TRAINING OF GERMAN OFFICERS IN THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010000330003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY 1 O RATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO,
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT
Training of German Officers in the USSR
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W s. a teaching staff were all Soviet officers. The long general staff
coursq qualified its graduates for ranks higher than colonel, the shorter course
only up to the rank of colonel. The students had to take monthly and quarterly
examinations, concluding with a course examination before a special examination
2. Former German general staff officers asserted that k four years at the German
military academy they had not been able to assimilate what was taught them in
the USSR in fifteen months. During the course) the students were shown many
new, still secret. weapons.
3. The most important subjects taught were: politics, tactics, deployment of
troop units up to army level, partisan combat, assessment of the morale of enemy
troop units, assessment of the morale of the population of enemy-occupied
territories, propagandizing of enemy troop units, and propagandizing of the
population of enemy-occupied territory.
4. The students were taught the relative weight to be attached to various methods
of warfare.. They were told that, despite the atomic bomb, the infantry retains the
decisive share in warfare. In the last analysis, what is important is the high
morale and disposition for war of the citizenry and troops.
5. The head of the school was a Soviet general. The chief instructors were Soviet
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its graduates for ranks up toirb lonel. They were under the command of Lenkeit (fnu),
at that time of the Brandenburg Bereitschaftspolizei.
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Comment: It was previously reported that in October 1949 Wagner andri
Markgraf were receiving training in a school for platoon and company commanders at
Volsk on the Volga run by Colonel Petrakov.
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