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8. BStU, 915 MfS Sekretariat d. Ministers.
9. Dated 24 June 1941.
10. Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report, p. 52.
11. See BStU, AV 14/79; Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report; and J. Petropoulos, Art as Politics in the Third Reich, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
12. Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report, pp. 55-7.
13.Ibid.
14. BStU, 915 MfS Sekretariat d. Ministers.
15. For background on Rosenberg and art, see J. Petropoulos, Art as Politics in the Third Reich, and NA files, 'Dossier of Alfred Rosenberg', WO 208/44 94? 16 October 1946.
16. Ibid.
17. BStU, 915 MfS Sekretariat d. Ministers, and Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report p. 139.
18. Ibid., p. 82.
19. The letter was dated 22 September 1962.
20. BStU, KSII404/82, pp. 146-9. Schliep served within HA VII.
21. BStU, KSII404/82, pp. 35-6.
22. See Forschungs und Gedenkstatte Normannenstrasse, Berlin, for detailed wording.
23. Enke then served within Department HA VII.
24. BStU, KSII404/82, p. 285.
25. Ibid., pp. 66-70.
26. Alfred Rohde, 'Monatsschrift fiir Freunde und Sammler der Kunst,' Pantheon, Vol. XXIX, F. Bruckmann, Munich, July-December 1942.
27. Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report, pp. 114-16.
28. For details about Konigsberg evacuations, see Bernsteinzimmer Report and Antony Beevor, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, Viking, London, 2002.
29. For a summary of Enke's research into troop and civilian movements and the removal of the von Hindenburg corpses see his Bernsteinzimmer Report, pp. 109-115.
30. BStU, AV14/79.
31. J. O. Koehler, Stasi, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1999.
32. D. Lewis, The Lexicon of the Stasi: Language in the Service of the State, University of Exeter, Europa Magazine, Vol. III , No. 1, 1999.
33. BStU, Neiber file 381, pp. 1-18.
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1. J. O. Koehler, Stasi, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1999.
2. Seufert told this to Giinter Wermusch when they worked together.
3. The appeal was sent to Sir Brian Robertson, High Commissioner of the British Sector in Berlin. This, together with other information on the Koch arrest operation and prosecution, comes from NA, FO 371.
4. The Soviets submitted their brief letter on 11 June 1949.
5. Bobidanosov was chairman of the Leningrad Committee for State Inspection of Landmark Preservation. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, and see also Avenir Ovsianov archive, Kaliningrad.
6. BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 28.
7. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 119.
8. Ibid., pp. 4-9.
9. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 123, interview conducted by Vladimir Orlovsky for Zszysze Warschawy.
10. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 123, cutting dated 20 October 1961.
11. Koch's prison was near the village of Barcikowo, outside the northern Polish city of Olsztyn.
12. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 123.
13. Ibid.
14. BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 1, pp. 365-70.
15. For a summary of the findings of this trip, see Paul Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report, Die Wirtschaft, East Berlin, 1986, pp. 179-92.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid. See also BStU AV 14/79, Vol. 1.
18. BStU, AV 14/79, Vol. 1, pp. 362-3.
19. Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report.
20. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 121, pp. 6-7.
21. BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 29, pp. 322-89.
22. Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report, and BStU, AV 14/79, Vol. 1, pp. 365-70.
23. Ibid., pp. 360-4.
24. Ibid., p.356.
25. Ibid., pp. 357-8.
26. Ibid., pp. 360-4.
27. Ibid., pp. 322-89.
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1. Coburger was director of HA VIII (observation and investigation) and Biichner was director of HA VII (defence in the Ministry of the Interior, Volkspolizei).
2. Documents concerning this review of Enke's career are all from BStU, KSII404/82, and AV 14/79, Vol. 1, pp. 7-11.
3. Written by Volkspolizei Oberrat Gustin: see BStU, KSII404/82, pp. 26-7.
4. Written by Major Schmalfuss: see BStU, KSII404/82, pp. 1-17.
5. BStU, AV14/79 Vol. 1, pp. 7-8.
6. Ibid., p. 7.
7. All the above are taken from ibid., pp. 5-12.
8. Ibid.
9. BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 28, p. 92.
10. BStU, KSII404/82 p. 285 and Neiber file 386, p. 180.
11. BStU, Neiber file