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209
“He stressed that”:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 244. Jeckeln’s words ibid, my translation.
“1) the killing grounds”:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 241.
Weather, Berlin train:
Fleming (1984), pp. 79–80; Ezergailis (1996), p. 253.

210
“young women, women”:
quoted in Ezergailis (1996), p. 250.
“We are supposed”:
quoted in Ehrenburg and Grossman (1981), p. 312.
“An outer apron”:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 253.

211
Russian submachine guns:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 241.
“Jeckeln stood on the top”:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 254.

212
“curious, inexplicable gunfire”:
quoted in Fleming (1984), p. 81.
“You’re getting soft”:
quoted in Fleming (1984), p. 85.
“sleds, wheelbarrows”:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 255.
“Jewish transport from Berlin”:
quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 765.
Himmler-Jeckeln radio messages:
quoted and discussed in Gerlach (1998), p. 766.

213
Michelson narrative:
Michelson (1979), p. 85ff.
“Without realizing”:
quoted in Ezergailis (1996), p. 259.
“Suddenly I heard”:
Michelson (1979), pp. 91–92.

214
“How long will it be”:
quoted in Fleming (1984), p. 86.
“After the killings”:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 261.
“Although the bodies”:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 255.
Jeckeln 11 December 1941 promotion:
Fleming (1984), p. 98, n. 5.

14 NERVES

215
Jäger Report:
Appendix A, Ezergailis (1996), p. 381ff.
“and expressed his satisfaction”:
Gerlach (1998), p. 768.

216
Jäger follow-up telegram:
Fleming (1984), p. 98.
Second Stahlecker Report:
see Headland (1992), p. 153ff.
“By December [1941]”:
Knappe and Brusaw (1992), p. 203–5.

217
Liepaja massacre:
see Ezergailis (1996), p. 293ff.
2,580 Jews in Vinnitsa:
summary report for Nemirov District quoted in Weiner (1999), p. 332.

218
Vinnitsa wall dynamiting:
interview with Faina Vinokurova, Vinnitsa, June 2000.
“[Ribe] was even more sadistic”:
Smolar (1989), p. 46.

219
Kretschmer correspondence:
Klee et al. (1988), p. 163ff.

221
“[The Führer order] was very harsh”:
EG Trial Tr., p. 855.
“That is a clear”:
EG Trial Tr., p. 852.
Naumann testimony:
EG Trial Tr., pp. 856–98.

222
“According to a view”:
Kelman (1973), pp. 45–46.

223
“The reasons for my [request]”:
IMT NO-3841.
Dicks and Filbert:
cf. Dicks (1972), p. 204ff.

223
“In my home and family”:
Dicks (1972), p. 209.

224
“[Filbert] had looked up to”:
Dicks (1972), p. 220.
“In [Filbert’s] case”:
Dicks (1972), p. 226.
“hard consequences”:
Dicks (1972), p. 206.

225
“By the time the
EK
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Dicks (1972), p. 207.
“how does a man show”:
Dicks (1972), pp. 213–14.
“I was degraded”:
Dicks (1972), p. 212.
“I have looked after”:
Dicks (1972), p. 211.
“a mere shadow”:
quoted in Höhne (1969), p. 363.
“What about those”:
Dicks (1972), p. 215.

226
Grawitz wrote Himmler:
4 March 1942 letter reproduced in Bartoszewski (1961), pp. 97–99.
“Thank God, I’m through”:
Höhne (1969), p. 363.
Within two months:
see Klee et al. (1988), p. 121.
“Jäger told me”:
Fleming (1984), p. 98.

227
Jost testimony:
EG Trial Tr., pp. 1150–87. “His eyes were extraordinarily small”: quoted in Breitman (1991), pp. 5–6.

15 FINAL SOLUTION

229
“Only he who saw”:
quoted in Clark (1965), p. 175. −
63
°
; “many men died”:
Clark (1965), p. 181.
“The Red Army . . . had no power”:
Clark (1965), p. 183.

230
140 years:
Clark (1965), p. 187.
“If the Jewish international”:
quoted in Krausnik et al. (1968), p. 45, and Gerlach (1998), p. 784.
“particularly because Jews”:
quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 772.
“It was I”:
Eichmann (1960), p. 23ff.
“because of events”:
quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 793.

231
“Regarding the Jewish question”:
quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 785.
Rosenberg draft speech:
quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 784, n. 112.
“remarked that the text”:
PS-1517 (IMT vol. 27, p. 270), quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 783.

232
“By ‘the decision’ ”:
Gerlach (1998), pp. 783–84.
“As for the Jews, well”:
quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 790.

233
“Jewish question”:
quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 780.
“The war situation”:
Gerlach (1998), pp. 786–87.
Belzec departure:
Gerlach (1998), p. 782.
Gas vans at Chelmno:
Gerlach (1998), p. 763.

234
“[At the turn of the year 1941/42]”:
quoted from German edition of Eichmann interrogation (
Ich, Adolf Eichmann,
Leoni am Starnberger See, Germany, Druffel-Verlag, 1980, p. 17) in Arad (1987), p. 26. The German version and the version in Von Lang (1982) (see next note) appear to be variant versions Eichmann told.

234
“Heydrich sent for me”:
Von Lang (1982), pp. 75–78.

236
“were five representatives”:
Gerlach (1998), p. 794.
“We called it the Conference”:
Von Lang (1982), p. 91.
Wannsee Protocol:
IMT NG-2586.
“LESS: I’m going to quote”:
Von Lang (1982), pp. 90–91. “EICHMANN: What I know is”: quoted in Fleming (1984), pp. 91–92.

238
“Happily”:
quoted in Gerlach (1998), p. 797.
“After the conference”:
Eichmann (1960), p. 23ff.
War Service Cross nominees:
cf. Gerlach (1998), p. 797.
January 1942 planning enlargement:
Padfield (1990), p. 363.
Himmler to Pohl:
quoted in Padfield (1990), pp. 362–63.

239
Berlin 4 February 1942 conference:
Padfield (1990), p. 363ff. Prague 4 February 1942 conference: Manvell and Fraenkel (1965), p. 127.
“I know exactly”:
quoted in Breitman (1991), pp. 234–35.
“All Jews and Gypsies”:
Wolf (1999), p. 264.

16 JUDENFREI

241
“In the Golta prefecture”:
Hilberg (1985), p. 374–75; Romanian totals: Bauer (2001), p. 50. Russian POWs: Bartov (1992), p. 83.

242
“Reeling under the weight”:
Bartov (1992), p. 81.
“At first, from Poland”:
quoted in Mendelsohn (1982), pp. 70–71.
Jeckeln testimony:
Noakes and Pridham (1988), pp. 1121–22.

243
Bikernieki Forest massacres:
Ezergailis (1996), p. 191.
“According to eyewitnesses”:
Headland (1992), p. 58.
“An order came from Himmler”:
IMT, v. 4, pp. 322–23.
Himmler announcement, Speer countermand:
Gerlach (1998), pp. 803–4.

244
“in order to disguise”:
Klee et al. (1988), p. 188.
“I am certainly tough”:
quoted in Noakes and Pridham (1988), p. 1123.
“The answer was cruel”:
Smolar (1989), p. 72.
“A night of terror”:
Smolar (1989), p. 73.

245
“As a result of the betrayal”:
Klee et al. (1988), p. 189.
“Soon afterward came the crackling”:
Smolar (1989), pp. 73–74.

246
“Later that year”:
Eichmann (1960), p. 102.

247
“Then I encapsulated myself”:
Kulcsar et al. (1966), p. 39.
“You will agree with me”:
quoted in Klee et al. (1988), pp. 186–87.
“Since the Eastern territory”:
Activity and Situation Report No. 11 (PS-3876), NA RG 895, roll 11.

248 “the Germans conducted”: MacLean (1998), p. 69. SK Dirlewanger beginnings: cf. MacLean (1998), p. 42ff.

249 “I said to Dirlewanger”: quoted in MacLean (1998), p. 15. “Offenders were beaten”: MacLean (1998), p. 13. “During these anti-partisan”: MacLean (1998), p. 73.

249 “During a march”: quoted in MacLean (1998), p. 133–34.

251
“Preventive attack”:
Hilberg (1985), p. 22.

252
Latvian infant mortality rates:
cf. Table 3a. 5, “Infant Mortality per 100 Children Born,” Ezergailis (1996), p. 397.
“During the catastrophe”:
Hilberg (1985), p. 23.

253
Himmler-Hitler meeting, renewal of transports:
Browning (2000), p. 55.
Sobibor victims:
Sereny (1974), p. 114.
Details of Heydrich assassination:
Höhne (1969), pp. 494–95.

254
“Yes, the world is but”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 380.
“Is the swine dead”:
quoted in Deschner (1981), p. 9.
“War is no matter of sentimentalities”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), pp. 383–85.

255
Himmler ordered General Government “resettlement”:
Padfield (1990), p. 396.
Treblinka numbers:
Table 3, Arad (1987), p. 392.
“In the spring”:
quoted in Kogon et al. (1993), pp. 148–49.
Gassing at Majdanek:
cf. Kogon et al. (1993), p. 174ff.
“We have liquidated”:
Klee et al. (1988), pp. 180–81.

256
“countless no longer laugh”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 408.
“Did Hitler begin to doubt”:
Jäckel (1972), p. 64.
“Although trampled underfoot”:
quoted in Kogon et al. (1993), p. 216.

257
Einsatzgruppen numbers:
Hilberg (1985), p. 390; Headland (1992), p. 105.

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258
“It made a shattering”:
EG Trial Tr., p. 2900.
“a special mission”:
EG Trial Tr., p. 2866.
“That was the usual road”:
EG Trial Tr., pp. 2895, 2898.
“Physically Blobel”:
EG Trial Tr., p. 2896.
“It was evening”:
quoted in Sereny (1974), pp. 97–98.
“or faked”:
Sereny (1974), p. 98.