MILITARY CEREMONIES IN COTTBUS AND WUENSDORF ON 23 FEBRUARY 1952

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011600230008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC-.. t:nrarznn; F?c in Lni tln7s aYEf3 A]t?T1 r A 0 1 ' j ' on 2 ebl"11ar 19
EV'ALUATION- 0 -...y_PIACE OBTAINED,
DATE OF CO ' 7 FaTtrt~a rv 1 UK7
~___DATE PREPARED 1 Anri z 1952
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CLASSIFICATION SI;C
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CONFIDENTIAL
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1. At 9 a, erm0 on 23 Fehrta:.^;r 19 2, throe units were seen marching from the I3erz:~ann
Loons Kasernc,,, Cottbus (11 52/A 57) to the officorsa club and mess on fisnanr ckstrass{
The fi:.rst unit consisted of: a military band; 1 colonel who as the com;aanding
ofiice:-, in the Hermann Loons Kaserne; ? 8 officers; 5 components, each of 3 officer;:.
8 14 COs and about 70 men; and 30 uniforried woman, 1"ost o l- the officers observed .-with
this exit -!.,wore tank insignia. The second unit consisted of 1 colonel, 10 officers,
11 TWO-, and about 70 men,: All of the officers wore signal insignia. The third unit
Corsi: tad of: 1 colonel- 24 officers; 3 ITCOs; about 20 men; and 3 components, each
cor.sistin, of 1 officer, 2 I1COe and about 20 Caen. Iest of the officers of this unit
froze artillery insitgnia. * The throe units returned to the installation at about
11:3' ,a.m. During the intervening period, a total of about 7.)`) officers and ncn fro.:
the Sa.-hsendorf Kasernc arrived in the Iierriann Loens Kaserno in small groups, with
sone of the troops riding on trucks. All of the troops left the installation again
at 1 p.m. The troops from the I[ermarn Loons Kasernc left first, followed by the
trcoios from the :.achsendorf Kaserne who were organized into a military land,
1 3 ieutenant colonel, 3 officers and 8 units, each of 3 officers, '., TNCOs and
abcut 70 mon6 The units carried a total of 33 large wreaths that were subsequently
dec osi ted in the cemetery on 5prombergerstrasce,, -
2. At 9:30 aim on 23 February, a band of platoon strength and about 1,603 officers,
off'ices' candidates, soldiers and uniformed worsen were soon as ;enablin in an open
square in th,) yard of the Hzxienburg i:aserno, ';uensdorf (1.1 53/Z 91), `she; troo-)s
wax e srxbsequontly addressed by a general and marched pact bin in revio;r, she
trcops txarchcd five abroast and wore organized into the folio?:ing units: about
35C' officers in grow ss of 15 to 55; about 50-) of 'icer candidates iaarc?tiin a :'n one
bic CIc; about 3.60 soldiers narchin in one block; and about 13 unifor.,od ?ior.sen. Folio
:in[ the review, all of the troops marched to the :)port; chulo,
* Cori.-ntG The 103 officers, 60 11C0s and 500 21 who were observed coning fron
the :Ie:1raann L oens Kssorne on 23 February 1952 possibly constitute the tonal
nup.ber of troops stationed i n this installation because a ration su;p_,ly sergeant
also st:,ated that 50J troops were quartered in the installation in January 1952, The
esti:-a;ato by another source of as many as 1,200 troops there in January 19x2
probably molded a course of 40J officers who graduated prior to 23 February, The
first unit mentioned in paragraph 1 of the present report -.eau probably the IIq Stn
1.Uecz Div; the second unit, a signal component of the division headquarters, thus
indicatiaxg that not all of the elements of the 999th (7) Sig Tax are located in t';e
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Hsf?n+ann Loena Ka Berne; and the third unity possibly the tank rc )ai.r shop, an
asmmotion which is somewhat contradictor) by the observation of artillery
insignia worn 'y the troops concernad, she present report contains no n
diczta.o.-zs as to the whereabouts of ele::snts of t'io 71st Tank Ro;t iron Luobeon.
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install.3tions were airosdy in '>feis.;cras:ser at t?sat ttuo .
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ec .eenr or .e:xerne constitutes no b7ais for eorrutlnr-; the actual number of
troops there bocauoo olena'its of the 70th :ocz :or t that is carried in the
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att,enrix,ir, a special eour:;e& about 50 of icer,, who are io.otructors, stout r00
officer candidates attending one course ancd a school cndre :f 160 non a;,,1 'anx n
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a tenc.a.a ne ceremony at tha officer school of the G0FOr are arlieved to
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