GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011700280006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/23: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700280006-0
COUI TI*; .. -err;an;d ejovzet lone)
TO PIC.
EVAL.Uk1ON
General :iilitar, Tnformation
50X1-HUM
tl
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAI
REFERENCE
PAGES
REMARKS
Threc troop trains were loaded for Ohrdruf Sl/J 15) in Gera ('. 51/K 06) on
29 February, he entrained units were s i,,nal units.
2. On 29 February, officers in AnnaberC (T: 51/Y. 73) hose first names wore unknown,
included:
L ehnert Ka sErne. Colonel Yokovluv, '..:a or Relsh,+nkov, Captain )3ogdanovskish.
Knabensc;:uleo llkbaisha.s, corn.and:i.n~, officer ?, Captain Trevosov.
Barracks installation on Leninstra.sse? Colonel Yush kareva, all'eC.edly from
92-,:.x le -ran -Left a a o -ax_c rain cat 1:5
and a 86T--axle train at 5:59 p,rr (1)
,aero soon rsar1_in,,-, at til(: brick factory.
the ~,.oods east of the Urick--corks. nUnher of trucks
lanEus.(-e and a signboard narked: 3=1-1 3 A. :Several hundred soldiers tented in
50X1-HUM
3 A train) carrying 46 new three--axle trucks) 1123 seen passim
throu{;h the Cottbus ( ; r2/n 57) rrailror.d station in the direction of Berlin
on 9 .;arcr..? The escortin ; personnel 'ioro red--bordered ?black epaulets, (3)
)n The Lossa (- 52/J 59) road -ras blocked near the brickworks northwest of Lossa
on lit Eorch. There vas a signboard indicating the road block in German 50X1-HUM
Uenscihule, (2)
About 150 soldiers rearin, block--bordered red and red-bordered black epaulets
carrying rifles and baggage arrived at the lo~rer railroad station in Annaberg
on 5 11:arch, A railroachnan said they came from Rostock, The;; spent the night
of 6 E arch in the gyr'nasiun on i'arkstrasse and, on 6 ;::arch, roved to the Kna-
ruc cs
loaded with 5--ravel and cement eras seen enterin the restricted area. Trucks,
and others of the
loaded with construction material, were also seen at the
CLASSIFICATION SEORET/C0f ?ROL/US 0- ICIPLS OPZY
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/23: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700280006-0
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/23: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700280006-0
37ZRET/C0LTR0L/U.S OFFICIAL`, ONLY
dump in the area o tile inns was blasted in 1945..,
the dump ?crould be reconstructed. (Ii)
restricted area,
were seen at the barri c cs ).ns _a. ion, M
live anniunition at target ran,-;es. Trucks
:Lng technical duties in the barracks installation and practicing firinr with
50X1-HUM
on 14 Larch, the barracks installation in r,'eissen-
Bohnitzsch 17 52 F 09) was occupied by 1,000 tank troopers. 50X1-HUM
=the installation quartered between 1,000 and 1,5oo, A -dotal of 17 tanks
of undetermined' type was in the gara?:e . Troops were sec?i drill:;ng and perform-
50X1-HUM
On 17 Larch, 200 soldiers wearing rod bordered black epaulets were seen ser-
vicing motor vehicles and tanks in the Mudra Kaserne or. Heinrich flei.nestrasse,
Riesa ri 52/E- 81 Three T-34/85 tanks. SU-100 motor vehicles
wore seen. No
g activity war, noticed in the Von er--^oitz Kaserne on i rei'.,?ccheid-
strasse. ?,umerous soldiers were seen shopp inrr in the toti.ir?u A trued with a
carrying )j.-0 soldiers with red-bordered black
epaulets, was seen enterinr? the installation,,
50X1-HUM
Rocket launchers were on the loading- ramp of the Jueter-
trucks carrying t d . nition boxes
were seen eint loaded. Ten o icers and 200 EMM frarn the Beseler Kaserne left
for Jueterbog on a regular train. (9) 50X1-HUM
were seen at the installation, on 17 6 T? arks, 1 tank chass s a
seen training with six 57 m~urm AT guns. Truck and ambulance
sere;. Kaserne in , ittenberg (N S2/E 37) was occupied to capacity by about 1 50X1-HUM
soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets. Six officers and 200 EM were
was sidetracked at th o, z.. , ireint station.o On lb Mar7-
g k)ch. , ie Le
AT guns and 20 trucks
30 ese - ee trains are e previously reported
he motor vehicle
to various uni s o- the 39h Gds Litz Ri e .u
units of this division
50X1-HUM
50X1-HUM
belong
(2) The officers identified are not knowm. They were probably officers
from MCD units quarters in the mentioned billets in Annaberg.
(3) The trucks probably cane from the U.S.S.R.
The e command! post exercise of the group urhich began in the area nortiwrest of
Naurnburg; on 3 -arch ,,as apparently not conrleted on l). March. The trucks park-
ing at the brick factory belon1- to the 21st Gds '."ecz Div, the truck seen at
the restricted a.rer, to the 6th Arty Div, to the 207th Mtz Rifle Div and to
air force units. An ammunition dunp in the area of the "Finn" is reported
for the first time,
(5) As only the 95t1a Tank ReLt of the 9th Tank Div is, believed to be stationed
in aeissen-Bohnitzsch, the information concerning the occupation of this
barracks instal:? ation seems to be crediblo.
'.'oot of the vehicles
at was believed that elements of the regiments of the 9th Tank Div, which
observed belong to his div s on.
on 6 !arch, the "udra Kaserne was occupied by 50X1-HUM
300 to 35 t? men and the Von-der-Goltz Kaserne by about 450 men. At that time,
, had left for practice training,
in the present report 0 the two in
were occupied by even fewer troops on 17 March. It cannot be
ii nC T f 01 TROL/US O T'_'' 7 1;1ALS ONLY
there had been a large ammunition
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/23: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700280006-0
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/23: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700280006-0
S? C -i?ET/COr?TR0L/US OFD CIAL3 ONLY 50X1-HUM
determined whether I components of the units 50X1-HUM
of the 9th Tank Div, which are stationed there, were at the Koenii;sbrueck
troop training ?.:rounds for firing practice during the first 1'aif of i,Ma.rcha
(7) the rocket launchers belong t'50X1-HUM
the unidentified RL regiment of the XXIX Gds L. tz Rifle Corps from Leipzig-
3choenau,.
(3) The train carried components of the unidentified AT artillery regiment. of the
11th (?) Gds AT Arty Brig of the Fourth Ods Liecz Army from 1)oeberitz The
unit was presumably entrained in Doabcri tz on 16 March,
The presence of 13--AT guns does not appear credible, however. 50X1-HUM
(9) The 52d Gds Tank Rest of the 6th r' Tank Div Is carried in the Baseler
Kaserne in .ittenberg. The
occupation observed on 16 March agrees r.th the estinr-ite
in mid-January. The tanks, officers and ES loaded
on 17 :larch probably went to the ..'erder-I_.-,rkendorf training grounds near
Jueterbog for firing practices.
iECHET/COr;TRROL/US 0FFICIa11S ONLY
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/23: CIA-RDP82-00457R011700280006-0