Reinhard Heydrich air victories?

[Brian Bines]

While authors should make every effort to be accurate let us not forget that official records are not always right. For example while looking at the Luft.QM's lists for Do215 losses these show the loss of Oblt. Plotzius' crew on 23-7-41 in LW+AS wn. 0048, a later report has exactly the same crew on the same day in L2+AB wn 0011 as far as I could see no correction note. In the Steinbock attack the RAF report gives the w.n. of a crashed-landed at He177 Hindhead Surrey but a luftwaffe report shows the same w.n. as crashing in France following technical problems. When 'K' reports were released in the USA several authors, in good faith, stated aircraft of EinsatzSt/JG104 flew on Bodenplatte which later documents shows to be mis-information by the JG54 pilot taken POW. A recent television programe about the shooting down of an RAF ace implies the whole truth may not have been put down in the reports following his return to the UK, possible friendly fire incident ? The other things with official reports is that some are written in a protective manner to avoid the writer spending some time in the Con.Camp or Gulag, and others are written for propaganda.
One wonders what future historians will make of the Official Reports stating Iraq had weapons of mass destuction and the post invasion reports saying apparantly they did'nt, which ones will surface first.