1ST ERNEST THAELMANN VOLKSPOLIZEI-PANZERBEREISCHAFT IN GROSSENHAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004800590007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Zoe a: Gr REPORT
1st Ernst Thaelmann Volkspolizei-Panzerbereitschaft in_Grossenhain
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DATF PREPARED 10 Larch 1950
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The following information was obtained on the Velkspolizeibereit-
schaft in Grossenhaina
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1st Ernst Thaelmann Fanzerbereitschaft..
The unit is composed exclusively of SED members and
considered the most reliable and powerful Volkspclizei
unit in the Soviet Zone of Germany,
Polizei Kaserne. on Karl Liebknechtstrasse,
About 1,000 police.
Hundertschaften
Volkspolizeiinspektor Bfihrens, CO of Bereitschaft.
Behrens allegedly was a tank officer and a member of
the National Committee. Free Germany,
Forty T 34 tanks (available for action).
Military training with special emphasis on political
indoctrination.
The unit had 14 Soviet instruction officers.
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It cannot be determined whether the Polizei
Kaserne on Karl Liebknechtstrasse is the Husaren Kaserne on Elsterwer-
daerstrasse
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with 40 T 34 tanks.
':;ith small armored veniesesi
20 tani.:s of unidentified type moved from
the Grossenhain railroad station to the o11zei Raserne.
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the unit is equipped.
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