Armageddon - Max Hastings [398]
“Lieutenant Howard Randall’s”: Randall, op. cit., p. 128.
“Please do not let your men rape”: AI David Tibbs.
“During street fighting in Bremen”: White, op. cit., p. 434.
“The Germans were very hungry”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“Rape became a large problem”: “Military Offenders,” USAMHI, D769AZ no. 84.
“Sergeant Colin McInnes gazed”: McInnes, op. cit., p. 161.
“A British war correspondent”: Macdonald Hastings of Picture Post, private communication to the author.
“In ‘Red’ Thompson’s platoon”: AI “Red” Thompson.
“Lieutenant Tom Flanagan of the British”: Flanagan MS, op. cit.
“Pitiable middle-aged lady”: Proctor, op. cit., p. 128.
“In 21st Army Group throughout”: Report of the Army and Air Force Court Martial Committee, Cmd 7608, 1949.
“The countryfolk and their houses and farms”: Turner-Cain Diary, op. cit.
“An escaped Canadian pilot”: Steel-Brownlie MS, op. cit.
“Outside the town of Büdingen”: AI Helmut Lott.
“The attitude of civilians was really”: PRO, WO205/622.
“It sure makes you feel silly”: Quoted Robert Kee, 1945: The World We Fought For (Hamish Hamilton: 1985), p. 210.
“Private Denis Christian”: AI Denis Christian.
“With hindsight, it seemed”: Downward MS, op. cit.
“Es ist alles”: IWM, H56/704.
“Sergeant Robert Brookshire”: Robert Brookshire, unpublished MS, SA.
“There was some of the hardest fighting”: Hansen Papers, box 45B, USAMHI.
“Fanaticism is nasty”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“They were absolute sods”: AI Patrick Hennessy.
“A comrade noticed Fuller’s body”: Steel-Brownlie MS, op. cit.
“Clothing and underwear were caught”: Ibid.
“Once we got into Germany”: AI General Sir David Fraser.
“Germans are becoming increasingly bitter”: PRO, WO106/5924.
“Charles Farrell, a Scots Guards”: Charles Farrell, Reflections (Pentland Press: 2000), p. 131.
“A British tank officer glimpsed”: Steel-Brownlie MS, op. cit.
“In Germany it was a swan”: AI Roy Dixon.
“War is a very fatiguing experience”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“Until the very last moment”: AI Viktor Mamontov.
“The phrase ‘that’s what we are fighting for’ ”: Dr. A. R. Horwell MS, IWM, 91/21/3.
“At Belsen, I felt a curious elation”: AI David Tibbs.
“Take no initiative in organizing”: RMDA, vol. xv 5/4, p. 337, order of 4.24.45.
“A British officer complained to the Russians”: Ibid., pp. 353–4, Moscow correspondence with Admiral Archer, 5.15.45.
“After long journeys”: PRO, PREM 3/398/4 f. 276, quoted Gilbert, op. cit., p. 1312.
“If the British and Americans had not”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.97.
“Berlin never seemed so peaceful”: von Stemann MS, op. cit.
“We pretended that, having been through”: Ibid.
“The participants appeared to take it all”: Ibid.
“Ilse Bayer, twenty-five-year-old”: Unpublished MS, “My Life in Germany,” IWM, 95/13/1.
“Eleonore von Joest, who had trekked”: AI Eleonore von Joest.
“Henner Pflug fell into conversation”: AI Henner Pflug.
“Lieutenant Rolf-Helmut Schröder served”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“Late in March after his unit”: AI Helmut Schmidt.
“When Sergeant George Schwemmer”: AI George Schwemmer.
“In the path of Konev’s armies”: AI Helmut Fromm.
“On 5 April, Victor Klemperer sat”: Klemperer, op. cit., pp. 541–2.
“A delegation of diplomats from the Japanese”: PRO, HW/1 3715.
“Captain Walter Schaefer-Kuhnert”: AI Walter Schaefer-Kuhnert.
“Moser and his young comrades”: AI Hans Moser.
“Captain Mackert, one of its battalion”: H. Spaeter and W. Schramm, Die Geschichte des Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland (Bielefeld: 1958), p. 665.
“The atmosphere was truly hopeless”: Tiemann, op. cit., pp. 277–8.
“At the makeshift hospital in the school”: AI Melany Borck.
“The flares being dropped by aircraft”: Fleming MS, IWM.
“Lieutenant Philip Dark”: Philip Dark MS, IWM.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: “THE EARTH WILL SHAKE AS WE LEAVE THE SCENE”
“I was a professional—I had to do my duty”: AI Karl-Günther von Hase.
“Suddenly, Krulik saw an 85mm anti-tank”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“We were at the end of our physical strength”: Meyer, op. cit., p. 302.
“The situation is hopeless”: BA, RH2/336.
“Our problem