Archives in Germany

[Jaap Woortman]

See for a survey of "Archive in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" http://my.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/darchive.htm
of Andreas Hanacek.
Additions are:
Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte.
Konrad-Adenauer-Str.8
70173 Stuttgart
Postfach 105441
70047 Stuttgart
Phone : 0711/212-4516
Fax : 0711/212-4517
E-mail: bfz@wlb-stuttgart.de
URL : http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/bfz/index.htm
Look for Marinearchiv-Fliegerführer Atlantik.

Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt
Zeppelinstrasse 127/128
14471 Potsdam
Phone : 0331-9714-500
Fax : 0331-9714-507
E-mail: mfga-potsdam@t-online.de
See also: http://www.ahf-muenchen.de/Mitglieder/Institutionen/MilitaergeschForschAmt.htm

Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
Konrad-Adenauer-Str.4
70173 Stuttgart
Phone : 0711/212-4335
Fax : 0711/212-4360
E-mail: Hauptstaatsarchiv@S.lad-bw.de
URL : http://www.lad-bw.de/hstas/index.htm
Kriegsverbrecher-Prozess.

Deutsches Museum
Museumsinsel 1
D-80538 München
Phone :(089) 2179-1
Fax :(089) 2179-324
URL : http://www.deutsches-museum.de
Archive, Sondersammlungen.

Deutsche Dienststelle(WASt)
Eichborndamm 179
D-13403 Berlin
Postfach 510657
D-13400 Berlin
Phone : +49(030) 41904-100
Fax : +49(030) 41904-100
URL : http://www.com-de.pair.com/WASt/index.htm]

Who knows more and their contents?

Jaap

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[Jaap Woortman]

Changes and additions to Archives in Germany.

Bayerische StaatsBibliothek
Ludwigstrasse 16
80539 München
Postal address:
80328 München
Phone : +49-89-28638-0
Fax : +49-89-28638-2200
E-mail: info@bsb.badw-muenchen.de
URL : www.bsb.badw-muenchen.de (http://www.bsb.badw-muenchen.de)
Information A-Z, take G for Gesamtverzeichnis der ausländischen mikroverfilmten Archivalien BSM.

Berlin Document Center is since 1994 part of Bundesarchiv as Abt. R.

Krankenbuchlager Berlin
Wattstrasse 11-13
D-13355 Berlin

Phone: 030-46302-0
Fax : 030-46302-189
URL : [URL=http://www.hinterpommern.de/Genealogie/Archive/berli-krankenbuch.html[/URL]

Not an official site

Jaap


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[Simon Parry]

Dear Jaap,

You requested a bit more detail on WASt material. As I posted elsewhere I obtained via a publisher the losses for all units operating over Britain in January to May 1944. The records supplied were very detailed and listed by unit (Gruppe) and date of loss. Information was supplied in the form of photocopied A-3 sheets with all rubber stamps and signatures. The full details of personnel losses are recorded with details of NOK, date and place of birth, and extent of injuries - place of burial. Details of the aircraft are also given with circumstances / place of loss and target.
Shortly after getting these reports, WASt apparently closed their doors to public and would not release information to researchers.
I now hear that service has been resumed, but believe only transcripts of the reports are given and no personal details other than name rank and number. I have not used this office myself, so hope someone else can tell us how the system ticks today.

Simon

[Alexander W. Hohl]

Dear Jaap,
a department of the Bundesarchivis in Koblenz where you can find pictures. Theses pics are devided in serveral terms like Bf 109, FW 200
or Panzer IV etc.
Although you can find impressive original films of all Propaganda Kompanien (propaganda platoons).
The address:

Bundesarchiv Koblenz
Potzdammer Str. 1
56003 Koblenz
Phone +49(0)261 505-0
Fax +49(0)261 50526

Umfortunaly there isn't any kind of Link
on the web site of the Bundesarchiv directly to Bundesarchiv Koblenz yet.

Alex

[Francis Marshall]

Hi Simon,
with reference to WASt reports, these are indeed available again and I suspect the archive is attempting to streamline their replies. So yes, if you simply ask for some details you will get a reply. I have recently specifically asked for document copies and these were supplied. I gave a specific reason for this, namely that I wanted to see the signatures on the reports.
As before, the birthplace is censored and details of injuries too, but this is acceptable.

[Jaap Woortman]

An other interesting German archive is the Historisches Archiv des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. With an archive about the Reichsluftfahrtministerium. http://www.dlr.de/archiv/

Jaap

[Gordy Alton]

Hello Jaap,
I made a mistake, and re-listed one of your existing messages before I could post to it. Please delete it. (Done, RTE). What I wanted to ask was if the WASt site in Berlin is the one I should be asking for help in the record search I am conduction for the Frankfurt raid of Oct. 4, '43, and happenings in NW Europe in Sept. '43. Something occurred to me, and that is getting in touch with relatives of Luftwaffe pilots involved, if the pilots are deceased. Records may have been kept with families, as well as in Berlin. What are my options by using this LWAG site to facilitate this. I would like to try it through this method, as well as other sources I already am using. I have found English on the German sites.
Any helpful feedback from you would be appreciated. Thanks,
Gordy.


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[Jaap Woortman]

WASt.

To my knowledge the WASt files will give you only information about accidents and crashes during World War II. For finding persons who have survived the war and still are at live or relatives of those persons you can try the telephone guide of Germany. If you are lucky you will be able to locate two or three persons and can send them a letter. An other possibility is, if you know the town were the person is born, send a letter to the "Einwohneramt" for information. It will cost you about $10 till $15 per question and they are allowed by law only the give information to relatives. So this is questionable. A third possibility is write a letter to the Jägerblatt for an announcement or to one of the associations. The last possibility I can think of is find an expert in Holland, Belgium, France or Germany who knows something about the battle of that day. Why not send a letter to a local newspaper or put a question on this board? I know it is difficult but with so many possibilities?

Good luck,

Jaap

[Jaap Woortman]

Dear friends,

Just recently I came across a, for me, new website, "Archive in Nordrhein-Westfalen". URL: www.archive.nrw.de/ (http://www.archive.nrw.de/) The exciting part of it is that it has the possibility of searching under "Recherche".
I tried several possibilities and got several "nice" results. E.g. try "luft" and you will recieve 17 pages of fonds in several archives. One of them was "Luftgaukommando VI" in Stadtarchiv Heiligenhaus. Whom of you would have gone to Heiligenhaus for information about Luftgaukommando VI? Not me.

Jaap



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