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Post by Martinski » 31 May 2012, 22:08

Hello Dieter!



Thanks for your helpful explanations! But before repeating this German etymology again to my and keep “the stone rolling” you should teach this lesson to some of your country fellows as well.



In the excellent book by Franz W. Seidler – Dieter Zeigert: “Die Führerhauptquartiere” - Page 222:



“In einem Areal acht Kilometer nördlich von Winniza und östlich der Straße nach Schitomir war seit November 1941 an Quartieren für Hitler und seinen Arbeitsstab, für das OKH, den Führungsstab der Luftwaffe, den Reichsführer SS, den Reichsminister Dr. Lammers und den Reichsaußenminister gebaut worden. Die Bauten für Hitler und die Feldstaffel des Wehrmachtführungsstabes liefen unter den Tarnnamen »Wehrwolf« und »Wald«.



Hitler legte die Schreibweise des Wortes »Wehrwolf« persönlich fest.319 Der Platz für Wehrwolf war vom Chefadjutanten der Wehrmacht, Generalmajor Schmundt, erkundet worden. Seine Wahl fiel auf das Waldstück nördlich Winniza unter anderem deshalb, weil dort eine größere Leitungsspinne vorhanden war, die die rasche fernmeldetechnische Anbindung des Führerhauptquartiers als Befehlszentrale ermöglichte.”



The books by Percy Ernst Schramm are also in my huge library. Believe me, I want all the way in order to check the SPELLING first – BEFORE making my point here in this Forum. I knew that this issue was ready to be discussed.



I told you earlier: the initial spelling (KTB – Kommandant FHQu – RSD – Gruppe OST files etc.) do state the inital spelling “WEHRWOLF”. As I told you already, the OKH, located in their HQ in the town of Winniza, kept using the spelling “WERWOLF” in a stubborn way.



I do own ALL copies of the RSD (GFP – Gruppe OST) (about 5,000 pages from November 1941 – September 1943) which fell in the hands of the Red Army at the liberation of Winniza in March 1944. I did read them ALL in German (as the NKVD translated ALL pages in Russian from 1947 – 1949 – I do own the Russian translations as well...)



I will publish tomorrow (I have my flight back to Brussels) some copies of their files where you will see (for the first time, as you indicated) the spelling “WEHRWOLF”.



So, also the guys from the RSD need a posteriori a lesson in German Etymology...!?!



Another argument: some time ago I acquired an original transportation case for an “Enigma” de/encoding machine. The case is still in its original colours and bears the inscription (see photo):



“Deutsche Wehrmacht Führungsstab Wehrwolf” (so WITH '-h')



Keep tuned – I will open a separate thread to start some explanations, photos and finds from the FHQu “Wehrwolf”...



Martin