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RE: KM records at Tambach Castle - Source Citation
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Trident Research
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Date: December 17, 2000 11:57PM
<HTML>Lawrence;
Perhaps the following will assist you in ferreting out the specifics of the discovery of the Tambach Castle seizures:
Source: \"The Game of the Foxes, The Untold Story of German Espionage in the United States and Great Britain During World War II\", by Ladislas Farago. published by David McKay Company, Inc., New York - 1971. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-179352. \"Introduction: How the Abwehr Papers Were Lost and Found\", pp. xi - xv. Partial excerpt as follows:
\"During the final weeks of the warin 1945, the badly mauled German roads were cluttered with convoys of trucks carrying the Archives of the Foreign Ministry, the Wehrmacht High Command, Himmler\'s organizations and other key agencies, in a race to outdistance the rapidly advancing Anglo-American forces. It was a futile attempt. On April 19, units of the First US Army discovered more than 300 tons of Foreign Ministry documents with inumerable copies of Abwehr papers among them. Shortly afterward, other archives were found in Bavaria, all intact. Still in April, at Tammbach, advance elements of General Patton\'s Third Army captured a convoy carrying the entire historical record of the German Admiralty, including the original of its super-secret war diaries and the logs of U-Boats.
Orders to destroy the secret archives had been issued on April 10, and among the papers then burned were those of the Wehrmacht-Fuehrungs-Stab of General Jodl, the Gestapo archives in the Prinz Albrecht Starasse, and the files of the Abwehr in Zossen. But in most cases the orders were either disregarded or carried out so slowly that when the American, British and French units arrived at the Nazi hideouts, they found that only a fraction of the files had been destroyed. Although many key documents were missing in one or another place, they were not obliterated alltogether...\"
For further details regarding the Tammbach records, I would refer you to the numerous recent archived material available within the US Department of State web publications in reference to the recent Holocaust studies. Many of the finding aids contain detailed mention of the exact military units which were responsible for the seizure of key documents, at Tammbach and elsewhere. Hope that this was of some help.
Edward Michaud
Trident Research & Recovery, Inc.
Lawrence wrote:
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Does anybody have any specifics on the siezure of the KM records at Tambach Castle? I have some of the basics but want to find out which exact Marines unit took them, whenexactly, whether they knew they were there and if their was resistance.
Thanks
Lawrence</HTML>
Perhaps the following will assist you in ferreting out the specifics of the discovery of the Tambach Castle seizures:
Source: \"The Game of the Foxes, The Untold Story of German Espionage in the United States and Great Britain During World War II\", by Ladislas Farago. published by David McKay Company, Inc., New York - 1971. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-179352. \"Introduction: How the Abwehr Papers Were Lost and Found\", pp. xi - xv. Partial excerpt as follows:
\"During the final weeks of the warin 1945, the badly mauled German roads were cluttered with convoys of trucks carrying the Archives of the Foreign Ministry, the Wehrmacht High Command, Himmler\'s organizations and other key agencies, in a race to outdistance the rapidly advancing Anglo-American forces. It was a futile attempt. On April 19, units of the First US Army discovered more than 300 tons of Foreign Ministry documents with inumerable copies of Abwehr papers among them. Shortly afterward, other archives were found in Bavaria, all intact. Still in April, at Tammbach, advance elements of General Patton\'s Third Army captured a convoy carrying the entire historical record of the German Admiralty, including the original of its super-secret war diaries and the logs of U-Boats.
Orders to destroy the secret archives had been issued on April 10, and among the papers then burned were those of the Wehrmacht-Fuehrungs-Stab of General Jodl, the Gestapo archives in the Prinz Albrecht Starasse, and the files of the Abwehr in Zossen. But in most cases the orders were either disregarded or carried out so slowly that when the American, British and French units arrived at the Nazi hideouts, they found that only a fraction of the files had been destroyed. Although many key documents were missing in one or another place, they were not obliterated alltogether...\"
For further details regarding the Tammbach records, I would refer you to the numerous recent archived material available within the US Department of State web publications in reference to the recent Holocaust studies. Many of the finding aids contain detailed mention of the exact military units which were responsible for the seizure of key documents, at Tammbach and elsewhere. Hope that this was of some help.
Edward Michaud
Trident Research & Recovery, Inc.
Lawrence wrote:
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Does anybody have any specifics on the siezure of the KM records at Tambach Castle? I have some of the basics but want to find out which exact Marines unit took them, whenexactly, whether they knew they were there and if their was resistance.
Thanks
Lawrence</HTML>
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