Generalleutnant Karl Koller in July 1944

[Tango Echo Dog]

Larry
Many thanks for your help with a very complex situation.
I suspect that the time-line is this;
20 July Koller with Luftflotte 3
22 or 24 July Korten dies and Koller returns
25 July-2 August Koller is acting chief-of-staff but Goering is in real control (Hitler still recovering so could not counter-balance him). This would partly explain why Fliegerkorps IV (so-called strategic bombing command) was withdrawn (Koller was supporter, Goering was not and fuel shortages provide perfect explanation)
2 August Kreipe appointed
31 August Oberst Eckhard Christian becomes new head of operations and Koller pushed into Fueher's Reserve.
Incidentally, checking Bergstroem's Russian-front book Bagration to Berlin Appendix 1, I was surprised to see the He 177s of KG 1 were not under Meister's Fliegerkorps Iv but under Greim's Luftflotte 6. As the British comedian Max Miller used to obser :"Now, there's a funny thing."
Tango Echo Dog

[Larry deZeng]

T.E.D. -

Your time-line seems reasonable and likely. It would be interesting to investigate this further and see what Koller said in his diary and in the postwar interrogations. There are a lot of S.I.R. transcripts with K. as a participant, and the events of July 20th and the aftermath was one of favorite subjects for discussion while the leading Generale and Obersten were the guests of His Majesty's government between 1945 and 1948.

L.