Armageddon - Max Hastings [397]
“Edith Gabor shared with”: AI Edith Gabor.
“In my opinion, a disproportionate”: PRO, FO371/42817 WR993.
“Gennady Trofimov was eight when he”: AI Gennady Trofimov.
“Viktor Mamontov was sixteen when he”: AI Viktor Mamontov.
“People soon realized that resistance”: AI Ted Van Meurs.
“At first when they took Jews”: AI Bert Egbertus.
“For most of the population”: AI Hans Cramer.
“His attitude is typical”: Second Army MD.
“There is considerable indifference”: Turner-Cain Diary, op. cit.
“security doubts on the reliability”: PRO, WO219/3738.
“The discovery that liberation”: PRO, WO219/11.
“There were some nice German officers”: AI Cas Tromp.
“It was not so bad for Dutch people”: AI Bert Egbertus.
“Ted Van Meurs, a medical student”: AI Ted Van Meurs.
“Not a person was to be seen”: Quoted van der Zee, op. cit., p. 46.
“It is unacceptable that bad”: Second Army MD.
“Eight-year-old Roelof Olderman”: AI Roelof Olderman.
“Cas Tromp was sent almost daily”: AI Cas Tromp.
“One day, Bert Egbertus’s mother”: AI Bert Egbertus.
“So too were Jan and Tom Wempe”: AI Theodore Wempe.
“Willem van den Broek’s mother”: AI Willem van den Broek.
“My mother was crying all the time”: AI Hans Cramer.
“Theodore Wempe thrilled each time”: AI Theodore Wempe.
“Take a litre of water”: van der Zee, op. cit., p. 150.
“Jan de Boer, one of nine children”: Jan de Boer letter to the author, 11.9.02.
“A Dutchman said he learned that winter”: van der Zee, op. cit., p. 65.
“Twelve-year-old Willem van”: AI Willem van den Broek.
“the shrunken bodies were lying”: van der Zee, op. cit., p. 158.
“The expression”: Ibid., p. 190.
“Bertha Schonfeld felt irrationally safe”: AI Bertha Schonfeld.
“The British Foreign Office told the Dutch”: Norman Longmate, Hitler’s Rockets (Hutchinson: 1985), p. 320.
“Antoinette Hamminga, a teenager”: Antoinette Hamminga letter to the author, 1.10.03.
“an example should be made”: PRO, HW/1 3709.
“Extremely fierce fighting”: Ibid.
“Surely you must know the war”: Elsa Caspers, To Save a Life (Macdonald: 1995), p. 134.
“We did it just for fun”: Annie van Beek letter to the author, 11.18.02.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: COLLAPSE IN THE WEST
“whose strategic significance was”: Weigley, op. cit., p. 678.
“Ridgway told the German colonel”: Gerald Devlin, Paratrooper! (Robson: 1979), p. 633.
“Lieutenant Rolf-Helmut Schröder”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“what looked like a dark”: Robert Burger, unpublished MS, SA.
“When Ike’s son John”: Bradley, op. cit., p. 397.
“The PM is increasingly”: Alanbrooke, op. cit., p. 680, 4.1.45.
“there would definitely be a race”: Quoted d’Este, Eisenhower, op. cit., p. 691.
“More than one major historian”: Weigley, op. cit., p. 687.
“efforts to make sure that the Americans”: Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle (Col-lins: 1966), p. 185.
“Eisenhower might well have sent”: Stephen Ambrose, Eisenhower: The Soldier (Allen & Unwin: 1984), p. 392.
“ ‘I decided,’ he wrote in his”: Eisenhower, op. cit., p. 433.
“ ‘Apparently,’ Murphy wrote”: Foreign Relations of the U.S., vol. iii (U.S. Government Printing Office: 1965), p. 229.
“If you look at the world geopolitically”: AI Henry Kissinger.
“Staff-Sergeant Henry Kissinger”: Ibid.
“There was little that was cheerful”: Tedder, op. cit., p. 688.
“Allied officers often enlisted”: NA, RG492–332, box 12.
“The leading vehicle got knocked”: Leakey MS, op. cit.
“It seemed a stupid time to die”: Hough, op. cit., p. 169.
“On the Elbe front a weakish”: PRO, HW1/3715, Ultra.
“a deficiency of leadership”: Ibid.
“Private Ralph Gordon of First Army’s”: Gordon, op. cit., p. 87.
“In Lieutenant Howard Randall’s”: Randall, op. cit., p. 134.
“Consideration was not given to sick”: Major G. Gatling, copy report held by Werner Kleeman.
“A German woman handed”: AI Werner Kleeman.
“As men of the British 7th Somersets”: Stokes MS Diary.
“Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinand Chesarek”: Chesarek oral history interview, op. cit.
“One night a British sentry woke”: Wilson, op. cit., p. 199.
“A contemporary British report”: PRO, WO106/4348, report no. 32.
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