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Re: Looking for Luftwaffe KTB resources for the Polish Campaign
I've been through all the microfilm, including the "missing" von Rohden rolls at the Library of Congress that few people know about, and I do not recall see any unit KTBs. When all of the captured records were removed from Germany between summer 1945 and spring 1946 and taken to the so-called Captured Documents Library on Monck Street in London, they were sorted into two categories by the Air Ministry/USAFE A.I.12 Post-Hostilities team: (1) Technical, and, (2) Administrative. The technical documents were air-freighted to Wright-Pat at Dayton, Ohio, where they were microfilmed. The administrative documents remained in London where those above Geschwader level were largely microfilmed at Monck Street but those below that level were not. The documents that were not microfilmed were turned over to the Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry in 1948 and then returned to the BRD between the late 1960's and 1978. AHB did no microfilming, but some was done by the IWM as most of us know. So, to access unit KTBs, what few survived the war and still exist, it is necessary to use BA-MA Freiburg.
There are a few exceptions, of course, and others can certainly add to this list:
(1) The highly detailed KTB-like account of the Seeflieger units maintained by the General der Luftwaffe beim Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine (L.In. 8) is in NARA T-1022.
(2) The KTB of KG 26 for the Polish Campaign is reproduced as an appendix at the back of Rudi Schmidt's KG 26 unit history book.
(3) ??
L.
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