SOVIET RAIL SHIPMENTS THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2007
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• Publication Date: February 11, 1999
• Content Type: REPORT

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L ah .pnents observed in i'rania?urt/0der between 19 and 23 %cto ::r 1950 included:
Shipnont
From To and Date
'.even boxcars, 11 flatcars Kuestrin to Ouben
30 gondola cars rind one 19 October
tank car -.r ith troops
troops; shuttle -train 19 October
Fifty-five boxcars with Kuestrin to Cottbus
nifty-seven boxcars rith
From the direction of
Cottbus to :.hers aaldo
20 October
Seven boxcars, 21 ,;oncola ?rcnI iurt/Odor tovrard
cars, 10 flatcars and it Berlin
tank cars with troops 20 October
Diesel oil;
Brest Litov k to
Dresden-Friedrichstadt
20 October
One tank car iith Brest Litovsk to Vclten
motor oil; 20 October
goods and 3 ta.nl: cars; 20 October
One boxcar tith nilitary Drest Litovsk to Velten
Seventeen now truc1
Three. boxcars iith medical
instruments
Drest Litovsk to Chem -
nitz Iiilbersdorf
21 October
wake
21 0cto er
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One boxcar with military
goods
No boxcars t:rith ri3.litax^y
Two boxcars with military
roods ?
Thirty-eight boxcars and
r'ucrstenberg to
Fucrstenwal do
21 October
Brest Litovsk to
tuellrose
21 October
Brost Litovsk to
Berlin-Rurelsburg
21 October
Gerdauen via Kuestrin
20 t ondola cars troops to rrankfurt/Oiler, where
the troops rero unloaded
and moved toward Berlin..
The empty train left towarq
Cottbus.
22 October.
1{'ifty-three boxcars with troops From the direction of
Guben to sbersvralde
22 October
One tank J.borsw;aldo to %o wrrton-
tral.de
22 October
One boxcar with trousers >ischofswerda to Berman
22 October
Fifty- five boxcars with troops Lieborose toward :',erbig
23 October
One boxcar and 24 flatcars Brest Litovsk to ruersten-
r th t--Urn s walde
23 October
':`pro boxcars and 2 gondola cars Brest i itovak to Dannoiwrald
with undetermined cargo: 23 October
Comments ,
(1)ira. nos of'- similar composition were also observed i r tober 1950,
coming from Oerdauen ?.nd proceeding; to.Pxd Cottbus. 7" ~ It is
notices,;lc, however, that these trains ;rare composed of boxcars for troops as well
as flaatcars end gondola cars suited i'or the transportation of vehicles and materi-
a-l, flatcars being p aAicularly suited for car- jin` tank-s. Since no reports indi?
catod that the trains carried w,:-ole units, it is bell eved that the boxcars were also
utilized in Gerdauen for the traaisportatmon of recruits and- the flatcars and gondola
car for supply shi entr, of arras nnc' a nents. ," - ? ^ i nrrAirinr-n
Ger::nny could Le detected:
(2) $hipmonts that recruits on agiu c-trains
pos , Lble that shuttle-I,rtainV
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