KVP TRAINS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800910005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY
ist Germany
? REPORT
TOPIC
KVP Trins
EVALUATION
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1, the following. K7P trains
30 September 193: ?
C/B - converted boxcar
B - boxcar
F 'flatcar
Date in
E9.2t2EPer
1
2
3
' 4
6 ?
7
10
12
between l'and
SSy- heavy-duty flatcar
RAym - heavy- duty flatr_!ar
G. - gondola car'
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Composition of
KVP Trains
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3 C/B
6 C/B, 2 B, 22 F
1 B, 10 RRym
1 B, 8 RRym
.From-
Trenenbrietzen
Loewenberg
It
To
saiire-esains*rawspene....rmarveAreasSombles.
A orkow
? fa
Oraaienburg
1
1
9
4
1 B, 6 Paym
Werbig
Potsdam
2
3 B, 10 aym
Loewenberg
Potsdam
2
B with horses
Hoppegarten
. Grtnow
1 B, 6 F
Koenigswuster-
hausen
3
2 RHym
Grossenhain
Potsdam
4
9 0, tas 2 F
Worbig
Storkow
20 C/3, 22 S32, ?
Ruederitz (?) ?
.
2
.Berlin-
Magerviehhof
undetermined with
Berlin
Noumburg
30 -KVP personnel.
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()LASSIFICATION
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Date:in? " Coltosition of From
. Septedoer KVP Trains
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To
12 undetermined with
11 NTO personnel ,
undeterined with
22 KY' personnel
Berlin - ilrfurt
EerEn 1)3ber1ug-
kirchhain
12 B Berlin- Erfurt
MagerViehhof Halle
Potsdam
)4ildpark
13 4 13 Preonitz Eggesin
' 14 4 ears with Schooneweido Fotdam
vehicles
Wildpall i:
4 cars vit,h Lgjosin
vehicles'-
5 cars with fo-,dam Prora
vehicles
15 1 C/B, 2I3 5 F ,Kirchmoc-sor Leipzig
3 cars with Zchocleveide Prove.
KVP air force
personnel
16
13 B Premnitz Woissenfels
18 3 G with Dahmedorf -. Ruegen
furniture Muencheberg
3 B with Premnitz Ruegen
? furniture
- 19 3 B with Dahmsdorf- CQ
building Mvencheberg
material
20 4 rilip with ? Ovenienburg
vehicles
? 21 15 F-with
'vehicles
? ?22 5 B with- Fuerste ,yalC
equipment
23 - 2 B with' ? Berlin-
furniture Magerviehhof
2 B with Daiimdorf-
billetine
equipment _
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Halle -
Dober2ug-
KirchMn
Doberlug-
Ki2chhain
Oranienburg
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Data in
SeEtember
Composition of
Ka'Trains
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sm-
7:RR7m with
vehicles
k
,
Oraqienburg
Aldpark
26
8 P with
Potsdam
29
? vehicles
36 F ultb
vehicles
undetermined
10 3 with
horses
Hoppe6ar ten
Neustadt
30
3 F with
?Oraniontiurg
i'otsuam
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ve'niclos
on 8 and 9 0401qerhe_KEe_unini
Johannisthal was to be transferred-to Enesin on ow trains each with.Berlin:-.
-
iliagerviehhof as entraining
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Cement. As KYP enginaer uqits and the central KV? eAgineer depot are
stationed at Kuschnsee near Stokow all YvT trains bouhd?for Storkow are
loaded with enElheor Lroops and cingincer 7-;cluiptent. The iCiP trains from. .-50X1-HUM
Treuenbrietc,.en to tc ow crobablv earried contlYlgents of the KVP enger ?
battalion, wUch. vas 50X1-HUM
transferred to .1:.uchensee. TheKVP train observed. at tha.Werbig transit station
was loaded with en5iner troops from the Arneegruppe No-id area.
Thse KVP trains ixobably carried VP personnel; vehicles and
tanks which were transferred fropi Armeogrupy,e 7ord to the Berlin area. They
possibly. c%ne fron the iecz alv:Eggesin and were conveyed to the newly activated
A.oz Dereitchaft Berlin,
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Cor:entKoonigw;:usterhasen serves ,as loadiro' st-_tjo-1, .1.11 InloadinP
station of the KT!' sitmal ',oattalilen in 4.iederldailz.
the XAT train loading in the Greif:751741d railroad dittricu, -
the train probably carried a A-flall signal unit of ArmeegrUffpo Nord. ? 50X1-HUM
Corpe,-,2,-?t The KiJl train probably cari..ied tanks which 116:17e.. repaired at tile
KV? re air sho at rossnhain.and returned to'the. UP unit in Potsdam..
0ooent The tam n was probably loaded with natori0 fro all the
central suncly depot Parlitagervienhof for KVP units stationed in Erfurt,.
Potsaim :.nu 'Wlldpark.
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GoVt i're:mitz was previously occupicd by conti.aente of tIlp former
Eer,z,itz;chaft 2942 Klietz which was reorganized ? at
the end of August 1953. The bulk of the former aeraitschaft was transferred from
Y'rem.litz to other KVI? its, possibly inesin,-Weissenfels and Prora.
1W1' sh;:.T.ants from Kirchmoeaer to the Halle railroad district
I?rel4MWRIW,S
were ?freviour rcportzd.
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Conment. As no office or unit of the EVP air force is known at 50X1-HUM
? ? Prora, the AT train from Sehoenewaide to..Prora-hs not been identified. ?
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K.
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0t.. The IF shipments from Oranienburg?indicate that the
distribution of iotor vehiet rici armored vehicics from-thc:, n-c;R.tn
KV? U.:lIte is ?contkaued.
Cp;(,nt. Dicribi_ti-n of equipir,ont from the Soviet central depot at 50X1-HUM
Pnarstenwal'je to Fc.rP units IlLe also observed in the fall of 1952-
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3omment. On 11, 12 and 13 ,7:ertombor 1953, about nine KVP trains
carried cont7n-.nts nf the 111',cz Div Eggesin for employment to Berlin. 50X1-HUM
The medium tank SP regi:.ent of this division wcnt
road to Derlin-Johanhic,thal. It cannot definitely be interpreted whetherbi5p1-HUM
eight KVP trains on 8 and 9 October 1953 carried only this regiment or
additional contingents '')f thc- Division Eggosin from Berlin back to _1;ggesin.
Colonel Siegfried vfeiss is carried as commands:- of the Division and
1ajorz-x-Ast L.,ehr as belonging to the divlcion hcackluarters.
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