GENERAL MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002700820008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
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PREPARED_..,..l2 October 1953
ENCLOSURES (NO. TYPE)
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1. At 2:40 P.M. on 20 September, about 90 soldiers carrying f.a..~_1d pack and
armed with nine lic'ht machine guns arrived with the regular train from
Frankfurt/Oder at the Fuerstenwalde railroad station. They left the
station for the barracks installation :--~n !3rau_nsdorfer ; tra;sse. marching
in three colunns.1
At 6 a.m. cn 21 Septeiaber, 8 x 85-mm AA Bans with pr%tective shields, 31 trucks
of a field grade officer. The trop s left the station in the direction of the barrnr
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9 officers and about 240 soldiers wearin, red- iorderr. d 25X1
black epaulets were unloaded at the Eberswwalde railroad station under supervision
At 6:15 p.m. on 23 Septe: ber, 15 T 34/85 to ks
and 25 x 6-wheel armored ersonnel carrier
each occupied by 15 soldiers and 4 trucks crossed the Elbe bridge near
Wittenberg coming from the direction of Pratau.. The tanks and armored personnel
carrier ad tn "-hl-; Beseler Kaserne and Tauentzien Kaserne trucks
each occ.a led by 15 soldiers moved to the komendatura,
and trucks moved to the Bereler Kaa serne.3
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0;.i 24 September., sedaia an arent~ occupied by a Eeneral, sedan
and a sedan occu :Ied by field grade 25X1
o:.ai.csrs wearing red-bordered golden epaulets proceeded in successive order
o.-i the Altrur,-in--Lj.ndow road. At 8 a.r. on 25 $e atitembrer- si a
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and a truck occup ;rid by soldiers
wearing red-bordered black epaulets and black-bordered black epaulets with
i!,i final insignia;'. and carrying telephone poles passed through F?aerstenberg, coming
fl',on the direction of Ravensbrueck. The installation 2 km east of Ravensbrueck 25X1
south of the Fuerstenb r r--Lvchen road was, ono-n-ni n i hzr n, s c.n 1 :-m4 F nn or,
Cnv: Fasn~.aw+
4:30 p.m. on 24 September 42 trucll
corning r rpm ae direction of Sachsonitaus?.n and proceeding In the direction of
Sohw ate.
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6a tt 1 p.n :gin 24 Septh: nber., about 50 trucks towing IT guns moved from the
area south of iiathrinenuerg tow rd Vc1 gfelde in the area of the I,etziin ;
Je ..th troop training grounds. Noise of tanks was heard frca!s the direction
ofl Kathrinenberg. On 24 Septei -er, the Jaevenitza-Lett ling':n and Boergitz-
..atzl.ingen roads were blocked to all traffic. lieports were heard from the
area south of Kathrinenaorg.d
7. On 25 September, preparations for departure were made at t `,avallerie
Pacl:ule in Kram nitz. `Itro fief d k' t. r
On 26 September, the barracks installation c eem i to be vacant.
Only a eta so di .r$ were in t to houses on 28 September.
r'n le ,ween 10 a. m. and noon on 27 September, about 20 trucks carrjing soldiers
wearing black-bordered black epaulets with signal insignia were seen hourly
omme it.. The units unloaded probably belo aged to the 634 AAA Div
sand may have come from either Templi n or, possibly, ;.-us trpow.
in late Setter; ber or
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The information probably refers to tk ; outer area of the
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aveensbruec_k concentration camp which probably houses units of the 9th Sig
e 't of the Second Gds cz :Arxiy. Units of this regiment nd other. si nna1 units
of the army oved. in columnsprobably in conjunction with exercises of the
early Octobe
ormaent. Po3eibly units of the 25th Tank Div.
L mient. Since the la_,ge fail ruaneuvers in this area 14[ noo`t n_ u t:
26 September, probably i.mits of the 207th = tz Rile Div }.practiced in the
northeastern section of Caul"n.g Heath. Kathrineaberg is !ocat;d sout of
Boergits.
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