GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800340010-5
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC-,---.._ _ General 1':ilitaxyInformation
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DATE OF CONTEN
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REFERENCES
PREPARED 10 March 1953
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On 10 February 1953 44. rotor vehicles and 1 prune mover,
were unloaded at the Vogelsang railroad station.1 On 11 Februarys,
motor vehicles
and 76.2-mm gz?,ns were unloaded from a troop 25X1
tra~_n at the Oranienburg railroad s-ation.2
2. Major Plikiferov (fnu), chief of Trade , ?.gency V, issued an order
according to which vouchers should `.1o longer be given to Ge.cman
drivers at the Main Supply Depot in Finow. The units stationed
at E3ernau will allegedly be transferred to the Templin troop training
grounds in late I-l rch or early A pri-1 1953.3
3. At about 4 p.m. on 11. February, 25 to 30 trucks occupied by troo s,
.tnd 4 t eld kitchens
1left the bar-acks installation 25X1
black e-aulets
and, at 4:40 ;.m.
20 trucks were seen en route in the
same drection.
ti-:o technical sergeants with the
latter colurrrra
belonged to Unit ~a.3ni nov and had previously been
west o'" Oastav^nsee (lake), -in t! -e Fuerstenberg area, toward Wokuhl.
Between 8 a.m and 10 a.m. on 12 February, other columns left toward
Wokuhl. After their departure, the installation was occupied by
about 300 to 400 soldiers. Dta ?? ?ng the night of 16 February, all
units returned to them tEallation.`''
At 9:30 a.rr* on 13 Febxni:.ry, 12 true.ks, e!:ch occupied by 118 soldiers
wearing red-bord red black epaulets and including 6 trucks towif.g
canvas--covered guns, presuna ly 76..,'-mm AT guns, were seen en Bernauer
allee, Oranienburg, ;proceeding toward Lehnitzbruecke (bridge).\
L e co. umn we: t toward Velten. At ll: ?O a.!-..
on 1.6 nebruary*, 18 trucks occupied by troops wearing red-bordered
s '.tationed in the O.rani.enburg castle. At 8 a.m. on 16 Februa.'?y, 24 T-34
tanks were seen on Bernauerallee, coining front the direction of the
Lehnitzschleuse (lock.` and proceeding toward Sachsenhausenerstrasse.
the tanks --ant toward Krem on Via Hohenbruch.
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Between 13 and 20 February drivers, school Parkin daily practiced
with driving school trucks But.zeen
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800 a.. m. and 10 a. m. ,. three T-34 t= ,. ks were daily seen at driving
practice in the tank training area.'
>4 At 110 0 a.rq. on 22 February,, a trc_)p train consisting of 10 boxcars
occupied by personnel, and au undet arinined number of flatcar; carrying
39 tru+~'.:s, 2 full-track trucks, 2 x 100-mm AT guys and 12 x 76.2.-snm
AT gun:3 was being unloaded at the I irnau r ilroad station. The train
had come from the direction of Eber 3waide. On 25 Fobr'uary, the
Schuetzen i aserne and the 11rtilleri.: Kaserne, 13b o
rswa _de, were occupied
to capacity, whereas the cantonment on Breiteche3dtstraose -;ryas occupied
by only a rear detail,. On 23 February, the Panzer Kai erne in
Bad Froi.enwalde was occupied to capacity. The motor vehicle wore on
blooks.l 8
6, On 23 ?'ebruary, 12 x 57-mm AT guns, 2O soldiers wearing red-bordered
black? ;paulets and 24 truce
were loaded on a tra".n, consisting of 10 converted boxcars,
3 boxcars and 30 flatcars, at the D illgow railroad station. The Train
went to Forst ;inns,. The unit retur: ted on 26 February. On 24 February,
a train, consisting of 6 converted ` )oxcars, 2 boxcars and 26 flz tears,
was loaded, with 12 x 120-r.m, mortars.. 6 x 57-m;r AT guns, about 180
troops wearing red--bordered black e-7aulets and 30, true cu
at the Dallgow railroad station for
Jueterbo-Alter Lager.
7. In the afternoon,of 27 Febru ry, two troop trains were loaded at the
Dal.1; oar railroad station. The first train carried 12 x 76.2.-mm ZIS.-3
guns, 35 to 40 trucks, 2 radio trues, 1 jeep, 1 field kitchen,
about +5 trucks 2 radio trucks, 1 'field kitchen
and about troops. The second r.iAn carried x 76.7--mm ZIS.-3
and about 300 soldiers.-Lu
L Igmma L F_ I the La's belonged
to an unidentified AT unit of the ,.,,aond Gds Nee ; Arm. The train m q
have carried units of the 2d Light ..rty Brig which. 1^so-wasver were
not detrained in Oranienbiu g but wet to Neustrelitz,
Agency V of the Fourth Gds Mecz Am,,.:' in L"berswalde.
__ G Major Nils -.A erov probabl yy^ is C def of Trade,
Oo ,ent
obs( armed the :'eparture cf the bulk of
the 33d Gds Vito Rifle Ftegt of the Q-',h Gds T wnk Div for winter exercises,
which were held by the division best-,-pen 12 and 15 February in the `area
north of Neuruppin.
5. L Cora,_.ent,, The urs.ts observed p : obah1y belonged to the 25th Tank Div.
It is .iot in. possible that the units participated in ,exercises
of the Fourth Ode Mecz Arne in the ._rea northeast of Ratthenow, although
the barracks
installations in anien urg appearf d to be occupied to capes ;ity on 19
Febraar?y.
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one Unit 3iraailov stationed, in the
Oa anisnaburg castle. This unit prob '_,v:.y 3s Unit '7,`minov. nenti.oned
in p: r . ph 4 of the present repor Lieutenant Colonel I4ta.rkin. ;fnu)
is chief of the drivers' s.hodl of the 25th Tank Div. Ho my
be con iiandi.ng officer or acbdl: stra.-:, .ve officer of the uaidontif ed
motor trans c:ort battalion of the di sion.A
a; L~io zraea to ?nits of fhe, ar gde ?tii?ied
a AT artillery brigade of the Fo,:::th Gde Mecz Arr had been
detrained after their return from t' exercises of the, z-';r in the
area northeast of Rathenowo
7,,iel d Conn-next. After ? e con1etiox- of the ex ?:rci = e in the area
nt r ~,z ; >st of the ow, the bulk of 4-6.e headquarters and eadquarterz: urr?
of the Furth Gds ocz Army as well ~z.s the units of the 6th Gds teoz
Div can again be ca.- rigid in ?tuheiar` : t ta? rs,::alde.
, only the signal unit stationed i n canton e at on Breeitscl..eidtetrassey
which robably I .-ft for she o erci.e=~ on 12 February, may have still
been engaged in the dish ntlin g of .'nee .1.n the training- area.
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ar.t .,1er t anal, is of the l t x ecz Div
~probabl engaged in aclvanoed combat practice f: ring at i;se
Jue terbog troop training grounds.
10. t'48Y3C!ie_ntn r
Arty Brie
I un'i is of the 2d Li :h t
shave moved to Jueterbog
for advanced co-..,bat practice filing.:,
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