Merging InDesign documents to overlay the pages

Hello, I have two InDesign documents. I need to merge them in a special way:
I need that the page 1 of the Document A and the page 1 of the Document B are merged both onto the page 1 of the resulting Document C, but so that the content of each would appear in different layer of the resulting document. This I need for all the 615 pages of the documents A and B. In simple words, I need to overlay the Document A and Document B onto the same pages. (Or, in other simple words, I would need to put the document A on top of the document B.)

PLACE the page from doc B into doc A. It will appear as a linked image and must be edited in the original.
For your project you might want to place all the pages from both files into a third file. You'll find a script to automate placing multiple pages at InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Zanelli Releases MultiPageImporter for Importing both PDF and INDD Files

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Merge Scanned Document with Frontside / Flipside Pages in Order

This title will show up better for people doing searches but the actual thread is here
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbedaa6.59b55c1e/1
Andrew

Hi,
Please try:
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At the end, Save document. All pages are now on one file, from the first page to the last page.
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Why, thank you Mr. Schneider!
I am embarassed to say that my problem was a couple of typos, (reading the Zanelli script made that obvious to me). The command should have been:
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