MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE JUETERBOG AREA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200650010-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
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REPORT NO._J
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Attention is partieu'.arly called to
Forty soldiers about 20 years old, woaring red-
bordered black epaulets and carrying suitcases,,
marched from the Jueterbog railroad station to
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urm haserne in Jueterbog (N 52/14,1 69) on
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cer at the station, where they arrived by train
from Berlin.
k convoy of ei ht trucks and one Jeep peatedl
seen in the streets of Jueterbog on 1950. y
The trucks were driven by young officers end field
officers Who presumably were undergoing drivers'
training. The conc. entered th Q mt, ' -A-
3. Eight officers and a general entered the a
Berne in four staff ears at
1950.. Rumor hnd it that a ?a ng general
was-expected to arrive in Jueterbog (1).
4. :~t the .Fuchsberg Yaserne two T-34 tan:s, coming
from the direction of Dorf Mnnn- 1moved into the
barracks 1950. Light
soldiers equipment and practice targets
were seen on each tank.
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two motor oycles, tr ick owing a gun
of about 5 ram caliber, Zwe ire motorcycles,
and two TT-34 tanks was seer- in front of th
S uchEsborg doc~'..ere at
1950. The vehicles were ocoupied by 35 to
40 troops wearing :cad-bordered black epau-
lets with tank insignia. A lieutenant colonel,
two majors, a captain and two lieutenants rid-
ing passenger cars brought up the rear. The
convoy returned to the chsborg aserno at
about 19.5CA
1950a Four tanks moved into the barracks at
about 1950
garages of the Fuchsberg Kaserne on
One tank and truck left the Fuchs-
berg Xaserne onj 11 C m Four tanks and
several trucks were cleaned In front of the
7. 'Lmt the officers' riding hall near the mili-
tary railroad station, six taa.nks, some trucks
and one bus were being clean e in front of the
building, on J'S tank moved
Into the bui a.ng
So 1 Rheinsdorf resident stated that tanks .had
conducted field exercises in the :aheinsdorf-
Baerwalde area in late 01950 h The troops
bivouacked in woods south of #heinadorf a The
tanks appeared In groups of 30 and were ac-
companied by jeeps with machine guns mounted
on tripods,, and by armored vehicles mounting
two small-oal$bor guns. Infantry troops rode
on the tanks (2)
9? The following rail movements C sere. observed in
Gruen- near Jueterbogi
as A train car ing ~.~ trucks at 12:30
amb on 1950
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b. :a train of ei4ht flatcars, each carry-
ing a special heavy-duty truck on t' track
toward Zossen at 1950
The drivers were ,? the trucks
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c. Another train of eight coaches, one
gondola car and nine boxcars occupied
by Soviet dependents at
1950. One or two soldiers were
o served on each vehicle.,
chess at the railroad station at
1950
d. 1 train carrying 2U tanks, one train-
in(,, tank, one armored scout car, one repair
shop truck, one truck and two field kit-
e G Another train carrying 30 tanks and a
few soldiers wearing red-bordered black epau-
lets at noon on 11950.
1950. Some of the tanks were covered
V,Jrith a,arpaulins
the armored personne cart ers an
fd A third train carrying 14 tanks with
sic bogie wheels on each side, six AT guns
v to 50 mm ibex 12 trucks
go A train carrying 10 tanks and 12 trucks
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ho as train loaded with four T-34 tanks, four
guns of about 75 mm caliber six motorcycles,
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two boxcars of boxes and troops,
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three gondola cars of boards on
1950 (.5).
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I. A train carr rig boards, beds, scrap
iron and truck from the
direction of Berlin on 1950.
10? The following information was obtained on the
Jueterbog area;
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155. that all. `ittenberg troops had
gone to Jueterbog.
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troops, most of whom had allegedly come from
Wittenberg and some directly from the U.,SeSQR?
The latter troops had never been in Germany
before. The tanks in the camp allegedly
numbered 200. Soviet dependents also lived
in the camp.
c? about 40 tanks had
bee oa c E every night Gruena near
Jueterbog 1950? The
tanks had left toward derder (6) .
d. 40,000
troypu were in Camp '.herder (6).
ea e?st. of the true s observed since mid-
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L JComments.
(1) The information on the occupation ct the
Jueterbog barracks and the training activity
of the Jueterbog troops up to mid-April 1950
tallies with previous reports,
(2) units
from OUO-Uaroog military post held sseveral
days of field exercises in the area south of
the post during the s d half of ;March 1950.
(3) Troops of a component unit of the 6th Gds
Tank Div,
(4) The trains observed on 11950
carried component units of the 7th s Tank Div.
The to trains seen on 1950 may have
also carried tank components of this division a
trains with troops
e 7th Gds Tank Div heading toward Jueterbog,
it is assumed that elements of the division went
to the ':erder-rtarkendorf training s as they
did in 1949.
(5) % unit of the 14th Gds 14ecz Div, presumably
en route to ;'larder- , arkendorf .
(6) The information confirms the transfer of the
6th Gds Tank Div to the ?:rerder-llcrkendorf training
grounds. The number of troops mentioned indicates
that elements of several divisions were located
there,
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it was possibly reassigned to another unit
after the ware a document
found at the Leipzig-;choenau ?lak k .serne
in 1949; it is possibly assigned
to a component. unit of the 21st Gds ,,*,ecz
Diva previously reported
from Juoterbog; it is presumably assigned
to a component unit of the 14th Gds 1,lecz
Div.
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