Personal Life of Walter Oesau & Other Questions

[Red Baroness]

So how do you expect anyone to write biographies on people? Magic book-writing fairies?

Believe me, once I can get more information from the family, I won't be asking so many questions on here - the problem is that a vast majority of the family does not want to talk about their esteemed relative, and that makes it even harder.

I'm not whining here, I'm simply stating a fact. If one wants to write a book about someone, one should use all the resources that one has - including forums, libraries, etc.

I mean the late Oberst Oesau no disrespect at ALL, quite the contrary. I think it is time that a biography be written on him, and come Hell or high water, I'm going to do it.

My husband wants me to concentrate on the living Luftwaffe, and I can see his point - it is important to preserve history, and getting it live is the best - but if the person you want to write on is deceased, then you do what you need to do. I want to preserve and honor his memory and the history. Not to disgrace or disrespect in the least bit!

I have collaborated on Napoleonic history before; I understand what research and all that wonderfully fun (this is not sarcasm. I LOVE studying) digging, searching and finding can entail, and I am willing to do it. I'm even re-learning a foreign language so I can do so.

Now how does it look to new forum members, who come in looking for information, when der Alte treat them in such a manner? Perseus - and I - were looking for information, nothing more. Again, this is NOT meant as disrespect for the memory of the man, but a thirst for knowledge, and the full disclosure. If I was dead, and perhaps as famous, I would want the same treatment - full disclosure. And I would make sure that my family would know that.

It is mentioned elsewhere that Oberst Oesau wrote an autobiography - I am also trying to get information on that, so that perhaps it might be translated in the future.

It is extremely important that history is preserved, and that the true story is told so that we may know, in time, the truth, and be better informed of what is truth and what is conjecture.