1. POLISH TROOPS AND POLICE OFFICES IN STOLP 2. MILITARY RESTRICTED AREA AT STOLPMUENDE

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 20, 1951
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Polish Army Units in :3toi .
1, Prior to the end of September 1950, the first of't?he two barracks
installations iou.theast of Stoip (P 55/:d C8), on the north side of the
road to Gumbin (P 55/Pl Os), quartered an undetermined number of infantry
troops ;ho were red bands on their cape. The unlisted personnel came
from all parts of Poland, any of them were married. Source was unable
to supply arr data on their equipment, (1) The second barracks installation
on the sam.Q road, which was surrounded by a hic;h walls quart
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tank troops who wore blue-gray ulnif Jrras wt i th blue epaulets and who
were from 18 to 22 years of age,, (2) From 5 to 10 tanks of the unit were
repeatedly seen in the streets of Stole. They had five large bogie
wheels per side and a revolving turret mounting a guxi of about 80 mm
which projected far beyond the front of the tank. About 25 tanks of
this type were seen moving westward along B ahnhofstrasse on c .e day In.
the sustm-r of 1950. It was rumored that the tan'.:s were transferred to
Stettin (0 54/Q 55) Mowevor:, tanks were still seen in the streets of
Stolp after that tire, (3)
X0 MII t .aL Training Cente2? in Stoll
2? An 90 training center was located in the. northern sector of Stolp, just
east of the Stolpe River. It was bounded by the ftolpe live, Schrader-
platz, Blumenatrasse, Diesendstrasse, and Girkenallee (a orn. or German
street names). Lieutenant Colonel rRybicY_ii (ftau), the ccand.ant of the
training center, and Captain Korreck, (fnu),, his deputy., were relieved
in Sept?embeer 1950, The trainees included about 100 militia officers
and about 2,000 men from all ;_,ax?to of Poland. The enlisted militia men
received training for seven months and the officers for 16 months.
the number of trainees would be substantial-
ly increased by the and of 1950? Personnel of the drafting of ice of the
training centr stated that the principal subjects of training were
technical police duty and political indoctrination. Infantry training
seemed to be a seeondar r matter.. Small groups of militia men. armed
with carbines, submachine guns, and light machine gins, were occasionally
seen marching through the city,
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Y,, Some trainees had previously been in a larc'e Militia
camp of wooden barracks and tents at Lublin (S 52/R 18) where young Poles
received political indoctrination prior to their military traini?mg > Militia
men whose -oclitical reliability ;?ras questionable, or r.-hose pcl.Ltical. '
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U"~3 (security Police)TeadqL,art~rs ? n Stolp~
The UD headquarters was located on ui0 Kil.inskiego, formerly H:Lnderiour '_
strasse, Its officers included Lieutenant I3erkalla, (feu), who was in
charge of affairs involving; ethnic Germans,
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6. In the summer of 1949j, Polish troops were seen at a restricted military
area west of the men? s bathhouse at Stolpmuende 4 The restricted area arcs
marked by caution signs in Polish.
7e Fire from artillery or AA guns was frequently heard in Stolp from the
direction of Stolpmuende. Firing practice vrcr t;lso heard at niF-ht. Black
bursts of smoke were somet?.r es sorin at high altitudes.
they originated from M. shells $. (h)
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Possibly the t.'ackenson Kaserne, which is on the ncrth side of the road to
Gumbin, Opposite the Bluecher I{as>erno As early as June l9 7, ;she Mackenson
Kaser ne was reported to have quartered an in.f antrj unit,
The irforrmtinn n_nfE'irms the iocatJ,?,aof tank troops in Stolp. See
that the tank unit in Stoip was the 9th Tank Refit,
This regiment had been previously identified in Stettin several Lass,,
The tanks were T-34 s,
A German Army M.A range was located at `;tolpmuende, It is possibly used now
by the Poles,
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