MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE RITTKAU-GRIEBEN-TANGERHUETTE AREA.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015300440002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
~,',~-.~ :?.ilitary Information from the Jittkaud-Grieben-Tangcrhuette Area.
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EVALUATIO
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DATE OF CONTEN
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REFERENCES
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REMARKS
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L_-PLACE OBTAINE
RATE PREPARED 17 lioveiaber 19C'2
_ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
engineer insignia practiced briW e building, on a nearby ?;teadow on the ";lbe 'fiver.,
About 30 other pontoons were loaded onto trucks about 1.)3 rioters uu.astreara of the
loading place mentioned above. Troops weari;1g bla tik-bord.. r- d black e-i~iu lets ;iith.
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T1:e Soviet komendatura in Criebea 53/Y 83) was dissolved on 28 Seotember. ? 25X1
.1 c 9 a ,.,n. on 2 October, 21 trucks, billeting equi.p,nent, engineer equip nont and
croois wearing red-bordered black epaulets were loaded onto gondola cars and
16 boxcars at the Tan?erhuette railr ad tation,
On 3 3c o ber, motor vehicles in 11olte
were loaded v i i bridge building equipment throughout the clay and the following
ni-;.ht. They hauled the materiel to the lbe diver where it was loaded onto Elbe
liver Poat . oatnen stated that the cargo was consigned to Parbyr (L f2/D 68).
A ferry towing pontoons was near the boat. The ferry carried about co Pontoons
A raft toyed by a :rotor boat carried troops with black--bordered black enaulots 556
2. On 8 October ? a field exercise was held in the area of Bittk:au, Pol tc., n;nd Paro r,
in the course of which 17 aircraft laurtcheec1 a bombing attack against t?1n area
of Parey at about l n, rn. Three AT mans emplaced in the en inee~r trainin:; area on
the -western bank fired in the direction of Parey with practice a nrnirnitinn at
about 1:30 p.m. Subsequently, two motorboats ferried troops acress the river frog;
the eastern Tank. The boats had been hauled to the river on, snectal --?rai.ler.a
owed by trucks. A JS tank fa cin ; toward Parey was on the edc7e of the village
of Polte. The tank later changed position and wu3ved to the 0.be -liver,. .r"~baut, X1
other tanks -7ere assembled between Polte and Rin furth., lrooos Wearing red-- 25X1
bordered .lack epaulets took un >osition on the Slopes of the. western hank. The
Polte-Tan erhuette road was blocked to civilian traffic..,
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711 .,; October thrae batteries with a total of ? 2x). 2 - "~ ?oo?ritzers, a`ld three 1ar-,
arr-unition trailers, all. towed by rrirze rovers, caaa fro:) the c.irection
of -ittkau ? nd -..era loaded Taq!:-nrhuPLfP, milrnnd 5X1
loadings the
day and nor,. at the an;;=er ue to and ,al-7.wthkel railroad s-,at:ions and t.Iiit oon
one clay, at-out 100 tanks had been loaded in Tang er huette
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area as well as the _oacc nt s which were made by units of the, Third m51nck Arr: ~r
confirm the transfer to their _:)osts of engineer units of the ; :1 _rywd ~: .:fir Army,
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:1ri-,r t n of the Thar Shock Army from Darby, '1'ho :'~'.l' artillery
columm that moved f.ro:: Polte to Tanf.rerhuette or, va ;sr, )resu,lat:i+:,;- - ^;rtl.ci.2ated
in the field exercise co:.,:lented on the Tie ar!;illery 3_ieces 25X1
possibly belong to _the unidentified NT artillery unit in ate tclal~_;~r;,tc,1.t
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Co rrent. There is the possibility that units of the
a final ma-euver ;prior to their return to the `)osts on 0 Jctoi.er in the cos rse oy:
.i..ch a :e head , 7113 s presuxably to be established on the eastern bank of the
1c:e ,liver off Parer, njineer units and, probably{, also -b its of the arry fro:_ the
T?ei;zlin; :'Leath participated in the ::ianeuver,
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a~ er having -partici~)aied in the fail maneuvers of tho ~hird Shock navel 25X1
to the maneuvers of the i i rhth Ids ririay. The loading of the units in ^'angerhuette
on 3 :)ctobe.~. and their unload ' n,r Dessau ~~1%3,onr
5. Cor.1^ont4 The de rturre of units w',1' 1 od eurers of the
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