Armageddon - Max Hastings [399]
“The garrison of Vienna”: BA, RH2/336.
“He was a son of East Prussia”: K. Dieckert and H. Grossman, Der Kampf um Ost-preussen (Munich: Gräfe und Unzer, 1960), p. 165.
“I still believe in some kind of miracle”: Quoted J. Thorwald, Es begann an der Weichsel (Stuttgart: Steingrüber: 1950), p. 262.
“On 12 March, Russians found sixteen members”: RMDA, vol. xv 4/5, pp. 211–12, 2nd Belorussian Front report of 3.12.45.
“Many Germans in areas we have occupied”: Ibid., report of 4.4.45, p. 213.
“A gun would fire”: M. E. Katukov, Na Ostrie Glavnovo Udara, 2nd edn. (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1976), p. 386.
“Lieutenant Gennady Ivanov”: AI Gennady Ivanov.
“The colonel looked about inquisitively”: H. Schaufler, 1945 . . . Panzer an der Weichsel (Stuttgart: Motorbuch-Verlag, 1979), p. 102.
“Fourteen-year-old Erich Pusch”: AI Erich Pusch.
“Twenty-five-year-old Frieda Engler”: AI Elfi Kowitz.
“The Russians swept into the air-raid shelter”: AI Anita Bartsch.
“The whole place stank of corpses”: AI Vasily Krylov.
“It was very difficult to maintain order”: AI Fyodor Romanovsky.
“Yelena Kogan’s commanding officer”: AI Yelena Kogan.
“preposterous . . . I used such argumentative”: Guderian, op. cit., p. 402.
“If all our gauleiters in the east”: Heiber and Glantz, op. cit., p. 672.
“we saw it as our death sentence”: AI Karl Godau.
“This petty officer is certain of my full”: Ostseebefebl, Nr. 19, 4.19.45, IWM.
“his fists raised, his cheeks flushed”: Guderian, op. cit., pp. 414–15.
“No German town will be declared”: BA, RH2/336.
“a joke. These are Indians who”: Heiber and Glantz, op. cit., pp. 711–12.
“One of the last signals to OKH”: BA, RH2/336.
“I found myself commanding men of sixty”: AI Tony Saurma.
“As an inglorious refugee from Berlin”: Heiber and Glantz, op. cit., p. 722.
“Everyone now has a chance to choose”: Rudolf Semmler, Goebbels: The Man Next to Hitler (Westhouse: 1947), p. 194.
“In the last days of the war”: Temkin, op. cit., p. 215.
“We’d all had enough”: AI Nikolai Ponomarev.
“In the last month, especially”: AI Vladimir Gormin.
“Many have proved unstable in action”: Ministry of Defence Archives, The Great Patriotic War, ed. Major-General V. A. Zolotarev (Terra: 1995), vol. xv 4/5, p. 152.
“betrayed us in 1941 and they will betray”: Ibid., p. 153.
“They don’t look like soldiers”: Ibid.
“I wanted to fight, because everybody else”: AI Nikolai Dubrovsky.
“Many Germans seemed to feel that”: AI Pavel Nikiforov.
“a change of attitude towards prisoners”: RMDA, vol. xv 4/5, p. 120.
“I shall never forgive Zhukov for that folly”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“I never thought I’d make it”: AI Vasily Filimonenko.
“A Sergeant Safronov reported seeing”: RMDA, vol. xv 4/5, p. 95.
“The divisional engineer Lieutenant-Colonel Lomov”: Ibid., p. 89, Political Department Report of 4.18.45.
“The further we got”: AI Vasily Filimonenko.
“nineteen-year-old Helga Braunschweig”: While all other names given in the text of this book are authentic, this woman asked for her identity to be protected by a pseudonym, because of embarrassment about her account of rape by the Russians.
“Any commander who shows himself”: Quoted RMDA, vol. xv 4/5, p. 95.
“Marshal Zhukov’s troops are now within”: Ibid., p. 160, 4.20.45.
“In the course of three days the infantry”: Ibid., p. 96.
“Due to the slowness of our advance”: Ibid., p. 515.
“In Wilmersdorf, the local situation”: Brigadier J. S. W. Stone Papers, LHA.
“Owing to the gravity”: PRO, HW/13715, Ultra.
“The first really wounded man”: Stone Papers, LHA.
“Third Guards Tank Army is conducting”: RMDA, vol. xv 5/4, p. 160.
“I keep being told that operations”: Ibid., p. 101.
“She’s English!”: Stone Papers, LHA.
“The enemy knows I am here”: Heiber and Glantz, op. cit., pp. 718–19.
“Today I will lie down a little more”: Ibid., p. 730.
“The whole scene was apocalyptic”: AI Yelena Kogan.
“commanders are taking serious steps”: RMDA, vol. xv 5/4, pp. 245–6, report of 5.2.45.
“It was crazy!”: AI Bruno Bochum.
“Johannes and Regina Krakowitz seldom”: AI Regina Krakowitz.