Armageddon - Max Hastings [392]
“As early as 15 January”: BA, RH2/319.
“The battle in the Vistula”: BA, RH2/320.
“Thousands of soldiers”: BA, RH2/331A.
“Lieutenant Vasily Kudryashov was”: AI Vasily Kudryashov.
“Captain Abram Skuratovsky”: AI Abram Skuratovsky.
“O blad! Generals”: Temkin, op. cit., p. 216.
“If we could have made good”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“Red Army signaller Yulia”: AI Yulia Pozdnyakova.
“Used in isolation”: BA, RH2/331A.
“The VS consists of men”: BA, RH2/331B.
“There are still a lot of Germans”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.93.
“For everyone else, a German”: AI Yelena Kogan.
“we wanted to go out”: AI Alexandr Markov.
“As early as December 1944”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.68 449.
“In order to re-establish order”: RSA, Stalin files.
“A report to Stalin from Beria”: RSA, Stalin files, box 14/3.
“On 24 January, Beria”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.68 448.
“One had to be very”: AI Fyodor Romanovsky.
“The prospect of the end”: Colville, op. cit., 1.8.45.
“Make no mistake”: Ibid., 1.23.45.
“Great Britain and the British Commonwealth”: WSC, telegram to Peter Fraser, 2.24.45, quoted Gilbert, op. cit., p. 1231.
“It is incredible to view”: Hansen Diary, op. cit., 1.23.45.
“A British SOE mission”: Peter Kemp, The Thorns of Memory (Sinclair-Stevenson: 1990), p. 265.
“I’ll never forget those Russian”: Ferdinand Chesarek oral history interview, USAMHI.
“What a disorderly rabble”: Dr. Richard Feltham quoted Patricia Sewell, Healers in World War II (McFarland: 2001), p. 176.
“There seemed to be little”: Kemp, op. cit., p. 261.
“You traitor!”: AI Vasily Kudryashov.
“For fun, a soldier”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“From the enemy’s behaviour”: BA, RH2/328.
“The Front commander took”: RMDA, vol. xv 5/4, p. 110, report of 4.27.45.
“On the night of 19 February”: RSA, 9410 om.2 g.93.
“This ban was soon”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.95 252.
“It seems remarkable that”: RSA, 9410 om.2 g.93.
“Amid all the stresses”: BA, RH2/323.
“Between 12 January”: BA, RH2/8496.
CHAPTER TEN: BLOOD AND ICE: EAST PRUSSIA
“East Prussia was a province”: AI Helmut Schmidt.
“mysterious splendour. Whoever”: Von Lehndorff, op. cit., p. 1.
“It was incredibly quiet”: AI Ursula Salzer.
“I hope you’re satisfied”: AI Elfride Kowitz.
“I was not so critical of bombing”: AI Michael Wieck.
“It seemed crazy that”: AI Hans Siwik.
“Yes, you’re flying”: Von Lehndorff, op. cit., p. 2.
“We are a master race”: Koch speech in Kiev, 1943.
“The President said he thought”: Robert Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (Har-per: 1948), p. 710.
“They want to take”: RSA, Stalin files, shelf 1–1 file 72.
“In the farmyard stood a cart”: Quoted Alfred M. de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam (Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1977), p. 63.
“I was so young”: AI Lise-Lotte Kussner.
“For us Prussians”: Guderian, op. cit., p. 388.
“A Wehrmacht report from”: BA, RH2/331B.
“It sounded as if a lot of heavy”: Von Lehndorff, op. cit., p. 3.
“Comrades! You have now”: Quoted Christopher Duffy, Red Storm Over the Reich (Routledge: 1991), p. 285.
“How shall I avenge myself”: Senyavshaya, op. cit., p. 28.
“Hatred for the enemy”: Ibid., p. 25.
“German villages looked”: AI Gennady Klimenko.
“Great country!”: AI Vladimir Gormin.
“In the view of some Russians”: Senyavshaya, op. cit., p. 29.
“Mugs and wooden spoons”: RSA, Stalin files.
“my soldiers promptly spitted”: AI the officer concerned, who said to the author’s interpreter in Russian, “But don’t mention that to the anglichane.”
“Nikolai Dubrovsky was an”: AI Nikolai Dubrovsky.
“Major Yury Ryakhovsky never doubted”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“Corporal Anatoly Osminov spotted”: AI Anatoly Osminov.
“When Captain Vasily Krylov gazed”: AI Vasily Krylov.
“Soldiers didn’t understand”: quoted Senyavshaya, op. cit., p. 29.
“We don’t have time to start”: AI Vasily Krylov.
“Russian soldiers wandered”: RSA, report Beria to Stalin, 1.27.45.
“Lieutenant Alexandr Sergeev’s”: AI Alexandr Sergeev.
“Our boys would open”: AI Alexandr Markov.
“When seventeen-year-old Joseph”: Joe Volmar, I Learned to Fly for Hitler (Kron Publications: 1999), p. 179.
“He warmed to the memory of”: AI Hans Siwik.