MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE DESSAU-AKEN TRAINING AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014300330005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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`:.iiitary Infor..:iati on from the Dessau-Aken Tr9ining Area
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{'he headquarters building, a two-story brick build w, the
an ineer camp between ,Dessau and Aken w s compl?ted bty l .Au-7u.ast
iA shower-bath was established in another buildin-;p {The
$ur,ply of ficer, a colonel, teas represented by one Major Seidel (fai)captain Polonok (fnu) was back with the unit. He had been away for
several months. Sheds were erected for tanks. The tank crews were
,~edominantly engaged in radio training and took part in engineer
)ractices like the laying of mines, blastings and preparation of
h :arges. The engineer trocc-,s constructed footbridges across the
:nd which were subsequentjy dismantled. Some times. I to 4 foot-
_ ` d-7es rjere nstructed and 'ismantled daily.
on the engineer trainin site on thA L41 ba Riuar (I)
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OBTAINED ~.. DATE PREPARED 16 Sept~ber 1952
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its , 274 motor vehicles of al]. yes `az
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_., August, several troop camps were determined nort
} Dessau.-Aken roa south of the Lib : River. .A tent camp with
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c:nitaining 30 light pontoons, 2 motorboats' 1 ditch digging
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.wing with blank cartric.ges, a parently artillery,
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Haan f. of the Llbe River.
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f-Ea=?iT.-' oretice t^with training; rounds wit!: six light mortars.
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v ;7 = k of t is exercise or the nevi neer e --orcise. in the
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