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Re: research - Lw. quarter master lists
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WIth regards to the lost 1944 material loss record - my hope is that we will still see these eventually. The reason being that there are still uncataloged items even at the BA/MA in Freiburg - and also in other locations around the globe.
This holy grail of Luftwaffe loss record research was not made out in one single copy - if you look at the Verteiler for these listings for January 2nd 1944 - the last known date available to the public from the archives - it has the following copies:
1. Reichsmarschall
2. Statssekr.d.Luftf.u.Gen.Insp.d.Lw & Generalluftzeugmeister
3. Lw.Führungsstab Ia
4. - 6. L.P. Chefabteilung
7. - 8. L.P. I/IV
9. Gen.d.Fliegerausbildung
10. Chef Nachschub d.Lw. (2.Abt)
11. Genst.Gen.Qu.6.Abt.(III)
12. - 13. Genst.Gen.Qu.6.Abt.(V)
14. Entwurf
My assumption is that for some of these units, these reports would be interspersed inbetween other daily reports made out to the different parts of the central command structure - that is how we have found other information while researching amongst other sources the Von Rohden collection.
Most of these units were of course in Berlin - and we have reports that enormous amounts of documents are still in untouched state in the former Soviet Union. My source for this being researchers of the Holocaust allowed to research archives in the Soviet Union in the early 2000s when they themselves opened sealed document bags brought out of Berlin and unopened after that.
So there is still hope that someday they will resurface. It is only probably 5 - 10000 pages in total we are talking about. Not a large amount of paper when compared to the lorry loads that were seized by the different allied armies.
Regards,
Andreas B
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Ahhh... but I have seen the holy grail! And it is painted RLM 76 all over with a large Mickey Mouse on the side, there is a familiar pilot in front of it and it has an Erla Haube!
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