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Bizarrely, a group of: ibid., p. 64.
“It was a girl of about”: ibid., p. 141.
“Leaving the room”: ibid., p. 142.
“Supply situation intolerable”: ibid., p. 147.
“Haven’t you got a mother”: ibid., p. 239.
“In narrow Kazinczy”: ibid., p. 247.
“Pus, blood, gangrene”: ibid., p. 203.
“The Hitlerists continued”: ibid., p. 208.
“They were simple”: ibid., p. 293.
“a small, bird-like”: Donald T. Peak, Fire Mission (Sunflower University Press, 2001), p. 148.
“I’ve had enough”: Charles Felix, Crossing the Sauer (Burford Books, 2002), p. 153.
a soldier in Aaron Larkin’s: MS, Aaron’s War, Armageddon files.
Pfc. Harold Lindstrom: Lindstrom MS, Armageddon files.
“We were members”: History Branch Office of the JAG with the U.S. Forces European Theatre, 18 July 1942–l Nov. 1945, Vol. 1, pp. 242–49.
“I took aim”: White, p. 102.
“He wore a gray wool”: Fussell, p. 120.
“I am a deserter”: AI Pflug, Armageddon files.
“The German army left”: Djilas, p. 446.
“We are worn out”: Poppel, p. 133.
“Rifles will be carried”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
he once addressed: AI Saurma, Armageddon files.
“Rations were excellent”: Michael Reynolds, Men of Steel, p. 231.
“I wanted to shout”: Grossman, p. 330.
“Estates, villages and towns”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, 1941–1945, p. 100.
“At least we were young”: AI Kowitz, Armageddon files.
“In these situations”: AI Pflug, Armageddon files.
“The world is a very lonely”: IWM 94/7/1, Mrs. S. H. Stewart MS.
“I don’t give a fuck”: Antony Beevor, Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 (Penguin, 2002), p. 33.
“Fritz, halt!”: Stanislav Gorsky, Zapiski Navodchika SU-76 [Memoirs of an SU-76 Gunlayer] (Moscow, 2010), p. 108.
“We stay in all sorts”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, p. 186.
“I’m sitting in my candle-lit”: Fromm, Armageddon files.
“We no longer fought”: Sajer, p. 382.
“To be an officer”: Beevor, p. 164.
“These days I keep”: Anonymous, p. 62.
“Hello my darling!”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, p. 137.
“Silence! I’ve got”: Beevor, p. 189.
“My God!”: Hagen, p. 213.
“It’s all over”: Moorhouse, p. 360.
“Dear Fatherland, set”: ibid., p. 351.
“as if blood”: Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, Berlin Underground, 1938–45 (Holt, 1947), p. 273.
“Years ago they shouted”: Jacob Kronika, Der Untergang Berlins (Hamburg, 1946), p. 127, quoted in Moorhouse, p. 359.
“When we left Lieberose”: Hugo Gryn with Naomi Gryn, Chasing Shadows (Harmondsworth, 2001), pp. 238–39.
“Along the whole length”: Beevor, p. 219.
“We moved across terrain”: ibid., p. 226.
“Why drag out”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 59.
“Now we’re in front of”: Fromm, Armageddon files.
“They all seem so miserable”: Anonymous, p. 36.
“a mere child”: Dorothea von Schwanenflugel, Laughter Wasn’t Rationed (Alexandria, Va.), 1999, p. 342.
“You see very young”: Anonymous, pp. 40–41.
“Berlin … presented a dreadful”: Sune Persson, Escape from the Third Reich (London, 2010), pp. 113–14.
“We are vegetating”: Helga Schneider, The Bonfire of Berlin (London, 2005), p. 55.
“If—instead of this”: Richard Bessel, Germany 1945 (Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 141.
“No sound of man”: Anonymous, p. 189.
“Everywhere there’s filth”: ibid., p. 185.
“The baker comes stumbling”: ibid., p. 71.
“No one could invent”: ibid., p. 230.
“a means of escape”: ibid., p. 81.
“They do not speak”: Bessell, p. 267.
“Horrifying things”: Grossman, p. 327.
“I am a Russian”: Jacob Kronika, Der Untergang Berlins, quoted in Moorhouse, p. 385.
“The pastor shot himself”: quoted in Moorhouse, p. 372.
“They treated us with”: Bailey, p. 244.
“Illusions about the Red Army”: Djilas, p. 420.
“There was still too much”: Fraser, p. 267.
“Our celebration was”: Diercks MS, Armageddon files.
“instant relief”: Cropper, p. 90.
“Within an hour the city”: Detachment 14A2 BCA Regiment, Armageddon files.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE JAPAN PROSTRATE
“We shall be doing no more”: Bayly and Harper, p. 431.
“Partisans, young men”: ibid., p. 434.
“In all my life”: U.S. Marine Corps Historical Institute, Quantico, Joseph Raspilair Papers.
Lt. Patrick Caruso: Patrick