research - Lw. quarter master lists

[Larry deZeng]

Two P.P.S.s to Andreas' P.S.

First, it appears from the Verteiler-Liste that L.P. (Luftwaffenpersonalamt) received 5 copies in all. The Luftwaffenpersonalamt had all of their documents dated after early October 1944 with them when they evacuated Berlin for South Germany and handed them all over to the Allies in June 1945. These amounted to about 160 tons of documents and they were all transported to the Captured Documents Library on Monck Street, London, during fall 1945. This cache of treasure was all catalogued there, but the 1944 Gen.Qu. Verlustmeldungen were not part of the loot. This is all documented in British Air Ministry A.I.12/USAFE reports for 1945-46 available at AFHRA Maxwell AFB, Montgomery/Alabama. So, 5 copies but not one of them survived? All 5 were destroyed, lost or stolen? That seems hard to believe.

Secondly, the so-called Special Archive in Moscow that Andreas referred indirectly to does indeed hold a lot of unprocessed and uncatalogued captured German documents with the estimated amount ranging from 80 cubic feet, to "shelf after shelf", to "hundreds of boxes". The director of the Special Archive has been quoted as saying that the Luftwaffe material isw "of little value", and that's why the Archive has not made resources available to catalog it. MGFA in Potsdam (formerly in Freiburg) tried making funds and personnel available to microfilm and catalog the documents but the negotiations fell through. That was about 10 years ago.

L.