[RodM]

Hi Chris,

this memo is well-known and does not constitute evidence per see. Welter wrote this memo after the war to give to the British Air Ministry team who interrogated him in Schleswig-Holstein.

Welter appears to have made a number of statements to impress his captors, and there is no other evidence to support his statement in the memo that he flew the Me262 at Rechlin-Lärz from the middle of September 1944 onwards. Contemporary documentary evidence still has him flying piston-engined fighters with 10./JG300 at this time, and the weekly Rechlin-Lärz reports contained in BArch RL 36/86 make no mention of any night-time testing of the Me262 or Welter flying the Me262 in September 1944.

I would love to be proven wrong, but have yet to see evidence other than Welter's post-war memo.

Cheers

Rod