SOVIET TROOPS IN NEUBRANDENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010900220004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Between 22 Decerabor 1951 and 15 January 1952, one building of the Panzer Kaserne,
Neuhrand:3nbur~; (N 54/o 66), quartered an engineer unit; a second building, the
officers and men of a tank training unit; a third buildings, the recruits of the tank
unit and a radio station; and a fourth building, the trained personnel :)f a tank
unit,, A .'ifth building contained the apartment of Colonel Sokolovski (f nu) s
coding officer of the tank unit. The building also housed offices and
billets of the headqu~..rters person'ael of the tank unit,,, a club and a motion picture
theater. he building quartering the engineer unit was separated won the billeting
area of tie tank unit by a board fence0 The engineer troops prepared their on noalo.
fol.lo;ring the return of the tank troops from the 1951 fall
nanouvor,r, 603 liters of soup were prepared twice a day for the tank troops., each
soldiar receiving 0.5 liters of soup tnico daily,
20 . On 22 December 1951, 65 recruits arrived in that section of the billeting ar :a of
the tank unit which contained the quarters of the tank trainin:; battalion. From 60
to 65 trucks on blocks wore seen in the garages of the ines',.allation up to 15
Janua.' 0
3o Frior to 15 January, the duty schedule of the tank unit listed reveille at 6 a0ma,
cal.li,3the:nics from 6 to 6:15 a.m.; policing of quarters and breakfast from 6:15
to 8 a.n,; drill, field training and instruction from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. diner
and s-lp-:)x:r recesses from 3 to 4 an(? from 8to 9 p.m? respectively and theoretical
inctr~iction from 9 to 10:33 p,rn0 L 8 aa_followed by sinking and marching
around the barracks yard0
Major Merzikov (fnu), supply officer in the Panzer Kasorner, left
for roasEignraent and was succeeded by a lieutenant colonel,
Gor:nent, The information confir;as the Panzer Kaserne as quartering components
3 af_" ?dop Pon Bridge Bn of the Second Gds I,:ocz .Arr r and components of the
unidentified Gds Hv Tank SP reg;i:3ent of the 9th Gds Tank Div, The hitherto
unidentified Colonel Sokolovski fnu) will be tenta ried as conryanding
officer of Uric latter re
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Approved For Release 2006/03/18 : CIA-RDP82-004,57R01oann77nnr1~,-7