Antony Beevor - Berlin - The Downfall 1945

p. 153‘a mixture of nervous…’, Maizière, conversation, 9 October 1999

p. 153‘This short, bespectacled…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 70

p. 153‘We must always…’, BA-MA MSg1/1207

p. 153‘the man who can make…’, Heinrici papers, BA-MA MSg2/4231

p. 153‘The war’s over…’, Freytag von Loringhoven, conversation, 4 October 1999

p. 154‘Hitlerjunge Quex’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 75

p. 154‘mutual respect…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 62

p. 155‘In the evening…’, GARF 9401/2/97, pp. 32–48

p. 155‘on the grounds…’, IfZ MA 127/2, p. 13,024

p. 155‘dangerous’, and Italian forced labourers, see Gellately, pp. 237–8

p. 156‘eliminating all further possibility…’, IMT, xli, pp. 430–31

p. 156‘This time you will…’, quoted Sereny, pp. 485–6

p. 156‘I have reports that…’, Speer interrogation, 22 May, ΝA 740.0011 EW/5–145

p. 157‘lose his head’, Sereny, p. 491

p. 157‘impossible to deny the hope…’, Speer interrogation, 22 May, NA 740.0011 EW/5–145

p. 157abortion instruction, IfZ MA 127/2, pp. 13,042–3

p. 158Speer and Kinzel, Speer interrogation, 22 May, NA 740.0011 EW/5–145

p. 158‘in our eyes…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 92

p. 159‘ Wann kommt der Russe?’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 76

p. 159‘a cheerful market woman…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 72

p. 160‘ Der 800,000 Mann-Plan’, IfZ MA 305

p. 160‘It was quite…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 116

p. 160‘with Dr Kaltenbrunner’, GARF 9401/2/97, pp. 32–48

p. 160Kaltenbrunner and Darius, 15 March, BA-B, R55/1394, p. 195

p. 161‘a companion in suffering’, Tillery, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 27

p. 161‘Life is like a child’s…’, Gall, conversation, 2 November 1999

p. 161 ‘gemütlich’ bunker, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 27

p. 162‘a really crazy type’, Tillery, quoted ibid., p. 29

p. 163‘For once “soldier’s luck”…’, Laudan, quoted ibid., p. 52

p. 164‘Officers have two opinions…’, TsAMO 236/2675/339, p. 63

p. 164‘To be an officer’, TsAMO 236/2675/339, p. 63

p. 165‘The Berlin operation…’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 29

p. 1654,000 men each, Erickson, p. 476

p. 1651,030,494 transferred from Gulag by 5 September 1944, GARF 1914/1/1146, p. 21

p. 166State Defence Committee, Prikaz No. 7942 ss of 29 March, also GARF 8131/38/236, pp. 34–5

p. 166‘a dog’s death for dogs’, Merridale, p. 266

p. 166‘redeem their guilt…’, Sulkhanishvili, conversation, 12 October 2000

p. 166‘soldiers who were Soviet citizens…’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, pp. 11–13

p. 167‘Each day I spent…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 685

p. 167‘Is it true…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, pp. 700–701

p. 167‘Bad supervision…’, RGVA 38686/1/20, p. 21

p. 168‘these [curtains] must be removed…’, 7 April, RGVA 32925/1/100, p. 174

p. 168‘Checking Fighting Fitness for Battle’, RGVA 36860/1/16

p. 168‘They regarded it quite…’, Senyavskaya, 2000, p. 236, n. 50

p. 168‘This happens…’, RGVA 38686/1/20, p. 26

p. 168‘One mistake…’, Sulkhanishvili, conversation, 16 June 2001

p. 169‘Red Army soldier…’, Werth, pp. 964, 965

p. 169‘Look how the Germans…’, Eugene Schirinkine, 31 July, SHAT 7 Ρ 128

p. 169‘Our soldiers got…’, Gall, conversation, 2 November 1999

p. 169‘They put us in a camp…’, TsAMO 236/2675/267, pp. 67–8

p. 170‘revenge score’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 24

p. 170‘There was a big slogan…’, Kazakova, conversation, 6 November 1999

p. 171analysis of letters, Gall, conversation, 2 November 1999

p. 171‘Can only be used…’, KA-FU, EI: 18, Vol. 6

p. 171chemical weapons, RGVA 32891/1/384, p. 19

p. 171‘the weapons of despair’, Donovan to Secretary of State, 1 April, NA 740.0011 EW/4–145

p. 171‘argued for chemical warfare’, Speer interrogation, 22 May, NA 740.0011 EW/5–145

p. 172panzerfaust trials, Belyaev, conversation, 29 July 2000

p. 173‘Yesterday’, Major Juhlin-Dannfel, 4 April, KA-FU, EI: 18, Vol. 6

p. 174‘Every Bolshevik…’, report 9 April, SHAT 7 Ρ 102

p. 174‘Every male…’, report 9 April, SHAT 7 Ρ 102

p. 174‘We know the plans…’, Staatssekretär Dr Naumann, BA-MA RH19/XV/9a, p. 94

p. 175‘to that — exclusively…’, NA RG260 OMGUS, Stack 390 41/7/5–6 A2/S4

p. 176‘We Germans are not a nation…’, Anonymous, p. 126

p. 176‘We believe in victory…’, Kleine and Stimpel, p. 9

p. 176‘ Heil Hitler!’ report 2e Bureau, 21 April, SHAT 7 Ρ 128

p. 177‘thought to defending…’, Haider, NA RG338 Ms P-136

p. 177‘There are no children…’, BA-MA MSg1/976

p. 177‘Evacuation…’, Oberst i.G Hans Refior, BA-MA MSg1/976

p. 178‘short-sightedness, bureaucracy…’, Oberst i.G Hans Refior, BA-MA MSg1/976

p. 178‘ Muttis’ Refior, BA-MA MSg1/976

p. 178‘a sense of duty’, NA RG338 Ms P-136

p. 179‘masterpiece of…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 3

p. 179‘ Arbeitsunlustig’, RGVA-SA 1367/1/218

p. 179‘Those madmen in Berlin…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 15

p. 179‘The Ninth Army…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 15

p. 180‘The Führer once coined…’, Goebbels speech, 20 February, BA-B R55/916, p. 91

p. 180Schmidtke, conversation, 15 July 2000

p. 181‘I swear that…’, IfZ MA 485, p. 20,755

p. 181‘deciphering…’, ‘There is an atmosphere…’, KA-FU, EI: 18, Vol. 6

p. 182Baumgart, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 65

p. 182 Volkshandgranate 45, SHAT 7 Ρ 102

p. 183‘clever eyes’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 100

p. 183General Bunyachenko, Fröhlich, p. 256

p. 183‘better purposes’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 100, and BA-MA N53/76, p. 17

p. 184200th Rifle Division, N.M. Ramanichev, ‘Iz opyta peregruppirovki army pri podgotovke Berlinskoi operatsii’, ViZh, No. 8, 1979

p. 184‘would only get…’, Klochkov, p. 72

p. 184‘Some deserters seize carts from…’, 7 April, RGVA 38686/1/21P.40

p. 184355 deserters, RGVA 32891/1/120, p. 250