SOVIET TROOP TRAINS AND KVP TRAINS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SMRET/bOUTROL 11030 OFFIG.
East Germany .SECURITY INFORMATION
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REPORT
Soviet Troop Trains and KVP Trains
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B .- Boxcar
F: - Flatcar
SSy- Heavy-Duty flatcar.
trains identified
Date
.2 August
5 August
6 August
11 August
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between 2 August and 29
Comwsition of
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16 B, 23 F uith
about. 300 engineer
troops and trucks,:
September 1953 included:
From
Magdeburg
railroad
district
16 Bo 38 F with Neubukow
20 artillery pieces
13 Bo 30 F with Kroepelin
about 400 troops,
AA guns,
artillery pieces and trucks
9 B, 26 Fp 12 SSy with
12 AA guns and, Neubukow
trucks
To
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railroad
district
Dresden
railroad
district
Aueg,
Breitenbach
8 p, 10 F- with Hagenow Trebbin
about 250 troo us and
trucks
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11 August , 12 32) 40 F with Chemnitz Krcepelin
about 400 troops and
10 At guns
15 B1 30 F with Chemnitz Neubukov'
AA guns
18 August 6 I-4 6 P with FUerstenwalde Schwerin
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? 19 August " 14 Brv 41 F-with
AA guns and
cks
20 August
? 12 Dv 22 F with
AA guns and
trucks
Dresden Neubukow
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Ellerholz Weubukow .
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6 14 F with Magdeburg- ' Fuerstenberg
Brueckfeld
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trucks
28 August .12-1302 F with ? Tangerhuette Easewalk
AA guns and.
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9 B9 18,F with Neubukcw ? Magdeburg ?
AA guns and railroad
trucks district .
30 Au mist 11 B9 3). F with -Neubukow Netly.'uppin
.AA gunsv'mortars
and trucks..
31 August 12 p, 22 SSy
15 B9 35F with
about 400 troopsv
100 women soldiers
- and AA guild-
4 September 3 139 9 Sy
12 September 10 Bv 30 F with
AA
Neubukw,r Magdeburg
railroad
district
Neubukow
Neubukow
Neubukow
railroad
district district
Magdeburg
Brueckfeld
Burg
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20 September 2 B, 7 F with Schwerin
artillery pieces railroad
. district
cheranit.z.
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B9 9 F with YeubukoW Breitenbrunn
AA guns
13 B, 22 F with Schwerin
AA guns .
23 2 15 .15, 43 F with Neubukow Xlotzsche
AA guns
24 " 3 B, 4 Fp 7 SSy with. Dranse Schwerin
seven tanks and
vehicles
12 B, 34 F-with Neubukow Klotzsche
vehicles
8 B, 46 F with Hagenow Jerichow
AA guns and
mortars .
2 B, 36 F with ? Cuestrow Jerichow
artillery pieces
25 undeterrined with 5c werin Magdeburg
howitzers railroad
district
26
undetermined with Schwerin Magdeburg
howitzers railroad
district
13 B, 29 F with 'Schwerin Genthin
artillery pieces and
mortars
10 B, 25 F with Schwerin Genthin
artillery pieces and
mortar
8 Bn 41 F with Ludwigsltat Jerichow
AT guns and
mortars
15 E. 39..F with, Wismar WUdicke
- long-Wrreled guns
with a.7-meter long
barrel and AT guns'
15 fl, 32 Fp 3 33y with Hagenow Conthin
howitzers
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27 September 8 11.9 28 F, 1 SSy Wismar
10 By 10 r, 10 Say Schwerin
with tanks
16 B, 31 F with Schwerin
vehicles
17 ED .43 F with Hagenoi4
artillery pieces and
?mortars ?
49 F with
vehicles
12 B9 12 r, 12 Say
with 8 tanks,
6 rocket launchers
and prime movers
Hagenow
Hagenow
6 119 29 F, 10 SSy with Schwerin
10 tanks and
15 rocket launchers
undetermined with SChwerin
tanks?. artillery pieces
and vehicles
7 B, 41 F with Hagenow
vehicles
2. On and after 23 September,
with artillery pieces and tanks. The shi
and Gloewen. They were couplcLtooviet
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Uudicce
Jericilow
Genthin
Genthin
Genthin
Genthin
Jerichow
Gonthin
Genthin
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the arrival of eight KV? trains
paents came from Greifswald, Schwerin
troop trains at Wittenberge and
proceeded toward Magdeburg. 2 ?
Ammente,. Most of the troop trains between 2 August and 24 September
1953 were previously .identified
These troop trains are commented on as follows:
Qt1..2 Auggste. The train had and carried elements
of the 88th (?)..Engt Regt of the Second Gds Mecz:Army which teturne
Jerichow after termin-t.
24_11ggust.
OnAjlewust. The train
Chemnitz.
The train carried contingents of the 62nd AAA Div,
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to Dessau. .
went to
On 11 Awl:1E6 The troo train to Trebbin possibly carried vehicles of the
138th Gds Sig Regt of the Third Gds Mecz Army. In the sumer of 1953,
soldiers with vehic es of this regiment were previously observed in the
Gadebusch area at line construction work.
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.04_18 A2E2W. 1111e train possibly carried equipment to Schwerin.
On 20'Auqust.
The train from l'agdeburg-Druechfeld is renorted for the first time;
it possibly carried a detail of the Third Shock Amy which vac to be
employed for line construction in connection with the corioand-post
exercise held in the i!ecklenburg area in late August and early September
1953.
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On e..0 Aucusb, The train to Pasewalk probably also carried troops to the
above ccnrand-post exercise; it is believed, however, that the unit as
loaded at liagdeburg.
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the 94th Gds 4t Rifle Div returning from combat firing practic,? -HUM,
at the Vittstock troop training'grounds.:
Cormentai. The coupling of KVP shigdents to Soviet troop trains
:Indicates that EVP units were to particknots in the field exercise_of
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conducting of combined maneuvers of this kind would have been observed
in East Germany for the first time
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