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halifaxhops said

Actually have some really old documents I could use translated. 1600's German stuff from the ancestry stuff my dad did. No idea how he got them.

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Germans kept detailed records, their archives are amazing. I was able to obtain my grandfathers draft papers from ww2 into the German Luftwaffe as well as his dad's into WW1. I was also able to get a list of everywhere they were in the wars. Plus all his paperwork to leave Germany and come to the US.

They kept even better records on military equipment, that's how my dad was able to locate a frozen in the tundra German half track about 50 KM from Stalingrad. Its now sitting here at the farm. Have all the paperwork on it and why it was abandoned. It blew a rear diff and locked up and couldn't move. The other Half track he has was Abandoned in the desert in Algers Africa. Electrical failure.