MILITARY INFORMATION FROM ORANIENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800350008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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and 2 field kitchens.- On 7 May,, Major Picheniyen (fnu) and Lieutenant Colonel
Vadelkov (fnu) were observed on Bernauer Allee. On 15 May, Major Kabanov
(Phonetical spelling) (fnu), supply officer of the driving school unit,
was observed in the billeting area, Between 8 and 15 1Say, 25X1
25X1 buildings I1os 72, 74, 76 and 78 and the apartment ouses on
roads Nos 1 and 2 were not lighted at dusk. Section 2 B of the camp was
lighted as previously by high-suspended strong-powered lacips. At about
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On 18 May 1953, the west section of the Sachsenhausen concentration
cwrp, including the former Panzerschule, Oranienbur. g, was occupied.by
about 1,000 troops wearing red-bordered black epaulets with tanks
artillery or inotor transport insignia- blue bordered black epaulets,
black-bordered black epaulets, and black-bordered crimson epaulets o On
11 May, two T-34 tanks were seen in the training area north of the quarters,
and trucks were seen at driving practice in the
area west of the quarters. At about 4 p.m. on 3.1 May, SP gunsl __j 25X1
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were entrained at the Oranienburg railroad station, not able 25X1
to observe their departure, On 16 May, four tan's were in front of building
No 149, and billeting equipment was carried in the yard from buildings
Nos 82 and 150. Thirty-four soldiers armed with carbines and submachine guns
entered the installation through gate No I. From 8 aam. to 9 a.m. on 18
May, three tanksq were seen in the training area
north of the billeting area, engaged in driving school practices. 1
Between 8 and. 15 P'ay, that section of the Weisse Stadt
settenient in Oranienburg occupied by the Soviet Army, was occupied by
only a few Soviet soldiers and the garages were vacant. Work was still 2
under way in building No 5, which was scheduled to be completed by 20 tray.
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Between 1 and 7 ''ey, the Soviet-occupied section of the Sachsenhausen
concentration carp was occupied as previously. Almost daily, 4 to 5 trucks,
loaded with billeting equipment, constructi,-an r'aterial and iron goods
left the billeting area, proceeding toward Sachsenhausen. 25X1
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4:10 pan? on 8 Y~hy, T-3/+ tanks I were entrained at the 25X1
Cranienburg freight station.,On 9 May, two T-.:4s, via the Lehnitz lock, went
toward Schiachtenhagen. No other tanks at dxivi ?ractice were observed.
On several days, two green T-34 tanks I Iwere seen in front 25X1
of building No 1/+9 and., nearby, about 140 troops wear ng red-bordered black
epaulets were observed at aiming practice. Trucks of the driving school
unit seen an roate from and to the town
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in. late September 1953, and concluded that some units, whth previously were
stationed in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, after their return from
the suxmeer training, would be transferred to the Weisse Stadt restricted
area.
10, 11, 12 and 13. these buildings would be completed
From 2 to 11 May, the Soviet-occupied section of the Weisse Stadt rsstrictect
area was occupied as previously, On 11 May, Major Mashutin (fnu) and three
EM wearing red-bordered black epaulets left '.`eisse Stadt on truck
toward Vogelsang. In the horning of 6 t`am', the Each
officer from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, who also was deputy of
Vaselenko, =me` for a discussion on calculations for buildings Nos 5, ?, %
5 . On 11. May, a conference was held in 'the Sachsonhausen concentration camp,
attended by Major Kabanov (phonetical spelling) (fnu) supply officer of.
the driving school unit Markin; Major ?icheniyen (f'nuand the coxu-randing
officer of the driving school unit a lieutenant colonel, %hiose name could
not be identified, calculations have to be prepared for
the construction of a kitchen and a dining room in building. 1o 3 in.n, section
No 26A for the supply officer of the tank training unit Picheniyen; and
for the reconditioning of building No 16 In section No 2D, and for three
200-liter boilers to be newly installed for Major Kabanov (fnu), supply
officer of the driving school unit. 1
6. On 8 May, seven T-34 tanks,
ware seen on F3crnauer Allee, coming from Berliner Strasse and procezding
toward the Sachsenhauson concentration camp,
7, & local resident stated that, since 1. May, the troops stationed at the M]
komendatura on Schuetzen Strasse, Orani onburg, had been increased by 100
r: en, Unusually rrany troops with green cap ribbons were seen in the streets
of Oranienburg0I
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section of the SS Kaserne and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp can be
carried occupied as previously by ,elements of the unidentified tank
tra:inin g battalion and the unidentified rotor transport battalion or the
25th Tank Div until mid-Msyn The strength figures 25X1
given pare a are fairly ? cY .an e y believed to be
overestimated, the entraining involved 25X1
tanks of the unidentified tank training battalion, probably bound for Templa.n,
Lieutenant Colonel Vadelkov (fnu), probably cornand:ing officer, and Major
lcheniyen (fnu), supply officer of the battalion, have been known previously,
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Lieutenant Colonel MMarkin (fnu) belongs to the unidentified rotor transport
battalion of the division. The buildings are numbered to a sketch II 25X1
As buildings of the aCoovrientioned battalions are
scheduled to he reconditionedo it appears that these troops do not yet
transfer to `fe nplin,
.,c~men ma Major F ashutin (fnu), who is known from previous reports
is omraan ing officer of a rsar detail of an unidentified head u t.rro
Cnith remained In the Weisee Stadt restricted area. 25X1
It cannot vet be ciM rmined for which troona the buildings were reconditioned.,
Vazeleniko (fnlu) Yeas supply
orticer at the Sachsenhau.sen concentration cer,.p until August 1952.
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