Killing Hitler (51 page)

Bodo Scheurig,
Henning von Tresckow
(Berlin, 2004 edition)

Fabian von Schlabrendorff,
The Secret War Against Hitler
(London, 1966)

Matthias Schmidt,
Albert Speer, The End of a Myth
(London, 1985)

Christa Schroeder,
Er war mein Chef
(Munich, 1985)

Gitta Sereny,
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
(London, 1995)

Robert Service,
Stalin: A Biography
(London, 2004)

Franz Siedler and Dieter Zeigert,
Hitler’s Secret Headquarters
(London, 2004)

Albert Speer,
Alles, was ich weiβ
(Munich, 2000)

Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
(London, 1970)

Albert Speer,
Spandau—The Secret Diaries
(London, 1976)

Reinhard Spitzy,
How We Squandered the Reich
(Wilby, Norfolk, 1997)

David Stafford,
Churchill and the Secret Service
(New York, 1998)

David Stafford,
Britain and European Resistance, 1940–45
(London, 1980)

Alexander Stahlberg,
Bounden Duty—The Memoirs of a German Officer 1932–45
(London, 1990)

Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showalter,
Voices from the Third Reich
(London, 1989)

Pavel Sudoplatov,
Special Tasks
(London, 1994)

C. G. Sweeting,
Hitler’s Personal Pilot: The Life and Times of Hans Baur
(Washington, DC, 2000)

John Toland,
Hitler
(London, 1976)

Hugh Trevor-Roper (ed.),
Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945
(London, 1964)

Hugh Trevor-Roper,
The Last Days of Hitler
, 7th edition (London, 2002)

Ann Tusa and John Tusa,
The Nuremberg Trial
(London, 1983)

Klaus Urner,
Der Schweizer Hitler-Attentäter
(Stuttgart, 1980)

Dan van der Vat,
The Good Nazi—The Life and Lies of Albert Speer
(London, 1997)

Walter Warlimont,
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
(London, 1964)

John Wheeler-Bennett,
The Nemesis of Power—The German Army in Politics, 1918–45
(London, 1961)

Notes

Introduction

¹
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, House of Commons, 1 May 1865. Quoted in
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
(Oxford, 1949), p. 128.

²
See Miles Hudson, Assassination (Stroud, 2000).

³
See, for example, Willi Berthold,
Die 42 Attentate auf Hitler
(Munich, 1981).

Prologue

¹
Quoted in John Toland,
Hitler
(London, 1976), p. 156.

²
Quoted in Konrad Heiden,
Der Führer
(London, 1967), p. 154.

³
All statistics from Detlev Peukert,
The Weimar Republic
(London, 1991), p. 63.

⁴
Karl-Alexander von Müller quoted in Harold J. Gordon,
Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch
(Princeton, 1972), p. 288.

⁵
The
Times
(London), 12 November 1923, p. 12.

⁶
Quoted in Toland, op. cit., p. 167.

⁷
See Ernst Günther Schenck,
Patient Hitler
(Augsburg, 2000), p. 300.

⁸
Helene Hanfstaengl quoted in Toland, op. cit., p. 175.

⁹
Gordon, op. cit., p. 465.

¹⁰
The
Times
(London), 10 November 1923, p. 13.

¹¹
Quoted in Ian Kershaw,
Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris
(London, 2000), p. 212.

¹²
Quoted in Alan Bullock,
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
(London, 1962 edition), pp. 119–20.

Chapter 1

¹
Quoted in Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
(New York, 2000 edition), p. 24.

²
Heinrich August Winkler,
Weimar 1918–1933
(Munich, 1998), p. 593.

³
Max Domarus,
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–45
, Vol. I (London, 1990), p. 228.

⁴
Quoted in Ian Kershaw,
Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris
(London, 2000), p. 423.

⁵
See Bundesarchiv [hereafter BA], File R43II/990.

⁶
BA, R43II/990–32, 138, 146.

⁷
Quoted in Gerhard Reitlinger,
The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922–1945
(New York, 1957), p. 13.

⁸
Heinz Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
(London, 1969), p. 21.

⁹
Quoted in ibid., p. 24.

¹⁰
Heinrich Himmler quoted in Peter Padfield,
Himmler: Reichsführer-SS
(London, 1990), p. 90.

¹¹
Himmler quoted in ibid., p. 99.

¹²
Otto Kumm, later of the
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
, quoted in Johannes Stein-hoff, Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showalter,
Voices from the Third Reich
(London, 1989), pp. 23–24.

¹³
Höhne, op. cit., p. 64.

¹⁴
Kurt Ludecke quoted in Charles Messenger,
Hitler’s Gladiator: The Life and Military Career of Sepp Dietrich
(London, 1988), p. 45.

¹⁵
Sefton Delmer,
Trail Sinister: An Autobiography
, Vol. I (London, 1961), p. 147.

¹⁶
Ibid., p. 152.

¹⁷
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 21.

¹⁸
Delmer, op. cit., pp. 111–13.

¹⁹
Alan Bullock,
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
(London, 1962 edition), p. 392.

²⁰
John Toland,
Hitler
(London, 1976), pp. 390, 402–3.

²¹
Ibid., p. 394.

²²
Ibid., pp. 137–38.

²³
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 19.

²⁴
Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
(London, 1970), p. 55.

²⁵
Henry Picker,
Hitler’s Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier 1941–42
(Bonn, 1951), p. 232.

²⁶
N. Cameron and R. H. Stevens (trans.),
Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–1944
(London, 1953), p. 176.

²⁷
Speer, op. cit., p. 177.

²⁸
Kershaw, op. cit., p. 343.

²⁹
Quoted in Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 264.

³⁰
See BA File R43II/990/F5.

³¹
BA R43II/990/F5/192.

³²
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 24.

³³
BA R58/724–16, 30–33.

³⁴
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 178.

³⁵
Höhne, op. cit., p. 114.

³⁶
On Frankfurter, see Emil Ludwig,
The Davos Murder
(London, 1937).

³⁷
Quoted in Günter Grass,
Crabwalk
(London, 2003), p. 25.

³⁸
Though some claim that he survived the war and lived in Paris under an assumed name. See Ron Roisin, “Herschel Grynszpan: The Fate of a Forgotten Assassin,” in
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1986), pp. 217–28.

³⁹
Quoted in Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 31.

⁴⁰
The
Leibstandarte
was initially formed in March 1933 under another title. It then went through several name changes before being redesignated the
Leib-standarte SS Adolf Hitler
in 1934.

⁴¹
Quoted in Höhne, op. cit., p. 148.

⁴²
Ulrich Frodien,
Bleib Übrig
(Munich, 2002), p. 136. Translated by the author.

⁴³
This contention is still controversial, but see, for example,
Operation Foxley: The British Plan to Kill Hitler
(London, 1998), p. 104; Ada Petrova and Peter Watson,
The Death of Hitler
(London, 1995), p. 90.

⁴⁴
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 62.

⁴⁵
Quoted in Ewan Butler,
Mason-Mac
(London, 1972), p. 70.

⁴⁶
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 32.

⁴⁷
Ibid., p. 48.

⁴⁸
Traudl Junge and Melissa Müller,
Bis zur letzten Stunde
(Munich, 2002), p. 37.

⁴⁹
Toland, op. cit., p. 779.

⁵⁰
Speer, op. cit., pp. 61–62.

⁵¹
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 265.

⁵²
Interview with Rochus Misch,
Der Spiegel
, 35/2004.

⁵³
Cameron and Stevens, op. cit., pp. 452–53.

⁵⁴
Operation Foxley
, p. 104.

⁵⁵
Reinhard Spitzy,
How We Squandered the Reich
(Wilby, Norfolk, 1997), p. 86.

⁵⁶
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 32.

⁵⁷
Hitler’s favorites included the Kaiserhof in Berlin and the Osteria Bavaria and Café Heck in Munich.

⁵⁸
Klaus Urner,
Der Schweizer Hitler-Attentäter
(Stuttgart, 1980), pp. 209–10.

⁵⁹
See Stefan Keller, “Grüezi, Herr Reichskriminaldirektor!” in
Züricher Wochenzeitung
, 11 November 1998.

⁶⁰
Peter Hoffmann, “Maurice Bavaud’s Attempt to Assassinate Hitler in 1938,” in George Mosse (ed.),
Police Forces in History
(London, 1975), pp. 182–83.

⁶¹
Urner, op. cit., p. 228.