Britain’s future, after its collapse, residing in a probable merger (‘Fusion’) with America (Fols.279–82). Himmler went on to depict his vision of the future development of the European continent under German domination, before coming to the question of Russia.
3. Hofer, Der Nationalsozialismus, 194.
4. IMG, xxxiv.469, Doc.134-C (Hitler’s comments on 20 January 1941); and, for Hitler’s comments on 20 June 1941 (as noted by General Thomas) on the need to secure all territories needed for the defence economy, IMG, xxvii.220–21, Doc.1456-PS; see also Norman Rich, Hitler’s War Aims. Vol.1: Ideology, the Nazi State, and the Course of Expansion, London, 1973, 207; and Carr, Poland, 122–5.
5. See Breitman, Architect, ch.7.
6. Engel, 92 (18 December 1940).
7. DRZW, iv.244; Leach, 159–65; Hillgruber, Strategie, 501–4.
8. Leach, 140.
9. Halder KTB, ii.261 (28 January 1941); trans. Halder Diary, 314.
10. Leach, 141.
11. Bock, Diary, 197–8 (1 February 1941); Leach, 141.
12. Leach, 142–3.
13. Below, 262.
14. Leach, 143–5.
15. KTB OKW, i.339–40 (1 March 1941); DRZW, iv. 244; Leach, 159–61.
16. Halder KTB, ii.319 (17 March 1941); Leach, 162–3.
17. Engel, 92–3 (entry for 17 January 1941); Hillgruber, Strategie, 504 (where Engel’s entry is misdated to 17 March 1941); Leach, 163.
18. CD, 328–9 (16 January 1941, 18 January 1941), for Mussolini’s unease at the visit; Domarus, 1654.
19. CP, 417–20. For the visit and Mussolini’s reaction, see MacGregor Knox, Mussolini Unleashed 1939–1941. Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy’s Last War, Cambridge, (1982) 1986 paperback edn, 279–81; Milza, 791.
20. CD, 329 (entry dated 18 January 1941 in text, but actually covering the dates 18–21 January 1941, here referring to 19 January 1941). For the authenticity of the diaries, despite some touching up in 1943, see Knox, 291–2.
21. CD, 330 (entry dated 18 January 1941, but relating here to 20 January 1941).
22. IMG, xxxiv.469, Doc. 134-C.
23. CD, 330 (entry dated 18 January 1941, but relating to 21 January 1941).
24. CD, 331 (22 January 1941).
25. For scorn in the population directed at Italian war-efforts in Greece and North Africa, see Steinert, 171.
26. TBJG, I/9, 114 (29 January 1941); see also 153 (22 February 1941) for growing doubts about Mussolini, and 197–8 (21 March 1941) for further complaints about the Italian leadership and military capability.
27. TBJG, I/9, 118 (31 January 1941) for Hitler’s criticism of the Italians.
28. See Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 107, for the military defeats and numbers of prisoners; and Knox, 251ff., for the disastrous campaigns.
29. Irving, HW, 200.
30. KTB OKW, i.284 (28 January 1941).
31. Domarus, 1666.
32. CP, 421–30 (here 428). See Preston, Franco, 421–2, for the extraordinary ‘shopping-list’ of military equipment put together by the Spanish General Staff — so exorbitant that it was dismissed in Berlin as a pretext to avoid entering the war.
33. TBJG, I/9, 121 (1 February 1941).
34. TBJG, I/9, 119 (31 January 1941), 121 (1 February 1941).
35. TBJG, I/9, 121 (1 February 1941).
36. Domarus, 1661 n.50.
37. TBJG, I/9, 121 (1 February 1941).
38. Domarus, 1663.
39. Domarus, 1663 n.54; and see Jackel, ‘Hitler und der Mord’, 151–62, here 160–62.
40. Domarus, 1659. He also remarked, in a different context, in his speech, that neither he nor the Duce were Jews or ‘doers of business’ (Geschaftemacher), and that their handshake was genuine (Domarus, 1661).
41. Aly, 269.
42. Hornshoh-Moller, 187; and see 2–3, 18–19, 179–81, 295–6. At a preview for an invited audience on 1 March 1940, the extract of Hitler’s speech, which had only recently been incorporated into the film, provoked a spontaneous burst of applause. The film was first shown in public at the ‘UFA-Palast’ in Berlin on 28 November 1940. (Moller, 18–19, 33.)
43. For the nature of the Engel ‘diary’ entries, only seemingly contemporary, see Engel, 12–13.
44. Engel, 94–5. See Breitman, Architect, 155 n., for reasons to accept this testimony, despite its contentious nature.
45. Aly, 273.
46. See Aly, 268–79.
47. Gerhard Botz, Wohnungspolitik und Judendeportation 1938–1945. Zur Funktion des Antisemi tismus als Ersatz nationalsozialistischer Sozialpolitik, Vienna, 1975, 108–9, 197; IMG, xxix.176, Doc.1950-PS.
48. TBJG, I/9, 193 (18 March 1941).
49. Aly, 212–15; Breitman, Architect, 151–2.
50. Aly, 217–18.
51. Aly, 219–25; Safrian, 96–8.
52. Aly, 269; Breitman, Architect, 152 and 285 n.33.
53. Cit. Aly, 269.
54. Aly, 269.
55. Cit. Aly, 269; Breitman, Architect, 152 and 205 n.33.
56. DTB Frank, 332–3 (17 March 1941), 336–7 (25 March 1941); Breitman, Architect, 156.
57. Breitman, Architect, 156 and 285 n.33.
58. Breitman, Architect, 146.
59. IMG, iv.535–6 (statement of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, 7 January 1946); Krausnick/Wilhelm, 115; Breitman, Architect, 147.
60. Krausnick/Wilhelm, 141.
61. Breitman, Architect, 147–8.
62. Cit. Christian Streit, Keine Kameraden. Die Wehrmacht und die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen 1941–1945, Stuttgart, 1978, 28. This is the first documentary evidence hinting at the order for annihilation in the eastern campaign.
63. It was taken to Hitler at the Berghof at the end of a quiet month when, according to one who experienced the atmosphere there at first hand, it was scarcely noticeable that Germany was at war (Below, 262).
64. KTB OKW, i.341 (3 March 1941); trans, amended from Warlimont, 150–51; Krausnick/Wilhelm, 115; Breitman, Architect, 148–9; Streit, 30.
65. Warlimont, 152–3; Anatomie, 198–201, here especially 199.
