Eva Braun

Wagner oder Hitlers Bayreuth, p. 592).

56. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 95. See in this regard Kershaw, Hitler 1936– 1945, pp. 136f. and 65f.

57. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 370.

58. Junge, Bis zur letzten Stunde, p. 74.

59. Schroeder, Er war mein Chef, p. 196.

60. See Sofie Stork, questionnaire from May 17, 1946, as well as Sofie Stork’s testimony from August 11, 1947, before the Munich Fourth District Court, in Denazification Court Records, box 1790, State Archives, Munich.

61. See the biographical details from the “Akten des Polizei-Prasidiums zu Berlin” of July 21, 1931 (copy), in N 26/2504, BA Berlin.

62. Wagener, Hitler aus nachster Nahe, pp. 198f.

63. Kershaw, Hitler 1889–1936, pp. 432f.

64. See Albert Bormann to Rudolf Hess, Berlin, June 9, 1938 (original), in Rudolf Hess Papers, J 1.211 (–) 1993/300, vol. 7, file 98, BA Bern.

65. See Conradi, Hitler’s Piano Player, p. 231.

66. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 248.

67. Wiedemann, Der Mann, der Feldherr werden wollte, p. 72.

68. Ibid.

69. See Lang, Der Sekretar, p. 97. Wilhelm Bruckner’s interrogation by R.M.W. Kempner on August 26, 1947, KV-Anklage, in Interrogations B 173 (Wilhelm Bruckner), State Archives, Nuremberg.

70. Albert Speer, quoted in Fest, Die unbeantwortbaren Fragen, p. 40.

71. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, pp. 29f. Gitta Sereny concludes, in contrast, that Anni Brandt, Maria von Below, and Margarete Speer “constituted a circle of their own, unconnected with the women on Hitler’s personal staff” (Albert Speer, p. 194).

72. See “Hitler, Otto Dietrich, Sofie Stork und Eva Braun u. a. im Freien an einem Tisch sitzend, 1934,” in Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Archive, hoff-49671, BSB Munich.

73. See Sofie Stork, testimony from October 13, 1948, before the Munich Fourth District Court, quoted in Joachimsthaler, Hitlers Liste, pp. 500f. See also Schroeder, Er war mein Chef, pp. 38 and 216.

74. See daily planner, Sunday, June 19, 1938 (copy), in Albert Speer Papers, N 1340/288, BA Koblenz.

75. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 248. Kannenberg’s first name is given here as “Willy” (p. 440).

76. See Hamann, Winifred Wagner oder Hitlers Bayreuth, pp. 322 and 590.

77. Schroeder, Er war mein Chef, pp. 38 and 57. See also Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 248.

78. See Georg Birnstiel to Albert Bormann, Munich, October 27, 1939, in Denazification Court Records, box 1790 (Sofie Stork), State Archives, Munich. See also Adalbert Keis, tax advice for the H. Stork company in a document from April 17, 1947, in Denazification Court Records, box 1790, State Archives, Munich. According to this document, Sofie Stork contributed 45,000 reichsmarks to her father’s business in 1937. See also in this regard Joachimsthaler, Hitlers Liste, pp. 502ff. By way of comparison, a skilled laborer earned an average of approximately 1,900 reichsmarks a year at the time.

79. Akten der Partei-Kanzlei der NSDAP, W 124 00093. A remark dated May 27, 1937, reads: “Receipt of a check from Bormann’s Chancellery via Sofie Stock [sic] Munich.” See also Georg Birnstiel to Albert Bormann, Munich, October 27, 1939, in Denazification Court Records, box 1790 (Sofie Stork), State Archives, Munich; similarly, “Brieftagebuch des NSKK-Brigadefuhrers Albert Bormann, 29. Juli 1939 bis 14. Juli 1941,” in NS 24/327, BA Berlin.

80. “Brieftagebuch des NSKK-Brigadefuhrers Albert Bormann, 29. Juli 1939 bis 14. Juli 1941,” in NS 24/327, BA Berlin.

81. Schroeder, Er war mein Chef, p. 38.

82. See Frank Bajohr, Parvenus und Profiteure: Korruption in der NS-Zeit (Frankfurt am Main, 2001), pp. 37f.; Kershaw, Hitler 1889–1936, p. 674.

83. See Heinrich Hoffmann’s questioning on November 13, 1946, p. 5, in Rep. 502, KV-Anklage Interrogations, H 180 (VI), State Archives, Nuremberg.

84. See Marianne Schonmann, statement from April 16, 1947, Munich District Court, quoted in Joachimsthaler, Hitlers Liste, p. 508. According to Schonmann’s own statement, she first met Hitler after Heinrich Hoffmann’s second wedding on April 18, 1934, in the photographer’s house; she was still named Petzl at the time.

85. Ibid., p. 510. Hitler included Marianne Schonmann (under the name Marion Perard-Theisen) on his “gift list” as early as Christmas 1935 (ibid., p. 14).

86. See “Hochzeit Marion Schon[e]manns, 7. August 1937,” in Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Archive, hoff-15850, BSB Munich.

87. Marianne Schonmann, statement from April 16, 1947, p. 510. A U.S. Army military intelligence service report determined that, according to statements from Karl Friedrich von Eberstein (member of the NSDAP and SS; Munich chief of police from 1936 to 1942), Eva Braun couldn’t stand “Marion Schoenemann” and finally succeeded in getting her banned from Hitler’s environment: Eberstein, “Women around Hitler,” in Headquarters Military Intelligence Service Center, U.S. Army, APO 757, OI Special Report 36, “Adolf Hitler: A Composite Picture (2. April 1947),” p. 9, F135/4, in David Irving Collection, “Adolph Hitler 1944–1953,” vol. 4, IfZ Munich, p. 695. Nicolaus von Below, on the other hand, recalled that Schonmann was one of Eva Braun’s friends whom she brought along from Munich to the Berghof (Als Hitlers Adjutant, pp. 96f.).

88. See Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, APO 124 A, Evidence Division, Interrogation Branch, Interrogation Summary No. 413, 4 November 1946, Nuremberg (Dr. Karl Brandt), State Archives, Nuremberg.

89. See Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, pp. 66f.

90. Walter Schellenberg, Aufzeichnungen: Die Memoiren des letzten Geheimdienstchefs unter Hitler, ed. Gita Petersen, newly annotated by Gerald Fleming (Wiesbaden and Munich, 1979), p. 52.

91. Schroeder, Er war mein Chef, p. 85.

92. See Gun, Eva Braun, pp. 152f.

93. See Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, pp. 96f.

94. See Gerhard Paul, “Joseph Burckel—Der rote Gauleiter,” in Smelser et al., eds., Die braune Elite II, pp. 59ff.

95. Decree of Josef Burckel’s from March 22, 1938, quoted in Alexander Mejstrik et al., Berufsschadigungen in der nationalsozialistischen Neuordnung der Arbeit: Vom osterreichischen Berufsleben 1934 zum volkischen Schaffen 1938–1940, Veroffentlichungen der Osterreichischen Historikerkommission, Vermogensentzug wahrend der NS-Zeit sowie Ruckstellungen und Entschadigungen seit 1945 in Osterreich, vol. 16 (Munich, 2004), p. 299.

96. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 97. Cf. Baldur von Schirach, Ich glaubte an Hitler (Hamburg, 1967), pp. 267f.

97. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, p. 94.

98. See Doris Seidel, “Die judische Gemeinde Munchens 1933–1945,” in Munchen arisiert: Entrechtung und Enteignung der Juden in der NS-Zeit, ed. Angelika Baumann and Andreas Heusler for the state capital of Munich (Munich, 2004), pp. 34f. On Fiehler, see Helmut M. Hanko, “Kommunalpolitik in der ‘Hauptstadt der Bewegung’ 1933–1935: Zwischen ‘revolutionarer’ Umgestaltung und Verwaltungskontinuitat,” in Martin Broszat et al., eds., Bayern in der NS-Zeit: Herrschaft und Gesellschaft im Konflikt, part 3 (Munich, 1981), pp. 334ff. and 417ff.

99. See Julia Schmideder, “Das Kaufhaus Uhlfelder,” in Munchen arisiert, pp. 130ff.

100. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, p. 94; for “sworn to silence,” see the German