MILITARY INFORMATION FROM DRESDEN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006900600011-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION See t.c..'icsv _PLACE OBTAINED_
DATE OF CONTENT 8 to 23 ilovember 1950
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1. Between 11 and 23 November 1950, the Koenig Georg Kaserne and
sections of the Koenig Albert Kaserne, Dresden-AIbertstadt
(N 52/F 29), were occupied by troops wearing red-bordered black
epaulets, some with tank and artillery insignia. On 13 November,
four JS tanks left the installations toward the Heller training
ground, he tanks seemed new and had no tactical symbols or numbers.
The following day, a JS tank was observed near the installation,
firing single shots from its machine gun into a gravel pit. No ve-
ce officers
eon going to
the officers wore
hicular traffic vas. ebswr
wearing tank and artillery
the :;oldschloesschen Quarter,
billeted there. (1)
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The SS Kaserne wailder Mane quartered troops wearing red-bordered
black epaulets. No branch-of-service insignia were noted. Only a
few soldiers were seen. No training activity could be observed.
. The Nachrichten Kaserne, Dresden-Uebigau, lims Occupied by troops
wearing red-bordered black epaulets without branch,-of-seirvice instraia.
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4o Between 10 and 23 Novamber?
near the Nachrichten Kas_rne, nresden-Uebigau, that a motorized
infantry battalion ;as quartered there, .,oldirers obs:xved wore red-
bordered black epaulets without branch-of-service insignia, Five
personnel carriers were parked in the barracks yard. No training
activity as observed in the billeting area. The two northern barracks
buildings on Klingorstrasse were occupied by soldiers with closely
cropped hair. Several rooms in the northern section of the large
barracks building on ',ashingtonstrasse were vacant. Only about two-
thirds of tho windows of that building were lighted in the evening,
(3)
S. The Flak Kaserne? Dresden-Nickerns quartered troops wearing red-bordered
black epaulets, Some of the soldiers had their hair closely cropped.
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The low brick barracks in the western section of the billeting area
were occupied to aboet 70 percent of capacity. The vacant trick
barracks there were without doors and wiedows. Thirty-five soldiers
were observed firing at a makeshift sistol range in the southeastern
corner of the billeting area. (4)
The restricted area of the 3aldschloesschen Quarter is bounded on the
north by Redebergerstrasse from Nordallee to Sischhausstrasse; on the
east by Fischhausstrasse; on the south hy Beetzenerstrasse; and on the
west b; llaldschloesschanstrasse. The est-west streets loceted in the
restricted area were BoehmeAstrasse, Bettinastresse, and Jedeichstrasse,
while the north-south streets were Auf dem MeisTnberg? Anselikastrasse?
and Klarastrasse.I 'said that 45 villas there were
requisitioned and vacatdd betWeen 15 and 22 Neveenber. The Germans evicted
were told that their villas -would be needed for only a few weeks. At the
same time, the Soviets discharged all Uerean personnel in the ,;aldschloess-
chen Quarter. A Handelsorganization (trade organization) (HO) department
store,anHO restaurant, and several HO shops were also evacuated. It was
said that the soviet military commander of Land Saxony was billeted in
the villa at the intersection of Heideparkstrasse and Poehmertstrasse.
(5)
7. The former Lehmann Sanatorium was used as a eoviet hospital and was occupied
by about 1:200 mon. (6)
6. About 1,000 officers were billeted in the .:;eidner villa on Ludwig Richter-
strasse and in the former sanatorium loceted farther to the south. The
former Christian Palais had been converted into an officers hospital
and rest center. (6) At the tine of observation the hospital was occupied
by about 1,000 officers.
9. No Soviet troops were observed in Radebeel on 29 November 1950. (7)
"LO. Between 19 and 2 ovember, the Soviet unit quartered in the Leftkriege-
schule, DresdensZlotzsche, held night firing practice with rifles at the
lAotzsche range almost every night. A field exercise was conducted on
Fuchsberg on 24 November. Five calms, each of 42 men wearing red-bordered
green epaulets and armed with short rifles, submachine guns with drum maga-
zines, and heavy, water-cooled machine guns, were seen returning to the
installation from the field exercise. (8)
11. There has been no information to determine the identity of the unit
quartered in the Luftnachrichtenschuls., On 26 november, fresh t,nk tracks
were seen, crossing the Eerier training grounds toward the Autobahn.
On 8 November: 10 officers wearing golden epaulets with one red stripe,
two stars, and tank insignia, boarded a streetcar at the Luftacchrichten-
schule and rode it as far as the junction of the road to the Klotzsche
airfield. The officers carried suitcases. They sursequently walked toward
the airfield. The civilian houses previously occupied by officers of the
Luftnachrichtenschule were derequisitioned in late October, the officers
having moved into the Luftnachrichtenschule. (9)
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e installa ion had quartered about 1,500 troops, allegedly beloneine
to a heavy tank reeiment, during the wieter 1949/1950, See
The presence of JS tanks indicates that the unit returned to its quarters
upon completion of the 1950 waterer exercises at Neenir;sbrueck. For a
sketch of the Koenis Georg Kaeorne and the Koenig Albert Kasorne. bee
Annex 1.
.2.) The installation has been known to quarter headquarters units oi the First
Lecz Army and components of the 11th r4s Teak Div, For a sketch of
the SS Kaserne wTider sce Lnnex 2.
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The occupation of this install-tion nay have ch
'c:? 'because
the troops observed there in the
spring of 1250 -mre radio:
orrineer, and motor trans)ort
nsnia
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For a sketch of the Jachrienten Aas,Jrile,
uresaen?uaoi:-aulse- Innex 3.
The inst-illation 7:las occupied t about 500 tr000s of the 11th
Cds
Tank jiv in the s.lrin: of 1:)5).
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In addition : there -ias a hosoi
2)
The SCC for Land 5axon y now:d from
the 3ronarlier ?,Isarne to
former contrn1 komendatura on
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selloesschen auarter as
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It is eossiLle tint only
of the hu*idin:p of the -aldschloesschen
4narter were required
for housin7, soviet offices in January
1950.
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Liovi_:t hosoital had been de?
but reopened at the and of February
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activated in the fall of 194-,
12D, allegedly for tuberculosis
1.1atients. The
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-eidner villa. was 22rev1ous1y re':)orted
to have Leon usea as a
Soviet
ho6pital. The number of officers seen there appears too hi:h.
(7)
ooviet troops were aithdraun from Iladcboul in January and February
1250, the headquar nrs and units havins-: alleT;edly
moved. to Dresdenord
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and Klotzsche
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Confirms that the Tuftkriegsscule is occuie an :-UD unit,
probably an :Aill battalion.
(9)
Tienty?tio T-34 tanks arrived at the Luftnachrichtanschule from
Xoenigsbrueek in late September 1-'50.
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The unit in the Luftnahrichtenschule is believed to be a.con)onent
of the 11th 3ds Tank Div.
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