SOVIET TROOPS IN BERNBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012000160005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Trooras in Bernburf-
on 2; march 1952> a general inspected the tro,-gips in the Adolf Hitler i:aseriae on
I16erstaedterstrasse, Bernburg (? 52/D 7u)? The troops assembled in four units of
373 men each The units were organized into two groups of 10J ruin each and the
remainder formed groups o.i 25 to 33 ::a=nti, Ten J3-1 tanks and ti T-314/85 ten cs practic:? 2
driving between the barracks instal=.ation and the cemetery. Lieutenant Colonel
Dulaky (f'nu), the administrative officer, was tra ls.;ferred to Potsdari and succeeded
by another lioutonarit colonel in i?ohr-,aary 1252a Mora rumors circulat:i,a ; a among; the 25X1
soldiers, the Unit =as scheduled to nova to the , reitonha. cmn
troop traininr ,,rounds on the ulbe Itivcr southeast of i r - { i !`''
30 n aril..
2. In raici~':arcia$ about -30 iron parts of brill;e equipment were piled up in an
unguarded area on the ,tnCnant Ixanch of ` ..iF"s:.11c 46ivor near )'ernbur J? ~)ictaaro
was obtained of these iron sections, 'three rows of 6 to 8 piles each were driven
in the stagnant bra-11ch of the ;.Nate River, the piles were placed 10 meters apart.
On 31 ::arch, most of the bridge equipment at the stagnant
branch Saale :Ivor had boon s. ip.3ed away. Trrentyr seven soldiers wearing 1:ai.ack--
bordered black e paul.ots with en gino r insignia loaded the rest of the wooden planks
and two iron pontoons onto trucks I and. drove to ts.,e _^,c?olf 25X1
Hitler itaserne. The. wo den piles in the river .sac also be. n reraoved0 *
at the bekirl .i 1;.; of Larch :L952 that
advance parties had left to.ajrd an undetermined direction aiad that 80 iron brid.;e
sections had been piled by the stagnant branch of the f.aalo :fiver, 25X1
The strength estimate of the unidentified engineer re ;i.a.'ent of the
Guru in the present report is a little too hir,h even -=.f t-lo tame unit is taken
into consideration. However, it may be carrecta tho re ii_ro26X1
to have been scheduled to hove to Lios,laa in raid-Tr-r65 _9,2e Tt is also nxosible
that the unit moves to freiteraha- en. 25X1
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