SOVIET TROOPS AT THE OHRDRUF TROOP TRAINING GROUNDS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2006
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• Publication Date: November 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC 3ov et Trop s at the OHWflRUF Troop Tratninr Grounds
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27 S Aber 1949
25X11.- The following observations were made in the CRAWINKEL
(14 51/J 14) area:
a. Restricted area west of CHA INKEL:
liosnital unit with about 100 sick soldiers;
b= Restricted area to the west :
(1) AA ;run emplacement j located about 500 feet north of
where the CRAW INKEL - 01IRDRUF (l, 51/J 15) roads and the
CPAV4INKEL railroad station - WOEL 'IS (14 51/J 15) road cross..
The 76.2-mm AA guns were emplaced there, with the crew
Bunkers located. beside the guns . A Born land bunker had been
constructed on 11111 446, with telephone wires diverging; In
several directions,
(2) Fuel dump located in a depression south of the men-
25X1 tioned crossroads.. About 30 tank trucks were seen there.:
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(3) Cantonment and motor vehicle park. Six cantonment
buildings, one utilities building and about 20 trucks
25X1 seen there.
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COLASSIFICATI(M :'~':cnz
d. .t'a.n'1c arking lot at Hill 436:
nrnoro s ennva. M ov red tanks were cb served. I
Director of Central intelligence to
Archivist of the United States. 4~ 1
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e. Ammunition due south of the hii~hmay runnin^r elon- the
base of 11 436:
Ammunition from six sheds was observec to be loaded on 15
25X1 trucks
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infantry and motorcycle troops held firing practices in the
training area near CTLAO DMEL. the practice, involving
about 80 troops, was directed from three small armored
vehicles (with rubber tires).
r. Engineer equip.., ::erit dumps about three .milee south of
cHAVINIUL. Save a1 -.grips with pontoons and engineer equip-
ment were observed near a res rvoir located in this area.
A unit of about 50 1;roops was seen practicing at so.-ie
25X1 pontoon-piers.
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h. -Unloodinr of ammunition:
Ammunition boxes were unloaded from six boxcars at the
CRA1VINKEL railroad station on 22 September 1949 and shipped
b- truck to the mentioned ari.:unition dump (Para
Early October 194t
2. a. The troop camps in the OIIhtLRU area were occupied to
capacity by tank, artillery, infantry, motor transport and
engineer units in early October 1949. Most of the. observed.
troon.s were yours The maneuvers conducted here were a:le,:-
edly scheduled to end in mid-October 1949.
b. fro:1 a distance some small infantry units
practicing attack and penetration of enemy positions. The
fa rixi- of heavy mortars rose above the noise of other wea-
pons. Salvos of artillery pieces firing, si;iultaneously were
-eleased.upon the firing of :;round signals. Forty to fifty
T34 tanks were seen to leave for a field exercise.
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3. ..t was learned in September 1049 that the farmers in the
A1'NSTADT tM 51/: 25) area had been crdered to have their
crops harvested by 1 October 1949 because maneuvers would
start then.. No civilian was permitted to leave the i_ouse
after 8 p.m.
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as The report confirms previous observations I
bo The inforiiation that farmers were ordered to have
their fields harvested b-,; 1 October 1949 may be considered
as va-;'uely corroborating! a previous assumption that large-
scale maneuvers extendin^: beyond the troop training :::,rounds
boundaries were schedules after that date.
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