KVP MOVED FROM SCHWERIN TO EGGESIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700590003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC UP tbved Einar. Sehwariss to WosyAni>
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EVALUATIOsee Al AV PLACE OBTAINED.- J
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1 June 1953
DATE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED
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2,, On 10 April 1953, the KVP in the .Alta Grenadier Kaserne commenced roving from
Schwerin to Eggesin with small arms and light infantry weapons,.
3.> At about 8 a,m,, on 11 April 1953, a KVP train, which arrived from the direc-
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1. Frorr 13 to 30 March 2,953, the Alte Grenadier Kaserne in Schwerin still.
quartered about 1,500 1tVPse Vehicles and weapons were stored in the
open in the east section of the barracks installation and, on 13 March
1953, included 12 guns of 7C to 80 mm, in the barracks 'yard. A detachment
which, on that day, marched out of the installation was equipped with.8
r ortars of 100 to 120 mm. Motor vehicles leaving the installation 25X1 B
17 March 1953 included
howitzers howitzers in the barracks yard,,3
Lion or Ludwigalust and carried 12 heavy mortars, and 18 light and 24 heavy
AT guns, passed through the Schwerin railroad station and proceeded to
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On 22 April 1953, the former 89th Ind' Rcgt Ka Berne on Werder Strasse in
Schwerin quartered about 1,500 KVPs. Source counted about 40 xr 199 -
25X1A 1. Comments The unit observed was the lst Mecz Regt of the Eggesin Div y,
transferred from Schwerin to Karpin, southeast of Eggesin?
25X1 A2 . Conment_. This train is believed to have carried elements of s unit of
. F:0e9ru :pe Nord, which roved from winter billets into the billeting area
of Armeeegruppe Nord 4
25X1 A 3 Comi ent a It is believed that the Grenadier Kaserne in Schwerin after
the of the let Mecz Regt was occupied by another KVF unit,
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