The Luftwaffe collection at the French ECPA-D

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The problem are not the number of photographs already printed and available, but the sheer amount of negatives still to be archived and printed. There are no precise data, but the amount of the German images still to be catalogued and seen has been calculated by several French researchers to be much greater than those already available.

The work on these negatives is still underway (at least I've been told so) and one or two albums are added each year to the collection, but this is apparently a task which has no precedence over the normal routine and maybe it will take (at the present pace) years and years to go through all the German WW2 photographic material preserved by the ECPA.

I've been a few times at the ECPA in the past and cannot but feel sorry for the wonderful things that are still laying in some of their "caves" and which will probably see the light only to be seen by some other generations...