MILITARY INFORMATION FROM POTSDAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008000150013-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 4, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Activity in the Delius 1 aserne in Potsdam (11 53/Z 63)
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_DAT E PREPAREDL June-3-951
was described as follovra:
Cleaning of vehicles and guns from 9:20 a.m. to 12:30 pom,,;
p ya ca raining from 1 to 3 p.m.; political indoctrination at 5 p.m.
Assembling of 2 officers., 10 NCOs and 180-recruits., whom a sergeant
re .srre to as new arrivals, in front of V_e headquarters building at 8
a.m4; cleaning of vehicles and {-uns by the trained personnel from 9:20
aam. to 12:30 pm.; individual ttaining .:Ath rifle and submachine gun from.
1 to 3 p.m.; indoctrination at 5 p.n.; recruits prepared quartera in the
made-over attic rooms of the small clubhouse.
1'+olicing of quarters by trained personnel from 9 a..mo to 12 p.m.;
physical exercises of trained personnel from 1:20 to 3 p-m0; indoctrination
of trained personnel from 3 to 5 p.m.; departure recruits for rtredical
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Arrival of officer s from o;iidpark in sedans I
at 8:20 a.m.; inspection of all motor vehicles of the artillery
icers from 9:20 a.m. to 12:30 p..mn; indi-1dual train, rg of
unarmed recruits throughout the day,
1"'reparing of grans and vohiclos for driving by trained personnel;
a .p r} that the units were preparing for an i jnent transfer. (1)
Indoctrination at 5 pan.,; indoctrina i_an for recruits from 9:20 a,m. to
12:30 P.m.; individual training of unarrsed recruits from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
the Uuinanberg Kaserne quartered aboilfi 300 troops with red-
bordered ack epaulets who belonged to a driving choo1 The other
troons previously observed in the installation seamed to have left. Trucks
loft the
installation.
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CONTROL/US OFFISCIA1LS O ; litary officials of all branches
of service were seen in the .restricted area., Ali puns Were still orpp:laced at
:>tei.nplatz and the athletic field a Truck I was parked at the em~,lace=
went on Steinplatz., rotor vehicles secan in traffic to the restricted area
entrance to the billeting area,
7- From. 50 to 60 officers,, ranking from junior lieutenant up to and including sonior
lieutenant, ware seen entering the classrooms in the eastern section of the
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school at about 5 p.m* to go to :le hotel on iiesnestrasse0, "ost of the officers 25X1
wore infantry insignia ?.gut seise of them had tank insignias
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6~ The ass of a Ger pan laborer employed at tho Adolf Hitler Kaserne bore
the restricted area on Paul lieumannstrasse :ao still occupied by
5. About 300 troops wearing black epaulets, so-7ef t: or jai. t h supply and signal..
insignia, were quartered on the ir'etn se i of the Frisecke and Hoepfner firm
on Ernst Thaelmannstrasse aas parked at the entrance
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the Pan.zerg renad:i.or. Kaserne housed a hiph-echelon headquarter,,
th r ess catered to a hundred
of: icers from the Krieg t chute or. ICirscha7.lee, Sedans
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it vras learned from, Soviet dependents that Unit had 25X1
recently moved from Potsdar to rtaakenm The unit concerned had occupied Staaken
in 1945.
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seven troop trains left +ildpark for Alters :rabow
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heloiiged to the unidentified artillery briE.ade in the barracks installations
gent of Potsdam, since the present report, does not indicate that troops from
the Delius Kaserne left
hw ne'r~ orf., aserne still quartered 800.3 troops
r i th red bordered black epaulets 2X11
belongs to the Koch ofa.a.ce on Ue . er is rasse, Potsdar
belongs to t1 e=, Chief of Supply and A drninistrative Services of the
C~CIFG in. the Adolph Hitler I~aserne, 1'o 3darea belon.s to the 30th Gds 25X1
Gun Arty 13riG which is stationed in the Delius aserne and was con 'irr ed there
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belongs to the 180th Field Tospi.tal of the econa Cc3a 3.echaeti. ee t:rr r in
Ia11oz?cdi,r ' bel or ;a
to an unidentified signal battal'i ono Obelongs to an unidentified unit
in. selebei, South Ural. I'D.
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