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Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers

THE LAST BATTLE (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966)
German Forces

Box 61

  • Folder 5
    • Berlin districts by Army command (Ts, 1p.),
    • Chronological listing of days and dates (Ts, 2p.; c.2 carbon, 2p.; c.3 carbon, 1p.),
    • Organization of 3rd SS Panzer Corps, Apr 23, 1945 (Ts,carbon, 2p.).
    • In-text captions (Ts carbon, 1p.),
    • List of characters in book by chapter and location (Ts carbon, 2p.; 2 copies).
  • Folder 6
    • Notes on lists of German generals and other military to be contacted (Ts/holo, 34p.).
  • Folder 7
    • Willemer, Wilhelm, "The German Defense of Berlin", OCMH, MS #P- 136 (65p.).

Box 62

  • Folder 1
    • Rocolle, Lt Col, LA PRISE DE BERLIN (English: Ts, 145p., photostat, 36p.).
  • Folder 2
    • Bauer, Magna, "Ninth Army's Last Attack and Surrender Apr 21 - May 7, 1945", OCMH, MS #R-79, Apr, 1956 (xerox, 61p.).
  • Folder 3
    • Bauer, Magna, "The End of Army Group Weichsel and Twelfth Army, Apr 27 - May 7, 1945", OCNH, MS #R-69, June, 1956 (xerox, 92p.).
  • Folder 4
    • Reports on public utilities, businesses, ca. Apr-June, 1945 (Ts, 87p.),
    • Photographs, 1945 (3 items with negatives).
  • Folder 5
    • German messages, field commands and main events, Apr 20-29, 1945 (Ts, 8p.).
  • Folder 6-7
    • Army Group Weichsel war diary, Apr 20-29, 1945 (xerox, 502p.).
  • Folder 8
    • OKW messages and documents listing, Feb-Mar, 1945 (Ts, 110p.).
  • Folder 9
    • OKM messages, Apr 26 - May 15, 1945 (photographs, 74p.),
    • Index (holo, 4p.).

Box 63

  • Folder 1
    • Index to German Landesarchiv documents (Ts, 12p.).
  • Folder 2-6
    • German Landesarchiv documents - letters, statements, interviews, etc, 1945 (English: Ts, 780p.).
  • Folder 7
    • Faeckenstedt, Ernst, "The Campaign in Central Germany during the period 22 March till 11 Mal 1945, from the Koblenz-Speyer sector as far as the Erzgebirge position (mountains in Saxony)", OCMH, MS #B-554 (xerox, 26p.).
  • Folder 8
    • Hitzfeld, Otto, "Combat in Central-Germany (22.3.1945 - 11.5.1945) within the Command-post of the LXVII, A.K., during the period from the 22 Mar 1945 to 19 Apr 1945", OCMH, MS #B-309, Aug, 1946 (xerox, 37p.).
  • Folder 9
    • Von Edelsheim, Max, "XXXXVIII Panzer Corps on the Saale and Elbe (11 April - 3 May 1945)", OCMH, MS #B-219 (xerox, 30p.).
  • Folder 10
    • "The Story of the Model Photo", OCMH, MS #B-395 (xerox, 2p.).

Box 64

  • Folder 1
    • OKW documents and messages, Feb - Apr, 1945 (Ts/Ts carbon, 274p.).
  • Folder 2-3
    • Army Group Weichsel war diary, Apr 20-29, 1945 (Ts, 245p.; c.2 carbon, 258p.).
  • Folder 4
    • Zimmermann, Genlt Bodo, "OB West (Atlantic Wall to Siegfried Line) A Study in Command", OCMH, MS #B-308, Oct, 1946, v.1 (215p.).

Box 65

  • Folder 1
    • Zimmermann, Genlt Bodo, "OB West (Atlantic Wall to Siegfried Line) A Study in Command", OCMH, MS #B-308, Oct, 1946, v.2-3 (142p.).

National (Alpine) Redoubt.

  • Folder 2
    • Newspaper articles (43 items: Ts/photostat, 37p.).
  • Folder 3
    • Letter Lee to Ryan, TLS, July 24, 1963 (1p.)
    • with 12th Army Group's Reorientation of Strategy, Mar 21, 1945 (xerox, 5p.).
  • Folder 4
    • Hq, 7th Army, G-2 Study on National Redoubt, Mar 25, 1945 (Ts, 5p.).
  • Folder 5
    • Hofer, Franz, "National Redoubt", OCMH, MS #B-458 (xerox, 37p.).
  • Folder 6
    • "The Alpine Defense-Line"/"The Alpine- Fortification", OCMH, MS #B-457 (xerox, 26p.).
  • Folder 7
    • Von Hengel, Georg R., "The Alpine Redoubt", OCMH, MS #B-461 (xerox, 16p.).
  • Folder 8
    • Von Hengel, Georg R., "Report on the Alpine Fortress", OCMH, MS #B-459 (xerox, 13p.).

Hitler's bunker.

  • Folder 9
    • Newspaper and magazine articles (65 items: 162p.).
    • Byford-Jones, W., BERLIN TWILIGHT (pp. 83-91, xerox).
    • Maps and floor plans of Fuhrerbunker (8 items: photostat, 5 originals, 3 duplicates).
    • Fuhrer messages and directives concerning defense of Berlin and transfer of command to Doenitz (photographs, 11p.; English: Ts, 3p.).

Berchtesgaden.

  • Folder 10
    • News release of RAF bombing, Apr 24, 1945 (Ts, 3p.).

Hitler's staff.

  • Folder 11
    • Blumentritt, Gen Gunther, Letter to Ryan, TLS, Feb 15, 1963 (6p.),
    • Postcard to Ryan, ANS, Feb 19, 1963 (1p.).
  • Folder 12
    • Ducke, Lt Josef, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 3p.).
  • Folder 13
    • Hoffman, Gen, Interview notes (Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 14
    • Koller, Gen Karl, "The Collapse Viewed from Within", A.D.I. (K) Report #348, 1945 (memoirs) (xerox, 43p.; 3 copies),
    • DER LETZTE MONAT (The Last Month) (pp. 1-138, xerox, complete).

Box 66

  • Folder 1
    • Kratschmar, Heinz, Interview (Ts, 11p.).
  • Folder 2
    • Lohmann, Hanns-Heinrich, Interview (Ts, 5p.).
  • Folder 3
    • Pemsel, LtGen Max, Interview (holo, 2p.; Ts version, 4p.),
    • Photograph, 1945 (1 original, 1 duplicate),
    • Photographs, 1962 (6 items).
  • Folder 4
    • Pfoser, Lt Alfons, Questionnaire (Ts, 4p.; English: Ts, 3p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 11p.).
  • Folder 5
    • Pluskat, Werner, Interview (Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 6
    • Priller, Mrs, Notes (Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 7
    • Reuss, Maj Gen Franz, Interview (Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 8
    • Schack, Gen Friedrich A., Interview (Ts, 10p.).
  • Folder 9
    • Speidel, Gen Hans, Telephone interview notes (Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 10
    • Usbeck, Sgt Otto, Interview (Ts, 7p.).
  • Folder 11
    • Von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Gen, Notes on letter and telephone conversation (Ts, 3p.).
  • Folder 12
    • Voss, Lt Peter, Interview (Ts, 5p.).

Hitler's court.

  • Folder 13
    • Boldt, Gerhard, Newspaper article (1p.).
  • Folder 14
    • Echtmann, Fritz, Interview notes (holo, 10p.),
    • Photographs, ca. 1963 (3 original, 1 duplicate).
  • Folder 15
    • Erickson, "Conclusions re Hitler's death" (Ts, 19p.),
    • Letter Helmut O. Wilk to Ryan, TLS, May 8, 1963 (1p.),
    • Newspaper article (photostat, 1p.),
    • Box 74
      • Magnetic recording of "Conclusions..." (1 reel).
  • Folder 16
    • Goebbels, Josef and Magda, Translation of Apr 21, 1943 broadside (holo, 1p.).
  • Folder 17
    • Goering, Hermann, Protocol of Interrogation of Reichsmarshall Herman Goering, June 17, 1945 (Ts, 10p.),
    • Message to Von Ribbentrop, Apr 23, 1945 (photostat, 1p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 18
    • Guensche, Interrogation excerpts (Ts, 3p.).
  • Folder 19
    • Hein, Heinrich, Interview (Ts, 2p.).
  • Folder 20
    • Heusemann, Katharina R., Interview (holo, 19p.; Ts carbon version, 9p.; 2 copies),
    • Newspaper articles (3 items: 2p., Ts, 5p.),
    • Photographs, 1964 (6 items).
  • Folder 21
    • Himmler, Gen Heinrich, BBC news bulletins, Apr 28 - May 1, 1945 (Ts, 2p.),
    • Telediphone news transmission, May 24, 1945 (Ts, 1p.),
    • Newspaper article (Ts, 1p.),
    • Photographs, 1945 (3 original, 1 with negative, 1 duplicate).
  • Folder 22
    • Jakubek, Erwin, Interview (Ts, 4p.).
  • Folder 23
    • Kempka, Erich, Interview (holo, 26p.; Ts version, 15p.),
    • Kempka, I HAVE BURNED HITLER (Ts, 32p.).
  • Folder 24
    • Kuntz, Dr Helmut, Interview (Ts, 7p.).
  • Folder 25
    • Linge, Heinz, Newspaper articles (17 items: photostat/xerox, 26p.).
  • Folder 26
    • McCowen, Lt Col J.L., Interview (Ts, 17p.),
    • Letter to Chapman, TL copy, Feb 26, 1963 (1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.),
    • Statement, Sept 18, 1945 (xerox, 4p.).
  • Folder 27
    • Nauman, Werner, Interview (holo, 6p.; Ts carbon version, 5p.; 2 copies),
    • Interview (Ts, 10p.),
    • Newspaper article (1p.).
  • Folder 28
    • Reitsch, Hanna, Postcards, ca. 1943 (2 items),
    • Vinson, Lt David B., "Air Medical Intelligence Report of Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch" (mimeograph, 26p.).
  • Folder 29
    • Speer, Albert, Magazine article (17p.).
  • Folder 30
    • Von Schirach, Baroness, Notes (Ts carbon/holo, 5p.; English: Ts, 3p.),
    • Accounts (German: 2 items: Ts, 7p.; holo, 5p.),
    • Newspaper article (1p.),
    • Kuby, Erich, DAS ENDE DES SCHRECKEN (Ts, 3p.).
  • Folder 31
    • Excerpts from TRIAL OF THE GERMAN MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS (Ts, 3p.).
  • Folder 32

    Miscellaneous statements and interrogation excerpts from CIC, Ft Holabird, Md, files.

    • Letter Lee to Ryan, TLS, Mar 14, 1963 (1p.) with Lists of people in bunker and people interrogated by CIC (Ts, 5p.).
    • Letter Lee to Ryan, TLS, Jan 25, 1963 (3p.) with information concerning Baltimore's Hitler files.
    • Albrecht, Alwin (photostat, 1p.).
    • Axmann, Artur (photostat, 2p.).
    • Blaschke, Dr Hugo J. (Ts carbon, 3p.).
    • Brandt, Dr Karl (Ts carbon 7p., xerox, 6p.).
    • Braun, Eva, Letter to sister (photostat, 3p.).
    • Brueckner, Wilhelm (Ts carbon, 3p.).
    • Christian, Gerda (photostat, 5p.).
    • Doerner, Sevrin (photostat, 4p.).
    • Geissing, Erwin (Ts carbon, 24p.).
    • Hitler: Forms for marriage (photostat, 2p.).
    • Hitler: Political testament (photostat, 4p.).
    • Hitler: Private will (photostat, 1p.).
    • Hitler: Will (photostat, 3p.).
    • Flegel, Erna (photostat, 11p.).
    • Gebhardt, Karl (photostat, 4p.).
    • Hewel, Walter (photostat, 2p.).
    • Johanmeier, Willi (photostat, 2p.).
    • Junge, Gertrud (Ts, 14p.; c.2 carbon, 14p.).
    • Kempka, Erich (Ts carbon, 9p., xerox, 5p.).
    • Mansfeld, Erich (photostat, 4p.).
    • Matthiesing, Heinz (photostat, 4p.).
    • Meyer, Johann (photostat, 1p.).
    • Mueller, Willi (photostat, 1p.).
    • Reitsch, Hanna (photostat, 13p.).
    • Schaedle, Frans (photostat, 1p.).
    • Schaub, Julius (photostat, 2p.).
    • Schrieber, Maj Gen Walter (Ts carbon, 2p.; 2 copies).
    • Schwegermann, Guenther (photostat, 4p.).
    • Spaeth, Dr Karl (photostat, 4p.).
    • Von Below, Nicolaus (photostat, 10p.).
    • Von Eberstein, Karl (Ts carbon, 6p.).
    • Von Hasselbach, Dr Hans (Ts carbon, 5p.).
    • Von Loringhoven, Baron Freytag (photostat, 6p.).
    • Wolf, Johanna (photostat, 3p.).
    • Zander, Wilhelm (photostat, 2p.).
    • Newspaper article (xerox, 1p.).
    • Kuckhoff, Greta, "The 'Rote Kapelle'" (xerox, 4p.)

Box 67

OKW

  • Folder 1
    • Schramm, Percy (ed), Excerpts from WAR DIARY OF THE ARMY HIGH COMMAND, v.4 (Ts, 3p.; c.2 carbon, 3p.).
  • Folder 2
    • Gehlen, Gen Reinhard, Magazine article (1p.).
  • Folder 3
    • Jodl, Gen Alfred, Interview, Aug 2, 1945 (xerox, 11p.),
    • Photographs, ca. 1944 (3 items),
    • Photograph, ca. 1946 (1 item with negative),
    • Photographs, 1964 (5 items).
  • Folder 4
    • Krebs, Gen Hans, (Empty).
  • Folder 5
    • Schultz, Maj Joachim, "War Diary of Hq North (A)", Apr 20 - May 23, 1945 (Ts, 28p.; c.2 carbon, 28p.; c.3 xerox, 28p.),
    • Schultz, "The Battle for Berlin" (Ts, 39p., photostat, 4p.).

OKH

  • Folder 6
    • Bormann, Martin, Newspaper articles (2 items: 3p.).
  • Folder 7
    • Dethleffsen, Gen Erich, Interview (Ts, 2p.),
    • Letter Ryan to William Birnie, TLS xerox, Jan 4, 1972 (1p.),
    • Statement, winter 1945/46 (Ts, 51p.),
    • Newspaper article (xerox, 2p.).
  • Folder 8
    • Lasson, Cpl Werner, Interview (Ts, 3p.).
  • Folder 9
    • Volk, Dr Helmut, Interview (holo, 1p.; Ts version, 4p.).

Berlin Command.

  • Folder 10
    • Lampe, Lt Albrecht, Interview (Ts, 10p.).
  • Folder 11
    • Refior, Col Hans, Interview (Ts, 6p.),
    • Refior, "My Berlin Diary" (Ts, 47p.),
    • Photographs, ca. 1945 (2 original, 1 with negative; 2 duplicates).
  • Folder 12
    • Reymann, Gen Hellmuth, Interview (Ts, 3p.),
    • Reymann, "I Had To Defend Berlin" (Ts, 30p.),
    • Photographs, 1945 (8 items),
    • Photographs, 1963 (8 items).

3rd Panzer Army.

  • Folder 13
    • Gareis, Gen Martin, Interview (Ts, 2p.),
    • Diary, Mar 29 - May 8, 1945 (Ts, 30p.),
    • Photographs, ca. 1945 (4 items, 2 with negatives),
    • Photographs, 1963 (15 items),
    • Brandenburg map, 1937, with holo notations (1 item).
  • Folder 14
    • Muller-Hillebrand, Maj Gen Burkhart, Interview (Ts, 3p.).
  • Folder 15
    • Steiner, Gen Felix M., Interview (Ts, 9p.),
    • Steiner, "Die Freiwilligen" (photostat, 5p.),
    • Photograph, 1963 (1 item).
  • Folder 16
    • Von Manteuffel, Gen Hasso, Interview (Ts, 13p.),
    • Letter to editors, TLS, Jan 25, 1963 (1p.),
    • Letter to Ryan, TLS, Mar 19, 1963 (1p.),
    • Photograph, 1963 (1 item).

Box 67

9th Army

  • Folder 17
    • Busse, Gen Theodor, Interview (Ts, 9p.),
    • Maps (photostat, 5p.),
    • Busse, "The Last Battle of the 9th Army", MILITARY SCIENCE REVIEW, v.5, #4, Apr, 1955 (Ts, 44p.),
    • Bauer, Magna, "Ninth Army's Last Attack and Surrender", OCMH, MS #R-79 (xerox, 60p.),
    • Photographs, 1963 (4 items).
  • Folder 18
    • Fritz, Lt Albert, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 8p.).
  • Folder 19
    • Hagemann, Lt Gen Wolf, Interview (Ts, 13p.),
    • Excerpts from SOLDATENZEITUNG article (Ts, 4p.),
    • Photographs, 1963 (7 items),
    • Brandenburg map, 1937, with holo notations (1 item).
  • Folder 20
    • Meissner, Capt Max, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 3p.),
    • Diary, Jan 19 - May 1, 1945 (Ts, 11p.).
  • Folder 21
    • Schuhmacher, Lt Manuel, Interview (Ts, 5p.).
  • Folder 22
    • Wurach, Maj Kurt, Interview (Ts, 13p.),
    • Map with holo notations (1 item),
    • Photographs, ca. 1945 (2 items with negatives).

12th Army.

  • Folder 23
    • Reichhelm, Col Gunther, Interview (Ts, 4p.),
    • Reichhelm, "The Last Rally: Battles Fought by the German 12th Army in the Heart of Germany, between East and West (13 April - 7 May 1945)", OCMH, MS #B-606, May 31, 1947 (xerox, 43p.; original version, Ts, 32p.),
    • Photographs, 1945 (2 items),
    • Photographs, 1963 (4 items).
  • Folder 24
    • Wenck, Gen Walter, Interview (Ts, 8p.),
    • Ritter, H.W., "Factual Report of Interviews with General A.D. Walter Wenck", (Ts, 42p.),
    • "Summary of Final Battles between the Order and Elbe in Apr/May 1945 (Especially the Battles of 12th Army)" (Ts, 10p.),
    • Photographs, 1963 (9 items),
    • Brandenburg map, 1937, with holo notations (1 item).

Army Group Weichsel (Vistula).

Box 68

  • Folder 1
    • Brandenburg maps, 1937, with holo notations (2 items).
    • Umgebung von Berlin map, showing Allied attack directions, Apr 22-28, 1945, scale 1:1,000,000, 1936 (1 item).
  • Folder 2
    • Eismann, Col Hans G., Account (Ts, 166p.),
    • Notes on account (Ts, 4p.; c.2-3 carbon, 4p.).
  • Folder 3
    • Heinrici, Gen Gotthard, Interview (German: Ts with holo revisions, 16p.; English: Ts, 13p.; c.2 carbon, 13p.),
    • Memoirs (Ts, 60p.),
    • Army Group Weichsel command structure (holo, 1p.),
    • Map overlay (1p.),
    • QUICK, #5, Feb 2, 1957 (44p.),
    • Statement to Chief of Staff, Apr, 1945 (Ts, 1p.),
    • Weapon and equipment lists (Ts, 3p.),
    • Letter Linden to Ryan, TLS, Feb 4, 1963 (1p.),
    • Letter to Ryan, TLS, Feb 11, 1963 (1p.),
    • Letter to Ryan, TLS, Feb 12, 1963 (2p.),
    • Note to Ryan, ANS, Feb 14, 1963 (2p.),
    • Note to Ryan, ANS, Mar 7, 1963 (2p.),
    • Letter Lee to Ryan, TLS, Mar 21, 1963 (1p.),
    • Memo Naccache to Ryan, TL, Apr 11, 1963 (1p.).
  • Folder 4
    • Heinrici diary (pp. 11-110, photostat; English: Ts, 60p.),
    • History and account (Ts, 34p.),
    • Jodl-Heinrici telephone conversation, Apr 26, 1945 (Ts, 1p.),
    • Army Group Weichsel war diary, Apr 20-29, 1945 (Ts, 152p.).
  • Folder 5
    • Lang, Capt Hellmuth, Interview (Ts, 3p.),
    • Letter Rommel to Lang, 1944 (untranslated, photostat, 3p.),
    • Photograph, ca. 1945 (1 item),
    • Photographs, 1963 (2 items),
    • Scenic photographs (10 items),
    • Christmas greeting brochure, 1965 (2p.).
  • Folder 6
    • Von Bila, Capt Heinrich, Interview (Ts, 8p.),
    • Letter Naccache to Ryan, TLS, Feb 28, 1964 (3p.),
    • Letter Naccache to Ryan, TLS, Apr 2, 1964 (5p.).
  • Folder 7
    • Von Trotha, Photograph, ca. 1945 (1 original,2 duplicates).

56th Panzer Corps.

  • Folder 8
    • Bottcher, Lt Col Friedrich, Interview (Ts,carbon, 23p.).

Box 69

  • Folder 1
    • Von Dufving, Col Theodor, Interview (Ts,8p.),
    • "Surrender of Berlin Garrison 1st and 2nd May, 1945" (Ts, 9p.),
    • Account (Ts, 40p.),
    • Correspondence between von Dufving and Haupt and Pabel Publishing Co, Jan - Mar, 1964 (6 items: Ts, 9p.),
    • Letter Flint to Ryan, TLS, Mar 26, 1964 (1p.) with
    • Maps (7 items: 2 maps located Box A, #1),
    • Photograph, 1944 (1 item),
    • Photograph, 1961/62 (1 item),
    • Photographs, 1963 (6 items),
    • Letter to Helgard Kramer, TLS, June 4, 1963 (4p.),
    • Letter Kramer to von Dufving, TL carbon, June 7, 1963 (2p.),
    • Letter to Kramer, TLS, June 15, 1963 (5p.).
  • Folder 2
    • Weidling, Gen H., Russian interrogations (3 items: Ts, 43p.; c.2-3 carbon, 43p.),
    • Weidling, "The Final Battle in Berlin (April 23 to May 2, 1945", WEHRWISSENSCHAFTLICHE RUNDSCHAU, Jan-Mar, 1962 (xerox, 31p.).
  • Folder 3
    • Wohlermann, Hans-Oscar, Interview (Ts, 5p.),
    • Account, Aug 15, 1952 (Ts, 57p.),
    • Wohlermann, "Commentary on General of the Artillery H. Weidling's: The Final Battle in Berlin", WEHRWISSENSCHAFTLICHE RUNDSCHAU, June, 1962 (Ts, 4p.),
    • Photographs, 1963 (4 original, 2 duplicates).

101st Corps.

  • Folder 4
    • Sixt, Lt Gen Friedrich, Interview (Ts, 5p.),
    • Photograph, ca. 1945 (1 item),
    • Photographs, 1963 (4 items).

1st Flak Division.

  • Folder 5
    • Annuschek, Capt Karl H., Interview (Ts, 6p.).
  • Folder 6
    • Kirchner, Lt Heinz, Questionnaire (holo, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 7
    • Scherka, Cpl Erich, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 9p.).
  • Folder 8
    • Von Zabeltitz, Capt Leonhardt, Interview (Ts, 12p.).

9th Paratroop Division.

  • Folder 9
    • Arnold, Lt Hans- Werner, Interview (Ts, 6p.).
  • Folder 10
    • Hirsch, Lt Alfred, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 3p.),
    • Photograph, 1963 (1 item).
  • Folder 11
    • Jansen, Lt Hans, Interview (Ts, 10p.).
  • Folder 12
    • Rein, Lt Hans, Interview (Ts, 14p.).
  • Folder 13
    • Roth, Josef, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts carbon, 1p.).

Nordland Division.

  • Folder 14
    • Bensch, Sgt Willy, Interview (Ts, 7p.).
  • Folder 15
    • Burghart, Cpl Roman, Inteview (Ts, 6p.).
  • Folder 16
    • Clauss, Cpl Paul, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 4p.).
  • Folder 17
    • Gross, Ernst, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 5p.).
  • Folder 18
    • Haas, Cpl Fritz, Interview (Ts, 11p.).
  • Folder 19
    • Hensler, Lt Hans, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 20p.).
  • Folder 20
    • Illum, Gunnar M., Questionnaire (Ts, 5p.; English: Ts carbon, 4p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 21p.),
    • Extracts from letter (Ts, 2p.).
  • Folder 21
    • Jung, PFC Albert, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 14p.).
  • Folder 22
    • Koder, PFC Hans, Interview (Ts, 2p.).
  • Folder 23
    • Krukenberg, Maj Gen Gustav, Interview (Ts, 11p.),
    • Memo for interview (Ts, 2p.),
    • Account, ca. 1946 (Ts, 37p.),
    • Excerpts from Haupt, Werner, BERLIN 1945 - HITLER'S LAST BATTLE (Ts, 2p.),
    • Photographs, ca. 1945 (2 items),
    • Photographs, 1963 (9 items),
    • Letter to Ryan, TL copy, Jan 8, 1964 (1p.),
    • Letter to Werner Haupt, TL copy, Jan 8, 1964 (2p.),
    • Letter Haupt to Krukenberg, TL copy, Jan 18, 1964 (1p.),
    • Letter to Flint, TL copy, Jan 25, 1964 (2p.).
  • Folder 24
    • Scholles, Sgt Hans-Peter, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 20p.),
    • Diary, Apr 25-28, 1945 (Ts, 7p.).
  • Folder 25
    • Timm, Lt Walter, Interview (Ts, 10p.).
  • Folder 26
    • Winge, Pvt Hans-Joachim, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 4p.).

Box 69

Volksstrum.

  • Folder 27
    • Bruschke, Waldermar, Questionnaire (Ts, 9p.; English: Ts, 9p.),
    • Letter to editors, TLS, Jan 11, 1963 (1p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 28
    • Drost, Gunter, Interview (Ts, 10p.),
    • Report on medical and pharmaceutical supplies in Berlin, 1945 (Ts, 3p.).
  • Folder 29
    • Groll, Cpl Artur, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 30
    • Haaf, Oskar, Interview (Ts, 9p.).
  • Folder 31
    • Hartmann, Rudolf, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 32
    • Heckscher, Sgt Edmund, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 5p.).
  • Folder 33
    • Hellriegel, Hermann, Interview (Ts, 11p.).
  • Folder 34
    • Rose, Maj Heinz, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 35
    • Von Halt, Karl R., Interview (Ts, 2p.),
    • Letter to Korbs, TL, Feb 28, 1963 (1p.; English: Ts, 1p.),
    • Photographs, 1963 (2 items).
  • Folder 36
    • Wrede, Fritz, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 11p.),
    • Account, 1963 (holo, 11p.; English: Ts, 5p.).

Box 70

Berlin Fire Department.

  • Folder 1
    • Draeger, Fire Lt Willi, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 2
    • Hohne, Fire Capt Heinz, Interview (Ts, 6p.),
    • Map (1 item: photostat),
    • Fire Department #3 Log Book, Apr 20 - May 3, 1945 (Ts, 6p.).
  • Folder 3
    • Nolte, Fire Col Wilhelm, Interview (Ts, 10p.).
  • Folder 4
    • Strauss, Fire Lt Erwin, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.).

Berlin Police Department.

  • Folder 5
    • Schirmer, Police Lt Brumo, Interview (Ts, 2p.).
  • Folder 6
    • Strenka, Gustav, Interview (Ts, 11p.).

Zoo Flak Tower.

  • Folder 7
    • Ache, Capt Kurt, Interview (Ts, 34p.).
  • Folder 8
    • Hagedorn, Dr W., Interview (Ts, 5p.),
    • Letter to Ryan, TL copy, July 22, 1963 (4p.),
    • Photographs, ca. 1945 (9 items, 5 with negatives),
    • Photographs, 1963 (5 items).
  • Folder 9
    • Niedieck, Gerda, Interview (Ts, 20p.),
    • Interview with Liselotte Mekelburger (Ts, 2p.; c.2 carbon, 2p.),
    • Photographs, 1963 (10 items).
  • Folder 10
    • Schumacher, Dr Werner, Interview (Ts, 4p.).

Hitler Youth.

  • Folder 11
    • Bonath, PFC Herbert, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 3p.),
    • Account: "To The Bitter End" (pp. 37ff as Ts, 29p.),
    • Photograph, ca. 1945 (1 item).
  • Folder 12
    • Feldheim, Willy, Interview (Ts, 66p.),
    • Berlin map with holo notations (1 item),
    • Photographs, 1963 (21 items).
  • Folder 13
    • Pienkny, Gunther, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 21p., with map),
    • Photographs, ca. 1945 (2 items, 1 with negative).
  • Folder 14
    • Schulz, Aribert, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 2p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 12p.),
    • Letter to editors, ALS, July 31, 1962 (2p.).
  • Folder 15
    • Thamm, PFC Willi, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.),
    • Account: "Thus They Had To Die" (Ts, 10p.; c.2 carbon, 10p.).
  • Folder 16
    • Wetzki, Hans J., Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 12p., with map),
    • Photograph, ca. 1945 (1 item).

Berlin Defense Area Units.

  • Folder 17
    • Bombach, Walter, Interview (Ts, 4p.).
  • Folder 18
    • Gold, Walter, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 19
    • Hock, Manfred, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 20
    • Kruger, Heinz, Questionnaire (English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 21
    • Kruger, Ulrich F., Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 2p.),
    • Letter to editors, TLS, Aug 1, 1962 (1p.).
  • Folder 22
    • Kuhn, Alfred, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 23
    • Lambracht, Lt Erich, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 24
    • Patzer, Heinz, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 25
    • Romling, Horst, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 26
    • Thulke, Dieter, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts/holo, 1p.; c.2 Ts carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 27
    • Ulisch, Lt Walter, Questionnaire (Ts, 3p.; English: Ts carbon, 1p.),
    • Interview (Ts, 5p.).
  • Folder 28
    • Verleih, Max, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.; c.2 carbon, 1p.).
  • Folder 29
    • Wedell, Dr Gunther, Interview (Ts, 13p.).
  • Folder 30
    • Werner, Franz, Questionnaire (Holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 2p.),
    • Excerpts from letter, Jan 17, 1963 (Ts, 1p.).

Dead File.

  • Folder 31
    • Apitzsch, Bertha, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 2p.).
  • Folder 32
    • Hensel, Alex, Questionnaire (holo, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 33
    • Holz, Hans, Questionnaire (holo, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 34
    • Hundsdorfer, B., Questionnaire (holo, 2p.).
  • Folder 35
    • Kruger, Albert, Questionnaire (Ts, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 36
    • Langen, Paula, Questionnaire (holo, 1p.; English: Ts, 2p.).
  • Folder 37
    • Neistriepke, Dr Seigfried, Questionnaire (holo, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 38
    • Penns, Wilhelm, Questionnaire (holo, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 39
    • Perseke, Erich, Questionnaire (holo, 3p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 40
    • Rau, Dorothea, Questionnaire (holo, 1p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 41
    • Reineke, Ella, Questionnaire (Ts, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 42
    • Richter, Helene, Questionnaire (Ts/holo, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 43
    • Schauke, Ursula, Questionnaire (Ts, 2p.; English: Ts, 2p.).
  • Folder 44
    • Schwinski, Werner, Questionnaire (Ts, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.).
  • Folder 45
    • Vollert, Else, Questionnaire (holo, 2p.; English: Ts, 1p.),
    • Table of contents of diary (Ts, 7p.; English: Ts, 5p.).
  • Folder 46
    • Wellman, Ruth, Questionnaire (Ts, 2p.).

Box 71

  • Folder 1
    • Notebooks with interview notes (4 items: holo, 496p.).
    • Box 74
      • Magnetic tape containing Gens Weildling and Heinrici interviews (3 reels).

Cab 81204

Maps.

  • Drw8
    • Composite situation of front lines from the most important POW statements and reports of the Intelligence Service and Front Intelligence from Dec 2, 1944 - Jan 2, 1945.
    • Probable continuation of the Soviet Russian operations, Feb 2, 1945.
    • Supplement #1 to the report of Col Reichhelm on the battles of the 12th Army, Apr 13 to May 7, 1945: Starting position on Apr 12-13, 1945, scale 1:1,000,000.
    • Supplement #2 to the report of Col Reichhelm on the battles of the 12th Army, Apr 13 to May 7, 1945: Starting positions on Apr 24, 1945, and development of enemy positions until Apr 29, 1945, scale 1:1,000,000.
    • Supplement #3 to the report of Col Reichhelm on the battles of the 12th Army, Apr 13 to May 7, 1945: Position of the 20th A.K. on Apr 28-29 for regrouping and attack, scale 1:250,000 (2 copies).
    • Supplement #4 to the report of Col Reichhelm on the battles of the 12th Army, Apr 13 to May 7, 1945: Position of the 12th Army from May 1 to May 7, 1945, scale 1:250,000.

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