[mrerick]

Perhaps this is another clue to solving the mystery of the Ku Lugers.

I followed up on the depot that the Sturgess book referenced as being in Brandenburg at Krugau.

Turns out that this was known during the war as:

Flyer Technical Warehouse 14 (FTL-14) at Markische-Heide-Krugau.

http://wikimapia.org/31491461/de/Fli...e-Heide-Krugau

This was listed as a main ordinance depot for weapons in the Sturgess document (H.Za.). It is in the Berlin Military District III, and must have contained a forced labor camp. There is a Soviet War Memorial erected in 1946 in the cemetery of the Krugau district for 42 women, men and children that perished during the Second World War in a munitions factory doing forced labor.

Here's a description of the history of FTL-14:

https://translate.google.com/transla...e=form&act=url

Material storage

Krugau, FTL-14

Object data

• <h2>
• Construction 1939-40
• Commissioning 01.06.1940 [1]
• several storage bunkers, warehouses, production facilities
• Siding from Börnichen-Schlepzig station (route Falkenberg - Beeskow)</h2>

Terms history

• <h2>
• Army ammunition factory and army-tank side Zeugamt [1]
• after World War II bombing of the production and storage area
• 1958 Technical flyer bearing the NVA [3]
• around 1980 construction of a shooting range [2]
• October 1990 takeover by the Bundeswehr as "Spreewald barracks" of LwMatDp 51 [3]
• since August 1994 cards bearing east of the Bundeswehr
• since 01.01.2005 medical supplies bearing the armed forces base [4]</h2>

Map [5]

© Public Domain, Courtesy Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University


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Fertigungs- und Lagerbereich



Bahnverladung






So... could this be the birthplace of Ku Lugers?



Marc