POLISH ARMY UNITS IN A CAMP NEAR BEUTHEN.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400640009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY
_-REPORT NO.~
1)olish ;Ld. t~y Units in 4.f t;uia near Bne C~4PdLedn.
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~L camp about 6 km eat of the eastern perimeter of 1 euthen
(a 51/Y 58) a on the road leading, to kop e J"owiez, the $i'uwice
raine, was occupied by a Polish army unit of about o men in
:;e-)terubcr 194-9. The men were from 20 to 22 years of are. They
said that they had been inducted dur1nn,, the summer of 3,949
They wore greyish brown uniforms without epaulets or other
distin. uish g-. service colors a .goat of them h.:td no weapons,
and carried only dutitr, y rifles. The sold ier e wor use d -n the
mines but received 6n;:e military trainin a
2 'the J'`: s had eveouated the ca .ip in jeptez_lbor 1949. The camp
had four 32m. x 10nm. cr.nto went bui1dirx s, a dispensary, a
buildinG with kitchen and raessh'all 9 and supply rooms a The
headquarters build.in; c.:.nd a now mcsshall were outside the
f enceo lr:,ns had been made for the construction of another
cantonment buildinC, I'or billet1n of troops 4
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work in mines and recceive very little military training.
ormmentm Probably one of the .labor battalions which
arr .gyred a the UPPC3i Silesian rzi.nin area dur1nt the sunnier
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ayld f.,%11 of 1049, . ,such battalions are usually assic;ned to
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