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Originally Posted by POLSA230
Larry.
I read with interest Details concerning Oberursel can be found in British Air Ministry interrogation reports ADI(K) 475/44 (8 pages) and ADI(K) 328/45 (27 pages).
Can you advise me if within these records all prisoners interrogations will be found. I am seeking that of F/Lt Zuromski who was in Dulag Luft Aug Sept 1943
I look forward to your thoughts.
Thank you.
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Over the past 12 years, there have been many, many discussions on internet forums about Auswertestelle West Oberursel. I have not read all of them, but as I recall the Luftwaffe interrogation records from there did survive the war. They were scooped up by AirMin/A.I.12 advance enemy document teams and whisked away and sequestered by the Allied intelligence community. Today these records reside in London and Washington but are closed to the public IAW the various Privacy Act laws of the U.K. and U.S. And rightly so. Can you imagine how embarrassing it would have been if a newspaper had gained access to these interrogations and revealed that so-and-so had been shot down, captured and taken to Oberursel where inside of three days he gave the Germans 50 pages of details about his squadron, group and air division? The individual would be labeled a traitor in his home town, his family's name smeared for all time and the guy's postwar career ruined.
As I understand it, sometimes individual records can be seen by filing a Freedom of Information Act request. If the individual is deceased, which is usually the case after the passage of 64 years, all or portions on the file can be released, albeit after heavy redacting. The requesting individual must document his or her need to see the file.