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Re: Looking for abstracts to von Rohden collection at NARS in the 1960's
At the great risk of appearing immodest in this world of pious modesty that we all live in today, I am the researcher who "discovered" the missing DLC (Library of Congress) von Rohden reels way back in 1988-89. I made use of them then and they were again used a few years later by Dr Richard R. Muller, Professor of Military History and Dean of Academics, USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. And David Isby is correct: the DLC collection consists of fewer reels than do the NARA and AFHRA collections, but 7 or 8 of them are different and not duplicated in the other collections. The DLC reels are in the Microfilm Reading Room, of course.
I might add that rumors were rampant back in the 1980's and 1990's that many more von Rohden reels along with abundant other Luftwaffe documentation were stored in long-forgotten crates and boxes in a DLC warehouse in Landover, Maryland. I and several others wrote inquiries to DLC asking for confirmation but their response was essentially evasion and denial. According to some, the warehouse is poorly organized, so poorly that DLC has no real idea of what is there. Crates and boxes are piled high on top of one another and some of those on the bottom have been there and unopened for 50 or 60 years.
That's the story to date as I know it.
L.
Last edited by Larry deZeng; 30th December 2013 at 15:16.
Reason: minor correction
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