Looking for abstracts to von Rohden collection at NARS in the 1960's

[Larry deZeng]

For those with a continuing interest in the von Rohden Collection.


“In response to a request made by General Spaatz before his retirement, the United States Air Force is presenting to the Library of Congress a complete set of the group of documents in the Air University Libraries which takes its name from Generalmajor Hans Detlef Herhudt von Rohden, who in the final years of the late war served as director of the so-called Wehrwissenschaftliche Abteilung (equivalent to “historical section” in U.S. terminology) of the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe. The total collection will consist of 124 reels of 35-mm. microfilm, but of these only 56 have thus far been received. Though the remaining 68 reels are still being used for official purposes by the Army Historical Office, plans are being made to assure that a copy of these (which contain some 54,400 documents of the high command of the German Air Force and aircraft industry) will also come to the Library.”

[Source: the above comes from an in-house USAF or NARA publication of unknown title or date that contains a 9-column article in 6 pages (pp.44-49) entitled, “The Von Rohden Collection”. I was given a photocopy of these pages by either George Wagner or John Taylor of the Modern Military Branch in 10W of the NARA building on 8th and Pennsylvania Ave., WashDC, on 15 August 1985.

This article, together with the published title cited below, provide an exquisitely detailed account of the von Rohden Collection from its inception to the late 1950’s or early 1960’s:

Homze, Edward L. German Military Aviation: A Guide to the Literature. New York: Garland, 1984. Volume 2 in Garland Reference Library of Social Science. 193 pages.

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