TROOPS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN SCHWEIDNITZ

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400350009-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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!- Troops and rili Lary Installations in Sch-weidnitz
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DATE OF CONTENT prior
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1. LTni,i.l :zis re atriation at d of October 1950., source carried a pass
is ued in Sch-weidni.tz. This pass, -which had to be
renewed y a Sov1e 7ormen-la ura every two or three months,, was usually
signed by ?ajor Grushill (phonetic spelling) (fnu) and, occasionall;r, by
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This confirms previous reports,
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The information on the ovxet-occupied ronedi.er I aserne, Arras Kaserne,
'landern Kaserne and Barbera Kaserne genorally agrees with statements by
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other German resettlers from the SchweidnItz ares
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t the ilandern llaserne quart
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ered troops with
Baebara Kaserne
quartered a c otorized unit
up to the end o ' October 195
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COUNTRY Poland
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Railroad Lines in Eastern Poland
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1. The `arsaw Luboml railroad line is a double-track, standard-gauge line. in
1943, a second track was built on the railroad bridge over the 7ieprz _-liver
between Kanie and Trawniki. The bridge across the Bug River, Which has two
tracks, was reconstructed in the late summer of 194h. '.'rater stations available
on this line included those at Dorohusk (steam operated), Chelm (operated by
steam and electricity with a maximum capacity of 130 cubic meters per hour),
Rejowies (electrically operated) and Lublin (electrically operated). The
wells at these stations have an average depth of 40 meters. (1)
2. A single track is in operation as far as Piodawa on the Chelm Brest Litovsk
railroad line. The railroad bridge across the Bug River near Mlodawa is still
destroyed. However, reconstruction was started in the spring of 1951. source
believed that the railroad line will be opened to traffic as far as Brest
Litovsk by November 1951. During the reported period, traffic on this line
was light. (2)
3. Passenger traffic on the Rejowiechel3ec single-track railroad line is in
operation only as far as Belzec. However, scheduled freight trains operate
across the border as far as Lemberg. The line has a carrying capacity of 20
trains within a 2L-hour period. (3)
4. The Lublin Rozwadow-P rzeworsk single-track railroad line has steep grades
and narrow curves. The steepest grade is near :":ilkolaz with a incline of 20
meters per km. The carrying capacity is only 16 trains per 24-hour period.
?'pater stations on this line are available at +ilkelaz, Krasnik, Zaklikow,
Rozwadow, hudnik, Lezajsk and Przeworsk. The railroad bridge over the San
giver, 5 km north of Rozwadow, which was destroyed during the war, has been
replaced with a steel bridge. (L)
5. The single-track Lublin-Lukow railroad line is of only minor importance.
6. The double-track Krakow-Kielce-Radom-Deblin-^Lukow4'rest Litovsk railroad line
is partly equipped with electric signal installations. All bridges on this
line had been restored. The carrying capacity of this line is V trains
within a 2)4 hour period. (5)
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as ..ui as a shorter route between Lodz and Deblin and in order to ease
the strain on the Warsaw railroad line. The line ru i D
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Fast trains cannot operate on this line because of thevlighhtzrails-used.
The line is equipped with obsolete installations and its carrying capacity
is limited. (6)
8, A railroad line was under construction between Skierniewice and Lukow. The
plans for this project were submitted to the Railroad Ministry in 1949 and
work on the construction of the line was started in the spring of 1951,
The line will run via Mszezonow, Gora Kalwarja, where it crosses the Varsaw-
Deblin railroad line. An unusual feature of this line is that it is designed
to cross the Vistula river on two bridges about 1400 meters apart. The line
separates 1 km before the river and meets again 1 km beyond the river. All
the bridges on the line were still under construction in May 1951. Source
believed that the double-track line would be opened to traffic in October
1952. As stated in the plans for this project, the line will serve to ease
the traffic strain on the '4';arsaw railroad junction and to Arstablish a shorter
route to rarest Litovsk. The line will probably have a carrying capacity of 50
trains per 24-hour period. (7)
9. The construction of a double-track railroad line between r'iechow and
Szczebrzeszyn via Nowy Korczyn and Nisko was planned? The new line is to ease
the traffic strain on the Katowice-Krakow-Przemysl railroad line. The project,
which was submitted to the Railroad Ministry in October 1950, has been
approved. Construction work has not yet been started. (8)
]10. Experience has shoym that it is easier to convert a Soviet-gauge line to
standard-gauge than vice versa. For this reason, in the the spring of 1950
it w.,s ordered that on all new construction and repair work ties 15 cm
longer than those previously used on standard-gauge lines, would be used. (9)
11. Idliroad lines and railroad stations are guarded by the Sluzba Ochrony
Koleji (railroad police) SOK. The SOK is assigned to the Railroad 1i.nistry,
which was established in January 1951 to replace the former Ministry of
Traffic. Chief of the SOK headquarters was Colonel Kazimierz Dabrowski, From
3 to 5 SOK nn q are assigned to each of the ten regional railroad headquarters.
in addition to the usual SOK units there r,re special motorized units which
are used for emergencies. The individual SOK units are composed of 150 men
armed with carbines, Soviet submachine guns and machine tuns. At night,
patrols are accompanied by watchdogs. The personnel wear black uni_forms.similar
to those worn by Polish railroad personnel, except that the SOK personnel
wear epaulets and rank insignia. Chief of the SOK units assigned to the Lublin
railroad headquarters was Captain Iwaszkiewicz (fnu), a Soviet. The chief
of the SOK units for the T3reslau railroad district was Major Kazimierz
Kzczuka. (10)
12. Soviet transportation staffs, responsible for handling Soviet military ship-
rments, are assigned to the Railroad Ministry and the individual regional
railroad headquarters. The official designation of these transportation staffs
is CUPVOSO. (11) The Soviet transportation staff attached to the Lublin
regional railroad headquarters consisted of four officers and six NCOs and
was commanded by Colonel T3arpbasz (fnu), The various Soviet transport tion
staffs are connected by direct telephone lines. According to source, behavior
of the Soviet transportation staffs toward the Polish railroad administration
was exceedingly correct and discreet.
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exact route of this line is not clear. However, it is believed that this
statement refers to the :';arsaw-Deblin-Lublin-Chelm-Dorohusk-Jagodin-Luboml-
Ko el railroad line. According to available information, the line between
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Otwock and Deblin is still sin?>le-track.
(2) This statement confirms available information that traffic on this si.ngle-
track railroad line is interrupted near Bug rhladowski (in Poland) because
the bridge across the Bug River has .ot yet been reconstructed. East of the
Pug; River, which forms the Polish-Soviet frontier, the line is sin??le-track
from d,`lodawa as far as Brest Litovsk.
(3) The Rejowiec-Pelzec line is known to he a single-track line. It runs from
lRejowiec to Lemberg via Zawada, Zwierzyniec, ?3elzec, iTrebenne and Rawa tus'ra.
(4) According, to available information, the Rozwadow-Przeworsk section of this
railroad line is definitely doul.le-track.
(5) The double-trac, status of the Krakow-Frest Litovsk railroad line is confirmed,
except for the section between I~rahow and Tuftel, a 50-km stretch, which probab-
ly is still si Fle-track.
(6) The Tomaszow-Padom railroad line ,,as ,reviously known to be single-track except
for the Tomaszow Inowlodz line section.
(7) The execution of this -project appears credible in view of plans to ease the
traffic strain on the tt`arsati railroad junction. The line would mainly serve
Ooviet interests.
(8) This project would roquire the construction of two large bridges across the
Vistula and San Rivers.
(9) It is believed that this order was given by the Soviets in order to facilitate
the conversion of standard-gauge to Soviet-gauge tracks at a given time.
(10) The ten Polish regional railroad headquarters are located in Krakow,,, h.'arsaw,
Lublin, Lodz, Poznan, Stettin, 'Breslau, Danzig, Allenstein and Katowice,
(11) GUPVOSO stands for Glavnoye Upravleniye Voyennykh Sobshcheni (Soviet Lain
Administration for Military Transportation). These Soviet transportation
agencies were mentioned in the Soviet-Polish agreement on transit traffic
through Poland,
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