MILITARY INFORMATION FROM SCHWARIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006800300007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
CLASSIFICATION r?''? .' i '''~~~~~1r?r}
Gornany (Soviet -one)
TOPIC Ialitary information. from oc1r,, rin
EVALUATION J
DATE OF CONT
DATE OETAI
REFERENCE
PAGES 2
REMARKS
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troops we r, unloaded in i chwerin
as 56every night cxurin the period from. 5 to 9 ~jovei.hor
1950. Twelve tanks and 214 artillery piecas .-sere unloaded during
the night of 0 ovember, . sic light armored scout cars and 30
trooos on 21 NNovoriber and si,mal equipment and clothing on
24 November. The last shiomont of eauirzment was hauled off on
At 7 a.m.. on 21 4ovomaber. trucks
occupied by about 20 soldiers, were seen leaving the "indenburg
Kasarne on Guo troviorstrasse, Four of the trucks towed AT . uns of
about 57 ru and four totted AT guns of ai;out 8; xrni, :About half an
hour later, throe platoons, presumably making, up one company., left
the barracks install:. Lion toward Guestrow. The march colunn con-
sisted of 2 o ficors, the first platoon of !t officers and 27 41., the
second platoon of 3 officers and 33 E:. , and the third -)latoon also
of 3 officers and 33 The carried rifles., entrenching tools,
and pas masks
3. The two gates of the Fritsch Kaserne on Johann-,c Stellingstr?asse
were -guarded 1)y soldiers with signal insignia on 23 Novombor o t?asi c
artillery insignia.,
drill was observed in the barracks par.". L1otor
4. Gate guards at the Uruegor Kasorne on Ludrti,tslucterstrasse wore
Gate guards at the Lioltke Kaserne on Ludwi slusterstrasse were tank
troopers. Tuenty-four tanks ore seen in front of the open ;garages
of the installation on 24 November. Il-bout 10 of the ia.nk.e were oft e
JS and 12-14 of t7r T-3
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CLASS FICATIO :T 40NTR,)L/Us )IF?JC
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
This document is hereby regraded to I I NO oL11~ia~s~`~, \ 50X1-HUM
I Next Review Date: 2008
nATF PRFPARED 3 January 1951
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The sentry in front of the former D.'F ("x,3rman Labor Front) building
on Ha,;ernowerstrasse wore red-bordered black enaiil nts
6. The ;a.tes of the Adolf Hitler Yas rno on Luczwjr:elusterstrasse
were "uarded by infantrjr en. A1;out 330 troons
p
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10.
streets were blocked by road barriers and guarded by sentries.
The headquarters building was surrounded l; a :?rooden fence. iduraerous
officers, aeon * them many field-grade officers. ^ere nLmn-rve Chore
la corps headquarters ~r-:s located in a building,
bordering on schlossgartenallee, Parkvre?,, and '1:a Taanenhof. The
a division headquarters was located in Ides chstrasso,
NO rotor tra ffi8 was observed there. **
1:11 barracks installations in bch: Orin '?lerzi occuu;oied to capacity by
those troops .iho ha' boon )roviously stationed at the post.
The en: ineer unit which had Leon observed in the 11inderll'-'mr Caserno
on Guestrc vcrstrasse in Lugo ,t 1950 had rove:' to the Fritsch I,a; Brno.
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the 74th (?) Tank e Pa.,: Pt of the 94th ^ de ,1t_z . tip e Div
left the xos on 19 October, -pint; to the J'ittstock area for fit.;1d
their 1si11?ts from field exercises outside the post.
Corcnent. The troops unloaded in Leh,rorin in early ijovembcr were
rcsur-aa`l: er.ients of the 94th Ods -tz Rifle Div vhich returned to
` xfi T/co1JT Z ~2L/us 3 ICI;iLS ONLY
The information that units left
for exercises as late as the second h-iif of October is con:;idered 50X1-HUM
credible, because the components of the division conducted their suer
training at or near the post instead of doing to a troop training
grounds
Colmwnt.
i - is rn? eve ti-,at r.= of the
troops s a ionoc s nmrer n, nay y headquarters units of the IX Utz
Rifle Corps and con;?onents of the 9L.th Gds :tz 11tifle Div, were at the
post about 20 ilovermmber. Accorr'ing to )r?vi-)us in2orration, the IIq Stith
ids .`,tz n.ifle Div is ' of ievec to be located in the for :.er ^,1F building
on HaTonowerstraisso.
3* Comment. An on yincor unit --;ac among other unitc observed to
guar ere in the; Ilineenburg
the engineer unit
eu c:aan ~a a acl ~imon, (fnu)
'r c Co.e.=n:?ed by
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