RUSSIAN OB IN THURINGIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000400006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 30, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CONFIDENTIAL
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1J.S OF'FIOVLS ONLY
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
2-00457 R001000400006-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
* UM Y Germmar y (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Russian OB in Thuringia
ORIGIN
D STRIBtft1ON
STATE WAM NAVY .11]STICF
IJeimar
All Germans were ordered tq evacuate by. 31 July 1947 the Sidviertel of Weimar
(the so .called llypotheltenhugel) in the area bounded by Berkaerstrasse and"Rudol.f-
?3reitscheidstrasse. This district was to become a Russian biTh:Ling area.
DATE:
L3!ST- 30 October 1947
PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT
Other districts of UJe mar to be evacuated at a later date wares
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a.. North of the Barkaer--Balinhof and west of the Friedrich. elsrin g,
including Pfeifferstrae>se, PcterCorneliusstrasse And Kwonstr !isse.
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b. North of the Sportplatz* Friedrich-Engelaring;, I3lucherstrasso,
and D{lrrstrasse.
e. Kuhimannstrasse, Rohlfsstrasse, and Kohistrasse,
Russian military porsonalities in tJeimarw
a. Colonel-General Pronin left Holzdorf, near WYfeimar_ on L. July, 1910
Colonel-General Boldin left 'eimar on 5 July 1947 fort three wee'kst
c. General Cherkasorr is to move from his present address at Weimar,
Sdstrasse 13.
d. Colonel ivanov, formerly living, at Weimar, Lottenstrasse 33, has nova
moved into the house of Police Chief Geisler at E].isabethstrasse 35.E
e. Lt, Colonel Kanzlashevskr is in charge of economic affairs at the
Weimar Komendatura,
In Erfurt, twenty-seven streets in the "Steigerviertel" "were being evacuated by
German civilians in July 1947 to make room for Russians.
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,0 CHANGE in Class.
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:LASS [ F I C A T 10 N )G,1 ?L U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
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Area
In the first week of July 1947 large troop cove; :nts were observed on the -Jeimarr
r ns:adt Autobah : movement was from east to west.
On 3 July 1947 the right-hand side of both lanes of the ieiw.'-Erfurt autobahn
:mss reserved for Russian troops moving west. The right-hand '..ane war, reserved
for motorized column and the left-hand lane for horse-drawn :7ehicles. The
motorized columns consisted r_?~ainly of anti-aircraft, anti-tarn; and infantry
fan gaits; He.'svy mortars and occasionally guns (or possibly howitzers) of
120 to 150 mm caliber were also soent All the columns observed made their wE y
to ?hrdruf 0-15).
Iuzenalza- isc~nach Area
7. In late July 1947, Reichstrasse No. 84, between Langensalza ('-0$) and i;isenaeh
(h--76), as closed to civilian traffic by the Soviets to conc.:, ,Z. tar concentra-
tions on the Hainach (where the old training area of the T irc Panzer regiment
i.s located). Security measures were so strict that farmers in the area were not
allowed to tend their crops,
the tanks had arrived on the Fainach by night
a' er being unloaded in ngensalza and 17 isonach. They were T-34 and Ti
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tanks and numbered between 400 and 1,000. Artillery anc AT ec;uigrent, from
76.2rm to 150nmz: were also involved in this concentration. The troops 50X1-HUM
on the hainach were estimated to number about 10,000 to l5,00(' , Their ages
+sargod from twenty-five to thirty-five gears and many of them were veterans,
judging by the many campaign ribbons -wh-ich they wore.
4. A few weeks prior to the appearance of these troops the area was inspected
Vv a force of staff offi
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cers
n aboutwenty fid
tve ar .ore cars and staff cars,
~4. During most of July the training ground at Ohrdruf was occupies: by 25,000
or 30;400 motorized t?raots who (r
are veterans aged ttfi t
weny-veo thirty
; rs. The eouirment ,.t the ?
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3 and Tigers (sic)J and artillery pieces of 76?
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well as rocket The fi.gu,- , given f o: troops and t.-,,Qs mentioned
above am 'L- -_-_a