KVP IN THE RATHENOW AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300480008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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REMARKS
1. From 16 to 20 March 1953, the former Plant II of the ROW in Rathenow
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was still occupied by an estimated 200 to 230 KVPs who wore blue servic e
color. On several days, the troops engaged in ou dri11 with small arms
area. Jeeps and trucks
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drove into the installation on 18 March. A second low tem-
porary barrac building was nearly completed in the billeting area. 1
2. From 15 to 24 March, source learned from a VP who belonged to the unit
stationed in Rathenow that, between 1`5 a4d 21, March, three units in the
strength of 120 men each from Plant Ii departed for Eggesin. The troops
were allegedly to be quartered in a tent camp, about 3 km off Eggesin.
Major Hemmer, the commanding officer of *the unit in Plant II remained in
Rathenow with a small rear detail. Source also learned that Major Franke
.was the commander of the KVP in Premuitz, and that further transfers of
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KVP units to Burg and Leipzig were pls.nned. 1
~3. On 24 and 25 March VPs trained with 2 x 45 -mm AT guns on the premises of
the former Plant II an Stalin Allee, tAlenow. Other groups received in-
fantry training. KITP conducted a field exercise with live ammunition in
the wooded area of Schollene, Fischbeck and Grosswudicke an 24 March.
Mortar firing was heard.
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L23-- Comment. Deserters stated that the artillery battalion of the
cz Regt of the mechanized division in Eggesin, the bulk of which
was stationed in Preannitz, was stationed in Rathenow. Only the tank
battalion of the division in Eggesin remained in its quarters in Bar-
pin southeast of Eggesin during the winter. As Fremnitr and Ratherow
were provided for as winter quarters only, it may be true that elements
of the 2d mechanized Regt transferred to the area of Eggesin in late
March. Information on the transfer of (th.er elements of the mechanized
Eggesin from their winter quarters was contained in
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have been moved from Premnitz and Rathenow to Burg and Leipzig respec-
tively.
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