POLISH TROOPS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN STUHM

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Prior to February 1952, a Polish tank unit and a motoretrc1e rnit were quartered
in the former Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt east of the railroad station
in Stuhm (Q 5h/D 77). Source observed 12 to 15 T-34/76 tanks and once saw 30 to
40 ZIS R-71 motorcycles of 500 cam piston displacement leaving the installation.
The units were also equipped with ZIS 151 !-ton trucks and G;AZ type cross-
country motor vehicles with four-wheel drive. Driving exercises were often
performed with motorcycles and cross-country motor vehicles in the area yorth ~k
the installation,,-where tanks were also seen training from time to time.
2. Source observed the tank unit in the former Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt
prior to early May 19520 He kne-,, that in the fall of 1951,g this unit had been
transferred to Stuhm by rail. Residents of the town called the unit a tank
battalion. Source, who believed that the barracks installation was occupied .by
500 to 600 men, observed about 25 T--34/76 tanks9 an unidentified b, of
vehicle armored reconnaissance m orcycles, trucks and sedarnsn 25X1
Most of the soldi rs quartered in the former
ac oo wore ue-grey orms an service caps with, .lack band. Other soldiers
had khaki uniforms.]
During the first six months of 19519 40 to 50 trucks and sedans were monthly
repaired or overhauled in the motor vehicle repair shop which was attached to the.
prison and was under the direction of a civilian manager. The vehicles repaired
in this shop included a large number of KBW vehicles which arrived by road or by
rail and some even from Warsaw and Krakow (Q 51/Z 24). In May 19529 the shop
was still operating;.2
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4,, Source observed that the drivers of the trucks which were repaired
in the motor vehicle repair shop included KBW soldiers from Warsaw, Krakow
sad Breslau (P 5,2/0 41) as well as soldiers wearing army uniforms.
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70 vehicles were repaired per month in early 1952. The shop was
adjacent to the north. and northeast sides of the prison which was located
on the northeastern edge of the town between the roads toward Brazens-
walde (Q 54/D 68) and. Deutsch,-Danerau (Q 54/D 78).2-
5. Prior to March 1952, a KBW guard unit of company strength was quartered
in the former officials' house of the prison administration at the
ts of
approach road to the prison. This unit which,accord ng to statements
was
coldiers,waa subordinate to a Danzig (Q 55/I 42) rd
frequently relieved. In March 1952, the KBW soldiers, who almost
exclusively belonged to the 1930 class, had already served for 2 years.
The soldiers stated that they bad still to serve 3 months and that
recruits of the 1931 class had been drafted into their battalion in the
fall of 1951 and in March 195203
64 Prior to May 1952, another source saw seven tanks covered with tarpaulins
in the military installation east of the railroad station. He believed
that they were T-3.4 tanks of an old typo. He also observed about 20
motorcycles as well as trucks and sedans near the installation. He had
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the Stuhm unit was su r na a was 8 ationed in Danzig-Langfuhr.1
7. Source stated. that tank sheds were built in the military Installation
east of the railroad station by prisoners of the Stuhm prison. He
believed that tanks for one battalion were in this installation in May
J1952x, Three concrete shelters, in which ammunition was believed to be
stored, were built into a rather steep slope which had almost the form
of a ridge and was located between the east end the west section of the
installation. Most of the young tank soldiers serving in Stuhm on active
duty wore grey blue cloth uniforms with long trousers, leggings and laced
shoes.
8. Prior to May 1952, about 700 prisoners of the Stutms.prison worked in the
motor vehicle repair shop which was located in the north section of the
prison and was called a base shop. Up to 200 vehicles of the different
types in need of repair, including ;American built trucks and jeeps as
well as Soviet and. German made motor vehicles of all types , were
sometimes waiting for repair. Repaired vehicles were picked up by
civilians or Polish soldiers. The shop was equipped with machine tools
for making spare paste.
9. No Soviet troops or offices were stationed in Stuhmm prior to May 19520
25X1 G Ln R?s+~ Pp sh tank unit is confirmed prior to May 19520.
F a:t'is believed that this unit Is an element of
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25X1 A 2. nThe 1952 telephone directory for Stuhm contains s.
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car for Warsztaty Samochodowe No 2 (Motor Vehicle Shop No 2) which
most probably Is the shop reported.
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Thheinformation con irms the assun Lion that the majority
ra Je-CS?9 31 c1asF had been inducted in the fall of 1951$ while parts at
lea--t of the 193. class had been inducted in the spring of 1950 The,
fact that the 1929 glass and the 1930 class were simultaneously
inducted indicates that the original induction age of 21 years was
changed to 20 years,, It now seems that after the Soviet pattern,,, the
induction age will be lowered to 19 years in the fall of 1952 by the
induction of two c1sssesp namely those of 1932 and 1933 at the same time.
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