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wulffo.... thanks for the comments.
The story I heard went like this: On his death he apparently gave about a third of it to Parks in Denver, a third to Peter Grosz and still about a third again of which Bruno Schmaling and Neal O'Conner ended up with portions. On Ferko’s death the UTD folks had someone buy him out and sent it to the library. On Peter's death he donated his collection to the museum in Berlin and therein lies my problem.
I have it on good authority that this museum in Berlin will not allow non-German born citizens to access the materials and really are not interested in being helpful to folks like me (including Austrians, Polish and Hungarians and such... as though they were all “meddling Americans” like me). I do not know from personal experience but those who make the claim are people who are librarians as well as WW1 researchers who have warned me not to bother making any Lufthansa reservations.
Do you know of a different experience with them that could give me hope?
I really do not understand their sentiment.
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