RAIL SHIPMENTS OF SOVIET TROOPS AND SUPPLY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012000280007-5
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Rail Minrioni.J.; of SnviM-. Tyytnnp mn0 Srmo-1117
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EVALUATION ._"11T.L._ PUTE OBTAINED
DATE OF CONTFNT"
n 7Pll Arril
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DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES._
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REPORT NO.?
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a- trocr) train I Iarrivcd at 'rjuensdorfl ano.
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6110 troop trains rospectively in 1:or3t 25x 1
Zinna on 24 Larch 19520 lho trains cane froa an unknown diroction, (1)
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2. .,:mpty colvertod boxcars which
1h c been dispatched from the Lichtenberg railroad
station included: 8 cars to )hrdruf, anf: 5 cars to.:Ieuruppin on 22 :arch; 6 care
Ileurupg:Ln on 24 :7arc1i; and 35 cr.r6 to l'ort Zinla on 27 :arch.
3. Tho for.cming. Soviet troon trainr Ilero
district batmen 3 1-arch and 10 April:
Date
8 Ilarch
Comnosition of
Troo'n-Trains
9 SS-typo flatcars
with tanks and 16
flatcars with
trucks
16 larch 4 SS-type flatcars
uith tanks and
1 flatcar with
radio trucks
2 April
6 SS-type flatcars
with tanks and
11 flatcars and
boxcars with trucks
and soldiers
2 3L-ty:20 flatcarsp
each escorts by
10 soldiers
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Dis2atching
Station
Luebbon;
3ohwegaitz
TalLebben
Cottbus
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the Cottbus railroaC
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Reccivinr:
Station
7:eissuassor
Cottbus
,olsewassor
',bloswasser
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Date Connosition of
Troon rains
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DiDatchinz
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10 Aprdl 6 SS-type flatcars with Cottbus
tanks
UI
truck
and 1 flatcar with
4Q Soviet troop trains and sup -.1y shipments in
railroad district between 9 March and 11 April included:
*./occivin
Station
Weisswaser
Date
Comnosition
otTiains
9 Uarch 36 ears
12 Larch 94 flatcars and
3 SS-type flatcars
21 Larch 84 axles
24 ?larch 11 boxcars and
46 flatcars
26 Larch 15 boxcars
27 7:.?arch
1 April
April
7 April
9 April
11 Aeril
5 boxcars and
20 flatcars
16 boxcarsp
10 flatcars and
2 334ype flatcars
114 axles
23 cars
14 boxcars and
24 flatcars
6 flatcars with
trucks without
bodies
4 boxcars with
soldiers and
5 flatcars -lith
6 Aft_ guns
From
To
fr.W.1110.50
Koonisbrueck liooderau
Koent7;sbrueck:
Semennitz
eimar
Ft-oterualde;
Schwepnitz
Sc:Iwopnitz
Chemnitz
Kroepolin
Riese
Fuerstenbarp
Toltow
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Rueckmarsdorf (4)-
Grinna
Koonizsbrueck
, Koonigsbrueck Ohrdruf
5,, Two trop trains of 30 cars each
respecbively,, which went from Jeurtr,On to Forst
in tho records of t:Ic 3or1in district
6, Troops practiced loadinf; 40 cars at t )allgow-DoeborUz railroad strtion froin
a,m, to 6 pm. on 9 ril
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Cottbus
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aoimar
direction of Grunow
Falkonberp7
Anna
on Lpril,
woro listed
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7. Following are excerpts fron teletype nessaces sent
Office of the 13erlin railroad district:
At 3 an Anra, T170 convortend boxcarn and n.
side-walls? and praction shuttle-train had to
the :Lildparl: railroad st;ation,, (10)
At 6 a orL, on L. Jor10 TWO con/art:3d boxcars and 13 flatcars -3ith hinged
sloe-vial-Is, a cars caoable o. lon: distance runs, 1-Lad to r!..)e ;lade
available at the JueterLog railroad station.
On 3 Anril. Oars to bo assembled with priority for loadirrs of the SCC
incltdearS boxcars and 27 flatcars at the :`,.ranienburg railroad station;
25 flatcars at the ,:enno.F..orf railroad station; and 10 33Y-typo flatcaro
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of tank shuttle-trainl land 23 35Y-typa flatcars of tank shuttle-train
at the 1-3randenbur:,-Altstadt railroad station (11)
Durin the night, of 23 April Of a troop train
TIT Cars iieFo-die3iiiitaiM173-Ti-eterbollteo Lager and. 19 cam to Trebbi,no
The train came probably from Erfin't.
by- the 3d Subdistrict
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be node availale at 25X1
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At 7 a.m, on 1 kor" e ---..,,on7rerted boxcars and 15 35Z-type flatcars of
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gODoeboritz railroad station.
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80 According to the 6th ,..)-4.1.orlistrict Office of the Lerlin
railroad distract, flatcars acd converted boxca.rs which !lad to be assembled
at the followin7 railroad stations for Vd:. loading of troops included:
27 flatcars at Jour-11;3pin on 11 1,:pri1; 27 flatcars at I3e.rnau on 13 April;
and from 11 to 15 April, 25 13(y:care at rranenblzi-,.-Altstacit; 23 boxcars at
Ileu-unpin; 1 boxcar at 7,!oopchin.,; 2 boxcars at Ltrausber::; 5 boxcars at
Boman; 3 boxcars at Rathenaord; 30 boxcars at jallgoDoeberitz; 12
box7.ars at !.atzkorri; and 7 boxcars at ::-achsenhausen,, (13)
The following numbers of oLcd. iii1itryllorsonnel -tvore obsorved aboard leave
trains in Frankfurt/Oder betwe:.-,n 7 and 9 :17)rii:
.Date
7 1,7,ril
8 1,pril
9 A7rii
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(1)) C o o ler sources, tlle troop train
Ciame from Bleichorode, the one
and thon9
(2)he data on troop trains between 'Webber" or Cottbus and 7.'cisawasser generally
confirm observations by other sources who stated that snafl tank units of the
9th Liocz Div continuouon,arrivi,:-; at ei a-VI a S .;e.x? for practice firing?
.1 Con toction liath the troop train ml (1.; :.:arch
belolv,s to the 692d How Arty Rent of the 9th I.:0oz Div which is s atione,
f.n Cottbus. As the train car7.-led nine tarikz;, '8)(1
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To 'Lrest 7,itorsk FroM, Brost Litov;k
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250 and 260
270 and 270
260 and 25C)
240 and 250
260 and 270
253 and 240
from Neuruppin.
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from Jranienllurt,?
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(3 )coraporiontr:: of the 4trsz taas AA Yhr 17,701'0 1.12110e, dad at the I:roe1in ir
lailroad stations on 14 Larch l952,
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mentioned in parapraph 4 of the ?resent ro-2ort confims the 263d
the 1.4.th Gds AAA Div in I:oeni::::sioneck until 32 :.!arch 1952.
(4.)7the -troop trains from Schwepnitm probably carried components of the 8th Gds
tem Div and the 9th Tank Div which returned after a period of practice
firt g with live .arz-aunition at foeni.,7nbrue ek
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(5)Compare with the same observations by other sources0
(61 I 0 511:371:1 dOpOt at Teltow 0
.7)Gonpare with the report by another source on the loadinL; of a compoaont of
the 6th Cri Gda AA', Div from Chemnitz to i',oenif.,,sbrueck on 31 1:arch 19520
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(8)Probably the unidentified unit uAich moved from phrdruf to Koenicsbrneck on
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rel. 1252 and returneC, to Ohrdruf on the train on 5 April 1952,
(9)The troop trait
coureo bservations
on the bra in
T.Fos 2roviously observed by other
reported frof; Brand indicate that an AAA unit .las loaded
mentioned in pararaph 4 of
the present report in conjuction nith the receivin7 station of the above troop
train belons to the OATB of the unidentified bomb,ar re'.;i:ent at )rarid
(10)The cars which had to be asenbled at the 711d.oark railroad station on 4 April 19)2
ware probably used for the loading of a component of the unidentified artillery
divisioa from l'otsdan on 6 April 1252?1 I.
(1l)he 7onaiL7sdorf railroad statioa is situated. near Velton, Possibly -components of
the 31st AAA Div from Schoenualde wore to be loaded on these 25 flatcarso
Probably elements of the 63d Gds Tank Itegt of the lath Gds Tank Div. from Brandonbui; were to be loaded at arandenbur-Altstadt on the ,W1-type flatcars vith the
Lotslinf!t heath as their possible destinationo
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(13)Gompare with the staternnt in paragraph 5 of the present reportl the inforation
on 27 flatcars to bo assembled at :ieuruppin for the loading of tro4ps on
11 April 19520
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