MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THE LETZLING HEATH AND NEURUPPIN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005400900015-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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DATE PREPARED 5 November 1954
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tRES (NO. & TYPE)
1. I a headquarters which
Include Generals Patov and Orechko and Field Marshal Paulus
moved from Born-Planken to Hillereleben on 3 October 1954. At 25X1
midnight on 4 October, 6 buses which were occupied by field-grade 25X1
,officers passed' rough Wedringen. The buses came from the north
and proceeded eastward. On that defy, elements of the units returned
to the installations in Hillersleben and passed in review before
the generals. At 0700 on 15 October, 5 T-34/85 tanks, ammunition,
billeting equipment and 2 boxearloads of soldiers wearing red-
bordered black epaulets were unloaded in Hillersleben. On 19 October,
the installations were still only partially occupied.l
2. At 0630 on 3 October, reports of heavy artillery pieces were heard
in Jaevenits from a southerly direction for about 1 hour. A
a tely 30 T-34/85 tanks
entered the Waldlager southeast of Jaevenitz from the
direction of Hottendorf. Prior to 10 October, the camp was partially
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occupied by soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets. 25X1
3. Between 27 September and 9 October, the Fliegerhoret Kaserne (5101)
in Garde egen was Occupied to capacity. Soldiers wearing black-
bordered crimson epaulets entered and left the installation.2
4. At 2300 on 9 October, a train of 20 flatcars and 22 boxcars carrying
20 trucks Meting equipment passed through Haldensleben. The
train presumably,came from Hillereleben and proceeded toward Magdeburg.
At midnight on 12 October, a train of approximately 30 flatcars and
10 boxcars carrying trucks with billeting equipment and soldiers
wearing red-dered block epaulets left Haldensleben toward Mazd
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were seen.
had continually taken place at th
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a ens eben station on 15 October. These loadings included a shipment
of T-34 tanks.3
At 1130 and after 1630 on 14 Ocl giber major columns of armored
personnel
e s truces Sled peps W11116 s.34isas wearing red-bordered black
e ets were s Oft Iarl Magi $traose in Neu uppln on route toward
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the Friedrich-Franz Kaserne (2201). On 16 October, the Neuruppin
kasernes were heavily occupied.
6. After 1630 on 14 October, 22 BA-64 armored scout cars, w15 armored
and 10 field kitchens were seen on i s oc er ee
en route toward Neuruppin. In the evening on 14 October, .
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approximately 95 percent of the windows of the Neuruppin kasernes
were lit.4
one General Patov (fnu)
from Moscow inspected the troops in Hillersleben on 18 September.
This Patov may be identical with General
Units 19 Gds Mecz Div fromHille s e en app y
Marsha Field Marshal Paulus
presen sleben on 3 October of a headquarterp with
Major P. I. Batov who was reportedly stationed in the Kaliningrad
area in the spring of 1954. Batov is believed to be commander of
an army, possibly a mechanized army, in this area. During the
maneuvers of the Third Shock Army, the same source reported the
practi southern portion of the Letzling Heath until
19 October. This agrees with observations made in 1953,'according
to which elements of the division from Hillersleben conducted small-
scale exercises at the training grounds after the training grounds
had been evacuated.
Comment. elements of the
16th Gds Tank SP Regt of the 207th Mtz Rifle Div entered the Wald-
lager. The information confirms again that units of this division
participated in the maneuvers of the Third Shock Army.
The Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Gardelegen
is believed to have ben occupied by the 598th Mtz Rifle Regt of
the division until 9 October.
exercises of the division in the Wittstock area, which exercises
apparently terminated on 15 Vctobe~ I'
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