OB SITUATION OF SOVIET GROUND FORCES(Sanitized)

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• Publication Date: September 6, 1951
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INFOR ATION REPORT
COUNTRY Europe (Soviet-70ccupied)/US5it
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OB Situation of Soviet Ground Forces from
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August 1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
There have boon no discernible changes in the strength and dieposition of
Soviet ground forces in the Soviet-occupied countries of urope up to the
middle of July 1951. The replacement of trained personnel by recruits vas
completed during the first half of July 1951. The majority of the division:
continued training at the troop training grounds and at special training
sites during the period covered by the report.
GEMANY.
Order of Battle.
1. reports
in the disposition of the soviet ground forces in Germany up to
the middle of July 1951.
The following units end rear service installations in the Soviet Zone oi
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between 1 July and 1 August 1951t
SIIQ Units of the Group oflEsmation Forces GormszlEE222
Wndicated no changes
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18th CO Hy How Arty Brig
An Arty Div
A Gun Arty Brig
6th (?) Gds AAA Div
32d (?) AAA Div
An itigr Regt
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POT3DAri 11 July
POTMAE 8 'hay
23 June
AM Area
FRANKFURT/
Oder-KUESTRIN
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July
1.314ZBURG (?) 1J July
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36th Pon Bridge Regt
53d Central Repair Shop
54th Central Repair Shop
123d Tank epair Shop
800th Ration Supply Depot
820th Ration Supply Depot
Main Clothing Depot
A Quartermaster Depot
Main Medical Depot
Main Fuel Supply Depot
Mn Ordnance Shop
A Repair Shop
b? Eirhth GuarALIEN0
257th Motor Trans Bn
Army Ration Supply
Depot
Arpy Repair Shop
At Fuel Supply Depot
Ar.-y Sig Depot
Mg. 39th Gds Mtz
Rifle Div
117th Gds Mtz Rifle Regt
flq 20th Gds flecz Div
Hq 57th Gds Mtz Rifle Div
172d Gds Mtz Rifle Regt
MI 21st Gds Mecz Div
Third Shock Arr.-
Hq 3d Gds AAA Div
15th Gds Eingr En
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ROSSLAU '11 (July
BERLIN- 11 July
OBMSCHOENE-
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ViURZEN January
LIMULROSE 10 jUly
KMCHZOESER
SATZEORN 12 July
FRANKFURT
Oder
11 Jul;
BERNAU 6 July
scHomma Llay
FUEI.:STENVifiLDE 5 jitly
vanN 1.5 J3/.714-
JESSIO L. July
WILDAU 13 ally
VIEI7Art
ERFURT-
MARBAPN
11 July
BURGOTAIW 13 July
1:1W MN- 1.5 July
BraNSDORF
BURGSTAEDT 6 June
RUDOL-_,TADT 21 June
:EIEINUN 6 July
LUTA 6 June
NAUMURG 21 June
GOTHA. (?) 17 June
HALLE 12 July
UAGDEBURG 16 June
BARBY 29 June
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12th Gds Tank Div;
AAA Diva
14th Gds Mccz Div:
6th Gds Tank DIv:
7th Gds Tank Div;
9th Mecz Div:
AAA Div:
6th Gds Lecz Div:
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Bulk at the posts (Mid-July)
Signal battalion, absent from
NEURUPPIN since the end of April
Elements of the artAllery
mortar and rocket launcher
units in the TUETERBOG area
and in JLRICHOW (10 July)
205th Engr Bn in. the JERICHOW
area (?) (11 July)
Elements at 'aUSTRO* 'I (uncon-
firmed)
Detachments at LETZLING HEATH
(23 July)
At JUETERBOG (July)
Bulk at WERDER-MARKENDORF
(21 July)
Detachments at LETZLING HEATH
(23 july)
Bulk at LEMING HEATH (29 July)
Mortar unit in the AKEN area
(14 July)
Bulk at WEISSWASSER (9 July)
Elements of the 692d How Arty
Regt at LIEBEROSL (10 July)
Elements at WUSTROU (15 July)
Bulk at TEMPLIN
Elements of the
in the JERICHOW
(23 July)
22d Gds Engr Bn
area (?)
(12 July)
Elements in the RATHENOW area
(until early July)
Bulk at LILBEROSL (14 July
Elements of the 122d (?) Gds
Engr Bn at TEMPLIN (13 July)
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? Third Guards !riechanized
91st Ode PI Regt
Ho 14th Gds necz Div
Bq 6th Gds Tank Div
51st Gds Tank acct
52d Gds Tank Regt
53d Gds Tank Rect.
78th Gds HV Tank SP
negt
272d Gds 2ort nogt
3d Gds Ltrcl
Hq 7th Gds Tank Div
23d. Gds Utz Rifle
Reg t
14 9th Necz Div
69th Ueoz Regt
91st Tank Regt
80th Gds ihr Tank
SP Regt
692d Ikmr Arty Regt
616th Uort Regt
82d En-:;r Lh
Fourth Guards Nechanised Arave
312th Gds RL Regt
12th Nobile Arty Shop
-351,h Gds !loco it
82d Gds Hv Tank
SP Reg t
676th Hew Arty Rest
34th Tank Tng in
7th Gds l'ecz Div
6.uo
BP Rectt
5th. Gds rItrci Bn
Hq 25th TInk DiT
175th Tank Regt
Hq fkROPYVJse
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JUBTERBOG 13 July
4ITTEPBER0 /3 July
ITTIZTERG 16 Jure
jITT2;N MPG 16 June
IIITTELIBERG 16 AlTlia
JIT2G 16 June
arSTAIBOG 16 June
16 June
RO.SLAU 14 June
KOETIIEN 23 'flay
C OTTRYS 29 June
G OTT BUS 15 June
LUEBBEIT 2 June
SPREI,UIRG 18 June
corms 8 June
LIJEBBEN(?) 18 June
COTTIRIS (?) 2 June
Ea.:IRSALDE 6 July
Vag:IOU) OJT 4 Jul
BERIIA_U Jkozr
F.ErEas..-aa.ax, 15 Ju],y.
BERNAU. 9 .Ju17
BEiiAU h duly
FULAST.14.;MAID E. 13 July
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FUERSTI1MAIDE 20 Jane
CRAntlIBURG 23 jone
PRAIZIALT 7 July
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Movements.
3 Both the officer and NCO training schools in the Kriegsschule, POTSDAll?
and in DOEBERITZ-OLLTISCIIEn DCRF were transferred to AENSDORF during
the first half of July 1951, The Zriegeschule in POTSDAM was allenealy
to be occupied by liari offices from Villa ineenheim, POTSDAM, The uniden-
tified engineer regiment el the GOFG from the Delius Kaserne in POTSDAM
moved to BERUDURG on not :ss than seven trains during the same period
of time. Since the unit iook all of its equipment, repair shop nachinery,
wooden barracks sections, and officers g families, it seems as if the regi-
ment has been reaseigned bo the MRNEURG military post.
4. Information that the SCC Germany. in KARLSHORST would move to the DRESDEN
BAD SCHANDAU area, whicl was received by several sources during the first
half of July, has not Ix= substantiated, *
Field Exercises and Traininel
5, Division Training.
In general, no essential changes in the occupation of the training grouhdu
took place between midr,eline and mid-July 1951. The units continued
training at company level ands in some cases, at battalion level at the
training geounds and thein vicinittesn Furthermore, there was intensive
basic training of recruii,s who arrived inthe Soviet Zone of Germany in
Jane. Orly some of the recruits joined the divisions at the troop training
grounds s while the majority were drilled in special training units at the
militar! posts. Night training at the troop training grounds, which began
at the ond of nay, was continued during the period covered by the report.
It sof-Az that night enereises were conducted during specific periods of
time, apparently one Nook per month. In addition to regular training of
the ixoops at tha treining grounds, training outside military reservations
wee started early this year. Principal subjects of training seem to have
been river-crossing exercises involving engineer units. Such exercises,
lasting one or tee nooks, were continually observed on either side of the
El1:0 River and in tee adjoining hinterland between Dessau and Attenbergoo
Specifically, reports on the units at the troop training grounds, and their
activity indicate the followingl
e0I1 hth Guards Lem. r Area.
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qlements of boti the 39th Gds Mtz Rifle Div and the 20th Gds necz Div,
and headquarters units of both the XXVIII Gds Mtz Rifle Corps and the
Eighth Gds Ari v were confirmed in the training area until mid-J.112y 19510
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/vehicles of the 43d tOda) Gun Arty Brig and the 220th Hy Tank SP
Regt were als? in the Ohrdruf area at that time?
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Elements of 'he 57th Gds Mtz Rifle. Div -and the 21st Gds Mace Div were
at Kindel until mid-july 1951
me training activity of the troops at ,o OTIRDRUF and the KINDEL troop
training gryunds could not be determined.
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Vehicles nf the 21st ads Mecz Div, loaded with engineer equipment, were
observed in the -3.AD KOPOEN infleprand of June and the beginning of
July 19510
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Letzline Heath.
The 19th Gds Jocz Div, the 207th Mtz Rifle Div, and the 7th and
10th Ods Tann-Dive were confielred at Letzling Heath during the
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Heath at the same time: 6th Arty Div of the GOFG; 13th AAA Div
and headquareers signal regiment of the aghth Ode Armj; head-
quartere uni:s of the Jana Ntz Pine Corps, 18th Macs Div and
94th Gds nte Rifle Div of the Third neck Army; 6th Gds Tarll': Div
and AAA div felon of the Third Gds nocz Army; and 7th Grin Llecz Div
or the Fourth Gds Lem; Army, Individual vehicles of the 8th. Gds
flocz Div wmos observed only at the beginning of July. \ 25X1
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Heath, vehilles of the 14th Gds necz Dir and the 13th (Ids Hv Tank
SP Regt of the Third Mock Army were there at the beginning of Juno;
vehicles of headquarters units of the Third Ode necz Army and the
31st AAA Div in mid-June; and vehicles of the 6th Gds necz Div and
the AAA division of the Fourth Gds NOCZ Army at the end of %Tone.
Hence, it anpears that there have been zo changes in the disposition
of units at Letzling Heath, Thie is supported by the fact that only
minor movemiats were obeerved in the area during the period covered
by the report. The troops at Leteling Heath are quartered in can-
tonments in the B0121-PLAMN area and eouth of the MUTSPRIDGE-
JABVSNITZ railroad line; and in numerous tent camps in the Ivainz...,
LEBEN-LBT41.11310 arn the CC&BITZ ireas. Field exercises observed in
the northe-n portion of Letzling loath during the second half of
July incluied one exercise in nhinh major components of the 207th fits
Rifle Div, and, poisibly, also elonento of the 19th Gds Mecz Div seemed
to have participaned,
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nf the Third Sheen Army were coninrraed there
time in late Jrne and m d-July 19, it is believed that components
of the regiment moved to BITTKAU ie June 1951.
The units of the 9th. Gds rtz Rifl! Div $ which left SnHeERIN at the
beginninn of :',e.y? had not returned to their post by mid-July 1951.
The, were possibly still in the CV-VITZ area, east of 3Clio11grekl, *
c. First Guards Llechaniz21122mAmst,
'erforts obtained from the KOENIGSEBJECE troop training grounds
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tne rirst Mecz Amy tnere until June. However, information from
the military poste in the army billoting area indicates that no
ehannes in the occupation of the troop training grounds occurred up
to the beginning of July 1951. *
d. Second Guards Vechanized Armitmls .
..o8 t. ui -one e.6on : ooz Div was at :ne eintstock troop traininn grounds
on 23 July 1951. The troops war( euartered in a large cantonment
east of SCHJUNRICH and in seveeel tent carps at the troop training
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grounds, Oomponents of the mechanized regiment were engaged in
training at company level outside the training grounds whiles,
simultaneously, tank units, practiced at battalion level in the
training area. Elements of the division's AAA regiment practiced
firing at towed-sleevp targets*
Host of the 9th and 12th Gds Tank Diva and of the let neee Div were
still confirmed at their posts until mid-July 1951. Elements of
the divisions moved to the area of IZICHOW on the Elbe River and
to the JIM,RBOG area for special training in mid-July 1951.
Troops of the AT artillery brigade and the rocket launcher regiment
of the Second Gds recz Arun which renained at their quartore in
the restricted 'deism Stadt area in ORANIMBURG until early July
departed aboard 6 trains between 11 and 20 July? possibly going to
JUMRD03 and/or tr2,RICHOO.
t Thied Guards 7lechanived Any- Area*
a;RDER-':AnIMLDCRF and JITETERBOG.
Moments of the 6th Ode Tank Div were confirbed at Camp nERDM-
MARKENDORF until 21 July 1951. A bulletin board at the division
headquarters indicated that, in mid-Junes eight component units of
the division were at the camp These included the four tank regi-
ments, the 272d Gds Lert Regt, and the 3d Gds Ntrel Bn. However,
it is fairly definitely believed that at least components of both
the 22d (?) Gds fltz Rifle Regt and the 385th Gds Arty Regt or Dn.
mere also in the cam, In the mornings during the first half of
July, the troops left the camp on foot for field training, and most
of the wheeled vehicles were on blocks. In the afternoons, training
was conducted inside the camp. Occasionally, troops, including tank
troops, trained at night. Vehicles of the 7th Gds Tank Div, the 25th
Tank Div, the 10th Gds Tank Div, and headquarters unite of the Fourth
Gds llecz Army were seen in the !CO area at the end of Jene; and
rocket launchers of the rocket launcher regiment of the Second Ode Jecz
erpy in mid-Jeezr 1951. Two troop trains left JUSTKRBOG on 21 July?
with one going to LIMEROSE and the other to ;;EISS4A3S;.:R. They may
have carried units from militare- posts and troop training grounds of
the Third and Fourth Gd e Llecz Armies, which had moved to JUILTffiBOG
at the end of :Jay and, apparently, returned about 21 July 1951* *
nBIeranASSER.
Several reports stating that upwards of 15,000 troops were at the
WEILSWASSeR troop training grounds also indicated the possibility that
more than one mechanized division may have been there. However, this
hypothesis is not supported by reports on incoming and outgoing troop
shinments and is even refuted, inasmuch as I-
r---lthe troops in Camp eBISSOASSeR had come from the COTTBUS-LUEBBEN-
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tnereIore eiioveU tri-lt the estimaece en the number m (Atrupb ee
eBInSWASSeE were exaggerated, but that small detachments of units from
Polish-occupied Germany may have temporarily participated in exercises
of the 9th TJecz Div. It is doubted, however, that a whole division
of the Northern Group of Forces should have practiced at nEISSMASSM
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at the end of June 1951. Reports of early July also mentioned
exclusively motor vehicley of the 9th nece Div in the training
area and on trains unloaded at the ':411.1:13SWASSYR railroad station.
f. Fourth Guark.liqsled",Arm_apa.
TE:PLIN,
Elements of both tie' 25tle Tank Div and .Ule 6th Gds Nene Div and
headquarters units (f the Fourth Gds 1ea& ArNy were coneirmed at
Camps VOGEL,SANG and HALT.Jazimuc, at the TiCHIN troop training
grounds up to the (led of July 1951. In general, the troops there
were engaged in emell-scale exercises at the restricted troop
training grounds ad south as Far as the 4ENDENIGK-EXI46rea, recruits
trained in the oempe. Training was shifte to the night the fourth
week of each month, Several tnits, includeog engineer units, returned
to TEOPLIN and th( military posts of the Fo:rth Gds Mecz Army from the
RATHENOW area betren 5 and 22 July 1951. he troops and materiel
which detrained, included an engineer unit o the 7th Gds Noce Div
and vehicles of the 10th Gds Tank Div. See 0.so paragraph 6c0 Engi-
neer units feom tte MPLIN area and from poses of the Fourth Gds Mem
Army were ehipped 07 ral.1 to the area south JCICHOW in mid-JulY
1951. See also parxgraph 6d.
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The LINBeROSE troop traieing grounds was still occupied by oleeents of
the 7th Gas Meez Div up eo the middle of July 1)51, Coeponents of
the 692d iiew Arty Reut zed of the 9th :7Asce Div arrived at Camp LIEBB-
RO6B on 10 July and prolably departed again atter ytaring for one week*
Five rocket launchers oi the 312th Gde RL Tteet of the Fourth ads Mecz
Army were entrained at IINEFROM, ehipment trward VRANITVeTiOder on
19 July 1951. Night exe'cises? as observed dur.ng the seconc . half of
May 1951, were continued at reader intervals ue to July 1951, Advanced
combat practice firing TR.S hell by Individual tenks in the LEPOKea-
TAUSR area with four to Iix talks practicing at one time,
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Special 'Exercises.
a. Uni,s at the 4USTROW AAA
raege until the middle of July 1951 incleded: elemeets of the 2d Gde
AAA Div, the 6th (?) Gds AAA IMF of the GOFG? the 3d '3ds AAA D117, and
t7le AAA division of the Fourth As Mem ArA7 Report e on rail move-
ments fairly definitely indicaie, that elements of the ?Id (?) AAA Div,
the 4th Gds AAA Dir, and the ueidentified AM unit fron PARCHIM were
also on the WUSTROO Peninsula A that time, The presetco there of
units of still other divisions of the GOFG and the arnies is probable*
According to reporte of the niolle of Juin, the units ereat to the
ZOTRM AAA range for four-weep training cycles. The -information seems
true in view of the intensive levements of Akil. units in .he Soviet
Zone of Germany? The units at .)USTROW were allegedly engaged in prac-
tice firing at towed-sleeve taieets only once I, week duriag the period 25X1
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lather motor vehicles seen at ALTalehABOa in the middle and at
the end of June belong, to the 6th (?) Gds AAA Div, the 4th AT Arty
Brie of the IV Arty Corps from JUBTRZOG, the 43d (Gds) Gun Arty
Brig of the Tiaghth Gds. Army, the AT artillery brigade of the XXVIII
Gds 1-4te Rifle Corps, the 18th ilece Dive the 31st AM Div, and head-
quarters units of the Second Gds Ilecz Army. The 30th Gds Gun Arty.
Brig of the unidentified artillery division from POTSDAM was still
at its quarters in the Delius Kaserne in POTSDAM on 13 Jay 1951.
However, since a large advance party of the unit left POTSDAM for
ALTENGRABOW on 5 July, the unit is expected to move out soon. An
exchange of personnel and vehicles belonging to the brigades of the
6th Arty Div was observed between the RATHENOW military post and the
ALTENGRABOW troop training grounds in the middle of JUly.
At the end of June and during the first half of July 19512 exercises
are believed to have been conducted in the 3CHOENHAUSEN-RATHEN04-
GROSSBEHNNZ-P2ITZERBE area.
Mece Army and the 19th Gds nem Div
As several engineer units were seen
believed that the problems included
the Elbe River south of STENDAL,
components of the Pourth tics
participated in these exercisesa
departing from this area, it is
a river-croesing exercise over
d, Engineer units of the Second and Fourth Gds T.1eo Armies were entrained
at tho military posts and the TEMPLIN training area for shipment to
the area south of XI:1MM in the middle of July 1951. No information
has been obtained regarding the purpose and duration of the exercise
there or of the strength of the units involved.
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e. The construction of engineer units in the JZRICHOO area was simultaneous:e
to the arrival, in the AKEN area, of engineer units of the Eighth Gds
Army and its two -ecorps, the 57th Gds Mtz Rifle Div,1 and the 21st Gds
Ueoz Div. It is possible that engineer exercises were to be held there,
but on a smaller ecale than that of the exercises during the first half
of 27ay 1951.
f. Air landing exercises by infantry units of the 39th Gds Nte Rifle Div
were conducted between the airfields of ALTENBURG and DRESDaN-KLOTZSCHE
at the end of June and the beginning of July 19512 with the troops
riding in gliders. This is the first time that the division has been
employed in such exercises. During preceding years, only elements of
the 57th Gds Utz Rifle Div performed air transport exercises.
reported- troop movements from east to west in, the GOERLITZ
area at the beginning. of July 1951. Their identity and destination could
not be determined. Since, according to unsubstantiated rumors, a large
troop camp has been established In the NIESKY- area, it is possible that
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they returned from the east. The other nine trains which were not
observed when returning from the east, are fairly definitely believed
to have brought eecruits to the Soviet Zone of Germans. The number of
incoming trains with recruits may have again increased by trains which
were confirmed ao having departed eastuardn, but were not identified
when returning to the Soviet ZODO of Ge ::;ince it is doubted
that these six tzains should have returned empty, they are believed to
Save brought total of incoming trains with recruits to 53. assuming
that each train carried from 1,200 to 1,400 men, the total number of
recruits who arrived in the fjoviet Zone of Germany between 1 Jane and
1 July 1951 is estimated at 63,000 to 74,000. The fact that the east-
bound trains were sometimes loaded with soldiers and sometimes crafty
excludes a similar computation of the number of dischargees. However,
it is believed that the number of dischargees was equal to at least
50 percent of the incoming recruits. No trains carrying either recruits
or dischargeeo have been observed in KUESTRID since 2 July 1951 however,
reports from FRANKFMT/Oder have been conflicting0 reporting
from there claimed to have seen no shipments of personnel, both westbound
and eastbound, since about 1 July, whereas
trains with personne7. arrived from the east every night up to 17 slily at
A-, rate of one train per night. f Ispecified that the trains,
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motives east or toe toper itiver ana nauiea to Camps GROTTEITME and PUN=
in the western sector of SILNEFURT/Oder, where the Incoming personnel
stayed for several days and subsequently left aboard regular trains for
military poets in ties Soviet Zone of Germany, primarily toward SCH.E1C1.11,
Singe reports from =LIMN and STU-41)AL mention the arrival of small ship-
meets of recruits up to about 20 July, it appears possible that recruits may
have actually arrived at FRANKFURT/oder on sane trains during the first half
of July. It is doubted, however, that they should have arrived there at a
rate of one trainload per right from 1 to 17 July?
8, Officers continued to arrjve at FRAMMT/Oder aboard leave traina and the
Blue Express untti the first half of July 1951 with the result that, for
example, the ?Meer corps of the 175th Tank Regt of the 25th Tank Div, which
Is at =MIN At present,erportedly increased from 150 to 180 officers?
Leave traffic through FRANKFURT/Oder in both directions decreased during the
period from) June to 18 July 1951. Some troop units have canceled furloughs
for their nyrsonnel since about 1 July. Dat in spite of this, a second pair
of leave trains. ran in both directions on the FRANKFURT/Oder-BREST-LITOnK 25X1
line ever/ third day up to the middle of July.
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The traffic situation of the Soviet Zone Railroads has remained virtually
constant compared with the previous month. However, the backlog of loaded
c8rc imrva!led5 and as nany as 2021T. leaded rnilroad cars- viore awaitltf; tL0-,
patch on 2 Jay. Of these 2,114 cars were consigned to the East and the
Baltic. Sea ports. The backlog was probably due to late acceptance on the
part of the Polish railroad authorities?
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13. The coal st cks (in metric tons) of the Soviet Zone Railroads on
2 July amounted to: 125,679 tons of hard coal, 170943 tons of raw
brown coal, 75, 090 tons of brown coal briquettee, 2,204 tone of
coke, and 186 tone of coal dust. That is a total of 221,102 tons
which was increased by about 54,000 tons as compared to the previous
month and constituted about 13 days' supply
14. The park of operational cars amounted to about 75,000 units on
2 July and is still below the intended target of 80,000 cars. An
average of 23,000 to 25,000 cars, including from 300 to 700 cars
reauired by the L,oviet occupation power, were loaded daily*
15. On 31 2471 the following locomotives were available in
Zone of Germany:
Parke2EEatlEng-LIEREalives
Type of Locomotive Serviceable Under Repair Total
or Awaiting
Repair
German locomotives 3,148 1,619
(learning coal dust) (13) (32)
Column locomotives 323 53
locomotives 23 5
Foreigekeowned
Narrow-gauge
locomotives 147 56
the 3oviet
Unservice- Grand
able Loco- Total
motives
.?1111.1.01141?01/m...1111.0....1111....114...........ceumtelbetiVr!LOrivilOCOAC8.??????Ali^
14,767 764 50531
(45) (-) (45)
376 - 376
28 1,069 1,097
203
209
Total
3,641 1,733 5,374 1,839 7,213
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Compared with the status of 1 April 1951, the stock of locomotives of
the Soviet Zone Railroads has increased by 11 units, while the number
of serviceable locomotives decreased by 107 units, which is indicative
of a deterioration of the repair situation. The scrapping of locomotives
has been allegedly stopped, by Soviet order, since late June*
16 flo new information has been received on the park of serviceable freight
cars. On 31 Say 1951, 7,802 freight cars and 1,092 passenger coaches
were reported as being in need of repair. The return of Gorman freight
cars from the U.S.0%R. continued*
17. A total of 376 column locomotives are available in the Soviet Zone of
Germany. Locomotive Coluens kith about 120 locomotives 25X1
are still active and stationed in FRAnFURT/Oder. Locomotive Columns
25X1 I frith about 60 locomotives are also active and stationed in
GOTTBUS and HGTERSaaRDA respectively. A total of 173 locomotives of
deactivated Locomotive Columns' are being kept 25X1
cold at various railroad statibns. Twenty-three express-train locomotives
wease reassigned to Soviet Locomotive Column for military passenger 25X1
traffic between the Soviet Zone of Germany and BREST LITOVSK, U.S.S.R.
The only chane observed in the locomotive columns was the transfer of
25X1 Locomotive Column from RBEDNITZ to the LIMSOLV area. This transfer
may have been only a temporary measure in connection with the 1951 inter-
national Youth Festival in BERLIN. It appemrs that locomotive columns
in the FRAEKFURT/Oder area were employed at an increased rate during the
frw-, 22 '1117Y) 1.1 1(: Ally 1951, apparently hr"-"In'4f 1,71
freight traffic rather than troop movements. During tte period Iroe
27 June to the end of the International Youth Festival, furloughs were
cancelled for all personnel operating column locomotives*
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18, Principal construction projects:
a. The plans for the construction of a second track on the single-
track FRAIdKFULTAder-REPPEN and KUESTRIN-STRAUSBERG railroad lines
also provides for the construction of a second track on the Oder
River bridges at FRANKFURT/Oder and KUESTRIN.
b. The MUBUKOg railroad station on the ROSTGCK-ZSflAR railroad line
is being improved. It serves as detraining point for the M1STROU
AAA range.
c. To establish better railroad connection for the Foundry Combine
East under construction in the FUERS1ENMRG/Oder are and to
relieve the KiaTIOIJIZT/Oder-B1-MIll trunk line, a new railroad line
between aRUNOW and ZILTENDORF is planned. In connection with this
ploject? the ZILMDCO freight yards requires improveeent.
The
FRAVKFURT/Oder-FUERSTENBERG railroad line is scheduled to be recon-
structed as a double-track line in the fall of 1951.
General.
a Soviet AAA division
is carried in Hungary. On the whole, no eesential chances were dis-
cernible in the disposition of Soviet ground forces in the 3oviet Zone
of Austria and in Hungary up to the middle of July 19510
20. The Hq 13th Gds Lem., Div
eanization0
was confirmed until 22 July 1951,
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The subordination of the 2d Gds necz Div, in the area southeast of
BUDAPEST. to the He Central Grey of Forces in BADEN near 1714 25X1
definitely confirmed by a document of August 1950.
22. The observation of AAA units arriving at, and departing from. the
APETLeN AAA range since the beginning of June 1951
linaicated that, in
addition to the 23d AAA Div in Austria, another AAA division muot be
stationed in luneery? probably subordinate to the Central (amp of
Forces.
Transfer of Units.
23. After being vacated by Soviet Air Force units, the troop quarters in
MIENSTADT wore reoccupied by elements of the 9th Gds Utz ti.ifle Div,
possibly the 2011th Gds Ntz Rifle Rect, from 3AD FISCHAU at the beginning
of July 1951. At the same time, the barracks installation in KAIST,2,-
EDELSDORF was vacated by a component of the 13th ads Necz Div and turned
over to the Austrian Federal Government.
24, According to an unsubstantiated report, the Hq 13th Gds illeez Div departed
from VIENNA between 16 and 22 July 1951. Its vehicles were seen driving
toward BADEN and SanECHAT. It has not been determined whether the
headenarters was reassigned to another note
Traintipre.
SWAIM lit