SOVIET AND POLISH TROOPS IN LIEGNITZ AND SAGAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Troop- in Liegnitz
1, Prior to the end of February 1951
located on Dowestrassel Liegnitz
Litvinov, (fnu), who was referred
administration was located at 5-6
officer, possibly a colonel
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to as c..c=udere Tii Soviet civillim&r,,
Dowestrasse and headed by one field-710A
2. The barracks installations in Li enitz waY's
Location or :Ione of 'Barracks'
Ilmelnannstrasse
Grenadier Kaserne
Grenadier Kaserne
Siege shoehe
Goldbercrstrasse
Ohlauerlandstrasse
Naynouerstrasse
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oocunied as follows:
Occupation
Polish officer school and
radio operators,
Soviet infantry unit.
AT artillery units of undeter-
nined nationality.
Soviet tank unit of less than ?
ro:inental size,
Soviet units,
Soviet units with =tor vehicles
and horses.
Soviet unit.
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Dluga Kaserne at the approach
road to the airfield
Polish troops who wore
observed to receive
infantry training. (2)
3. Engines for the Soviet Army wore being overhauled, and AA armunition
allegedly manufactured, in the building of the former" Teichert er. Sohn
sawmill on Alhelmstrasso. The samill. had been converted ? into an
ordnance establishment before and/or during the war. Since 1947, about
500 workmen have been employed under Soviet supervision.
4. To be self-sustaining with regard to ration supolies, the Soviet units
in Liegnitz operated a number of large farms
Arong these farms there was a dairy farm at Pantendorf
a cattle breeding farm at Dau6-
mannsdorf; a sheep breeding farm at Ohlsdnrf; a grain growing farm at
Schandorf; a hog breeding farm at Ilalitsch; a chicken farm at Reppendorf;
and a grain growing fana it Seifersdorf. It was said that these farms
would eventually be returned to Pelish authorities.
Troons in Saran
5. Prior to Larch 1951, the Artillerie Kaserne on Bahnhofstrasse? Sagan
(0 52/13 26), quartered a Polish heavy motorized artillery urit which
arrived in the summer of 1950, :.?eplacing a unit
which, in turn, moved. to Bonzlau (0 52/13 )2).
6. The Dachsberg Kaserne or Panzer Knserne at the northwestern perimeter of
Sagan, on the north side of the highway to Soran (0 52/B 16), was occupied
by a tank unit which had numerous T-34 tanks and smaller tanks of an un- i
determined type. The EhT quarters
of the installation: wore full. One 17.ajor Z,adovski? (fnu), allegedly a
Soviet officer wearing a Polish uniform, was one of the key officers of
the unit. (4)
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7. Units in the two installations weno supplied with fuel from a fuel de)ot
at NiederullersdorT (0 52/3 15),
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1.0 ..loa67n7rs of the Soviet troops stationed in Polish-occupied
Germany is known to be located in Liognit'.6. It is not known whether
this headquarters is still designated Kg Tiorthern Group of :1;orces.
General Litvinov , lio probably
is the general of the same name who: acconding to Polish :Facts and Finures
of 5 :Jarch 1949, attended the ceremony on the occasion of the 31st anni-
versary of the Red nrmy in -arsam,
(2) Information an barracks inntallationsinLiegnitz is incomplete, A barracks
installation is located on anynauerstrasso? in the northwestern sector of
the town. Another barracks installation built in the 130Is, is located
in the northern sector of the city, on the east side of the road. to Lueben.
An old barracks installation, cnr.ed Grenadier Naserne? is located in
the western portion in the center of the city, bordering on Ilikolaistrasse
in the north, Grenadieratrasse in the east and 7tissenburgerstrasse in
the south. The two installations which source referred to as irenadier
KasJrne probably constitutod a billetino' area. The barracks installation
on Siegeshoehe is a large block o:: buildins in the southwestern sector
of the eity, which formerly Quartered German AT artillery units and a
hospital. It is probably the collective billeting area of. the installations
which being locoted. on Cioldberr,:erstrasse and on. Sieeo-
hoehe. The Musa Kaserne in probably the old barracks installation north
of .;..ho airfield, which formerly quartered the Gorman lOth :.Ao-; Dn.
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Another military installation is located on 3itsehonstrasse, from
which DevestraLso branches off to the north. It formerly housed
the headquarters of the German lfAh Inf
It may be an
stallation of the former German fir Force Some of the afore?
mentioned barracks installations are known to quarter Soviet troops
It is doubted that polish Axmy units should. be stationed in Lierlitz
Polish uniformed Personnel may hive been sccuxltv troops.
It has been known only recently that 2olish troops are statione0.
in addition to boviet troops,,c. Their iftentity is
not known. It is also unknown whcther the Da chsberg Kaserne quarters
soviet or Polish units.
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