Roger Manvell - Heinrich Himmler

2We are indebted to Count Schwerin v. Krosigk for some additional facts he recalled when reading the first impression of this book. On the evening of 1 May, at Himmler’s urgent request, the Count went to see him at his H.Q. between Plön and Eutin. Himmler had learned that next day Schwerin was to be appointed Foreign Secretary; and he earnestly tried to convince him that at no time was that office more important than just then. By joining the Western Allies they would have a splendid chance of expanding their eastern borders as far as the Urals; they had, in fact, never been so near to that most desirable aim of German foreign policy. Himmler seemed utterly unable to grasp realities; he was convinced that his own future as ‘the second man in the Dönitz administration’ was assured. ‘All I want’, he added, ‘is a brief chat with Montgomery and Eisenhower. It should be easy enough to convince them that I and my S.S. are an indispensable Ordnungsfaktor [guarantee of law and order] in the struggle against Bolshevism.’

This bibliography contains only those books which are of special interest for the study of Himmler; only those general histories of the Third Reich which are important in the understanding of Himmler are included. Of the published official records, we have drawn specially on The Trial of the Major War Criminals: Proceedings, Vols. I-XXIII; Documents in Evidence, Vols. XXIV-XLII (Nuremberg, 1947 — 9). The Proceedings were also published by H.M.S.O. in London in twenty-two volumes, and this is the edition quoted and referred to in this book. Translations into English of some of the documents used in evidence were published by the U.S. Government Printing Office under the title Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression in eight main volumes and two supplementary volumes. When quoting from the British edition of the Proceedings we use the abbreviation I.M.T.; when quoting from Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, we abbreviate as N.C.A.

BARTZ, KARL: Downfall of the German Secret Service. (London: Kimber, 1956.)

BAYLE, FRANÇOIS: Croix gammée ou caducée. (Freiburg, 1950.) — Psychologie et éthique du national-socialisme. (Paris, A 1953.)

COHEN, ELIE A.: Human Behaviour in the Concentration Camp. (New York: Norton, 1953.)

CRANKSHAW, EDWARD: The Gestapo, Instrument of Tyranny. (London: Putnam, 1956.)

CYPRIAN, T. and SAWICKI, J.: Nazi Rule in Poland 1939 — 45. (Warsaw: Polonia, 1961.)

DARRÉ, WALTHER: Neuadel aus Blut und Boden. (Munich:Eher Verlag, 1934.)

DATNER, S., GUMKOWSKI, J. and LESZCZYNSKI, K.: Genocide 1939—45. (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Zachodnie, 1962.)

DULLES, ALLEN: Germany’s Underground. (New York: Macmillan, 1947.)

EISENBACH, A.: Operation Reinhard ( Mass Extermination in Poland ). (Poznan: 1962.)

Experimental Operations on Prisoners of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp . (Warsaw: 1960.)

FITZ GIBBON, CONSTANTINE: The Shirt of Nessus. (London: Cassell, 1956.)

German Crimes in Poland, Compiled by the Central Commission for Inter-Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. (Warsaw: 1946.)

KOGON, EUGEN: The Theory and Practice of Hell . (London, Secker and Warburg, 1951.)

MITSCHERLICH, A. and MIELKE, F.: Doctors of Infamy. (New York: 1949.)

— The Death Doctors . (London: Elek, 1962.)

PECHEL, RUDOLF: Deutscher Widerstand. (Zurich: Rentsch, 1947.)

POLONIA PUBLISHING HOUSE: Poland under Nazi Occupation. (Warsaw, 1961.)

— We Have Not Forgotten. (Warsaw, 1961.)

RECKTENWALD, JOHAN Woran hat Hitler Gelitten. (Munich: Reinhardt, 1903.)

REITLINGER, GERALD: The Final Solution. (London: Valentine Mitchell, 1953.)

— The S.S.; Alibi of a Nation 1922—1945. (London: Heinemann, 1956.)

RITTER, GERHARD: The German Resistance. (London: Allen and Unwin, 1958.)

— (Shortened version of original German edition, Karl Goerdeler und die Deutsche Widerstandsbewegung. (Bonn, 1954.)

SHIRER, WILLIAM L.: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.)

SHULMAN, MILTON: Defeat in the West. (London: Secker and Warburg, 1949.)

SOSNOWSKI, K.: Tragedy of Children under Nazi Rule. (Warsaw: Zachodnia Agencja Prasowa, 1962.)

TAYLOR, A. J. P.: The Origins of the Second World War. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961.)

THORWALD, JÜRGEN: Es Begann an der Weichsel. (Stuttgart: Steingrüben Verlag, 1950.)

— Das Ende an der Elbe. (Stuttgart: Steingrüben Verlag, 1950.)

WHEELER-BENNETT, J. W.: The Nemesis of Power. (London: Macmillan, 1953.)

Note: The official account of Eichmann’s pre-trial interrogation has been published in six mimeographed volumes by the Police d’Israel, Quartier Générale, 6ième Bureau. (Jerusalem, 1963.)

BERNADOTTE, FULK: The Curtain Falls. (New York: Knopf, 1945.)

BEST, S. PAYNE: The Venlo Incident. (London: Hutchinson, 1950.)

The Bormann Letters . Edited by H. R. Trevor-Roper. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.)

BUTLER, EWAN: Amateur Agent. (London: Harrap, 1963.)

BULLOCK, ALAN: Hitler. (London: Odhams, 1952.) Revised 1964.

BESGEN, ACHIM: Der Stille Befehl . (Munich: Nymphenburger Verlagshlandlung, 1960.)

Ciano’s Diary, 1937-38. (London: Methuen, 1952.)

Ciano’s Diary , 1939-43. Edited by Malcolm Muggeridge. (London: Heinemann, 1947.)

DEGRELLE, LEON: Die Verlorene Legion. (Stuttgart: Veritas Verlag, 1955.)

DIELS, RUDOLF: Lucifer ante Portas. (Zurich: Interverlag, 1949.)

DÖNITZ, KARL: Zehn Jahre und Zwanzig Tage. (Bonn: Athenäum Verlag, 1958.)

DORNBERGER, WALTER: V.2. (London, 1953.)

Hans Franks Tagebuch. (Edited by Stanislaw Piotrowski.) (Warsaw: Polnischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1963.)

FRISCHAUER, WILLI. Himmler. (London: Odhams, 1953.)

GISEVIUS, H. B.: To the Bitter End. (London: Cape, 1948.)

GOEBBELS, JOSEPH: My Part in Germany’s Fight. (London: Paternoster Library, 1938.)

— The Goebbels Diaries. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948.)

— The Early Goebbels Diaries. Edited by Helmut Heiber. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.)

GUDERIAN, HEINZ: Panzer Leader. (London: Michael Joseph, 1952.)

HALDER, FRANZ: Kriegstagebuch. (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1962.)

The von Hassell Diaries, 1938—44. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948.)

HEIDEN, KONRAD: Der Führer. (London: Gollancz, 1944.)

HENDERSON, SIR NEVILE: Failure of a Mission. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940.)

HESSE, FRITZ: Hitler and the English . (London: Wingate, 1954.)

Hitler’s Table Talk. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1953.)

HOESS, RUDOLF: Commandant of Auschwitz. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959.)

HÖTTL, WILHELM: The Secret Front. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1953.)

— Hitler’s Paper Weapon. (London: Hart-Davis, 1955.)

KERSTEN, FELIX: Totenkopf und Treue. (Hamburg, 1953.)

— The Kersten Memoirs. (London: Hutchinson, 1956.)

KESSEL, JOSEPH: The Man with the Miraculous Hands. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudhany, 1961.)

LÜDECKE, KURT G. W.: I Knew Hitler. (London: Jarrolds, 1938.)