TRAINING OF THE SOVIET ZONE POLICE

Created: 8/1/1949

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oticeable transition froa tej&ajnul police training to tnotlcaJ military .training evident in th* Soviet Zone police.

TfHX* are oax tain IndiOQtlone thnt tha Soviet Zone polloe lo increasingly engaged ln military training ln addition to tooh-

nloal polloe training, xbaoo lndloatlono inoludo th* following:

at. th* military training le bom restricted to individualtraining and training mt the loweot unit level. ln monad or platoon strength).

*. It has been reported only onoe that polio* unite of yiO toaen coopw-Uiioviet -iHj uuwssure?

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sealing off and annihilation of airborne enemy foroea) which ild in Saxony in9

e. The training proerae of th* polios aobool* ln the Soviet Zonemauy gives priority to political eoaooling endinfantry training over leohoiesl polloe training.

Pigettug quailties of tbe soviet Zone polloe with regard to ooanltaent outside of Germany.

o. Tn their preoent state of training, the goviet Zone police units are waited for only Halted combat sexvlne outside Ger-many. Although tho emoiBHcy of Cliovidual policeman iu"8T! not bo underoatiaotod, the polloe unito are not yat nuf-flently trained to merit their ooaaltment aa whole unito with doflnlte striking power.

b. By the reoently Dtorted induotlonofrio*ra of theeraen Armed poroee, the Soviet Zone police obviously trieo to profit by these otticora' war experience.

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