Originally Posted by Col Bruggy (Post 269878)

Andrew

I have correctly quoted the following:

Soldaten On Fighting, Killing, and Dying The Secret World War II Transcripts of German POWs
Neitzel,Soenke & Harald Welzer
Melbourne:Scribe,2012 (P/B)
p.65 fn.115

(p.362) fn.115 - SRA 828 26 October 1940, TNA, WO 208/4120.

If that is wrong, then so am I.

Col.

Originally Posted by Andrew Arthy (Post 269864)

Hi,

His name was Hubert Greim, not von Greim.

These secret recordings are sometimes a useful source, but at other times the Germans were simply boasting and telling tall tales. We came across this while researching our latest eArticle - the pilot was telling his captured colleagues a series of very unbelievable stories about his Luftwaffe career, which we could find no evidence for in German records (in contrast, his account of being shot down matched exactly with British combat reports).

According to his Flugbuch, Greim never flew any Jabo or strafing raids to England, and he served with the Geschwaderstab and 11. Staffel. Neither of those units were involved in tip-and-run operations, so it seems very likely this is a case of a pilot telling tall tales. However, as Jochen says, there were plenty of terror attacks in 1942 and 1943, so the kind of thing he described certainly did occur (as Luftwaffe Fighter-Bombers Over Britain by Chris Goss details on many occasions).

Hubert Greim passed away last year, on 14 October: https://trauer.sueddeutsche.de/todes...e/hubert-greim

Cheers,
Andrew A.

Originally Posted by Jukka Juutinen (Post 269905)

Wasn't it an American author Michael Gannon who actually first used these records?