SOVIET TROOPS DEPARTING FROM COTTBUS AND LUEBBEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800860002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Germany (Sovie'6 Zone)
COUNTRY REPORT
TOMC____ Sovi t Troops Departing from Oottbus and Luebben
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DATE OF CONTENT
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REFERENCES
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REMARKS
DATE PREPAREDay_1911_
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
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1. Trucks each towing a gun of
100 to 120 mm, entered the Alvensleben Kaserne, Cottbus
(N 52/A 57), on 13 April 19517 coming from the direction
of Seel= (0 53/V 55)0 Truck I was identified
at the Funker Laserne. 50X1-HUM
Sachsendorf Kaserne units stationed
departed for Weisswasser on 15 April.
2. Six boxcars and 30 flatcars were prepared for the loading
of troops at the Luebben (N 52/A 28) railroad station on
the morning of 15 April. 50X1-HUM
four troop trains, each consisting of about 6 boxcars
and 30 flatcars, left Luebben for deissvasser during 50X1-HUM
the night of 14 Ap:?il.
On 15 April
trains of about 70 axles
have been assembled at a rate of 2 tc, 4 trains per day
since 13 April. The trains were loaded with troops at
the Cottbus railroad station at night and left for Weiss-
wasser.
A troop train of 2 flatcars carrying four 76.2-mm AT guns
and 24 boxcars loaded with billeting equipment and baggage
stood along the ramp of the Cottbus railroad station on
the morning of 17 April. Soldiers wearing red-bordered black
epaulets with artillery insignia were securing the AT guns
on the flatcars. *
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..gmammilt4. The loading operations were linked
with the movement of units of the 9th Meez Div from
Cottbus and Luebben to Weisswasser.
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