SOVIET MILITARY RAIL MOVEMENTS

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• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Soviet Military Rail
Movements
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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DATE DISTR. 31 January 1951
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The following rail shipments were observed between 25 October and
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Three RR cars 4Yvith Schoenebeck on the
motor vehicles Elbe River to
P archim
25 October
One tank car with Velten to
gasoline 26 October
Three tank cars
gasoline
One RR car with
vehicles
One boxcar with
military goods
One boxcar with
military goods
with Ellerholz to
Parchim
27 October
Dr esden-Klotz s the
to Parchim
27 October
Five boxcars with
military goods
Dranse to
P archl.m
23 October
Gross Hasslow
to Parchim
28 October
Dranse to
P archlin
31 October
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Three boxcars with
military goods
Three boxcars with
onions
Tea boxcars with
military goods
One tank car with
gasoline
One boxcar with
supplies
Two RR cars with
motor vehicles
Dranse to
P archim
1 November
Calbe to
Parchim
l November
Pcrleberg
to Parchim
2 November
Velten to
P archim
2 November
Perleberg
to Parchim
3 November
Sohoenebeck on the
Elbe River to
P arohim
14 November
One boxcar with mili-Velten to
tart' goods rarchim
16 November
One boxcar with Schwerin to
furniture Parchim
23 ? 1'NTovember
The following ; Iitary shipments passed through Frankfurt/Oder
between 15 and 21 November
DAti
Night of 15
November
17 November
Night of 19
November
21 November
^l November
Shin~ne A,'~ c i on
58 boxcars with From Eberswalde
troops toward Cottbus (1)
Sixteen 1O5-mm guns From Brest--Litovsk
with pneuunqtic tires toward vEberswalde (2)
and split-trail
carriage
24 boxcars with
ammunition
From Brest-Litovsk
toward Eberswalde
Train with 19
crated airplanes
Train of 28 tang
cars
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From Brest-Litovsk
toward Ebersvaalde
From Brest-Litovsk
toward Eberswalde
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On 21 November ten tanks
arrived by rail at the .Era ~t/Oa rei g tsa r s
tanks were unloaded and four were redispatched to Fuerstenwalde0
The following rail shipments were observed between 18 and 26
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Fourteen gondola Brieske to Berlin-
cars with coal Hohenschoenhausen'
1 Crop sstraese
18 November
One boxcar with Item Bernau to
No 16; according to Bernburg
bill of lading, 21 November
blankets and cloth
One boxcar with Item Bernau to
No 1.6; according to Premn.itz
bill of lading,
blankets and cloth
One boxcar with Item
No 16; according to
bill of lading,
blankets and cloth
One tank car with
diesel oil
One tank car with
diesel oil
Four tank cars with
diesel oil
Bernau to
Jueterbog-Feues
Lager
21. November
Troeglitz to
Dresden-harbor 2
redispatched to
Satzkorn
21 November
Zeitz hydro
genation
plant
Troeglitz to
Dresden-harbor,
redispatched to.
Wildpark
21 November
Troeglits to
Dresden-harbor $
redispatched to
Falkensee
21 November
one boxcar with Berlin-Osthafen,
apples to Griebnitzsee
21 November
Twelve tank cars Troeglitz to
with diesel oil Dresden-harbor g
redispatched to
Neustrelitz
21 November
Two boxcars with Neu.ruppin to
1 0 boxes; of che- Teltow.le oat
i,.icals for the fi11- 22 November
Ing of foam ex-
t inrulahers
kl>
?sits hydro
genation
plant
Zeitz hydro
g enat ion
plant
Zeitz hydra
genat ion
plant
VFB
Minimax
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ore boxcar with Auerbach, Votland,
ladies= silk to Bernau
unde3arwear 22 November
One boxcar with Koenigswusterhausen
coke to Berlin-Rwnmelsburg
23 November
Twenty boxcars with Frankfurt/Oder
undetermi.nod to Ju.etorbog
goods
One gondola car with Hohenleipisch to
arenaceoiu3 quartz Oberschoerieweide,
Huettenwwerk,
VV)B Ala
26 November
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19 flatcars with 27 November
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litany shipments were observed between 27 November
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Sixteen boxcars with Brest-Litovsk
yr .litany goods; and to Strausberg
large containers
'T'hree boxcars wi
triiitArV goods:
th Pra#f'endor# to
Guben-border
23 November
Two boxcars with
military goods;
Six boxcars with
military goods;
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P #affendor# to
G ubenr-boxer
23 'ovember
Pfaffendorf to
&iben-border
23 overfmber
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One boxcar with Brest-Litovsk
military goods and to Stfausberg
three unnumbered, 23 November
signal trucks;
Ten boxcars with
military goods;
Three boxcars with
ammunitions
One boxcar with
military goods
Five gondola cars
with briquettes
Four gondola cars
with briquettes
one boxcar with
copy-books
Brest itavsk
to. Muellrose .
29 Novembor.
Brest-Litovsk
to Bad Saarow
30 November
Brest-Litovsk
to Jessen
29 TTovember
Brieske to
Puerstenwwalde
1 December
Brieske to
.~{ uerstenwalde
I Dece-trxber
Halle to
Wall dfr i ed
1 December
Three boxcars and Lberswalde
three flatcars with to:'uollrose
tank tracks 2 December
Two tanks
Stend.al to
Fuerstenberg/Oder
2 Decor her
Four boxcars and two Brest-Litovsk
flatcars with large to Strausborg
containers: 2 Becembar
Two boxcars with
military goods
Two flatcars and
six boxcars with
tank tracks
Five boxcars with
briquettes
Doeberits to
uestrin.--border
2 December
Lberswalde
to r?uellrose
3 December
Klettwitz to
Fuerstenwalde
3 December
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Three gondola ears Brieske to
wtih briquettes Fuerstenwalde
3 December
Sixteen boxcars with Strausberg to
ammunition; Guben-border
3 December
One boxcar, 7 gon- Brest-Litovsk
dola cars and 16 to Jessen
flatcars with forty 3 December
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Twenty-nine boxcars Brest-.Litovsk to
with ammunition? L~amitsch-Wilmersdorf
3 December
Thirteen boxcars Puerstenberg
with rye to Muellrose
4 December
One flatcar with Henningsdorf
bar iron to Muellrose
4 December
Four gondola cars B:i'ieske to
with briquettes Eberswal de
4 December
One boxcar with Eberswalde to
undetermined goods Bad Saarow
4 December
One boxcar with Wildau to
work-benches Eberszvalde
4 December
Empty shuttle-train Kuestrin-border
of 20 coaches, 30 going in the
boxcars, 1 flatcar direction of
and 2 gondola cars Cottbus
4 December
Forty-three flatcars Brest-Litovsk
and 4 gondola cars to Jessen
with ninety-five 4 December
50-mm .. a uns
On 28 tiovember, flatoers carrying 34 new passenger cars arrived
at the Frankfurt/Oder shunting station, coming from Cottbus. They
were probably to be made up as a train, together with other flat-
cars carrying 25 more passenger cars which were parked at the
railroad station,
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7. on. 28 November, the 7 P.M. leave train from Frankfurt/Oder to
MMagdeburg MIS occupied to dap: ity0 The Blue Express which
left Frankfurt/Oder for Brest'-Litovsk at 4:30 p0m, on 4 Dee-ember
wits almost impty,
On 4 December, flatcars carrying about 100 .A, guns of about 50 mm
arrived in Frankfurt/Oder, coming from Brest' Litovsk. (2) 50X1-HUM
The, leave train which arrived in Frankfurt/Odor from Brest-Litovsk
at 4:30 p0i:1- on 4 December was occupied to capacity by military
personnel, about 80 percent of whom were officers of all branches
of servict). The officers left the platform for the station, hail.
carry: ng only small suitcases (3) 50X1-HUM
10, The following military shipments were observed between 26 November
and 6 December
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Forty .,uns of more Brest-Litovsk
than. 76,2 mm to Jessen
26 November
Twolve boxcars with Brest-Litovsk
military goods to Muelirose
27 November
Eight boxcars with Brest-Litovsk to
military goods Berlin-R? mnielsburg
27 November
Twenty flatcars Bound for Jessen
with radio cars 28 November
Sixteen tank cars Brest-Litovsk
with fuel to Felten
2 December
Twenty-nine boxcars Brest-Litovsk
with caution signs to Lamitsch
reading 'tExplosive 3 December
Cargou
Forty guns of about Brest.Litovsk
100 mm to Jessen
3 December
Two boxcars with Brest-Litovsk to
military goods and Fuerstenwalde
eight 37-mm AA guns 5 December
110 Between 26 November and 2 December the daily volume of leave
traffic averaged 400 troops going to Brest-Litovsk and 630 coming
from Brest-Litovsk. On 26 November, about 100 .AF officers and
about as`mrny EM arrived from the U,S.,S,R4 (3)
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at once for dispatch to an undetermined destination. (5)
13. Daily leave traffic between 3 and 6 December averaged 460 troops
going to Brest-Litovsk and 765 coming from Brest-Litovsk. A hundred
officers wearing red-bordered golden epaulets arrived in Frankfurt/
Oder-on 5 Dece c about 170 officers with sky-blue epaulets
on 6 December.
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(1) The route of the train does not indicate whether it carried
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soldiers due for discharge or replacements from the U. S.
Although the influx of recruits from the T.I.S.S.R. ceased on
26 October; one more train of 25 boxcars with personnel arrived
in thn Soviet Zone of Germany via Kuestrin on 23 November
(2) Most of the guns went to a ma 3.n o a There
are three possibilities for the distribution of the guns: first,
Soviet units are being reequipped with modern weapons, including
possibly the replacement of 57 and 76-mm AT guns with 85 or 100-mm
AT guns; second, a new Soviet artillery unit may be activated, the
personnel and weapons of which were shirped separately; and third
an increase in the artillery pieces issued to the German Volkspoli-
(3) The volume of leave traffic in both directions between 26 November
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officers, including air force officers this time. It cannot be
determined, however, whether the officers returned from leave or
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all heavy.-duty flatcars available were to
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tanks ands heavy loads of' more than 30 tons a It is not 1.nown whether
the cars were to be used for shipments within the Soviet Gone of
Germany or outside the zone.
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