GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800360005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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pa ~ e ~ c card. ;~rfurt at the Halle freight station, and , on
28 ;i~ 3 ~ 43 tanl,cs l JS?-~2 tarn:, 5U gv~zs
and ~.r~xck were entrained for an ulidetermined
destination.
On 27 i~'(ay, l6 sma. nd, about 2O lar?~~e am hibious vehicles and
1~ motor veY:i.clcs
passed through Saalfeld, cor.:ing from the dir^cta.on a 3 s w z
and proceeds ng to the ?rei~ht station fr,~:~ entrai~zing.
Q_Gc~r~~,ent.
First Gds ",?~ecz Ar:zy, y~assibly from Dresden.
~Com:~~en~. ~'he tanks and SP guns belong t.~ the ?_lat C.ds ~;ecz
Div, presaras.bly the tank trsining battalion.
~~Comrnent. Tha s~~phibious vehicles are rather safely believed
to have came from the Prinz-Louis-Ferdinaa~d Xaserne orr ~3eulvritzer
Stras:~e, where the 45th Gds l~.gr ~n of the 39th Gdw ftz :'.ifle ~.v
has peen vaguely carriod. .From the
? the 3~~th Gds ~?1tz Rifle Div. iiaLJever, according to the infor~a.tion
in this retort, it can rather gmfel be believed that the engineer
~~atta.l' on is stationed in Saal?elci. an ~~ jf~Y,
oaserved, a sh:ipr:~ent of engineer units passsng lrotxgh 4Tauraburg toward
deissanfels, which 4:also belong to this Lattalion and presumably
went to D?ssau-A?:en~ ? A,s the I'.oesen engis~~:r
trmining .s3.te i; na longer in use and the Qngin~aer units of the array
-and the two rifle-cnrp3 assembled in Dessau-Akers as surly as A ri].,
it ca.n be assumed that the engineer batval:ions of ~thtr division also
moved to. t~iis area. 1n 1952, those battalion:: ,?,~..~ M?"_.'.ed to the
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