SOVIET TROOPS IN POTSDAM

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900980003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1? On 25 April 1951, the Hahenlohe Raserne in Potsdam ~N 53/'L b3), xas occupied
. to rapacity. Gate guards xore red bordered black.ep~ulets. About two ?.
ct~rp~n s received basic infantry training in the barracks yard.
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the installation. Four prime movers, sac o 15~-mm artillery
pipes, and ~ tank: trucl~s entered the installation, coming from
Delius B`aserne
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;~, j e had aot departed by 25 llpril. Trucks
stood 3.n froxit of the barracks installa-
tia~., loaded with boxes of ammunitions
;3. Aotivitg of the troops in the Delius Ka~erne between. 26 and 30 ~1pri1 was
described as folloxss
2b A ril. Cleaning of vehicles and guns and exchange of caterpillar tracks
~y t e rained personnel from 9x20 a.m. to 12;30 p,m,.; preparing of guns
an~~. vehicles by the trained personnel from 1: to 3 p?~; individual training
of 1817 unarmed recruits, superv3.sed by 6 officers and 2!~ sergeants, from
9s~a a.m, to 12s3o p.m.; indoctrination of recruits from 1 to 3 p.m..;
po:Litical indoctrination of all troops at 5 p.m.
~~?,,'~ Apri.l. Qvn drill with 122~mn and 152-gym artillery pie oes by trained
perms so2~e~:.from 9:20 to 12 s..m.; cls~ing of guns by .the trained per-
so:nnel from 12s30 to 3 p.m.;, individual training and physical exercise of
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gee:suits-from 9x20 to 12 a.m.; indoctrination of recruits from 12;30 to 25X1
3 p.m.; political indoctrination of all troops- at 5 p.m.
28 A ril. Depart$ne of recruits on trucks
~`'r branches at 8s30 a.m.; decorating o the installation, apparently
for May Day, by all troops.
3E3 ,~ ri3:. policing of quarters and making of garlands by all troops. ~
~o laborers were allowed to enter the barracks installation on 1
and 2 all political officers
frc-m ma3or upxard were called to Moscow for athree--week course,; these
officers allegedly included the political officers from the artillery and
the: engineer unit in the Delius ~ Kaserne~ and from unite in the Hohenlohe
Kaserne, the Ludendorff Kaserne, and the Kriegsschule.
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roop~ wi and 32 trucks xere among vehicles .leaving the instal-
lation on 26 llpril and that, the troops moved 25X1
to a place close to the zonal border near Ma deburg, It eras said that the
25X1 Kavallerie Schule quartered three units on 2~ April.
~. The: ~rtilleri.e T~aserne in Potsdam was occupied to capacity by about 750
troops on 3 ~Qay. Date guards ware black epaulets.- i~rr"
6, ~?n 3 day, the Delius Kaserne was occupied to capacity by about-750 troops.
So'li+~i~srs Owore red-b~~rdered black a au some with art ry
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:p~, 122-mm artillery pieces, left the installat on toward Krampnitz on
~S ;April. ?n 28 ~lpril~ the ?Groops there were engaged in fatigue- duty only.
On 3 May, l0 groups of 15 so:Ldiers eachi wearing red ordered black auleta,
were engaged in close-carder drill. Motor vehicles 25X1
were .seen in the traffic at ?the installation. ~
7. The Hohenlohe Kaserrre was occupied. to capacity by about 1,200 troops on 3 May.
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25X1 SoT.diers O wore red-bordered black
epaulets,: some with artillery
insignia, ~o'tor vehicles id~sntified in barracks
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8. On 3 Map, the Ludendorff Kos-erne quartered about-800 troops who wore red-
bordered??black epaulets,- somi~ of them with artillery in?ignia. `our 37-tmn
AA guns xere parked in the barracks yard on ~6 April. Tro s were drillin
at latoan level on 28 A ril. school trucks- 25X1
25X1 mere identified in the billeting area. ~
9~~ The Adolf Hitler Kaserne still housed ahigh-echelon headquarters on 3 May.
Gate guards wore black-bordered crimson epaulets. On 27 April, a txo-
seated biplane landed on Borzistedterf`eld, gust northwest of the barracks
~.ristallation. Two one-stag- f;enerals entered the installation on 2 May.
25X1 passenger car as parked ~ front of the installation.
10.. 0ffieers and military officials of all branches of service entered and left
the Kriegssehule on 3 May. Sentries-there wore black bordered crimson
epaulets, No details on the stren fi of troo s there were obtained. ldotor
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11. On 3 Maya the entrances to the eastern section ~~ the Kavallsrie Schule in 25X1
Krampnitz were c~.osed. patrols were no longer seen. Gate arils at the
western section wore red b rclered black e e Trucks
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equipment. le the eastern section seemed to be vacant, the 25X1
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impression that the western .section still quartered a rear detail xhich
xas ?rfga~ed in loading xork.
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pr or o y, pereen o: a red. as een a were o e ?~~? e
3' and only 25 percent to ?the German population. Effective 1 ~6ay~ the
Sdvist Army canceled-its contracts. This measure was in contrast to the
pra,ctiae of the preceding yei3.rs when, though absent from the post, the
units-stall received their bread from-the bakery,
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' that the
~ un, ~ Co~arracksnstallations on Nedli,taerstrasse mere still ~;n their
quarters " the- enc"i of A ril 1S~~i, It also- confiztins a .previous report by
stating that the artller unit in the
L?T;ius aserne xas still there on 25 i~.pril 191.
omme~z or~ra on :. paragrap s - c rms pre ous reports
on elements of the lath Q~ds Tank- Div departing from the
$$,x orn" and Doeberta ra~.lprr~ad stations for I~et~~ Huth at tn~ end of
l~pr$1 1951. I
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