soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Feb 25, 6:43 pm, Louis C wrote:
> Yes, one of the nice thing about those archives that had been captured
> by the Soviets is that their captors mostly didn't bother to sort them

Well, that's another problem, they weren't just captured by "Soviets",
they were also captured by the Commonwealth forces, American Forces,
and French forces, and again, were often duplicated. So the "Prague"
Waffen-SS archive doesn't unfortunately, include much that is new -
notice that most of the records are 1941-1943,

> You don't know that. Maybe they could and some illiterate SS revisited
> the records?

Er, sorry, but yes I **do** know that. If you have a column consisting
of 1, 2, 3 and the additive total given at the bottom of the column is
"7", then you know you have a problem. :) I recall when working on the
Ardennes database that one of our researchers wrote a rather heated
discursus giving advice to all future researchers looking at the
particluar document (IIRC it was for 12, SS) on the advisibility of
taking the maths as given in the document. :)

(snip agreement)