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34. Germany, Das Deutsche Reich , 5/1:453–85; Schubert chronicle, 6.4.40, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1207.

35. Schubert chronicle, 8–9.4.40, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1207; Germany, Das Deutsche Reich , 5/1:474–75.

36. Leeb minutes, 19.6.40, meeting with Fromm, WD Aktenvermerk, 24.6.40, on 20.6. meeting with Leeb and Ordnance leaders, Haseloff to Leeb, 4.7.40, and WD to Wa Stab lb et al , 4.7.40, in NASM, FE342; WD Vortragsnotiz, 20.6.40, in NASM, FE349.

37. Germany, Das Deutsche Reich , 5/1:486–97, 502–22.

38. Hölsken, V-Waffen , 23–24; Göring priority order of 18.7.40, 26.7.40 entry in WD chronology of 24.9.40, Koch (WD) to Leeb, 3.8.40, Haseloff to Thomas, 5.8.40, Thomas order of 7.8.40, and Gschwender to WD, 14.8.40, in NASM, FE342; Stab II (Rüst)/Chef H Rüst u BdE to Leeb, 27.8.40, in NASM, FE349. For errors in Hölsken, see Neufeld, “Hitler.” Whether the Führer played any role in this struggle is unknown; no information is available on his opinion of the rocket program between February and November 1940.

39. WD Aktenvermerk on 20.6.40 meeting, in NASM, FE342; WD to Leeb, Koch, Speer et al , 6.8.40, in NASM, FE349. Hölsken, V-Waffen , 24, following WD’s 1940/41 chronology of the priority battle (in NASM, FE342), dates the takeover as 15.8.40. Draft agreements in FE349 are inconsistent, but the 6.8.40 document is the best indication that the date was actually a month later.

40. Schubert chronicle, 3–5.7.39, and draft letter to Speer, 12.10.39, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1206; Schubert chronicle, 2–4.7.40, 24.7.40, and 27.7.40, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1207; Baugruppe Schlempp to WD, 21.6.40, Todt to Dr. Timm/Labor Min., 18.7.40, and Abt. Rüstungsvorhaben/Arm. Min. to Aussenstelle Stettin/Generalinsp. d. deut. Strassenwesen, 3.8.40, in NASM, FE349; WD Aktennotiz, 18.7.40, on 17.7. meeting with Todt, in NASM, FE342.

41. Todt to Keitel, 3.9.40, regarding comments to Hitler, in NA, T-77/178/914227; minutes of meeting of Thomas, Fromm, Udet, and Witzell, 15.8.40, and OKW/WiRüAmt minutes of meeting with armaments inspectors on 13.9.40, in NA, T-77/85/809036 and 809075; Göring priority order, 20.9.40, in NASM, FE349.

42. Dornberger to Leeb, 26.8.40, and Löhr to Fromm, 28.8.40, in NASM, FE349; Schubert chronicle, 30.9.40, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1207; Lehmann, Robert H. Goddard , 298–340.

43. Demag-Zug to OKH, 4.10., Löhr to Fromm, 11.10., Wilson (Wa Prüf 11) note on 14.10. OKW phone call, Keitel to von Brauchitsch, 19.11., Lohr to Leeb, 9.12., and WD to Wa Prüf 11 sections, 16.12.40, in NASM, FE349; WD Vortragsnotiz, 8.10., and WD to Leeb, 13.11.40, in NASM, FE342; Schubert chronicle, 9., 16. and 30.10.40, in BA/MA, RH8/V.1207; Hölsken, V-Waffen , 25.

44. OKW Rüstungswirtsch. Abt. to Keitel, 30.10.40, in NA, T-77/17/728559; Maj. Kiesow lecture to armaments inspector trainees, 23.1.41, in NA, T-77/237/978433; Carroll, Design , 196.

45. Schubert chronicle, 24.1., 27.1., and 5.2.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208a; Fromm phone call in WD chronology of 5.7.41 in NASM, FE342.

46. Schubert chronicle, 4.4., 5.4., 10.4., 22.4.41; WD Vortragsnotiz for Leeb, 28.4., and chronology of 5.7.41, in NASM, FE342; WD to Leeb, 8.5.41, regarding Leeb–von Brauchitsch meeting of 29.4. in NASM, FE728/e.

47. Speer quoted in Overy, Goering , 138.

48. WD to Leeb, 3.8.40, in NASM, FE342; Löhr to Leeb, 9.12.40, in NASM, FE349; Schubert chronicle, 9.10.40, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1207.

49. WD Vortragsnotiz, 20.6.40, in NASM, FE349.

50. Steinhoff 1940 BSM report, 10.1.41, NASM, FE769; Dornberger Vortragsnotiz, 8.10.40, in NASM, FE342.

1. Keitel to von Brauchitsch, Göring, and Raeder, 16.6.41, in NA, T-77/537/1711038–39; Todt to Thomas, Fromm, Witzell, and Udet, 11.7.41, in NA, T-77/194/929154; Germany, Das Deutsche Reich , 5/1:556–80; Overy, “Mobilization,” 631–32.

2. Schubert chronicle, 23.6., 25.6., 27.6., and 3.7.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208; Löhr (WD) Vortragsnotiz, 27.6.41, Kipping to Koch, 28.6.41, and Thom/Wa Prüf 11 to Koch and Wa Prüf 12, 20.8.41, in NASM, FE342.

3. Löhr (WD) Vortragsnotiz, 27.6.41, in NASM, FE342; WD, V-2 , 71, “The German V-2,” 402–3, and “European Rocketry,” 256–59.

4. Löhr (WD) Vortragsnotiz, 27.6.41, Kipper to Koch, 28.6.41, Leeb (WD) Vortragsnotiz, 5.7.41, for adjutants of Hitler and von Brauchitsch, Löhr to Fromm, 5.7.41, and Rühne (Fromm’s liaison to von Brauchitsch) to Fromm’s chief of staff, 17.7.41, in NASM, FE342.

5. Todt to Fromm, and Todt to WD, 30.7.41, in NASM, FE342; Todt order, 2.7.41, Schubert chronicle, 12.7.41, Schubert to WD, 18.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208.

6. Rühne to Fromm’s chief of staff, 17.7.41, and WD Vortragsnotiz, 31.7.41, in NASM, FE342.

7. Graupe, “Berechnung…,” 29.7.40, Roth?, handwritten calc., 9.9.41, Roth, “Zweistufenaggregat (180/30) A10 A9,” c. 9.41, all in DM, (FE1135/1?); TA/Proj., “Entwicklungsstand der Gleiteraggregate am 1.1.1941,” 21.1.41, in DM, (FE1604); WD Vortragsnotiz, 31.7.41, in NASM, FE342; Roth, “Die Flugbahn eines Zweistufengleiters,” 20.10.41, NASM, Arch. 68/21; Dahm OHI, 8–9; Overy, “From ‘Uralbomber’ to ‘Amerikabomber’.”

8. WD Aktennotiz, 21.8.41, in NASM, FE341; movie script, c. 10.40, in NASM, FE338. Dornberger appears to have omitted this crucial meeting from his memoirs because it did not fit his self-serving view that Hitler was converted to the A-4 only in July 1943.

9. Hölsken, V-Waffen , 29; Walker, German National Socialism , 46–60; Speer, Inside , 309. For occasional contacts between Peenemünders and the nuclear project, see WvB minutes of 15.2.41 meeting on cyclotron in NASM, FE728/f; Stegmaier (Thiel) to Schumann, 31.8.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; WD, V-2 , 105.

10. WD Vortragsnotiz, 21.8.41, and Keitel to von Brauchitsch, 20.8.41, in NASM, FE341; Stegmaier minutes of 29.8.41 meeting in NASM, FE357; biographical information courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Zanssen.

11. WD, V-2 , 69, and idem “The German V-2,” 401, indicate von Brauchitsch’s role but are chronologically misleading. See Schubert chronicle, 22.9.41 and 13.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208; Stegmaier to Stellv. Generalkommando II. AK/Stettin, 15.11.41, in NASM, FE728/f; WvB(?), report on A-4 and A-8, c. 10.12.41, BA/MA, RH8/V.1955; Hoelzer OHI, 55–56; Heimburg OHI, 18–19; Schubert minutes, 29.7.42, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1209.

12. Todt to WD, 13.9.41 (with Leeb’s marginal comment) and 20.9.41, WD to Todt, 19.9.41, Todt to Leeb, 10.10.41, and Leeb to Todt, 28.10.41, in NASM, FE342; WD Aktennotiz, 21.8.41, Thomas priority order, 15.9.41, and WD Vortragsnotiz, 8.10.41, in NASM, FE341; Schubert chronicle, 16.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208.

13. WD to Leeb, 26.8.40, in NASM, FE349; Thiel, “Vorschläge zur Triebwerksvereinfachung des A4,” 4.9.41, and Thiel minutes of 17.9.41 meeting, in DM (FE1068); Thiel Aktenvermerk, 5.9.41, in NASM, FE728/d; Broszat Aktennotiz of 8.9.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; OKW/WiRüAmt documents, 12–23.9.41, in NA, T-77/37/750312–19; WD to Peenemünde, 13.11.41, in NASM, FE342.

14. Thiel monthly reports, 6–11.41, in NASM, FE728/e; Thiel minutes of 17.9.41 meeting in DM, (FE1068); WD to Peenemünde, 13.11.41, in NASM, FE342; WvB(?), report on A-4 and A-8, c. 10.12.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1255; minutes of 20.3.42 meeting at OKW/WiRüAmt, in NASM, FE341.

15. Lohr order, 23.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; WD to Arbeitsstab members, 13.11.41, and related documents in NASM, FE357; WvB(?), report on A-4 and A-8, c. 10.12.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1955; Germany, Das Deutsche Reich , 5/1:541–42, 558–59.

16. WvB(?), report on A-4 and A-8, c. 10.12.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1955.