SOVIET AMMUNITION DEPOT AT TOEPCHIN.

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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G(--, r:nv (Soviet Z one) ....,~_t FORS' 10,E
?:t A.n nuhition Depot a't Toe pchi?n
-or 11 a ftcM
TVALUX IO1'`~see below PLACE OBTAIN
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A OF CONTE 1 June to 15 Jul.v 1951 .-
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DATE.OUTAINE?7 OATE PREPARED 5 e~te 9`~~
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PAGES- 3 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE).
REMARKS
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1, In mid-June 19519 80-mm rortar shells were processed in =: ork Building ro
I of the Soviet ammunition depot at Toepchin. The same kind of ammunition
has been cleaned also in t."rrk Building No III since 26 June 1951. (1)
2r, At noon on 15 June, 152 tank am unition from two underground bunkers
eras loaded on seven railroad cars and dispatched to Potsdam An ammunition
train, which left the depot on the morning of 28 June, consisted of 1
locomotive with tender, 5 enpty gondola cars, 6 sealed .~oxcars, 5 enpty
gondola cars and 20 scaled boxcars.
Plant ,.o 108.
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-' ? I I the other five
trucks were put on oc . kt}A Tsakhashenko left
for'Vkie during the night of U June. waiting at the depot
for entrainment, the soldiers were heavily guarded by 10 soldiers of those
who remained. Unit Tsakhashenko received 50 troops on 12 June v,ho allegedly
came from the interior of the U.S.S.R. ?'ajor Tsakhasl:enko. (fnu), went on
a trip for an undetermined destination on 29 June, Fifteen soldiers, alleged-
ly cadre personnel from Units Tsakhashenko and !.arinkov, departed for the
U.S.S.R. on 27 June. (3)
It, Since 5 June German construction firms have been eng agoc in the conversion
of Packing, Shed I'M 111. into a motion picture theater. Teo los~r wooden barracks
buildings, about 8 x 25 meters, have been under construction at the AA
run emnlacenent in Sgsdorf since mid-June C (I:) The conversion of Packing
Shed To 7 into an emergency quarters was completed on 22 June. The 50
officers, r to were allegedly expected to move in, had not arrived ;*et,,. The
conversion of the telephone net from an overhead system to an underground
one was finished on 25 June. A restricted zone of about 500 meters in
width was established around the depot on 28 June?
5. On 7 and 8 June 19519 egg =shaped hand grenades :-;ith square grooving and
strong steel-jackets were cleaned in ;,ork Building 'No Iu They wore in wooden
boxes containing 20 grenades each. A nomenclature slip removed from a
box s pecified that the hand grenades were of model F-1, manufactured by
Plant I o 386 in 191)14. Another nomenclature slip removed frcr? a box with
mortar arnunition specified th the box contained two l20? fragmentation
and high explosive mortar she , manufactured in 194h, probably L'
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T e hand grenades were allegedly .1 ed du trains f hi a t v
cleane,] . From lE June to 13 July, shells with. stabilizing fins, a
circurforence of about 30 cm anC a length of 65 cmo were cleanecd at '"ork
uilc,.ink; No Io The output, set ~.t 200 grenades per day,: was accomplished,,
The shells were loaded by soldiers immediately after they had been
coraple-.ed,, :':ork Bu,;Llding No II was out of operation until 18 Juno c;hen
`ioviet soldiers and German laborers again started finishirjZ salt sholls
a it'a s-,abilaza.n fins, and packing boxes with 10 shells each. The 0ut?uL-
was so-c, at 500 shells per clay, but was not fulfilled? A na ir.un of 300
simlis ;?ere pr?oces sed per day,,
6, Olevoral enpty railroad care; arrived at the ammunition depot on 14 June.
"ix loaded railroad. cars left the ammunition dopot on 15 June and 7.2 loaded
railroad cars on 19 June, both for an undetermined destination..
7. At the beginning of Juno, three or four officer: were newly assigned to
the . depot headquarters. At the same time,. about 20 soldiers near y ng red-
bordered black epaulets arrived at the depot and were employed in loading
and unloading work, Solc?l en's dum for -demo' ili nation departed for the
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8 ret?rec ii. 1 June and 15 July, on!,,,, one shipment of ammunition arrived at the
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Toepch .n ammunition depot. The , 'z ipr ent arrived on, 2 July, consisted of
two bca:czarloads r;i th Item No l3, and had 25X1 B
been dispatched fro,:n the Jo en/~ ster r?ai road station.
The f ol.xor.ing shipments left the ammunition depot at Toepchin between 16
June and 27 June 1951:
ate . ipr:ent
16 June 2 boxcars for Alton-rabmn
for Alt
grab w?
17 Junc;
27 Juno 19 boxcars for A1',engrabow? coon;'. e to Second
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0. At about 9:30 a.m. on 11 June., &3 ,A troops I Iarrived at the 25X1 B
Taepchi,n ammunition depot from Fuersten ...;c ? 'he y were e:' uippcci with 4
AA gum and 10 trucks$ and relieved 25X1 B
the :kfih unit there. The re_'Iceve Unit ier the Cepot d't about 9 pro:, on the
same da:?r toward Fuerstenwalde, taking along It AA guns ci' about 50=tea, 9
5X1 C trucks and E;qui ment. A grain of 6 bm:cara carrying
troops sndi 11 f-1--tears c.arra=i 6 ,u 4 guns r.i th barrels about 2,5 meters loam,
5X1 B rotor iishicles$ and ammunition, arrived
at. Toepahin from Fucrstenwa-.de at about 1i a.m, on 1.1 Ju .y. T 'ho shipment
5X1 B had been dispatched A similar shiament, with the guns
covered with canvas < 1e1 t Tee chin for 111eubuko9,i W 5/0 5?) at about 7:20
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orrunents a
he l: i'o n confirms the Soviet ammunttion depot at Toepchin until
the m?.ddle of July 19 1. T
he v a r k b u i 1 s to a sketch
attached to a previous rep
ort. See o Annex 1c, 25X
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The rioter vehicle
belonly to P tz dc;uarters 25X
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units of the Third Lids rec
GOF?G; and those mentioned
of the Fourth Gds "ecz sip; ;
z Army; those mentioned in paragraph 7 to the
in paragraph 10 to the unidentified W, division
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Ma, or Tsakhash?nko (fnu)
i s known fran previous reports., He may be the
depot commandanto A Unit
arin:cov was mentioned in a previous report `:ee
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From the present reports it may be concluded that the
AAA units employed at the depot were relieved regularly nnd5, since they
rent to fleubul;ow, that they moved to the ;ustro;-r L" range for f wri ng practice o
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