DEVELOPMENTS AT FRANKFURT/ODER RAILWAY STATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300440011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Between 3 and 8 Janu-ry 1951, a fairly thorough change of rersonnel was
eZfected at the Frankfurt/Oder railway station. The uea-sannel affected
include inspection officials, marshaling personnel, officials of the car
inspection service, loading personnel, switch personneipand a nur.?iber of
eirloyees from these sections have been transferred to Erkner, Fuerstenwa].de,,
Cottbus, Beeskow, Storkow, and other stations of the Deutsche Reichsbahn; the
Bahnbetriebskwerk personnel has not been affected. In exchange, personnel
from Erkner and the other stations have been assigned to work at the Frankfurt/
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2. While no official reasons were given for the transfers.
believe that the Deutsche Reichabahn and the Soviet authorities
felt that in recent months the German personnel in Frankfurt/Odor had become
too friendly with the Polish railway personnel --resent at the Frankfurt/Oder
railway station. In addition, there were numerous complaints concerning the
n mmnber of damaged cars which appeared on the reparations trains from Frankfurt/
Oder to Brest-Litovsk and which the Polish Railway Administration had been
obliged to uncouple from trains passing through its territory and put aside for
repairs., Such damage, according to the Soviet authorities and the Deutsche
Eisenbehn-Vertwra.ltung, was nothing less than sabotage..
3., The decrease in traffic at Frankfurt/Odes, following the late January rush,,
has continued,and all goods trains which had been delayed at Frankfurt/Oder
have left. On 21 January 1951, the station at Frankfurt/Odder was virtually
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4. On 23 January 1951, work was to be started on surveying a site at Frankfurt/Osier
Prior to starting work on a now customs station. The plan envisaged the development
and extension of an area for the laying of two train tracks and six secondary tracks
between Busehm alenw?eg and the Cider railroad bridge (Eisenbahn-Oderbruecke }
Mar the present railway eman' lent. At the ,e,ms time, a second track would be
l.a.id across the present railway bridge over the Ckler,
5. Priority has been given to the rebuilding of the road bridge over the Oder
which must be ready by 30 September 1951.
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