Antony Beevor - Berlin - The Downfall 1945

p. 297‘they were licking [our] boots’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 53

p. 297‘In the course of three hours’, V. S. Antonov, ‘Poslednie dni voiny’, ViZh, No. 7, July 1987

p. 297‘It was a bloody…’, Ramm, 1994, p. 102

p. 297‘Vlasov and his men are taking part’, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 239

p. 298Beelitz-Heilstätten, DRK-Schwester Ruth Schwarz, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 229

p. 299‘You’re the only one…’, BA-MA MSg2/1283, p. 11

p. 299conditions in the bunker, Freytag von Loringhoven, conversation, 4 October 1999, and Misch, 8 July 2000

p. 300‘Another officer…’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 361

p. 300‘surprised the Berliners immensely’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 78

p. 300‘abnormal phenomena’, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 362

p. 300‘small babushka’, Sulkhanishvili, conversation, 12 October 2000

p. 300‘impersonal violence of war itself’, Glenn Gray, pp. 66–7

p. 300‘substitutes for the defeat of an enemy’, Naimark, p. 70

p. 300waves of violence, ibid., p. 83

p. 301Shulzhenok, TsAMO 233/2374/92, p. 333

p. 301‘What contradicts our idea…’, Grossman papers, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 240

p. 301‘Ziegler had secret orders…’, BA-MAMSg1/976, p. 24

p. 302‘ Meine Herren, alies Gute!’, Roman Burghart, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 104

p. 302‘laid on a blood-smeared table…’, Wallin, quoted ibid., p. 108

p. 302Krukenberg account, BA-MA MSg2/1283

p. 302‘SS traitors extending the war!’, Wallin, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 103

p. 303‘The silence which followed…’, BA-MA N65/126

p. 304‘The situation must improve’, TsAMO 233/2356/5804, pp. 201–3

p. 304‘a self-deception bordering…’, BA-MA N65/126, p. 165

p. 304‘General Eisenhower desires…’, 25 April, Deane to Antonov, NA RG334/Entry 309/Box 2

p. 305Deutschlandsender, NA RG59740.0011 EW/5–1045

p. 307Tully and Irwin, NA RG334/Entry 309/Box 6

p. 307‘On the walls…’, Serov via Beria to Stalin, 25 April, GARF 9401/2/95, pp. 304–10

p. 308‘the attitude of Red Army troops…’, Beria to Stalin, GARF 9401/2/95, pp. 317–28

p. 310‘There they stand…’, Anonymous, p. 28

p. 311‘Take up the weapons…’, Diary Uffz. Heinrich V., 27 April, BZG-S

p. 312‘We had no idea…’, Petersohn, conversation, 9 July 2000

p. 314‘ Tag, Russki!’, Boeseler, conversation, 7 July 2000

p. 314‘kulaks and landowners’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 747

p. 314‘wax-like faces wreathed…’, Anonymous, p. 29

p. 315‘almost without antiseptic…’, Rocolle, 1954, p. 73

p. 315Volkssturm weapons, Toscano-Korvin diary-letter, 7 July, BZG-S p. 315 ‘Berliner! Hold on…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 28

p. 315‘At the moment I am…’, Pyotr Mitrofanovich Sebelev, quoted Shindel (ed.), p. 161

p. 316‘casserole’, Johannes Steinhoff, quoted Steinhoff et al. (eds.), p. 245

p. 316‘new tactic’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 78

p. 3173rd Shock Army anti-aircraft guns, Nikolai Vasiliev, ‘Krasnyi tsvet pobedy’, in Vsem smertyam nazlo, Moscow, 2000

p. 317‘Offensive operations carried…’, SHAT 7 Ρ 163

p. 317sections of railway line with dynamite, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 78

p. 318‘We didn’t have time…’, anonymous interview, 5 November 1999

p. 318‘frequent cases of mutual firing…’, A. Luchinsky, ‘Na Berlin!’, ViZh, No. 5, May 1965

p. 319‘Poor inner city’, Eva Reuss in Schwerin, p. 166

p. 319‘Now we should be scared…’, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 241

p. 320‘thunderbolts from the sky’, Grossman papers, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 240

p. 320‘Old frontline hares’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 25

p. 320‘Your proposal is perfectly all right…’, BA-MA MSg1/976, p. 25

p. 321tradition of commandant of city, Konev, p. 236

p. 321‘The commandant of Berlin…’, RGALI 1710/3/51, p. 240

p. 322‘the Americans could cross…’, BA-MAMSg2/1283, p. 22

p. 325Thiessen and Bewilogua, AGMPG II. Abt., Rep. 1A, A2. IA 9/-Havemann

p. 326Haus Dahlem, Rocolle, 1992, pp. 108–9

p. 326‘the horrors of the Middle Ages’, Marianne Reinold, in Bollmann et al., p. 67

p. 326events in Dahlem, see also Naimark, p. 82

p. 327‘violence under the pretext of revenge’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 706

p. 327‘When we broke into Berlin’, TsAMO 233/2374/93, p. 650

p. 327‘That? Well, it certainly…’, Anonymous, p. 49

p. 328‘Who would ever…’, diary of Peter Rettich diary, Reichhelm papers

p. 328‘Blast the Russians away!’, Ruth Schwarz, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 231

p. 329‘It was fought…’, Rettich diary, Reichhelm papers

p. 329civilian casualties in Beelitz, Beelitzer Heimatverein, p. 18

p. 329footnote: Soviet estimate of Busse’s army, Konev, p. 181, Erickson, p. 592

p. 32940,000 German troops in forest, NA RG 338 R–79, p. 59

p. 330‘pushing to the west like a caterpillar’, quoted NA RG 338 R–79, p. 14 p. 330 ‘to decide for himself…’, quoted NA RG 338 R–79, p. 19

p. 330‘to block all the forest roads leading from east to west’, TsAMO 684/492483/1

p. 331‘without information about…’, A. Luchinsky, ‘Na Berlin!’, ViZh, No. 5, May 1965

p. 331‘The Führer has ordered…’, ‘The Führer in Berlin…’, NA RG 338 R–79, pp. 37–8

p. 332‘If the first attempts…’, TsAMO 236/2675/267, p. 186

p. 332wounded crushed by tank tracks, Lindner, conversation, 10 October 2001

p. 333‘For this they paid…’, A. Luchinsky, ‘Na Berlin!’, ViZh, No. 5, May 1965

p. 334‘2,459 attack missions…’, Konev, p. 182

p. 334‘a patchwork quilt of corpses’, Baumgart, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 70

p. 334‘It’s already been five days…’, TsAMO 236/2675/267, p. 189

p. 335SS with panzerfaust in cellar, Buhl, conversation, 10 October 2001

p. 335‘I never suspected…’, Jürgs diary (8 May retrospective), quoted Ramm, 1994, pp. 159–60

p. 335‘Tanks rolled down…’, quoted Ramm, 1995, p. 25

p. 336‘Get up!’, Kleint, quoted Ramm, 1994, p. 306

p. 336‘In that place, there was…’, K. M. Simonov, Notebook No. 9, RGALI, 1814/4/8, p. 80

p. 337‘The remains of the destroyed…’, TsAMO 233/2374/194, p. 76