TRANSFER OF THE KRIEGSSCHULE IN POTSDAM AND LEADINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100120004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 1 and 5 December 19529 2 x 85-mm AA guns, 3 : 37-mm AA guns,; 18 x 16o-mm
"mortars and 30 trucks loaded with billeting equipment and instruction material
were entrained at the Wildpark railroad stations coming from the Kriezsschule
in Potsdam,, All officer candidates with their baggage and all officers left
the Kriegsschule on 5 and 7 December respectively The Kriegsschule was
subsequently occupied by only a few -.drrth istrative- officers, recruits and
women, The Orman employees were given notice for 5 December)-
Officers were still seen at training, probably as trainees of an instruction
course, in the west section of the Adolf Hitler Kaserne.. The number of recruits
in the east section of the installation had decreased The Ruinenberg Kaserne
was being vacated b;T the Soviets,. An advance party of VPs; who wore green
service color, arrived at the installation:,2 In the afternoon of 5 December,
8 x 85-mm and 8 x 37-mm AA guns and 0 trucks were loaded at the Wi]l.clpark rails
road station, coming from Krampnit7, In the night of 9 December? 32 JF'.,3 tanks
which had arrived from the direction of Seeburg,, were loaded at the I0Jildpark
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the Kriegssehule in Fotsd.am, which beranLon 1~December,,`wastprevious reported
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';he transfer was completed on 7 December 195?_:,
change in the occupation of the : doff Hitler Kaserne 2no:LcaTes a moo: t no
whereas the iuinen erg aserne apriears to have been vacated by the
signal u t or sif naal school. stationed there, in early December. It is not known,
whether the vacation of the Ruinenberg Kaserne was made in conjunction with the
transfer of thi3 officer candidate school, The advance party of the VPs, according
to service color, belongs either to the border police , presumably., to rear
ervice- of the KVP., the VP had requested
the :'oviet Army to v .: Z e o Hitler Kaserne. It is possible that, at this
request, the Russians relinquished the Ruincnberg Kaserne located nearby?
Cv menu Possibl~r, elements of the 359th Gds Tank SP Regt of the 10th Gds Ta,kDiv front. Y,rampnit7Awere, detrained 81st GdU III,
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