MILITARY INFORMATION FROM POTSDAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500130003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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fetweon 18 and. 23 October 1950, 40 recruits were seen undergoing basic infantry
drill in the yard of the Delius Kaserne in Potsdam, vJhile older soldiers cleaned
ind overhauled guns, motor vehicles, and other equipment. On 18 October, 21
of?icer=f, including six former sergeants who had just been promoted to the rank
of junior lieutenant, left the installation with suitcases and boxes, riding
trucks toward Doebori.tz. The manner in which these
officers said farewell gave source the impression that they were not going to
return.
2, on 19 October at about 9 a.m. trucks 1 -1 tow-
ing four gun barrel carriers with new barrels, entered the Dolius Kas erne. The
trucks returned empty to - 'ildpark, from where they had comae, F_ I
25X1 JA ,.column returning to the barracks installation ,on the same day at
about 11:30 Hricluded eight caterpillar tractors, each carrying a i B.-man gun crew
and towing a 152 m m run. two caterpillar tractors toning empty gun-baarrel carriers;
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Two captains and eighteen senior lieutenant.- with suitcases, arriving on 23
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the Del-'Las Kasr-:rne. On 24 Octther, 30 beds were put up in the attic roobis of
the barracks installation? The following day these quarters were occupied to
capacitor by recruits, who had arrived during the night. (1)
3. On 21 October, the ammunition dump on Bornetecitorfeld, which belonged to the
artillery unit in the Delius Kaserne, was enlarged by about 30 motors on all
sides. Two Gorman electricians who started installing lighting facilities there
Were dismissed on 23 October and their work was completed by Soviet soldiers.
4. On 26 October, ten officers and 140 liM left the Delius Kaserne, allegedly going;
to Schdt on the Oder River for reassigrm?ent to a newly activated unit. A
column of twenty-eight 122-mm guns and four 172-mm guns left the billeting area
for 7i1dpark on 27 and 28 October 1950. (2)
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On 24 October, 25 new officers and 60 recruits arrived in the Ludendorff Kaserne,
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Since 18 October, the cooperative store in the Kav3llerie Schul o, Krampnitz, again
received the amount of foodstuffs it had received before the, troops left. A
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O T-34 tanks had been unloaded at the Satzkorn rail-
road station on and moved to the Kaval.ir:rie Schule on 18 October0 It vas said that
trucks and artillery pieces were unloaded and went to icramranitz the followdn^
day? (3)
7. A motion picture exchange (Filnstelle), allegedly for training films, was
located in the Adolf Hitler ' Kaserno, Potsdam and employed three Soviet civilians
and twelve German siaraen@ Pictures of tanks,, guns and other military equipment
were seen on the films a
The Generals' of the major general who was Y billeted /at 4 Grosse .eimneisterstr?asse in
the Generals' Quarter, NeueL 1Oai ten, was allegedly Loshkin ?inuJ (h)
On 20 October, board fences,, three maters high, were erected in the area of
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Noenigswrald, about 20 meters from the shore of Jun fern Lake. A detail of ten
mounted soldiers guarded the i;oeni gswald area o (5)
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(1) e x orra ,i.on on the "Delius Kaserne concerns the 30th Gds Gun Arty 33r1 of
the unidentified artillery division in Potsdam which is stationed there. Follow-
ing the return of artillery units to the installation fron. the Altea rabo r train-
ing area prior to 17 October 1950, additional artillery units returned to the 25X1 A
billeting area on 19 October 19504 i lerments of the artil1 ry
division from Potsdam participated in fall maneuvers in the fa debut ~>'r'it iher
area during the first half of October 1950, Present report indicates that re-
cruits and officer replacements also arrived in the Le:Llus TKase me a The 21
officers who left the installation on 18 October :1.950 possibly returned to the
U.S. S' .1Z. for denobilization.
(2) To date no Soviet troop, have been observed in Schuedt on the Oder Rivore Further
information is required to clarify whether or not a Soviet up-it was activated
there.
(3) On 9 October 1950, the elements of the 10th Ods Tank Div from the Kavallerio 25X1 A
Schulo held field exercises in the 1,:etzin area y 11re:sent repo. t
indicates that the units returned to the installation by 19 October 1950.
(1) General rtoshkin (fnu) has been carried since i:~ .7 as chief o_? the Gas and Oil
'Distribution Department of the GOF0 on Pap^elailee, Potsdam, an was last con--
fi_ m,ed, in this =)osition on 2 February 19b8 ry
(5) Accordin ; to another source, Camp I;orrdll-swald in the. engineer training arc a of
the 133.E enttifi ed e?Yr';ineo}r regiment of the GOO'G in Potsdam was torn down on 22
25X1 A cptenber 1950. It is Possible that the ca::p buildings
have been reconstructed.
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