SOVIET RAIL MOVEMENTS

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 17, 1951
• Content Type: MISC

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COUNTRY -Gertany (Soviet 4:one' REPORT
TOPIC._ Soviet Rail. Movements
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7 boxcars with 15 tons of AA ammunition from Finow
near Eberswalde arrived at the Sachsenhausen railroad
station on 14 March 1951. The ammunition, which was said
to have come from the former Hirsch copper & brass plants
in Eberswalde, Finow, and Finowfurth, was hauled off by
trucks to the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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2. Three boxcars were loaded with AA ammunition in Sachsen-
hausen and dispatched to Finowfurth on 9 April. The
ammunition was said to have been part of the shipment
which had arrived from Finow on 14 March. It allegedly
was unserviceable.
3. The following supply shipments left Frankfurt/Oder between 50X1-HUM
3 and 7 April:
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Eight. AT guns9 about 88 mm,
Strausberg
with pneumatic tires and a 3 April
long barrel.
Twenty new caterpillar tractors Fuerstenualde
for the Soviet Army. 5 April
Ten boxcars with ammunition. Toward Eberswalde
5 April
Twelve boxcars with ammunition. Toward Oottbu$
6 April
Thirty flatcars with pig-iron Unknown
and steel plates. 6 April
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Twenty-five heavily guarded
boxcars with ammunition
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7 April
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and aircraft bombs from Brest Litovsk passed through
Frankfurt/Oder toward Eberswalde at a rate of 12 to 15
per day from 1 to 5 April.
5. 'Shipments listed in records of the 4th Subdistrict of the
Berlin railroad district in Potsdam between 6 and 8 April
included;
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Thirty-one tank cars with ft71; Boehlen to
Velten
6 April
Thirty-six tank cars wit4 fuel;
Three boxcars and 14 flatcars
with military goods*
Doehlen to
Vel ten
7 April
Satzkorn to
Wolmirstedt
8 April
6. The following trains of unknown origin passed through the
Woltersdorf railroad station between 10 and 17 April:
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Train of 42 cars, mostly
boxcars, 'with 4 passenger
cars and 6 trucks
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Toward Jueterbog
10 April
Troop train of an undetermined Toward Berlin
number of cars with soldiers, 11 April
wheeled heavy machine guns,
4 howitzers, and vehicles
Train of an undetermined number Toward Jueterbog
of cars with 6.trucks and 12 April
aircraft parts
Troop train of 37 .c.ars, Toward Berlin
including 4 cars with troop's, 12 April
and other cars carrying 2 trucks
and 4 tanks with 3 track-sup- .
porting rollers and 6 bogie
wheels on each side, and turrets
placed unusually far forward of
center:
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Train of 45 railroad?cars,. in-
cluding 2 boxcars with soldiers,
6 flatcars with special 4-axle
trailers, 4 boxcars with one
3-ton Diesel truck each, and 3
boxcars with 2 tractors each
Train of 22 railroad cars with
soldiers
Troop train of 42 railroad cars,
including 2 coaches with sol-
diers and flatcars with 12 tanks,.
several, armored scout cars and
motorcycles
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Toward Jueterbog
15 April
Toward Berlin
16 April
Toward Berlin
17 April
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7. A troop train with an 'undetermined number of soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets, 13 tanks and 3 field
kitchens passed through Doeberitz at 2:45 p.m. on 21 April.-
* _clamant& The unidentified AAA Regt of the 25th
Tank Div may be stationed in the Sachsenhausen concen-
tration camp, since the AA ammunition was hauled to the
installation.
_gampamtA. Some of the trains probably carried
components of the bth Gds Tank Div from Wittenberg to
the Jueterbog area.
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