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“I don’t believe”: Guest, p. 202.
“The former social order”: Chin Kee On, Malaya Upside Down (Singapore, 1946), p. 190.
“Ya Njonja”: Elizabeth van Kampen memoir, Dutch East Indies website.
“The … disgusting thing”: Moltke, p. 244.
“My dear father”: IWM 95/13/1 Slazak MS.
“I have been to Malaya”: Bayly and Harper, p. 223.
“Let us dance happily”: ibid., p. 179.
“The Japanese seemed”: ibid., p. 234.
“I’ve been to the American”: Maier, p. 328.
“But we thought”: AI Gabor, Armageddon files.
“In one area”: Moltke, p. 175.
“If you shut yourself”: Maier, 29 Oct. 1942.
In occupied western Europe: see Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire (Penguin, 2008), for an exceptionally lucid exposition of many issues in this chapter.
“a catastrophic destruction”: Tooze, p. 522.
“if the children aren’t”: Potsdam Vol. 9/1, p. 262.
“We are still much too”: ibid., p. 267.
Foreign workers and slaves: Tooze, p. 537.
“I saw these people”: Jones, Retreat, p. 23.
“must be done with”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, pp. 349–51.
“If we entirely dispense”: Peter Longerich, Holocaust (Oxford, 2010), p. 211.
As John Lukacs has observed: John Lukacs, The Legacy of the Second World War (Yale, 2010).
“One simply could not”: Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men (Penguin, 1998), pp. 19–21.
Peter Longerich, one of the more: Longerich, p. 261 et seq.
“The leadership at the centre”: ibid., p. 426.
“In autumn 1941”: ibid., p. 271.
Hans Michaelis: Maria Sello, Ein Familien und Zeitdokument 1933–45 (unpublished MS), Wiener Library, quoted in Roger Moorhouse, p. 178.
“Sadly I have to say”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 362.
“Voichita Aurel”: Sebastian, p. 268, 28 Jan. 1940.
“In March 1942, Himmler”: Spectator, 11 Dec. 1942.
“At least nine-tenths”: Moltke, p. 285.
in Moscow at Easter: Brontman, p. 132.
“Hitler did a good job”: Merridale, p. 253.
“an indigestible lump”: Garrard, Bones, quoted in ibid., p. 253.
In 1945, when: cf. Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin.
“During the Soviet occupation”: Merridale, p. 108.
“Two of the most”: Koa Wing, p. 74, 26 March 1941.
Murray Mendelsohn: AI Mendelsohn, Armageddon files.
“fucking Jew”: Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers (Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 22.
As late as December: Public Opinion, p. 385.
“Familiar stuff”: Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981), p. 99, BNA FO 921/7.
“In London these”: Karski, p. 393.
“Most of us were still”: Schlesinger, p. 307.
“It took some time”: Jeffrey, p. xiii.
“ ‘Atrocities’ had come”: George Orwell, Tribune, 31 March 1944.
As late as May 1945: Public Opinion, p. 501.
“After us there might”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 342.
On 13 July 1942: this account is taken from Browning, p. 2 and passim.
“In no case can I”: ibid., p. 128.
“ ‘Where are my’ ”: ibid., p. 83.
“If this tragedy was”: IWM 02/23/1 Frank Blaichman.
“Rita, you must”: Moorhouse, pp. 195–96.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE EUROPE BECOMES A BATTLEFIELD
“Hitler could think only”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Everything is melting”: Belov diary, 17 April 1943.
“the Soviet bacillus”: Merridale, p. 200.
“They slept with Germans”: Brontman, pp. 231–33, 9 Nov. 1943, and p. 262, 21 Feb. 1944.
“Uncle, have you”: ibid., p. 271, 21 April 1944.
Just praise has been: see David Glanz, Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War (Frank Cass, 1989).
“The course of the war”: Anders, p. 201, 16 April 1944.
“So back we go”: Raleigh Trevelyan, Rome ’44 (Viking, 1982), p. 142.
“Efficiency in general”: Atkinson, p. 490.
“This beachhead is”: ibid., p. 488.
“I never saw so many”: ibid., p. 416.
“The air roars”: ibid., p. 386.
“It has become”: ibid., p. 428.
“We could no longer see”: ibid., p. 463.
“My heart bleeds”: ibid., p. 534.
“evident that the project”: USMHI Forrest Pogue interview, The Supreme Command files.
“Personally I couldn’t”: AI Harris, Bomber Command files.
“Who else is fighting”: Horatius Murray, “A Very Fine Commander,” ed. John Donovan (Pen & Sword, 2010), p. 164.
“3rd Royal Tanks were virtually”: Kershaw, Overlord correspondence.
“if he was hit bad”: McCallum, Overlord