245. Muller, Heer, 313.
246. Muller, Heer, 313–14. See Jan?en/Tobias, 206–19, for the inaccuracy of the rumours that Brauchitsch had been ‘bought’ by Hitler through a sizeable bribe to assist in the costs incurred through divorcing his wife in order to remarry. Brauchitsch’s subservience to Hitler was not purchased; it came naturally.
247. Muller, Heer, 314.
248. Muller, Armee, Dok.115, S.259–61 (Halder’s report on Hitler’s speech); Below, 103–5; Jan?en/Tobias, 237ff.; Weinberg II, 385; Muller, Beck, 297; Muller, Heer, 315; IfZ, ED 1, Fol.416–17, ‘Personliche Erlebnisse des Generals d.Inf. a.D. Curt Liebmann in den Jahren 1938/39’ (compiled in November 1939).
249. Jan?en/Tobias, 240.
250. Muller, Beck, 298–300.
251. Muller, Beck, 300–301 (and n.88 for a date after 16 June for the concluding discussion).
252. Muller, Beck, 307–8, 537–62. Beck imagined Brauchitsch issuing Hitler in the second half of September with a collective protest of the top military leadership and refusal to collaborate in a war against Czechoslovakia (Muller, Beck, 558). See also Muller, Heer, 315–33.
253. Muller, Beck, 552.
254. Muller, Heer, 333–5 and n.138, 337; Muller, Beck, 542–50, for the text of Beck’s memorandum of 16 July 1938. See also the account of the meeting (misdated to 3 August 1938) in General Liebmann’s memoirs, IfZ, ED 1, Fol.418.
255. Muller, Heer, 335–7.
256. Muller, Heer, 337.
257. Below, 112.
258. Below, 113.
259. Anton Hoch and Hermann Wei?, ‘Die Erinnerungen des Generalobersten Wilhelm Adam’, in Wolfgang Benz (ed.), Miscellanea: Festschrift fur Helmut Krausnick zum 75. Geburtstag, Stuttgart, 1980, 32–62, here 54. Adam’s account is to be preferred to one in which Hitler’s fury was directed at Beck’s criticism of the Westwall (Muller, Heer, 338).
260. Below, 113.
261. IfZ, ED 1, Liebmann Memoirs, Fol.417–18; Muller, Heer, 339; Keitel, 186–7; Below, 115.
262. Muller, Heer, 339.
263. Muller, Heer, 333, 339–40; Muller, Beck, 310– 11.
264. Muller, Heer, 340; Muller, Beck, 557.
265. Muller, Beck, 311, 580.
266. See Muller, Beck, 311. For extensive analysis of Beck’s position and radicalization during the summer of 1938, see Muller, Heer, ch.7.
267. Klemperer, 96–101; Meehan, 141ff.
268. Kube, 269.
269. Weinberg II,383 and n.18.
270. Wiedemann, 166; Muller, Beck, 557, 559; Bloch, 188–9; Weinberg II, 383.
271. Wiedemann, 166, 235–6; Bloch, 188–9; Weinberg II,383.
272. TWC, xii.798–9. Hitler and Goring had told naval chiefs much the same in July (BA/MA, PG/34566, Akten des Oberbefehlshabers der Kriegsmarine, Gro?admiral Erich Raeder, ‘Aus der Unterrichtung des Amtschefs A am 12.7.38…’).
273. Ernst von Weizsacker, Erinnerungen, Munich/Leipzig/Freiburg i.Br., 1950, 192 (and for his quoted words, 165).
274. Cit. Blasius in Knipping and Muller, 118.
275. Irving, Fuhrer, 118–19 (with examples, but no sources). See also Broszat, Staat Hitlers, 418.
276. Below, 112, 114–15.
277. TBJG, I/6, 49 (19 August 1938).
278. Cit. Irving, Fuhrer, 127.
279. Text in Forster, Befestigungswesen, 123–48, here especially 132, 137, 143; and see Keitel, 185–6, for Hitler’s intended fortifications on the Westwall.
280. Irving, Fuhrer, 128; Mason, Arbeiterklasse, 106, 556, 667, 849.
281. Hoch and Wei?, 55.
282. TBJG, I/6, 59 (26 August 1938).
283. TBJG, I/6, 61–2 (28 August 1938).
284. TBJG, I/6, 63 (30 August 1938).
285. TBJG, I/6, 68 (1 September 1938).
286. Muller, Beck, 538–9, 544–5, 561.
287. Shirer, 102.
288. TBJG, I/6, 65 (31 August 1938), 68 (1 September 1938).
289. See Kershaw, ‘Hitler Myth’, 133ff.; Auerbach in Knipping and Muller, 282– 3.
290. BA/MA, RW19/41, WWI VII (Munich, 9 September 1938).
291. Groscurth, 105 n.29; Smelser, 231–2.
292. Bloch, 191; Weinberg II, 421, 428; Klemperer, 101ff.; Meehan, 149ff.
293. DBFP, Ser.3, II, 195–6, No.727 (and see also 220–21, No.752).
294. Weinberg II, 418–20; Smelser, 235.
295. Smelser, 235.
296. Smelser, 236–7.
297. Groscurth, 104 and n.26.
298. Groscurth, 111.
299. Groscurth, 104.
300. Groscurth, 107.
301. Groscurth, 112.
302. Groscurth, 112 and n.62; Smelser, 234–5.
303. DGFP, D/II, 686–7, NO.424; and see Bloch, 191.
304. Groscurth, 113–15.
305. Groscurth, 109.
306. Groscurth, 107.
307. Groscurth, 109.
308. Groscurth, 112.
309. Cit. Weinberg II, 423 n.195.
310. Domarus, 900–905 (especially 904–5); Shirer, 104–5 for reactions.
311. Schmidt, 401.
312. Shirer, 104–5.
313. At a meeting with his military leaders at Nuremberg on September 9–10, the target day was confirmed as that stated in Plan Green (1 October) (DGFP, D, II, 727–30, NO.448 (notes of Schmundt); Smelser, 238).
314. Smelser, 237.
