SOVIET AIR FORCE HOSPITAL IN KOENIGS/USTERHAUSEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003500680012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Zone of GermaE ~.PEPORT NO._.
Soviet Air Force Hospital in 1,,GELIGSdU3T1';1111AUSEN
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CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with tW.
letter of 16 October 1978 from th@,
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Lcomment; Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
a~ The accuracy of these eta-temf,nts c&n nelt be '^ate ,nn .. e.. ?'e
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1. A Soviet Air Force hospital was housed in the former training.
camp of a German postal'service which was located on. the southern
town limits of KO NIGS.sfUS.TERH.AUSJi' (i 53/V 02). A cupola-shaped
building; containing low-pressure chambers, centrifugal c., .tubers
and dropping devices for the training of dive-bomber pilots had
been established there in 1944. This building was surrounded
by a board fence in January 1949 and strictly separated from the
hospi'ti. The technical equipment was reconditioned and two-week
courses have been held there since February 1949. Laj RUBINSCHE1C.
was the instruction director. He was assisted by a major (med)
and a captain (eng4)
2. Fifteen to twenty officers, the lowest rank being a first lieu--
tenant,. participated in these courses. They had a special pass
issued by a PO9':`DA1;- ( 53/Z 63) headquarters which authorized. them
to enter the cupola building. aj 3UBUNSCHEK frequently left for
POTSDAM.
3, It was observes; that one or two officers of each course -:,,ere car-
ried on stretchers from the cupola building to the adjoining hos-
pital where they lodged separated from the other patients.. In
most cases they were taken away by an ambulance two days of Eer
their hospitalization.
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4. A new course was started in the cupola building. Four. or five
officers, including majors and colonels were daily driven to
the building
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other reports have been received on the existence of an aero?-
medic medical toot in:3tallatioba near ~`I TG :!u i'ali U~I:2~Fa
b. It is not kno;'ln that a former German aero edical test
st 'io n, had exited near Gt:'3IG ~~~l; tW TJU 'Iv. The former
Gcrtuau Air 14'orce had done the aeromedical tests in JU i13UG.
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