SOVIET TROOPS LEAVING POSTS IN SAXONY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800820012-0
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 17, 1951
• Content Type: MISC

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1. The troops in the Husaren Kaserne in Bautzen (0 52/A 60) were alerted on
4 April 1951. A train with tanks was subsequently seen leaving toward
Dresden at pi-mut noon and a tank column moving to the railroad station at
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with artillery troops had passed through the Bautzen railroad station on
h April, coming from the direction of Loebau and proceeding toward Dresden.
2. A troop unit was loaded at the Eilenburg (N 52/E 32) railroad station on-
10 April. Twenty trucks and 15 artillery pieces, probably AT guts or light
guns, were loaded on 25 flatcars.
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6 rocket launchers, 1 armored reconnaissance car, h. truci:s1 2 tank trucks, -
and 2 motorcycles were loaded on a train at Leisnir (I-, 52/K 69) railroad
station on 10 April. The tanks
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them was Colonel Kusmin, (fnu), the comanding officer of the troops at the
post. A Soviet lieutenant said at the troops would move to Koenigsbrucek?
which was subsequently confirmed by a railroadman..
A train of 10 coaches carrying troops with red?bordered black epaulets and
6 freight cars carrying eight four?wheel armored scout cars, 12 armored per?
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5. Advance details of troops in oschatz (n 52/E 71) left by truck for Koenigs?
brueck?Schmorkau on 14 April. Simultaneously, 30 tanks assembled in front
of the garages in the billeting area, the bulk of the
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Comment. The 44th ads Tank Regt of the 11th Gds Tank Div
in Husaren Kaserne, Bautzen.
Elements of the regiment probably went to Koenigsbrueck.
Comment. Three troop trains previously
loft e it?aUlaing area of the 8th Gds Mecz Div between /4 and 17
April 1951, going from Chemnitz to Koenigsbrueck.
The present report indicates that troops from the other
posts also began leavinr by rail. The troops observed in Taucha
near Leipzig were components of the 8th Gds Yeez Div
Colonel Kusmin, (fnu), was identi?
in February 1951 as the commanding officer
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Comment. The advance paties leaving Oschatz probably belonged
to the 9th Tank Div, troops
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moved from Riesa to Koonigsbrueck aboard three trains between 12 and
18 April 1951.
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