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From: "Joe Everett" <>
Subject: FW: Re: German Military Records
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:30:04 -0600


Sonja Nishimoto, at the Family History Library, sent this helpful response:


>From: "Sonja Nishimoto" <>
>To: "Joe Everett" <>
>Subject: Re: German Military Records
>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:25:33 -0600
>
>Joe, there are 2 emails for Prussian military archives that I recorded in
>my
>notes yesterday.
>THis information was from Ernie THode in an article he wrote in the
>Palatine
>newsletter.
>
>Deutsches Bundesarchiv Militaerarchiv
>Postfach
>D-79024 Freiburg
>Email militaerarchiv @barch.bund.de
>www.bundesarchiv.de/aufgaben_organisation/diestorte/freiburg
>
>and
>Militarisches Zwischenarchiv
>Zeppelinstr. 127
>14471 Potsdam
>
>www.mgfa-potsdam.de
>
>Maybe this will help you?
>
> >>> "Joe Everett" <> 6/20/06 8:20 AM >>>
>
>In an article in German Life in April/May 2006, James M. Beidler wrote
>about
>German military records. He stated that the biggest problem with these
>records is that an air raid resulted in many of them being burned,
>including
>personnel rosters and card indexes of the Prussian Army, the transition
>army, the Reichsweher, and the Imperial Navy. Mr. Beidler indicated that
>some records survived, but are difficult to find unless you know the
>regiment. My question is, to what extent did these records survive? How
>much of them were actually burned? Are we talking 90% or 50% or what?
>Does
>anyone in this group happen to know?
>
>Joe Everett
>Mapleton, UT
>
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