Archives and Files
File references, register numbers and plan records from public archives and collections form the basis of many underground and production pages.
um 1944/45Stelle 0 · AusbauzustandArchiv Geschichts- und Forschungsverein Walpersberg e. V.
History of Walpersberg and REIMAHG
Today the site stands for research, remembrance, and responsibility. Here you will find the most important chapters as well as source-based resources for deeper study.
Highlights
- Experience history on site
Go to tour overview - Learn more – our publications
Browse the publications - Share knowledge – shape remembrance
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Research Basis and Sources
These history pages combine association research, database work and traceable evidence. Whenever possible, we point directly to archives, collections, witness records and edited source material.
Witness Testimony and Documentation
Interviews, association documentation and historical photographs complement the written record where local processes and individual experiences are reconstructed.
Research Database
Our databases connect places, codenames, companies, camps and people. Public detail pages make these links more visible to search engines.
Genutzte Archive und Quellengeber4 Bereiche
Institutionen und Akteure in vereinheitlichter Form; einzelne Akten, Signaturen und Sammlungen werden hier nicht wiederholt.
Archive und staatliche Einrichtungen24
- Arolsen Archives
- Bundesarchiv (BArch)
- Landesarchiv Thüringen
- Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg
- Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt
- Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv
- Staatsarchiv Amberg
- Kreisarchiv Saale-Holzland-Kreis
- Stadtarchiv Kahla
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- The National Archives, Kew
- Air Ministry / Air Intelligence und Allied Central Interpretation Unit
- Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (CIOS)
- Staatsarchiv der Russischen Föderation (GARF)
- Lettisches Nationalarchiv – Latvijas Valsts arhīvs (LNA LVA)
- Staatsarchiv der Oblast Kyjiw (DAKO)
- Nationaal Archief (Niederlande)
- Haags Gemeentearchief
- Stadsarchief Amsterdam
- CegeSoma – Staatsarchiv Belgien
- War Heritage Institute / Belgian War Dead Register
- Archivio di Stato di Torino
- Ministero della Cultura (Italien)
- Institut des Nationalen Gedenkens (IPN) / straty.pl
Gedenkstätten, Forschungsinstitute und Verbände22
- ANED – Associazione Nazionale Ex Deportati nei Campi Nazisti
- ANED Brescia, ANED Imola, ANED Savona–Imperia und ANED / Regione Umbria
- ANPI – Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia
- ANPI Mailand, ANPI Macerata, ANPI Cinisello Balsamo und ANPI Lodigiano
- Istoreco Reggio Emilia
- Istoreto – Istituto piemontese per la storia della Resistenza
- CIDRA Imola / „Ci portano via!“
- Istituto Campano per la Storia della Resistenza
- Gruppo Ricerca Ex Internati Militari Maceratesi
- Deportati Brescia
- Oorlogsgravenstichting
- Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen
- Nationaal Monument Oranjehotel
- Documentatiegroep 40–45
- Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit
- Yad Vashem
- Stichting Stolpersteine Lochem
- Stichting QuMa
- Comitato Pietre d'Inciampo Milano
- Pietre della Memoria
- Tekovské múzeum Levice und Slowakischer Bund antifaschistischer Kämpfer
- Geschichts- und Forschungsverein Walpersberg e. V.
Kommunen, Museen, Bibliotheken und regionale Initiativen19
- Kommunen Castelnovo ne' Monti, Imola, Robecco sul Naviglio, Rubiera, Cerro al Lambro und Vistrorio
- Commune de Laguenne-sur-Avalouze
- Obec Beckov
- Erfgoed Lochem und Erfgoed Brugge
- KU Leuven Bibliotheken
- Bibliotheca Yvoir
- Musée de la Tour d'Anhaive
- Kasteel van Loppem
- Storia e Memoria di Bologna
- Storia Tifernate / Alvaro Tacchini
- Centro Storico Culturale Valle Brembana
- Club Alpino Italiano – Sektion Bergamo
- Pro Loco Oltre il Colle
- RAGEBOL / Ravels–Weelde–Poppel
- Wijk Ginderbroek
- Land van Rode und Nicolaus Poppelius
- Kahlaer Gedenkbuch und Stadt Kahla
- Bergsicherung Ronneburg / Zentrales Geologisches Institut Berlin
- Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen
Digitale Fachangebote, Presse und weitere Quellengeber19
- Ancestry
- Légifrance / Journal officiel de la République française
- INSEE sowie die Personenstandsportale acte-deces.fr, acte-de-naissance.fr und GénéaFrance
- Belgian War Memorials
- SNCB / NMBS
- Il futuro non si cancella
- Schiavi di Hitler / Ausstellung „Nebenan“
- Redacon, Gazzetta di Reggio und Stampa Reggiana
- Araberara, TargatoCN, Ticino Notizie und Cronache Maceratesi
- Valdelriso / Le Officine del Grem
- Aircrew Remembered, Asisbiz und Military-Art.com
- Andreas Zapf / Flight Logs und Blitzgeschwader.de
- WarAlbum.ru und russische Veteranenpublikationen
- Axis History Forum, Flugzeugforum und Schatzsucher.de
- Onlinelesen / Amtsblattverlag Linus Wittich
- Genealogie Online, Geneawiki und Demografix
- BMW und weitere beteiligte Unternehmen mit eigenen historischen Unterlagen
- Zeitzeuginnen und Zeitzeugen, Familienarchive und private Nachlässe
- Archiv des Stadtchronisten sowie der lokale Forschungsbestand des Vereins
War years (1943–1945)
Underground relocation, construction, and production up to liberation.
Underground relocation
Armaments moved into tunnels and mines
Interactive overview map with clusters, selected facilities with short code-name briefs, references to sources.
Maps Code-name briefs Database: relocations
Full access to the relocation database for members Become a member
Construction
Bunker building, runway, infrastructure
Company directory, aerial image and tunnel plan, selected eyewitness accounts from the construction phase.
Eyewitnesses Plans & aerial image Company list
Production
Assembly and manufacturing organisation
Key figures with animated indicators, 3D model of the Me 262, records of aircraft produced.
3D viewer Key figures Records
Forced labour
Camps, forced labour, and personal stories
Camp map, origin map, and statistics modules; access to our personal and origin database.
Maps Statistics Database: forced labour
Parts of the personal/origin database for members Become a member
Liberation
April 1945 in the Kahla region
Timeline of the final days of war, photos and sources documenting the capture of the region.
Timeline Sources
Besatzerwechsel
Vom amerikanischen Aufklärungsobjekt zum sowjetischen Demontage- und Sprenggelände.
Quellenbasierte Dev-Unterseite zum Übergang von US-Untersuchung, sowjetischer Erfassung, Demontage und gezielter Zerstörung.
DevQuellenhighlighting
After 1945
Reuse, coming to terms with the past, and culture of remembrance.
Reuse
Military restricted area, research, utilisation
Post-war timeline from demolitions to NVA depot 22; documents and imagery covering civilian and military use.
Timeline Documents Visual material
Commemoration
Memorial sites, peace bell, commemorations
Memorial sites and annual ceremonies, projects such as the peace bell, information on names and remembrance initiatives.
Memorial sites Projects
Publications
Publications on the history of the Walpersberg
To complement our guided tours, we offer this selection of specialist literature and documentation. With your purchase, you not only support the research and preservation of Walpersberg's history, but also gain access to detailed findings and eyewitness accounts.
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