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p. 78 ‘Riviera of Hades’, Gilbert, p. 1,187

p. 80 ‘the systematic…’, Agranenko papers, RGALI 2217/2/17, p. 22

p. 81 ‘It is a question…’, Tegeran. Yalta. Potsdam. Sbornik dokumentov, Moscow, 1970, p. 22, quoted Volko gonov, p. 489

p. 82 fall of Budapest, see Erickson, p. 508

p. 83 prisoner reprisals, see Kershaw, 2000, p. 779

p. 83 Dresden compassionate leave, Genscher, conversation, 4 September 2000

p. 83 Rhine floodwater, Eisenhower, pp. 406–7

p. 84 ‘I can handle Stalin’, Murphy, p. 233

p. 85 ‘outflanking the West Wall’, Deane, 25 December 1944, NA RG334/Entry 309/Box 2

p. 85 ‘They looked more like…’, report by Shikin, RGASPI 17/125/323, pp. 35–6

p. 86 live targets and ‘sport marches’, VOV, iv, p. 180, n. 36

p. 86 SS pianist, Stanford-Tuck, Larry Forrester, Fly for Your Life, London, 1956

p. 86 ‘Everybody seems to…’, Grossman papers, RGALI 1710/3/47, p. 4

p. 86 ‘We are beating…’, quoted Shindel (ed.), p. 125

p. 87 ‘We are Russian…’, Agranenko papers, RGALI 2217/2/17

p. 88 ‘insecurity as a military leader’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 32

p. 89 ‘but panzer army…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 35

p. 89 lunch with the Japanese ambassador, Maiziere, conversation, 9 October 1999

p. 89 ‘You must believe me…’, Guderian, p. 412

p. 90 ‘The Reichsfuhrer SS is man…’, ibid., pp. 413–15

p. 92 ‘Over the city…’, Oberjager R. Christoph, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 186

p. 93 ‘preserve their pitiful lives’, GARF 9401/2/94, pp. 159–65

p. 93 ‘almost four years…’,27 February, IfZ MA 485, p. 20,755

p. 93 ‘significant part…’, Tkachenko to Beria, 28 February, GARF 9401/2/93, p. 324

p. 94 ‘The Fuhrer has ordered…’, 10 March, BA-B R55/616, p. 243

p. 94 ‘corpses of citizens…’, Shvernik to Molotov, GARF 9401/2/96, pp. 255–61

p. 94 Stutthof camp, RGVA 32904/1/19

p. 95 ‘The Germans have not yet…’, SHAT 7 ? 146

p. 95 ‘Morale is low but discipline is strong’, RGALI 1710/3/47, p. 25

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p. 96 ‘Halt. Military Site…’, Abakumov to Beria, 15 February, GARF 9401/2/93, pp. 6– 15

p. 96 57th NKVD Rifle Division, RGVA 38680/1/3, p. 4

p. 97 ‘a dirty runner bespattered…’, Solzhenitsyn, 1974, p. 126

p. 97 ‘the Fuhrer’s guard battalion…’, Hans Rattenhuber’s interrogation by SMERSH, Voennye Arkhivy Rossii, No. 1, 1993, p. 355

p. 98 ‘I think it would…’, GARF 9401/2/93, p. 15

p. 98 ‘indispensable’, Stalin to Tedder and Bull, 15 January, ?A RG334/Entry 309/Box 2

p. 99 ‘saboteurs and terrorists’, 1 March, GARF 9401/2/93, pp. 255–9

p. 99 ‘criminal act of an anti-Soviet policy’, Berezhkov, 1982, p. 364

p. 99 ‘felt that we had at last…’, Kazakova, conversation, 6 November 1999

p. 99 ‘some of whom…’, Zhukov, iv, p. 183

p. 99 Serov as ‘adviser’, RGVA 32925/1/100, p. 143

p. 100 ‘Ukrainian-German nationalists’, BA-B R55/822, pp. 5–8

p. 100 ‘inquiry into Rokossovsky’s relatives’, GARF 9401/2/94, p. 61

p. 101 ‘the civilian pretended…’, 30 March, NA RG334/Entry 309/Box 2

p. 101 ‘Soviet Engineer-Captain Melamedev…’, NA RG334./Entry 309/Box 2

p. 101 ‘negligence of the officer…’, Volkov, deputy chief NKVD troops, 1st Belorussian Front, RGVA 32925/1/100, p. 205

p. 101 ‘in the Soviet Union…’, Antonov to Deane, NA RG334/Entry 309/Box 2

p. 102 ‘secret bakeries’, RGVA 32891/1/123

p. 102 ‘This made him suspect…’, RGVA 32925/1/100, p. 80

p. 102 mine detection, 12 March, RGVA 32925/1/297, p. 8

p. 102 ‘special dogs for smelling bandits’, RGVA 38680/1/12, p. 114

p. 102 ‘terrorists handed over…’, 11 March, GARF 9401/2/94

p. 102 ‘Left in the rear…’, RGVA 38680/1/12, p. 48

p. 103 ‘a German sabotage school…’, Lieutenant General Edunov, 13 February, RGVA 32904/1/19, p. 99

p. 103 ‘An attentive sergeant…’, RGVA 38686/1/21

p. 104 ‘that in some…’, 18 February, 63rd Rifle Division NKVD, RGVA 38686/1/20, p. 49

p. 104 ‘All this leads to…’, RGVA 38680/1/4

p. 105 pass for wounded, RGVA 38686/1/20, p. 31

p. 105 6th Guards Tank Corps, RGVA 32904/1/19

p. 105 ‘The Soviet military…’, BA-B R55/1296

p. 105 ‘citizens of the USSR…’, 3rd Belorussian Front, RGVA 38680/1/3, p. 255

p. 105 ‘Such cases…’, Grossman papers, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 230

p. 105 five dead and thirty-four injured, 83rd Frontier Guards Regiment, RGVA 38686/1/21, p. 45

p. 106 Rokossovsky at traffic jam, Agranenko papers, RGALI 2217/2/17, p. 31

p. 106 ‘mobilize all Germans…’, RGVA 32925/1/100, p. 47

p. 106 68,680 Germans, 10 March, GARF 9401/2/93, p. 279

p. 106 ‘To Siberia…’, Agranenko papers, RGALI 2217/2/17, p. 20

p. 107 ‘a gendarmerie’, NA RG334/Entry 309/Box 2

p. 107 ‘hostel of repatriated Polish women’, RGVA 38680/1/3, p. 104

p. 107 ‘suicides of Germans…’, GARF 9401/2/94, p. 88

p. 107 ‘immoral event’, RGVA 38686/1/26, p. 36

p. 107 ‘Negative phenomena…’, Senyavskaya, 2000, p. 184, n. 27

p. 107 Ukrainian girls taken for forced labour, RGVA-SA 1382/1/62

p. 108 ‘On the night…’, ‘an unknown…’, RGASPI 17/125/314

p. 109 ‘had sold themselves…’, Inozemtsev, p. 204

p. 109 ‘German dolls’, quoted Senyavskaya, 1995 p. 181

p. 110 ‘the honour and dignity of the Soviet girl’, TsAMO 372/6570/76 and 372/6570/68

p. 110 female soldiers treated badly from 1944, Rezhevskaya, conversation, 28 October 2001

p. 110 ‘For example, Eva Shtul…’, RGASPI 17/125/314, pp. 40–45

p. 110 49,500 Soviet citizens, to Aleksandrov, 20 February, RGASPI 17/125/320, p. 36

p. 110 4 million, RGASPI 17/125/314