SOVIET RAIL AND ROAD MOVEMENTS IN THE SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Zone of Germ anv
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COUNTRY
TOPIC__ So et a 1 and Road Lover nts in the Snvi nt Znti of Cs-r Ansr
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Between 15 and 21 3eptenber 1950 only shipments of industrial or agricultural
products passed through Kuostrina
20 Two eastbound trains., each composed of about 60 converted boxcars and 3 kit-
chen cars, passed through Kuestrin on 21 September 1950. (1)
3. The following is a complete list of Loviot rail shipments passing though the
Frankfurt/Oder freight yard from 21 to 27 September 1950:
S4ipment From To m d Date
Thirty-five tank cars Brest Litovsk to
with benzol? Vclten
21 September
Ten boxcars with mi1.i- Brest Litovsk to
t roods Brandenburg
21 September
Two flatcars with. 1 Biesenthaa to Brest
rs ressors? Litovsk
22 September
Two boxcars r .th motors Koothen to Brost
Litovsk
22 September
Three boxcars Muellrose to
with military goods "berswalc e
22 September
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Ship
Six boxcars with
military goods
item No 16
Twenty-seven box-
cars with rations
Two, tank cars with
be-
Two boxcars with
toasted bread
One boxcar with
military goods
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From-To and Date
Fifty-eight boxcars
with troops; shuttle -
train No 24 001
7i1don to Strnusberg
22 September
Frankfurt/Oder to
Satzkarn
22 September
Brest Litovsk to
Velten
23 September
Dresden to Ebers-
walde
23 September
Lieberose to Ebers-m
walde
26 September
Werbig to Cottbus
26 September
Eleven boxcars with Brest Litovsk to
railitar goods Muelirose
27 September
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Nineteen tank cars
with fuel;
Two amphibious cars
Three trucks
Brest Litovsk to
Velten
27 September
Dresden to'Ketschen-
dorf
27 September
'.'urzen to Strausberg
27 September
Rail shipments from Barest Litovsk which were observed in Frankfurt/Oder 50X1-HUM
between 21 and 27 September 1950 included:
Shipment
Eighteen cars with
ammunition
Nine cars with
ammunition
Twenty cars .grit h
ammunition and 21
trucks
Destination
r otir
Strausberg
Six cars 111th an m- Altenburg
nition
Five cars with amu- Ketschendorf
nition
Seven boxcars with
makhorka
Frankfurt/Odor
Supply Office
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Daily Soviet leave traffic through Frankfurt/Oder averaged 380 soldiers
going to Brest Litovsk and 580 soldiers coming from Brest Litovsk during
the period from 18 to 27 September 1950, and 200 and 300 respectively
between 28 September and 1 October. The morning leave train was dropped
from the schedule effective 28 September 1950. (3)
The unloading of troop trains coming from the :7,ustermark~::::?ea started at
the Delzig Railroad Station on 28 September 1950. There were rail traffic
difficulties. Troops were also unloaded in Ziesar. (4)
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officers recently went on four rail motor cars along the Cottbus-Berlin,
Cottbus-Leipzig-Halle and Cottbus Dresdon lines. They stopped three tines
on the open line between Cottbus and ^orlin and made sketches while discus-
s`ng the suitability of the sites for unloading operations.
__]the .officers' work was preparatory to the unloading of troop trains on
the open line. (5) 50X1-HUM
on 25 September 1950 convoys of trucks, some towing guns J
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passe hrough
ittstock an-nv11 ui inn
drove toward Schvdrn'ich. (b
9. On 26 September 1950 convoys of trucks
drove through '.ittstock and proceeded toward Sclvreinrich:
10. Convoys passing through .'iittstock on 27 September 1950 and moving toward
Schtiveinrich consisted of trucks
no Troops with tanks were loaded in 'Wittstoek and left toward Berlin on
26 September 1950. Civilian rail traffic was suspended for that dart (6)
12. On 1 and 2 October 1950 about 45 trucks
drove through littstock toward Pritzcralk.(6)
(1)
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off- lei y two of the seven shuttle-tra+.ns which were converted for troop
transportation and assembled from 19 to 25 September 1950
standing in
i its believed that the train ob-
served on the 1'erbig-Cottbus line on 26 September 1950 was one of them .150X1-HUM
ready returnin ; from east. a train takes an 50X1-HUM
average of five or six days for a round trip between the Oder River and
the Soviet-gauge track railroad stations of Insterburg and Brest Litovsk.
The soldiers occupying the boxcars of the train were presumablyrecruits.G?N/^ , ? IRA
Some of these shuttle-trains were also observed
Lichtenberg.
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Probably reconnaissance of unloading sites for maneuver or m6bilization, pur-
posese
The intensive convoy traffic and the loading of troops with tanks for ship-
ment toward Berlin indicate the completion of the summer training period in
the ;'iittstock maneuver area and the departure of troops to another area for
final maneuvers. It is possible that these units may also participate in
the fall maneuvers in the MMagdebur Dessau-Wittenberg area in view of the
observation of a component of the 18th Mecz Div on a train in Neuruppin on
2i September 1950 and the unloading operations in Beizig and Ziesar on 28
September 1950, Half
of the motor vehicle belong to the 18th Mecz Div and the other ha~5OX1-HUM
to the 9th Gds Tank Div. components of the 18th MMecz Di:
practiced in the :,ittstock-Schweinrich maneuver area throughout the summer
of 19500
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