Luftwaffe Historical Section, US Interrogations 1945.
An archivist friend @USNatArchives advised of some interrogation files that had not yet been released and would I be interested in seeing them in the stacks.
Luftwaffe Historical Section. Subsequently, these reports were re-classified under Seventh Army Interrogations labels. Karl Mittman was the section’s deputy under Generalmajor Herhudt von Rohden. He gave an interesting account of how the Luftwaffe historical branch operated.
Luftwaffe Historical Section. Paragraph h: has been most difficult for historians to overcome. The deliberate destruction of Luftwaffe records in 1945 was not unusual. Interesting how Mattman offered tips to the US army to reconstruct the materials.
Luftwaffe Historical Section. The von Rohden collection, the fifty cases in the report, arrived in America, but most were returned to the Bundesarchiv. Some documents have since found their way to the Bundesarchiv and in particular pilot logs and diaries
http://www.maparchive.ru/nara-doc/luftwaffe/T971.pdf
Luftwaffe Historical Section. The Wehrmacht was not the only office writing the history of the war as it progressed. The US Army was writing about the siege of Aachen as the fighting progressed. They were compiling select reports for the final study.
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