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“Soon after Texan GI Bud Lindsey”: Lindsey, op. cit.
“We had not smelt”: AI Klaus Fischer.
“Sixteen-year-old Corporal Helmut Fromm’s”: AI Helmut Fromm.
“The family of sixteen-year-old Hans Moser”: AI Hans Moser.
“Captain Leopold Goesse watched”: AI Leopold Goesse.
“What extraordinary people the Germans are”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“Think how many roads and railways”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.99.
“whispered to his interpreter that he had something”: Ibid., g.97.
“Von Rundstedt, being driven as a captive”: NA, RG492–332, box 12.
“They professed to be outraged”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.96.
“Were you a professional soldier?”: Williams, op. cit., p. 300.
“There were thousands of men”: Carl Basham MS, SA.
“The NKVD complained that such unilateral”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.96.
“Colonel-General Hesleni”: Ibid.
“In the east, however, it was another”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.97.
“Our men had dropped their guard”: AI Gennady Klimenko.
“At first they mobbed us”: Piotr Tareczynski MS, IWM.
“When Zinaida Mikhailova saw the first”: AI Zinaida Mikhailova.
“When Veta Kogakevich was liberated”: AI Veta Kogakevich.
“We felt too exhausted to celebrate”: Herszburg MS, op. cit.
“Nothing had prepared us for the camps”: AI Dorothy Beavers.
“Any Italians here?”: AI David Pecora.
“Why do you care for the Jews first?”: AI Henry Kissinger.
“displayed no emotion at all”: AI Cliff Pettit.
“For the last six weeks”: AI Nikolai Maslennikov.
“Sometimes we despaired for these men”: McBryde, op. cit., p. 169.
“One night the farmer with whom”: AI Jutta Dietze.
“Twenty-two-year-old Private Harold Lindstrom”: Lindstrom MS, op. cit.
“Private Henry Williams, a New Yorker”: Donald T. Peak, Fire Mission (Sunflower University Press: 2001), p. 189.
“What good is all awareness of the peril”: Klemperer, op. cit., pp. 584–5.
“You must have been fascists”: AI Ibragim Dominov.
“Lieutenant Tony Saurma of the Grossdeutschland”: AI Tony Saurma.
“When Ursula Salzer escaped”: AI Ursula Salzer.
“Is there any place that is free from evil?”: Evelyn Waugh, Unconditional Surrender (Chapman & Hall: 1961).
“An NKVD report of 26 May”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.96.
“Genrikh Naumovich survived Mauthausen”: AI Genrikh Naumovich.
“Eighteen-year-old Viktor Mamontov”: AI Viktor Mamontov.
“Most of the people from our village”: AI Valya Brekeleva.
“Georgi Semenyak, who survived”: AI Georgi Semenyak.
“Captain Vasily Legun, a Soviet bomber”: AI Vasily Legun.
“I grew up in a world in which”: AI Anita Barsch.
“translated the nation’s tragedy”: D. Volkogonov, Stalin, Triumph and Tragedy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1991), p. 509.
“After the defeat of Japan”: Quoted Maurice Matloff, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare 1943–44 (Department of the Army: 1959), pp. 533–4.
“This is what we have been fighting for”: Robert Rhodes James ed., “Chips”: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1967), p. 414.
“Bands of Army Krajowa bandits”: RSA, 9401 om.2 g.96.
“The logistical difficulties were surmountable”: Roy Jenkins, Churchill (Macmillan: 2001), pp. 783–6.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My first debts for this book must be to Ash Green of Knopf in New York and Jeremy Trevathan of Macmillan in London. Back in the spring of 2001, they offered me the financial backing to make the project possible. This required a leap of faith, since it was more than fifteen years since I had last written a major work of history. During the interval, I had enjoyed a sabbatical masquerading as a newspaper editor. My long-suffering agents in New York and London, Peter Matson and Michael Sissons, deserve the credit for convincing my publishers that I remained capable of putting pen to paper. Michael Sissons also read and made very helpful criticisms of an early draft of my manuscript. Peter James has achieved an enviable reputation as one of the foremost editors in British publishing. My own experience with him leads me to pay homage to his brilliant skills as a shaper of prose, pruner of excesses, arbiter of grammar and logic. If this book is comprehensible to the general reader, as distinct