> the nazis confiscated it in 1935/6 under a general suppression of freemasonry; it was moved to silesia during the war, and was subsequently stolen by the russians and transferred to the soviet union. most of it was returned to (east) germany in 1950s  volumes 1-9 and 11-20  but the tenth-volume remained in moscow > monika neugebauer-wlk writes: > "after the dissolution of the soviet union and the partial opening of the russian archives to international research, the tenth volume of the swedish box was rediscovered by the merseburg archivist renate endler in the moscow special archive. as a consequence of german reunification, the freemasonry archives were transferred in 1994 from merseburg to the geheimes staatsarchiv preuischer kulturbesitz berlin. here the estate of bode is available for scholarly use with permission of the grand national mother-lodge zur den drei weltkugeln." > monika neugebauer-wlk, illuminaten entry, in dictionary of gnosis & western esotericism, ed. wouter j. hanegraaff, brill academic publishers, 2005, p. 596 > faithfully adhering to ernsts order not to publish any of this material, safely in sweden during most of the 19th- and then gotha into the 20th-century, the papers of bode were kept under lock and key. only a few pre wwi and wwii scholars were even allowed to examine them; leopold engel and ren le forestier, for instance, but they werent given full access, and what they intended to publish was closely scrutinized > with the entire comprehensive collection restored and accessible to research, much has been learned about the illuminatis makeup and activities in the latter half of the 1780s: quibus licet reports from the initiates themselves, minutes of meetings, protocols for provincials and prefects, and lists of members and their aliases
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