Originally Posted By: sauerfan
... I found and picked up his Personalkarte (personnel record card) in a burned building on the Sauer plant in 1998 together with Jim Cate. A room of this building was filled up with hundreds of such cards - most of them ruined by fire or water, but some were in good condition (also some pre-war and war time cards). We picked them up (nobody cared for us) some weeks later the whole building and its filling was history.. but thats of course another story (if anybody is interested, I could show in an extra thread some photos of the Sauer plant taken in 1998 compared with some photos of 2007)....

Martin,

That is a kind offer. Please do start another thread on the subject. There are many history buffs reading who would enjoy the information and any stories you would share.

Pete