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‘more critical by the hour’, Heeresgruppe B, 14 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87
‘catastrophic’, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West, Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831
‘swine ...’, Marshal of the RAF Lord Portal, OCMH-FPP
p. 445 ‘I cannot pretend ...’, No. 742, Prime Minister to President, 4 August, TNA PREM 3/472
‘Ike said no . . .’, Butcher, p. 545
‘especially when the first paratroops ...’ General Warlimont, ETHINT 1
p. 446 ‘One woman was raped ...’, M.R.D. Foot, SOE in France, London, 1966, p. 393 head of the Gestapo in Châteauroux killed, SHD-DAT 13 P 33
‘128 terrorists . . .’, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
‘reprisals cannot be harsh enough’, BA-MA M-854, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 463
p. 447 the twenty-six worst massacres, ibid., pp. 574-80
for a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of French civilian casualty figures see ibid., pp. 412-15
‘counter-scorching’, Foot, p. 391
p. 448 ‘military events having taken ...’, Faugère, AN F/1cIII/1166
Laval and Pétain, AN F/1cIII/1166
‘regions where hideous . . .’,AN AJ/41/56
‘In the face of these barbarous acts ...’, TNA WO 171/337, quoted in Lieb, p. 396 p. 449 ‘I watched an open lorry ...’, John Colville, The Fringes of Power, London, 1985, p. 475
‘their look, in the hands ...’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 199
‘The French were rounding . . .’, Colonel McHugh, 318th Infantry, 80th Division, NA II 407/427/24242
‘an ugly carnival’, Alain Brossat, Les Tondues , Paris, 1992
for the département of the Manche, see Michel Boivin, Les Victimes civiles de la Manche, Caen, 1994, p. 6
p. 450 ‘Military police were posted ...’, Colville, p. 499
‘everything can be bought’, Madame Richer, MdC TE 223
‘My wife doesn’t understand me’, Pogue, p. 134
p. 451 ‘clearly considered us to be backward ...’, P. Peschet, MdC TE 215
‘their neighbours as German sympathizers’, NA II 407/427/24170
camp at Sully, ADdC 8 W 1/1 422
p. 452 ‘supplying the enemy’, AdM 1380 W 236 and AdM 1380 W 254
‘It’s because I don’t wash ...’, Claude Quétel, ‘Avoir quatre ans et demi, le 6 juin 1944, à Bernières-sur-Mer’, Bulletin d’information de la Fondation canadienne de la Bataille de Normandie, March 1993
‘réquisitions irrégulières’, AdM 158W 159- 202
‘pillaging shops . . .’, Major L. J. Massey, MdC TE 167
p. 453 ‘Our soldiers have done some looting’, Myles Hildyard diary, 19 June
‘with occasionally a cynical touch ...’, George Silverton, Chief of X Ray Department, 2nd Evacuation Hospital, MdC TE 710
‘Mon Repos’, R. Makin, IWM 88/34/1
15,000 troops working on Port de Caen, Major L. J. Massey, MdC TE 167
‘whose liberation was more rapid ...’, François Bédarida (ed.), Normandie 44, du débarquement à la Libération, Paris, 2004,p. 24
‘otherwise they must expect . . .’, Heeresgruppe B, 14 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87 p. 454 Kluge’s order to cross the Orne, BA-MA MSg 2/5117
panzers driving over bodies, Beck, 277th Artillerie Regiment, 277th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
resistance of Hitler Jugend in Falaise, Copp, Fields of Fire, pp. 234-5
Canadian casualties at end of Tractable, Terry Copp, Cinderella Army, Toronto, 2007, p. 7
Polish crossing of the Dives, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
p. 455 ‘for the first time ...’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 513
‘No, by God . . .’, Major General Kenner, Chief Medical Officer, SHAEF, OCMH-FPP
p. 456 ‘All effort was made ...’, Combat Command B, 7th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24096
p. 457 confusion with Gerow and Gaffey, NA II 407/427/24235
‘Change horses’, Blumenson (ed.), pp. 514-15
‘Ismay takes a sane . . .’, Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), King’s Counsellor, London, 2006, p. 279
‘Leclerc of the 2nd French Armored Division . . .’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 510
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p. 459 ‘the 15th August was ...’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247
‘Hitler suspected that . . .’, General Warlimont, ETHINT 5
p. 460 ‘The Führer has ordered ...’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247
‘one of the harshest . . .’, Leutnant Dankwart Graf