Armageddon - Max Hastings [388]
“Katharina Minniger, a twenty-two”: AI Katharina Minniger.
“Lieutenant Helmut Schmidt”: AI Helmut Schmidt.
“Why are you looking”: Letter lent to the author by Ursula Salzer.
“The vain hope that”: Von Stemann MS, op. cit.
“In meiner Jugend”: The Berlin Diaries of Missie Vassiltchikov (Chatto & Windus: 1981), p. 239.
“Maria Hustreiter was”: AI Maria Hustreiter.
“Ten-year-old Jutta”: AI Jutta Dietze.
“This is now a dead town”: Second Army MD.
“Fourteen-year-old Eggert”: AI Eggert Stolten.
“Regina Krakowick lost everything”: AI Regina Krakowick.
“We are getting more and more”: This report was evidently captured by the Soviets, and appears in RSA, 9401 om.2 g.97.
“I have never before seen”: Klemperer, op. cit., p. 455.
“When the enemy reaches”: Aachen, 9.15.44, Second Army MD.
“Helmut Fromm, who was serving”: AI Helmut Fromm.
“For the average German family”: Statistiches Fahrbuch, 1957, pp. 470–1.
“Well, my dear Hans”: Second Army MD.
“Albert Speer, as armaments”: Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1970), p. 378.
“Some of the foreign workers”: See Alan Milward, The German Economy at War (Athlone Press: 1965), passim.
“In addition, German industry”: Mark Harrison ed., The Economics of World War II (Cambridge University Press: 1998), p. 158.
“A statistical breakdown of”: U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, U.S. Department of Defense, 1946.
“The RAF’s legendary”: 12.16.43, quoted Alexandra Richie, Faust’s Metropolis (HarperCollins: 1998), p. 530.
“It was fantastic how”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“Since last night, our”: Second Army MD.
“There was no guilt about”: AI Gotz Bergander.
“Most Germans realized”: AI John Zimmermann.
“After 20 July”: AI Karl-Ludwig Mahlo.
“There were some serious Nazis”: AI Tony Saurma.
“We retained some illusions”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“The ordinary German fighting”: Knoke, op. cit., p. 162.
“believing that I could”: AI Karl-Günther von Hase.
“Wilhelm Pritz, an infantry”: AI Wilhelm Pritz.
“An order of 20 November”: Second Army MD.
“The contents of this letter”: U.S. Third Army Intelligence Report, MD.
“A PW of 353rd Division”: Second Army MD.
“A total of 44,955 men”: The scale of the problem has been underestimated by many historians, believes one modern German researcher, Major John Zimmermann.
“You silly sods”: AI Tony Saurma.
“We knew we were still pretty”: AI Max Wind.
“Twenty-six-year-old Captain Walter”: AI Walter Schaefer-Kuhnert.
“I knew that I was against”: AI Helmut Schmidt.
“I get so angry when”: AI Otto Cranz.
“I wonder what Hitler’s”: RSA, Stalin files, shelf 1–1 file 72.
“Beria reported to Stalin”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.66 1–1 318.
“That would finally be”: Heiber and Glantz, op. cit., p. 587.
“Even officers with little”: Bartov, op. cit., p. 126.
“The Potsdam Military History”: Germany and the Second World War, vol. iv (Oxford: 1998), passim.
“A remarkable year is drawing”: Helmuth von Moltke, Letters to Freya (Collins Harvill: 1991), pp. 394 and 412.
CHAPTER SEVEN: HELL IN THE HÜRTGEN
“It was a relief to see”: Alanbrooke, op. cit., p. 668, 3.3.45.
“Near Hürtgen, the U.S. 30th”: AI Werner Kleeman.
“It is a mistake to try to”: Personal minutes, 1.4.45, quoted Gilbert, op. cit., p. 1140.
“One advantage of being in Germany”: Fennema MS, op. cit.
“Most NCOs were hill-billies”: AI Werner Kleeman.
“The stagnation of the war”: Klemperer, op. cit., p. 456.
“I do not like the layout”: Alanbrooke, op. cit., p. 619, 11.8.44.
“[who] is detached and by”: Ibid., p. 628, 11.24.44.
“[Eisenhower] quite incapable”: Ibid., pp. 634–5, 12.12.44.
“The most likely way to make”: Russell F. Weigley, Eisenhower’s Lieutenants (Sidgwick & Jackson: 1981), p. 365.
“We’re still a first-class”: NA, RG492–322 box 3.
“We are taking three trees”: Pogue, op. cit., p. 289.
“The trees were so dense”: Devitt, op. cit., p. 75.
“Until that time”: Ibid., p. 71.
“They looked like a collection”: Ibid., p. 75.
“Look, Haney, that’s”: Ibid., pp. 76–84.
“It was a beautiful sight”: Ibid.
“Private Robert McCall”: Unpublished MS,