SOVIET ORDER OF BATTLE IN THE RUSSIAN ZONE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400350011-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 17, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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TEa .JJGE E GROUP
INTEWG ' CE REPORT
COUNTRY GersaW/Russian Zone
SMELT Soviet Orde' of Battle in the Russian Zc w
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In the North
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DNST. 17 March 1947
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F-3 1. Frankfur_t10
a) Lt Cal Korshikov ruins as c;. fry cosim antler. The new political
;.officer L .Major Bakov, who succeodr: Major Lerner. The latter has
been recalled to Fassiam
b) On 15 January 1947, a unit of the Dnieper Flotilla ar.rtved in
Frankfurt/0.
F-3 2. Rathenow Z15)
Buildings of the A rado aircraft plant, located In a wooed area
about tfi Eoe..kilonze-ters from Rathe zou, were occupied by artillery
[.hits on 4 January. Appi:%ox .zn te1 r 400 azedium-calibre gins were
observed Motorized c;olun'rs cons-.n-red of 80 to 100 vebiclee,
apparent) of U4 S origin,
B-2 3. Schrerfn T46 )
An armored unit departed (di.recti.)n unknown) on 15 Jantuaryr and was
replaced s jy infantry troops,. It believed that Schweri i is to
be an adtn.wnistratlve base. An in::':'ease in Soviet admtr4strative
personnel has lea to the requisit`Lr).ninS of 76 additional houses in
the town.
In the South
B-3 4. We iniar
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B-2 5. Halle (D92)
a) Between7 and 10 January, truck columns moved northward through
Halle. Many of them were hauling anti-tank guns and AA machine guns.
All trucki were marked: T U1 TA 4 (apparorvly preceded by the cross-
ed artillery gun symbol). On 14 January several truck convoys also
went north through iIalle ! these were rise r' e;d TRrfiAV
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b) Italia was
temporarily occupied sometime in January by three motorized rifle
regiments, one motorized artillery regime at with 150 mm g;iuns, and
one armored division with T-34 tanks. Those units were said to have
come from Czechoslovakia and on 27 January were at Bernburg (D76),
although the HQ staff was still-in Halle,
a) Some IrM and officers being demobilized ,vill continue to live in
the Russian Zone as civili?.rs and will form a reserve corps.
b) The demobilization acts: ally s onnts to a redeployment of units.
Troops withdrawn from the Russian Zone are tow stationed along the
border between the Russian Zone and Poland. The individual soldiers
being; returned to the USSR are technician 4
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