AMMUNITION DEPOT AT TOEPCHIN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC_ A_Liti_unition Jepot_Et Toe-echin
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25X1 1. The follmiinc amnunition shipments arrived at Ammunition Depot
nt Toepehin between 22 July and 15 September 1951:
Date
-22 July
2 Auclist
15 Aurtizt
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8 Fepte7ber
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9 5qterber
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2 Annunition-shipnts,p ii ch were dispatched b:,r the ammunition dep,t at
Toepehin between 14 July and 21 September included:
Date.
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14 July 9.
20 july I
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Frankfurt/Odor
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16 Awust
17 .August
20 August
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nohonleipisch
Hohonleipsch
Altengrabow
5 aoodorau
7 Altenhain
1 Jessen; consignee
23 iugust 29
6 Eepterber 27
7 Leptember 14
10 .'-epteMber 3:
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11 lieptember
.12 tleptember
Hohenleipisch
Altenrrabow
Hohenleipisch
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Dannenwalde
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Altenrrabow
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14 :;eptember 26
18 :;eptember 26
21 4;eptenber 26
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3. On :42 July, 50 officers, -whose arrival had teen previously announced, arriv-
ed At the am-Anition depot at Toepchin from Altengrabaw. They were quar-
tered in Packing Shed Vo 7. (3)
4. On 21 July-, four AA guns wore emplaced about 800 meters south of Toepchin
and 200 neters west of the road to Sputenbcrre. (4)
In mid-August, Unit rarinl-ov marched by road from the ammunition depot at
Toepchin. Their billeting equipment accompanied them on trucks. The duties
of his unit were assumed by. ?nit Zakharchenko. Several officers of the
uni leaving stated that they imuld be transferred to Lefbsch ner Luebben,
whe:'e a new ammunition depot was to be constructed. (5)
6. Perv officers had arrived at the ammunition depot a few days before unit
VarLUkcv left the installation. The commandment of the ammunition depot
sta-Jed that they would stay at the installation for only a few days.
German workers stored ammunition boxes, weighing 83 kg each, in a bunker
bet,rem 4 and 7 September. &en box contained four rounds of fixed shells
abixit 100 cm long. The brass cartridge cases bore the folic:71AT inscription:
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12/7.00.26 1:o 365 (or 3t,5), The daily quota of 20C boxes was not f:et
although a conveyor belt was available. Only 310 boxes were stored per day.
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During: the nient of 5 September, ?11 cars with ammunition were unloaded by
soldicrs.y,ach.ammunition box weiLhed about 65 kE. (6)
9. ori 31 J,LIEust, heavy ammunition boxes were loaded on truck
(7)
107 In erly .t.utust, an unknown type of ammunition was Observed in a 1JunAer,
The shells were, about 110 cm lonE? about 35 cm in diameterTands ap:arently
wit?hov,t fus68.1;ach shell was packed in a wooden crate and piled u_7; in nix
layers in a bunker of about 15z 6 x 3.5 meters. (8)
119 In r.(1-Ju1y, all Soviet soldiers working at the ammunition depot ,7orc reliev-
ed by recruits, who a1so replaced Elope of the German personnel. Cor.:an workers
we'e Lo longer employed for the transportation of ammunition to the railroad
ca:\s an to the hunkers. (9
12 ijot rarinkov had 'ieen transferred in -0-141,:ust, allecodly to FuerstenwaLlo?
where a similor mmunition depot was said to he located. Soldiers were loadinc-
billotinc equipment, office accessories, and motor vehicles on boxcars. (10)
13. In early Sertember, more than CO officers, about 20 'Soviet soldiers and about
130 ..Germanpersonnel were employed at the installation. (31)
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Outgoilg and incoming shipments were almo.t in equilibrium. Between 22 July
anc 21 September, 244 cars arrived and 257 cars left the ammunition depot.
Outgoing ammunition WIF shipped to ammunition depots rather than directly to
trrop units.
It was previously reported that officers' courses, probably for administrative
officers of ammuniti(-n depots, had been held at the installation.
Details. on AAA protection of the ammunition depot were previously reported.
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The two officers are known from previous reports to have been employed at the
ammuniion depot adnipistration at Toepchin. The statement that Unit rarinkov
was to be transferred to an ammunition depot under construction =,t Leibsch Spreemld
(N 53/V 02) ses.s rather doubtful, as Lethsch would be too fur fror, a railroad
lice.
It as noted that loadinr and unloadinv at Toopohin have repeatedly been
perforgj_amdiht. no details have ',jet been obtaied.
Truck boloncs to the rear services of the GOFC.
The sheli s collie not have bee.: bombs as the unitz are sup, lied with tombs
directly from U.C.F%R., and because boebs would be identified as (Alch by
the tail assembly. According to 'nformation available, Eircl artillery in the
i.oviet Zone of Oerany the /V Arty Corpol has runs of a maximum of 203-mm,
s it seems hardly possible that the caliber of the ammunition mentioned in the
present report should have been overestimated by 75 percents the ammunition
Pro)ab3y belonred to Cerin nr c3oviet railway pans.
about 100 Cernan workers were emplo.red at the
ammunition depot at Tospchin. It is possible that, as a result of the mp1ace-
men:. of German personnelbyftwilmmftCormans are no lenver asf.igned special duties,
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This measure, however, affects only installations of hiLher security
catoEories. Tho present report is the first to confirm the removal of German
personnel in an ammanition depot.
(10) The transfer or unit Yarinkov van confirrod by another source The now
locstion of the unit is 1...ndetormincd?
(11) The nurber of eficers lAcludes 50 to 60 ()facers particirating in the course
of Iiistruction mentionee, in paragraph 3 of the present report,.
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