MILITARY INFORMATION FROM DESSAU AND WITTENBERG.
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP82-00457R009000080002-9
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
S
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
December 22, 2016
Document Release Date:
September 14, 2012
Sequence Number:
2
Case Number:
Publication Date:
October 1, 1951
Content Type:
REPORT
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T.ILASSIFICATION ;A-ZOLA/US r1GIALS or
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(Soviet Zone
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EPORT NO.
Miter,/ Information from nennae nod -atteriberr.
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OATE. 1:?7 COMTENT..
DAVE OEITAIN.ED
PE ;ER EKES
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PLACE OBTAINED
2. ?ENCLOSURES
aiN=37-.FiCat..S.1.1109ft .10/...912409.
1.-DATE PREPARED.- I October 19q1
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(NO. &TIPE).....
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1.
A train observed between Bernburg CU 52/D 76) and Koethen (1.7 52/D 95),
en
route toward Koethens in the afternoon
of 17 September 1951. carried Soviet
troens in 15 levee:me nnd
4/85 tanks and 12 trucks
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on an undetermined number or Ilatcars.
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rioter vehicles
2.
(1.1 52/
were noticed
in the Pionier Schule in Dessau-Rosslau
E 17) on 17 and 18 Seetember.
Troops and motor vehicles observed in the individual barracks installations
in "attenheru (r 52/5 37) on 17 and lL SeeteMber included erwineer trnons
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vehicles
in the Tauentzien Kaserne- tank trnonc with motor
hin thc nnnplar
Kaserne artillery troons with motor
in thP
reek easerne ane meter vehicles
in the Brueekenkopf Raserne. *
Batmen 12 and 21 September, engineer troops were seen bivouacking along
the '::itGenberg-Schlangenerube road and in the woods south of Veinsdorf.
Forty assault boats. 1C nmnhihinrea cars and motor vehicles
were seen with the troops.,
cd number of T-34 and JS-3 tanks mounting 25-mm and 72-mm AA
tivelye, and motor vehicles mounting searchlights, were noticed
between Thiessen-Buncieluft and in the woods nnrth r4.4narlrenf
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in the cam
Tanks, and motor vehicles
were noticed in the Brambach-Kuehnau area. **
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Comment, the train carrik5OX1-HUM
motor vehicles o/ tne inn Cos eecz Div, and headquarters units of the Third
Shock Army. The motor vehicles observed in Rosslau belong to the 38th Engr
En of the XXVIII Gds ntz Rifle Corps, to the Third Shock Army, to the 36th
Pon Dridge Rout of the COFG and to a unit from Naumburg, possibly to a signal
unit0 rotor vehicles observed in the Tauentzien Kaserne in attenbere
belonL to headquarters units of the Third Gds Levi.. Army and to the 6th Gds
Tank Div; those observed ? the f3cse1er Kaserne to the 14th Gds Lecz Div.
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acid to the 6th Gds Tank Div; those observed in the Flak Kaserne to the
unidentified artillery division in Fotsdam or to the 2d Gds A!A Div, to
the air force and to the GOFO; and those observed in the rtrliPlArPnlrelnr
Kaserne to the air force and to the 19th Oda :Itcz Div. I
orraent.
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enFineer troops
bivouacked in the .Thicssen-Kundoluft area and in the areas of Seelanc-en-
erube, 4 km east of hosslau, and Brambach-Gtautz between 11 and 16 September
1951. Lotor vehicles of the 6th Gds Tank Div were seen with the engineer
teoops in the Thieesen-Hundeluft area. The present
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no 36th Pon Bridge Regt2 of the 7th Ods Liocz Div, the 7th Gds Tank Div,
tie unidentified IL! division of the Third Ode Vecz Argy, including those
of other headquarters units, and the llth Gds recz Div. It is possible
that a concentration of numerous units there is a measure preparatory to a
lareo-scale fall maneuver in this area. Whether units of the Liehth Ocis
ilcirly4, which were observed in the ritterfeld-Delitzsch area in mid-September
1951, are amens those units concentrating in the area mentioned above or
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