Antony Beevor - Berlin - The Downfall 1945

p. 256recognition signals for meeting with Allied armies, TsAMO 132a/2642/38, pp. 14–15

p. 256‘Personal to Comrades…’, quoted Erickson, p. 578

p. 256‘ Auffanglinier’, BA-MA RH19/XV/24, p. 119

p. 256‘It was clear to us…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 18

p. 257‘Then the tanks began firing…’, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 96

p. 257‘Now we’ll let them have it’, ibid., p. 97

p. 259‘The closer one gets to Berlin’, Grossman papers, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 240

p. 259‘mostly by officers and men…’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 47

p. 259‘It was all senseless’, Wuth, conversation, 10 October 1999

p. 25930th Guards Artillery Brigade, Klochkov, p. 77

p. 260‘They returned the following…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 722

p. 260‘given chemical substances…’, RGVA 32891/1/125, p. 289

p. 260‘hurl back’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 20

p. 260‘to catch deserters and execute…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 412

p. 261‘no man capable…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 17

p. 261‘ Werwolfs of Berlin and Brandenburg’, 24 April, NA RG 260 OMGUS, Stack 390 41/7/5–6 A2/S4

p. 262‘What’s going on?’, Günsche interrogation, quoted Bezymenski, pp. 28–9

p. 262‘For the rat Goebbels’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 255, and Zhukov, iv, p. 258

p. 262‘the bloody god of war’, K. M. Simonov, Notebook No. 8, RGALI 1814/4/7

p. 2621.8 million shells, Zhukov, iv, p. 255

p. 262‘cellar tribe’, Anonymous, pp. 13–16

p. 263‘ Du General?’, Kertz, conversation, 10 October 1999

p. 263 Scharnhorst Division, Rettich war diary, Reichhelm papers

p. 264‘a very bad feeling’, Lorenz, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 98

p. 264‘See that you all get home…’, Tillery, quoted ibid., p. 40

p. 265‘Due to the slowness…’, 21 April, TsAMO 233/2374/92, pp. 359–60

p. 267‘three battalions and a few tanks’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 143

p. 268‘The defence of Berlin…’, TsAMO 299/17055/4, p. 305

p. 268‘twenty-four-hour-a-day…’, Zhukov, iv, p. 276

p. 269‘a dirty, swampy little river’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 66

p. 270‘Soviet shells exploding…’, Wallin, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 99

p. 271Konev’s order to the 28th Army, A. Luchinsky, ‘Na Berlin!’, ViZh, No. 5, May 1965

p. 271‘completely surprised…’, NARG 338, P–136, p. 49

p. 271‘as snow in the middle…’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 78

p. 271‘At about five in the afternoon’, Rocolle, 1954, p. 87

p. 272‘hearts raced in fear’, DRK-Schwester Ruth Schwarz, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 229

p. 273German stragglers from See-low Heights, RGVA 32925/1/130, p. 269

p. 273‘On 22 April, a Red Army cook’, RGVA 32925/1/130, p. 275

p. 273‘Everything is covered with flowers…’, Grossman papers, RGALI, 1710/3/51, p. 239

p. 274‘Not a single woman…’, Anonymous, p. 21

p. 276‘General Field Marshal Keitel’, extracts from notes of Jodl, TsAMO 233/2356/5804, pp. 201–3

p. 276‘his mental sickness…’, Maizière, p. 106, and conversation, 9 October 1999

p. 276‘Losses can never…’, quoted Trevor-Roper, p. 65

p. 277‘the chiefs plan to get…’, ΝA 740.0011 EW/3–2245

p. 277‘There exist in…’, NA RG59740.0011 EW/4–645

p. 277‘superbly stocked’, Freytag von Loringhoven, conversation, 4 October 1999

p. 277‘In the bunker’, Maizière, conversation, 9 October 1999

p. 278night of 22 April, Below, p. 411, and Traudl Junge, television interview

p. 279‘Forgive me…’, letter of 22 April, original reproduced Gun, p. 176

p. 280‘the battle a European significance’, diary Uffz. Heinrich V., 23 April, BZG-S

p. 280siege guns, Zhukov, iv, p. 255

p. 281‘Desertion suddenly seems…’, Anonymous, p. 24

p. 282‘real feeling of disintegration’, Beier, conversation, 9 October 2001

p. 282‘to their impulses’, Kronika, pp. 98–9

p. 282‘What a thing to die for’, Petersohn, conversation, 9 July 2000

p. 283rumour of Model’s arrest, NA740.0011 EW/4–2445

p. 2837th Department, TsAMO 233/2374/93, pp. 413,419

p. 284‘Because the fascist clique…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 414

p. 284‘letter from the inhabitants…’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 415

p. 285‘an outstanding…’, Reichhelm, conversation, 5 October 1999, and also Humboldt, conversation, 11 October 1999

p. 285‘gravedigger of the army’, NA740.0011 EW/4–1045

p. 285‘ Soldaten der Armee Wenck!’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 28

p. 285‘the Führer has issued orders…’, NA 740.0011 EW/4–2445

p. 285‘So we made up…’, Humboldt, conversation, 11 October 1999

p. 286‘Boys, you’ve got…’, Reichhelm papers, Das Letzte Aufgebot

p. 286‘a feeling of loyalty…’, Genscher, conversation, 4 September 2000

p. 286‘So about turn!’, Rettich diary, Reichhelm papers

p. 286‘tragi-comedy’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 22

p. 286state of LVI Panzer Corps, Refior, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 24

p. 287Berlin defence figures, Willemer, ‘The German Defense of Berlin’, NA RG338, P136, p. 46

p. 288Speer’s journey to Berlin, NA 740.0011 EW/5–145

p. 288‘the legends would be hard to create’, Speer interrogation, 22 May, ΝA 740.0011 EW/5–145

p. 289‘My Führer! — In view of…’, quoted Trevor-Roper, p. 116

p. 290‘a simple Munich girl…’, Sereny, p. 532

p. 290‘Hermann is not with us…’, Gun, pp. 253–4

p. 291Krukenberg account, BA-MA MSg2/1283

p. 291SS ‘Charlemagne’, Fenet, conversation, 4 June 1999

p. 293‘since he alone…’, ΝA 740.0011 EW/5–145

p. 293‘The Reichsführer is no longer…’, Trevor-Roper, p. 103

p. 294Schulstrasse transit camp, Löwenstein, conversation, 14 July 2000

p. 295‘a real International’, Konev, p. 150

p. 295‘hundreds of bearded Russian…’, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 239

p. 295‘An old woman…’, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 240

p. 295‘The Soviet Union has a right…’, ΝA RG218 JCS Box 15

p. 296US aircraft attacked, Antonov correspondence, NA RG334/Entry 309/Box 2