Room Conversation, Grote–Wiljotti–Brinkmann, 12 August 1944, NARA, RG 165, Entry 179, Box 476. Wiljotti’s interlocutor felt no need to expand on the fight that saw seventeen S-boats go down with their entire crews in the Baie de la Seine. In fact, there is no instance in World War II of an S-boat going down with all its crew. There were always survivors. This is a typical example of a storyteller exaggerating to make a narrative more interesting.
See the report of the Navy high command about tonnages, 19 October 1944, Neitzel, “Bedeutungswandel der Kriegsmarine,” p. 256.
SRA 2589, 5 June 1942, TNA, WO 208/4126.
Ernst Stilla, “Die Luftwaffe im Kampf um die Luftherrschaft” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bonn, 2005), p. 234ff.; Karl-Heinz Frieser et al., Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Vol. 8 (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt DVA, 2007), p. 859. Lieutenant Trettau of the 6/JG 27, for example, reported that, according to a command in March 1945, relatives of POWs who had been captured uninjured would be ineligible for government benefits. SRA 5840, 11 April 1945, TNA, WO 208/4135.
NARA, T-321, Reel 54, pp. 290–403; Günther W. Gellermann, Moskau ruft Heeresgruppe Mitte… Was nicht im Wehrmachtbericht stand—Die Einsätze des geheimen Kampfgeschwaders 200 im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe, 1988), pp. 42–60; Arno Rose, Radikaler Luftkampf: Die Geschichte der deutschen Rammjäger (Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag, 1979).
See, for example, SRA 5544, 29 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4134.
SRA 4776, 4 January 1944; SRA 4813, 13 January 1944, TNA, WO 208/4132. In June 1942, a lieutenant described the command to ram enemy ships and planes as “idiocy.” SRA 2589, 5 June 1942, TNA, WO 208/4126.
SRGG 1248, 18 May 1945, TNA, WO 208/4135.
KTB OB West, 21 September 1944, BA/MA, RH 19 IV/56, S. 319.
SRX 349, 13 June 1941, TNA, WO 208/4159.
SRA 1575, 26 April 1941, TNA, WO 208/4123.
SRX 1240, 6 November 1942, TNA, WO 208/4161.
Ibid.
SRGG 779, 20 January 1944, TNA, WO 208/4167.
SRX 703, 15 January 1942, TNA, WO 208/4160.
SRN 675, 29 October 1941, TNA, WO 208/4143.
SRX 1171, 16 October 1942, TNA, WO 208/4161.
SRA 2615, 9 June 1942, TNA, WO 208/4126.
SRX 1513, 20 January 1943, TNA, WO 208/4162.
SRA 3731, 3 March 1943, TNA, WO 208/4129.
SRGG 483, 14 October 1943, TNA, WO 208/4166.
SRM 104, 22 November 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
SRX 1819, 8 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4163.
SRM 129, 26 November 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
SRGG 59, 24 May 1943, TNA, WO 208/4165.
SRM 129, 26 November 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
SRGG 650, 12 December 1943, TNA, WO 208/4167.
SRN 2021, 28 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4146; SRN 2021, 28 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4146.
SRX 1125, 24 September 1942, TNA WO 208/4161.
SRM 136, 29 November 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
Ibid.
SRX 1181, 24 October 1942, TNA, WO 208/4161.
“Denkschrift über Gliederung, Bewaffnung und Ausrüstung einer Fallschirmjägerdivision sowie über die Grundsätze der Gefechtsführung im Rahmen einer Fallschirmjägerdivision,” 11 September 1944, BA/MA RH 11 I/24. We owe this reference to Adrian Wettstein, Bern.
SRGG 16, 16 May 1943, TNA, WO 208/4165.
SRGG 217, 11 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4165.
SRX 1839, 16 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4163.
Room Conversation, Grote-Wiljotti-Brinkmann, 15 August 1944, NARA, RG 165, Entry 179, Box 563.
Ibid.
SRGG 914, 4 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4168. On soldiers’ experience of battles in Sicily and southern Italy, see BA/MA RH 11 I/27, 4 November 1943. We owe this reference to Adrian Wettstein, Bern.
SRX 1149, 9 October 1942, TNA, WO 208/4161.
SRM 22, 17 January 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
SRM 49, 24 February 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
SRGG 243, 17 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4165.
SRX 1402, 19 December 1942, TNA, WO 208/4162.
SRM 797, 19 August 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
SRM 469, 2 February 1944, TNA, WO 208/4137.
SRM 863, 27 August 1944, TNA, WO 208/4139.
SRM 965, 16 Ocotber 1944, TNA, WO 208/4139.
SRM 613, 29 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
SRM 700, 27 July 1944, TNA WO 208/4138.
SRM 982, 26 October 1944, TNA, WO 208/4139.
SRCMF, X 113, 29 December 1944, TNA, WO 208/5516.
SRM 640, 10 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
See also SRCMF, X 110, 23 December 1944, TNA, WO 208/5516. There has been a lot of research on the topic of desertion. See especially Magnus Koch, Fahnenfluchten: Deserteure der Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg—Lebenswege und Entscheidungen (Paderborn: Schoeningh Verlag, 2008); Wolfram Wette, Das letzte Tabu: NS-Militärjustiz und “Kriegsverrat” (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 2007); Benjamin Ziemann, “Fluchten aus dem Konsens zum Durchhalten: Ergebnisse, Probleme und Perspektiven der Erforschung soldatischer Verweigerungsformen in der Wehrmacht, 1939–1945,” in Rolf-Dieter Müller and Hans-Erich Volkmann, eds., Die Wehrmacht. Mythos und Realität, pp. 589–613; Wolfram Wette, Deserteure der Wehrmacht: Feiglinge—Opfer—Hoffnungsträger? Dokumentation eines Meinungswandels (Essen: Klartext-Verlag, 1995); Norbert Haase and Gerhard Paul, eds., Die anderen Soldaten: Wehrkraftzersetzung, Gehorsamsverweigerung, Fahnenflucht (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995).
Felix Römer, “Alfred Andersch abgehört,” p. 571ff.
Room Conversation, Templin—Erlwein—Friedl, 16 February 1945, NARA, RG 165, Entry 178, Box 553.
Manfred Messerschmitt, Die Wehrmachtjustiz, 1933–1945 (Paderborn: Schoeningh Verlag, 2005), p. 172.
SRM 419, 19 December 1943, TNA, WO 208/4137.
GRGG 182, 27–28 August 1944, TNA, WO 208/4363.
SRGG 1021, 2 September 1944, TNA, WO 208/4168.
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