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Originally Posted by Klaus
At least the papers which were not destroyed by the Germans themselves. The Russians were on the winning side. Why should they destroy their papers? Nobody was looking for them anyhow.
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People were looking, Western historians in particular. But they were denied access, at least until the 1990's. David Glantz, one of the foremost, if not the foremost authority in the West on the Russo-German War of 1941-45 was one of the first to analyze the selectively "opened" Soviet archives. Prior to that virtaully all English language histories of that war were written from German records and hence from the German perspective.