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‘A man approached death’ Ernie Pyle V was for Victory New York 1945 p.61

‘You were resigned’ AI Bufton Bomber Command files

‘I woke up!’ Bomber Command correspondence

‘The briefings were very’ AI Owen, Bomber Command files

‘In their efforts to’ Hastings Bomber Command p.104

‘Winston’s attitude to’ AI Harris, Bomber Command files

‘We could have kept’ AI Brennan Armageddon files

‘If you had losses’ AI Maze, Bomber Command files

‘Good bods Pyatt, Donner’ Bone MS

‘We learned to live’ John Muirhead Those Who Fall Random House 1986 p.4

‘When I asked him’ Cochrane MS, Cochrane papers

‘The wounds were superficial’ Crafter MS Bomber Command files

‘Thirty sorties in’ Cochrane MS

‘I clearly remember’ Raynes MS Bomber Command files

‘You joked about’ AI Owen

‘When a plane blew up’ Harry H. Crosby A Wing and a Prayer Robson 1993 p.95

2 TARGETS

‘supported as he was’ USMHI Sir Frederick Morgan quoted Pogue The Supreme Command files

‘The Möhne was breached’ John Sweetman The Dambusters Raid Arms & Armour 1993 passim. This is the most authoritative account of the mission.

‘We were told the British’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.72

‘Adam Tooze has made’ Tooze p.556 and passim

‘Adam Tooze believes’ ibid. p.603

‘These raids on’ Bomber Command files

‘Hundreds of flak guns’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.391

‘Our Führer ought’ ibid. p.382

‘often feeling that’ ibid. p.453

‘These elements cannot’ Tooze pp.629–30

‘The white stripes moved’ Potsdam Vol. IX/1 p.390

‘They were torn from’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.75

‘At the front of the room’ ibid. p.427

‘a stupid, impudent’ ibid. pp.404–5

‘For two whole hours’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.76 24.8.43

‘That afternoon … I had’ Ursula Gebel ‘November 1943 in Charlottenburg’ quoted Roger Moorhouse Berlin at War Bodley Head 2010 p.323

‘We stood in the fartherest’ Klaus Schmidt Die Brandnacht Darmstadt 1964 p.91

‘There was a crash’ ibid. p.80

‘We were all petrified’ ibid. p.83

‘All one could see were’ ibid. p.80

‘What a homecoming’ Metelmann p.180

‘I heard today that’ Ostellino p.268 9.12.42

‘in at the finish’ Unpublished MS Just a Gamble, Bomber Command files

‘The planes are over’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.468

‘Fear and panic rule’ ibid. p.473

‘It is a reproach’ Spectator 25.2.44

‘It all boils down to’ AI Harris Bomber Command files

‘I have no intention’ Cochrane Papers Harris MS

Chapter 20 – Victims

1 MASTERS AND SLAVES

‘Eva’s birthday’ Klemperer Vol. II p.408

‘I was so far’ IWM 96/55/1 ZR Pomorski

‘Lice bugs bugs lice’ IWM Feliks Lachman MS 91/6/1

‘To put matters brutally’ British Library India Office Records L/PJ/8/412/319. For a vivid account of the entire Polish saga, see Matthew Kelly Finding Poland Cape 2010

‘I had dressed’ IWM 06/52/1 Szmulek Goldberg MS

‘I don’t believe’ Guest p.202

‘The former social order’ Chin Kee On Malaya Upside Down Singapore 1946 p.190

‘Ya Njonja’ Elizabeth van Kampen memoir, Dutch East Indies website

‘The … disgusting thing’ Moltke p.244

‘My dear father’ IWM 95/13/1 lzak MS

‘I have been to Malaya’ Bayly & Harper p.223

‘Let us dance happily’ ibid. p.179

‘The Japanese seemed’ ibid. p.234

‘I’ve been to the American’ Maier p.328

‘Oh, this is something’ AI Gabor, Armageddon files

‘In one area’ Moltke p.175

‘If you shut yourself’ Maier 29.10.42

‘In occupied western Europe’ see Mark Mazower Hitler’s Empire Penguin 2008 for an exceptionally lucid exposition of many issues in this chapter

‘a catastrophic destruction’ Tooze p.522

‘if the children aren’t’ Potsdam Vol. IX/1 p.262

‘We are still much too’ ibid. p.267

‘Foreign workers and slaves’ Tooze p.537

2 KILLING JEWS

‘I saw these people’ Jones Retreat p.23

‘must be done with’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I pp.349–51

‘If we entirely dispense’ Peter Longerich Holocaust Oxford 2010 p.211

‘As John Lukacs has observed’ John Lukacs The Legacy of the Second World War Yale 2010

‘One simply could not’ Christopher Browning Ordinary Men Penguin 1998 pp.19–21

‘Peter Longerich, one of the more’ Longerich p.261 et seq.

‘The leadership at the centre’ ibid. p.426

‘In autumn 1941 the Nazi’ ibid. p.271