German docs in TSAMO

[Nick Beale]

Akte 440 in the OKH series of files is unusual. The material dates from September and October 1939 and is a mixture of Army documents and many Luftwaffe items including orders for the establishment of units including new Jagstaffeln, and Kampfgruppe Ju 88 (Greifswald, 21 September 1939).

On 19 September, there is an order to establish two Kampfgeschwader staff and 14 Kampgruppen, along with a list of these and document setting out where they are all based.

The first items on the file deal with air attacks (mainly friendly fire) on German troops in the Polish Campaign.

Akte 580 (in Russian) has plans of the Vienna Flak towers.

Akte 441 deals with the air defence of Romania in 1944 including fighter and Flak dispositions as well as bar charts of of Bf 109 G-6 production.

Akte 845 has maps of Aufkl.Gr. Ob.d.L. reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union in May and June 1944 before Barbarossa.

Akte 270: oblique photos of the Sussex coast taken by 3.(F)/10 on 1 September 1940.

Akte 62 explains all the various organisation symbols used on maps and orders of battle by the army, navy and Luftwaffe (176 pages in all).

[Franek Grabowski]

Have you found anything interesting from your point of view? For me it was a bit disappointing. I wonder how many of the files do exist in other copies in BAMA.

[AndreasB]

Did you come across anything related to North Africa? In particular daily sitreps for October 41 - February 42?

All the best

Andreas

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by AndreasB

Did you come across anything related to North Africa? In particular daily sitreps for October 41 - February 42?

All the best

Andreas

No, but I've only looked at a small part of what's there. Because it's material the USSR captured, the bias seems to be toward the Eastern Front. The daily situation reports for the Western Front (captured in Vienna) go up to just before Barbarossa and include a »Lage Süd« section summarising the campaigns the Italians were engaged in but I haven't seen other African material yet.

[Andy Mitchell]

Don't forget this link http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showth...an+docs+russia

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Andy Mitchell

Don't forget this link http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showth...an+docs+russia

Good call. Two threads now merged into one.

[richdlc]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

Only 46 pages and no German title but there are some interesting items in Дело 290 which seems to relate to German liaison with the Allied and Russian authorities right after the surrender, covering Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and Norway. Two sample pages attached.

Nick - my friendly Russian source tells me that the cover page for these documents is as follows:

The typed text is (line by line):

Documents of German general staff about armed forces of
Germany, received by Major general Trusov
in town Flensburg on 20.05-23.05.1945.
Folder #2
Received from the staff of 1st Bielorussian Front.

Here is the info on Maj-Gen. Trusov

https://generals.dk/general/Trusov/N...iet_Union.html

[egbert]

I was scanning for Lw Flak units, but did not find the source. anybody?

[Andy Mitchell]

Egbert,

Is this what you were looking for Findbuch 12476 - Flakkorps und Flakdivisionen

[Nick Beale]

There's also this one with reference to Seelöwe (but I'm only halfway through the first page of files so far): https://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/...de/grid/zoom/1