MILITARY RAIL MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000600290009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Troop trains from Templin to Wittenberg identified -
Ion 26 January 1953 included: a train of 10 boxcars, 24
flatcars and 8 SS-type flatcars with pontoons and cross-country
vehicles; and a train of 12 boxcars, 25 flatcars and 2 SE-type -
flatcars. with pontoons, two assault boats and cross-country vehicles.1
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2. The following troop trains were
29 January:
on 26 and
Date Jr,
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Troop. Trains
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- 10 boxcars and Templin
Rudolstadt
41 flatcars
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22 gondola cars and Falkenberg
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11 flatcar
1 converted boxcar Brandenburg-
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- and 14 boxcars Altstadt
On 3 February, 8 converted boxcars, 29 flatcars and 6 SS-type flatcars
were to available for loading of troops at the Brandenburg-
Altstadt railroad station.2
IF VP train of 1 boxcar and 19 flatcurs
wiTAI venicies went from Angermuende to Dessau-Rosslau on 31 January. 3
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The troop train Icarrying
elements of the 880th Engr En was previously roported by another source.
. As a total of two troop trains belonging to
this movement was observed in the reference report the two trains from
Templin mentioned in:paragraph 1 of the present report are definitely
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belieired to be identical with the above trains. As Rudolstadt was
the receiving Station, the trains had to be directed via Wittenberg
-which is the transfer station from the Berlin railroad district to
the Ballo railroad district.
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brigades stationed in Brandenburg was to be traneTorted to short-
term field exercises.
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