Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death

1942.20 Diary, Jan 20, 1942.21 Memorandum on the [Wannsee] conference of Jan 20, 1942 in files of Abt. Inland II,geh. (Pol. Archiv AA, Final Solution of the Jewish Problem, Serial 1513; NA film T120, roll780, 372024ff.) Those present included Gauleiter Meyer, Stuckart, Freisler, Bühler, Klopfer,Kritzinger, ‘Gestapo’-Müller, and Eichmann.22 Heydrich to Luther et al., Nov 29, 1941 (ibid., 372043; ND: 709–PS).—Author’sinterview of Gutterer, Sep 13, 1992.23 Hans Frank diary, Dec 16, 1941.24 Kempner, 185.25 VB, Munich, Feb 1, 1942.26 Diary, Jan 21, 1942: the Jews were getting insolent again, particularly in Berlin publictransport. ‘They’ll have to be reined in again; I’m already onto it.’27 RMVP—ministry of justice correspondence about Schönwald, Dec 1941 (Yivo, G–72).28 MinConf., Mar 10, 1942; ordinance of Berlin Jewish Cultural Association on the ban,with effect from May 1, 1942 (Yivo, G–16).29 Reich chamber of the press, ordinance of Feb 17, 1942 (Yivo, G–57).30 W Diewerge, report, Feb 11, 1942 (BA file R.55/39)31 Unpubl. diary, Feb 18, 1942 (NA film T84, roll 260).702 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH32 Eichmann papers, 1956 (in the author’s collection).33 Unpubl. diary, Mar 6, 1942, p.16 (NA film T84, roll 260).34 Diary, Mar 6, 1942.35 Because when Heydrich sent the Wannsee conference minutes to Luther at the foreignministry on Feb 26, it was date-stamped Mar 2, 1942 (Pol. Archiv AA, Serial 1513; NA filmT120, roll 780, 372023).36 Diary, Mar 7, 1942, pp.17f.37 Minutes of conference at RSHA, Mar 6, 1942, on final solution of the Jewish Problem(Pol. Archiv AA, Serial 1513; NA film T120, roll 780, 371962).— Carstensen was killed asa fighter pilot at the end of the year (diary, Dec 15, 1942: NA film T84, roll 262)38 Interrogations of the Reich chancellery’s Gottfried Boley, Sep 14, 15, 1945 (NA filmM.1270, roll 2) and Jun 10, 1947 (M.1019, roll 8); and of the Party Chancellery’s EdingerAncker, Jun 11, 1947 (M.1019, roll 3).39 Staatssekretär Schlegelberger sent his representative’s report to Lammers of the ReichChancellery on Mar 12, and described the decisions taken there as ‘for the most part totallyimpracticable’ (ND: 4055–PS; USA Exhibit 923; BA file R.22/52).40 Interrogation of Reich Chancellery’s Dr Hans Ficker, Jun 11, 1947 (NA film M.1019,roll 17).41 Schlegelberger’s undated (but spring 1942) minute on Lammer’s reference to Hitler’sruling is in BA file R.22/52; although listed in their Staff Evidence Analysis sheet, this pagewas removed by American officials at Nuremberg from the exhibit cited above.) —And seeFicker.—At about the same time JG noted that Hitler was relentless on the Jewish question:‘The Jews must get out of Europe, if necessary by applying the most brutal means’ (unpubl.diary, Mar 20, 1942, NA film T84, roll 261.)42 Diary, Mar 16, 1942, p.5.43 See Globocnik to Himmler, top secret, Jun 3 (NA film T175, roll 122, 7904) on anti-Jewish operations in Lublin; and Brack to Himmler, Jun 23, 1942 (ND: NO–205), reportingthat on Bouhler’s instructions he had made men available for ‘special duties’ and thatpursuant to a further request from Globocnik he had detached still more men to the task.‘Brigadeführer Globocnik holds the view that the entire Jew-Aktion should be executed asfast as humanly possible in case it runs into a snag half-way through.’ Brack himself arguedfor keeping back two or three million able-bodied Jews from the ten millions involved.—On Globocnik’s relationship with Eichmann see Wisliceny (IfZ, F71/8).44 Diary, Mar 27, 1942, pp.19–22 (BA file NL.118/42) There is no doubt as to thesepages’ authenticity: the originals are in the Hoover archives’ Goebbels collection; themicrofilm of them (now NA film T84, roll 261) was made in New York in 1947, and theauthor also checked the microfiche copy made by the Nazis in 1944, in the Moscow archiveswhere the microfiches have languished since 1945.45 Ibid.46 Tiessler, note dated Mar 28, 1942 (NA film T81, roll 676, 5707)47 Oven, 48.48 Unpubl. diary, Jan 22, Feb 21, 1942 (NA film T84, roll 260).49 Ibid., Jan 31, Feb 1, 8, 1942.50 Ibid., Feb 1, 1942.GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 70351 Ibid., Feb 2, 3, 5, 8, 1942.52 Ibid., Apr 30, May 1, 5, 8, 17, 1942.53 Ibid., May 21, 1942 (NA film T84, roll 262). Oswald, age 33, was killed at Cholm in Feb1942. Annette Castendyk (daughter of Anka Stalherm), interview, Nov 10, 1991, and letter,May 20, 1993.54 MinConf., Jan 29, 1942.55 Diary, Jan 27; the High Command listed 4,119 cases of typhus in the eastern armies,causing 685 fatalities (MinConf., Feb 5); the typhus epidemic worsened, with 2,301 newcases in the first ten days of May (unpubl. diary, May 28, 1942).56 MinConf., Jan 26, 1942; unpubl. diary, Nov 28, 1941.57 Diary, Feb 11, 1941.58 MinConf., Apr 24; he wrote similarly in Das Reich, May 4, 1941.59 Diary, May 26, 1941.60 Das Reich, May 4, 1941.61 Phyllis Moir, I was Winston Churchill’s Private Secretary (New York & Toronto, 1941); diary,May 3, 1941.62 MinConf., Feb 19, 1942.63 Diary, May 7, Jun 13, 1941.64 Ibid., Jun 18, 1941.65 Ibid., May 8, 1941.66 Ibid., May 9, 1941; cf. unpubl. diary, Jan 28, 1942: Churchill was a ‘first-class go-forbrokegambler,’ the gravedigger of the empire.67 Diary, Jan 30, 1942.68 MinConf., Feb 13, 26, 27, 1942.69 Diary, Feb 13, 194270 Unpubl. diary, Feb 14 (NA film T84, roll 267); MinConf., Feb 13, 1942.71 Ibid., Feb 14, 1942.72 Diary, Feb 16; MinConf., Feb 16, 1942.73 Thus OSS-director William B Donovan put it in a memo for Roosevelt, Apr 25, 1942(FDR Libr., PSF box 165, ‘OSS Reports’).74 Diary, Mar 20; Bormann diary, Mar 19, 1942.75 Unpubl. diary, Mar 21, 26, 1942.76 NS-Parteikorrespondenz, Aug 25, 1942 (BDC file, Bömer).77 Ciano diary, Mar 19, 1942.78 Diary, Mar 20, 1942.79 Gutterer, MS (1985) in Lower Saxony provincial archives, Wolfenbüttel, Gutterer papers(250 N 317), 98f; and interview, Jun 30, 1993. Speer first heard of the Nazi atomicbomb project at a conference in the Harnack House in June: see Otto Hahn diary, Jun 4;Milch diary, Jun 5, 1942 (both in the author’s collection); Prof Werner Heisenberg, inNaturwissenschaften, vol.33, (1947), 325; and interviews of Heisenberg and Karl-Otto Saur.—See too David Irving, The German Atomic Bomb and The Virus House (London, 1965); supersededby Thomas Power’s