Boehm, pp. 275–7.
Kohlase [Band 4], p. 91.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 29–35. Schmidt’s unit was the 8th Bty, IInd Battalion, Flak Regiment 14, 23rd Flak Division. The railway sidings he mentioned were part of the Potato Meal Factory (Norddeutschen Kartoffel-Mehlfabrik), Küstrin’s largest employer of labour.
Rudolf Dawidowski in Kohlase [AKTS], p. 82.
Melzheimer, p. 182.
Kohlase [Band 3], pp. 51–2.
Thrams, pp. 33–4.
Boehm, pp. 277–8; Schrode, p. 82.
MA DDR, WF-03/17398, Sheets 461 and 488 [Simon, p. 351]; tanks in Knüppel, p. 104.
Kohlase [AKTS], pp. 43–4.
Schrode, p. 82. These Ju-87G Stukas were equipped with 37mm cannon underslung from the wings outboard of the fixed undercarriage.
Thrams, p. 34.
Erickson, pp. 473–4.
Zhukov, pp. 327–34.
Duffy, p. 188; Zhukov, pp. 330–1.
Duffy, pp. 181–2; Guderian, pp. 342–4; Zhukov, p. 337.
Duffy, pp. 182–3, as amended from Tessin.
Erickson, p. 520.
Kohlase [AKTS], pp. 26–7.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 27.
Thrams, p. 35.
Kohlase [AKTS], pp. 21–4.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 27.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 25.
Thrams, pp. 35–9.
Thrams, pp. 36–8.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 35–8.
Kohlase [AKTS], pp. 72–3.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 44.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 62.
Kohlase [Band 3], p. 43.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 87–9.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 85.
Kohlase [Küstrin], pp. 42–3. The main responsibility for this massacre lay with State Secretary Klemm, Oberstaatswalt Hansen, Prison Director Knops, his deputy Rung, Inspector Klitzing, the leader of the special Gestapo commando Krause, and the SS men who had carried out the murders. Rung was later sentenced to death for his part in this crime, Klitzing died in prison, and Klemm was given a life sentence but released after only a short while.
MA DDR, WF-03/5083, Sheet 820 [Simon, p. 20].
Bokov, p. 106; MA DDR, WF-03/5083, Sheet 820 [Simon, p. 20]; Schrode, pp. 85–6.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 38–42. Despite Schmidt’s account, one 16-year-old Soviet soldier surrendered [Märkische Oder-Zeitung of 15 November 1996].
Kohlase [Band 3], pp. 32–4.
MA DDR, WF-03/5083, Sheet 820 [Simon, p. 20].
Kohlase [BO], pp. 164–5 [Busse, p. 51.]
Thrams, p. 40.
Thrams, pp. 40–1.
Thrams, p. 41.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 45.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 77–9.
Kohlase [AKTS], pp. 142–3.
Chuikov, p. 156.
Knüppel, p. 115.
Chuikov, pp. 160–1.
Erickson, p. 474.
Knüppel, pp. 115–16.
Thrams, pp. 43–4.
Thrams, pp. 41–2.
Kohlase [Band 4], p. 42.
Thrams, pp. 42–3.
Thrams, pp. 44–5.
Thrams, p. 45.
MA DDR, WF-03/5083, Sheets 27, 147 and 950 [Simon, p. 37]: Weber article.
Thrams, pp. 45–8.
Kohlase [Band 3], p. 56.
Kohlase [BO], pp. 164–6. The sources only mention one lunette on the Island but aerial photographs show two side by side protecting the Artillery Barracks from the southern tip, that nearest the Oder being the remains of an earlier defensive work along the river embankment and balanced by another, since covered by the Altstadt railway station development.
Kohlase [BO], p. 166.
Thrams, pp. 44–5.
Thrams, pp. 48–50.
Thrams, pp. 48–9.
Thrams, pp. 50–1.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 80.
Thrams, pp. 51–4.
Thrams, pp. 54–5.
Thrams, pp. 56–7.
Thrams, pp. 57–8; Kohlase [BO], p. 163.
Thrams, p. 58.
Thrams, pp. 59–60.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 42–8.
Kohlase [Band 3], pp. 44–6.
Thrams, p. 61.
Thrams, pp. 61–2.
Thrams, p. 62.
Thrams, pp 64–5; Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 44–8.
Thrams, p. 66.
Thrams, pp. 67–8.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 111.
Kohlase [Band 3], pp. 44–6.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 90.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 48–55.
Thrams, pp. 69–72.
Kohlase [AKTS], p. 143.
Kohlase [BO], p. 169; Thrams, pp. 44–5.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 55–9.
Thrams, pp. 72–4.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 91–2. The reactive mortars referred to were large rockets packed in wooden cases that also served as their launching racks.
Thrams, pp. 74–5.
Thrams, pp. 76–8.
Thrams, pp. 78–9.
Thrams, pp. 79–80.
Kohlase [Band 4], pp. 79–80.
Thrams, pp. 80–1.
Thrams, pp. 81–2.
Kohlase [Band 3], pp. 34–5.
Thrams, pp. 83–4.
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