SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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• Publication Date: August 26, 1952
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Soviet Troop Trains
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26 August 1
Troop trains listed in the records of the Rangsdorf railroad station on
25 Jul- 1 52 included: A train of 8 boxcars and 18 flatcars#
with troops from Trebbin to Fineterwalde; a train of oxcars
aria 44 flatcars with troops from Forst Zinna to Fuerstenwalde; aezid a train
of 5 boxcars and 42 flatcars with artillery from. J`ueterbog. 1tee Lager to
Frankfurt/ Oder. U 3
2. The following troop trains were listed to the records of tte 4th Subdiatriot
Office of the Berlin railroad district betwee 1 and 3 Augusta
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24 boxcars and A1tengrabaw `#ildpark
24 flatcars
16 boxcars and Altengrabow Wtldparc
37 flatcars
8 boxcars and Altengrabow Brandenburg
17 flatcars
36 boxcars and 4ltengrebow .4ildpa.rk,
10 flatcars
7 boxcars esid 1 llgov Forst Zinna
23 flatcars D eberitz
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14 boxcars an Altengrabow 'Mildpark
33 flatcars with
152,nuu artillery
pieceo$ caterpillar
tractors, an! trucks
10 boxcars and
37 flatoare
11 boxcars and
42 flatcars
19 boxcars with
iuni ti on and
13 crash cars
Neustrelitz Luckenwalde
Neustrelitz Luckenwalde
Loewenherg Toepchin and
Pfaffendorf
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Troop trains listed in the records
between 26 al d '30 July included,
29 1,16
64
84
Troops with
black epFaxlets
66
Troops with
black -bordered
r ea ept'a? et e
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Troops with
black-bordered
red epaulets
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of the Tbbrilugk-hirahhain railroad station
deinzar i) brilugk
Falkenberg ?insterwalde
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Rieckersdorf
RRein ar lbb ri lugk
Leipzig I7obrilugk
Magdeburg Oppelhain-
Rueckersdorf
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/einriar Dob ri lugk
JTueterbog Fir:sterwalde
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Only some of the above trains were observed. by source. Troops have been
;:epeatedl.y shipped on regular trains, mostly, on freight trains.
The loading ramps at the Finsterva?alde,Q DDbr ,lugk, oppelhaln-Raeckersdor:C
and Gebren. rs.lrc.ad stations were inspected by representatives of the
Soviet , yy 1 liemtenent stated that five divisions shoule be unloaded
in this area, (5)
The following troop trains were
district head quarters between 2 and 6 August.
1 ste_k4 t u /u it Troo1' 1n i3 From- Q
2 10 boxcars and Ncuatrelitz Luckenwald.e
37 flatcars
2 boxcars, .A ltengrabow Neuruppin
12 converted
boxcars, and.
37 flatcars
16 boxcars and ';Jildpark Altengrabow
37 flatcars
24 boxcars and 7Ji1dpark Altengr?abow
24 flatcars
1 boxcar, Rosslau 'Nildpark
12 converted boxcars
and 31 flatcars
I boxcar, Aitengr~abow
9 converted boxcarn
and 27 flatcars
13 boxcars and Neuruppin
37 flatcars .
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45 care Finsterwalde
care
care
26 boxcars and.
' 32 flatcare
listed in the records of the Berlin railroad
Cottbus
Cottbus
'Wildpark
15 cars; O ibcm.
hospital train
6 boxcars and YJildpark
4B flatcars
2 boxcara and. &ersdsalde
25 flatcars
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Beeli'tz
.<engrabow
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The train from Trebbin probably carried elements of the unidentified signal
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eleuaentsa of the Army headquarters of this axiayp and the third train from
J'aeterbop, cov ponents of the 32nd AID Div (US).
( The troop trains with Wildpark, Brandenburg and Forst Zinna as receiving
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the v c es observed on the rain
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supports - the previous assumption that caupone ntss of this division have
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(3) The two troop try. ne from 11eust-relitz to Luckenwalde probably carried
artillery units of the 9th Gds Tank Divs. A troop train
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1s v.ecz Div to Forst Zirasa on 1 baguet 1952, and therefore it is believed
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Amy will again be retated for firing practices with live minnhnition to the
Juetexbog troop training grounds.
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.troop trains from Weimar and Leipzig allegedly were unloaded in t~e= above
I Ion 29 July 1952,
area between 2b and 27 July 1952; and two eastbound troop trd ns leaving
'1eimar were observed by mother source on 26 July 19524
A troop try. h carrying vehicles r- 5 e.- ong ng 25X1
to the Third Shook Army was observed at the. 'Nittenberg r?t lroad station 0 25X1
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report? The statesarnt by the Soviet lieutenant on the assembling of five
divisions in the Finsterwald.e# #ibrtlugk, 0ppelhamn?=Rueekersdorf and 0cuhra'rx
area is given no credence.- he probably referred to components of five
divisions which participated. in the command -post field exercise.
(6) The troop trains possibly carried elements of the unidentified artillery
battalion of the 12th Gig Tank 111v which returned to Neuruppin. A motor
vehicle of this t; it was observed at 111tengrabow on 24 July 19.52, 1 -1 25X1
4atengrabow were observed last on 8 June 1952.. and returning from . ltengr?abow
to I' eurappin on 22 June 1952, 25X1
(7) It is fairly definitely believe a: a ' ese era ins carr e e. assents of the
unidentified artillery brigade of the 34th Arty Div (US), stationed in. t1
southern sector of the #)elIu.ss Kaserne, Potsdam, from. 'Xildpark to A3 tengrabow.
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'here is no evidence, however, when these elenrfients were
ruoveo engra ow, Components of the 12th Gds Tank Div enroute to
the previous inforrriation
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trains went from Altengrabow to `tfildpar?k bat?ve 5X1
31. July an c . u :ss.s ~ -s, aa.n two troop trams
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(8) The tr. s n .probably carried a. unit of the Fourth Gds Mecz Army, possibly
the 312th Gds RL Regt, el cents of which were previously at the Lieberone
troop training grounds for short=tern field practices in isaid-June 1952.
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1. On 21 July 1952, a troop train with soldier: 8 to 3.0 heal AA d
about 25 trucks
pasaeci i,.rm oe enberg toward Yuerstenbert < (1)
2, The follo,:ring troop trains! ,.,ere lxrsted in the records of the 4th
Subdistrict Office of the Potsdaru railroad district between 22 and
27 T'aly,
C LUPORit1 -on of
T:roas Tra no
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4;. boxcars with
Vo1.kzpo1 i z ei
1) boxcars and
lb flatcars
13 boxcars and
20 ?latcrars
boxcars and
20 flatcars
2 boxcar:, VIOL
4 'flatcars
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14 boxcars and
32 flatcars
VilaZ park
Jueterhog-
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19 boxcars and Jueterbog
24 flatcars Altos Lager
Al tengrebow
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Juet orbog
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~2 flatcars
40 ?ondoia cars Hoeskcrr '.Ytldaark^
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44 boxcars with k4acetrin 1)rel,i tz
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Atith exception of the train with Volltapol.i7e.t on 22 July and s.huttl -
train n 2yl July, all other trains carxd ed troops and :;jotor vehicles,
3, Troop trains ijantjkjOdI
between 2 and 31 uxly included:
`!`roan .Trains
8 boxcars and Ratheno~Fr ?trste-r'rilde
22 flatcars
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2 boxcars and Ko nignbrueck /ildp? xjc
47 flatcars
28 boxcars *u a. LV-a Igow Forst 41nna
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'.he folio ,ng n-wabers of B3ovtct military PerEcnnel were obsejved aboard
leave trat ne in Fmmkfur t/Oder between 25 m d 31 Jul p
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25 ao`: and 180 220 and 250
26 170 and 180 230 raid 240
27 180 and 160 250 rind 220
2,13 190 and 170 P_90 and 240
29 180 anca: 160 2.40 end 250
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and 30 Juj.lr; er a
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20 15 boxcars, Sperenberg, Neubukovr
37 flatcars and.
5 SS-Type fl-atcare
21 22 boxcars, aperenborg Kroaxelin
33 flatcars and
2 SS--type flatcars
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36 boxcars, Forst Zinna Templin and
54 flatcars r k erswalde
10 S.L type flatcars and
8 gondola cars
12 boxcars, Jueterbocz Templin
26 flatcars and A] ten Lager
4 &I-type flatcars
20 boxcars,
64 flatcars and
26 S6-type flatcars
22 boxcars,
14 flateara and
16 SS-type flatcars
Forst Zinna Finater,,raide
hu unersdoref Wittenberg
17 boxcars, Jueterbog . Frank:furtf odes
28 flatoarrs and Altes Lager
8 S3_~.type flatcars,
29 boxcars` ,Veisewasser Frankfurt/ Oder
49 flatcars and
9 `3 type flatcars
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7 boxcars,
19 flatcars and
8 :typo flatcars
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Sperenberg
Fin eterwal de
On 29 July, a troop traf.. n of 8 boxcars with
soldiers and 22 flatcars carrying artillery pieces of 75 tort and motor
vehicles was obaer7ed at the huestrin railroad station, The train weft
to Finaterral.c.ea (7)
Troop trains
on 31 July and 1. August included.,
~ooest ton o#' ,
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31 July 20 converted boxcars and
6500 fl.atc;9.rs with Dal gow Forst Zinna
vehi ol. ee and AA grins
1 August b converted boxcars, Dallgow A1tenjrabow
2 boxcars and
29 flatcars with
troops and vehicles
CQiI7i1lE"31 t~
(1 The troop train mentioned in paragraph I is identical with either the train
on 20 July 1952 or the train on 21 July 1952 mentioned in paragraph 5; the
two trains carried components of the 2nd Gdrs ,AA& Div to the -Nuatrow.u AAA
Range,
presets report con rms . unidentified. unit of the 2nd Gda AAA Div
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e ro to fourth an s x rsnai seven troop trains were repeatedly
reporteu he train leaving Wildpark on 26 u1y 1952
probably carried a small unit ";a the signal oorawftr.,poet exercise in the
Finoterrralde area. 56th ;tr Trans Regt of the GOFG
in Potsdam until 27 July 1952. Shuttle-train went from huestrin to
Jueterbog on 26 ;fuiy 1952, but Lre-nitz an dispatching station is reported
for the first time,
Compare with the seems o aserva V,on
The entraining of a combined arrti2 erg unto the lot a:;"ec2 y at the
..-11.govr=~Lkseberit2 railroad station was re? orted
31 July 1952, whil e a troop train of the earzae
division 3 km westssout ...west of Luokmwaade on 1 August 1952. It is
believeu that the above observationp, are identical with those mentioned
inparagrraph e 3 and. 7,
the ?e Uq let h,ccz llvp
The volume of dtdly leave traffic from and to Brest Litovsk,, which was
somewhat below the average in acrid-June 1952, seem to have increessed.
The two troop trains mentioned in paragraph 5 are probably identical vni th
two of the group of trains
mentioned. in par rapho 1288th Gde AAA
th Gdsa F leoz Div fron Frankfurt Ode.-i until 27 July 1952;
unidentified AAA regiment of the 63d A Div (US) fro,a
..,ber:srralde until 2t July 1952,
three troop trains
were dii patched from Formt Zinna to Firstitereal.de
on 2 and 29 July 1952 The troop train on
30 July 3.952 mentioned in parMgraph 5 of the p-resent report was
previously repor ed.
roop r P.
I u3.enttoned in. paragraph b of the present report. came from
Frankfurt/ Oder. The information itf the referent e
report is given more credence. It to de nitely believed, however, that the
above train carried a component of the 32nd A Div (US).
The "troop train from Kunimer,dorf to flittenberg mentioned in paragraph 5
was preciously iaentifted
Farly on 30 July 1952, a troop train carrying AA guns
of the Third Gde Metz army? which
came fro the direction of JueteZbog, was unloaded at Wittenberg It Is
thus belie;A.rea that a component of the 62nd A. Div (US) was transferred to
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25X1 ( ) The troop train from Jueterbog- alter Laser to Frankfurt/Oder mentioned in
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con irrt:s an unidentified AAA Regt of the 32nd AAA L ..v S n
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(10) Compare with the same informatton
of the present report ?iq let Matz
Div in it eberitz until 1 August 1952.
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