RUSSIAN FORCES IN MECKLENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600240001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 26, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 2001/11/23 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000
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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Russian Forces in Mecklenburg
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INFO. February 1947
DIST, Tay 1947
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A munitions depot is located at 3te>rn -Buchholz. Twelve "Bunkers" each con-
Gain a total of 10,.000 shells and cartridges of 105 mm caliber. A forth
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twelve
Hunkers" are under construction. Around the ammunition depot is
situated a concentration camp used for arrests from Neu-Brandenburg.
MILITARY S U rR VEY OF MEC.KLENBURG
December 1946 by the Cartographical Section of the U` .i.tary Academy,, Mosco
2 ~: The whole of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern area was surveyed between July and
ARCHILI - Change of Commandant
3. The Commandant of Farchisi, a certain Colonel I3lukov, was relieved of his
position and ordered to return to Moscow on 24 January 1947. It is believed
that this was occasioned by the loss of maps from his offices.
I) ARMY TROOPS A iD TROP MOV MEET NORTHLR. N 1LaCKLENBURG
On 11 February 1947 all Red Army units in Rostock left the town by road.
Tank, motorized Infantry, and artillery units moved southwards down
Reichsstrasse 103 towards Gustr?ow and headquarters division vehicle used
the Ribnitz road.
Red Army troops in (strove and Greifewald also left in early February I947,>
.ly the Korrendatura and the former Luftwaffe hospital remain occupied at
t ustr?ow.
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