MILITARY INFORMATION FROM OHRDRUF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005900510003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

I$TELLOFAX 11 Approved For ReleasE liAL457R005900510003-2
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COUNTRY- Soviet Zone of Germany REPORT NO.
-rnra~r 1 115.t y information from Ohrdruf
ALUATION PLACE OBTAINED
DATE OF CONTL 1T 19 July to 1? "u~;ust 1950
ArE ORTAINEDJ DATE PREPARED_-...._
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each towing, a en.
or about t,~ ri caliber entered the camp, bout 25 trucks toning guns were so 6n
east of the ":Dellis-0hraru road, and about 23 other trucks, also tozw-in uns,
were 2C-C meters farther to the north est.
ration supply depot had been set up in the "lter Folsenkeller south of the
.' oelfls-0hrdruf road on the ed-e of Ohrdruf. 0ccording to a farmer an A.1". gun
emplacement was in the fields crest of "?elfis.
16 Motor vehicles t each towing 25X1
a gun of about 35 curl c i ber, entered the camp north of Ohrdruf (1:: 511J 15) on
19 July 1950.
2, Three T-34 tan s, trucks 6 officers and 4 0 :;M were 25X1
unloaded at the Crawi.nkei ra a a n on 5 July 1950, ,n the same day
trucks I I were on route amp Aue. Trucks
It, ',bout 70 tanks were unloaded at the Ohrdruf railroad station on 12 August .l950,,
according to kitchen personnel of Car, 0hrdraf. The kitc:ion allegedly issued
rations to units from Jaalfold including a rifle, an artillery and a tank unit.
A sergeant r:ho previously belonged to a border guard detachment at Truckendorf
(L: 51/J 20) as .c that ho had been transferred from iruc vendor to Saalfeld rnd
from there to Oimrdruf. lo also said that un us from Rudolstadt, Jena and Gera
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64, worsen in Olxdruf sa d that they had core their units from Gera and Eiudol..
stradt. *
L_j Cormcnt. The previously re orted from the 0hrdn.f' area. See 25X1
..e motor vehicle of the 39th Gds Mtz Rifle Div9
the 20th Gds ,'ocz Div, the HIq I Gds ..tz trifle Corps and the 33th AT trty Dric.
The information from Ger .an employees and Soviet soldiers is considered credib3 c
and co11f1j--:s the report as well as the previously
ass inp(..' occupation of the traini rg ,;rounds. , The 120th Gds 1.'tz Rifle Re ;t,
includl.ng its organic artillery battalion, and the 15th Tank leg 4., po:;sibly 15+,11
Gds Tank Rest, of the 39th Mtz Riflu Div are stationed in Saalfeld. Other corlpo-
nent units of the 20th Gds :ecz Div are stationed in Jena, and elements of the
38th PT Arty Pri in the Reuss Kaserne, Gera.
CONFIDENTIAIL
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United 3t taS.
Approved For Relea
Next Review Date: 2008
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