SOVIET LOADINGS IN THE AREA OF THE HALLE RAILROAD DISTRICT

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CL SIFICAI'i0Nr SECRET
?OuNTTRy East Germany
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LOA-1 . _ A .11 -A The folio rIrg Is- a list of ovi?e~t ioaaint.;s? handled at 29 railroad stations in the
Halle railroad district in July 1953:
_._ Tota;. . Shi entss
WOW: The figure-_in brackets under Load indicates the number of cars with a given
-REPORT NO:J
Soviet Loadings in the Area of the Halle Railroad District
From
}umber of
C& s
}burg
Altenhain'
Belgern
Bitterfeld
Boeblen
.. 29
132w
Coswig
2
Dessau
1
Eisleben
6
Falkenberg
29
Grimma
138
Grosskorbetha
Halle
,f,, ..m,
Jessen
91
Leipzig
438
CLASSIFICATION
Load
1 train with undetermined -load
military` goads
poles
structural'material
_fuel _2
'military goods
military goods
boxes
concrete slabs 3
troop trains and military goods
fuel 2
. military goods
military goods
gravel (274), foodstuff (67),
pontoons (23) 3
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sheet metal (24),
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Number of
Cars
Luegtitz
48
Mejnsdorf
21
Merseburg
51
Sockrehhna.
12
Politzsch (sic)
4
Pjesterjtz
3
Reinsdorf
Seelingstaedt
123
Trebsen
15
Treben-Lekm a
5
Wiederitzsch
2
Wittenberg
13
Wildschuetz
60
Wuraen
331,
Zerbst
3
Load
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crushed rook 3
1 train with undetermined load (12), t.n~ks (4) 1
3 trains with undetermined load (2) and oil 1
ammunition (7), firewood (5)
forgings
oxygen
crushed rock 3
1 train with undetermined load 1
stone pipes
military goods
military goods
crushed rock 3
foodstuff (307) and tank spare parts
military goods.
2. Some of the above shipments are broken down below:
July Number
1953 of Cars
Load
From
2
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19
military goods
~g
Bad Bibra 5
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228 tons
4
n 80 tons
Altenhain
Tar1:ersdorf
g and 24
4
if 4
40 tons
Gotha
9
II
10 tons
Weimar
10 and 16
5
ea 50 tons
Crawinkel
10
1
10 tons
Mechterstaedt
13 and 19
3
30 tons
A1tenjrabo<
13
of
30 tons
to
10 tons
Ohrdruf
Georgenthal
23 and 25
7
va 70 tons
9
Lossa
28
1 .1S
tractors Coswig
Fuerstenwalde
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1 W 30
6 B
7
2 F/s
20
5 F/3
21 - 26
22 F%
4
3 Rf~y
13 and 14
131
23
3 SS
25
16 F/S
26
2
29
1
2 B
1 -- 27
10
2
2
2 and 22
7
9
6 and 29
6
6 and 21
9 -- 27
29
11 and 31
5
16
4
25 -- 27
23 F/S
27
3 B
military goods
11 tans
boxes
tractors
concrete slabs
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capen
Falkenberg
i l ~s~zs~ be
If '
airfield
tt tt
tanks, 150 tons Grimm
military goods tt
1050 tons
tanks, 105 tons Halle
ZIS truck cabins
x:,..1.17 tart' goods
30 tons
Halle, IFA
Halle
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Brandenburg-,
A1. tstad t
iarchim, Bauunicn Spree
Ch wepnitz
111 6
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0
rr , 32 tons Halle
engines Halle
rilitary goods Jensen
50 tons
tt , 10 tons tt
it, 37 tons rt
tt rt
tt at
rr ?t
tt tt
rt , 41 tons
tt 9 306 tons
tr , 253 tons
tt , 2 tons
tr , 23 tons
pontoons
military goods
rt
Finow
Fi.now
eupetersb.ain
e'iip+etersb.ain
lia.idensleben
I 'aff endorf
f oegeIin
Fuers t enwald c-South
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tt Jueterbog y Altos ,#.ager
91 Reed emu
Dannenwalde
L,ei zig-- W'a ren 'uerstenwa1de-uSouth
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hardware
1 -. 20
3 13
2-24
1413
1
2 B
19
6 13
1 31
274 0
4 - 18
15 0
l 15
9 G
14
4 RRy
31
7 B
5 F/S
3 B
2 13
1 - 23
4 F/S
1
15
13
13
14
2
8
15
11, 25 tons
5 and. 30
5 SS
7
1
- 31
17
21
3 'B
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Leipzig-Leutzsch.
Leipzig-
Grosszschocher
Lei~zig-fit?n
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Leipzig_ Fuersteriwa Lde
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Eutritzsch 0
Leipzig.-Plagwitz Oranienburg
B
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hold icke
PFeinsdorf rchnioeser,
Kuminersdorf
r,
Bad Saarow
I e-ckrehna Feeskow
Fuerstenwalde
Rathenow
Politzsch (sic) Muellrose
3ierseburg Donndorf)
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7
Koethen
Piers ebulrg Strassgraebchen-
Bursa--Factory i ernsdorf~
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Trebsen
Weimar
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Wittenberg Kummersdorf,
irchmoeser
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motor vehicle
refrigerators
gravel
sheet metal
tanks, 220 tons
Forst Zinna
Puellrose
Wuensdorf
military goods
190 tons
am ranition
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0
11
forgings
military goods
325 tons
it, 195 tons
11, 220 tons
oil, 56 tons
military goods
150 tons
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tanks, 160 tons
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military goods
2C tons
Jueterbcg, A't,es La,;er
tank spare parts
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military goods
30 tons
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25X1 1- I Imnt. Possibly, troop trains.
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25X1 2 _[Cgmn_ent. Gonpared with June, fuel shipments from Boeblen decreased about
65 percent and. from Grosskorbetha about 55 percent and, thus, are far below the
25X1 monthly average of the first half year Qf 1953.
25X1 3. Gopment. Construction material shipments for the air forced
25X1 4. omment. Of the 29 railroad stations, 16 were covered in the preceding
month. Comparison showed that major differences were discernible only between
the loading stations of the hydrogenation plants. See also OComment 2.
25X1 0nitting the actual and possible troop shipments as well as shipments of con-
struction material, the volume of outgoing shipments as comparedith the pre-
vious month dropped from 1,726 carloads down to 1,083 carloads, which is a de-
crease of about 37 percent in the Haile railroad district. Com os s?e with pertinent
25X1 observations in other railroad dist?ts. The July
volume of supply traffic in the Halle district was considerably below the monthly
average of about 19700 carloads determined for the first half year of 1953.
25X1 5. Comment. from Altenburg was reported for the first time. It
is believed to have carried a ements of the 38th Amy AT Arty Brig to field
25X1 exercises of units of the XXVIII Gds Mtz Rifle Corps, of the IV Arty Corps and
the 220th Hv Tank SP Regt. 3hese ~exercisess started in the area of Naumburg and
the Lossa troop training grounds about 20 July and terminated in the area of
Straussfurt, north of Erfurt, about 24 July.
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[Comment. Other official records indicated that, on 14 July, three troop
trains including one carrying a tank unit went from Grimmer to Schwepnitz, pre-
sumably with units of the 8th Gds Mecz Div.
25X1 7. IQo sent. There is the possibility that units of the 21st Gds Necz Div which
had been employed in the Merseburg area during the June riots returned to their
Lossa troop training grounds.
Sant.
25X1 r~ ~ confirms the 21st Gds Mecz Div in Hale until 29 July.
confirms the unidentified engineer regiment of the GOFG from Bernburg
25X1 until 11 July.
confirms the 70th Gds Mecz Regt of the 21st Gds MMecz Div in Halle until
29 July.
25X1 has probably been mistaken for the RTC of.
the Eighth Gds Army.
observed in Neupetershain is reported from East German for the first
time.
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