SRM 1148, 31 December 1944, TNA, WO 208/4140.
SRM 536, 11 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
SRM 729, 29 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138. See SRM 225, 8 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4136.
SRM 593, 25 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
SRX 1138, 3 October 1942, TNA, WO 208/4161.
SRN 823, 1 March 1942, TNA, WO 208/4143.
SRN 181, 21 March 1941; SRN 184, 21 March 1941; SRN 193, 22 March 1941, TNA, WO 208/4141.
René Schilling, “Die ‘Helden der Wehrmacht’—Konstruktion und Rezeption,” in Rolf-Dieter Müller and Hans-Erich Volkmann, eds., Die Wehrmacht: Mythos und Realität, pp. 552–56.
SRN 3732, 18 May 1944, TNA, WO 208/4152.
SRN 2606, 4 January 1944, TNA, WO 208/4148.
SRN 2574, 4 January 1944, TNA, WO 208/4148.
SRN 2636, 4 January 1944, TNA, WO 208/4148.
Christian Hartmann, Halder: Generalstabschef Hitlers, 1938–1942 (Paderborn: Schoeningh, 2010), p. 331.
For more detail on Reichenau, see Johannes Hürter, Hitlers Heerführer: Die deutschen Oberbefehlshaber im Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion, 1941/42 (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006). See also Brendan Simms, “Walther von Reichenau—Der politische General,” in Die Militärelite des Dritten Reiches, Ronald Smesler and Enrico Syring, eds. (Berlin: Ullstein, 1995), pp. 423–45. Timm Richter is also writing a dissertation on Reichenau.
GRGG 161, TNA, WO 208/4363
SRGG 83, 29 May 1943, TNA, WO 208/4165.
SRGG 578, 21 November 1943, TNA, WO 208/4167.
Neitzel, Abgehört, p. 446.
SRX 2029, 25 October 1944, TNA, WO 208/4164.
SRX 36, 14 February 1940, TNA, WO 208/4158.
SRA 224, 26 July 1940, TNA, WO 208/4118.
SRA 258, 1 August 1940, TNA, WO 208/4118.
SRM 149, 7 December 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
SRX 1955, 23 February1944, TNA, WO 208/4164. See also SRA 705, 8 October 1940, TNA, WO 208/4120.
Neitzel, Einsatz der deutschen Luftwaffe, p. 40.
Murawski, Wehrmachtbericht, p. 42.
Clay Blair, Der U-Boot-Krieg, Vol. 2 (Munich: Bechtermuenz, 1999), pp. 738, 778.
For example, Wochenschau, 21 October 1942.
Alberto Santoni, “The Italian Submarine Campaign,” in The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–1945, Stephen Howarth and Derel Law, eds. (London: Greenhill, 1994), pp. 329–32.
SRN 4797, 31 March 1945, TNA, WO 208/4157.
SRA 2996, 14 August 1942, TNA, WO 208/4127.
SRN 129, 15 November 1940, TNA, WO 208/4141. See also SRA 2178, 1 October 1941, TNA, WO 208/4125.
SRA 5777, 1 February 1945, TNA, WO 208/4135. There were many variations on the joke about Göring’s fondness for decorations. See Hans-Jochen Gamm, Der Flüsterwitz im Dritten Reich: Mündliche Dokumente zur Lage der Deutschen während des Nationalsozialismus (Munich: Piper, 1990), p. 165.
Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, “Noi non sappiamo odiare” L´esercito italiano tra fascismo e democrazia (Turin: UTET Libera, 2010), p. 166.
SRIG 329, 17 October 1943, TNA, WO 208/4187. Ficalla was the commander of the 202nd Coastal Division and was captured on 21 July 1943 in Sicily. Salza was the chaplain of the 1st Italian Army and was captured on 1 May 1943 in Tunisia.
CSDIC Middle East No. 662(I), 5 January 1943, TNA, WO 208/5574.
SRIG 221, 11 August 1943, TNA, WO 208/4186.
CSDIC Middle East No. 626(I), 15 November 1942, TNA, WO 208/5574.
Italian soldiers were more interested in material rewards than decorations. A fighter pilot reported that he could earn 5,000 lire for every hit. CSDIC Middle East No. 488(I), 13 April 1942, TNA, WO 208/5518.
CSDIC Middle East No. 713(I), 23 March 1943, TNA, WO 208/5574.
See ISRM 49, 17 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4188.
Even members of Italian elite units showed more emotion than average German soldiers. See the description of a pursuit involving depth charges by an officer of the Italian submarine MS Glauco . I/SRN 76, 29 July 1941, TNA, WO 208/4189.
I/SRN 68, 24 July 1941, TNA, WO 208/4189.
CSDIC Middle East No. 489(I), 14 April 1942. See also CSDIC Middle East No. 471(I), 25 March 1942, TNA, WO 208/5518.
CSDIC AFHQ No. 58(I), 31 August 1943, TNA, WO 208/5508.
Ibid.
I/SRN 70, 24 July 1941; I/SRN 90, 18 August 1941, TNA, WO 208/4189.
I/SRN 65, 20 July 1941. See I/SRN 88, TNA, WO 208/4189.
See I/SRN 54, 15 January 1941; I/SRN 72, 25 July 1941; I/SRN 97, 25 August 1941, TNA, WO 208/4189.
SRIG 138, 17 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4186.
Michael E. Stevens, Letters from the Front, 1898–1945 (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1992), p. 135.
Ulrich Straus, The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POW’s of World War II (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003), p. 48ff.
Hirofumi Hayashi, “Japanese Deserters and Prisoners of War in the Battle of Okinawa,” in Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity: Homecoming and Memory in World War II, Barbara Hately-Broad and Bob Moore, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 54. Findings in Burma are similar. See Takuma Melber, “Verhört: Alliierte Studien zu Moral und Psyche japanischer Soldaten im Zweiten Weltkrieg,” in Welzer, Neitzel, and Gudehus, eds., “Der Führer.”
Rüdiger Overmans, Deutsche militärische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 1999), p. 215.
SRM 1022, 15 November 1944, TNA, WO 208/4139.
For the most recent research on the Waffen SS, see Martin Cüppers, Wegbereiter der Shoah: Die Waffen-SS, der Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS und die Judenvernichtung, 1939–1945 (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005); Carlo Gentile, Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS und Polizei im Kampf gegen Partisanen und Zivilbevölkerung in Italien, 1943–1945 (Paderborn: Schoeningh Verlag, 2011); Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg ; René Rohrkamp, Weltanschaulich gefestigte Kämpfer: Die Soldaten der Waffen-SS, 1933–1945: Organisation—Personal—Sozialstruktur (Paderborn: Schoeningh Verlag, 2010); and above all, Jean-Luc Leleu, La Waffen-SS : Soldats politiques en Guerre (Paris: Editions Perrin, 2007). See also Jochen Lehnhardt, “Die Waffen-SS in der NS-Propaganda” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Mainz, 2011).
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