MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE KOENIGSBRUECK TROOP TRAINING GROUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300630005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Betweer 29 March and 17 April 1953, no troops were loaded or unload t
the Koenigebrueck troop training grounds, 25X1
Schwepni.tz, Schmorkaug Steinborn and Bohra were occu led
by troopsa The
summer camp east of Zeisholz was vacanta individual firing 25X1
by artillery and tanks and, in some instance, firing by AAA at the troop
training grounds. Sentries wearing red-bordered black epaulets with tank.
insignia stood at the perimeter of Naundorf during the firing practices,
2e On 6 Aprils the Heeres Nachrichtensehule at Koenigsbrueck was occupied by
about 2,400 troo,s wearing red-bordered black epaulets with tank, artillery
motor transport or signal insignia. Some. soldiers wore black-bordered ,black
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epaulets. Vehicle was seen at. the instailatinn- On 6 A
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On 10 March, 12 x 76-? AA guns and 18 trucks from Neues lager were 25X1
loaded at the Koenigsbrueck railroad- station
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imdeteryined number of 76-= AA guns and trucks were loaded on two trains at the
Koenigsi neck railroad station8
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Le:uzig Eilenburg,4 On 19 March, numerous 37-mm AA guns and trucks
sere unloaded at the Koenigsbrueck railroad station from a train
which came from the direction of Cheranitz. The trucks and AA guns
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drove toward 1.1eues Lagero
On the afternoon of 24 Larch, a column of 12 trucks
and 6 x 76-smm field guns
passed through Koenigsbruecko The column came from the direction of
Neues lager and marched toward Dresden, On the evening of 15 March,
12 x 100-mm AT guns and 16 trucks were loaded
at the Koenigabrueck railroad station. On the afternoon of 7 March,,
military personnel, incl. uding women soldiers, 12 x 100-mm A guns and
28 trucks were loaded on a train of 20 boxcars and 30 flatcars with
side-racks. On 17 March, 3 JS-3 tanks and 2 JS-2 tanks were load
the Ottendorf Okrilla railroad stationC a
camp for tank troops was established on Keualenberg Hill south of - Grae-
fenhain7 The soldiers werg quartered in tents. A similar camp was ob-
served at Lausnitz Heath.
Co rnumerous rail ship-
ments of the 11th Gds Tank Div and 8th Gds 1;iecz v on and after
11 April 1953, left their posts toward Koenigsbrueck and were unloaded
in the Schwepnitz area. The kind of occupation of the summer camps in
this area, , is indicative of th3
arrival of troops for .summer training.
___1_C9jM3_n n Regiments of the 11th Gds Tank Div stationed at the Heeras
Nachrichtenschule, Koenigsbrueck, include: the 270th Gds Mort Regt, pro-
bably the. 1418th AAA Regt, and the 44th Gds Tank Regt.,
confirms the 44th Gds Tank i7e of the a ith Gd i
Tank Div in Koenigsbrueck until 8 Decemjer 1952 belongs to ai
unidentified unit, probably of the 11th Gds Tank Div, which has been en-
gaged in field exercises in this area since January 19530
4. Co e t Those two troop trains of the 4th Gds AAA Div went to
Wustrowd ,3
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unit, which belongs to the 6th Gds AAA i7iv returned to Chemnitz.
o Coant. The camps for tank troops is connected wi uh
tioned inl Comment 30
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