MOVEMENTS OF SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009000070012-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2012
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASiFICATiON. " ? ?
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le On 30 August 19510 a troop train stood at the Jueterbog railroad station ?
headed toward Zossen. It carried 4 x 76.2-mm AT guns and 7 trucks 50X1-HUM
Eighteen so caers
weaving red-bordered black epaulets were observed at the loading ramp. (1)
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2. A troop train of eight boxcars with soldiers and an unidem 50X1-HUM
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tified number of 'flatcars with 7 SP guns mounted on T-34 tracks and suspensions.
2 sedans and 6 trucks passed through the 50X1-HUM
Erfurt freight yard on 29 August, coming from Ohrdruf and bound for 17olgast. Ir?1
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10 A section of a troop train consisting of 12 boxcars with soldiers
and C flatcars with 8 AT guns of 80-mm to 100-mm without muzzle brake
passed through the Erfurt freight yard on 11 September, coming from Uechterstedt
and bound for Leipzig-Plagwitz.. (3)
4. On 6 September, a troop train of 11 converted boxcars 0 3 boxcars, and 30 flat-
cars, arrived at the Chemnitz railroad station, coming from Krospelin and carry-
ing an AA unit with 7 x 05.4ma AA guns, an undetermined nudocr of radio truaks2
trucks with hoiding -:ear, 12 field kitchens and 24 trucks
The same train also had 2 converted boxcars, and 10 flatcars carrying 4 canvas-
covered AA guns and :6 trucks Which were bound for Loessnitz.
CLASSIFICATION VCONTIZOL/U5 a.FICI&LS OELY
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50 1:o westbound or eastbound troop trains passtd through Kuostrin-Neustadt
between 4 and 12 September? (5)
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Date
C September
9 September
9 September
10 September
11 September
11 September
troop trains
Berlin railroad district between C and 13
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Composition of
Troop Trains
12 boxcars, 47 flat-
cars with troops
5 bcxcars, 28 flat-
cars with artillery
or AA,1 units
4 boxcars, 39 flat-
cars with artillery
or AAA units
12 boxcars, 42 flat-
cars with howitzers
and trucks
From
To
'entembers
Lpckenwalde ;:oustrelitz
neubukau
Krocpelin
Aldpark
2otsdam
Potsdam
Alten-
iwabau
16 boxcars, 28 flat-
cars with troops;
returned empty to
JUeterbog
13 boxcars, 31 flat-
cars with troops;
returned empty to
JueterboL;
12 September 6 boxcars?, 21 flatcars
with troops
12 September 13 boxcars, 19 flatcars
with a.siEpal unit
13 September 14 boxcars, 29 flat-
cars with troops
13 September 19 boxcars, 30 flat-
cars with troops
iidpark
41dpark
grabow
Alten-
;,rabow
(7)
(7)
(7)
(7)
:ccuitz Burg
(3)
Ueubukow 1:ecnigs-
brueck (9)
Kroopelin Koenigs- 75023
brueck (9)
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troops were loaded at the .;ildpark rail-
road station on two trains of 54 and 47 cars respectiveij on 10 September;
and on a train of 89 cars on 11 September, (7) Troops 50X1-HUM
were loaded on a train of 32 cars for shipment to -,durg on 12 September. (0
30 Troop trains Df Vic athenow-1,!ord and T:athenow main rail- 50X1-HUM
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Date .2222221-1.12n _2f. From To
11 September
2 boxcars, 24 flat- Dallgow-
cars with L. T-34/85 tanks, Doeberitz
14 pontoons, 1 motor
boat and 21 trucks
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11 September 4 boxcars, 13 flatcars Stendal 2atheno7-
with 4 x 152-mm field rord
howitzers, pre
movers, trucks and cater-
pillar tractors
12 September 7 flatcars with 7
T-la/85 tanks
Ballcow- Rathenow-
Docberitz Nord
(10)
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9. A troop train, headed toward Rosslau, vas loaded at the Dessau freight
yard oil 16 September.
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Two AA 7,uns: 5 x 82-mm
mortars and 3 tripod machine suns were among the materiel liadedo (12)
10 On 16 September, a troop train, prcbably with a signal unit, Passed through
the Seddin marshalinl yard comin7 from Dmaits and bejna bound for resslau
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11, The un1oadin2: of tanks and trucks
12,
was observed in Pasevalk on 17 September>
another troop train was expected to arrive on the same day. (14)
Date
13 September
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troop trains
Derlin railroad district between 13 and 21 September
Composition of Vrom To
Troon Trains
16 boxcars, 28 flat- Kroopolin Koonigsbrueck
cars and 2 gondola
cars
18 September 7 boxcars 21 flat- Luckenwalde Bittn.feld
cars (16)
le Sontember 4 boxcars, 19 flat- Luckenvalde 731ttarfold
cars (16)
21 September 13 boxcars, 40 flat- Forst Zinna :eirffup-pin
cars
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no troop trains were convo:red through
the subdistrict
border railroad sta-
/Comoonent of the 4th(?)
betweon
11 io Soviet
tion betwoen
19 and 21 September.
troop trains passed through the Scheune
1 and 21 September.
C onno nt.'s
(1)
AT Arty iirig of the IV Arty Corps from Juoterbog0
a motor vehicle repair shop of the Second Gds Lecz
Arpy in ruerstenberg? and ra component of t1-.50X1-HUM
20th Gds ]ecz Div. It is doubted that the train should have actually been
dispatched to ,:olgast
possibly belongs to an uniden-
tified unit of the LI]iohth Gds Amy
in the Leipzig areao
(4)
the train carried a component of the 6th (?)
uas Julh D1V0
(5)
This troop train
carried
a connonpnt of tho Qfh qda Tank
Ine two troop trains were previously observed
were loaded at the dispatchin- stations
when they
one or trio train
(7) The troop trains
carried a comoonent of the 2d Gds AAL Div.
elements of the 30th Uun Arty o
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carried
o the dtenorabow artillery range0
four troop trains were dis-
pacned. from iJotseam to Altenoxabow on 10 and 11 September, The train
r-.ported in paragraph 7 runnino from Altencorabow to ?otsdam on 12 September
is reported for the first time.
(8)
(9)
Tho train In paraTraph 6 and the troop train
are believed to be identical.
the GOFG ln Potsdam until 12 Septonoer.
in oaraorao:. 7
the 66th (?) Sig Pegt nr
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'Zle same 'rains
carried components of the LIth Sas
10) The train
troops of Gne ,,ourtn uc,s
previously observed when
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carrying headquarters engineer
.ecz Army and tank troops of the 1st ilecz Div was
beino: loaded at Doeboritz and unloaded in Poathenom,
the ;Ici 1st
:iecz Div in Doeberitz until
12 September.
11)
The field howitzers be1on7, to Lrioade
of the IV Arty Corps in
12)
Rrthenou,
The motor vehicles n thn train belong
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unloadino; of a train
of a similar
Dessau a44-1
nemlosition and carry'-
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ing troops of the same division at the
same day.
the loadinc
of a troop
train0
oowever oocause units
of the Fourth
..1da -ocz army arrived
in the .aessau area. from .',bersr;alde and
Licerose about 1. September favors
the belief that the corcerrod. oas
uoloaded0
hcadouarters
(13 )
urits of th o'ath (Ida Arn- and fo
the GOFG0
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a trr,in with tanks and truclzs of the th
nloaded in Pasewalk on 16 September?
a troop train
to have run from the same dispatch station to the sane
receiving station on 9 September?
The train from Forst Zsinna to ieuruppin Delon:3 to 6ne series cf
brains for the movement of units of the Second Gds ::ocz Army be twoon
their posts and the Jueterbog?Luckenvaldo area whieh has been
observed since late June?
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