[researcher111]

There are some puzzles on why the US Forces which
captured Lipfert along with 7./JG52 and yet
unlike Hartmann they did not turn him the Russians
especially that according my info he was captured
on a soil which according Yalta Conf, would be
under Russian jurisdiction .

To the US Forces he indicated that he was not
a Nazi neither he had any close talks with Hitler and
similar other stuff with which he tried to portray his
innocence during WWII except his flying
aspirations in the Luftwaffe- From recently
declassified NKVD files, they sent numerous reminders
to OSS asking for Lipfert which were declined by the Americans

Questions
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1. Who is the pilot seated left of Hitler along with Lipfert ?

2. On 24.6.1944 at II/JG52 he claimed at 09:20 a B-24 near Stefanesti
though this claim was made by numerous other Luftwaffe and Romanian
pilots while on that day 14 Libs(98, 376, 449 and 450 BG's) were lost
and one more from 459 BG on which there are no records, last which is
of particular interest to me.

3. On what grounds Lipfert was spared POW time and not transf. to the Russians ?

Alex K