James Christie
Active member
To be honest I think the only way to narrow down the odds on this one would be to look in depth at Bader's war time movements between 1941 and 1943, I do not think we will be able to find any corroborating evidence from others as the passage of time has pretty much eliminated anyone that may possibly be able to verify any part of the story and even if anyone was still capable of doing so they would have similar memory issues.
At a guess I would say that the only reliable source at this point would be the MOD or German war time records and unfortunately I am not sure where you would start on that one.
I've no idea if german pow records survived the war, but according to one of the ats posts, bader was intetviewrd by mi9 after his return from colditz and that report which was confidential at the time is at the national record office. there is a website that quoted a lot of other mi9 debriefs, but not bader.