SOVIET ARTILLERY UNITS IN BERNBURG
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CREST [1]
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP82-00457R004300530009-1
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
Document Creation Date:
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date:
July 14, 2003
Sequence Number:
9
Case Number:
Publication Date:
January 27, 1950
Content Type:
REPORT
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1,, Artillery units, which had returned from the 1U.' ENGRABO
t', 53/Z 00) trop training -rounds., were quartered in
the Adolf Hit"-.-r Ka.serne, BERNBURG UAL 52/D 76) v on 1 December 1949_,
a., About 40 long- barreled guns of 76,,2-to 100 mm caliber and
about 30 AT ,runs of 410 to 50 mm caliber were allegedly stored
in the ordna toe shops of the casornee}
b The trucks of the units were Stored in solid garage buil-
dings in the rear of the aaserne area
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ai. The a,aserno on Ilberstae:di srstrassen BFRNBURG. was occupied
to capacity by artillery units of about 1,100 troops on 9 De-
camber ? 349,, The units were said to be one AT artillery regi.
meat with eight to ten batteris: , one or two battalions of a
field artillery regiment and. one or two regimental headquarters.
(1) Aby"ut 40 artillery officers, ithe ncluding ntworcolonels and one
lieu.,3nant colonel, were
(e) AT guns of 50 to 76>:2 mm caliber ; short-barreled guns of
"602 mm caliber and howitzers of 122 mm caliber were stored in
the ordnance shops. three (3) Five blocked-'UP f kslwes~t~9emabeside~ the solid garr~,gecit-
chens coupled to true
buildings:,
lul There was little Motor traffic.
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#,- a :;c;r swat tbnct sip h.I .ebr'inc' artillery insignia on tsie'r
epaulets left the caserne In the evening and boarded tile
train to ii/GL"E$URG (.:. 53/Y 60) where higher headQw rters were
said to b;e bocated:r
b, The rollovuiag observations wore made in Bf-U BURG an the 38fl16
day,,
;. 1.. The. koct;nanc atura of h a erscn.nal of about