GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900490004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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-DATE 'REPARE!?__,.3.7 Ynrch 195-3
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1. Materiel loaded and unloaded at the Neustrei.itz railroad station between
.,F) and 25 February '11-953 inc:.-.id,d;
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At about 10 a.,r:' on 21 Fehr. r:.;, a column of about 153 trucks occupied by
troops and carrying equips erg-; and about 25 x 57 mm AT guns + mid about 25
mortars loaded on tucks ent.E rcid the Pionier Kaserne in 3randenb221:c i" .g
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At 2 p x.. on 25 February, akb:inr 200 soldiers and about 20 trucks loaded
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Kaserne were end: ?alre a o Altritadt railroad station, 4 25X1
Troop trains passing thro,
auh the Satzkorn railroad station included a tra.:n
carrying about 250 soldie_'s, l;" x 57 -cxt AT guns and an undetermined numbe3
of rotor vehicles, coning from lienrLhausen and proceeding toward Wildpark, 25X1
on 23 February; and a train carrying an undetermined nurber of Soldiers,
57 ran AT guns, 160-arm nortar?s end motor vehicles, coming from 5Nennhausen
a.nd proceeding toward Jueterbor-Altes Lager, on 24 February,
Troops and in teriel unloaded att:i.e Satzkorn railroad station and bound fc'i
the Kavallsrieschul in Kremzrnitz included about 100 soldiers, 21 `T-t,4/76
and T-34/85 tanks; and ah:rut 120 soldiers and 29 T-34/70 and i-34/85 tanJ ,
on 21 February; and about 100 soldiers and 25 tanks of the above' mentionec
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At 7 or. 2 March, a troot train cons =sting of several boxcars and an
und.otr.r.n1ned. nur.^.ber of flatcars carrying 11 T-34/85 tanks and about 4 to 6
true i.s left the axrr.,unition donot at Gerwisch for Halbers-a;adt,
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OCaF merat o The detraining of these units of the 9th Gds Tank Div which
returned fron exercises north of Neurup?;in was repeatedly retoA ted
the trucks of the 9th Gds Tank Div, which
were entrained on 16 Februc.,.rya yore bound for Berlin or Ulauen.
Ccx s2ent . The err rai n_.ng robah1y involved units of the 495th How eta
DS; and a~.tnit of the 126th Gde HL Bn of the 9th Gds Tank Div which
according to records on transrortatinn, were transferred to Luckenwalde
for short-terra advanced combat practice firing in the north -art of the
Jueterbog trocr training rounds z However, the howitzer battalion probably
is ansigned not tore than 1'_2 x 122-rrn field howitzers
Coy^sr:en+? The coltunr seen entering the Pionier Kaserne in fandenbta^g
e .an ea. to the 10th rids Tr_nk Div. probably the 63d Gds Tank legt whvch,
however, is assigned not ;T ere than 12 x 57 -nn AT runs, 1.`> x 82-ran mortars
and about 90 trucks. The three trains unloaded. in Satzkorn on 21 and 22
February, probably also carried units of the division which may have held
joint exorcises irith the above r entiened regir.nant. It is rossible, though
not very xrobar:le, that the units on the three trains r-articirated in the
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exercises of the Fourth Gd;; 1,ecz Arty northeast of R.athernow
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rrot;able that the division heir:- exercises in the Fritzerbe area . northwest 25X1A
of Brandenburg, There exercises were observed with one 25X1
exe:raises betwe:-.n 10 and 21 February; however it was not 25X1
possible to idortify the units involved in the exorcises ,: L__ I
Corr -0rat a According; to r?ererts on transportation, the train which
carried units of the 20th ~.r-y .1,rty Brig (US), went to Schwerin. The units
tray have perticir Rte d in tie s er-cices of the 94th Gds Mtz Rifle. Div in the
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co: r.xent, The two trains p:--oh9t=1y ca,e fror.. D eberitz, w- - re two
a ns were reL:c..t tex loea.cie:4 ?>it tt:e 1st F ecz Div with the wir;e miter of
the t_r^i.ns went to Forst Zinna and/or Jucter.bog?
Taherre tae units ?ro'i.a~t-ly en?-ge:< in advanced cnntat ,.ract ice firing.
Ciol:'T.^:ent. the engineer troo :,3
longed to the Third Arr.Y o r~oy r.ay have seen array engineers which
rep=ur:.u.i:==:Ly went for exE?I?c;i; e-r c inforr.ati.on on engineer units of the
as r^;4 in the military in ,:ag~:k.eburg hat' been received; however
it is ecs:iii..le that one of the Installations which can be covered and ,-
-riorly is occur:i.ed by engitioerea This possibility arr'oay"s the pore probab e
r only one army engineer:- x,a t ta.l.ion has been id c-ntif ied in Barby.
IIl' r xm1 The first train nrobatly carried AAA unite of the 6th Gds
.-e iv stationed in Bernaus and the second train elenents of the 63d
AAA Div (US) stationed in :~'uFir.s t, n1aa:,.lde, as, according t:) rerorts on trans.
po:r?tati.on., .similar zhi: men's wont fror the costs ne itioned to Jueterbog
on 1 Ya.rch. The AAA units proba _-7.y were to nartici ate in advanced combat
rracticE firing at the troop training g> ounde .
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7 nsta].'_ a.tion is a forner= G jr an ai :~.unition de -ot, which read been vacated
in l~'47 and was not utilized r :=r this date
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