Berlin: The Downfall 1945

p. 173 ‘Yesterday’, Major Juhlin-Dannfel, 4 April, KA-FU, EI: 18, Vol. 6

p. 174 ‘Every Bolshevik…’, report 9 April, SHAT 7 ? 102

p. 174 ‘Every male…’, report 9 April, SHAT 7 ? 102

p. 174 ‘We know the plans…’, Staatssekretar Dr Naumann, BA-MA RH19/XV/9a, p. 94

p. 175 ‘to that — exclusively…’, NA RG260 OMGUS, Stack 390 41/7/5–6 A2/S4

p. 176 ‘We Germans are not a nation…’, Anonymous, p. 126

p. 176 ‘We believe in victory…’, Kleine and Stimpel, p. 9

p. 176 ‘Heil Hitler!’ report 2e Bureau, 21 April, SHAT 7 ? 128

p. 177 ‘thought to defending…’, Haider, NA RG338 Ms P-136

p. 177 ‘There are no children…’, BA-MA MSg1/976

p. 177 ‘Evacuation…’, Oberst i.G Hans Refior, BA-MA MSg1/976

p. 178 ‘short-sightedness, bureaucracy…’, Oberst i.G Hans Refior, BA-MA MSg1/976

p. 178 ‘Muttis’ Refior, BA-MA MSg1/976

p. 178 ‘a sense of duty’, NA RG338 Ms P-136

p. 179 ‘masterpiece of…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 3

p. 179 ‘Arbeitsunlustig’, RGVA-SA 1367/1/218

p. 179 ‘Those madmen in Berlin…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 15

p. 179 ‘The Ninth Army…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 15

p. 180 ‘The Fuhrer once coined…’, Goebbels speech, 20 February, BA-B R55/916, p. 91

p. 180 Schmidtke, conversation, 15 July 2000

p. 181 ‘I swear that…’, IfZ MA 485, p. 20,755

p. 181 ‘deciphering…’, ‘There is an atmosphere…’, KA-FU, EI: 18, Vol. 6

p. 182 Baumgart, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 65

p. 182 Volkshandgranate 45, SHAT 7 ? 102

p. 183 ‘clever eyes’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 100

p. 183 General Bunyachenko, Frohlich, p. 256

p. 183 ‘better purposes’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 100, and BA-MA N53/76, p. 17

p. 184 200th Rifle Division, N.M. Ramanichev, ‘Iz opyta peregruppirovki army pri podgotovke Berlinskoi operatsii’, ViZh, No. 8, 1979

p. 184 ‘would only get…’, Klochkov, p. 72

p. 184 ‘Some deserters seize carts from…’, 7 April, RGVA 38686/1/21P.40

p. 184 355 deserters, RGVA 32891/1/120, p. 250

p. 184 ‘Many soldiers…’, RGVA 32925/1/100, p. 184

p. 185 ‘barely one half…’, Beria to Stalin, GARF 9401/2/95, pp. 253–68

p. 185 stragglers, 11 April, RGVA 32925/1/130, p. 240

p. 185 ‘Hello Papa, Mama…’, quoted Shindel (ed.), pp. 158–9

p. 186 ‘Our advance is too slow…’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 331

p. 186 ‘Komsomolets’, TsAMO 236/2675/440, pp. 6–8

p. 186 ‘all Communists have a duty…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 652

p. 186 Artillery regiments, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 652

p. 186 ‘the local population…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 695

p. 187 ‘a pile of stones’, Inozemtsev, p. 196

p. 187 ‘Encircled soldiers…’, RGVA 38680/1/3, p. 68

p. 187 ‘The aviation is…’, Inozemtsev, p. 196

p. 188 ‘A bronze Bismarck…’, ibid., p. 201

p. 188 the hospital ship Goya, Duffy, p. 291

p. 188 ‘On Ninth Army…’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9a, p. 97

p. 188 ‘Fuhrer expects…’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9a, p. 207

p. 188 ‘the Fuhrer is instinctively…’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9a, p. 221

p. 189 ‘The concert took us…’, Below, p. 409

p. 189 Hitler Youth and cyanide capsules, Sereny, p. 507

p. 189 ‘Order of the Day’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9D, p. 34

p. 189 ‘There was terror…’, Senyavskaya, 2000, p. 275

13 AMERICANS ON THE ELBE

p. 190 ‘learning English…’, captured letter, Willi Klein to Lance Corporal Hans Gerl, quoted Ehrenburg, Krasnaya Zvezda, 25 November 1944

p. 190 ‘Germany had lost…’, Papen interrogation, NA 740.0011 EW/4–2445

p. 191 ‘Alex, where are…’, Boiling, quoted Ryan, p. 229

p. 191 ‘Bolsheviks near Vienna…’, GARF 9401/2/97, pp. 32–48

p. 191 massacres in the Leipzig area, report of Captain Claude Merry, 28 April, SHAT 8 ? 22

p. 192 ‘On the basis of findings…’, report 8 March, ?A 740.0011 EW/3–845

p. 192 ‘No speeding…’, SHAT 8 ? 27

p. 192 Operation Plunder, Elliott, pp. 121, 125, 143

p. 193 ‘Monty was very stuffy…’, anonymous conversation, 30 December 2000

p. 193 ‘a life and death struggle…’, Elliott, p. 12

p. 194 ‘American tankists…’, Krasnaya Zvezda, 11 April, p. 3

p. 194 ‘conquering with cameras’, ?A 740.0011 EW/4–1345

p. 194 ‘arrange for an orderly…’, NA 740.0011 EW/3–2745

p. 195 ‘there is no evidence…’, NA 740.0011 EW/4–2345

p. 196 ‘The interrogation of various…’, report of 10 April, SHAT 7 ? 102

p. 196 ‘Deutschland, dein…’, Kardorff, p. 306

p. 196 ‘Khvatit’, Krasnaya Zvezda, 11 April, p. 3

p. 197 ‘were not refusing…’, ‘politically harmful’, see Leonid Reshin, ‘Tovarisch Ehrenburg uproshchaet’, Novoe Vremya, No. 8, 1994

p. 197 ‘by promising immunity…’, Ehrenburg, pp. 176, 177

p. 197 ‘Comrade Ehrenburg Oversimplifies’, ‘Tovarisch Ehrenburg uproshchaet’ Pravda, 14 April

p. 198 ‘Your wife may get it…’, Abakumov to Stalin, 29 March, quoted Reshin, Novoe Vremya, No. 8, 1994

p. 198 ‘that we should be ruthless…’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, pp. 360–61

p. 199 ‘What was surprising’, Soyuz veteranov zhurnalistiki, p. 447

p. 199 ‘In connection with…’, GARF 9401/2/95, pp. 31–5, and Serov to Beria, 19 April, GARF 9401/2/95, p. 91

p. 199 43,000 Polish soldiers from Gulag, GARF 1914/1/1146

p. 199 ‘W Sibir ili w Armiju?’, Andrzej Rey, quoted Gerhard Gnauck in ‘Wie die Horden Dschingis Khans’, Die Welt, 8 May 2001, p. 31

p. 200 ‘extremely rude…’, ‘der Katastrophengeneral’, interrogation 8 April of Lieutenant General von Oriola of XIII Corps, 2e Bureau, 21 April, SHAT 7 ? 128

p. 201 ‘You’re coming…’, Reichhelm, conversation, 5 October 1999