Special flight from Hörsching to Barcelona ordereed 30.04.1945

[Chris Going]

Interesting thread. The passengers were to include Hitler, Eva Braun, usw. In the chapter entitled “Műller’s Secrets. The Last Days of Hitler” in Thomas and Ketley ‘KG 200, The Luftwaffe’s Most secret Unit’ [2003], Hikoki, ISBN 1 902109 33 3) pp 162-9 there is reproduced an order (p 166), allegedly originating with Heinrich Műller’s office in Berlin. It is dated 20 April 1945 (not 21 April as the caption states), and lists those who were to accompany the Fűhrer on his ‘sonderreise nach Barcelona’, which was to leave Hőrsching at 20.00 hrs on April 26th 1945. It includes all the usual suspects from the Fűhrerbunker.

In the text on p 167 Werner Baumbach’s copy of the order, unissued, is referred to by T&K as being in Muellers file ‘to this day’ but frustratingly no specific Fond, Piece, RG, stack, area, row, or other Archive citation is given. Anyone know it?

Karoband refers to what, from the pagination, must be the Stacpole Books paperback edition, published in 2015 (ISBN 10-0811716619; ISBN-13 0811716611). It has a slightly different title.

Hőrsching AF was snapped several times between 18th April, when the Ju290 arrived, and C 4 May when the AC departed. Might be worth trawling through the negs and prints to see if it spent any of that time in the open.

Best


Chris