KVP IN ORANIENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400580009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY.
KV' in Oranienburg
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8 September1953
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1. During the morning of 4 August and on 6 Au ;ust 1953, source did not observe any
training in the KV?~~occupied section of the former Sachsenhaausen concentration^ 25X1 B
6 August, intena i.ve firing with carbines was heard from the wooded area east of
Lohnitz Lake and south of Berneuer Chaussee. Sedan and truck 25X1 B
left Gate No II, Source believed that the strength of KVP personnel
stationed at the installation had decreased. Me observed wore red-`ordered black,
eliow.bordered black,, blue-bordered black, blue and pink epaauletsol
2,, In the morning on 13 hutust, two vans were loaded with furniture from apartment
25X1 X houses on Jaegeratrasse, Oranienburg,, which had been occupied by Ws. The furni-
ture was shipped to the station. During a meeting of 'the Oranienburg municipal
administration on 10 August, it had a1.le redly been announced that the buildings
on Jaegerstrasse occupied by VP would soon be returned to their previous owners.
3. From 7 to 13 August, groups of each 6 to 8 civilians carrying baggage and escorted
by 2 KW officers almost daily wont from the Sachsenhaausen concentration camp to
the Oranienburg railroad station at 5 p.m. The ' civilians were about 25 to 28 years
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4o Source observed only little activity in the yard of the Sachsenhausen concentration
camp during the time of observation. About 30 VI's with various service colors daily
practiced on four 37-mm AA guns in front of building No 102 Trucks
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and wen the iring rant,e near the brickyards.1
5, Between 7 and 13 August, about 20 Vps were daily trucked from the Oraxi.enburg castle
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to the firing range near the brickyards at about 8:30 a.m., and about 23 We in
fatigue uniforms daily left the castle at about 9930 a.m., subsequently clearing yap
the area of the former Auergeselischaft A.G. on lehnitxstrasse. In the afternoons?
UP personnel engaged in physical tfaaining at the athletic field behind. the castled
At about 11 a.m. on 23 July, nine repair shop trucks entered the main gate of the
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that 40 percent of the personnel stationed in
the castle would be discharged and that the castle, would. be completely vacated by
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4K, Between 23 and 76 July, source determined that the recruiting office of
the Kreis 0ranier burg Was located in the previous forestry at the
intersection of Fier. nouer eitrasse Etr~r ?:: z;chsenha.useraer tr?as se The
ff:hce was headed by Colonel :,uxxpr'echt'$, who allegedly was 26 years old nd
had been a clri.;nney-sir