PERSONNEL CONTROL AND CONDITONS OF FRANKFURT/ODER-BREST LITOVSK RAILROAD LINE

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 18, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The papers of the train crew are checked in Kunersdorf (Kunewic0;the first
railroad station in the Polish adninistration territory. (1) The customs
inspection is performed at the Reppen railroad station, which has been enlarged
during recent months.. Four new tracks have been laid there. (2) The first Polish
engine pilots who boarie. the locomotive in Frankfart/Oderi,is relieved at Reppen.
The engine pilots are changed at every coaling stations i.e., in Posen, Kuno,
Sochaczaws Siedlce, and Brest Litovsk. The pilot is also chanced in jarsaw but no
coal is taken an there. The last Polish engine pilot leaves the locomotive in
maIaezewicze.(3)
2e Ellaczewicze:e a large mershaling yard which is still being enlarged. Two or three
transloading ramps with Soviet-gaene tracks are in operation and are still being
enlarged? (4)
3. A Polish engine pilot boards the locomotive at the first Soviet railroad station.
He remains on the train as far as Brest Litovsk. ;then entering Brest Litovsks the
German train personnel is thoroughly searched by Soviet soldiers. Service
regulations and German magazines are put in a box, which is then sealed. The books
are returned to the Germans on thoir return trip after leaving the Brest Litovsk
railroad station. During their stay in Brest Litovsk, the German personnel is under
constant guard by 2 to 4 Soviet soldiers. This makes it impossible for the Germans
to talk with the Soviet population, However, in spite of these security measures,
children and adults do succeedin approaching the German train in order to beg
for food.
4. The Brest Litovsk railroad station has been considerably enlarged since 19450 It is
impossible to obtain a survey of the entire railroad station area from one point.
Goods are being transferred in long sheds provided with standard-gauge and Soviet
gauge tracks. The transfer operations cannot be seen by the Germans. The empty
ears are assembled in trains, which are operated by Soviet personnel to the
boundaries of the freight station where they are taken over 113)1 the German personnel .(5)
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(1) raor?arirs-71 agreement made between tho boviets Polish and Russian Zone
authorities the German train crews are subjected to customs regulations?
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(2) aeppen is a railroad junction on the FrankfurtMer?Brest Litovsk linet.
Its improvement is reported for the first time,
(3) The coaling static, s are laid down in a
special agreement,
(4) The conversion of this railroad station to a transloadir
standard?gauge to bovie
(5) It is not clear which of the three of four transloading points in
Brest Litovsk is meant, Llrest Litovsk is scheduled to handle 12 Soviet
transit trains daily,
auge was previously reported,
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