D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

p. 323 army complaints about the lack of bombs on Bourguebus ridge, Air Support, Air Publication 3235, Air Ministry, 1955, p. 158, AHB

‘General Montgomery was reminded…’, Royal Air Force Narrative, Vol. III, p. 81, AHB; and 2nd TAF Operations Report by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, TNA AIR 20/1593

‘a national decline in boldness and initiative’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/ 1944/45

p. 324 ‘But once the needle…’, Brigadier Sir Ian Fraser, MdC TE 160

‘One boy of about sixteen…’, John Colville, The Fringes of Power, London, 1985, p. 474

20. THE PLOT AGAINST HITLER

p. 326 ‘inflexible mission of defending…’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721

‘The Fuhrer must be killed…’, TNA WO 208/4363

‘and above all about…’, Hans Speidel, We Defended Normandy, London, 1951, p. 132

‘a hardline anti-semite’, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, London, 2008,p. 379

‘measures to be taken immediately…’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721 p. 327 ‘oasis’ for the Resistance, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

for an excellent analysis of the Allies and the German opposition to Hitler, see Michael Howard, Liberation or Catastrophe?, London, 2007, pp. 80-93

p. 329 move of Fuhrer headquarters on 14 July to Wolfsschanze, General Warlimont, ETHINT 5

I must request you…’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721

‘We are experiencing the overwhelming…’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/1079

p. 330 ‘The longer Hitler…’, 21st Army Group Intelligence Summary, 23 April 1944, TNA WO 205/532 (2)

‘The Chiefs of Staff…’, Ismay to Churchill, 21 June, TNA HS 6/623

Operation Foxley, TNA HS 6/624, and Mark Seaman (ed.), Operation Foxley, Kew, 1998

Churchill’s views on Hitler and unconditional surrender, TNA HS 6/625; and Churchill’s speech in House of Commons 2 August 1944

p. 331 ‘Since the generals have…’, quoted in Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936- 1945, Nemesis, London, 2000, p. 656

p. 332 ‘strikingly large briefcase’, General Warlimont, ETHINT 5

British fuses used in bomb, M. R. D., Foot, SOE in France, London, 1966, p. 331 n5

p. 333 ‘over a million foreign workers…’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland, ETHINT 63

p. 334 ‘Gestapo riot’, Blumentritt, FMS B-284

‘executive powers had been passed…’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland, ETHINT 63

‘What do you know about the situation?’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland, ETHINT 63

p. 335 ‘The Fuhrer is dead…’, quoted in Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West, New York, 1979, p. 110

‘Today at midday…’, 20.40 hours, 20 July, Tagesmeldungen, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

p. 336 ‘Unterweltsmarschall’, Blumentritt, FMS B-284

Dietrich and Himmler, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/1079

‘almost turned revolutionary’, Eberbach, TNA WO 208/4363, quoted in Sonke Neitzel (ed.), Tapping Hitler’s Generals, St Paul, Mn, 2007, p. 101

‘In my opinion…’, TNA WO 208/4363 p. 337 ‘Long live holy Germany!’, quoted in Kershaw, p. 683

Kluge’s order to arrest Stulpnagel, BA-MA RH19 ix/86

‘the Military Commander…’, BA-MA RH19 ix/86

‘came like a bomb-shell’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308

‘it spread like wild-fire…’, Hans Holler, 21st Panzer-Division, MdC TE 98

‘the front kept on fighting…’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308

‘indignation and anger’, Eberbach, 23 December tape, TNA WO 208/4364

‘Our signaller heard…’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie Regiment, 277th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

p. 338 ‘feeling of moral oppression…’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308

‘might well be the proverbial…’, Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), King’s Counsellor, London, 2006, p. 245

‘Explanation of Continued German Resistance’, 8 September 1944, LHCMA Alanbrooke 6/1/5

p. 339 ‘an idiotic idea’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

‘falsification of the enemy situation’, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS, Vol. I, Mechanicsburg Pa., 2005, p. 36

‘daily reports which even…’, General Bulowius, II Flieger Corps, FMS B-620

p. 340 ‘had a really good relationship…’, Gunter Peuckert, 272th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/5424

‘malgre-nous’, Nicolas Fank, 116th Panzer-Division, MdC TE 531

‘No, no. I play no tricks…’, Aitken, Medical Officer, 24th Lancers, WLHUM RAMC 1668

p. 341 ‘If somebody betrays…’, 1944, BA-MA RH 21-5/50, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 439

US Army report on German prisoners in Normandy, NA II 407/427/24242

‘Kameradenerziehung’, Eugene Finance, MdC TE 331

21. OPERATION COBRA — BREAKTHROUGH

p. 342 German radio intercepts, Oberstleutnant Ziegelmann, 352nd Infanterie-Division, FMS B-455

‘One unit surrendered…’, NA II 407/ 427/24242

‘a battalion of the 90th…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940- 1945, New York, 1974, p. 486

p. 343 ‘War is about 90% waiting…’, diary of Captain Jack H. Welch, 54th Armored Medical, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS

p. 345 ‘The observers hung around…’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/6431

‘the peculiar rustling in the sky’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/6431

bombing casualties on 24 July, NA II 407/ 427/24245

‘The flamboyant, red-headed…’, Colonel Kraminov, MdC TE 246

‘stiffened perceptibly’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, pp. 167-8

p. 346 Soviet complaint about reports of former Red Army soldiers fighting for the Germans, see Eisenhower letters 26 and 27 July, PDDE, pp. 2031 and 2032

‘Fourteenth US Army’, TNA HW 40/6

accident with bayonets, Robert B. Bradley, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, MdC TE 366