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eBay: German intrest - Movdment of EdWest2 Posting
Monday morning USA Central Time. This reader is dismayed and badly disappointed at the movement of EdWest2's initial posting on ca. 25 August of about a dozen superb eBay.de photo offerings. These photos were almost exclusively high quality images of 1930s vintage German aircraft in civil registrations.[
My concern is the derangement of Ed West and TOCH'a long-ime practice of placing such images in the "German Interest" section. That is where they properly belong. Here's why:
(1) German aircraft of the 1930s often served with the Luftwaffe past 1939 and into the war. Thus many prewar types should also be considered as authentic W.W. II equipment belonging under "German Interest."
(2) All of us know that there was a large "black Luftwaffe" operating prewar types long before 1939. These aircraft bore civil registrations and were intentionally indistinguishable from "real" civilian aircraft.
(3) I am deeply involved in identifying and catloging German[/size][/font]
[font=Book Antiqua][size=4]aircraft registrations, SKZs, and codes. This large class of nformation properly extends on many aircraft types from the 1930s until 1945.
The movement of EdWest's posting referred to above responded to a superficial logic that prewar types belong under a "prewar" heading. [b]Understandable but utterly destructive to TOCH's traditional photo posting policy. The images in question should have remained as Ed West initially posted them.
Those in our community who welcome Ed West's photos under German Interest" know that that is where they should look for their images of interest.
As a result of the movement of the above images, much valuable research data in the photos was lost. I hope that Ed West can recover at least some of it. The registrations hat I saw were new to me; now they appear to be lost.
I do not want to hurt any feelings here, but I'm obliged to speak up. Leave Ed West alone and allow him to follow his raditional excellent judgment about where to place the photos he finds. They have been, and are, a priceless treasure for study of ALL of the Luftwaffe's history. Relevant photo findings should remain under "German Interest," because that interest cuts across the 1930s as well as the 1940s.
Rabe Anton
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