Otte was also interviewed by the Generalanzeiger, Bonn, Jul 11,1972: he says they met the rest of the RMVP Prominenz in Hamburg’s five-star Hotel Atlantic.36 Inge Haberzettel, op. cit.37 JG, ‘Widerstand um jeden Preis,’ in Das Reich, Apr 22, 1945.38 The events of Apr 22 are based on the diaries of Koller and Jodl, Apr 22–23; memos ofKoller and Lieutenant Volck, Apr 25, 1945; interrogations of Keitel, Jodl, Christian, Freytag924 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICHvon Loringhoven, Below, Bernd von Brauchitsch, and the duty stenographers Hagen andHerrgesell; and the written testimonies of Keitel, Günsche, Linge, Else Krüger, and TraudlJunge (IfZ, Irving collection).39 Oven, ‘Apr 22, 1945’; Magda’s silver toilet accessories are much sought-after items onthe memorabilia auction circuit.40 British interrogations of Else Krüger, Sep 19, Mar 27, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection).41 Jodl told Russian interrogators on Jun 18, 1945 that it was plain to JG that he neithercould not should survive the destruction of the Nazi system. Wehrwissenschaftlicher Rundschau,1961, 535ff.42 Der Panzer-Bär, Apr 23, 1945.43 British interrogation of General Eckhard Christian, Oct 15, 1945 (Trevor Roper papers,IfZ, Irving collection).44 Rach, interview publ. in Pinguin (Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg) May 1949 (in IfZ archives);and Auguste Behrend, ‘Meine Tochter Magda Goebbels,’ in Schwäbische Illustrierte, No.22,May 31, 1952.45 USFET CIC interrogation of Gertrud Junge, Aug 30, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection).46 Magda to Harald Quandt, Apr 28, 1945. Interrogation report of Hanna Reitsch, AIU/IS/5, British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, Oct 5, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers,IfZ, Irving collection).47 Ebermayer & Meissner, ‘Magda Goebbels sagte: Wir müssen alle sterben,’ in Revue,No.26, 1952.48 Trevor-Roper’s interrogation of Gebhardt, Mar 27, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection); and USFET MISC special interrogation of SS Hstuf GüntherSchwägermann, Jun 20, 1946 (ibid; and NA file RG.332, Mis-Y). Ohlendorf confirmed thisin CSDIC(UK) interrogation report SRGG.1322, Jul 7, 1945.49 BBC Monitoring Report, Apr 23 (IWM archives); for ‘Radio Werewolf’s’ similar bulletinsee NYT, Apr 24, 1945.50 News bulletin issued by propaganda officer attached to Army Group Vistula, Apr 23,1945: war diary, annexes (NA film T311, roll 170, 2211).51 At 9:29 P.M. EST, America. JG had operated more than thirty powerful transmitters,which dominated the shortwave bands for twelve years and 24 days; the broadcasts to theUSA were from 6 P.M. to 1:15 A.M. each night, featuring the antisemitic Robert Best (once aP.A. stringer in Vienna), Douglas Chandler (‘Paul Revere’) of Baltimore, Jane Anderson, thewisecracking Edward Delaney, and Donald Day. NYT, May 6, 1945.52 Traudl Junge, unpubl. MS (IfZ, Irving collection).53 Soviet interrogation of SS Stubaf Helmut Kunz, reproduced in Lev Besymenski, Der Toddes Adolf Hitler (Hamburg, 1968). The physical data on JG’s children are extracted from theautopsies reproduced in this book.54 The Göring telegram and Bormann’s handwritten responses were found by a US officer,Capt John Bradin, in the bunker in Jul 1945 (IfZ, Irving collection).55 Junge, interrogation, Aug 30, 1946, and MS (IfZ, Irving collection).GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 92556 Heinz Lorenz, verbatim shorthand notes on Hitler’s final war conferences, first publishedin Der Spiegel, No.3, Jan 10, 1966.—Authenticated by the author’s interview of Lorenz;by a letter of Capt H Searle of British intelligence to CI War Room, London, Mar 5, 1946;and by CSDIC(WEA) interrogation of Lorenz, Nov 30, 1945 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection).57 Interrogation report of Hanna Reitsch, AIU/IS/5, British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, Oct 5, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ, Irving collection); and Korf’s interrogationof Reitsch, Apr 28, 1945 (Hoover Libr., K Frank Korf papers).58 Diary, Nov 2, 1940.
Goebbels59 Traudl Junge MS.60 Magda to Harald Quandt, Apr 28, 1945.61 Judge Michael A Musmanno’s interrogation of Gertrud Junge, Jan 26, 1948 (transcriptfrom Musmanno papers in IfZ, Irving collection).62 Lorenz, conference transcript, Apr 27, 1945.63 Soviet interrogation of SS Stubaf Helmut Kunz. Kunz, b.1910 in Ettingen, Baden, was inMay 1945 adjutant of the chief physician of the S.S. Health Dept.64 Harald Quandt, now 23, was held prisoner in Egypt from Nov 4, 1944 to Mar 10, 1947.He was killed after the war in an automobile accident.65 JG to Harald Quandt, Apr 28, 1945. Interrogation report of Hanna Reitsch, AIU/IS/5,British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, Oct 5, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection).66 BBC Monitoring Report, Apr 28, 1:55 P.M. (IWM archives)67 USFET MISC special interrogation of SS Hstuf Günther Schwägermann, Jun 20, 1946(NA file RG.332, Mis-Y; and Trevor Roper papers, IfZ, Irving collection).68 USFET special interrogation of Gerda Christian, Apr 25, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers,IfZ, Irving collection; and NA file RG.319, IRR, XE.009487); and BAOR interrogation ofNicolaus von Below, Jan 23, 1946 (ibid; and NA file RG.332, Mis-Y).69 Adolf Hitler, Political Testament, Apr 28, 1945 (Hoover Libr., special collection.)70 This was Gau-Inspekteur Walther Wagner. BAOR interrogation of Nicolaus von Below,Jan 23, 1946 (NA file RG.332, Mis-Y; and Trevor Roper papers, IfZ, Irving collection).71 USFET CIC interrogation of Gertrud Junge, Aug 30, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection).72 The original wedding certificate, Apr 29, 1945, is in the Hoover Libr., special collection.73 British interrogation of Else Krüger, Sep 25, 1945 and USFET interrogation of GertrudJunge, Aug 30, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ, Irving collection).74 USFET special interrogation of Gerda Christian, Apr 25, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers,IfZ, Irving collection; and NA file RG.319, IRR, XE.009487).75 USFET CIC interrogation of Gertrud Junge, Aug 30, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection).—General Wilhelm Burgdorf wrote to Schörner on Apr 29, 1945 enclosingHitler’s political testament and confirming that ‘he wrote it today after the crushingnews of the Reichsführer’s act of disloyalty.’76 Diary, Feb 28, Mar 14, 21, 22, 1945.926 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH77 USFET CIC interrogation of Gertrud Junge, Aug 30, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection); and Junge, MS.78 Cf. BBC Monitoring Report, Apr 29, 1945 (IWM archives)79 Der Spiegel, Jan 24, 1951.80 CSDIC(WEA) interrogation of Heinz Lorenz, Nov 30, 1945 (Trevor Roper papers,IfZ, Irving collection).81 Walter Rapp, interrogation of Axmann, Oct 16, 1947 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ, Irvingcollection); author’s interview of Axmann, May 7, 1991.82 USFET CIC interrogation of Gertrud Junge, Aug 30, 1946 (Trevor Roper papers, IfZ,Irving collection); and Junge, MS.83 Author’s interview of Otto Günsche, Mar 20, 1967; report by HQ tailor Willi Müller,Nov 9,
