SOVIET TROOPS IN THE JUETERBOG AREA

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Several trains carrying disassembled sections of temporary barracks
passed through the Jueterbog (1 52/aa 69) railroad station between
12 and 20 July 1950. The trains came from the direction of Berlin and
proceeded toward ;Wittenberg (N 52/a. 37).
2, A truck convoy coming from the direction of Treuenbrietzen (t'1 53/Z 50) ,
passed through Jueterbog about 4.30 p.m. on 16 July 1950 The convoy
was led by a jeep occupied by four officers, among them a major who
signaled the trucks ?dvith a red and a white flag. The trucks of the con-
voy included a radio truck, 10 trucks, 7 of Mich towed guns of 76.2 mm
5X6 caliber, allegedly AT guns, and two towed field kitchens. ,ach truck
were seen, (1)
5X At 9:30 p.m. on the same day, a convoy of seven motorcycles, including
the last with a sidecar, and five armored reconnais-
sance cars arrived from the direction of Treuenbrietzen and entered
Jueterbog via Schlos trasse.
3. A train of 35 to 40 boxcars without an engine was seen near the 15illionen-
bruecke about 5 p.m. on 17 July 1950. The boxcars were occupied by
soldiers wearing AFr' insignia.
4. The Fuchsberg Kascrne was occupied to half its capacity between 12 and
iD July 1950.
5. The training area -..ast of Jueterbog has been more strictly guarded since
about 20 July 1950. It was estimated that about 10,000 troops with per-
haps 1,000 tanks were stationed in the area. Two lines of poles carry-
ing 10 to 12 and 20 to 24 telephone lines run from Jueterbog to the Heide-
hof via ;;erder (N 53/t 79). The ileidehof housed a high unit headquarters
commanded by a general. About one third of the 1, 200 temporary barracks
which have been under construction since 1949 were not completed on
23 July 1950. (2) Heavy; troop movements to the west in the area south
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of Jueterbog were observed by local residents on the nights between
16 and 23 July 1950. Tank and AT artillery units were on the march
southwest of Jueterboge They were equipped with numerous T-31. tanks
and an unusually large number of tank trucks. Large artillery units
with heavy guns moved through I arkendorf (1 52/E 78) on the night of
20 July 19500
6. An alert practize was held in the Blei orn Kaserne, Iiindersi n Kaserne
and Turin Kaserne, Jueterbog, at 5:30 pomp on 24 July 1950. the first
trucks left the 'Than Kaserne about 6 p.m, They were occupied by
soldiers and some of them toured guns of 100 to 120 caliber. The
trucks carrying personnel were followed by field kitchens, radio trucks
with extended antennae and several, troop columns. The troop columns
headed toward Gruenstrasse, Schloss Strasse or Altes Laker. They were
armed with rifles and submachine guns and carried gas masks, field bags
and rolled blankets. Armored v,::h icles which left, the T'urm Kase:rne at
the sane time crossed the training field at the rear of the installation.
Some of the troops returned to the billeting area about 10 p.m, (3)
25X1 A 7o dMotor vehicles were seen at thej'iurrn Kaserne
between 17 and 29 July 1950:
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25X6 8? A convoy of four amphibious cars, six armored reconnaissance caws, seven
sidecar motorcycles and truck Y loaded with furniture, entered
the Tur m Kaserne about 9 a.m? on 31 July- 1950. A laborer at the install.-
tion said the convoy cane from 4ittanber , A convoy of 20 sidecar motor-
cycles,, 2 armored reconnaissance cars and a tractor towing a gun left the
Turn Kaserne through the main gate about ; p.m. on the same day, heading
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all loaded with boxes, 100 x 25 x 25 cm, entered the Turm
Kaserne between 7 and 9 puma on 2 August 19500
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10. The following motor vehicle at the Tug
Kaserne betwoon 31 July and .iu: ust 19 0:
Ito The names of some Soviet officers, diegedly unit cam anderso ere
secured from documents in the labor office. Arn:.n~;; these were
Lieutenant Colonel bepnoi (fnu), .,ajor Lasinko (fnu), and C~ :,tain
J arzenko (fnu), in "Reuss Lager; Lieutenant Colonel t ara;ov (fnu),
-:;]or Haritorenkov (frzu), ajor Koshukov (fnu), Major Storshenkov
(fnu), arri a Kapustin (fnu),, in Altes Lager; "Iajor Kurachin (fnu),
I:ajor Ludwig (fnu), and Certain V slovsk
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field; ajor `,.ikhirikov (fnu) at Jueterbog II and 17a jor Gugin
(fnu) at a1.einsdorfa All of those officers owwere entitled to requisi-
tion k rkers from the labor office. (h)
12. A convoy of "t0 truck,, sor..o towing AT guns and i,rort;ars, moved from
Schloss 3tra:,se, Jueterbog ,through Pf erdestr tsse about 5 p.I;,,, on
19 July 1950. Each truck carried r to 10 soldiers about 20 years old,
They were equipped for duty and carried subt:c=:etiine guns .with clip
:1a ;azines. flo gas masks were seen. About 11' trucks, towing mortars
of about 1,)0 I:m caliber, had
ion trucks, toxin,-, AT guns of 3{0 to 50 :,m caliber,
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13. Two tricks, it clueing each occupied by iS or 16 soldiers
wear in.,, black-borderers e epau ot; left '? ei,markrt (E 52/r; 69) toward
tlarkendorf at 7:45 p.m. on 20 July 1950.
The sirens in all of the barracks installations in Jueterbog II
sounded for five minutes at 3:1i.5 p.m. on 24 July 191' 50. Two armored
vohaiclesl reconraissance cars), ti x P-34 tanks, t. .o tank trucks, six
trucks each occupied by about 30 +._?, and some officers, two passer.-er
cars and two repair shop or ration supply tracks were the first
vehicles to leave through the train Date of the Turm Kaserne at i:10 p.ma
The troops carried field equipment, including ? as masks. After the
alert practice, shops and inns wore checked by militaryy patrols. A
resident of Kur::mersdorf (A: 53/h i 0) said that an alert practice urns also
held there on 24 July 1950. (3) even repair shop trucks, two of thorn
towing field kitchens, .,:o~;T;cc toward the ton v-'-,a Schloss ;trasse at
o cam. on the same day. The;,, had
Six trucks, each occupied by eight s< ids ers, and towing guns of `'0 to
90 ?gym. caliber ,with :arrels about, sour meters lon ; and muzzle `crakes,
25X1 B case from the direction o:Z' Altes Lager at 2:30 pale. on 25 July 1950.
Trucks were seen. .' a uns seemed to be AA
guns
1. . Two arr.:ored catterpi1 ar tractors tow. n ; guns of d cut 120 r? caliber
aired tcy:arc:i 52ME 6t at 10` r" on 2 July 1950. her had
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