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Old 17th February 2008, 21:09
Franek Grabowski Franek Grabowski is offline
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Re: Luftwaffe Escape and Evasion

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I am wondering what was the source of Stahlschmidt account, was not it published already during the war?

The account comes from Arnold Stahlschmidt himself and is printed in Hans Ring's and Werner Girbig's Jagdgeschwader 27. The report was written prior to his death which occured on 7 Sep 1942.
But Stahlschmidt was killed before publishing the book, so he could not provide the authors with the account. I recall reading, that he cooperated with some war correspondents or journals, but cannot say if it is true.