Researching history of Finnish Lotta units in Reval, 1944

[Larry deZeng]

Kari L. -

The information regarding volunteers came from:

Köhler, Karl, “Der Einsatz der Luftwaffe im Bereich der Heeresgruppe Nord von Ende Juni bis Mitte Oktober 1944”, in Meier-Welcker, Hans (ed.), Abwehrkämpfe am Nordflügel der Ostfront 1944- 1945 (Stuttgart, 1963).

I believe the author said "..........volunteers, mostly Estonian." However, since I already knew about the Finnish service women being in Tallinn, I incorrectly assumed that they were the others. I agree that the Lotta women did not belong to the German Luftwaffe and I never thought that was the case, but they most likely were attached to the Luftwaffe operationally and possibly for rations and accommodations.

We will leave it to "researcher" to read through the 44-page KTB handwritten in Finnish to get to the bottom of it all. I hope "researcher" can read the language, because I sure can't! Finnish and Hungarian are impenetrable to outsiders.

L.

P.S. the Abt.-Kommandeur of Flugmelde-Abteilung z.b.V. 12 in 1943-44 was Obstlt. Karl Krügel.