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p. 321 ‘Russian style’ breakthrough and press conferences, Lieutenant Colonel Kraminov, MdC TE 246
‘a field strewn . . .’, N. F. Burrell, 1/7th Queens, SWWEC LEEWW 2004.2680
p. 322 ‘There comes a time . . .’, Bill Close, A View from the Turret, Tewkesbury, 1998, p. 130
‘Either it was just gross . . .’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150
‘It rained and there were mosquitoes . . .’, Rev. Jim Wisewell, 223rd Field Ambulance, 3rd Infantry Division, SWWEC T1141
British and Canadian losses in Normandy, TNA WO 171/139
p. 323 army complaints about the lack of bombs on Bourguébus ridge, Air Support, Air Publication 3235, Air Ministry, 1955, p. 158, AHB
‘General Montgomery was reminded . . .’, Royal Air Force Narrative, Vol. III, p. 81, AHB; and 2nd TAF Operations Report by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, TNA AIR 20/1593
‘a national decline in boldness and initiative’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/ 1944/45
p. 324 ‘But once the needle . . .’, Brigadier Sir Ian Fraser, MdC TE 160
‘One boy of about sixteen . . .’, John Colville, The Fringes of Power, London, 1985, p. 474
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THE PLOT AGAINST HITLER
p. 326 ‘inflexible mission of defending . . .’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721
‘The Führer must be killed . . .’, TNA WO 208/4363
‘and above all about . . .’, Hans Speidel, We Defended Normandy, London, 1951, p. 132
‘a hardline anti-semite’, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, London, 2008,p. 379
‘measures to be taken immediately . . .’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721 p. 327 ‘oasis’ for the Resistance, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247
for an excellent analysis of the Allies and the German opposition to Hitler, see Michael Howard, Liberation or Catastrophe?, London, 2007, pp. 80-93
p. 329 move of Führer headquarters on 14 July to Wolfsschanze, General Warlimont, ETHINT 5
I must request you . . .’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721
‘We are experiencing the overwhelming . . .’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/1079
p. 330 ‘The longer Hitler . . .’, 21st Army Group Intelligence Summary, 23 April 1944, TNA WO 205/532 (2)
‘The Chiefs of Staff . . .’, Ismay to Churchill, 21 June, TNA HS 6/623
Operation Foxley, TNA HS 6/624, and Mark Seaman (ed.), Operation Foxley, Kew, 1998
Churchill’s views on Hitler and unconditional surrender, TNA HS 6/625; and Churchill’s speech in House of Commons 2 August 1944
p. 331 ‘Since the generals have . . .’, quoted in Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936- 1945, Nemesis, London, 2000, p. 656
p. 332 ‘strikingly large briefcase’, General Warlimont, ETHINT 5
British fuses used in bomb, M. R. D., Foot, SOE in France, London, 1966, p. 331 n5
p. 333 ‘over a million foreign workers . . .’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland, ETHINT 63
p. 334 ‘Gestapo riot’, Blumentritt, FMS B-284
‘executive powers had been passed . . .’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland, ETHINT 63
‘What do you know about the situation?’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland, ETHINT 63
p. 335 ‘The Führer is dead . . .’, quoted in Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West, New York, 1979, p. 110
‘Today at midday . . .’, 20.40 hours, 20 July, Tagesmeldungen, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86
p. 336 ‘Unterweltsmarschall’, Blumentritt, FMS B-284
Dietrich and Himmler, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/1079
‘almost turned revolutionary’, Eberbach, TNA WO 208/4363, quoted in Sönke Neitzel (ed.), Tapping Hitler’s Generals, St Paul, Mn, 2007, p. 101
‘In my opinion . . .’, TNA WO 208/4363 p. 337 ‘Long live holy Germany!’, quoted in Kershaw, p. 683
Kluge’s order to arrest Stülpnagel, BA-MA RH19 ix/86
‘the Military Commander . . .’, BA-MA RH19 ix/86
‘came like a bomb-shell’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308
‘it spread like wild-fire . . .’, Hans Höller, 21st Panzer-Division, MdC TE 98
‘the front kept on fighting . . .’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308
‘indignation and anger’, Eberbach, 23 December tape, TNA WO 208/4364
‘Our signaller heard . . .’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie Regiment, 277th Infanterie-Division,