Armageddon - Max Hastings [400]
“A deputation of diplomats from the Japanese”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.95 1–1 283.
“A Wehrmacht officer emerged”: RMDA, vol. xv 5/4, p. 223, report of 4.24.45.
“Thank God there will be no more bombing”: AI Regina Krakowitz.
“Was pushed to the ground”: Margrit Hug diary loaned to the author.
“The Germans who fought to the last”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“It seemed so strange, when the end”: AI Vasily Filimonenko.
“I disliked the idea of behaving”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“I was here, too”: AI Vasily Krylov.
“Mutti decided she did not want”: Stone Papers, LHA, anon. narrative.
“Nothing is left of Berlin but memories”: Jeremy Noakes and Geoffrey Pridham eds., Nazism 1919–45 (Exeter University Press: 1974), 4 doc. 1397, p. 667.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE BITTER END
“The Germany in which we found ourselves”: Moorehead, op. cit., p. 260.
“It was bitter to learn that Goebbels’s”: von Stemann MS, op. cit.
“People had so much hatred”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“No German soldier would have behaved”: AI Hans Siwik.
“Red soldiers during the first weeks”: Congressional Record, U.S. Senate, 12.4.45, p. 11,374.
“On the night of 2 May”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.95 1–1 294.
“Vlassov’s men were kicked to death”: AI Gennady Ivanov.
“A day or two before the end”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“Yelena Kogan, the NKVD interpreter”: AI Yelena Kogan.
“Let us not kid ourselves”: AI Vasily Filimonenko.
“What the Red Army did in Germany”: AI Yelena Kogan.
“The British people were surprised”: Fraser, op. cit., p. 257.
“Dorothea Goesse, wife of an Austrian”: AI Leopold Goesse.
“I did not mourn Hitler”: AI Karl Godau.
“I knew nothing about the Holocaust”: AI Maria Brauwers.
“Corporal Helmut Fromm”: AI Helmut Fromm.
“The fourteen-year-olds were very dangerous”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“we felt like butchers”: Walter L. Brown, Up Front with US (privately published: 1979), p. 490.
“The rules of war got very fractured”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“After a certain amount of argument”: Neave Diary, op. cit.
“They always put on their best”: Ron Gladman, Citizen Soldier (West Somerset Free Press: 1995), p. 63.
“Field-Marshal von Manstein”: Alexandr Stahlberg, Bounden Duty (Brassey’s: 1990), p. 400.
“He told Krulik to investigate”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“An onlooker in the village of Niemegle”: von Stemann MS, op. cit.
“It’s over, men”: AI Gottfried Selzer.
“I thought it was too late now”: PM’s minute, D.121/5 4.24.45, quoted Gilbert, op. cit., p. 1310.
“looked like men in a dream”: War Diary, GSHO, 1 Cdn Corps, appendix 43.
“Flight-Lieutenant Richard Hough”: Hough, op. cit., p. 150.
“I felt a great sadness”: AI Vasily Kudryashov.
“We didn’t celebrate the end of the war”: Gladman, op. cit., p. 86.
“three beautiful Red Army reconnaissance”: AI Gennady Trofimov.
“Lieutenant Gennady Ivanov was in Rostock”: AI Gennady Ivanov.
“Inge Stolten, a Düsseldorf housewife”: AI Eggert Stolten.
“We were so indoctrinated that we had never”: AI Jutta Dietze.
“In a cell in Moscow’s Butykri prison”: AI Karl-Günther von Hase.
“Now life begins!”: AI Eleonor von Joest.
“Colonel, the war is over”: AI Vladimir Gormin.
“We did not mind doing this”: AI Waltraut Ptack.
“I suppose I should feel elated”: Cross Papers, IWM, 91/8/1.
“Everything we had fought for”: AI Hans-Otto Polluhmer.
“Every day seemed a festival”: AI Theodore Wempe.
“In a little town outside Amsterdam”: AI Bob Stompas.
“Germany and Russia have suffered”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.96.
“If a Russian soldier violates you”: Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, Shauplatz Berlin, (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1984), pp. 37–40.
“ ‘My dears,’ he said apologetically”: Mrs. A. S. C. McVean MS, IWM.
“to dive for cover in the Wehrmacht”: Peter Padfield, Dönitz (Cassell: 2001), p. 423.
“Martin Mutschmann, gauleiter of Saxony”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.96.
“If the Russians get at them”: AI Gotz Bergander.
“I don’t think”: Horwell MS, op. cit.
“expected to be ill-treated”: Moorehead, op. cit., p. 221.
“You do not understand how brutal”: Harding, op. cit.
“When Corporal Harry Trinder was freed”: Harry Trinder MS, IWM, 85/8/1.
“The wife of a large estate-owner”: Ann