[Johannes]

Hi Gabor

Some good work there. Difficult to research him in 1945 as we cannot be absolutely shore what he claimed. I have fourteen claims for him not on the micro films in late November 1944, so cannot be sure about these. In March/April 1945 I found six claims on the KBT papers, but as no times were offered it would be difficult to say one way or another unless he was the only guy claiming that day. I bet his earlier claims as a wingman were honest, but as the Russians were losing so many aircraft at that time it would be a hell of a job to match anything up.

Apparently Maximilian Stotz was very honest/accurate in his claiming until the arrival of Hans "assi" Hahn to his unit, then they were bad, and you see a pronouced difference in his claiming pattern to huge daily claims, yet after Hahn's capture Stotz's claims moderate again........probably not even opportunism, looks like Hahn was a strong bad influence on him, and either he returned to honesty or was unable to fraud because of new company.

Kind Regards

Johannes