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“Most people are still”: Von Lehndorff, op. cit., p. 38.
“ ‘Mind you,’ said the gunner amiably”: Colin McInnes, To the Victors the Spoils (Penguin: 1966), p. 176.
“It just means moving the catastrophe”: Heiber and Glantz, op. cit., p. 681.
“what we were doing was no longer”: AI Walter Schaefer-Kuhnert.
“The casualties to glider pilots”: PRO, WO106/4348.
“wonderful spirit of the men”: AI David Tibbs.
“Also, that as a young man”: Downward MS, op. cit., p. 107.
“but then as we were about six or eight feet”: Goldman, op. cit., p. 124.
“It was chaos”: Quoted Denis Edwards, The Devil’s Own Luck (Leo Cooper: 2001), p. 221.
“Peter Downward was overwhelmed”: Downward MS, op. cit., pp. 109–10.
“One of the stranger cargoes”: IWM, HS6/704.
“I honestly believe that he would”: Alanbrooke, op. cit., p. 678, 3.26.45.
“ ‘With hindsight,’ observed Kurt”: Kurt von Tippelskirch, Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs (Bonn: Athenäum-Verlag, 1951), p. 558.
“My only experience of war”: AI John Langdon.
“There was an impatience, even desperation”: AI John Denison.
“The liberation of Germany”: Turner-Cain Diary, op. cit.
“Wilhelm Pritz had endured”: AI Wilhelm Pritz.
“In Normandy, these had accounted”: PRO, WO205/1164, ORC report no. 6, appendix A.
“They would grab at any straws”: Cooper, op. cit., p. 211.
“Observers said it looked more like”: Ibid., p. 240.
“The men as a whole are not well trained”: NA, RG492–332, box 12.
“Under stress, not infrequently”: AI David Tibbs.
“There was a certain reluctance”: AI Roy Dixon.
“The willpower to keep going”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“they are performing very well”: NA, RG492–332, box 12.
“An officer of the Highland Light Infantry”: Tom Flanagan, unpublished MS, IWM, 87/1911.
“He looked for places where the enemy”: Andrew Wilson, Flamethrower (Kimber: 1984), pp. 194–5.
“by April 1945, one in 165”: PRO, CAB106/1069.
“The sense that, with luck”: AI General Sir David Fraser.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: PRISONERS OF THE REICH
“The SS directly employed some 300,000”: See Milward, op. cit., passim.
“They could have been quicker”: AI Nikolai Maslennikov.
“You just accepted it”: AI Ron Graydon.
“Tom Barker, from Eastbourne”: I am indebted to Tom Barker for the opportunity to read and make use of the fascinating MS memoir of his experiences as a prisoner.
“Stanislas Domoradzki, a Pole”: Stanislas Domoradzki, MS memoir, SA.
“As an officer, Captain John Killick”: AI John Killick.
“we were told by the guards”: Burt MS, op. cit.
“their morale was at rock bottom”: Robert Harding, Copper Wire (Chess Mail: 2001).
“A twenty-year-old Liberator gunner”: AI Charles Becker.
“I have seen men degrade themselves”: Harding, op. cit.
“Oh, you were only inside”: AI Denis Thomas.
“Richard Feltham was amazed”: Feltham quoted Sewell, op. cit.
“When news of D-Day reached”: Barker MS, op. cit.
“We were never satisfied”: Peter Campbell MS, IWM, 86/35/1.
“Escape starts as a madness”: Ibid.
“John Killick suffered a special difficulty”: AI John Killick.
“The only thing that would end”: George Millar, Horned Pigeon (Doubleday: 1946), p. 434.
“Their demeanour was aloof”: Lindsey, op. cit.
“the fault of that stupid Geneva Convention”: Guderian, op. cit., p. 427.
“Göring pointed out to Hitler”: Heiber and Glantz, op. cit., p. 634.
“The young British soldier walked”: Barker MS, op. cit.
“American airman Richard Burt”: Burt MS, op. cit.
“Bill Bampton, a private of the East Surreys”: Bill Bampton MS, IWM.
“Dr. Helmut Hugel, a German”: Hugel Diary, IWM.
“Jerome Alexis rode on the hull”: Jerome Alexis, unpublished MS, SA.
“I feel terrible”: d’Este, Patton, op. cit., pp. 714–19.
“Every day a sort of”: Sewell, op. cit., p. 168.
“In Stalag XIB”: AI Denis Thomas.
“The saga of one of these men”: AI Mikhail Devyataev.
“Boredom is usually associated”: Jerzy Herszburg, unpublished MS, IWM, 86/89/1.
“We have taken steps to improve”: RSA, Stalin files 1135/5, Beria memorandum of 10.24.44.
“In the camps, many people died”: AI Nikolai Maslennikov.
“Zinaida Mikhailova spent three years”: AI Zinaida