MILITARY SHIPMENTS AT SATZKORN AND MAGDEBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007100740008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
NOFORN
COUNTRY East Germany REPORT
TOPIC Military Shipments at Satzkorn and Magdeburg
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
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DATE PREPARED
PAGES ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE),
26 May 1955.
1. On 3 and 4 May 1944, the following shipments were loaded at Satzkorn:
For Altengrabow: 25X1
3 May. At 2130, a shipment of 2 x 152-mm gun howitzers. 3 tractors, 3 repair
k't hens 18 boxcarloads of equipment and 6 boxcarloads
25X1
25X1
4 May. At 0130, a shipment of5 x 152-mm gun howitzers, 10 tractors,
15 trucks 1 radio truck, 3 field kitchens, 8 25X1
boxcarloads of equipment and 11 boxcarloads of soldiers 25X1
25X1
At 1530, a shipmentoof 12 x 152-mm gun howitzers, 2 x 76-mm field gund,
15 tractors, 25 trucks 1 repair 25X1
shop truck, 2 field kitchens, 8 boxcarloads of equipment and 9 boxcarloads
of soldiers 25X1
w t , 9 tractors, 22 trucks
4 field kitchens, 7 boxcarloads?,,,,,
of equipment and 8 boxcarloadeoof soldiers
For Mahlwinkel:
4 May, At 0845, a shipment of 18 pontoons, 3 armored personnel carriers,
1 crane truck 1 amphibious vehicle, 1 motorboat, 35 trucks 25X1
1 field kitchen, 2 boxc loads of equipment and 12 boxcarloads 25X1
of soldiers
At 2100 on 5 May, a shipment of 11 -54 tanks, 1 boxcarload of equipment
and an escorting detail, which arrived from Brest Litovsk) 25X1
was unloaded at Satzkorn.3 25X1
2. At 1345 on 5 May, a train with empty cars, several boxcars occupied by 25X1
soldiers and an undetermined number of flatcars carrying 4 heavy guns and
4 prime movers passed through the Magdeburg-Biederitz 25X1
railroad station an route toward the west. At 1404 a train carrying 12
heavy Runs, 12 prime movers some 30 trucks 25X1
and 2 x 76-mm field guns as seen at the Burg 25X1
railroad station. The train was heAc,ed westwglrA.
25X1
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Comment. Artillery units of the th Art Div were entrains in
Satzkorn as had previously been announced.
The 8 trains mentioned in this and the reference report carried the
148th Gun Arty Brig and the U/i Gun Arty Brig of'the division which,
with at least 46 x 152-mm gun howitzers, transferred to Altengrabow. A
Although it is noted that no 1 22-mm field guns were observed with the
shipments, it cannot yet be determined that the division is equipped
exclusively with 152-mm gun howitzers.
Comment. is
believed to have carried units of the 131st Gds Engr Bn of the 10th
Gds Tank Div which transferred to the Elbe River for exercises.
4.
Comment. According to a previous report, the train carried 22
T-54 tanks from Brest Litovsk for the 10th Gds Tank Div.
Comment. The trains were identical with those mentioned in
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