RUSSIAN OB IN BRANDENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800600002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 2, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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,TFAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Demur (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Russian 013 Brandenburg
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DIST. StecielpeottOM
ORIGIN
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NAVY 'JUSTICE
OranienArea
1. At Schloss Schwante? near Oranienburg (Z-67)? training courses lasting three
weeks were held for Red Amy battalion commanders
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Fifteen to twenty officers attended each course.
2. The head of the school was Major Jansonsobn who is a member of the Communist
Party and, as such, was also political officer of the course.
3. The theoretical irstruction -tias given at Schloss Schwante itself, while the
practical exercises were carried out in ??the neighborhood of Schrrante and
in the Inch area nber Kremmen. (Z.-57). Live ammunition was used in training
exercises at the latter place. ?
4. The infantry units stationed in Gross Ziethen, Sommeravralds? and Kremman
also participated in the training.
6.
there were 5,000 troops stationed at Oranienburg
airfield. .
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7. Neu hutment camps were constructed in the. general area of Flirstenwalde (V-33)
and
approximately 17,000 infantry troops were acccemodated there.
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These infantry troops, unaffected by the current troop movements, had '?een
in the area for a considerable time. There is also a newly6.equipped heavy
.workshop for motor vehicles in Fgrstenwalde.
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The former Ilormann Lgns Kaserne u,lo being used to house
L.ome 4,000 infantrymen who 'acre armed rdth uachine?pistols, carbines, are_ 50X1-HUM
heavy and light machine guns of Russian nanuYacture, The unit vas undergoing
training Lith the "Pannorfaust" in the fields adjoining the barracks,
9. The formor Realschule buildings situated in the T.erlincrstnisse, r;ottbuc ?
Lere being used as a militar:y hos AULl as was anoth(- r 50X1-HUM
building in the same street, There yore 2,000 patients, the majority of
whorlLpre suffering from venereal diseases. The hospital embraced surgical,
radical, dermatological, ear, nose, and throat departments, and VOUS staffed
by lussian doctors. The latter often called in German practitioners for
consultation. :ledicInes vlere in poor supply, but the standard of bandaring
as exceptionally high. The cleanliness of the hospital left much
to be desired and disinfection vras very hapha%ard. The food provided for the
riatients was of very poor quality and complaints from the patients on tlis
score 'were frequent.
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