MILITARY INFORMATION FROM POTSDAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015300420010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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A+ 9.30 a m on 21 October 1952 45 trucks
officers.. and 150 soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets and 2 boxcarloads 25X1
of amm'Nni:ion were unloaded at the Potsdam (N 53/Z 63) railroad station,.
2. The Ludendorff Kas'erne on I'Tedlitzer ::trasse was about 80 percent li;rhted in the 25X1
evening of i1 October. he installation had been reoccupied
during the night of 12 Octobers entered the instal.lationo The
Hohenlohe Kaserr:.e south of tine Ludendorff Kaserne was lighted about 70 percent. 25X1
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believed. this installation to have been reoccupied during; the same night?1
On 22 October., the Kavallerieschule in Krampnitz near Potsdam was occupied
almost to capacity by 5,000 to 6,000 troops 0 assumed that all troops
had returned from the maneuver area by that time. House =quartered the
division headquarters and 100 to 150 soldiers wearing red-bordered black
epaulets., including some with motor transport insignia. The field bakery in
house II has been in operation since mid-October:, On 7 October, two AA
sheds. A military band led the column? Trucks which, since 9 October, were
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emplacements with canvas-covered guns and an observation post were seen in the
area north of leitchen From 100 to 120 motorcycles with sidecars were
parked in front of the tank sheds between Reiterdamm and ileststrasse on 8
October. On 9 October.. 40 officers and 350 EM wearing red-bordered black
epaulets with tank insignia marched from houses to the tank 25X1
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daily seen hauling potatoes to the barracks installation were on the
at-,hl ofiie ft ,-Ad on 16, Octobers
were seen in
the tank sheds on TJordstrasre, Thirty officers and 303 EM wearin,- red..
bordered black epaulets with tan', insit nia fell iti on the athletic field
an heiterriamm on 17 October? A major with t ark i.nrignta, in cI: irge of this
group, reported to a lieutenant colonr-l with tank insi-nia0 "t:veral soldiers
were riven new enaul etc by the lieutenant colonel,. ,ipht roi;Yet launchers
were noticed in the garar-.: farthest to the west of Husarenstras,'e,., Truck
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heavy tank unit in houses e On 18 October, 30 to 1o officers
and about 300 I1 from houses . and a military band fell in on
the athletic field. Zwentyrotwo master sergeants and MCOs9 each holding a
saner in their hands, sto"d in front of them,. he unit subsequently marched
in review past the sergeants and MCOs, was dismissed and again fell in,
equipped with baggare,. -short time later the soldiers boarded 33 trucks
the. troops left the barracks installation, soldier told 0 that these 25X1
FE had completed their three rear term of service and that they were [going
back to the UR..,S I;,? He further stated that replacements had already arrived
on 16 October? On 20 vctoher,, rocket launchers and,, chiefly,, JS-19 JS-2 and
JS-3 tanks were seen in the tank sheds on both sides of IIusarenstrasse. On 21
October, tan'' parts for demonstration purposes and demonstration charts or.
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the T-31, tank were seen in hou,e 0 and two model 37 mortars of 817-mm and an
ainiri7 device in a tin box were ser.n on the floor of house _3 25X1
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19. On 3 October, the IRuinenberg Kaserne on the south side of i-a:reel Allee
quartered LOO to 500 troops namely a signal unit with trucks with
signal equipment
motor vehicle driver school with vehicles
personnel that wore
red-bordered black enaulets, and another unit wearing black-hbgrdered
black enaulets with undetermined '.ranch-ofaservice insignia.
21. At 8:30 ax,m. on 18 October, 10 officers and 300 04 with 2 flats and an
15-piece band fell in on the drill grounds of the Kavallerie Schule in
Kramnriitn. An officer addressed the troops, called over each soldier, and
gave each one a certificate, while the band stranded a flourish.
Subsequently, groups from 140 up to 60 men marched to the drill grounds
from the Kavallerieschule, mostly sergeants and NCOs who wore red
bordered black epaulets with tank, artillery and motor transport insignia.
The ceremony was the same as the nrevioue one,, .he soldiers called had
new uniforms and some carried suitcases. After the ceremony,, nany soldiers
said farewell. An NCO told that these soldiers were f oing back to
the UW6?'(~wll.4 estimated the nur:iber of dischargees at about 800. At
11 a.mo, the soldiers who had fallen in mounted 30 truck: which individually
moved out of the barracks installation,.3
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22(. In the evening of 22 October, all window: in the southern section ct the
Delius Kaserne were lic?hted. F_ I the unit returned durin/-
the nirht of 21 Octobero he entrance to the installation was heavily
furrowed by tracks of track-laying- vchicles,,,_
Comment, Thr return on ?0 and ?l. October 1Q5? of units of th 31:th
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10 shipments for ots-dam were loaded in the
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unit.c came from the fall maneuvers of the Eighth Gds A.rr.7 and arc 25X1
believed to have moved into the Ilohenlohe Kaserne and Ludendorff Kaserne
which were reportedly reoccupied in mi.d-October Y52.
It is assumed that element: of the unidentified cur. artillery
brigade of the division concerned moved from the southern section of the
Delius Kaserne into the two afore mentioned barracks installations., as
the Delius Kaserr..e-sued was ;probabl~ occuried to capacity by the division
headquarters and the brigade, making- a total of about 2,00', men, The field.
howitzers mentioned in naragraph 6 are believed to have been 1S2 mm gun
howl t7 zrs,
30 0 Comment? According; to paragraph 129 the bulk of the 10th Gds Tank Div
had returned to its quarters in the Kavallerie 'chule,, Krampnit?, by mid-
October 195?? However, tend to indicate that,
thus far,, only 60 to 70 percent of the division had arrived in Krampnitz.>
On the other hand,, it is rossible that vehicular elements of the division,
nredominantly units which,, in q shirmente, had been transferred for the
rnancuver of the Fourth Gds 1'ec7, 'trmy in the area south and east of
F'athenotr at thr end of Sentember 1859, had reached their rost by road upon 25X1
completion of the Paneuvero F_ I The trucks and truck
column mentioned in paragraph 8 of the present report belong to the 10th
Cds T'znk, Div, The present information identifies the 359th Cds A14J: Rent,, the
7th Cds AZtrcl )3n9 the 81st Cads Hv lank OP hej-t and the 2h8th Gds RL Dn of
the division; it tends to confirm the units mentioned until 7, 8 and 20
Jctober 1952 re,:-pective],y,9 The reporting in paragraph 7 of 1100 tanks is
believed to h:nve referred to the quartering; capacity of the tank sheds,, as
the divi.sion is equipred only with about 270 tanks and OP guns. The
report contains no new information on the personnel exchange program.
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1Commento A Soviet document of 1950 mentioned Gds senior Lieutenant
Pakhomov as unit cortoander, Aecordjnr to the document described in ,ara--
he is in command of the reconz,ais: ante comparW of the 20th
C ds Mtn hifIe 11 ept of the 10th Gds Tank liiv ,
Comment, Compared with nrevious info-,?mation, no client > s apreared to
have occurred regardi.rir the occupation of the Kaserne Jildpark-yvest and
Krierrschule,, it is believed that a new officer course
wa;; started in the ErieM schule at, the end of October, after the previous
of"iccr course had been completed at the beginning- of October 195?:. `ihe
occupation of the Adolf Hitler Kaserne and h.uinenberr: Ka erne is not known.
So far, it is known that the motor transport unit in the ..doff 'idtler
Karerne bclow?s to th, GOrG and it is assumed that the unit.: in the
Ruinenberg Kaserne also belong, to a signal component of the GOFG which had
been carried there prior to the summer traininlr. jhe unit whose personnel wore
black-bordered crimson eraulets in the Ldolf Hitler Kaserne possibly belongs
to a guard unit of the komenciatura, while the assirrnment to the 31;th Arty Liv
(US) o" the artillery unit is still doubted.
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