Poland (Domarus, 1259; Schmidt, 459; Weinberg II, 637–8; and for Ribbentrop’s claim see also Bloch, 253). Below, 187, seems directly drawn from Ribbentrop’s memoirs and cannot be taken as supportive evidence. Brauchitsch — ‘not unjustifiably’, in Engel’s view — also claimed to have persuaded Hitler to postpone the attack (Engel, 59 (26 August 1939)). Goebbels makes it plain in his diary notes that it was the news from Mussolini that was decisive in the change of plan (TBJG, I/7, 78 (26 August 1939)).
220. A point made by Weinberg II, 635.
221. Ribbentrop Memoirs, 117; Bloch, 254.
222. Domarus, 1261.
223. IMG, iii.280.
224. Dahlerus, 53–6.
225. Domarus, 1261.
226. Domarus, 1264–5; CD, 135.
227. CD, 135; DGFP, D, VII, 324–6, N0.320.
228. TBJG, I/7, 80, 82–3 (28 August 1939, 29 August 1939).
229. Domarus, 1265–6.
230. Engel, 60 (27 August 1939, 29 August 1939).
231. Dahlerus, 56.
232. DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 283–4, Annex I to Doc.349.
233. Dahlerus, 56–66 (quotation, 66: ‘Sein ganzes Verhalten machte den Eindruck eines vollig Anormalen’).
234. Dahlerus, 69–70.
235. Dahlerus, 78–9.
236. DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 318–20, 321–2, Nos.402, 406.
237. DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 324, No.411, and, especially, 328, No.420.
238. TBJG, I/7, 80 (28 September 1939).
239. Groscurth, 187 (27 August 1939).
240. Halder KTB, i. 40 (28 August 1939).
241. TBJG, I/7, 81 (28 August 1939). Goebbels was evidently getting a preview on 27 August of the talk Hitler would give the next day.
242. Halder KTB, i. 38 (28 August 1939), trans. Halder Diary, 37.
243. Documents, 128, No.75; DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 330– 32, 351–5, Nos.426, 455.
244. Henderson, 262.
245. Documents, 128–31, here 129, No.75; DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 352, N0.455.
246. DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 330, No.426; Alan Bullock, Hitler. A Study in Tyranny, (1952), Harmonds-worth, 1962, 541.
247. Documents, 126–8, No.74; DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 321, No.426.
248. Henderson, 262.
249. TBJG, I/7, 83 (29 August 1939).
250. TBJG, I/7, 84 (30 August 1939). The plebiscite idea formed part of the proposals read out by Ribbentrop at his meeting with Henderson late on the evening of 30 August (Documents, 146, N0.92).
251. IfZ, ED 100, Irving-Sammlung, Hitler-Dokumentation, Bd.20, Aug. 1939; Irving, Fuhrer, 222–3; Irving, War Path, 255–6.
252. Henderson, 263. Shirer, 150–54, remarked on how few people, and those with grim, silent faces, had been there the previous evening when Henderson went to the Reich Chancellery.
253. Henderson, 265; Documents, 138, No.79 (text, 135–7, no.78); DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 374–5 (here 374), N0.490, 388–90 (here, 390), No.502; Domarus, 1285–7.
254. Henderson, 267.
255. Documents, 138–9, No.80; DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 376–7 (here 376), N0.493.
256. Documents, 140, No.82; DBFP, 3rd Ser., 400–401 (here 401), No.520.
257. Schmidt, 465.
258. Dahlerus, 99–100.
259. Documents, 139, Nos.81–2; DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 391, 400–401, Nos.504, 520; Henderson, 268–9.
260. Domarus, 1289.
261. Domarus, 1290 and n.809 for Hitler’s use of ‘Fuhrer’ alone after decrees from now on (though not consistently).
262. Dieter Rebentisch, Fuhrerstaat und Verwaltung im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Verfassungsentwicklung und Verwaltungspolitik 1939–1945, Stuttgart, 1989, 117–32; also Broszat, Staat, 382.
263. Schmidt, 465–9, here 467–8.
264. Henderson, 270–71; Documents, 142–3, N0.89, 145–6, no.92; DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 413–14, 432–3, Nos.543, 574; text of Hitler’s offer, Domarus, 1291–3. Schmidt claimed that Ribbentrop did not read the terms too quickly, though Henderson had noted that in his report to Halifax immediately after the meeting (Documents, 145, No.92 (DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 432–3, N0.574)). For Hitler’s order to Ribbentrop not to hand out the terms, see IMG, x. 311.
265. Documents, 146, No.92; DBFP, 3rd Ser., VII, 433, No.574.
266. Henderson, 271.
267. Schmidt, 469.
268. TBJG, I/7, 86 (31 August 1939).
269. Domarus, 1297; Henderson, 275, 277; TBJG, I/7, 87 (1 September 1939).
270. Dahlerus, 107.
271. Halder KTB, i. 46 (30 August 1939).
272. Halder KTB, i. 47 (31 August 1939).
273. Halder KTB, i. 46 (30 August 1939).
274. IMG, xxxiv, 456–9, D0C.126-C; Weisungen, 23– 5.
275. Halder KTB, i. 47–8 (31 August 1939), trans. Halder Diary, 43 (31 August 1939). See also Groscurth, 195, n.441 for the timing of the transmission of the attack order, passed on by Brauchitsch at 16.20 hours. TBJG, I/7, 87 (1 September 1939) notes that at midday Hitler gave the order to attack ‘in the night approaching 5a.m.’.
276. IMG, ix.313 (Ribbentrop testimony).
277. TBJG, I/7, 87 (1 September 1939).
278. TBJG, I/7, 88 (1 September 1939).
279. Henderson, 276; Ribbentrop Memoirs, 125; Josef Lipski, Diplomat in Berlin 1933–1939, ed. Waclaw Jedrzejewicz, New York/London, 1968, 609– 10; Irving, Fuhrer, 225; Irving, War Path, 260.
280. Domarus, 1305–6.
281. Heinz Hohne, The Order of the Death’s Head. The Story of Hitler’s SS,
