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Akon Hi!
Registering ay yjhis site is easy and smoothm as is the thereafter login process.
BTW I highly recommand to download the document ZA 3/833
Marquardt, General Engineer (ret.) : "The Planning and Development of Bombs for the German Air Force (1925-1945)"
in German, 458 pages, 25 photos, 62 sketches.
and the subsequent ZA 3/834
"Supplementary documents" in German, 458 pages (also includes some sketches)
Be warned the first document is huge (zipped - 1.6GB) but itt's really worth it!
The document was written by Generalingenieur Ernst Marquardt the person behind the development of German Air-Ground armament since the early 1920s
He was successively:
Managing Director and Test-Director for Combat Material Equipment and Bombs with the Firm Luftverkehr Junkers, Dessau (01 Oct 1924-14 Jun 1926)
Administrator for Combat Material Equipment and Bombs with the Inspection for Weapons and Equipment/RWM/6 F II c (15 Jun 1926-31 Mar 1927)
Advisor for Launch Armaments and Ejection-Mechanisms in the Army-Weapon-Office/Pr. W 9 II b (01 Apr 1927-31 Mar 1933)
Transferred into the Luftwaffe as Development-Advisor for Launch Armaments and Ejection Mechanisms in the RLM/II 5 b (01 Apr 1933-31 Mar 1937)
Group-Director for Launched Weapons and Munitions, Combat Material Devices and Bombs/RLM/LC 12 (01 Apr 1937-31 Jan 1939)
Department-Chief LC 7/RLM (01 Feb 1939-00 May 1945) (Part of the Technical Office of the Reich Air Ministry, LC 7 Department was primarily responsible for aircraft armament, munitions production, and specialized aerial weaponry)
Registering ay yjhis site is easy and smoothm as is the thereafter login process.
BTW I highly recommand to download the document ZA 3/833
Marquardt, General Engineer (ret.) : "The Planning and Development of Bombs for the German Air Force (1925-1945)"
in German, 458 pages, 25 photos, 62 sketches.
and the subsequent ZA 3/834
"Supplementary documents" in German, 458 pages (also includes some sketches)
Be warned the first document is huge (zipped - 1.6GB) but itt's really worth it!
The document was written by Generalingenieur Ernst Marquardt the person behind the development of German Air-Ground armament since the early 1920s
He was successively:
Managing Director and Test-Director for Combat Material Equipment and Bombs with the Firm Luftverkehr Junkers, Dessau (01 Oct 1924-14 Jun 1926)
Administrator for Combat Material Equipment and Bombs with the Inspection for Weapons and Equipment/RWM/6 F II c (15 Jun 1926-31 Mar 1927)
Advisor for Launch Armaments and Ejection-Mechanisms in the Army-Weapon-Office/Pr. W 9 II b (01 Apr 1927-31 Mar 1933)
Transferred into the Luftwaffe as Development-Advisor for Launch Armaments and Ejection Mechanisms in the RLM/II 5 b (01 Apr 1933-31 Mar 1937)
Group-Director for Launched Weapons and Munitions, Combat Material Devices and Bombs/RLM/LC 12 (01 Apr 1937-31 Jan 1939)
Department-Chief LC 7/RLM (01 Feb 1939-00 May 1945) (Part of the Technical Office of the Reich Air Ministry, LC 7 Department was primarily responsible for aircraft armament, munitions production, and specialized aerial weaponry)
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in many documents (even the back of translucent tracing paper is scanned.). I don't understand the relevance of this.Hi Dreamk,Yes, I noticed *Generalingenieur* Ernst Marquardt immediately when I started studying the documents. I had already managed to download all the links you mentioned, or I have the download links saved. Those download links work even without logging in. Furthermore, you can create download links using a sequence... and test in advance with a download manager whether the file is available for download.
You accurately described the major and pivotal role he played in his time... undoubtedly a brilliant engineer and organizer!
Regarding the file size caused by those blank pages: I view the archivists' approach as the correct one—being truly transparent and concealing nothing. A blank page serves as proof that there is nothing there.
The downside is that it increases storage costs... out of >16 million pages, perhaps 40 percent are blank... resulting in huge costs.On the other hand,
I must commend the German archivists for choosing a concept of universal accessibility: it is absolutely top-tier in Europe regarding transparency and the ability to study history based on available documents—all without any need for registration!
Bravo !
Here in the post-communist region, old state documents (archival records) are made available to the public for study and for evaluating the actions of the state and officials so reluctantly that I am becoming convinced it is a deliberate move by the "deep state" to avoid any direct oversight by citizens.
After all, history belongs to all citizens, not to officials—especially considering we pay for them through our taxes. For bulk deletion, I use a three-key shortcut to mark the pages I want to remove, moving freely with the arrow keys (up, down, right, left) to select the blank documents; while this takes a bit of extra time, it is manageable.
Akon