MILITARY INFORMATION FROM DROSDEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008800120002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 7, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT NO._.
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Kas orne9 Drosdon, the installation was occupied bar only a si,:nal cotr)any
open^a~'ing the radio and, toletypo office .:Jost of the troops
f ors t ? n$tallatjon' vfno wore red-bordered black epaulets, t^rere at the
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k isa.tod,.tho,.Adol.f Hitler lcasorne. 'oririariv +.i,
e is oa a w?~ava ta-I~~n :gip rcrsidanco in the Inn
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Officers Identified by the inforrlat an the hdolf, Hitler Berne included
Colonel Visiairilyov, (fnu), corrianding officer of the troops wearing 'black
bor%-:tired green epaulets; ; 1ajor 2otin (fnu)g adjutants ;;ajor I azan ,(fnu)S
barracks co mandant ? Senior lieutenant Bas (fnu.) 9 drill officer; and Lieu to-
nant : az3r ev rfnu) officer in charge of drivers' training. 11ajor lRazan was
alb in char,, .,,o of the German labor employed at the installation,,
25X1 3' , the Adolf Hitler Kasorne quartered about l$ Y 000 troops
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band,' and basic training of 30 sole- iers with black bordered black epaulets, no
,training. , activity was noticed on three dmr di ' nxr +11a ri__4. A ,.s' w___..v~.A -__
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green and crii son . service colors
wore seers" mad a ?card unit of soldiers wearing, black-bordered black epaulets
and.. red--bordered black epaulets without branch-of-; erzrjce insigniam
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The 1_; aschirenge^wehr Kaserrao on Alaunplatz quartered about 600 troops
w 'io wore r pd-bordered black epaulets without branch -of-se,rvIce 1.nsi~'ni a?
Troops were seen drilling and engaged in physical train-in
Five groups tttaling 60 to 80 men with rod-bordered blac:. epaulets were
observed drilling and practicing with hand grenades 25
had increased after 9 Ju],y, Troops )bscrved were
eluding new ax rivals because training activity
6. The SS Kaserne, gilder A rsn, quartered about 1,200 troops probably in-
yo=3 and wore red-bordered black epaulets with and without tank insignia,
About 100, soldiers with red-bordered black epaulets, 1 TD-34 tans, truck 25X1
1120 recruits arrived in the ;:.iaschirers ew hr uuserne or, A3:aun-
platz on 4 trucks
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the Adolf Tiltler Kaserne and the Grenadier Kaserne
still quartered the same troops previously observed thee? The number of
troops in the forcer installation was esti-natedd at 700. A truck
in the terrain adjoining the li ] etint; area lank and 25X1
several sidecar motorcycles were seen in the barracks card (i~)
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7? The barracks installation in Dresden-Ueb' ~gau still quartered a unit of about 60C
non who wore black-bordered epaulets without branch-of-se:'vice insignia,
The apartment or Scharfenberg Strassep which quartered soldiers with rest--
bordered black epaulets,, indicatIng that,
the ttrobpa had left with the exception of the soldiers maming the six AA
guns emplaced at Ueb gau. (S), 25X1
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a camp of 1 *0 tents quartering about 400 troops was seen on the
eras u bank of the Elbe River bettacen the autobahn bridge at Uobigau and the
channel at ditz. The troops were black-bordered. black epaulets,, blue-
boader ed black epaulets and rod-bordered black epaulets. They practiced
bridge building and handling of engineer equip Herat, (6)
it was learned I that, Soviet troops
hm>d c~, zped in the woods just east of the Luftlsriet Schuie~ in Dresden-
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10.otzsche., On 23 July., inspected the camp site in the woods and
deter fined that the quartering capacity of the ca-in could have amounted
to e, 000 men, 1(7 )
the Flak Kaserne in Dresdon-N ckorn seemed to be only
partially occupied. the guard Unit there 25X1
numbered about 100 mens eatiriatec. the number of 25X1
troops quartered in the :installation at between S0 and 15C soldiers and
believed them to belong to a penal battalion. (8)
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Adolf Hitler Kaserno has been occupied by between 700 and 1,-000 troops
since mid-June 1951. Prior to the beginning of June 1950, they strength
of the troops there was reported several times to have been about 19800 to
2,000 n4n. The statement in paragraph 1 of the present repor ; that an
,~1e>nent of the llti? G s Div. wh'.ch is c r.i tee there r tb ?
has c..ovod to ~ ocr i. 4 s~xr uook is given credence r, and 25X1 A
25X1A It is moss lble that the installation is, at. Present,, occu-
pied pr imar31y by recruits in addition to being an. army iieadqusrtors signal
unit with a radio station, a filling station and a depot for electric equip-
ment,
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(2 The information indicates that the lIq First Gds, :,.oc3 Ar was still
located in the former Germ &n 101st Grenadier Refit Kasorno0 I
(3) According to the present and previous reports
dle . ch inenge o+rohr Kasorne on Alaunplatz wa& occupied by a
headquarters unit of the First fGds :1ocz !rroj in June and July 1951, 25X I
(I.) The information on the SS K serve, Jilder jann, suppcrts previous
25X1 A c+ ncInsions as to the trod s stationed there until the beginning of
11-11:1;7 1951 The number of trcops there has
25X1 A fluctuated greatly since May 1951, apparently due to the rotation cf
wits to i1oeni~psbruccieo
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11, e occupation of the barracks instn Ll.atior= In Dresden-Uebigau has
not Changed.
(C,) Vie engineer training site at the 'Alt Kaditz ferryhouse was previously
25X1A r :portcdo Seel I The troops who, according to the
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present report, practiced Uiere are believed to belong to the 134th
Gds Engir Un of the 1-th Gds Tank Div from the barracl s in;itallation in
Ucibigauo
received from -oho observed an amount of
tents, weapons and vehicles which could have constituted the equipment
of not more than a battalion e F_ I 25X1 A
f 8) The Flak Kaaser ne in Dresdon-Nickern quarters the 496-La (Gds 7) Arty
!'C ,,-t of the 11th Gas Ten% Div., which is believed to have been at Noon. ,s