SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Troop Trains
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DATE PREPARED-,
`. o-ENCLOSURES NO. & c1'P a * -
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CB - Converted Boxem-
BoWar
F Flatcar
FRyn.- Heavy-Duty Flatcar
l , The following is a list of shuttle-trains 'shish
were d:;spate e via uestrin between
o r and , Noveanber 1.9553 carrying r:Liitary personnel except a,
noted:
Dat
Number i)f:
Cars From To
23 October 54 B Ger dR ,uuin Frar.k s.rt/Oder
55 B empty Fra nnkftrt/Odes Gerdauen
24 it 43 B Gerdauen
lRMn3cf'ur riOder
25
.Rt B ii
52 B 17
52 B sr ie
54 B; e- pty Berlin Cier au n
53 B Gerdaue. Frankfurt/Oder
r, B; enptY Frankfut?t/Oder Gerdauen
26 x.2 B Gerdaaeta
Frankfurt/Oder
9 Decen`ber.l0,53 .
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50 B
26 October 5g B; empty
54 B
52 B
57 B; empty
57 B
52 B
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Frankfurt/Odar
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Odar
Frankfurt/Odar
Gerdauen.
II
Frankfurt/Od
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Od
Gerdauen
29 53 B
57 B ; empty
57 B
30 " 52 B
48 B
57 B; empty
57 B
31 55 B
57 B
52 B
1 November 47 B
56 B
57 B
2 It 53B
55 B
Frankfurt/Odhr
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Odar
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Odor
Gerdauen
II
Frankfurt/Oder
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Oder
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Oder
Gerdauen
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Oiler
Belli!
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Oder
it
Ge.rdau.;en
Frankfurt/Oder
Ge-rdauen
Frankfurt,/Oder
Gerdauten
Frankfurt/Gder
Gerdauen
Frarikx: urt,/Gder
Gerdauen
Frankfurt./Oder
is
Ger?dauen
Frankfurt./Oder
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Oder
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Oder
Frankf urti Od r
Gerdauen
Frankfurt/Oder
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5 November 52 B
5'7 B
55 B
55 B
6 ~t 54 B
48 B; empty
52 B
53 B
52 B
43 B
9 ' 55 B
57 B
53 B
10 i' 56 B
57B
55 B
57 B
ll 57 B
55 B
574
56 B
12 55 B
14 It
54 B
55 13
52 B
50 B
50 B
51'B
53 B
Fran'.'furt/Oiler
Gerdtuer:
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Trankfurt/Oder
IT
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Gerdauen
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Frankfurt /Oder
Gerdausr_
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Get dauer,
Frankfurt/Oder
Berlin
Gerdauen
Berlin
'I
Frankfurt/Oder
Berlin
Gerdauer.
Frankfurt/Oiler
tr
Ti
It
Gerdauen
Frankfi t/Od or
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r~'metnkfu't/Oder
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11
Frankfurt/Oiler
II
Gerdauen
Berlin,
Frankfurt/Oder
Gerdauen
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Frazr kfurt/0der
Gerdauen
Fra nkfurt/Od ear
V
Frankfuzt/0der
Gerdauen
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2, On 9 November, a troop train of 8 boxcars and 14 flatcars with 2soldiers,
.artillery pieces and trucks went from Ileisewasser to Cottbus.
3? Shuttle-trains with military personnel
pate in
Nim-iber of
Fr
om
54 B
Fr
Gu
ankfu
ben
rt/Oder
Falkenbearg
Dresden
54 B
Ve
tesen
Guben
56 B
We
imar
55 B
I4a
gdebu
rg
Frank- urt /0 d, e`?
55 B
Ku
estri
n
Jueterbog
56 B
'Ma
gdebu
rg
Frankfurt
54 B
Fr
ankfu
rt/Oder
Chemnitz
56 B
Ju
eterb
og
Kuestrin
54 B
Fe
iesen
Guben
55 B
Fr
ankfu
rt/Oder
Chem itz
13
54 B
it
Guben
56 ',n-
Fueretenterg
It
55 B
Kuestrin
Meissen
56 B
Frankfurt/Oder
Jueterbog
14
54 B
Guben
Chen rit z
15
56 B
Frankfurt/Oder
Weimar
16
54 B
Guben
Falkenber
55 B
Gubon
Jueterbog
Eastbound shuttle-trains dispatched by order of the Soviet transport ita:or
control headquarters between 7 and 13 NovearbEr Included:
Via Kuestrin-Kietz
Date _._in Nursber of
Nov Cars
54
54
From
Dresden railroad
district
Jueterbog;-
Altos Lager
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II
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50 Berlin railroad
district
12 54 Erfurt railroad
district
50 Berlin railroad
district
13 undetermined Dresden railroad
district
Via Guben
12 54
39 Cottbus railroad
district
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5. On 17 November, the cars of a train with military personnel which arrived
at Frankfurt/Oder from Brest Litovsk were redispatched to Kuirmersdorfe
Zerbs., Bernburg, and Wildpark respectively.
On 14 November, shuttle with military personnel was unl oacieE fi
at Frankfurt/Oder. On 17 ANovember, s uttl with mi? itax t per?sor. z?a
was unloaded at Jueterbog Altes Lager; the gain was loaded at the sat:ie rai_-
road station during the night of 18 November., 4
7. tht: following railroad cars were
to be made available between 9 and 18 Novanber:
Bate in Number of
Novoiif er Cars
9' 21 B
P'agdeburg
38 Cottbus railroad
district
6B
25 B
Assembli,g Station
Teltow
Jueterbog-Altes Lager
Teltow
Jueterbog-Alter Lager
Teltow
11 8 B
1SXR. 15 B
12 29 B
9B, 6F
13 16 B
18 16 CP558 F
7B, 3F
Wuensdorf
Jueterbog--Altes Lager
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and! 24t~ Neriber, 30 nterfzec ccftverted.
20, 22
On 14, 15
6
17
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boxcars ea were to be nude avai'!ab a at Frankfurt/Odes' by the Berlin
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rail.roas district, headquarters a 3'
9. Trains with nilitary personnel obadrvet on 6 and 12 NdVember included:
Date in Number of From
Novfrrrber Cars
To
6 53 B Kuestrin Rathenow-Nor'
10 B Rathenow Chemliitz
10 B Wfldpark
2 B FrankfAPt/Od.
12 53 B Guben Rat' ienoi- Nor
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10a On 7 Novembr.,r, five AA guns, two AA gun carriages, three generators, and
boxes of various ~oizeg , were unloaded f.rozn R. flatcars and boxcars at Vie
Rathenoa railroad tatiors a
ll Mil .tary shiprients from Fuerstenwalde observed at the Wtttenberge rr. _ _ro d
sta-;f.on on 8 and 9 November includes: 4 716-m AT guns to Perletez g or 8
Nov,r. ber; and 1 bo car and Y flatcars with a sound locator and a gs :er?atos?
to . chwerin on 9 November.
12 Troop trains from Strausberg to Wustermark listed in-railroad recoiCf.s
between 9 and 17 November included:
Cat : in COMM tion of
Novr3 !bew Lgop -rains
9 10CE, 35.S,7F
11 7 CB,' 30 B, 20 F
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13. Troop trains loaded at jueterbog Altes 1:,a? er on 11, 12, and 13 Now bar
included:
Date in
November
Composit on of
Troop Trains
11
% CB, 9 B
12
1 CB, 9 B, 5 RRym
13
22 CB, 4.B
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of of he 9th Meos Div s oh returned to their hone station after term' _ati ,n
of corba1; firing prac?tf ces at the Weis; suer troop training grounds
Obsr:srvations, however, on conducting of co bat firing practices at `:]iss,-
wa.soer are available up to late October 19!}3 only.
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t? The troop train probably carried artillery contingerts
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t}?e obserrvat ons are believed to generally corrects.
totalled 21 eastbound tra ,ne and 27 westbound trans s via
Lorrnrent
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The shuttle-trains reported fx
paragraph are conr,ented an as follows:
On 8 Nover. bee 1953, the train with dischar a :s cc!'S
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ues r n, was doubted . Cormlent 6. 1:.: then 25X1
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train. probably returned o East Germany VIOLa u n, its unloading at Frar
Oder on 14 November 1953 is given credences.
On 11 November 1953, the train was last oboe. eyed
departing rom ua er g toward the east and
dispatched via Guben and Frankfurt ere
nt information indicates that the train ha protably Ur V -,a
Fra:akfurt/Oiler and, obviously, had alai left East Gerriar r via Frsr. 'urt` Idea
on 11 November 1953.
5, omment, Is the railroad cars were not requested to be trams: twoi lk ,
the trains probably were employed in interzonal traffic.
6 Coeur, nt
The two trains oars e3c rer - eer _: th a
51 we 1V Army Corps to a eno om Were he soldiers were red --ate sd i r
other posts of.the corps on trains with a email number of cars?
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at T.Te e en serne in a enov0
corm
8, (Comment.
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la mid-November 1953, an, air tecl-nic
sc .oo o e wen .y- FEWTE r Irry probably transferred from 33tra tebei, g
to Dceberitz,
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