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12. BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 1, pp. 360-4.
13. BStU, Neiber file 386, pp. 40-7.
14. Generalmajor Fister, director of HA IX (investigative body), was writing to the director of HA XX (counter-dissidence, culture, church, underground): see BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 1, pp. 335-6.
15. Ibid., pp. 132-4.
16. The deputy director of Main Department Investigations wrote to Comrade Volkov, Director of the KGB Investigations Department, Moscow: see BStU, AV 14/79, Vol.1, pp. 90-113.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., pp. 114-29.
19. Ibid., pp. 132-4.
20. Ibid., pp. 130-31.
21. Oberstleutnant Bauer wrote to Magdeburg in 1983, see: ibid., pp. 185-6.
22. BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 28, p. 34, written by Hauptmann Rudolph.
23. The information about Stein derives from author interview with Robert Stein, Paul Enke's Bernsteinzimmer Report, Die Wirtshaft, East Berlin, 1986, and BStU, AV14/79.
24. J. A. Bustered, 'The Treasure in the Salt Mine', Army Magazine, USA, March 1997-
25. Letter dated 5 March 1949, quoted by Patricia Grimsted, 'Spoils of War Returned' Prologue, Vol. 34, No. 3, Washington DC, Fall 2002.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid. The recipient of the letter was the director, Thomas Grochowniak. See also Giinter Wermusch archive, Berlin.
28. Ibid., letter dated 2 May 1955.
29. See Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report.
30. Ibid.
31. BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 28, p. 37.
32. Ibid.
33-Ibid.
34. See Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report.
35. Tete Bottger archive, Gottingen.
36. Ibid.
37. BStU, Neiber file 386, pp. 40-7.
38. See Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report.
39. Ibid.
40. BStU, Neiber file 409, pp. 56-9.
41. BStU, AV14/79, Vol. 3, pp. 281-9.
42. For a short biography of Semyonov, see www.sovlit.com.
43. BStU, Neiber file 409, pp. 10-12.
44. Ibid., pp. 100-104.
45. Mielke wrote this on his German Communist Party questionnaire in July 1945. See J. O. Koehler, Stasi, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1999.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid., p. 75.
48. The letter was written in 1988: BStU, Neiber file 381, pp. 49-51.
49. Ibid., pp. 45-8.
50. Ibid.
51. BStU, Neiber file 409, pp. 129-30.
52. See Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report.
53. BStU,AVi4/79,Vol. 30.
54. BStU, Neiber file 409, pp. 120-1.
55. BStU, Neiber file 381, p. 61.
56. E. Wiedemann, 'New Traces in the Search for the Amber Room', Der Spiegel, 2001.
57. BStU, Neiber file 409.
58. The Soviet communique was entitled 'To the measures adopted for the search after the Amber Room': see BStU, Neiber file 381, p. 72.
CHAPTER 11
1. BStU, Neiber file 386, pp. 40-7.
2. All the following documents were taken from the archive of Baron Eduard von Falz-Fein or from the private archive of Giinter Wermusch.
3. See Kriminalhauptkommissar Wermuth's report in Ingolstadt No. K1-1380-1230-7/8.
4. BStU, Neiber file 381, pp. 65-9.
5. BStU, Neiber file 386, pp. 142-52.
6. Izvestiya, 15 May 1988. See also BStU, Neiber file 381, pp. 65-9.
7. BStU, Neiber file 386, pp. 40-7.
8. See the ground-breaking documentary Bernsteinzimmer, MPR Film and Fernseh Produktion, produced and directed by Maurice Philip Remy, Munich, 1987.
9. Letter from Herbert Muller to Enke, via Wochenpost, which ran the article, 2 January 1988: Wermusch private archive.
10. Gerhard Schroter, letter to Wolfgang Mertin and Giinter Wermusch, 1 November 1988. See Wermusch private archive.
11. BStU, Neiber file 381, pp. 45-8.
12. BStU, Neiber file 381. See also Giinter Wermusch's private archive for copies of the correspondence.
13. 28 May 1988. See BStU, Neiber file 381, p. 74.
14. BStU, Neiber file 381, p. 73.
15. BStU, Neiber file 381, pp. 49-51.
CHAPTER 12
1. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 121.
2. Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (GARF).
3. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 123.
4. The directive was 526-R. See Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1; Avenir Ovsianov, private archive, Kaliningrad; and Avenir Ovsianov, Mine Anna, Yantarny Skaz, Kaliningrad, 2001.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 123.
8. GARF.
9. The directive was 181-R and was passed on 13 May 1969.
10. Order No.2599.