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William H. Shuey - 20 Dec 2006 03:59 GMT

a friend of mine associated with the Army museum at Carlisle says that
researchers in Germany have located the lost records of the Imperial
Prussian Army from W.W.I. Seems they were loaded into a train, run into
an old unused tunnel in a mountain somewhere and the entrances were
dynamited. First word is much is in good condition, I bet researchers
are drooling. Should be a lot of Prussian Aviation records in there too.
Many of the Prussian Jasta's records have never been found.

Bill Shuey

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Mad-Modeller - 20 Dec 2006 04:27 GMT

Wow, hard to believe things could get 'lost' in Europe. Population
density is somewhat higher than on this continent. You'd think someone
would have tripped over everything by now.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Stephen Tontoni - 20 Dec 2006 05:23 GMT

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> a friend of mine associated with the Army museum at Carlisle says that
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> Bill Shuey

This would be newsworthy; has anyone seen something about this? I'd be
interested in reading more about it.

-- Stephen

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eyeball - 20 Dec 2006 15:13 GMT

Googling indicates most Prussian military records were destroyed in
'45.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/genealogy/german-faq/part3/section-1.html
http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/archives/2006/02/prussian_milita.php

> > a friend of mine associated with the Army museum at Carlisle says that
> > researchers in Germany have located the lost records of the Imperial
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> -- Stephen

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Sir Ray - 20 Dec 2006 16:48 GMT

> Googling indicates most Prussian military records were destroyed in
> '45.
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> > This would be newsworthy; has anyone seen something about this? I'd be
> > interested in reading more about it.

So, are we looking at a "Friend of a Friend" Urban Legend here?

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eyeball - 20 Dec 2006 18:11 GMT

> > Googling indicates most Prussian military records were destroyed in
> > '45.
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> So, are we looking at a "Friend of a Friend" Urban Legend here?

That's my first thought,but I'd love to find otherwise.

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