All Hell Let Loose (119 page)

‘a stupid, impudent’ ibid. pp.404–5

‘For two whole hours’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.76 24.8.43

‘That afternoon … I had’ Ursula Gebel ‘
November 1943 in Charlottenburg
’ quoted Roger Moorhouse
Berlin at War
Bodley Head 2010 p.323

‘We stood in the fartherest’ Klaus Schmidt
Die Brandnacht
Darmstadt 1964 p.91

‘There was a crash’ ibid. p.80

‘We were all petrified’ ibid. p.83

‘All one could see were’ ibid. p.80

‘What a homecoming’ Metelmann p.180

‘I heard today that’ Ostellino p.268 9.12.42

‘in at the finish’ Unpublished MS
Just a Gamble, Bomber Command
files

‘The planes are over’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.468

‘Fear and panic rule’ ibid. p.473

‘It is a reproach’
Spectator
25.2.44

‘It all boils down to’ AI Harris
Bomber Command
files

‘I have no intention’ Cochrane Papers Harris MS

Chapter 20 – Victims

1
MASTERS AND SLAVES

‘Eva’s birthday’ Klemperer Vol. II p.408

‘I was so far’ IWM 96/55/1 ZR Pomorski

‘Lice bugs bugs lice’ IWM Feliks Lachman MS 91/6/1

‘To put matters brutally’ British Library India Office Records L/PJ/8/412/319. For a vivid account of the entire Polish saga, see Matthew Kelly
Finding Poland
Cape 2010

‘I had dressed’ IWM 06/52/1 Szmulek Goldberg MS

‘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
l
zak MS

‘I have been to Malaya’ Bayly & 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

‘Oh, this is something’ AI Gabor,
Armageddon
files

‘In one area’ Moltke p.175

‘If you shut yourself’ Maier 29.10.42

‘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. IX/1 p.262

‘We are still much too’ ibid. p.267

‘Foreign workers and slaves’ Tooze p.537

2
KILLING JEWS

‘I saw these people’ Jones
Retreat
p.23

‘must be done with’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I 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 the Nazi’ ibid. p.271

‘Hans Michaelis’ Maria Sello
Ein Familien und Zeitdokument 1933–45
unpublished MS Wiener Library quoted Roger Moorhouse p.178

‘Sadly I have to say’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.362

‘Voichita Aurel’ Sebastian p.268 28.1.40

‘In March 1942, Himmler’
Spectator
11.12.42

‘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 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 26.3.41

‘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

‘“Atrocity stories” had’ George Orwell
Tribune
31.3.44

‘In May 1945’
Public Opinion
p.501

‘After us there might’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.342

‘On 13 July 1942’ this account is taken from Browning p.2 &
passim

‘In no case can I’ ibid. p.128

‘Where are my’ ibid. p.83

‘If this tragedy was’ IWM 02/23/1 Frank Bleichman

‘Rita, you must’ Moorhouse pp195–6

Chapter 21 – Europe Becomes a Battlefield

‘Hitler could think only’ AI Schröder,
Armageddon
files

‘Everything is melting’ Belov diary 17.4.43

‘the Soviet bacillus’ Merridale p.200

‘They slept with Germans’ Brontman pp.231–3 9.11.43 and p.262 21.2.44

‘Uncle, have you’ ibid. p.271 21.4.44

‘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 16.4.44

‘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 ed. John Donovan ‘
A Very Fine Commander
’ Pen & Sword 2010 p.164

‘3rd Royal Tanks were virtually’ Kershaw
Overlord
correspondence

‘if he was hit bad’ McCallum
Overlord
correspondence

‘I was the first tank’ Lewis p.117

‘You know, it sounds’ Jon Lewis ed.
Eyewitness D-Day
Robinson 1994 p.101

‘No one was moving’ ibid. p.102

‘Eva was very excited’ Klemperer Vol. II p.395

‘On the morning of 6 June’
Overlord
files

‘It turns out that’ Poppel p.179

‘No landing or lodgement’ von Schweppenburg in
Spectator
5.6.64

‘We all reckon’ Poppel p.181

‘Looting by troops’ FSV Donnison
Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-West Europe 1944–46
HMS0 1961 p.74 report of 12.6.44

‘It was an onslaught’ IWM 78/35/1 Madame A. de Vigneral

‘The attack entailed’ IWM Col.H.S.Gillies letter of June 1944

‘One of the scenes’ Lewis.p.173

‘I have often wondered’ Richardson
Overlord
correspondence

‘Here we encountered’ Michael Reynolds
Steel Inferno
Spellmount 1997 p.75

‘The whole company’ ibid. p.81

‘We had to dig them’ Lewis p.167

‘the urgent need for’ USMHI First US Army report of operations 20.10.43–1.8.44

‘We were essentially’ Kershaw
Overlord
correspondence

‘A sheet of flame’ J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson MS
Overlord
files

‘There was, I think’ Charles Farrell
Reflections
Pentland 2000 p.20

‘We were all rather’ Cloudsley-Thompson MS

‘they’re all dead’ Patrick Hennessy
Young Man in a Tank
privately published 1997 p.79

‘There were a lot’ Kerr
Overlord
correspondence

‘strolling, hands in pockets’ quoted Reynolds
Steel Inferno
p.36

‘knowing that with’ Finucane
Overlord
correspondence

‘The front tanks are’ Ken Tout
Tank! Forty Hours of Battle
London 1985 p.39

‘Driver left’ Andy Cropper
Dad’s War
Anmas 1994 p.33

‘It was a hell’ Lewis Keeble
Worm’s Eye View: The Recollections of Lewis Keeble
Appendix C to Battlefield Tour: 1/4 KOYLI in the NW Europe Campaign

‘We discussed’ Craig p.176

‘They kept saying’ Pogue p.333 25.1.45

‘The spirit of human’ Craig p.31

‘On an average’ Robin Hastings
An Undergraduate’s War
Bell House 1997 p.104

‘I have drawn’ Rathbone
Overlord
correspondence

‘We were often’ Selerie
Overlord
correspondence

‘none of us were’ Lapp
Armageddon
files

‘I told them’ Diercks
Armageddon
files

‘Shit and shit’ Barry Broadfoot ed.
Six War Years
Toronto 1974 p.97

‘War is a merry thing’
Overlord
files

‘The first men to die’ AI Godau,
Armageddon
files

‘The Russian won’t’ Second Army intelligence report,
Armageddon
files

‘I see worried faces’ Kurt Meyer
Grenadiers
Fedorowiz Publishing 1994 p.134

‘From 6.30 to 8 a.m.’ Zimmer
Overlord
files

‘How did the poor’ Poppel p.221

‘My darling Irmi’
Overlord
files

‘In Soviet thinking’ P.H. Vigor
Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory
Macmillan 1984 p.137

‘This was the last’ Merridale p.167

‘The enemy’s use’
Armageddon
files

‘They all looked pitiful’ Merridale p.242

‘camels on their knees’ ibid. p.259

‘One night you sleep’
Pis’ma s voiny
p.188

‘It was incomprehensible’ Reynolds
Steel Inferno
p.40

‘There are a great many’ Moltke pp.282–3

‘No one ever laughs’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.104 25.6.44

‘For days we have’ ibid p.107

‘We thought it impossible’ AI Schröder,
Armageddon
files

‘Our nerves were shot’ Cropper p.38

‘The floor of the valley’ Bellfield & Essame
The Battle for Normandy
London 1975 p.209

‘My driver was burning’ Lewis p.271

‘We were shell-shocked’ Michael Reynolds
Men of Steel
Spelmount 1999 pp.32–3

‘The remainder of the war’
Spectator
5.6.64

Chapter 22 – Japan: Defying Fate

‘Old friendships dissolve’ Australian Forces Weekly Intelligence Review No. 118 NZ External Affairs file 84/6/1 pt.1

‘India is not at present’ LHA Lethbridge papers, Lethbridge Report p.5

‘It is now our turn’ Christopher Thorne
Allies of a Kind
p.555

‘The physical hammering’ Hart p.162

‘It was a stinking hell’ ibid. p.158

‘There are few things’ Thompson
Burma
p.219