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15. Files of the National Archive in Washington: OSS Art, US Assets. XX 8775-6.
CHAPTER 4
1. Henri Troyat, Catherine the Great, Phoenix Press, London, 2000.
2. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 119.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Russian translations of all letters by Alfred Rohde contained in Kuchumov archive, TGALI, Collection 468, Opus 1, File 119, pp. 39-47.
6. The letter carried a reference: '323 I-5'.
7. V. Telemakov, 'Secrets of Saving Museum Treasures', unpublished manuscript, 1986.
8. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 122.
9. Telemakov, 'Secrets of Saving Museum Treasures'.
10. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 48.
11. Ibid.
12. Telemakov, 'Secrets of Saving Museum Treasures'.
13. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 48.
14. Heinrich Himmler planned to raise an army of Werwolf s that was to fight a guerrilla war from secret bases in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps.
15. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 48.
16. Alfred Rohde, Bernstein ein Deutscher Werkstoff, Denkmaler Deutscher Kunst, Berlin, 1937.
17. Alfred Rohde, 'Monatsschrift fiir Freunde und Sammler der Kunst', Pantheon, Vol. XXIX, F. Bruckmann, Munich, July-December 1942.
18. Telemakov, 'Secrets of Saving Museum Treasures'.
19. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 48.
CHAPTER 5
1. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 253.
2. Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin, Anchor Books, New York, 1996.
3. Ibid.
4. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 108.
5. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 119.
6. Ibid.
7. V. Telemakov, 'Secrets of Saving Museum Treasures', unpublished manuscript, 1986.
8. Konstantin Akinsha, and Gregory Koslov, Stolen Treasure, Weidenfeld &: Nicolson, London, 1995.
9. Ibid.
10. Telemakov, 'Secrets of Saving Museum Treasures'.
11. Ibid.
12. Radzinsky, Stalin.
13. Story told to authors by professor at St Petersburg University.
14. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 121.
15. Author archive.
CHAPTER 6
1. Quoted by J. O. Koehler, Stasi, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1999.
2. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 119, pp. 15-23.
3. Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin, Anchor Books, New York, 1996.
4. See also Helmut Miiller-Enbergs, Wer war Wer in der DDR?, Christopher Links Verlag, Berlin, 2000.
5. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 119, pp. 15-23.
6. Ibid.
7. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 48.
8. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 48, p. 1.
9. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 120, pp. 22-3.
CHAPTER 7
1. Alexandra Hildebrandt, The Wall, Verlag Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, 2002.
2. Data supplied by Forschungs und Gedenkstatte Normannenstrasse, Berlin.
3. For the history and administration of the Stasi, see J. O. Koehler, Stasi, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1999, and Timothy Garton Ash, The File, Flamingo, London, 1997.
4. BBC News reports, March 2002.
5. The Federal Authority for the Records of the State Security Sevice of the former GDR - Die Bundesbeauftragte fiir die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (BStU) AV14/79.
6. Helmut Miiller-Enbergs, Wer war Wer in der DDR} Christopher Links Verlag, Berlin, 2000.
7. Ibid. See also Paul Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report, Die Wirtschaft, East Berlin, 1986, for an account of Strauss's archival and Saxony investigations.
8. Grafe interview, 'Spasennie shedevri' (Saved Masterpieces), Sovetski Khudozhnik, Moscow, 1977.
9. Also quoted in Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report.
10. Ibid.
11. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 45.
12. Kuchumov archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 123.
13. Sefton Delmar, Trial Sinister and Black Boomerang, Viking, New York, 1961 and 1962.
CHAPTER 8
1. BStU, KSII404/82, pp. 1-17, dated 1 October 1964.
2. Schmalfuss was the director of Stasi Department z.
3. BStU, KSII404/82, pp. 1-17.
4. BStU, KSII404/82, p. 23, report from 23 October 1950.
5. BStU, KSII404/82, pp. 26-7, report by Oberrat Gustin.
6. Ibid.
7. BStU, AV 14/79, and quoted in Paul Enke, Bernsteinzimmer