Killing Hitler (55 page)

⁷⁴
Borodziej, op. cit., p. 75.

⁷⁵
See Hans Frank,
Das Diensttagebuch des deutschen Gouverneurs in Polen 1939–45
(Stuttgart, 1975).

⁷⁶
Lukas, op. cit., p. 92.

⁷⁷
The snake or viper was a common Nazi metaphor in describing resistance to German occupation. It featured in a number of campaign badges, such as the Warsaw Shield and the Anti-Partisan Badge.

⁷⁸
Hoffmann, op. cit., p. 197.

⁷⁹
Ibid., p. 135.

⁸⁰
Take, for example, the journey from Bad Polzin to Topolno on the Vistula and back to Plietnitz undertaken on 4 September 1939—a total of approximately 250 km.

⁸¹
See the German
Wochenschau
newsreel covering the September Campaign held at the Imperial War Museum Film Archive, London.

⁸²
Hoffmann, op. cit., pp. 136–37.

⁸³
Ibid., p. 136.

⁸⁴
Ibid., p. 137.

⁸⁵
Interview with Ewa Klarner Huggins, granddaughter of Czesław Klarner, who was one of the hostages (5 December 2003).

⁸⁶
Jan Nowak,
Courier from Warsaw
(London, 1982), p. 60.

⁸⁷
Janina Karasiówna, “Pierwsze półrocze armii podziemnej SZP-ZWZ,” in
Niepodległość
, Vol. 1, 1948; see also
Dziennik Polski, 7
September 2003, p. 5.

⁸⁸
Nowak, op. cit., p. 60.

⁸⁹
Hoffmann, op. cit., p. 224.

⁹⁰
Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
(London, 1970), p. 40ln.

⁹¹
F. Siedler and D. Zeigert,
Die Führerhauptquartiere. Anlagen und Planungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg
(Munich, 2001), p. 350.

⁹²
N. Cameron and R. H. Stevens (trans.),
Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944
(London, 1953), p. 340.

⁹³
Christa Schroeder,
Er war mein Chef
(Munich, 1985), p. 112.

⁹⁴
See map 32c in Hoffmann, op. cit., pp. 222–23.

⁹⁵
E. Korpalski, J. Szynkowski, and G. Wünsche,
Das Führerhauptquartier im Bild und in Errinerungen von Zeitzeugen
(Kętrzyn, 2004), p. 28.

⁹⁶
Hoffmann, op. cit., p. 229.

⁹⁷
Bruno Dreyer quoted in Korpalski et al., op. cit., p. 183.

⁹⁸
Ibid., p. 29.

⁹⁹
Speer, op. cit., p. 526.

¹⁰⁰
See Ron Jeffrey,
Red Runs the Vistula
(Auckland, 1985).

¹⁰¹
U. Neumärker, R. Conrad, and C. Woywodt,
Wolfschanze: Hitler’s Machtzentrale im II Weltkrieg
(Berlin, 2000), p. 71.

¹⁰²
Hoffmann, op. cit., p. 67.

¹⁰³
Traudl Junge,
Bis zur letzten Stunde
(Munich, 2002), p. 59.

¹⁰⁴
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., p. 153.

¹⁰⁵
Krzysztof Komorowski,
Konspiracja Pomorska 1939–1947—Leksykon
(Gdańsk, 1993), pp. 94–96.

¹⁰⁶
See Zygmunt August Sikorski,
Jan Kazimierz Szalewski—dzieje pomorskiego patrioty
(Gdańsk, 1996), pp. 61–67.

¹⁰⁷
Deposition of Jan Szalewski, ps. “Sobół-Sable,” ref: M-14/623 POM in Fun-dacja Archiwum Muzeum Pomorskie Armii Krajowej oraz Wojskowej Służby Polek w Toruniu, Torun, Poland.

¹⁰⁸
See the account of Jan Szalewski, who led one of the units in the attack, as retold in Majewski, op. cit., p. 6.

¹⁰⁹
Jan Szalewski, “Zamach na Hitlera,” in
Głos Nauczycielski
, No. 29, 1974.

¹¹⁰
See Majewski, op. cit., p. 6.

¹¹¹
Sikorski, op. cit., p. 66.

¹¹²
Konrad Ciechanowski,
Ruch oporu na Pomorzu Gdańskim 1939–1945
(Warsaw, 1972), p. 132.

¹¹³
Letter from the Danzig Abwehr from 27 September 1944, reproduced in Sikorski, op. cit., p. 66.

¹¹⁴
See, for example, Leon Lubecki,
Ruch oporu na Pomorzu Gdańskim w latach 1939–1945
(Gdansk, 1961), p. 59.

¹¹⁵
National Archive, London, HS6/624, Appendix 4.

¹¹⁶
Hoffmann, op. cit., p. xxviii.

¹¹⁷
Komorowski, op. cit., pp. 164–65.

¹¹⁸
Ibid., p. 96.

¹¹⁹
Piotr Stachiewicz,
Parasol
(Warsaw, 1981), p. 628.

¹²⁰
See Davies,
Rising
, Chapter VII.

¹²¹
Komorowski, op. cit., pp. 164–65.

¹²²
See personnel file of Franciszek Niepokólczycki, ps. “Theodore,” SPP ref: TP3/5920/2.

¹²³
Dariusz Baliszewski, “Polski Zamach na Hitlera,” in
Newsweek Polska
, 04/2002.

Chapter 5

¹
National Archive (London) [hereafter NA], FO371/32878/N1688, British Embassy, Moscow, to Foreign Office, 30 March 1942.

²
Statistics from Gerd Ueberschär, “Barbarossa,” in I. C. B. Dear (ed.),
The Oxford Companion to the Second World War
(Oxford, 1995), pp. 109–13.

³
Quoted in Max Domarus,
Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen
, Vol. II (Wiesbaden, 1973), p. 1732.

⁴
Alexander Werth,
Russia at War: 1941–45
(London, 1964), p. 159.

⁵
Von Hardesty,
Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941–45
(Washington, DC, 1982), p. 11.

⁶
See John Erickson,
The Road to Stalingrad
(London, 1975), p. 87.

⁷
Simon Sebag Montefiore,
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
(London, 2003), p. 323.

⁸
Werth, op. cit., p. 181.

⁹
Montefiore, op. cit., pp. 330–31 and footnote.

¹⁰
Quoted in Constantine Pleshakov,
Stalin’s Folly
(London, 2005), p. 91.

¹¹
1See, for instance, Viktor Suvorov,
Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?
(London, 1990).

¹²
Quoted in Alan Bullock,
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
(London, 1991), p. 389.

¹³
Quoted in Werth, op. cit., pp. 164–68.

¹⁴
Montefiore, op. cit., p. 221.

¹⁵
Anne Applebaum,
Gulag
(London, 2003), p. 123.

¹⁶
Montefiore, op. cit., p. 219.

¹⁷
Ibid., p. 222.

¹⁸
Robert Conquest,
The Great Terror—A Reassessment
(London, 1990), p. 235.

¹⁹
Montefiore, op. cit., p. 240.

²⁰
Mark Frankland,
Khrushchev
(London, 1966), p. 47.

²¹
Montefiore, op. cit., p. 283.

²²
Michael Parrish,
The Lesser Terror
(Westport, CT, 1996), p. 57.

²³
See, for instance, Robert Conquest, “Playing Down the Gulag,” in
The Times Literary Supplement
, 24 February 1995.

²⁴
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The Mitrokhin File
(London, 2000 edition), p. 91.

²⁵
Ibid., p. 117.

²⁶
Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky,
KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev
(London, 1990), pp. 128–29.

²⁷
Andrew and Mitrokhin, op. cit., p. 105.

²⁸
See W.G. Krivitsky,
In Stalin’s Secret Service
(New York, 2000).

²⁹
Andrew and Gordievsky, op. cit., pp. 125–26.

³⁰
Quoted in Isaac Don Levine,
The Mind of an Assassin
(London, 1959), p. 125.

³¹
Andrew and Mitrokhin, op. cit., p. 116.

³²
Ibid., p. 92.

³³
Some accounts maintain that Foote’s plan was hatched in 1938; however, a
close reading of his memoirs makes it clear that it took place in 1939. See Alexander Foote,
Handbook for Spies
(London, 1949), pp. 30–35.

³⁴
Ibid., p. 26.

³⁵
Ibid., p. 32.

³⁶
Quoted in David Pryce-Jones,
Unity Mitford—A Quest
(London, 1995), p. 102.

³⁷
Traudl Junge,
Until the Final Hour
(London, 2003), p. 102.

³⁸
Foote, op. cit., p. 31.

³⁹
Ibid., pp. 31–32.

⁴⁰
Quoted in Neil Grant,
The German-Soviet Pact
(New York, 1975), p. 51.

⁴¹
Foote, op. cit., pp. 32–33.

⁴²
See Anthony Read and David Fisher,
Operation Lucy
(London, 1980).

⁴³
Antony Beevor,
Stalingrad
(London, 1998), p. 108.

⁴⁴
Guy Sajer,
The Forgotten Soldier
(London, 1971), p. 382.

⁴⁵
Quoted in Werth, op. cit., p. 167.

⁴⁶
Parrish, op. cit., p. 121.