MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BERNAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100300001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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East Geriany
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At $ack 1346* on 3 March Z95h; a -convoy of abogi 39,,,,tirpeks
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direction -6f Bernau. sir of the _trucks towed a 57-iteAT gpxl. caoh? 12 trucks
troepe And about 12 trucks equirteent. The-constroycinc12.2ded*- a, field kitillion?
came from the direction of the .I.ALftnachrichten Kas ,1,41?,41.) 1FfC5Wig,11.t.S., aj......?;
that arla-rge column Had ;Left the installation at a.'4 psia.lign emitisr,
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theo-oame clay, the nottherji-artd southern quarters bi.;the -414,4i?1t11x,wrep
abopt,- 26 percent-lighted.- The installation.seemeel t?OPo pea
At.'4-i 45 more columno came from the direction e Berrair-end proceeded-01-
ware-Scheenow-S-ohoern;cal.de. Observed were about 50 ttuck, presomably loaded
with aroamnition mow track-laying vehicles, which .towed-a. 2AL-um ArL2sact mob
d- /.7 fru a -with..st awning field. kitchens.
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13.). troops ohOerved- recl- '02.'dereir .1)10.6.k

with? art-11140k ins
I IO the aii6ntag 6f the same day, th.e o 'depot T..m.s..abfait-50 -2;0
perien,t lighted. On -the' morning of ',4 Mardh, more that- 75'. truc;cs Vero copalls1"."
frozit of two garages: -Two other garages. 'stood empty .In the:a.fternoci, in Iltarat;
about-60 trucks with 60 x 100-mm ATIgAndAwedf lii e. up alonethe fere -w6Ort of -
the ITIOAtOr 'Lrehiclearages. At the sabe time, Aimee garages st?od empty, vitae 25X1
22 ttuckg ad 4 guns Were. parked in :front o-4? azadther
3. - At 41..K._p?a.-cal., 4 *larch, 12 T-34 tank o a-nsi abiltrk. 20-iall cks
weriOloaded at Bernau railroad statlgvan. I I' The los.dill'g :Camp= was co.t.
25X1 ofegv ikektrl.es, 9ontrary- to prMotts pro. kla. ablaut tke same time on
8 difietililV, scout ears, -tevbral alimofed perdbnnel carriers and about 15 t
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boxoart. No 'details could be letilhed-i, 111 tit wpre tUsipatchod towarti
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4. The ralltrfeav 19atflstro.-4-li made utiebinau fretrtt station 'On Is Marsh:.
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12 AT g--ns and about 15 sorlexs stood near the station reedy be loaded. The
cum, had an estimated taliber of 76,2-4P11-. The shipm-rato were not observed to
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In the afternoon on 5 Yarch, most of the troops stationed in elothinE depot
No I (4244), Bernau, were at the installation. About 22 x l00-mn PT
10 x 57-mm AT guns, 25 prime movers and 30 to 40 trucks were parked in the
yard. About 200 to 300 troops engaged in maintenance work there. On 9 Varch
the guns and vehicles were again parked in the garages. About 20 ti ?0 truck*
were not at the installation. No training activity was notio,A
the impression that tie bulk of the troops 'rola the
ichteu Kasen e (4241) were eaain at the installation on 5 March. Obperved
3 T-34/85 talks On 7 and 0 March. each three T-54A5
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to the trPintnv area. On 9 Mare'a,the installation quartered an entimaLd
2,500 troops. Scldiers observed wore rod-bordered black epaulets including some
with artillery insic:nia and, very few, with tank insignia.
Between 5 an 9 March, the forner SS Brieftaubenstation ( ageon stition) ,c3)
Izas still occupied by about 400 troops who wore red-bordercd black epaulets
including some with artillery insignia. It could not be dete::mined whether the
troops noved out for unit exercises- Four 76.2-rm AA guns were sti33 affolacefi
at the instaDiation.
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Cozilen:L. According, to previous information o2 ppm;r:lph3 5 ..[1:TItah
V, it was. inf;orred that troops stationed in Bernau condu(Ac.O. c rei.ee en the
c:rrisen trainig uounds in the area of Schocnow in late Febyvcrv cr:d early
Tho march direction of the tnits Thi 6th Geis
tb v iron tz:s Lritraehrichten Kaserne on 3 Earch and of the 71st Light Arty
f4f.J.J7, (US) from clothiu depot c I su?pu,-ts the conclusion Lhah there oxerej.ses
-e7sre continued. AccordirJ to InfortJation in para-;.rephs 5 6 c the present
report, the exerciL cs 3 s71tod until the afternoon of 5 1arch j the .1. ato3t. The
.Thur sources did not observe the return of the troops, howr
gcmpy.n1.1. Aecord:ng to infor,lation1 1 12 tanks and 25X1
rotor vehicles of the 'Xt.., Tp::k Tng, Bn of the 6th Ods Mech Div were loaded in
the afternoon on 4 March. presmably for shipment to the Tem:t.lin trtining gums
Acc4Irdinp; to the reference report, two trains with
asYents of the 120th (?) AAA Reqt of the division from the ES Frieftlubencltn
lmded OD 5 March, rro'oably for shipment to: Jueterbog. 25X1
on rail movwents indicated that two trains were distatehed from 13ruall to 1.,:,,u-
strelitz CO 6 .;:'11-,2ach. According to other observations, the trains carried 01r-fonts
of the 71st Light frty Brig (US). The lather loa6iu-s were partially confird
hy paragraphs 3 and i.. It was reported for the first time, however, tl-T-.".; azwIn7
naout cars and armored personnel carriers were lz*ded on 5 Mamh. It is ops--o-le
that these vchiales roved to Tomlin as did the tanks of the 34th '2ank
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