'
uete:rhoC ~l
29 September
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Thirty-nine boxcars Pornau to
Y ith military goods ] ur`^,staedt
29 oopternbcr
Fifty-oi ght boxcars;
n v shuttle-train
Fifty five boxcars;
n-moty r je-train
Six boxcars and 16 flat-
cars with troops;
48 ax3 s 4 tons-
Twelve boxcars and 41.
flatcars with troops;
110 axles, 1,122 tons;
Fifty five boxcars;
eri sty shuttle-train
boxcars., 29 flatcars
and one coach-, ennt :
Thirty-two flatcars
with troops;
92 axles, 689 tons:
Ton boxcars and. 29 flatcars
with tro cps;;
130 axles, 1.,110 tons-
shuttle-train
11evori boxcars and 19
flat Gars with troops;
63 axles, 476 tons;
Ten boxcars and 30 flatcars
with troops;
83 axles 698 tons`
;;even boxcars and, 22 flat-
cars; em p
? 114 axles
496 tfqns,-
7
Teri boxcars and 29 flat-
cars; e m pt r shuttle-train
Gruenau to
Fuerstonberg
29 ..ootomber
-iagd.e1 cur to
Kustorin
30 Septe:,tbor
JuoterL;og to
r iiagen-Klausdorf
1 October
Forty flatcars and
;,ondola cars;
102 axles (6 tons;
Koetheri to
Neuruppin
1 October
Lieborose to
Grosswilohnitz
1 October
(1)
(1)
()
Roha en Klau:.;dorf to
ituestrin
.1 October
Ziesar to
5 eh7exin
1 October
i laiunburg to
Boizig
2 October
(1)
(5)
Lieberose to
Gross--fehni,tz
2 October
Lieborose to
Doeberitz
2 October
Fuorstonwalde to
Satzkorn
3 October
Ziesar to
Branclonbur
3 uctober
Grae o-1:1initz to
Lieberose
3 October
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(4)
(4)
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(1) es got i '"sh lo-trains carryin titoviet traopsy
passed through Kuestrin between 26 and. 30 e te;. ber 1950 and proceeded
toward Cottbus via Iarbi : Fx ankfurt .)der 0 50X1-HUM
Besides shuttle-trains rrn lone in .~ia )rase;
report, a total of 315 boxcars tiuitci roops, Lea aboat six .rains,
crossed the border at iuestrin and arrived in i'r nkfurt/Oder between 6
and 10 October 1 0 proceeding to sev::ral military posts in the ;soviet
gone of iaoriaa a;ro it therefore a-rncar 4 that not loss 50X1-HUM
than 13 trains ith troops from the U Ja~o arrives. in t ho ovict :none
of ^ror;: ny batmen 26 :.;optom'bor and 10 Jctobor Thas railroad station
of 'Irrunow,, re )or todly the c esta.n ~ t, on of shuttle-trains 50X1-HUM
is believed. to have, boon only the point at which the trains crossed from
tine ''erlin to the Cottbus railroad district rater than t,ie unloauing 50X1-HUM
,station. since shuttle--trains mere as ai n or; ervod to
leave the uovi.ot alone of G rmaay via uaos n :e 7reen 30 t,eptnnber and 3
uctobor 1950 it can be expected that the influx of troops will continua 50X1-HUM
girt ':ni?rr}rar lle'O_
(2)
(3)
(tl) The Gross- ehnita railroad s t,ation is on tine -:Ustermark Ikathenow line. L)ince
the three troop trains were loaded in Lioberose they must have carried cor -
ponents of the 7th ads 1-em Div. The loading of the waits in the Lioberose
ran, aeuver area started in late: 6ept,.rnber 120o_____________________ 50X1-HUM
;since only one trainload of troops of the 7th ]c.s 0c7 ! i v was o b so v o c to
arrive in the division's principal east of Fraaa'bsurt/Odor prior to 10 /c?tobor
1950,8 it is possible that mere elements of the division may have been s!hi.LJped
by rail to the area west of ~brlin after 3 jctobor l2')Oa
(5) Two other reports also indicated that small cpecia)runits of the :'i;;hth ds
army, possibly engine r units -Da,rticioatod in the fall raa.neuver in the
: at da::;ur -)ossau area. 50X1-HUM
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