Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death

1939.5 Ibid., Apr 4, 1939.6 Sir Miles Lampson to FO, Apr 4, 1939 (PRO file FO.371/23006).7 Diary, Apr 8, 1939.8 Lampson to FO, Apr 29, 1939 (PRO file FO.371/23007). And see B Vernier, La Politiqueislamique de l’Allemagne (Paris, 1939), 38f, and Lukasz Hirszowicz, The Third Reich and the ArabEast (London, 1966), 18.9 Diary, Apr 10, 1939.10 See the diaries of Bormann; Eberhard (IfZ, Irving collection); and Major Wilhelm Deyhle,Jodl’s staff officer (ND: 1796-PS); also a letter from Col Eduard Wagner to his wife, Mar 30and Apr 1 (in which latter he wrote ‘gestern bei der Führerentscheidung...’—‘yesterday, whenthe Führer reached his decision...’).11 Sir H Knatchbull-Hugessen to FO, Apr 21, 1939 (PRO file FO.371/23007)12 Waterlow to FO, Apr 6, 1939 (PRO file FO.371/23006)13 US State Dept interrog. of Göring, Nov 6–7, 1945 (author’s film DI–34); JG’s diary, Apr19, 1939.14 Gutterer MS (Lower Saxony provincial archives, Wolfenbüttel: Gutterer papers); andinterview, Jun 30, 1993; JG diary, Apr 20; the RMVP programme in BA file NS.10/127times this reception at 8 P.M.15 Karl-Heinz Hederich, interrog., Dec 17, 1947 (NA film M.1019, roll 25).16 Unpubl. diary, Apr 24, 1939.17 Ibid., May 2, 1939.18 Diary, May 3; press directive, May 5, 1939 in Brammer collection (BA file ZSg.101).19 Unpubl. diary, May 6, 1939. ‘And it was probably intended as such.’20 E G Cable, British consul general in Cologne, to British embassy in Berlin, May 23(PRO file FO.371/22989); diary, May 19; VB, May 18 and 22, and DAZ and WestdeutscherBeobachter, May 20, 21, 1939.21 Unpubl. diary, May 23; Ribbentrop had endless rows with JG afterwards over his humiliationat the signing (he had been placed in a rear row). And ibid., Jun 1, 2,22 Ibid., May 12, 1939.23 Report to Reich Defence Council, Jun 5, 1939 (NA film T77, roll 131, 3043f). Inaddition five one-megawatt transmitters were to be ready later in 1939. Over eight monthsfrom May 1941 the RMVP would also take sixteen mobile transmitters into service.—Forthe ministry’s mobilisation preparations in Jun 1939 see ZStA Potsdam, Rep.50.01, RMVP,vol.874.24 Berndt to Himmler, Jul 11, 1944 (NA film T175, roll 33, 1405).25 See the analysis by Gabi Frautschi, Aug 21, 1947 in NA file RG.260, shipping list 53-3/7, box 15.542 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH26 Author’s interview of Lida Baarova, Salzburg, Jul 4, 1993.27 CSDIC interrogation of Baarova’s manager, ‘Mar 15, 1944,’ in MI.14 dossier on JG(PRO file WO.208/4462).28 Hanke to Himmler, May 20, 1939 (BDC file, Hanke). Greven denied this—he said hehad lunged at Hanke, whom two burly SS men had saved.29 Unpubl. diary, May 20, 1939.30 Ibid., May 23, 25, 1939.31 Ibid., May 26, Jun 4, 1939.32 Ibid., Jun 2, 7, 8, 1939.33 Ibid., May 11, 1939.34 Diary, May 28, 30, 1939.35 Ibid., Jun 17, 1939.36 Ibid., Jun 22, 1939.37 Ibid., Jun 14: ‘I’ve at last sold my house. I’m glad to be shot of that burden.’38 Magda Goebbels to Ritschel, Jun 16 (ZStA Potsdam, Rep.90, Go 2, vol.3); JG unpubl.diary, Jun 17, 1939: ‘Long discussion with Magda. House selling and buying. The Führer alsowants to buy into Schwanenwerder. That would be nice.’39 Berliner Illustrierte, Aug 3, 1939.40 See the four files of confidential press circulars issued by RPA Berlin, Jun 1–Dec 30,1939 in Fritzsche’s papers in the Hoover Libr., MS division (accession XX185–9.13), box 4.For an analysis of the press directives, see Walter Hagemann, Publizistik im Dritten Reich. EinBeitrag zur Methode der Massenführung (Hamburg, 1948).—For BA files of press conferencesfrom various sources, see ZSg.101 (Karl Brammer); ZSg.102 (Fritz Sänger); ZSg.110 (GotfriedTraub); ZSg.115 (Fritz Nadler); ZSg.109 (Theo Oberheitmann); ZSg.116 (DNB).41 Comments of Major Percy C Black, acting US military attaché, Berlin, on current events,No.28, Aug 21, 1939 (FDR Libr., Harry L Hopkins papers, box 187, vol.vii).42 RPA (Reichspropagandaamt) Frankfurt, Vertrauliche Briefing, henceforth cited as RPAFrankfurt, confidential briefing), Jul 20 and Aug 5, 1939. These and ’confidential briefings’are published in Helmut Sündermann, Tagesparolen. Deutsche Presseweisungen 1939–1945. HitlersPropaganda und Kriegsführung (Leoni, 1973), 20ff. More such items, 1941–43, are in Yivo fileG-105. See BA files, ZSg., Oberheitmann Material (also ND: NG-3800), and Brammermaterial (ND: NG.-3070).43 Unpubl. diary, Jun 16, 1939.44 Despatches by Shepherd, British consul general in Danzig, to Ld Halifax, Jun 19 and 21,1939 (PRO file FO.371/23021).45 Unpubl. diary, Jun 18,1939.46 A verbatim text reached London on Jun 21, 1939 (PRO file FO.371/23020); unpubl.diary, Jun 19, 1939: ‘I receive the foreign press and lay it on the line to them.’47 Pressereferent (Schirmeister) memoirs, loc. cit. And Danziger Vorposten, Jun 18, 1939.48 Hassell diary, Jun 20, 1939.49 Henderson to FO, Jun 19, 1939 (PRO file FO.371/23020).50 RPA Berlin, press circulars in the Fritzsche papers, Hoover Libr. MS division, box 4.51 RPA Berlin, press circular, Jun 30, Jul 1; unpubl. diary, Jul 2, 1939.52 RPA Berlin, press circular, Jul 1, 1939, commenting on articles in Daily Mail and Le Jour.GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 54353 Ibid., Jun 3, Jul 20; RPA Frankfurt, special briefing, Jul 1, and confidential briefing, Jul3, 14, 1939.54 RPA Berlin, press circular, Jun 24, 27, Jul 1; JG had to drop the Japanese atrocity storiesso as not to irritate Tokyo—‘So no more stories about Englishmen being stripped naked.’(Ibid., Jun 27, 1939).55 Ibid., Jun 20, 28, 1939. When the RPL published a wall-newspaper, Die Parole der Woche,depicting British soldiers killing Palestinians demonstrating against ‘Jewish rule,’ the OKWobjected to attacks on British soldiers who were merely ‘obeying orders’ (Yivo, G-52).56 RPA Berlin, press circular, Jun 27; unpubl. diary, Jun 29, 30, 1939.57 Interrog. of Schirmeister, May 6, 1946 (NA film M.1270, roll 19); JG unpubl. diary, Jun27, 1939; Gutterer interview, Jun 30, 1993.58 Pressereferent [Schirmeister] memoirs. The letter had evidently been drafted by HansSchwarz Van Berk, one of JG’s top tacticians. The unpubl. diary Jun 30, Jul 7, 1939 seems tobear this out.59 RPA Berlin, press circular, Jun 19, 28, 1939.60 Ibid., Jun 2, 4, 12, 1939.61 Ibid., Jun 12, 13, 1939.62 Ibid., Jun 25, 1939.63 Ibid. Jun 16, 17, 18, 20, 1939.64 Ibid., Jun 21,65 Ibid., Jul 6, 8, 1939. ‘But at least we both made the effort to restore human relationsbetween us.’66 Ibid., Jun 2, 3, 1167