SOVIET AND POLISH UNITS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN LIEGNITZ

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• Publication Date: February 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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viet and Polish Units and :ilitarv Instnllations in Licrnitz
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12 February 1952
REFERENCES
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1. Al Soviet motor vehicle repair shop in Liecnitz (0 52/D U2), was located on the eas'
sid? Jauerstrasse, near the intersection with Opitzstrasse. lhe repair shop wa,
directly 311.bordinate to 2 headquarters in the Soviet reatricted area in the south?,
sectorof the city. The wares for the German workers of the repair shop, averac fJ1-25X1
about 80 men, were paid in the former Grenadier Kaserne, by a Soviet. paymaster, wh,
came from the restricted area.
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2. S-urce stated that belonced to a Soviet technical batta1?41
.contrellinc the military motor-vehicle repair shop, the Rimer- Open l repair shop,
Jauerstrassc. This teemical battalion, which was located in the former Grenadier
Kerne, was subordinate to the comand in Liecnitz. Accordinc to a letter, dated
ivember 1951, Irom Liecnitz, the technical battalion in the Grenadier Kaserne as
well as the military motor vehiele repair shop_were to move to -1Teslau (P 52/G 41)
by January 1952 . This plan was announced to the Germans employed at the repair
? since an unidentified number of then werealso to move to Dreslau. (2)
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Soviet soldiers had left LieLnitz. It was not known,
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whether these troops consistf
of corplete units or individual soldiers from various units. ,?any women in unifor
have been recently observed in the streets of the town. It was estimated that the:,
were about three companies of women. (3)
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- 4- In the 3U eer of 1950, one General Litvinov (fnu) in Liegnitz.
wore braided epaulets with blue stripes ane two sLars with a wing.
Cencral.Kutov (fnu) 1
.v11.s an VD eeneral. Accordana to the general's ertver? one Junior Lieutenant
rekitie (fnu) the seneral was transferred to :e)seew in the fnil of 1949, (1)
Prier 0 August 1950, Polish soldiers wearing blue uniforms,
in the former Kaehrichten Kaserne on the east side of Immelnannstrasse. These
troops frequently marched out of the installation at company strength for train-
ing, They were equipped with light and heavy infantry weapons, No mortars or.
AT guns wet seen, The heavy machine cuns were mounted on small two-wheeled
hendcarts, Young Poles1.14 to 16 years old, were rrequently observed drilling
in the-terrain west of the barracks installation, near the Katzbach river.
T'nee younesters, who wore Polish army uniforms, seemed to be disciplined.
25X1 Thee -were referred to as cadets b;,,, source, who believed that they were also
quartered in the former 1:achrichten Kaserne. (5)
6, In 14 1945, source worked for Soviet as an interpreter for a
short period of time. Prior to 1948 or 1949, the unit was quarte'md in the.
25X1 forme Kaiser 'Ielhelm Kaserne, located on the south side of Naenauerstrasse,
between the railroad line to Goldberg (0 52/D 71) and Roonstrasse. Later,
25X1 the unit moved into the villa of the former Field rarshal von,Eanstein? on
the eest side of Bolteistrasee? between Raupach- and artinstrasse The unit,
whoee designation was "Upravlonie Politicne", denit with. political incident
in the Soviet Army and, on a limited scale, also dealt with political incidents
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occurrine amone the German and Polish civilians, -
1 krnu) in Liegnitz in Septembrr 1950. The office was staffed mainly
with Soviet officers rearing ruby cap band and -epaulets whose basic color was '
red, (6)
7> An unguarded Polish office waslocated in the former Kart/mann villa on Post-
strisse; Folish personnel, roaring gray-hluo or black neckties, were seen on
duty in this office. All Germans dismissed by the Soviets had to report there
for reassignment to other employment. (7)
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soldiers wearing dark-blue untforms with lisht-blue stripes along the outside
scan of the lone trousers, in and around the former Nachrichten Kaserne, on
the cast side of Immelmannstrasse. Their service cans were qf the same color
a! the uniform and had a band ofaliehter blue Is soldiers 25X1
wearing the same uniform with yellow service color. Units of company strength
were seen marching out of the installation in groups separated according to
the branch of service., The uniformed Poles included boys abut 14 years old,
and young men in their twenties. They seemed to be officer candidates.
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teought the installation was occupied by several units in the summer of 1950.
Football matches between teams of Soviet soldiers and Polish troops from the
foreer Vachrichten Kaserne were held on the athletic field near the installation
IL was common knowledge that the Soviets played against Polish militia team. (5)
9. In the fall of 1948, entered a large telephone central in the eoviet re-
stricted area, obeerved Soviet soldiers nrlerating large switchboards,
the installation was the
boveet main signal center of the Lieenitz post. It was located in the buildine
of the former Nandwerkskanrer on the north side of Bitschenstrasse and the east,
side of Holteistrasse.
10. In the Soviet rerAricted area, on the west side of Doverstrasee, between Ditselie
stresse and Tannenbergstrasse, there was also a Soviet komendatura which was
the euprene tribunal for German affairs prior to the summer of 1950. This
komendatura was the superior headquarters of a Soviet "nein komendatura" on the
northwest side of Gartenstrasse. The Soviet military patrols for the post left
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,iron tknis-instellation. Complaints of all types were submitted to the main
komondatura. There was also *In arbitration committee to settle disputes in-
volninf .Garmans andOaesi4os (8)
1ln In nucust 1950, a Soviet office staffed almost exclusively by officers and
enc:.osed T,:y a barbed-wire fence, was observed. in the ?formeintoachers' serfnary
on noltketranse? between Xoeniggraetzer and Steinmetzstrasso, Since the ta.
uta:iatiori vias strictly guarded source believed that it was an important office.
The four-story building as about- 80 meters lonC
12. In Lhe summer of 1949, a .Soviet office, whose functions included administration.
of iAle Soviet prisons and processing of criminal matters, was located in the
former ?ohl. Villa, on the rest side _of Sophienstrasse, between Daum:art- and
Sc uistvasse.*kosianti!, Germans and Poles wore tried by Soviet courts in two -
bnndings,. one of which was on the south side of Dektorcang and the west side
of Thebesiunstrasse, and tie other on the s-nth side of Dektoruang and the
west side of FaisaLethenstrasse.
13 A Soviet Army rattan supply depot was located in a large four- or five-story .
main. buniding south of the fermer German hrmy ration supply depot-at 7faffon-
derr (C 52/B 02), in the anule formed by the railroad lines to Sauan (0 52/3 26
and RawAsch (P 52/C 37) This installation was not identical with the multi-
story concrete building of the former German Army ration supply depot west of
Pfal'fennorf,. betwoon'BrombergerStrasse and the railroad line to Rawitsch,. The
use of this installation was not known.
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(3). It is 'believed that these Soviet women were brought in to replace German wor1e4X1
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candidate or cadet school, :It has not yet been determined whnther the school
belonged to the -army, the air force or the militia. The light-ble stripes
on thetrousers, mentioned in paragraph 8, would appear to indf,cate a nilitia
school- -
(6) A pleviOun report by the same source stated that the barracks tnstallation
' south of HaynauerstraSse was occupied by a Soviet printing office and Soviet
infr,ntrirmon until September 1951n This should have road "untfnl September 1250q,
Polish treops. It is believed that the unit observed
t is ds,finitelybnlieved that this was a militia office.
had bee dissolved quite SOMO time ago. I
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staffed mainly by civilians was located in the building.
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