MILITARY INFORMATION FROM ROSSLAU-MEINSDORF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100830012-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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' ..., Until 17 Lisy 1951, two en it eer units, one of which had vehicles with
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25X1 C Germans employed in the barracks installation stated that the two units
departed by rail the following nirhtsm A rai.lroadrnan said that the trains
the engineer units, or at least some o'` the trains,, were bound
to ':ordhausen ('.7 5263 12) and unloaded there. Only the pontoons in excess
of the units e authorized equipment remained at the icy tallatione Between
a.1ar and June the only engineer truck observed at tae installation was
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TA e sermar housekeeper of the deputy commander of the division, a major
-enoral vhc had left with the units, stated that the tank unit from Rosslau-
'Teinadorf ha.,'_ roved to Letzling heath with virtually all of its troops. The
deputy com under of the division, was billeted in a forester's house near
HIa tdensleben , together with three colonels,. (2)
vo_' 0 to 10 June, a total of about 500 troops v.earin; red-bordered black
e'oaulets arrived in Rosslau in small :soups aboard regular trains from
D;ssau0 xer> am, barracks employees stated that the new arrivals were recruits
from the UOSOS.f. FollO::-in the arrival of the new troops, an increase in
ti?:?tring...echool activity . as noticed. The vehicles of the driving school
It was ru-.iored that, drliile
the division were A ro.p training grounds in Thuringia and i clear
.3?'. 32'C.:+s of
AiL.l;:d.ensleber_, the remainder of the division in osslau-': ~i sdorf would be used
'o : he activation of a new unit ti
l; N "free J ; tanks ..ere noticed at the barracks instal? a ti on in Lossiau-?-.:einsdorf
n ? June j95la
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5, she AA q;t:nzs previously emplaced between the ar m nition dumps
and t'h fEosslatz--Cosw_; road were withdravn0 About 350 soldiers
were seen at the Lorrter engineer equipment depot, either exca.,
eating or sn; aged in off-duty activities. (1~)
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(1) The two engineer units in, tho Pionier Schule, DessauRoss].aap
were also described 1y another source as bo1nr; el:;uperi or unite they are c or mpo- r::pints of the unidentified enr::irieer , egirrent of the GOtaFG which
: ccorc:3in - to the present report, moved to a new training area
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(2) The report indicates that the flq 7th ds Tank Div is stationed
{~n the i'-ior~ier citta]e~ i essau-Rossl.au, it the tip of the repdrt,
-,.;r:: , l elk of the division was at Letzlin- l ea.thm Cori onen :.s of
the 304th Gds Dirty e;t ci the division are `olictv?~d to have -one25X1A
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(3) Accordirn to paragraph 3 in para Craphs 25X1 C
.3 and ),,, training,, c tponents of the 7th Gds Tank Div are still
at the poste
()) Other sources also reported that there have been rro manned AA gun
in t?;-is area since the and of 1950, See
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