GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015100080010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Eastern Germany
REPORT
Ceneral Military Information,
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PREPARED 24 October 1952
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which was previously s at one asewa.
bivouacked near Fuerstenberg until 17 September 1952. (1)
2. According to and obserVations i the following ,
unloadings tore made at -the Dallgow railroad station:
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At 3. p.m. on 27 September: 29 boxcars and 19 flatcars from 7Iolmirstedt with
about 100 soldiers nearing red-bordered black epaulets, billeting equipment
and about 10 trucks . I (2) 50X1-HUM
At about 2 p.m. on 27 September: 21 flatcars, 5 boxcars and 3 converted boxcars
Iron 7orst Zinna with about 80 soldiers, billeting equipment and trucks.
At about 8 a.m. on 28 September: 1.04 boxcars and 6 flatcars with sideracks from
Oranienburg with billeting- equipment. (3) 50X1-HUM
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3. On 27
29 and 30 September, 72 trucks
soldiers.
day on 30
Icarried an estimated 5,000 recruits to Potsdam-Sildpark. A
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all quarters were occupied tacanacitv by young
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September and 1 October, heavy artillery fire was eard between
Wildpark and Kaputh. On 30 September, 50 officers and officer candidates in
the Kriegsschule -practiced with JS-3 tank 1 x 85-mm AA gun, 3 x 37-mm 50X1-HUM
AA guns, 7 x 160-mm mortars and operated a switchboard. The Adolf Hitler Kaserne
and .the Ruinenberg Kaserne were vacant. It wa red that the reconditioni - 50X1-H UM
work was to be completed by'15 October 1952. r
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4. On 27 Septe?iber, about 30 T-34 tanks/
equipment and ammunition were unloaded by about 60 soldiers waaring
red-bordered black e aulets and the lad Freienralde railroad station. Trucks
were with the troops. (6) 50X1-HUN
5. On 26 and 27 September, 2 trains rith 30 SP guns, 2C trucks and 4C0 troops were
loaded at the Meubaldensleben railroad station. .7otor vehicles
/were identified. On 2 October, the camp in the woods near Neuplanken
was still cccupied. T:otor vehicles -{ \yere observed.
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(1) len c -ffiEs 7tz Rifle Regt of the 9th (ids Tank Div was transferred from
Paseralk in mid-July 1952, there Was reason to believe that it would be
quartered in the area of Fuerstenherg.
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:Towever, there wore credible
indications that the reciment was quartered in the Neu? Infanterie Kaserne .
in Neustrelitz on 23 September 1952. , , 50X1-HUM
The train probably carried elements of the 10th Ods Tank Div Welch returned
from Letzlin7-Jleath.J
a train went from Haldenslel'en to Satpkorn on 26 and 27
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September 1952 respectiveiytJ.
The train from Forst ?Anna is believed to have carried elements of the 2d Licht
Arty 73ric \ jwhich conducted firing practices in Jueterboc from 24 to 27 50X1-H UM
September 19520\ ' 28..Septembers equipment of the 50X1-H UM
brirnde from ni.Pmenhnr# vile n qnmah nnlnarica '
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the trains may have come from tilt maneuver area 50X1-H UM ?
of the Fourth Ods 7ecz Army south of Rathenow-Nennhausen0
two shipments with elements of 50X1-H UM
the Fourth Cds 7ecz Army and the Third Shock Army were loaded. It is assuned ,
that 'a unit of the 10th Ods Tank Div was chipped to its post. See Field Comment
2. the camp in the woods in Neuplanken50X1-HUM
was still occupied by units cf the Third Shock Army on 2 October 1952. .
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