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p. 184‘Many soldiers…’, RGVA 32925/1/100, p. 184

p. 185‘barely one half…’, Beria to Stalin, GARF 9401/2/95, pp. 253–68

p. 185stragglers, 11 April, RGVA 32925/1/130, p. 240

p. 185‘Hello Papa, Mama…’, quoted Shindel (ed.), pp. 158–9

p. 186‘Our advance is too slow…’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 331

p. 186‘Komsomolets’, TsAMO 236/2675/440, pp. 6–8

p. 186‘all Communists have a duty…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 652

p. 186Artillery regiments, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 652

p. 186‘the local population…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 695

p. 187‘a pile of stones’, Inozemtsev, p. 196

p. 187‘Encircled soldiers…’, RGVA 38680/1/3, p. 68

p. 187‘The aviation is…’, Inozemtsev, p. 196

p. 188‘A bronze Bismarck…’, ibid., p. 201

p. 188the hospital ship Goya, Duffy, p. 291

p. 188‘On Ninth Army…’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9a, p. 97

p. 188‘Führer expects…’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9a, p. 207

p. 188‘the Führer is instinctively…’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9a, p. 221

p. 189‘The concert took us…’, Below, p. 409

p. 189Hitler Youth and cyanide capsules, Sereny, p. 507

p. 189‘Order of the Day’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9D, p. 34

p. 189‘There was terror…’, Senyavskaya, 2000, p. 275

p. 190‘learning English…’, captured letter, Willi Klein to Lance Corporal Hans Gerl, quoted Ehrenburg, Krasnaya Zvezda, 25 November 1944

p. 190‘Germany had lost…’, Papen interrogation, NA 740.0011 EW/4–2445

p. 191‘Alex, where are…’, Boiling, quoted Ryan, p. 229

p. 191‘Bolsheviks near Vienna…’, GARF 9401/2/97, pp. 32–48

p. 191massacres in the Leipzig area, report of Captain Claude Merry, 28 April, SHAT 8 Ρ 22

p. 192‘On the basis of findings…’, report 8 March, ΝA 740.0011 EW/3–845

p. 192‘No speeding…’, SHAT 8 Ρ 27

p. 192Operation Plunder, Elliott, pp. 121, 125, 143

p. 193‘Monty was very stuffy…’, anonymous conversation, 30 December 2000

p. 193‘a life and death struggle…’, Elliott, p. 12

p. 194‘American tankists…’, Krasnaya Zvezda, 11 April, p. 3

p. 194‘conquering with cameras’, ΝA 740.0011 EW/4–1345

p. 194‘arrange for an orderly…’, NA 740.0011 EW/3–2745

p. 195‘there is no evidence…’, NA 740.0011 EW/4–2345

p. 196‘The interrogation of various…’, report of 10 April, SHAT 7 Ρ 102

p. 196‘ Deutschland, dein …’, Kardorff, p. 306

p. 196‘ Khvatit’, Krasnaya Zvezda, 11 April, p. 3

p. 197‘were not refusing…’, ‘politically harmful’, see Leonid Reshin, ‘ Tovarisch Ehrenburg uproshchaet’, Novoe Vremya, No. 8, 1994

p. 197‘by promising immunity…’, Ehrenburg, pp. 176, 177

p. 197‘Comrade Ehrenburg Oversimplifies’, ‘ Tovarisch Ehrenburg uproshchaet’ Pravda, 14 April

p. 198‘Your wife may get it…’, Abakumov to Stalin, 29 March, quoted Reshin, Novoe Vremya, No. 8, 1994

p. 198‘that we should be ruthless…’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, pp. 360–61

p. 199‘What was surprising’, Soyuz veteranov zhurnalistiki, p. 447

p. 199‘In connection with…’, GARF 9401/2/95, pp. 31–5, and Serov to Beria, 19 April, GARF 9401/2/95, p. 91

p. 19943,000 Polish soldiers from Gulag, GARF 1914/1/1146

p. 199‘ W Sibir ili w Armiju?’, Andrzej Rey, quoted Gerhard Gnauck in ‘Wie die Horden Dschingis Khans’, Die Welt, 8 May 2001, p. 31

p. 200‘extremely rude…’, ‘ der Katastrophengeneral ’, interrogation 8 April of Lieutenant General von Oriola of XIII Corps, 2e Bureau, 21 April, SHAT 7 Ρ 128

p. 201‘You’re coming…’, Reichhelm, conversation, 5 October 1999

p. 202‘along and either side…’, unpublished MS, diary of Peter Rettich, battalion commander, Scharnhorst Division, Twelfth Army, Reichhélm papers

p. 202‘no other possibility but to surrender…’, Reichhelm, conversation, 5 October 1999, and Humboldt, conversation, 11 October 1999

p. 202‘the Ninth Army has occupied…’, SHAEF daily report on Allied Operations, SHAT 8 Ρ 19

p. 203‘future division of Germany…’, Eisenhower, p. 43

p. 203‘Soldiers and officers’, Maizière, conversation, 9 October 1999

p. 204‘Where in the hell…’, quoted Ryan, p. 261

p. 204‘My Führer, I congratulate you!’, Trevor-Roper, pp. 89–90

p. 204‘At the moment…’, BA-MA RH19/XV/9D, p. 34

p. 204‘rocking like a ship’, Loewe, conversation, 9 October 2001

p. 205‘A whole world…’, Kardorff, pp. 306–7

p. 2062.5 million men etc., Sovetskaya voennaya entsiklopediya, Vol. i, Moscow, 1990, p. 383

p. 206medals stripped from 20th Panzergrenadier Division, VOV, iii, p. 272

p. 206‘During the night…’, V. Makarevsky, ‘17-ya motorinzhenernaya brigada ν Berlinskoi operatsii’, ViZh, No. 4, April 1976

p. 207‘Active Komsomol members…’, TsAMO 236/2675/440, p. 76

p. 207‘There will be no pity’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 240

p. 207‘transmitting in clear…’, TsAMO 236/2675/440, p. 192

p. 207no sub-units allowed to use the radio, RGVA 32891/1/160

p. 207wavelengths and codes, RGVA 32891/1/160, p. 232

p. 207‘morally and politically unstable’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 454

p. 207speaking against collective farms, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 314

p. 208Heinrici order, BA-MA RH 19 XV/9b, p. 42

p. 208‘Many wanted to be wounded…’, Kertz, conversation, 11 October 1999

p. 208‘You can’t imagine’, TsAMO 236/2675/336, p. 57

p. 209‘We have to hold…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93 p. 411

p. 209‘almost peaceful…’, Wust, conversation, 10 October 1999

p. 209‘rabbit-hearted’, IfZ MA 127/2, p. 12,949

p. 210‘The keys of the city…’, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, RGALI 1038/1/1804

p. 210newspaper reports, contradiction by TASS, see Pravda, 25 April

p. 211‘other matter’, ΝA RG334/Entry 309/Box 2

p. 211‘Some of them shaded…’, Klochkov, p. 72

p. 211‘Greetings from the front’, Junior Lieutenant of Medical Service Abdul Aziz Babakhanov, Soyuz veteranov zhurnalistiki, p. 491

p. 212‘The hurricane lamp is driving away darkness’, Senyavskaya, 1995, p. 181