1938 (54 page)

178
His more reasoned tone:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 61, 66, 70.

178
“That’s impossible—Czechoslovakia:
Gedye,
Fallen Bastions
, 440.

179
“only a man lacking:
Quoted in Grunberger,
Social History
, 515.

179
Goebbels was thrilled:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 76, 79.

179
“vain, stupid prima donna.”:
Martha Schad,
Hitlers Spionin
, 89–92; Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 80.

179
“He faces danger:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 75.

180
“We have to have Prague,”:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 78.

180
the outgoing French ambassador:
Spitzy,
So haben wir das Reich verspielt
, 305.

180
All eyes turned to Hitler:
François-Poncet,
Souvenirs
, 322.

180
the usual son et lumière:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 81.

180
He didn’t even attempt:
Conwell-Evans,
None So Blind
, 141.

180
“That would be disappointing:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 84.

181
“He is already onto the next step:
Groscurth,
Tagebücher
, 117.

181
“I greet a hundred:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 85.

181
Goebbels adorned the cards:
Meehan,
Unnecessary War
, 167.

181
It had an “indescribable” effect:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 88.

181
Hitler’s liaison with the Wilhelmstrasse:
Parparov,
Hitler Book
, 29. 18

1
a hunting party at Rominten:
The hunting lodge in East Prussia that Göring had bought from the former kaiser.

182
“Keep your mind quite clear:
Schmidt,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, 90.

182
Chamberlain waved his hat:
Parparov,
Hitler Book
, 29.

182
The German-Polish cooperation:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 90.

183
Many Poles thought Beck’s policy:
Roos,
Polen und Europa
, 338–339.

183
“If that is so, why did you:
Schmidt,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, 93.

183
He had not brought an interpreter:
Spitzy,
So haben wir das Reich verspielt
, 307.

183
“the old man took an aeroplane:
Parparov,
Hitler Book
, 30.

183
had expressed the fear that:
Groscurth,
Tagebücher
, 120.

183
“the commonest little dog:
Lamb,
The Ghosts of Peace
, 80.

184
Goebbels consoled himself:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 97.

184
Wilson as “the Sow.”:
PRO FO C11001.

184
“the Lord who wrote the mad:
PRO FO C11001.

184
“dangerous, mendacious, sly and scheming.”:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 103.

184
The former Foreign Secretary Eden:
PRO FO C10929.

184
Bonnet as “the Swine.”:
PRO FO C11001.

185
In ten years he would have managed:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 98.

185
the Führer “a genius.”:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 102.

185
He did not know how they could:
Ulrich von Hassell,
The von Hassell Diaries, 1938–1944
(London, 1948), 11.

185
A camp was built:
Klepper,
Tagebücher
, 645.

186
The Reich would win:
Klemperer,
Tagebücher
, 424.

186
The chief fear:
Groscurth,
Tagebücher
, 124.

186
On September 22 he hurriedly dispatched:
Schwerin
, Junge Generation
, 158.

186
“the Old Man will soon be:
PRO FO C11001.

186
The generals plied him with memos:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 105–106.

187
the Germans had carved out a very large slice of the Czech cake:
Chamberlain had been prepared for the cession of all areas more than 50 percent German, but Hitler wanted to remove the votes of Czechs planted in German-speaking areas after 1918, while any German who had left after that date would be allowed to make his views known.

187
vigorously denied by Masaryk on the 28th:
PRO FO C11001.

187
They were calculated to make:
Kordt,
Nicht aus den Akten
, 261.

187
“Oh, Mr Prime Minister, I am:
Bullock,
Hitler
, 458.

187
fortified with “the right stuff,”:
Schmidt,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, 99.

188
There was a final discussion:
PRO FO C11001.

188
the drunkard Hoffmann:
The father-in-law of Baldur von Schirach and the discoverer of Eva Braun.

188
the French were woefully unprepared:
Roberts
, Holy Fox
, 115.

188
who was “shitting himself.”:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher, I, VI
, 111.

189
“The Germans are being treated like niggers:
The Czech language was apparently remarkably similar. Officials at the Czech foreign office told Eric Gedye, “The Chamberlain government . . . is treating our head of state as though he were a nigger chieftain ruling some troublesome colonial tribe.” Gedye,
Fallen Bastions
, 410.

189
He told Goebbels:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 117.

189
“Now we have arrived:
Klepper,
Tagebücher
, 653.

189
It was his idea that Hitler:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 111.

189
“audience should represent the people:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 113.

189
“Now let Herr Beneš make his choice.”:
Bullock,
Hitler
, 463.

189
“a horrible, undignified rant.”:
Groscurth,
Tagebücher
, 124.

190
President Roosevelt was alarmed:
PRO FO C10931.

190
lip service to international opinion or law:
Reich and Reich,
Zweier Zeugen Mund
, 211.

190
“So—next week we’ll all find:
Schmidt,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, 105.

190
“one of the first business leaders:
Hassell,
Diaries
, 13.

190
It seemed certain that Hitler:
Schwerin,
Junge Generation
, 160.

191
open criticism was heard:
Meehan,
Unnecessary War
, 52–53.

191
“frigid silence.”:
Klepper,
Tagebücher
, 656; Conwell-Evans,
None So Blind
, 148; Spitzy,
So haben wir das Reich verspielt
, 313.

191
“Look at the people’s faces:
Kordt,
Nicht aus den Akten
, 267.

191
hid behind a curtain:
Conwell-Evans,
None So Blind
, 148.

191
“Everywhere the most profound impression:
Tagebücher, I, VI
, 117.

191
“complained about the generals:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 115.

191
foot-and-mouth disease:
Jill Stephenson,
Home Front
, 62.

191
the Germans were ready for change:
Schwerin,
Junge Generation
, 162.

191
“calm and dignified.”:
Groscurth,
Tagebücher
, 125.

192
He found tables set for lunch:
François-Poncet,
Souvenirs
, 327.

192
“Why should you take the risk:
Schmidt,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, 106.

192
“liquidation of English prestige,”:
Ciano,
Ciano’s Diary
, 154, 156, 162.

192
Chamberlain also offered to fly:
PRO FO C10883/1941/18.

192
anti-Nazi Bernardo Attolico:
Moseley,
Mussolini’s Shadow
, 37.

192
The country was already “done for.”:
Hassell,
Diaries
, 15.

193
There was never any love lost:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 119; Spitzy,
So haben wir das Reich verspielt
, 316.

193
“We’ll carry on fortifying ourselves:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 120.

193
“indescribable enthusiasm.”:
Kershaw,
Nemesis
, 121.

194
“young and full of vigour.”:
Ciano,
Ciano’s Diary
, 166.

194
Mussolini was to be the focus:
Bullock,
Hitler
, 468.

194
The RAM was still shouting for war:
Groscurth,
Tagebücher
, 128.

194
“like a petulant child”:
Bloch,
Ribbentrop
, 213–214.

194
He was particularly furious:
Kley,
Hitler, Ribbentrop
, 140.

194
Even Winifred Wagner thought:
Hamann,
Winifred Wagner
, 295.

194
There was occasional rearguard action:
François-Poncet,
Souvenirs
, 331.

194
expressed his liking of the French premier:
Schmidt,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, 109.

194
the frigid, vulpine Chamberlain:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 125–126.

195
In the end he had not even been able:
Schmidt,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, 110.

195
“modest apartment”:
Ciano’s Diary
, 167.

195
Hitler’s peaceable intentions:
François-Poncet,
Souvenirs
, 334.

195
That night the Munichois celebrated:
Schmidt,
Hitler’s Interpreter
, 114.

195
Even
Der Stürmer
congratulated:
Der Stürmer
44, November 1938.

196
Hitler did not join them:
Bullock,
Hitler
, 471.

196
“Foreign Policy Committee unanimous:
Meehan,
Unnecessary War
, 132.

196
“exhausted and happy”:
Klepper,
Tagebücher
, 657, 658.

196
they sang the “Leuthen Chorale”:
So-called because the wounded soldiers sang it spontaneously on the battlefield at Leuthen on December 5, 1757, once Frederick the Great’s victory was assured.

196
“as happy as a child.”:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 121.

196
“He fought bravely:
Goebbels,
Tagebücher I, VI
, 124.

196
“Now, there’s going to be:
Irving,
Göring
, 229.

197
“I confess that I failed:
Klemens von Klemperer, ed.,
A Noble Combat: The Letters of Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz 1932–1939
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1988), 327 and 329–330; quoted in Giles MacDonogh,
A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz
(London, 1989), 118.

197
“Brauchitsch would hear no more:
Colvin,
Intelligence
, 70.

197
On September 3 they were evicted:
Prager Presse
, September 2, 1938; Andrew McFadyean, Report on Italy, January 25, 1939, BBD, C2/2/2.

198
“Antisemitism is not compatible:
Quoted in Gilbert,
Kristallnacht
, 136.

198
It would put pressure:
Chandler, “Church of England,” 234–235.

198
If anything, the camp was:
Heilig,
Men Crucified
, 113.

198
Weisl predicted that 6 million:
BBD Acc/3121/B04/WE24, Wolfgang von Weisl to Mr. Waldman, September 21, 1938.

198
Eichmann sought the fastest emigration:
Rosenkranz,
Verfolgung
, 94, 96.

198
Poland had another 3.2 million:
BBD Acc/3121/BO4/WE24, Weisl to Waldman, September 20, 1938.

199
Latvia was now the sole European country:
Clare,
Last Waltz
, 213.

199
In the autumn of 1938 there were an estimated:
BBD, C11/2/33, Joint Foreign Committee.

199
At the beginning of October, however:
BBD, E3/282, N. Laski to George Rublee, October 4, 1938.

199
The Dutch, too, were showing:
BBD, E3/282.

199
30 to 40 fresh refugees:
BBD, E1/37, Philip Vos KC, September 7, 1938.

199
In the wake of Evian he noted:
BBD Acc/3121/BO4/WE24, Weisl to Waldman, September 21, 1938.

199
The court ruled in Sacher’s favor:
Leo Mazakarini and Andreas Augustin,
Hotel Sacher Wien
(Singapore, 1994), 72–74; A. A. Löwenthal,
Sammtliche Schriften
, Band VII (Stuttgart, 1959), 56–59.