Killing Hitler (59 page)

⁸⁰
Hugh Trevor-Roper (ed.),
Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945
(London, 1964), p. 222.

⁸¹
Richard Overy,
The Dictators
(London, 2004), p. 20.

⁸²
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 239.

⁸³
Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
(London, 1970), p. 509.

⁸⁴
Hoffmann,
History
, p. 380.

⁸⁵
Quoted in Kramarz, op. cit., p. 146.

⁸⁶
Speer, op. cit., p. 509.

⁸⁷
Fest, op. cit., p. 238.

⁸⁸
Gisevius, op. cit., pp. 507–12.

⁸⁹
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 256.

⁹⁰
Gisevius, op. cit., p. 510.

⁹¹
Quoted in Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, op. cit., p. 243.

⁹²
M. R. D. Foot,
SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940–1946
(London, 1984), pp. 72–73.

⁹³
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 258.

⁹⁴
Fest, op. cit., p. 247.

⁹⁵
Kramarz, op. cit., p. 155.

⁹⁶
Constantine Fitzgibbon,
The Shirt of Nessus
(London, 1956), p. 131.

⁹⁷
Quoted in Kramarz, op. cit., p. 157.

⁹⁸
Hoffmann,
History
, p. 379.

⁹⁹
Eberhard von Breitenbuch quoted in Fest, op. cit., p. 226.

¹⁰⁰
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 262.

¹⁰¹
Fest, op. cit., p. 249.

¹⁰²
E. Korpalski, J. Szynkowski, and G. Wünsche,
Das Führerhauptquartier im Bild und in Erinnerungen von Zeitzeugen
(Ketrzyn, 2004), p. 110.

¹⁰³
See, for example, testimony of Kurt Salterberg in Guido Knopp,
Sie wollten Hitler töten
(Munich, 2004), p. 216.

¹⁰⁴
Walter Warlimont quoted in Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 266.

¹⁰⁵
Kramarz, op. cit., p. 160.

¹⁰⁶
Walter Warlimont,
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
(London, 1964), p. 440.

¹⁰⁷
Traudl Junge,
Until the Final Hour
(London, 2003), p. 129.

¹⁰⁸
Fest, op. cit., p. 258.

¹⁰⁹
Ernst Günther Schenck,
Patient Hitler
(Augsburg, 2000), p. 301.

¹¹⁰
Hoffmann,
History
, p. 404.

¹¹¹
Junge, op. cit., p. 130.

¹¹²
Toland, op. cit., p. 801.

¹¹³
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 252.

¹¹⁴
Nicolaus von Below,
At Hitler’s Side
(London, 2001), p. 210.

¹¹⁵
Hoffmann,
History
, p. 757.

¹¹⁶
Schlabrendorff, op. cit., p. 287.

¹¹⁷
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 270.

¹¹⁸
Ibid., p. 269.

¹¹⁹
Testimony of telephonist Alfons Schulz, quoted in Knopp, op. cit., p. 242.

¹²⁰
Speer, op. cit., p. 521.

¹²¹
Quoted in Ian Kershaw,
Hitler: 1936–1945 Nemesis
(London, 2000), p. 677.

¹²²
Gisevius, op. cit., p. 554.

¹²³
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 276.

¹²⁴
Quoted in Gisevius, op. cit., p. 570.

¹²⁵
Ibid.

¹²⁶
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 277.

¹²⁷
Schlabrendorff, op. cit., pp. 294–95.

¹²⁸
Eberhard von Breitenbuch in S. Grabner and H. Röder (eds.),
Henning von Tresckow: Ich bin der Ich war
(Berlin, 2001), p. 60.

¹²⁹
Scheurig, op. cit., pp. 219–20.

¹³⁰
Schlabrendorff, op. cit., p. 313.

¹³¹
Horne, op. cit., p. 218.

¹³²
Hoffmann,
History
, p. 332.

¹³³
Gerhard Schreiber,
Die italienischen Militärinternierten im deutschen Machtbereich 1943 bis 1945. Verraten—Verachtet—Vergessen
(Munich, 1990), p. 156.

¹³⁴
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 69.

¹³⁵
Klemperer, op. cit., p. 342, and Hoffmann,
Resistance
, p. 101.

¹³⁶
Klemperer, op. cit., pp. 382–83.

¹³⁷
See, for instance, Terence Prittie,
Germans Against Hitler
(London, 1964), p. 248.

¹³⁸
Hoffmann,
History
, p. 400.

¹³⁹
Gisevius, op. cit., p. 544.

¹⁴⁰
Fest, op. cit., p. 257.

¹⁴¹
Gisevius, op. cit., p. 552.

¹⁴²
Prittie, op. cit., p. 248

¹⁴³
Hans Paar,
Dilettanten gegen Hitler
(Oldendorf, 1985), p. 172.

¹⁴⁴
Gersdorff, op. cit., pp. 130–31.

¹⁴⁵
Goebbels, quoted in Speer, op. cit., pp. 522–23.

¹⁴⁶
Junge, op. cit., p. 134.

¹⁴⁷
BBC Television, “Days That Shook the World” series,
Conspiracy to Kill: The Wolf’s Lair
, broadcast 8 November 2004.

¹⁴⁸
Hoffmann,
History
, p. 380.

¹⁴⁹
Axel von dem Bussche quoted in Home, op. cit., p. 219.

¹⁵⁰
Hoffmann,
Stauffenberg
, p. 104.

¹⁵¹
Scheurig, op. cit., p. 74.

¹⁵²
Breitenbuch in Grabner and Röder, op. cit., p. 60.

¹⁵³
Ibid.

Chapter 8

¹
Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
(London, 1970), pp. 574–75.

²
See Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse,
Microcosm
(London, 2002), p. 193.

³
Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach,
Lower Silesia from Nazi Germany to Communist Poland 1942–49
(New York, 1994), p. 60.

⁴
K. Jonca and A. Konieczny (eds.),
Paul Peikert—Festung Breslau in den Berichten eines Pfarrers
(Wroc$4aw, 1998), p. 36.

⁵
Ulrich Frodien,
Bleib Übrig
(Munich, 2002), p. 118.

⁶
Jonca and Konieczny, op. cit., pp. 35–36.

⁷
Ibid., p. 51.

⁸
Ibid., p. 168.

⁹
Speer, op. cit., p. 566.

¹⁰
Quoted in Jonca and Konieczny, op. cit., p. 37.

¹¹
Quoted in Perry Biddiscombe,
The Last Nazis: SS Werewolf Guerrilla Resistance in Europe, 1944–1947
(Stroud, 2004), p. 38.

¹²
Davies and Moorhouse, op. cit., p. 31.

¹³
Ibid., p. 37.

¹⁴
Horst Gleiss,
Breslauer Apokalypse 1945
, Vol. V (Wedel, 1986), p. 130.

¹⁵
See Davies and Moorhouse, op. cit., p. 37.

¹⁶
Gleiss, op. cit., p. 1094.

¹⁷
Jonca and Konieczny, op. cit., p. 69.

¹⁸
Hugh Trevor-Roper (ed.),
Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945
(London, 1964), pp. 293–94.

¹⁹
Quoted in Sebastian Haffner,
The Meaning of Hitler
(New York, 1979), p. 160.

²⁰
Albert Speer,
Spandau—The Secret Diaries
(London, 1976), p. 200.

²¹
Speer,
Inside
, p. 570.

²²
Joachim Fest,
Inside Hitler’s Bunker
(London, 2004), p. 127.

²³
Speer,
Inside
, p. 541.

²⁴
Ibid.

²⁵
Haffner, op. cit., p. 153.

²⁶
Ian Kershaw,
Hitler: 1936–1945 Nemesis
(London, 2000), p. 500.

²⁷
Fest,
Bunker, p. 77.

²⁸
N. Cameron and R. H. Stevens (trans.),
Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–1944
(London, 2000 edition), p. 147.

²⁹
Quoted in Fest,
Bunker
, p. 31.

³⁰
Quoted in Kershaw, op. cit., p. 780.

³¹
Quoted in Haffner, op. cit., pp. 159–60.

³²
Speer,
Inside
, p. 571.

³³
Joseph Goebbels,
Tagebücher
, Vol. XV, p. 500 (14 March 1945).