the general.
45. Goebbels, Tagebucher 1942–43, p. 133.
46. Franz Halder, Hitler als Feldherr, pp. 50, 52. As Speer (p. 239) reports, the ascent of Mount Elbrus was one cause of Hitler’s vexation. He took a characteristically exaggerated view: “For hours he raged as if his entire plan of campaign had been ruined by this bit of sport.”
47. See Speer, p. 287. In a personal communication Speer has informed the author: “As I have now learned from a member of the RAF staff, there were technical obstacles to carrying out the concept of paralyzing vital segments of industry. There was, for example, the impossibility of finding the target at night, over great distances, by electronic means, and of course there was the inadequate range of the fighter escorts for the American daylight bombers. These bombers had tried to attack Schweinfurt by day without escort, but had to take excessively heavy losses. All that changed in 1944.” About one-third of the German capacity to wage war was dependent on the production of synthetic gasoline; the air force relied on that source for all its fuel. See Hillgruber, Strategie, pp. 420 f.
48. Churchill, speech at the Mansion House, November 10, 1942.
49. See Domarus, pp. 1935, 1937 f., 1941.
50. Ibid., p. 1937.
51. Speer, pp. 245 f.; also Warlimont, pp. 284 f.
52. Heiber, Lagebesprechungen, pp. 126 ff.
53. Gibson, The Ciano Diaries, p. 556; also Goebbels, Tagebucher 1942—43, p. 126, and Speer, p. 302.
54. Goebbels, Tagebucher 1942–43, p. 241. For the preceding remark see Speer, p. 249.
55. These phrases may be found, in the order given, in Tischgesprache, pp. 210, 212, 303, 348, 171, 181.
56. See, in the order given, Tischgesprache, pp. 355, 351, 361, 468, 258, and Zoller, p. 174.
57. Tischgesprache, p. 465. The parallel to the “period of struggle” first comes up in the speech of November 8, 1942, where it is promptly used several times; see Domarus, pp. 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1943, 2085; also Tischgesprache, p. 364, i.a.
58. Heiber, Lagebesprechungen, pp. 779 f.; cf. also Henry Picker in: Tischgesprache, pp. 128, 130; also Speer, p. 243.
59. Ribbentrop to the Nuremberg tribunal psychiatrist Douglas M. Kelley, cited from Hans-Dietrich Rohrs, Hitler. Die Zerstorung einer Personlichkeit, pp. 53 f.
60. See the extensive references to Hitler’s health in Maser, Hitler, pp. 332 f.
61. Morell log, cited ibid, p. 339; the drug was prostacrinum, an extract of seminal vesicles and prostate glands. On Morell and his methods of treatment, cf. Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler, pp. 59 ff.
62. Report of Dr. Erwin Giesing of June 12, 1945, cited in Maser, Hitler, p. 429.
63. This is Rohrs’s (Hitler, p. 121) wholly erroneous view. On the question of whether Hitler was suffering from one of the forms of Parkinson’s disease, or only from what is called the Parkinson syndrome, see ibid., pp. 43 if. and 101 f.; also the study by Johann Recktenwald, Woran hat Adolf Hitler gelitten? which assumes a Parkinson syndrome caused by encephalitis. See also Maser, Hitler, pp. 326 ff. and Bullock, pp. 717 f. Probably the exact nature of Hitler’s illness can no longer be determined, since no examination with a specific investigatory aim was ever undertaken. Because of the extremely inadequate documentation, none of the various diagnoses can be persuasively supported or rejected; the principal symptom of both Parkinson’s disease and the Parkinson syndrome, namely the shaking arm or leg, can also be caused by many other diseases.
64. See Heiber, Lagebesprechungen, p. 608, and the speech of November 8, 1942, Domarus, p. 1944.
65. A variety of interpretations has been offered for the motives and the background of this speech. Some see it in connection with the demand for “unconditional surrender” formulated in Casablanca a good three weeks earlier (see, for example, Werner Stephan, Joseph Goebbels, pp. 256 f.), some as an attempt by the Propaganda Minister to enhance his personal position and announce his claims to the position of second in command, for with the disintegration of Hitler’s personality and Goring’s simultaneous loss of prestige, that position had become crucial. Cf. Rudolf Semler, Goebbels—the Man Next to Hitler, pp. 68 f., also Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, Doctor Goebbels, pp. 245 f., Heiber, Joseph Goebbels, pp. 328 ff., and the balanced summing-up by Gunter Moltmann, “Goebbels’ Speech on Total War, Feb. 18, 1943,” Republic to Reich, pp. 298 ff. On thie initiative of the Goebbels-Speer-Ley-Funk combination see also Speer, pp. 254 ff.
66. In England, for example, the number of servants in private households was reduced to one-third of what it had been before the war, whereas in Germany the figure actually increased; cf. Speer, pp. 220, 540. The number of women employed in industry rose only slightly during the war, from 2,620,000 on July 31, 1939, to 2,808,000 on July 31, 1943; a year later it had dropped again to 2,678,000. See USSBS, The Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German Economy. Also confidential report of the Economic Conference of February 26, 1943, BAK 115/1942; see also BAK NS 19/1963. For the preceding remark of Hitler, see Rauschning, Gesprache, p. 22.
67. This was a visit to Army Group South (von Manstein). Earlier that year there had been a total of two visits to front-line headquarters: on February 17 to Army Group South and on March 13 to Army Group Center (von Kluge). A visit was planned for June 19, 1944, to the invasion front, that is, to Rommel’s headquarters in Roche- Guyon Palace, but this plan was canceled at short notice. See Hans Speidel, invasion 1944, pp. 112 ff.
68. Speer, pp. 245, 295 f., 299 f.
69. Krebs, Tendenzen und Gestalten, pp. 124 ff.
70. Hans Buchheim, “Befehl und Gehorsam,” in: Anatomie des SS-Staates I, pp. 338 f.
71. Ibid., p. 329.
72. Rauschning, Gesprache, p. 129. For the remark of Goebbels see Tagebucher 1942—43, date of March 27, 1942.
73. Mein Kampf, p. 679.
74. IMT XXVI, p. 266 (710-PS). Rosenberg’s remark is cited from Robert M. W. Kempner, Eichmann und Komplicen, p. 97. On the question of the specific decision for the “final solution” see Krausnick, “Judenverfolgung,” pp. 360 ff. The concept “final solution” first appeared around the same time, in a decree of the Reichssicherheitshauptumt dated May 20, 1941; see IMT NG- 3104.
75. See the report of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Erich v.d. Bach-Zelewski, ND, NO-2653.
76. Part of the statement of the engineer Hermann Friedrich Grabe on the mass shooting of some 5,000 Jews in Dubno (Ukraine) on October 5, 1942, by SS and Ukrainian militiamen; see IMT XXXI, pp. 446 ff. (2992- PS).
77. Cited from Bracher, Diktatur, p. 463. On fhe number of Jews killed in the big extermination camps of the East, see Heinz Hohne, Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf, p. 349. The remark of Rudolf Hoss is quoted in his autobiographical account, Kommandant in Auschwitz, p. 120—where, incidentally, in a curious perversion of ambition he claims some 3 million victims for Auschwitz alone.
78. Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 426.
79. Tischgesprache, pp. 190, 271 f., 469. In the same spirit Himmler, in a memorandum on the General Plan for the East dated April 27, 1942, suggested retraining the midwives in the
