SOVIET ORDNANCE SHOP IN BRESLAU-MASSELWITZ (WROCLAW-MASLOWICE)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300820008-8
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Au uct 1953
Until *'ovember 1951, a Soviet ordnance shop was in operation at the
fcarmer. Ardelt Works and the former German tank ordnance shop about
1 kilometer northeast of N .sselwitz (P 55/C 42) and the western ink of
the Oder River. The two installations were separated from each other nh'
the former tank ordnance shop was off limits except for Soviet personne:L.
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station. buiidings quart ring guard personnel were available. The area
2, The area of the former Ardelt Works included an administrative bu :lding,,
2 factory sheds, 1 machine and welding shop, l wood working shop and
I locomotive shed with sour track to the Herrnprotsch P 52/C 42_) railt-oa.d
bounder; on the :.-est by a road which connected Masselwitz with the Oder _vt3r
in the north. The entire installation was surrounded by a double wirs f :nee
and barbed wire er:tar. ;lement+ and on its north, south and west sides tiiacl
watchtowers which were permanently r:tanned by sentries with red service
The guard personnel was accomodated in the former tank ordnance shoe,.
3. Prior to the fall of 1951, about 400 Soviet personnel were employed its the
former Ardelt Works. This personnel which was frequently rotated included sraa'jr
officers who took art in the assembly work and thus received a thorou,ta
mechan- cal training. Officers ranking upward of major lived outside the fantcry
area. Chief of the installation was a Soviet colonel. The German work f,:,rcea
of the installatlo , originally in the strength of about 120 men, was isobar-^:ZI
by Christmas 1951. No Polish p .rsonnel was employed at the Ar?delt Works or the
fora ier? tank, ordnance shop.
4= Prior to September 1951, only Soviet artillery pieces and small arms !rE
repaired at the instaU.ation? iinor replacement parts such as bolts, firing,
were manufactured. at the installation. All the other re plaza:-. ~33nt
parts arrived by rail. Incoming 4:.nd outgoing shipments of arms were
handed by rail. artillery pieces of do, yt:t, :.?C):'
end 250 rrm caliber. The repaired guns were tested at i r_?eguiar inter :a1 at
a point southeast of the ':nstallation. The glans fired across the Oder f} .ve-:1
toward Masselwitz forest.
Incoming weapons shipments i ac:_uded tanks which were, however, unload.ec in the
area. of the former tank ordnance shop which, according to source, hacf t, :ea
e t1alished about 1936. The ordnance shop consisted of several barrwakt-like
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buildings a:ad was separv.ted fr;m the former Ardeit Forks by a nortt,-sou.:
road. i!o a tails wore; a,Tuila3le on the activities c:ndur.ced at the tanY
repair shoo.
G,> The furrier Ardelt riorlks received its aloctrie current from a po' er statior,
in ! arsch?:1t7 (P 52/C 32). Source believed that this power station,, w ii,vn W &B
locate;.i at ',ha eastern exit of Larsehwitz, exclusively served Soviet re,.Ar
installations near :iass.lwitz.
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