MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE ALTENGRABOW TROOP TRAINING GROUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300390002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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It was said that three generals with their staf~s were staying at the troop training
r rounda0 they allegedly came from 33ernburg, Rathenow and ?otsdamo During the 1950
:sure=r training period., the generals had come to the troop training grounds only
for a few days s irhereas they stayed there perr anontly this year 0
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- L, "etween 16 and 25 June 1951s no further unite arrived at the Altongrabow (I. 53/Z 00)
.r?sai iin grounds by road or rail. Ilowever, dischargees were observed deporting and
replacer er to arriving, NCOs and El loft aboard regular trains, allegedly for Burg,
at a rate of 40 to 50 per day. It was said that they were shipped to Frankfurt/Oiler
25X1Xer processed to the U.S.SOfl for demobilization,
25X1 X Groups of d-? schar ees were accompanied by a band to the
railroad station. 3hipraents of about CO recruits each, wearing closely cropped hair..
25X1 X `began to arrive on 15 June. - believed these recruits to have already gone
through the first phase of basic training.
20 Fuel arrived at the Hltongrabow railroad station on two tank cars on 13 June and
as drained into the large fuel installation at the station. The contents of seven
bank cars were observed being emptied into this installation, whereas no issuance of
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that fuel dumps servicing the troops were located in the camp proper. A shiprAent bf
a: ?zanition arrived during, the night of 20 June and was unloaded at the anuunition
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The ration supply depot at the troop training grounds received meat in refrigerator
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cars from ipz:+g.
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5, On 27 June a convo of eight trucIIcso
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Toss- uet'ars and proceeding to=rd Ilohenlobbese, i ach 'truck
towed a 122 ,? artillery piece and carried eight soldiers. Two
artillery pieces, apparently heavy AT guns, were emplacod on the
northern. and southern edge of a patch of woods, about 2 km north-
west of `dross-Luebars, about 200 meters west of the road which
diverges from the railroad line. The gun crews were quartered in
tents. A telephone line ran from the woods toward Alton,;rabo ,
6, Lateriel seen in the North Camp of A1.tengrabow included about 100
trucks and 40 artillery pieces, From 12 to 15 heavy guns were
sheltered in the newly constructed sheds,, tour heavy AA guess were
emplaced at Klingeberge north of Doernitz, Gerian ronen who worked
in. Camp Altengrabow stated that about 15-,000 troops were there,
There were three generals with the units which allegedly came
25X1 X from Burg, Brande ou rg and r'-at'hencm.
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Comment,
25X I at ltengrabo until the end of June 19t1 arm
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traveling .from. Burg toward rz a,nkfurt/Odor it is possible that
diechargees from Burg used regular trains,
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Since no shuttle tram with dischar-oes have been observed to date
klten rabosr between li and 2_ June 19l0
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CorE3ent0 from iathen w that a
"cita' "o 8'; oxcarloads of recruits were disPatehed from thereto
dam; the 25th RT, LIr .g; the unidentified AT. Arty T'ig, possibly
the 3d ?ds; headquarters units of both the Third Shock Army and
the T IX Satz Rifle Corps; the 7th Ode Tank Div; the 31st AAA Div;
and the 43d (Gds) Gun Arty Brig of the Eight cIs Army. In additions
25X1 B - the 2d Gds AAA, Div,
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loaded at Loewenoerg on 16 Ju:re rray have moved to Altengrabow, as
of the Fourth Gds liecz ArW. A headquarters artillery unit of the
Fourth Gds Lecz Army which was previously reported to have been
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