ACTIVITIES IN THE MECHANIZED DIVISION EGGESIN AREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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Activities in the ,echanized Divisiun Eggesin Lrea
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1. About 80 NCOs and enlisted men of the 1st r?ecz Regt were
discharged on 20 October, about 75 NCOs and enlisted men of
the 2d recz Regt were discharged on 21 October, and about 115
NCOs and enlisted men of the 3d :,:ecz Regt were discharged on
22 October.l Officers were only discharged individually and
dur'ng the whale month. About 60 other men of the 2d ?:'ecz Regt
who were also due to be discharged,re-enlisted. Soldiers who
stated they wanted to become officers had to pledge themselves
to serve a 10-year term in the K.U.
2. Prior to 19 October, about 400 merl of the td Mecz Regt were
constantly absent for harvest work.
3. Recruiting activity was again intensified after 22 October. he
two 20-man recruiting details of each ;mechanized. regiment were
ordered to recruit 32 young persons by early November.
enlisted replacements, were
a'legedly scheduled to be assi,~.ned first to tank argil artillery
units, next to independent regimental companies, and last to
mechanized battalions in the sequence of their consecutive
numbers.2
4. In late October, 38 junior lieutenants who came from officer
schools were assigned to the 2d 1:l.ecz Regt. Those who wore
red service color included some who came from Erfurt and Dessau.
Some other officers '"ho wore black service color came from Dresden.
Csptain ':golf (f:nu), chief of staff of the 2d "ce Regis, was
superseded by'.iajor Bac'rha.us (fnu) who came from the di-zision hegdnuerters.
T29 former was allegedly reassigned to a unit ir: Saxonie. 3 and 4
the 1st Mecz Regt had an actual strength of 234 officers
and 1 ,409 enlisted men. while the 2d decz Re,"-
219 officers an: 1,491 enlisted men.
6. In October and November training courses for comra_zy.comr. nde*rs
,zrhich were called qualifying c urses were held at the regiments.
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7. -?n;-i'di.n s under construction included a workshop e. st of the
i.ct1.nr- area and an undetermined number of --arar-es, after
7.e: 1 ^ti-on or -'dii the ?d T ecz Re -t would allee-ed.l,,- have ets3i.a
,or ?S ve',:icle s. C?'.'n struction of another billctin- scCt4on
j',~} l r .' i Y r the o, '1 eti0n of Section r, es a1 t e redly* scheduled
`'p_ the sprira- of 1955. Surveyin;`., work for the new section w-s
al , ~?fo: lycomY,.l.et~ d.
t the acme time, a tra fining course for supply officers of the
division --s held at the 1st 3:Iecz Regt. A defense course
i_n conversr:tions, w s -er-erally referred to as an atonic defc nso
course was scheduled to berrin on 8 l ovcmber. The trainees .-cr.''e
al1eged1r! to include about 350 KVP, VP-See (navy) and VP-Luft
(air force) officers from the whole of East Germany who --'erc
schrdu'ed to be quartered in the bi, l.eting areas of the 1st and
Cd `e^z _Re~~;ts.4
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On Octo'.her, after receivinguniforms at the 3d :,'cc-
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;about 'CO recruits, ^'ost of whom were 18 to 25 years old,
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