SOVIET TROOP TRAINS AT RATHENOW AND NEUSTRELITZ

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006300520006-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Troop Trair_s a~'~,,, e}~Qw sad Reastrelitz
EVAEUATION
DATE Of COt~i1'E
DATE OBTAINED
REFEF~ENCES
LACE Q8T~1ti~E~
DATE PREPARED 2 D[arch 1955
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REMARKS
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1. 0,12 and 1 February 1955_, troop trains, ~ehich had been dispatched on
5 anal February, returned and were unloaded at the Rathenow and 25X1
Rathenow-8orth railroad stations._2he detrained troops went to the three
Walde Baserne installations (5441, 5442, 5443)? On 14 February, all
windows of the troop quarters of the three kasernes were lighted. 1
2. On 12 and 13 February, the following troop trains carrying unitssfrom the 25X1
three Walde Kaserne installations were unloaded at Rathenow:
12 Fel~ruar,~ About 50 trucks and 300 soldiers at an undetermined time;
4o x 122-mm artillery pieces and rose artillery pieces of smaller caliber,
80 trucks, 2 radio trucks, 3 field kitchens and 450 soldiers at 1930.
At 1600 on 13 February. Ten rocket launchers and about 30 trucks.
At 0700 on 9 B'ebru
ary, troops loaded at the DTeuatrelitz railroad station
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included 6 x 122-mm-field howitzers and an undetermined number of trucks,
from 25X1
the Alte Grenadier Kaserne 2225 , and 6 x 152-mm field howitzers and 4
rocket launchers from the Gerhard Hauptmann Strasse area. 2 25X1
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omment
12 t o trains
carried 25X1
components of the 6th Arty Div from Altengrabow~ Aedlitz ani Lindau back to 25X1
Rathenow. The number of troop trains indicates to Altengrabow for afive-day
firing practice.
Comm` e_ nt` The kasernea mentioned iadicate:xthat the field howitzers 25X1
belonged to the 495th (?) Arty Segt and 234th Mort 8egt of the 9th Gds Tk Div.
The report confirms xvvioua observations of a rather large number of field 25X1
howitzers (23 and 34~ belonging t? units whi+~i coved to Justsrbog fora three-
day firing practice. field howitzers of 15~-mm, however
are observed with the 9th Gdr Tk DfY fer the fret time.
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