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Nick Beale wrote:
I contacted Bletchley in 2011 about this and followed in April 2013.
Their reply the first time was: "Regarding the digitisation of the Bletchley Park Archive: HP [Hewlett Packard] very kindly donated a number of scanners and computers to Bletchley Park Trust in order for this digitisation process to occur and we are currently in the process of undertaking work on the accessioning and cataloguing backlog in order to utilise this equipment effectively and link records and images. I am not sure when the first batches will become 'live' however."
On the second occasion: "This project is still in the infancy."
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I made further enquiries last year and was advised:
Unfortunately due to staff shortages we are unable to offer research sessions at present. A new archivist will be in place by the summer and we should be able to offer research sessions after that.
We are working hard on the digitisation project and are currently cleaning the index cards ready for scanning. This is a huge project that will take us some years to complete but we hope to have started scanning the index cards by the end of the year.
In a second e-mail trying to establish the extent of what they might have Luftwaffe related, I was advised:
We do have three collections of index cards relating to the German Air Force amounting to around 1000 cards.
I don't know anything more about their content at present. I do hope that helps and please do contact us in the future to arrange a research session.
Seems slim pickings but worth a look. I'll see if a summer jaunt is on at some point.