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68. See Seidler and Zeigert, Die Führerhauptquartiere , p. 260.

69. See Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht (Wehrmachtsführungsstab) , ed. Percy Ernst Schramm, vol. I.1, August 1940–31. Dezember 1942 (Frankfurt am Main, 1965), pp. 257f.; Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945 , p. 419.

70. See Schmidt, Der Zweite Weltkrieg , p. 100.

71. See in this regard Seidler and Zeigert, Die Führerhauptquartiere , pp. 193ff.

72. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant , p. 256.

73. Ibid., p. 290. See also Schroeder, Er war mein Chef , pp. 278f.

74. Christa Schroeder to Johanna Nusser, Führer Headquarters, June 28, 1941, in ED 524, IfZ Munich. See also “Lagebesprechung im Kartenraum der ‘Wolfsschanze’ im Juni/Juli 1941,” Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Archive, hoff-36340, BSB Munich.

75. Christa Schroeder to Johanna Nusser, Führer Headquarters, July 13, 1941, in ED 524, IfZ Munich.

76. Christa Schroeder to Johanna Nusser, Führer Headquarters, August 20, 1941, in ED 524, IfZ Munich.

77. See Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant , pp. 292 and 295; Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, pp. 444f., 466, and 485. See also Seidler and Zeigert, Die Führerhauptquartiere , pp. 205 and 208, according to which Hitler first, at the beginning of December, paid a visit to Army Group South in Mariupol on the Azov Sea in southeastern Ukraine, accompanied by Schmundt, Linge, and Morell.

78. See Henriette von Schirach, Frauen um Hitler , p. 235.

79. See Schmidt, Der Zweite Weltkrieg , pp. 104ff., 116ff., and 150. On Hitler’s arrival at the Berghof, see Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant , p. 310, where he reports that he traveled with Hitler on April 24 to Berlin, where Hitler spoke before the Reichstag two days later.

80. See August Eigruber, “Besprechung in München am 27. April 1942” (p. 2) and “Vortrag beim Führer am 28. April 1942 in München” (p. 4) in “Vorträge des Gauleiters Eigruber vor dem Führer in Angelegenheiten der Planung der Stadt Linz,” Political Files, Box 49, Upper Austria State Archives, Linz. Cf. Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945 , p. 516.

81. See Seidler and Zeigert, Die Führerhauptquartiere , pp. 261ff. See also Sigmund, Die Frauen der Nazis , p. 273, who writes: “The war’s proceeding so badly for Germany meant the end of the idyllic life on the Obersalzberg.”

82. See Hans Georg Hiller von Gaetringen, ed., Das Auge des Dritten Reiches: Hitlers Kameramann und Fotograf Walter Frentz , 2nd ed. (Munich and Berlin, 2007), p. 125. Photographs from the same black-and-white series can also be found in the Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Archive, hoff-584; hoff-579, BSB Munich.

83. See Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Archive, BSB Munich: Hitler with Speer’s children, Braun with a camera in the picture (hoff-578); Hitler on the terrace, Uschi Schneider getting up (hoff-312); Hitler in the great hall with Gitti and Uschi Schneider (hoff-2177).

84. See Hiller von Gaetringen, Das Auge des Dritten Reiches , p. 125.

85. See Junge, Bis zur letzten Stunde , p. 80. Eva Braun, Junge writes, was the only person who was allowed to photograph Hitler “whenever she wanted.” See also Danielle Costelle, Eva Braun: Dans l’intimité d’Hitler (Paris, 2007).

86. Schroeder, Er war mein Chef , p. 182.

87. Baldur von Schirach, Ich glaubte an Hitler , p. 267. See also Schroeder, Er war mein Chef, p. 182.

88. Baldur von Schirach, Ich glaubte an Hitler , p. 267.

89. Lang, Der Sekretär , pp. 166ff. Cf. Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945 , pp. 371ff. On Bormann’s behavior, see Lang, Der Sekretär , p. 167.

90. See Ilse Hess to Albert Speer, Hindelang, June 25, 1968, in Speer Papers, N 1340, vol. 27, BA Koblenz.

91. Ilse Hess to Steffi Binder, n.p., August 7, 1941 (carbon copy), in Rudolf Hess Papers, J 1211 (–) 1993/300, vol. 2, file 21, BA Bern. Cf. Speer, Inside the Third Reich , p. 175.

92. See Akten der Partei-Kanzlei der NSDAP: Rekonstruktion eines verlorengegangenen Bestandes, Teil I, Regesten , vol. 1, p. viii (introduction).

93. Speer, Inside the Third Reich , p. 297.

94. See Seidler and Zeigert, Die Führerhauptquartiere , p. 260; Gun, Eva Braun , p. 212, and the reproduction of the passport issued April 3, 1942, with entry stamp of June 21, 1942, after p. 176.

95. See Schroeder, Er war mein Chef , p. 196.

96. See reproduction of Eva Braun’s passport and visa in Gun, Eva Braun , after p. 176. Gun writes that Eva Braun traveled to Portofino for a month every year (p. 212).

97. See in this regard Bruno Frommann, Reisen im Dienste politischer Zielsetzungen: Arbeiter-Reisen und “Kraft durch Freude”-Reisen (Stuttgart, 1993).

98. See Rüdiger Overmans, “Das Schicksal der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges,” in Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg , vol. 10.2 (Munich, 2008), p. 404. Kershaw gives the figures of 90,000 captured and around 146,000 fallen German soldiers ( Hitler 1936–1945 , p. 550).

99. Traudl Junge Memoir, David Irving Collection, ED 100/106, pp. 11 and 17, IfZ Munich.

100. See Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945 , p. 726.

101. See Martin Bormann to Gerda Bormann, n.p., July 21, 1943, in Bormann, The Bormann Letters , pp. 12f.

102. Cf. Goebbels, diary entry, June 25, 1943, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil II, Diktate 1941–1945 ), vol. 8, p. 537; Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945 , pp. 728 and 736ff.

103. Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945 , pp. 739ff. On Goebbels’s role, see Aristotle A. Kallis, “Der Niedergang der Deutungsmacht: Nationalsozialistische Propaganda im Kriegsverlauf,” in Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg (Stuttgart, 1979–2008), vol. 9.2, pp. 235ff.

104. See Schmidt, Der Zweite Weltkrieg , pp. 155f.

105. Goebbels, diary entry, August 10, 1943, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels , Teil II, vol. 9, p. 267.

106. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant , p. 340.

107. Henriette von Schirach, Der Preis der Herrlichkeit , pp. 214f. See also Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945 , p. 768.

108. Goebbels, diary entry, August 10, 1943, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels , Teil II, Diktate 1941–1945 , vol. 9 (Juli–September 1943), p. 267.

109. See Gerda Bormann to Martin Bormann, Obersalzberg, August 13, 1943, in Bormann, The Bormann Letters , p. 19.

110. See Goebbels, diary entry, March 2, 1943, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels , Teil II, Diktate 1941–1945 , Band 7 ( Januar–März 1943 ), p. 454. See Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant , p. 340.

1. See Kallis, “Der Niedergang der Deutungsmacht,” in Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg , vol. 9.2, pp. 232f.

2. Hitler suffered bruises and burns on his head, arms, and legs; both arms were severely swollen, according to the doctor’s report (Theodor Morell, July 20, 1944, Patient A., in Theodor Morell Papers, N 1348, BA Koblenz).

3. See Tobias Kniebe, Operation Walküre: Das Drama des 20 . Juli (Berlin, 2009); Bernhard R. Kroener, Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm: Eine Biographie (Paderborn, 2005), pp. 700ff.

4. See Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, p. 797; Speer, Inside the Third Reich , p. 395. See also Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant , p. 385: Hitler looked at the pictures “so little… the way he reluctantly paid attention to the pictures of destroyed cities.” Fegelein, though, “generously” showed around “the photos of the hangings.” Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, in contrast, reports ( Mit Hitler im Bunker: Die letzten Monate im Führerhauptquartier Juli 1944-April 1945 [Berlin, 2006], pp. 65f.) that Hitler “eagerly” seized “the macabre pictures” and examined them “for a long time with practically lascivious pleasure.”