[Adriano Baumgartner]

John Vasco,

Firstly thank you for sharing that particular passage and the two pages with us.....

'-About the mentioned Oberleutnant FRIED.
According to the long work (years) of De Zeng, the sole FRIED we do have on his huge list of LW Officers are:
FRIED, ? . 04.41 Lt., a Zugführer in 1. Btr. I./Flak-Rgt. 19 (gem.mot.).
FRIED, Hans-Joachim. (DOB: 25.08.19). c. 10.37 joined the Luftwaffe at Quedlinburg and sent to the FFS A/B
school at Güben followed by the FFS C and BFS courses at Fürth plus a number of additional courses
elsewhere. 03.39 trf to Kü.Fl.Gr. 106 at Kamp. 01.08.39 commissioned Leutnant. 01.41 now in 2./Kü.Fl.Gr.
906. 15.05.41 Lt., 2./Kü.Fl.Gr. 906 WIA - BV 138 C-1 (8L+BK) destroyed in an apparent accident at Hörnum.
10.41 trf to 2./Kü.Fl.Gr. 506? 01.04.42 promo to Oblt. 08.11.42 Oblt. and pilot in a trainee crew from
Kampfschulgeschwader 2 Grosseto, POW in Ju 88 A-4 (VS+HG) shot down into the sea 40 miles E of Algiers
by naval AA-fire while flying an evening torpedo attack on an Allied cruiser [Version#2: 08.11.42 Oblt.,
III./KG 26 MIA/POW - Ju 88 A-4 (VH+GZ) or (VH+OC)? apparently AA hit over the Mediterranean N of
Algiers.].
FRIED, Otto. 12.42 Oblt., appt Offz. beim Stabe in 20. Flak-Div. (to 05.43)

So, NOT one above do matches the description of that supposed Oberleutnant Fried, who flew on a Transport unit and was captured as a POW (she did not inform his unit, when he was captured...nothing more. Her information is from 1940? 1941? 1942? 1943? 1944?). Anyway.....

Second, if a former LW airmen had previously served on other branches of the III Reich, such as the S.A. or the S.S., what they did previously is not related to their Luftwaffe career. They were wearing other uniforms and under other rules, obeying other superiors, etc...so technically this is NOT related to the Luftwaffe itself and most particularly, to the TITTLE of the book this lady is selling (Battle of Britain).

Another good point....Raymond A. Lallemant, DFC; nicknamed "Cheval" was very fond of horses...and on some books (I will try to find the correct passages for adding here later, since they are not at hand now), it is said that he was very sad when he had to fire 20mm ammunition or 60 pounds rockets on the Whermacht troops using horse-drawn vehicles in Normandy (and post-Normandy), because he did not like to kill horses....So, for the British Historian, a German pilot saying the same quotation is a crime...but a RAF airman saying that he did not care with the lives of German soldiers and was more worried with the horses, this is not a crime too?

The mammoth work of this lady is becoming clearer and clearer for me...