MILITARY ACTIVITY IN LIEBEROSE, NEUBRANDENBURG, AND MAGDEBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900300002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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G 1FICATIO NSECRET CONTROL
COUNTRY East Germany REPOR
TOM itary Activity in Lieberose, Neubrandenbr,afc ldeburg
EVALUATION P1 ArF YAWED,
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (No._& TYPE)
REMARKS
DATE PREPARED 20 August 1954
1. At 0500'.on 24 July 1954, 26 trucks with pontoons and engineer equipment
were unloaded at the Lieberose railroad station from a train which arrived
from the direction of Frankfurt/Oder. Motor vehicles
were seen. The column marched owar Camp eberose.I
2. At 1900 on 31 July, 8 T-34/85 tanks 4 x 57-M AT
guns, about 25 trucks and 8 boxcar-
loads of personnel were entrained, according to an officer, for Eberswalde. 2
3. At 0645 on 3 August, a truck occupied by soldiers wearing black-bordered
black epaulets was seen en route toward Panzer Kaserne (2181) in Neubranden-
burg for the first time after a prolonged period of interruption. No
indications of an unloading were seen at the Neubrandenburg railroad
station immediately after the observation of this truck. At about 1300, a
column of 15 trucks with pontoons and doldiers wearing black-bordered
On August, the northern portion of Panzer Kaserne was fully lighted
at dusk,
4. At 1000 on 3 August, a shipment of 8 boxcars and 38 flatcars arrived at the
Magdeburg-Brueckfeld railroad station from the direction of Biederitz.
Unloading was completed in about 43 minutes. Unloaded material ingludeds
8 new-six-wheel amphibious vehicles of a new type, 22 trucks with TMP-
-pontoon sections, 6 trucks with beams and boards, 2 trucks with motor-
boats, an4 200 soldiers wearing black-bordered black epaulets. The amphibious
vehicles were 5 to 6 meters long, 2.4 meters wide and, without cover,
2 meters high and had a four winged screw, a rhombic-shaped hull and a
cover similar to that of a DUKV 353-type vehicle, The detrained unit left
for Seeckt Kaserne (5287).
Since, on 3 August, the Seeckt Kaserne was occupi
by an estimated 1,200 soldiers wearing black-bordered black epaulets, it
was assumed that several shipments were detrained in Magdeburg during the
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of a new type, about 50 trucks with TMP-pontoon sections, special trucks
and equipment trucks were observed in the barracks yard at 0900. On 6 August,
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area west of the ins
Kleiner Anger. Motor
installation was fully;
1,600 soldiers wearing)
the installation appe
were seen entering and leaving the
installation,. T.
.On 3 August, 15 truce' - 15_' steel pontoons, and 1 crane truck were
seen at the engineer!agvIV -$ forage area in Zuckerbusch Kaserne (5268)
in Magdeburg. 4
Bridge Regt of the G
.pied to capacity by an estimated
ed black epaulets. In the evening, the
ng practice was carried out in the
g-VAIW trunks were cut with two rip saws at
ained. Since engineer units of the Fourth
Gds Mech Army from., Tlin and of
to Lieberose on 25,,,,
there on 2 August, it
be conducted at this
ra ur er
36th Pon Bridge R
servations on 2 August, the units of the
Gds Mech-Army,' which had been absent since
ndenburg on two trains on 2 August.
sible that, after 3 August, the bulk of the
SFG assembled at its winter quarters. Elements
. d to the post as early.as 19.and 20 July.
is of the regiment had been detrained i.n
utilized as stolid ~or? i
aar:,
the first t
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to furnish
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the 1st Mech.Div from Doeberitz transferred
s of the abovementioned regiment moved
that special engineer exercises were to
units of the 36th Pon
:ground?
the shipment whic1~_
involied units of the .7th Gds Mech Div. went to
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Comment 1, The information fails'
er of the troops. Amphibious-vehicles
353--type vehicles, are reported for
ch Kaserne had already previously been
equipment,
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