THE PAULUS ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900210008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 15, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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U.S. ` a FICIALS ONLY
E? T L INTELLIGENCE
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
.ll CT" The Paulus A y
QUA -I -h U IVI
D ST. 1 tea r 1947
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L. The Free Germany .Arm of General Paulus, which is roported to be par ed,
is organized into Infantry, artillery, engineer,, com xnication, . _. tank
units as well as,other kinds of units, and the coriend thrangho .2 is hold
by tern officers sander a loose form of "Soviet supervi .on. In c ~utrast
'with the German prisoners still in Soviet labor c mps,, the iembai of
this arm are excellently equipped, provisioned, and paid. On P;i g
the arm, it Is reported,, all soldiers are tattooed of . the breast 4tnd
thigh with the .letters "F ?.D." Around one sleeve of their unifor: they
,-ar a black, white, end red bad anal on the other the Soviet it 2 The main dy of the ar r is concentrated around Kiev.
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pda,a the na body
of the Free German Army in the USSR is centered art) or . i and. -,bat in
addition to this group there are. In Kiev and in other areas of
Russia other German units collected together in work battalions, -;ta,panies,
etc
This document contains ='ormation
-- affecting the national def ;e of the
Dr)( ass United States within the, and .ping of
the the Espionnge Act 50, U;c. . 31 and
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Cb 32 as amended. Is ~transm" pion or 41 cxtr 77 the revelation of its contc s in any
Autn: D~~;.. ?r.'r~L ~3 manner to an unauthorized p - 1son is
-~~ -r-- prohibited by law.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/11/01: CIA-RDP82-00457R000900210008-5
 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/11/01: CIA-RDP82-00457R000900210008-5
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/11/01: CIA-RDP82-00457R000900210008-5