Lft.Kdo.6 - 3 Mai 45 - What do you read?

[O.Menu]

Hi,
An English traduction from this "Structure and deployment of Lft.Kdo.6 Units" had been published inside "Luftwaffe over Czech Territory 1945".
The original document is reproduced inside JG 300 Vol.2 from J.Y.Lorant (i have the French ed.) and at the end of this last one there is an handwritten text about J.G.2 which is hard to read and understand and that is not reproduced in the English version.


Thanks for help...

[Rasmussen]

I would translate the text in the following form:

"JG 2 im Protektorat zuletzt
Verlegebefehl nach Erding lag vor
Bodenpersonal im bayer. Wald zuletzt"

in Englisch:

"JG 2 last position Protektorat
transfer order to Erding existed
last position of ground personal Bavarian Wood"

With the blue word I'm not sure but if I read the other text it's the best possibility.

Best wishes
Rasmussen

[sveahk]

IMO it reads like this - in German:

JG 2 in Protektorat geplatzt
Verlegsbefehl nach Erding lag vor
Bodenpersonal in bespr. Wald geplatzt

So, does this make sense? The middle sentence is easy:
Order to move to Erding submitted

Now, geplatzt (if that's the word) means broken, burst, explode even.
That's then obviously what happened in the Protektorat(?) to the JG 2,
and likewise to the ground personnel in some forest(?).

Well, that is as far as I can go with these sentences, perhaps somebody else find the correct meaning of it all.

Greetings
Hans Krensler

[sveahk]

Well, I see Rasmussen was faster!
I agree with the Bavarian Wood, and "zuletzt" makes more sense, it just doesn't look like a "zu" to me...
Anyway, you're probably right!

Greetings
Hans

[Nick Beale]

I'm not sure that it's "zuletzt" or "geplatzt" because in the handwriting of the time a "z" usually descends below the line. Also, look at the descending "s" in "Restteile KG 51" in the line above.

On the other hand, you do have several typed "zuletzt" in other parts of the document, so it would be consistent.

I did wonder (I certainly wouldn't swear to it!) if the word could be "gestartet" in which case the note is telling that the units in question are en route to Erding and the Bavarian Forest.

Otherwise, it's back to the dictionary for alternatives

[Nick Beale]

What about "geplant" (planned)?

[Jean-Yves Lorant]

Hi guys,

I read cleary "geplatzt", a german equivalent for "disbanded".

All the best

Jean-Yves Lorant