German docs in TSAMO - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum

Andrey Kuznetsov · #1 2nd June 2018, 01:45

[quote=Larry deZeng;252735]Nothing after 1940?

Larry, most of the KTBs in the f.500 are about the Polish campaign 1939. It seems the sole "Polish" collection was captured. Almost nothing like this for 1941-45, unfortunately. Few sporadic pieces only.
Luftwaffe reports in the Heeres documents are far more numerous.

Best regards,
Andrey

Larry deZeng · #2 2nd June 2018, 12:56

Nick Beale wrote:

Quote:

I plan to be frozen with instructions to revive me when the 1944 Gen.Qu. loss returns are rediscovered!

Indeed, where could these be? I put my money on the removal of 1944 for study by Allied (probably U.S.) researchers immediately after the war, then misplaced by them and never returned to rejoin the other Verlustmeldungen Leitz binders or files. There is some corroboration for this in:

Eckert, Astrid M. The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives After the Second World War. WashDC: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-107-62920-2. Pb. 427p. Abbreviations. Bibliography (extensive). Index. (Comment: a scholarly masterpiece but awkwardly written.)

L.

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