Friedrich Rupp, Horst Hannig and Walter Nowotny

[Johannes]

Hi Guys and Teresa

The wives area is certainly another front for information. I have a book on Wolf-Udo Ettel, this is primarily filed with letters to his Mother I think. We are always told 124 victories for him, 121 in Russia and four in the west, but he writes after leaving Russia that he had 118 in Russia, and actually the mikrofilms have 118 for him in Russia!

With Nowotny and Rudorffer, both were making fraudulent claims, Nowotny almost obscenely. Many unpopular top scorers were such regarded, though there are some honest guys like Geißhardt also unpopular, don't know why, perhaps arrogance, I know Rudolf Klemm was not liked, not sure how his claiming was, but he always just looked after himself.

Kind Regards

Johannes