SOVIET BARRACKS AT RAVENSBRUECK

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 21, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.O. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT Soviet Barracks at Ravenabrueck DATE DISTR. 21 OCT 09
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consists of a sketch of the Fueratenberg venebrueek area and an explanatory
legend which identifies various Soviet installations located in the area and
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Date: 2nd September 1959
EAST GERMANY/U.S.S.R.
MILITARY
BARRACKS AT RAVENSBRUCK.
(16 - 17 August 59)
Attached at Appendix "A" is a sketch
Germany 1 a 25000 maps) showing the position of barracks in the
2. No. 1 on the sketch pinpoints the KASTAVENSEE Kaserne
some 200 - 300 m. N -W of the S end of the OBER KASTAVEN SEE and 500 - 600 M.
N of the RAVENSBRUCK-LYCHEN road. The length of the barrack area is some
700 - 800 in.
3. Approach roads (Nos. 4 on the sketch) are barred to all civilian
traffic by means of stop signs.
4. From the S edge of the OBERKASTAVENSEE 4 x 2-storeyed stone buildings
can be seen in the E half of the barracks (No. 2 on the sketch). In the S-W
corner of the barracks there are 4 - 5 family-type houses (No. 3 on the ketch).
5. From the S-W corner of the barracks a telephone line (No. 5 on the
sketch) runs out in a S direction as far as the road and then runs W alone;
the road to RAVENSBRUCK. The line has 16 wires running on 2 cross-traverses.
6. On 16 - 17 August, 1959, no activity was visible in the area of the
barracks apart from two trucks of Soviet troops in fatigue clothing.
7. In the triang) made by the RAVENSBRUCK - LYCHEN road and the railway
line to TIMTPLIN there is a Soviet-occupied installation measuring some
150 x 150 in. (No. 6 on the sketch). It is surrounded by a high wooden fence
and no details of the interior are visible. From the telephone line (No. 5
on the skotch)leading to ~~ two lines branch off and enter installation
No. 6.
8. Immediately S of the railway line to TEMPLIN stands a Soviet
installation some 500 in. in length (No. 7 on the sketch). It reaches almost
as far as the SCHWEDT SEE. S-E of the installation stands RAVENSBRUCK
concentration camp memorial (No. 8 on the sketch).
9. At the position marked as No. 9 on the sketch a new memorial is
being built.
10. The road from RAVENSBRUCK to HTh LPFORT runs into the barracks.
11. Another Soviet-occupied installation (No. 10 on the sketchy is
located in the middle of RAVENSBRUCK, approx. at MR 763 958.
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12. Apart from 3 Soviet bowsers no military vehicles or equipment of
any kind was seen in RAVENSBRUCK on 16 - 17 August, 1959.
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