MILITARY SHIPMENTS AT THE SATZKORN RAILROAD STATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900610006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
East Germain
Military Shipments at the Satskorn Railroad Station
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DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED-
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REMARKS This is UNEVALUATED Information
DATE PREPARED
28 April 1955
1. Between 1730 and 2215 on 9 Anr 1955a the following materiel was entrained for
Lychen at the Satzkorn railroad station
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2 T-34 tanks, 2 T-34 tanks without armament, 6 x 122-anm field howitzers, 2 x 57 mm
AT guns, 17 x six-.wheel armored personnel carriers, 2 four-wheel armored personnel 25X1
carriers. 28 trucks-._4 field kitchens,, 1 repair shop truck, 1 bus,, 1 jeep,, and 1
sedan
2. On 10 Au'rii. the following materiel was entrained for Lychen
2 x 85.4m AT guns, 2 x 57-sun AT guns,, 2 x 120-mm mortars,, 19 six-wheel armored 25X1
personnel carriers,, 25 trycks,, 2 tank trucks,, 2 field kitchens,, 3 repair shop trucks,
1 sedan and 1 motorcycle. 25X1
3. At 0530 on 10 Avril. the following shipment arrived from Haldensleben
and was unloaded at the Satzkorn railroad stations
12 -54 tanks, 4 JS-1 tanks, 2 JSUT?R122 guns, 3 repair shop trucks,, 1 tank trucks 25X1
2 ambulances,, 1 field kitchen,, 1 buss, 1 jeep,, 10 trucks,, 10 boxcarloads of personnel
and 5 bexcarloads of ammunition.2 At 1435 an 11 Avrila a shipment of 9 T-3h5 tanks,
3 boxcarloads of ammunition and an escorting detail of 2 officers and 12 soldiers was
entrained for Stendal
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4. At 1900 on 13 April. 20 T-54 tanks,, 1 baxcarload of equipment and 1 boxcar with an
escorting detail arrived from Brest-Litovsk d 25X1
were unloadedo4
5. At 2200 on 13 AAri4 a shipment of 6 JSU guns without armaments, 1 JS.-]. tank and,, on a
boxer,, an escorting detail arrived from Kirohmoeser and was unloaded.5
6. At 0345 on 15 Anil& a shipment of 9 T-54 tanks,, 1 JS-.1 tank,, 2 JSU-122 guns,, 1 repair
shop truck,, 1 ambulance,, 1 jeeps, 5 trucks 5 boxcarloads of soldiers and 4 boxearloads6
of equipment arrived from Halde&sbsn was unloaded.
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7o At 0900 an 15 Anr'il, a train carrying 8 x 85-am AA guns,, 4 generators,, 2 field kitchens,,
1 ambulance,, 28 trueks,, 11 bomeare with soldiers and 2 boxcars with equipment passed
through the Satskern railroad station~snd proceeded toward Oranienburg. he train
came from the direction of Jueterbog.
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8. In the morning of 15 A 6 T-34/85 tanks and, on 1 boxcar an escorting
detail were loaded for erstenwalde
9. In the morning of 16 April 7 T-34/85 tanks, and, on-boxcar, an escorting
detail were entrained for Berlin-Sehoeneweide
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C t The trains on 9 and 25X1
10 April 1955 carried units of.the 10th Gds Tank Div, which transferred to
the Templin training grounds. The motor vehicle0 is believed to belong 25X1
to the 10th Gds Tank Div. `
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[Cc t. The tank firing details of the 10th Gds Tank Div. which had 25X1
transferred to Hillersleben on 1 April returned
to their installation. 25X1
C , The T-34/85 tanks of the 10th Gds Tank Div which were entrair25X1
for 'uerstenwalde, Berlin-Sehoeneweide and Stendal on 11, 15 and 16 April,
were presumably forwarded to th 7th Gde Mecz Div in Fueratenwalde and Bedin-
Schoeneweide and the 207th Mtz lfle Div in Stendal upon arrival of T-54 tanks.
A total of about 60 T-34/85 tanks has so far been dispatched to posts of
mechanized and rifle divisions by the 10th Gds Tank Div.
C t Available information indicates that, including the tanks 25X1
menu oned in the present report., the 10th Gds Tank Div is equipped with a total
of approximately 140 T-54 tanks. 25X1
C nt, Tanks which had undergone repair work presumably returned from
e chmoeser tank repair shops
Comment L The tank firing detail of the 10th Gds Tank Dive which
transferred to Haldensleben one 5, pr
returned to its inatallationo
Comments This ALL shipment cannot be explained.
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