Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death

21, 1942 (author’s film DI-60).21 Unpubl. diary, Aug 13, 1941 (NA film T84, roll 267).22 Ibid., Sep 24: a briefing by his former adjutant Günther Wittmütz; and Sep 27, 1942, asimilar discussion with Major Ihlefeld.23 Ibid., Sep 29, 1942.24 Ibid., Sep 30, 1942.GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 74725 Dittmar records in his diary of Dec 22, 1942, being invited to luncheon at Horcher’swith Fritzsche, Luftwaffe general Quade, Transozean’s Mr Schneider, and the Berlin correspondentof the Essen Nationalzeitung.26 Unpubl. diary, Mar 8, 1942 (NA film T84, roll 261); already on May 13, 1941 he hadnoted that Hitler had once more shelved the female labour issue. ‘I plead for compulsion…The fine ladies won’t come of their own volition.’ On May 23, 1941 he noted that Hitler hadrejected compulsion.27 Ibid., Dec 17, 1942.28 Hans Kehrl, 249ff.29 Minutes of Zentrale Planung, Oct 30, 1942 (Milch Documents, vol.46, 9014f); cf.David Irving, The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe (London, 1967).30 Bormann diary, Dec 27–28 (Libr. of Congress); he returned to the Wolf’s Lair on Dec30, and sat alone with Hitler on Dec 31 until 4:15 A.M. next day; cf JG diary, Jan 5, 1943.31 Oven, ‘Jul 25, 1944’, 430f.32 Semler, ‘Dec 28, 1942.’33 Diary, Dec 31, 1942.34 Ibid., Jan 1; similarly in MinConf., Jan 5, 1943.35 Oven, 434.36 JG, ‘Der totale Krieg,’ in Das Reich, Jan 17; for public reactions, see the SD report of Jan18, 1943 on NA film T175, roll 264, 8488ff.37 MinConf., Jan 4; JG diary, Jan 5; Semler, ‘Jan 4.’ Sauckel spoke in the same vein about anall-out labour effort in Weimar on Jan 6, 1943 (IMT, vol.xli, 225ff.)38 MinConf., Jan 5, 1943.39 Draft letter from JG to Göring, Jan 12, 1943, in Hoover Libr., JG papers, box 2. ‘I amproud to have stood at your side during the hardest times of our movement, and shall alwaysbe glad to place myself at your disposal if called upon for advice or assistance.’40 See his remarks at the MinConf. on Jan 6, 1943: reported by Tiessler to Bormann thatday (NA film T81, roll 672, 0895)41 Diary, Jan 7, 1943.42 Ibid., Jan 9; Bormann records (Jan 8, 1943) that JG, Bormann, Funk, Sauckel (withTimm), Speer, and Keitel attended as well no doubt as Lammers.43 Diary, Jan 16, and MinConf., Jan 16, 1943.44 Führer decree on a comprehensive effort of men and women for Reich defence purposes,Jan 13 (BA file R43II/655; IfZ film MA.470, 4910ff.); see Himmler’s telephone noteon a call on Jan 14 to SS Obersturmbannführer With (‘Gen von Unruh’s misgivings aboutthe Führer’s decree’); and MinConf., Jan 13–14, 1943.45 Lammers to JG, Jan 15, 1943 (BA file R43II/655).46 Diary, Jan 16, 1943.47 Semler, ‘Jan 18, 1943.’48 Oven, ‘Jul 25, 1944’, 434.49 Diary, Jan 21, 1943. Lammers had brought in besides JG: Sauckel, Funk, and Gen Waltervon Unruh, the army’s Sonderbeauftragter für Überprüfung des zweckmässigenKriegseinsatzes (special manpower commissioner).50 Semler, ‘Jan 20, 1943.’748 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH51 Dittmar diary, Jan 7, 1943 (a phone conversation with Colonel Martin).52 Diary, Jan 7, 1943.53 Dittmar diary, Jan 11, 1943.54 See ibid., Jan 16; for the public shock at this, see SD report, Jan 25, 1943 (NA filmT175, roll 264, 8535f.) The communiqué referred to German troops in Stalingrad ‘whohave been fighting a heroic defensive battle against the enemy attacking from all sides’.55 Dittmar diary, Jan 21, 1943.56 Oven, ‘Jul 25, 1944,’ 434.57 Diary, Jan 23; Semler, ‘Jan 24, 1943.’58 Diary, Jan 23, 1943.59 Naumann confirmed this to the RMVP department heads on the evening of Jan 23,stating that the Führer was now resolved to implement the total war measures proposed byJG (MinConf., Jan 24, 1943.)60 SS Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger to Himmler, Jan 29, 1943 (NA film T175, roll124, 9596); see too MinConf., Jan 24, and naval staff war diary, Jan 24, 1943.61 See JG’s comments on this in MinConf., Jan 24; in his speech to the gauleiters on Feb 7,1943 Hitler borrowed JG’s comparisons with the winter of 1932/33.62 Diary, Jan 23, 1943.63 Dittmar diary, Jan 23, 1943 (Author’s film DI-60); at his conference on Jan 27, 1943, JGreferred to similar speeches of Caesar and Frederick the Great. ‘The few sentences aboutthe saga of Stalingrad must be clear, devoid of pathos, and modest, as though hewn fromsolid rock.’64 JG to all propaganda agencies, Jan 24, 1943 (NA film T84, roll 24, 1959ff).65 Mallet (Stockholm) to FO, Jan 28, 1943 (PRO file FO.371/34454); Göring had evidentlytipped off his Swedish contact Birger Dahlerus.66 Diary, Jan 28; Semler, ‘Jan 14, 1943.’67 Press directives in BA, Sänger collection.68 OSS report, Feb 10, 1943 (NA file RG.226, CRR, entry 16, box 2456, file 28480).69 JG, ‘Die harte Stunde,’ in Das Reich, Feb 7; public reaction to it in SD report, Feb 11,1943 (NA film T175, roll 264, 8686f).70 Regulations on male and female recruiting for Reich defence duties, Jan 27, in RGBl., I,1943, 67; JG’s commentary on this in MinConf., Jan 29, 1943.71 JG to Hitler, Jul 18, 1944 (BA file NL.118/107); see his diary, Jan 26, 29, 1943.72 Diary, Jan 28; and see Semler, ‘Jan 29, 1943.’73 Frölich (RPL), circular No.179 to all gau propaganda officers, Jan 30, 1943 (NA filmT81, roll 24, 1960f).74 Diary, Feb 1, 1943.75 FO (Bruce-Lockhart) to Cairo and Bowes-Lyon to Washington, Feb 1 (PRO file FO.371/34454). The former considered that Göring spoke effectively to the younger generation, thelatter commented that Hitler, Göring, and JG refrained from attacking the USA and harpedinstead on the bolshevik menace. Dittmar (diary, Jan 30, 1943), rated JG’s speech as thebetter.76 Diary, Dec 7, 12, 1942.GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 74977 BBC Monitoring Report, transcript of JG’s speech, Jan 30, 1943 (PRO file FO.371/34454).78 US Federal Communications Commission, Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, SpecialReport No.49, Feb 1, 1943: ‘The Nazi anniversary speeches of Jan 30, 1943,’ 16pp (NAfile R.226, entry 16, box 234, file 27843).79 Borresholm, 9.80 In a useful analysis of the speech’s defensive utterances the Americans also found that27% were appeals to nostalgia (past anniversaries, trials, successes), 18% were praise ofNazi reconstruction, 14% were exculpatory statements about Versailles,