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p. 383 ‘like the ears…’, Grossman, Life and Fate, p. 801

p. 384 ‘Kameraden, Krieg kaputt!’ Fritz Ecker, ‘Ein weiter Weg’, Stalin-gradbund Osterreich, Jan. 1991

p. 384 ‘Whoever’s capable…’, Dr Hubert Haidinger, op. cit., p. 8

p. 384 ‘Fascist dogs’, Klavdia Sveridovna Ribaltshenko (sic), interrogation by Gruppe Geheime Feldpolizei 626, 21 July 1943, BZG-S

p. 385 ‘Soviet soldiers…’, Beck, p. 189

p. 385 ‘What shall we do with…’, anonymous conversation

p. 387 ‘That’s how Berlin…’, Beck, p. 197

p. 387 ‘rather good command of Russian’, C. M. Bogomolov MS.

p. 388 ‘A German Field Marshal…’, Lev Bezyminsky, conversation, 10 Nov. 1995

p. 388 ‘there is no doubt that…’, Winrich Behr, letter to the author, 26 Feb. 1996

p. 390 ‘round and round in circles’, Bezyminsky, conversation, 10 Nov. 1995

p. 391 ‘I must inform you…’, Dyatlenko MS.

p. 391 ‘They have surrendered…’, 1 Feb. 1943, quoted in Gilbert (ed.), pp. 17–22; and Warlimont, pp. 319– 23

p. 392 ‘Troops are fighting…’, and ‘I expect…’, BA-MA, RL30/5

p. 392 ‘XI Army Corps…’, war diary Sonderstab Milch, BA-MA, RL30/6, p. 151

p. 392 ‘When the time comes…’, Strecker, Haller, p. 105

p. 393 ‘XI Army Corps…’, BA-MA, RL30/5

p. 393 ‘Long live Germany!’ Haller, p. 107

p. 393 ‘What the normal…’, Werth, The Year of Stalingrad,p. 463

p. 394 1.1 million casualties, of which 485,751, quoted by Erickson, in Erickson and Dilks, p. 264

p. 394 ‘I thought of the…’, Grossman papers, RGALI, 1710/1/101

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p. 396 ‘No more…’, BA-MA, RL30/6

p. 396 ‘the Corporal uneducated…’, Dyatlenko MS.

p. 396 ‘We have our own rules’, Bezyminsky, conversation, 10 Nov. 1995

p. 397 ‘They looked healthy…’, Werth, The Year of Stalingrad,p. 446

p. 397 ‘It was rather like…’, Werth, The Year of Stalingrad,p. 444

p. 397 ‘When I opened…’, Bogomolov MS.

p. 398 ‘our troops…’, Boelcke, p. 408

p. 399 ‘which will move…’, Boelcke, p. 430

p. 399 ‘From Fuhrer headquarters…’, Domarus, vol. ii, p. 1985

p. 400 ‘The farewell letters…’, 18 Feb. 1943, Heinz Boberach (ed.), Meldungen aus dem Reich 1938–1945, vol. xii, p. 4822, quoted in Wette and Ueberschar, p. 63

p. 400 ‘in future…’, Boelcke, p. 411

p. 400 ‘Stop dancing!’ Leopold Graf von Bismarck, conversation, 4 May 1996

p. 402 ‘If we are paid back…’, Bielenberg, p. 135

p. 403 ‘We will end the war…’, quoted Rohden, p. 127

p. 404 ‘You cannot stop…’, ‘I wonder how it feels…’, Wettlin, pp. 86, 88

p. 404 ‘After Stalingrad…’, Smirnov, conversation, 22 Nov. 1995

p. 404 ‘needed to believe’, Ehrenburg, pp. 10–11

p. 405 ‘They’re starting these gold…’, Ulko, conversation, 21 Nov. 1995

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p. 406 ‘railway tracks, where…’, Grossman papers, RGALI, 1710/1/101

p. 406 ‘Almost all members…’, Beck, p. 191

p. 406 ‘dozens each day’, Lt Medvedev to Maj. Demchenko, 9 March 1943, quoted in Epifanov, p. 241

p. 407 ‘liberated from fascist…’, RTsKhIDNI 17/8/226

p. 407 ‘Most of the children…’, Wettlin, p. 119

p. 407 ‘Soviet authorities…’, RTsKhIDNI 17/8/226

p. 407 ‘special safe paths’, Goncharov, conversation, 23 Nov. 1995

p. 407 ‘Mama, we are all right’, quoted in Agapov, p. 11

p. 410 ‘limping and shuffling…’, Weinert, p. 37

p. 411 ‘The Russians had very simple methods…’, anonymous conversation

p. 411 ‘We set out with 1,200 men’, Josef Farber, conversation, 16 Apr. 1996

p. 412 ‘like herrings…’, Bohme, p. 237

p. 412 ‘extremely critical’, TsAMO 62/355/1, p. 226, quoted in Epifanov, p. 235

p. 412 ‘nothing to eat…’, Dr Hubert Haidinger, Bund ehemaliger Stalingradkampfer, Weihnachts Rundbrief, 1992, p. 9

p. 413 ‘Then came another shock…’, Schmieder MS.

p. 413 ‘The dead each…’, Willi Lotz, ‘Die Gefangenlager der Stalingrader: Erinnerungen an Beketowka’, in Kameradschaft Stalingrad, Aug.–Sept. 1981

p. 413 ‘mountain of bodies’, Dr Hubert Haidinger, in Bund ehemaliger Stalingradkampfer, Weihnachts Rundbrief, 1992, p. 10

p. 413 ‘We had no tears left’, Schmieder MS.

p. 413 ‘death register’, Bohme, p. 237

p. 413 55,228 prisoners, TsKhIDK, 1e/1/9, p. 34, report by Capt. Kruglov, quoted in Epifanov, p. 47

p. 413 ‘Hunger…’, Dibold, address to Bund ehemaliger Stalingradkampfer, 18 Sept. 1976, Limburg

p. 413 ‘camel-meat’, anonymous conversation

p. 413 ‘only at gunpoint…’, A. Chuyanov, Na Stremnina Veka, Moscow, 1976, p. 264, quoted in Epifanov, p. 33

p. 414 ‘And who are you…’, anonymous conversation

p.415 ‘It is the duty of a general…’, anonymous conversation

p. 416 ‘Only be compared to sheep-shearing’, Schmieder MS.

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p. 418 ‘We pressed to…’, Berezhkov, History in the Making,p. 242

p. 418 ‘I propose a salute…’, Berezhkov, op. cit., pp. 289–91

p. 420 ‘Doctor, the miracle…’, Dibold, p. 170

p. 421 ‘thrusting a long thin shard…’, anonymous conversation

p. 422 ‘man was just…’, anonymous conversation

p. 423 ‘According to Seydlitz’s idea…’, 17 Sept. 1943, TsKhIDK, 451p/2/6

p. 425 ‘the contemptible…’, quoted Seydlitz, p. 341

p. 425 ‘the absence of significant success’, Melnikov, TsKhIDK, 451p/3/7

p. 425 ‘recognize officially’, APRF 3/58/498

p. 425 ‘compiled in a devious way’, APRF 3/58/497

p.426 ‘members of…’, 25 May 1944, Manuilsky to Shcherbakov, RTsKhIDNI 495/77/37, pp. 32–4