SOVIET MILITARY RAIL AND ROAD MOVEMENTS IN THE SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. On 24 October 195.09 fifteen railroad cars with ration .ou; plies: ' rere
unloaded at the ration supply depot on Geor 2ich-terstrasse, Frankfurt/
Oder. Three railroad cars with cammod r eat wore unloaded on '' .thenorver-
strasse on the saao day.
2. On 25 Octobr:r, a shipment of fifty now, trues., cocain; from
be direction of Cottbus, passed t trough FranY ? Oder. Its destiny Lion
could not be deteminod.
On 29 October, the assen blin" of 25 boxcars for the transi ortation of
soldiers was observesd, at the loading; ramp of the eastern railroad
station, Yrankfurt/Odler. On 30 October, thirty five boxcars were assembled
for a troop train in 1 roienvia de o (1)
On 30 October, a shipment of twonty four 5O-mi AA guns on ou rriggor-type
mounts, without prim movoro, was soon at the Frrzr~I~fuaA /( er-~Ost rat? -
road station.
5. The leave train which arrived in i ran,.furt/Odor from Brest Litovsk or.
30 October was occupied to capa ity. pout 90 percent of the occupants
were officers wearing new uniforms and havin:.g little lu;age with then.
They loft on trucks for barracks in t'rankfurt/Oiler. (2)-
6. On 25 October, a train of 51+ boxcars with soldiers, co=:oinw from the
direction of Oubcn, passed through 'ankfuxrt/Odor and -proceeded toward
Cottbus. (3)
7. On. 26 October, a train of jO boxcars occupied by soldiers loft K stria
toward the C. .C OR0 (1) A shipment of 50 overhauled trucks went from
Ammeadorf to Brest Litovsk on the same day.
II. Military shipments observed between 29 and 31 October 1950 included:
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tra: ins nay also have carried now arrivals from the ~.Jw'~o '~a" The lard e
number of off corsviho arrived in 1'ra.nkf urt/odor on 30 October were
probably assigned from 1Franl-kfur?t/Odor to units in Uric, oviet one of
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seen on the Fa: i_?'cenber - `Jueterbo; ~- usz~ c;rr. ~ r is line on 26 O ctc,la ;r 17 0
carr'yi-x- recruits in 12 boxcars.
(4) It is ,possible that the influx of recruits : wish s E ar e on 26 ,,Ptorbor
1Z0 nay have ceased in the last clays of October,, since on 30 arid 1,3
October 1950 two shuttle-trains which. :oroviousl.y hauled recruits from, the
Ua ~d 0 returned empty 'to the Soviet one of Germany via .'-uectrin and
Gabon reapoctivolyo
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b6longs to a supply do )ot, jar-.s' Woly a fuel depot in tlio Fuorsten
berg area
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:.shuttle- trains
20 boxcars with co Biers
Empty shuttla-train
10 boxcars
I of L:einsdorf to
Juetcr'_ot- 3?ca Tea z;r
2 mber
Jucterboy Utes Lager to
nsdorf
3 November
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On 1 November, a convoy of one jec) mrl 23 trucks p including four
trucks towing ,'i.1 guns and eight trucks town, A guns, "rith 13
officers and about 60 men was obs :rued on the II a:lelspri n~; Temp in
road and was subacguently loaded at the Tomplin freight yard. The
A shipment of 18 nerr, trucks and two used trucks
, guarded 3 y three soldiers wearing
:red-bordered black epaulets., was seen at the LLuellersdorf railroad
station near ; emplin on 1 November 19510. (6)
Gollents
tie report mentions omoty trains being assembled in 'trmilc Curt/Odor and
1''.L~'e'.iorrialde, trains with soldiers going from hoiccen and I,Ioinac'orf to
Juoterbog, and trains ;"w"ith soldiers leav^ing Jueterbog for the 7JaU a osI?
It is firmly believed that a large nrocessin , camp is located in Juotor-
Aria r
bot; for troops to be dischar ed from units Of t+ e hard 3 ds Lem
anc poasil )ly also from some units of the First Gds 0cz Arry0 The troops
on the trains ro )orted are beiievod to ,leave been duo for dem;lobilizationo
Hav?n an average capacity of al,--out :1.,000 nen, t1he train is belioved to
have carried '700 to 800 officers who ca::'a f roi l the U a~..7 0. a It was o
viausly reported that the leave trails runryng, bo10-?rc n 'rankfurt/Odor
and nrc.st Litovsk between 25 and 29 October carried an daily avora s of
190 men on the eastbound. trips as aF;a? ct 7;0 glen on the aestbound trips.
confirms the main fuel surly cue pot in 17oi.ton ;)ri or to 30 October
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confirms the 300th :;a';ian ;u~apl -Do-pat in Satzl:orn. -a:rior to 31
October 1.^50
is assigned to the a`: r munition adni.ni tration in Lami tzsc11
belon~lp to an AF supply unit in Jueterbog
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-confir the 123d Tank Repair Shop in ? '1 ollro e and Ibi rch
eserd prior to 31 October 1950
confirms the 118th 3iI of tl? i'ourth Gds 'oCZ 1r1r y in
:a srswwalde prior to 30 October 1950
belongs to a records and ma archives in the former 'raids a evars_
dorf sanatorium.
belongs to an ammunition depot in llohonleipisch
confirms the 93rd ids IIv Tank ",t' Re ,-t of the Fourth ids ,,Iecz
Arrj in flack. r.~ eio maide prior to 29 Ictober. 1950.
felons to an ammunition do--pot in ','!u-Ikovi
(6) Report ind1catoN that elements of the divisions of the . ourth ads +L?ecz
Array vrere still doper tins from the Tcmolin maneuver area on 1 dlovembor
1950.
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