POLISH TROOPS IN OSWIECIM AND JAWORZNO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005700600008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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11 Three of nine r ul -liplo--story brick buildings in the southern
section of the #or.:.er concentration caz:i^ of Gscriecim (Q 511Y 74)
were rorrodeled as troop quarters from February to 10 April 1950.
They had not ::~:>en occupied uu to that tine.
2. M infantry unit of about 500 men arrived in the concentration
ccnp on several trains after February 1950. post of the soldiers
had been conscripted in Pot ieratiia, East Prussia and ;'; ct Prussia in
the fa-1 of 1949. Tie troops were usually trained t wooden rifles,. arA
only a very few carbines and riachine guns we" observed. 7he}troops
alnost daily left the camp organized into four companies., The soldiers
also wor'_.ed in the coal mines, tiiorl:in ; in three shifts.
3. Three more buildings were scheduled for conversion into troop quarters
in April 1950. They were to house 500 more troops who were expected
to arrive in late April or early 1950.
4. In April 1950 three barracks buildings of. the former concentration
carnrp were occupied by about 500. Polish soldiers, including personnel
of the 1928 class. * Five hundred beds were moved into these buildings
on 17 and. 18 Anril r Xbout r iers arrived between 14 and
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concentration camp number out , menRnd after 21 April 1950, ?x*
The soldiers wore white-bordered red collar ;atches, trhite-bordered
red epaulets and. white mYd red bands around their caps. The troops were
trained in and near the billeting area and worked in mines for two or three
hours dat ly with the morning of afternoon shift.
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About 250 Polish soldiers coming from Stettin and Kxrdd ow, . roved into the
ca p ton rent, about 00 ::peters east of the Jaworzno (Q 51A 76) railroad
station, on 19 April 1950. The cantonment buildings had been remodeled
in early April 1950 to serve as troop quarters. ** The soldiers :,ore
round visor-type caps with a red band and an emblem d th the Polish
eagle. The rank insignia was on the epaulets and above the emblem. A
corporal wore two white cross-bars, a sergeant one white chevron, a senior
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ser;eant two white chevrons and a l.i.eutenmt one brass star. The
troops wore blue-bordered red and white-bordered red collar patches
and itiite-bordered red epaulets.
6. The troops mostly had wooden rifles. One platoon, however, carried
rifles and four machine guns when marching out for a field exercise.
Conxnent0 In Docenber 1949 the former concentration catip of
Oswiecim housed Po' h troops who were conmmatted to work in mines.
a!nrtenib The units probably consisted of personnel of special
categories -criio were subject to special military service in accordance
with Article 48 of the Universal :41i.litax j Service Law of ! February
1901. Several units of this type were previously observed in the
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