Merlancia's "German office" is supposed to be located at the Carl-Gieseke
Str. 5 in Braunschweig, Germany. That's the former address where Amiga
Germany has stored some parts, but they're long gone. It's a logistics
center run by Streiff & Helmold GmbH (they do packing and logistics, see
http://www.streiff.de
My European contacts contacted them on 12-27-02, and they confirmed that no
"Merlancia" has ever existed in that place. The picture of the building is
a fake.
Unfortunately, the place is about x hours away from my contacts business,
really not worth driving there just to prove things that we already know.
The owners of the building (+49 531 231330) have looked up the name
Merlancia in the list of clients, and did not find anything. They were
then asked if they ever did business with Commodore or Amiga, and then
the guy remembered.