QUARTERING AREA OF THE 10TH GDS TANK DIV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004800510012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2007
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
COUNTRY East GeMany
TOP!(; Chum 3r inz Area of the 10th Gds Tank Div
EVALUA-ION J_ECE OBTAINED
DATE 0= CONTENT
MT E Oi3 TAINED-, DATE PREPAR
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REMkRKS-
3etween 14 June and 25 July 1954, the Kavallerie Schule (2161) in Krampnitz
appeared to be occupied to capacity. Soldier's observed enter?n;~ and
leaving the installation wore red-bordered black epaulets with %ank,
artillery, signal and motor transport insignia. A civilian who previously
acccn.Danied the units to a ?ummer camp stated that they would not transfer
to a ssummer caip this year and that he would move to Thuringia in 1955,
:.ather than Letziing Heath as previously. 1 Trucks and tanks engaged
in driving practices on the road and in the terrain north of the
?Q.. T-34 tankcs
On.< Four JSU-1 _ guns~
22 Jana Six ;tanks, presumably S?3s,
.ie as Six T-34/85 tanks
Between 19 and 24 June, the Kavallerie Schule in Kreunpnitz was occupied as
previously by 69000 to 7,000 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets.
?3e ;ween 27 June and 14 July, the strength figure of the installation could
not be determined o Only a few windows in the east section of the
installation were lit at dusk. Elements of the traits stationed there
.ppeared to be a 2, the Doebe% tz troop training grounds for exercises and
-training in the instellatiogt decreased considercbly. 3 Basic trra::ning
of 30 to hO ;soldier? was observed west and north of -'she installation on
a _pew days.' On 12 July, abort 12 trucks and 5 srrr o "heel armored personnel
va.erie:rs were seen .1-n the area on u1' on i xa eel. `..he vehicles carried a total
If% SS.E0).Er
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Between 24 June and 22 July, the Kriegsschule in Potsdam was occupied
by 800 to 1,000 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets with
,artillery,, tank and motor transport insignia. No training was observed
in. the yard during the period of observation. On 22 June, the 120-mm
mortars and trucks, which until then had been parked in the barracks
area, were observed in three newly erected sheds on the east side of
the installation. At noon on 8 July, about 15 of the trucks with guns
were absent. 5 . On 14 July, it was determined that the sheds were
fenced in and could no longer be obsert. . On 22 July ntmerous fresh
imprints of tracks led from the cats on Kirschall. toward Bornstedt. 4
1. C t,, The informtion on a transfer to Thuringia of the 10th
s t Div in 1955 is forwarded with great reserve. The iinidcation of
the abandonment of the summer camp of the division near Colbitr, in the
southern portion of the Letsiing Heath is reported for the first tea
3. ens. According to previous inforution, tank units from the
Kevalleri.e Schule transferred to the south section of the Doeberitz
troop tra,i grounds for exercises in late Juns.
4 ~C Ater the winter of 1953/54, the two installations haw-
been carried occupied as fo1his<
the Adolf Hitler serne (2287) by the 63d Gds Tank Ragt of the 10th Gds
Tank Div, and a driving school unit of rear services of the GSFG; and the
iegsschul.e (2288) by the 299th Gds Mort Regt and the 359th Gds ?.A Rest
of the loth Gd.s Tank Div,
The present information does not indicate any changes in the occupation of
the Adolf Hitler .se e: prior `6 ~ the vtmmar of 1954
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The occupation of Kriegsschule appears to have changed. The 359th Gds
AAA Regt believed stationed there has not been confirmed there since
the winter of 1953/54. It presumably transferred to the Kavallerie Sehule
in Krempnitz. In addition to the continually confirmed 299th Gds Mort
Regt, the installation apparently also houses the unidentified artillery
regiment of the 10th Gds Tank Div.. This assumption is supported by the
observation there of field howitzers. Small elements of the 63d Gdo Tank
Regt may also be stationed there.
. On 8 July, elements of the 299th Gds Sort Regt of the 10th
Div moved from Satzkorn to Altengrabow. They stayed at the
training area until 22 July,,
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