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p. 409 Soviet officer and pistol, Zbarsky, p. 134

p. 410 mothers saving daughters, Kardorff, p. 358, and Lewin, conversation, 14 October 1999

p. 410 rape estimates, Dr Gerhard Reichling, and Charite and Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, quoted Sander and Johr, pp. 54, 59

p. 410 ‘twenty-three soldiers…’, Kardorff, p. 358

p. 410 ‘I must repress…’, Frau Irene Burchert, quoted Owings, p. 147

p. 410 ‘That feeling…’, Juliane Hartmann, quoted Steinhoff et al. (eds.), p. 455

p. 410 ‘All in all’, Anonymous, p. 102

p. 411 ‘Afterwards, I had to…’, Hanna Gerlitz, quoted Steinhoff et al. (eds.), p.·459

p. 411 ‘desexualization’ of prisoners, see Frank Biess, ‘The Protracted War’, GHI Bulletin, No. 28 (Spring 2001)

p. 411 engagement broken off, Kardorff, p. 358

p. 411 ‘You’ve turned into shameless bitches’, Anonymous, p. 202

p. 411 daughter, mother and grandmother raped, Frau Regina Frankenfeld, quoted Owings, p. 405

p. 412 ‘Go along, for God’s sake!…’, Anonymous, p. 66

p. 412 ‘The thirteen-year-old Dieter Sahl’, Toscano-Korvin diary-letter, 7 July, BZG- S

p. 412 ‘that German intelligence left…’, 16 June, RGVA 32925/1/121, p. 82

p. 412 ‘Some members of the underground…’, 29 May, RGVA 32925/1/116, p. 428

p. 412 ‘the enemy is prepared to use…’, 14 April, TsAMO 372/6570/68, pp. 17–20

p. 412 penicillin and births in hospital, Sander and Johr, p. 17

p. 412 ‘The Red Army is the most…’, 26 April, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 240

p. 413 ‘to change their attitudes…’, RGVA 32925/1/100, p. 296

p. 413 ‘Monsieur, I like your army…’, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 244

p. 413 ‘robbery’, ‘physical violence’ and ‘scandalous events’, RGVA 32925/1/297, pp. 30–31

p. 414 ‘This scoundrel campaign…’, 5 October, RGASPI 17/125/316, p. 81

p. 414 ‘First comes food…’, Kardorff, p. 364

p. 414 ‘cigarette currency’, Werner, conversation, 15 October 1999

p. 414 ‘occupation wives’, Naimark, p. 93

p. 415 desertion of Red Army officers, OMGUS, NA, RG260 A2 B1 C3 Box 363

p. 415 ‘Perhaps we women’, Kardorff, p. 341

p. 415 ‘a conviction of total catastrophe’, Loewe, conversation, 10 October 2001

p. 415 ‘by the docility and discipline of the people’, Zbarsky, p. 129

p. 415 ‘with unquestioning obedience’, Beria to Stalin, GARF 9401/2/95, pp. 395–9

p. 415 ‘respect for the powers that be’, Merezhko, conversation, 10 November 1999

p. 416 ‘that leaders of fascist organizations…’, RGVA 32925/1/121, p. 89

p. 416 ‘The Party Lives On!’, 7 May, RGVA 32925/1/121, p. 41

p. 416 ‘an unknown number of bandits’, RGVA 38680/1/4, p. 43

p. 416 ‘Klamottenberg’, Beier, conversation, 9 October 2001

p. 416 ‘People were living with their fate’, Loewe, conversation, 9 October 2001

p. 416 Grossdeutscher Rundfunk, Beier, conversation, 9 October 2001

p. 417 ‘We had no idea what…’, Wolf, conversation, 14 July 2000

p. 417 ‘naive enough to hope…’, Wolf, 1997, p. 47

p. 418 ‘Our frontoviki have…’, Wolf, 1998, p. 33

p. 418 ‘Then came the experience…’, Wolf, conversation, 14 July 2000

p. 418 ‘a scoundrel capable…’, Beria, p. 88

p. 418 ‘an absolute order’, Wolf, conversation, 14 July 2000

p. 418 ‘taboo themes’, Wolf, conversation, 14 July 2000

p. 419 ‘burnt-out tanks…’, Kardorff, p. 356

p. 419 Red Army rabbi, LA-B 3928

p. 419 ‘Hamster-express’, ‘Zeitung in der Zeitung’, Freie Welt, July 1975, BA-MA MSg2/3626

p. 419 ‘to secure the elimination…’, Beria to Stalin, GARF 9401/2/95, p. 374

p. 420 East Prussian population reduced to 193,000, 16 June, GARF 9401/2/96, pp. 343–4

p. 420 ‘in forests, peat bogs and canals…’, Caritas report, ?A RG 260 OMGUS, Stack 390 41/7/5–6

p. 420 fifteen NKVD regiments for Poland, Beria to Stalin, 22 June, GARF 9401/2/97, pp. 8–10

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p. 421 ‘So, Ninka’, TsAMO 372/6570/68, quoted Senyavskaya, 1995, p. 191

p. 422 ‘At that time…’, TsAMO 372/6570/78, pp. 30–32

p. 422 ‘We don’t believe…’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 288

p. 423 officers shot in the back in battle, Kubasov, conversation, 27 October 2001

p. 423 ‘systematic anti-Soviet talk…’, RGVA 38686/1/26, p. 36

p. 423 ‘systematically carried out…’, RGVA 32925/1/297, p. 28

p. 423 ‘counter-revolutionary crimes’, GARF 9401/1a/165, pp. 181–3

p. 423 ‘screened by NKVD…’, VOV, iv, pp. 191, n. 59, and 193, n. 65

p. 423 Red Army generals sentenced, Bezborodova, p. 15

p. 424 ‘long hours for artificial limbs…’, V. Kardin, quoted Senyavskaya, 2000, p. 95

p. 424 ‘Wait until our boys…’, 12 July, letter from Jews of Rubtsovsk in Altai to chairman of Council of Nationalities of the USSR, RGASPI 17/125/310, p. 47

p. 424 ‘by two anti-Semites…’, RGASPI 17/125/310, p. 50

p. 425 ‘the nations of the Soviet Union’, quoted Werth, pp. 1001–2

p. 425 ‘Our great genius…’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 83

p. 426 ‘we have not yet found…’, ‘Zeitung in der Zeitung’, Freie Welt, July 1975, BA-MA MSg2/3626

p. 426 Stalin and Hitler’s corpse, Rzhevskaya, 2000, pp. 292, 301

p. 426 ‘I still ride…’, Zhukov, iv, pp. 297–8

p. 428 ‘for outstanding service…’, BA-MA MSg2/3626

p. 428 ‘Zhukov! Zhukov! Zhukov!’, Kazakova, conversation, 6 November 1999

p. 429 ‘the mistaken developments since 1933’, Blumentritt interrogation, NA RG 338 B-338

p. 429 ‘a perverted moral…’, 7 May, NA 740.0011 EW/5–1045

p. 430 ‘residual Nazism’, SHAEF Psychological Warfare Division report, passed Murphy to State Department, NA 740.0011 EW/4–2445

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