MILITARY INFORMATION FROM OHRDRUF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100190015-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1,, On I Lay 1951, source learned from German civilians, who accompanied tic
Soviet units to Altes Laer and 'fjoues Lager in Ohrdruf 51/1 15), that the
troop* thole came "
from oaalfeld- Plauer The trucks secnin the
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camp area
2. On 1 Lay? 20 to 30 camouflaged oins of about 100-4.m were seen just northeast
of Cam Ohrdruf; and 10 heavy AA guns resembling German 30--Ti AA runs, with
a;trigr.er-type mounts stood north of the road from Ohrdruf to rittstadt,
Four limbered lir-ht AA guns on four-wheel mounts were ,seetl farther north
of the road, while 20 full-track prime movers, each with an AT cun of probably
100-mm were observed south of the Ohrdruf-Bittstadt raid, on which a truck
25X1B zs identified. Another group of 20
tractors toying heavy guns of an unidentified type was seen farther to the
west. (2)
3. CLup Aue is situated northwest of Crawinkel (M 51/1 14)0 at the fork famed
by the Crawinkel-Ohrdruf and Crawinke34oelfis reads. The cam was occupied
to capacity4 probably by troops from :cimar and Jona? because German civilian
employees of the units, who 'wort quartered in ::oelEls, cave from the two
cities, Source observed a larre collection of meter vthicle- and +0 canvas-
covered tanks there. Trucks 75X1B
25X1B Yite e seen there on 2 Lay, (3)
2.1.An undetermilned number of rocket launchers and artillery pieces were observed
at Camp GeorcenthalL,
50 Soviet ration supplies were stored in margo caves in the rooks, near 25X1B
Felsenkeller Restaurant at the southeastern exit of Olirdruf,
and other trucks picked up
rations there on 14 ray. (4)
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(1) ner solZas COnfirree ' ,i -Jmov)ents of the 39th ads lltz Rifle Div from illi?
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SaalfolU and amen have ,ael, at Ohrdr.,If since mid-April 1951. The motor
25X1B vehicles belon to this
25X1Adivision. , It is believed that, in addition to
coraponents,of the 20th WAR Z.lacz Div? hoadwartors vnitz of tho U 25X1B T:II Gds
z Rifle 'ors from Gera f Er
are at Ohrdrut .:.oce the motor vehic5es
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belong to the latter.
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(2) the truckq,the AT runs probably
belong to the unidentified AT artillery unit of the XXVIII Oda
Rifle Corps which is stationed in Gera and nerseburg.
(3) Other sources also confirmed that components of the 20th Gds /,ec'?; Div
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from -, 'mar have been at Ohrdruf since IAA-A ril /951. The
belongs to this division nod the 25X1 B
to the 39th Oda :tz Rifle Div.
(4) The trucks belong to the 20th Gus riecz Qiv,
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