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Old 8th January 2015, 15:18
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Re: Attack on Eger/Cheb April 1945

Paul -

It seems to me that there should be numerous intelligence reports on the Eger Flugzeugwerke GmbH and the airfield. If not Air Technical Intelligence A" or "B" reports, then a USSBS report. The Brits and Americans relentlessly investigated the German aviation industry both during and right after the war and it would be inconceivable that they would ignore this firm and the engineers who worked for it. But there is a wrench in the gear box. The expulsion of the ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland began almost immediately after the war ended and then intensified with a vengence as soon as the Potsdam Conference concluded on 26 July 1945. This and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Eger area means that access to the airfield would have been limited to perhaps a 3 month time frame, which might not have been enough for the USSBS investigative team to go to Eger and do their job.

Nevertheless, I believe there is a lot of wartime and postwar intelligence material on both the firm and the airfield. Unfortunately, finding it will be time-consuming and costly. Searching for archival documents usually is.

L.
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