MILITARY INFORMATION FROM CHOJNICE. BYDGOSZCZ AND THE CROSS-BORN AND HAMMERSTEIN TROOP TRAINING GROUNDS.

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 18, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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LOUN`I`R~y Poland and FeTish occupi.2. CGrinnv REPORT NO. 25X
TOPIC- ."ilitary Information from Chojnice i3vdroszcz and: tle Cross-3orn are, 'far.n.Prr+.a; r
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prior to mid-August 1950
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H _DATE. PREPAREQ 18 Ja:iuar, 1951
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Chojnice.
1. The barracks installations located on both sides of the street connecting
rahnhofstrasse, redesignated ~.arszawska, and Danzi erstrasse Cho'ni e ( 54/fit 1 i),
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installation was to be reoccupied by military units in 1970. *
2. The barracks buildings are located south of the former German cA:;ietery which has
been leveled by t'hH Poles. A park has been laid out on this site. The barracks
installation located west of the street and built by the Poles in the 1930Vs
consisted of four-story brick buildings. Prior to the war a Polish infantry
regiment had been located there. The buildings on the east side of the street
which were constructed before 71orld War I to serve as a district hospital werc
used for military purposes until the and of 7c.rld ;'ar II.
3p .x Polish guard detail of about 00 men was quartered in the former Schuetzenhau
(~ lubl,ouse of a rifle association) east of the road to 'rusy (P 51t/N 53), about
1- km from the edge of the town. Poles said that ammunition was stored in the
area of the Schuetzenhaus, The soldiers seen there wore red piping on their col-
lar patches.
The Polish recruiting district headquarters (RK::') was located near the northern
edge of the tocrn, about in line with the now cemetery on the road to 7rusy.
5. The administration of the UB was located on the north side of '."arszawska street,
west of the railroad station. The commanding officer was a captain. The
strength of the UB stationed in the district of Chojnice was estimated at about
100 men. .'hile on duty the members of the UB wore either civilian clothes or
uniforms ,
6. A militia unit of about 120 men was quartered in a former school, a four-story
brick building, on the south side of Stalin Street, formerly Hitler Street. Very
young men and ren between 20 and 40 years of age were seen with this militia unit,
which was equipped with grey blue uniforms. The unit was armed with carbines
and submachine guns. It was assisted by the voluntary militia reserve (ORM0),
the members of which wore civilian clothes with a white-red arm band which had
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amp on it. The militia reserve was armed with rifles and
bayonets. Members of the OMd0 were employed in groups of two in the villages.
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7. Soviet troops were not observed in the town. In the spring of 1950 a group of
Soviet officers inspected all the bridges in the district and ordered some of
them to be reinforced.1n one case the ordered reinforcement had not been carried
out by August 1950.
Pydgoszcz.
8. According to civilians the barracks installation located on the west side of ul.
1 P'aja, Bydgoszcz (P 54/J 09) was occupied by a military unit equipped with
armored vehicles and motorized guns prior to July 1950. Black piping was on
the collar patches of the soldiers. 'i
9. According to the local population, the barracks installation located north of
the installation was occupied by nn infantry unit. Sentries observed there wore
collar patches with red piping.
10. Young officers or officer candidates were seen in a large four-story building
with a red tile roof on the east side of ul. 1 f.'aja, about opposite the barracks
installation mentioned above.
U. No Soviet soldiers were observed in the townn.
Gross-Born Troop Training Grounds.
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stein P 54/N 0. and eus a i n 54/1A -W). 25X1
25X1 On all these occasions very many Soviet soldiers., mos o em
wearing black epaulets, were seen at the Neustettin railroad station. About
the beginning of 1949 the. Soviets evacuated the troop training area south of
Hammerstein and turned it over to the Poles. Yost of the Soviet troops trained.
at Cross Born tP 54/11. 88). lip to August 1950 artillery firing and detonations
of blasting were heard almost daily from the direction of Gross Born. II 25X1
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in the summer o .
'oviet troops had trained at Gross orn
25X1 Comment. No information has been received on reoccupation of Chojnice.
omme This information confirms the statement made
25X1 accor ing to which an artillery- barracks occupied by a motorized artillery
unit and an officer candidate school was located on the 1 ~",ay strut.
25X1 The infantry unit in the barracks installation farther to the
north probably was a KBW battalion of the 9th KB17 Regt located in Bydgoszcz.
~jrlhninice to Stettin via Ha er-
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