SOVIET AMMUNITION DEPOT AT TOEPCHIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009800050003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY Germany (Soviet Zone)
TOPIC Soviet Ammunition Depot at Toepchin
F nnn1Tr7NT 8 to 31 October 1951
,.Tr-
O
25X1
25X1
25X1
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. &TYPE)
REMARKS
DATE PREPARED
LL5X1
25X1
25X1
1. With the exception of a stoker and two electricians, all the German personnel,
employed at the Soviet ammunition depot in Toepchin were dismissed on 31
October 1951. The Soviet unit was increased to about 100 troops. Recruits
wearing red epaulets arrived. They were quartered in winterized low wooden
buildings. Three women in uniform were newly employed in the office. About
20 are lamps were erected inside the depot area. Guard personnel was considerab-
ly increased.
2. German personnel sorted ammunition boxes, piled them in front of the bunkers
and loaded them on freight cars between 8 and 18 October. Soviet soldiers
then pushed the cars to the other bunkers and unloaded them. The boxes contain-
ed five shells each, gross weight 48 kg, and were labelled 1199. 327",
1110. 127" and 1114-47". Heavy mortar shells were cleaned from 19 to 30 October.
The daily quota of 200 boxes was less than 50 percent fulfilled as the German
workers were not in a working mood, our boxes
with fuzes, gross weight 28 kg, on 9 October.
Date Number of
RailroadCars
3. Ammunition shipments arriving at Toepchin etween 17 and
31 October included: 3 carloads from Altenhain on 20 Octo er; 1 carload from
Wulkow on 2l October; and 25 carloads from Frankfurt/Oder on 29 October.
Three cars of the latter shipment were then dispatched to Fuerstenwalde and
1 car to Kirchmoeser. (3)
4. The following shipments were dispatched from he depot:
3December 1951
Heceivin
tation
20 October 8
6
27 October 3
Altengrabow
Frankfurt/Oder
5. Between` o('8 g[' Rjga?Ar2A,p d609*eEJAtR?F 0045ZFM9gm0 t--Uas relieved,
''d I 25X1
 25X1
25X1
25X1
(1)
25X1
(2)
25X1
25X1
(4)
(5)
25X1
Appr?
25X1
Release - -
using for transportation a train of.11 cars which was disnatnhArl -trim
..
1t
Comments.
To date, the program of the dismissal of German personnel affected only
such supply installations that were subject to`intensified safety measures.
Information that all the German personnel had been dismissed was first
received from the ammunition depot at Wilmersdorf.
It appears that, since the beginning of October 19 , more attention has been
given to the security of the supply installations. These safety measures
may have been the result of personnel changes in the supply group of staff
sectiors of the GOFG.
The trucks identified belong to the rear services of the GOFG and to an
unidentified unit of the Fourth Gds Mecz Army.
The shipment on 29 0 ber 1951 was previously reported,
Detailed data on the AAA unit at Toench'Ir ontained in paragraph 9 of a
previous report.
25X1
J
gate; A~.~
Approved For Release 2003/08/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R009800050003-0
J7-~q ii+i :~i.~'~'?i~ ~`''~~1]19.3=)3-'~ 7 nr',.??`:-~ "Ll'.j ?1~=3~7
25X1