146. See Leach, 220, 222.
147. Bonwetsch, 203ff. (though the change was only gradual, and from 1942 onwards). For an emphasis, diluting the blame attached exclusively to Stalin, on the structural weaknesses in the Red Army in 1941, but rapid remedial action taken, see Jacques Sapir, ‘The Economics of War in the Soviet Union during World War II’, in Kershaw and Lewin, 208–36, here 216–19. See also David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House,
148. Leach, 234–7 (and see also pp.118–23) for above.
149. Leach, 212, 223–4. Whether Soviet determination to stand and defend Moscow, backed by utterly ruthless butchery of those attempting to flee, would have been sustainable had Stalin fled from the capital might, however, be doubted. And such an eventuality was close in mid-October, when a special train was waiting under steam at one of Moscow’s stations ready to carry the Soviet dictator out of the city. Stalin seems to have pondered the likely consequences for morale, however, and decided to stay. (Volkogonov, 434–5; Edvard Radzinsky,
150. See Leach, 238–41.
151. Hauner,
152. Hauner,
153. Rebentisch, 374.
154. Lang,
155. Rebentisch, 374.
156. Steinert, 206–8.
157. Boelcke,
158. Steinert, 209–13; Boelcke,
159. Heinrich Breloer (ed.),
160. Breloer, 63.
161. StA Bamberg, K8/III, 18475, report of the Landrat of Ebermannstadt, 1 July 1941: ‘
162. StA Bamberg, K8/III, 18475, report of the Landrat of Ebermannstadt, 30 August 1941; printed in Martin Broszat, Elke Frohlich, and Falk Wiesemann (eds.),
163. Steinert, 213–14.
164. StA Munich, LRA 61618, report of Gendarmerie-Posten Mittenwald, 24 May 1941 (
165. Conway, 259–60, 383–6.
166. For Bormann’s increasing intervention in Church matters during the war, see Longerich,
167. Kershaw,
168. GStA Munich, Epp-Akten 157, Reichsstatthalter Epp to Lammers, 23 December 1941: ‘
169. Landratsamt Traunstein, IV-7–177, anonymous letter to the Landrat of the Landkreis Traunstein, 20 September 1941: ‘
170. See Kershaw,
171. Cit. Kershaw, ‘
172. Landratsamt Parsberg 939, report of the Landrat of Parsberg, 19 September 1941: ‘Durch-fuhrung des Kreuzerlasses in Parsberg’: ‘…
173. StA Munich, LRA 31933, anonymous letter (undated but received on 2 October 1941) to the Burgermeister of Ramsau, Landkreis Berchtesgaden:
174. See Kershaw,
175. This was the implication of the interpretation by Peter Huttenberger, ‘Voruberlegungen zum “Widerstandsbegriff”’, in Jurgen Kocka (ed.),
176. Klee, ‘Euthanasie’, 290.
177. Klee, ‘Euthanasie’, 324–5.
178. 178. Klee, ‘Euthanasie’, 206ff., 289–91.
179. Honolka, 84–90; Klee, ‘Euthanasie’, 286–7.
180. Klee, ‘Euthanasie’, 334.
181. Klee, ‘Euthanasie’, 334, 486–7 n.127.
182. Heinz Boberach (ed.),
183. Harrison, ‘Dissolution’, 349–50.
184. Cit. Harrison, ‘Dissolution’, 350; Peter Loffler (ed.),
185. Harrison, ‘Dissolution’, 352; see also Loffler, 874–83; and Ludwig Volk, ‘Episkopat und Kirchenkampf’, in Dieter Albrecht (
186. Klee,
187. Harrison, ‘Dissolution’, 352; Lewy, 253.
188. Papen, 481–2.
189. See Harrison, ‘Dissolution’, 325–6.
190. Picker, 260 (7 April 1942).
191. Bernhard Stasiewski, ‘Die Kirchenpolitik der Nationalsozialisten im Warthegau 1939–1945’,
192. Papen, 481–2.
193. Klee, ‘Euthanasie’, 335.
194. Klee, ‘Euthanasie’, 335.
195.