Is there a list of the German Depots and their markings from WWI? Right now I am interested in what the longer Custrin Depot mark letters mean but I would be interested in reading about and seeing all the markings.
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Storz has a chart that details the collection centers, page 129, but very little beyond a general outline of the procedures involved. Cüstrin was a fortress at the time and like all such fortresses they served little purpose other than a secure base for supplies and military operations. They undertook rifle repair at Cüstrin, but other than that I know of little that occurred there during the war.
In the republican era it served as a black Reichswehr site for a time, like all the eastern fortresses and training grounds that stayed in German hands (some fell to the Poles after the fraudulent plebiscites, - flawed to begin with, even the Germans getting the popular vote, even among strong Polish populated areas sometimes, they sometimes went to Poland... entirely due to French control of some of the areas - English and French troops were moved into these areas to separate the German and Pole paramilitary factions), they along with the large German estates (aristocracy) served as paramilitary hideouts in case war broke out with Poland.
Another interesting footnote is that Küstrin was seized during the republican period by some faction, offhand I do not recall if it was during the Kapp putsch or one of the subsequent socialist strikes/revolts, but it was early pre-1923, it didn't last long as I recall, loyal troops put the revolt down... but Küstrin figured prominently during the revolt due to the success. Anyway, - something I am loath to do, if you want to learn about Cüstrin/Küstrin, you might do some googling, not a huge internet "research" enthusiast, I think you get a lot of disinformation and distortion from most "internet" babble, but this is obscure enough a subject you might find some useful material. Personally I like old books and period professional journals/magazines, the more obscure the better, - before the postmodernist revolution polluted every institution western culture rests upon...