Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II (45 page)

7
. David Irving,
Hess
, London: Macmillan, 1987, p. 270.

5.
Chaos in Italy

1
. Hibbert,
Benito Mussolini
, p. 333.

2
. James E. Roper, “Mussolini, Mistress Executed by Finns Squad,”
UPI Archives
, April 29, 1945.

3
. Philip Hamburger, “Letter from Rome,”
The New Yorker
, May 19, 1945.

4
. Rachele Mussolini,
My Life with Mussolini
, p. 180.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid., p. 181.

7
. Allen Dulles,
The Secret Surrender
, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967, p. 206.

8
. A. E. Hotchner,
Sophia
, London: Michael Joseph, 1979, p. 33.

9
. Ibid., p. 41.

10
. Ibid., p. 50.

11
. Ibid., p. 47.

12
. Harold Macmillan,
The Blast of War
, London: Macmillan, 1967, p. 702.

13
. Ibid., p. 703.

14
. Joseph Heller,
Now and Then
, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996, p. 181.

6.
Himmler Looks to the Stars

1
. Wulff,
Zodiac and Swastika
, p. 185.

2
. Ibid., p. 186.

3
. Trevor-Roper,
The Last Days of Hitler
, p. 195.

4
. Sereny,
Albert Speer
, p. 536.

5
. Traudl Junge,
Until the Final Hour
, London: Phoenix, 2005, p. 184.

6
. William Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
, London: Arrow, 1998, p, 1128.

7
. Altner,
Berlin Dance of Death
, p. 160.

8
. Ibid., p. 161.

9
. Cornelius Ryan,
The Last Battle
, London: Collins, 1966,
p. 363.

10
. Ibid, p. 362.

7.
Belsen

1
. Michael Bentine,
The Long Banana Skin
, London: Wolfe, 1976, p. 132.

2
. Ben Shepherd,
After Daybreak
, London: Pimlico, 2006, p. 76.

3
. Cecily Goodman and Leslie Hardman,
The Survivors
, London: Valentine, Mitchell, 1958, p. 46.

4
. Chaim Herzog,
Living History
, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997, p. 61.

5
. Jo Reilly,
Belsen in History and Memory
, Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1997, p. 212.

6
. Alan Moorhead,
Eclipse
, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945, p. 221.

7
. William Whitelaw,
The Whitelaw Memoirs
, London: Headline, 1990, p. 22.

8
. Mollie Panter-Downes,
London War Notes
, London: Longman, 1973, p. 371.

8.
Operation Manna

1
. Operationmanna.secondworldwar.nl.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Martyn Ford-Jones,
Bomber Squadron
, London: William Kimber, 1987, p. 212.

4
. Desmond Hawkins,
War Report
, London: BBC Books, 1995, p. 338.

5
. Henri van der Zee,
The Hunger Winter
, London: Jill Norman and Hobhouse, 1982, p. 253.

6
. Barry Turner,
Countdown to Victory
, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004, p. 241.

7
. BBC Archives,
WW2 People’s War—Netherlands.
www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peoples war

8
. Walter Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, New York: Knopf, 2001, p. 123.

9
. Barry Paris,
Audrey Hepburn
, London: Orion, 1998, p. 20.

10
. Ibid., p. 30.

11
. Ibid., p. 31.

9.
Dachau

1
. Interview, G. Petrone and M. Skinner, February 25, 2000.

2
. Flint Whitlock,
The Rock of Anzio
, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998, p. 359.

3
. Ibid., p. 362.

4
. Ibid., p. 365.

5
. Marguerite Higgins, “33,000 Dachau Captives Freed by 7th Army,”
New York Herald Tribune
, April 29, 1945.

6
. Whitlock,
The Rock of Anzio
, p. 373.

7
. Ibid., p. 377.

8
. Interview, G. Petrone and M. Skinner, February 25, 2000.

9
. Sam Dann,
Dachau 29 April 1945
, Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1998.

10
. Whitlock,
The Rock of Anzio
, p. 384.

11
. Sigismund Payne Best,
The Venlo Incident
, London: Hutchinson, 1950, p. 231.

10.
The United Nations

1
. W. H. Thompson,
I Was Churchill’s Shadow
, London: Christopher Johnson, 1952, p. 155.

2
. Winston Churchill,
The Second World War, Vol VI
, p. 442. London: Cassell, 1949-54.

3
. Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, Vol VII
, London: Heinemann, 1986, p. 1322.

4
. J. C. Smuts,
Jan Christian Smuts
, London: Cassell, 1952, p. 471.

5
. Ibid., p. 478.

6
. Herbert Parmet
, Jack
, New York: Dial Press, 1982, p. 132.

7
. Simon Callow,
Orson Welles
, London: Jonathan Cape, 2006, p. 239.

8
. Ibid., p. 240.

9
. H. Franklin Knudsen,
I Was Quisling’s Secretary
, London: Britons, 1967, p. 160.

11.
Assault on the Reichstag

1
. Siegfried Knappe,
Soldat
, New York: Orion, 1992, p. 50.

2
. Anton Joachimsthaler,
The Last Days of Hitler
, London: Arms and Armour, c 1996, p. 140.

3
. Junge,
Until the Final Hour
, p. 186.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Joachimsthaler,
The Last Days of Hitler
, p. 141.

6
. Ibid., p. 144.

7
. Altner,
Berlin Dance of Death
, p. 175.

8
. Ibid., p. 177.

9
. Knef,
The Gift Horse
, p. 87.

10
. Ibid., p. 88.

11
. Vasili Chuikov,
The End of the Third Reich
, London: MacGibbon and Kee, p. 206.

12
. James O’Donnell,
The Berlin Bunker
, London: JM Dent, 1979, p. 177.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Junge,
Until the Final Hour
, p. 186.

12.
Curtain Call for Lord Haw Haw

1
. Admiral Dönitz,
Memoirs
, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959, p. 441.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ibid., p. 443.

4
. Nigel Farndale,
Haw-Haw
, London: Macmillan, 2005, p. 269.

5
. Francis Selwyn,
Hitler’s Englishman
, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, p. 154.

6
. Wanda Poltawska,
And I Am Afraid of My Dreams
, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987, p. 146.

7
. Jerrard Tickell,
Odette
, London: Chapman and Hall, 1949, p. 325.

8
. Jürgen Thorwald,
Flight in the Winter
, London: Hutchinson, 1953, p. 190.

9
. Ibid., p. 191.

10
. Micheline Maurel,
Ravensbrück
, London: Anthony Blond, 1959, p. 116.

11
. Ibid.

13.
The Americans Take Munich

1
. Francis de Guingand,
Operation Victory
, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947, p. 452.

2
. Charles MacDonald,
The Last Offensive
, Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1973, p. 437.

3
. Charles Hawley, “The U.S. Soldier Who Liberated Munich Recalls Confronting the Nazi Enemy,”
Spiegelonline International
, April 29, 2005.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Lee Miller,
Lee Miller’s War
, Boston: Bulfinch Press, c1992, p. 182.

14.
Italy

1
. Allen Dulles,
The Secret Surrender
, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967, p. 214.

2
. Kurt von Schuschnigg,
Austrian Requiem
, London: Victor Gollancz, 1947, p. 241.

3
. Geoffrey Cox,
The Road to Trieste
, London: William Kimber, 1977, p. 182.

4
. James Lucas,
Last Days of the Reich
, London: Cassell, 2002, p. 164.

5
. Rachele Mussolini,
My Life with Mussolini
, p. 182.

15.
Hitler Goes to Valhalla

1
. O’Donnell,
The Berlin Bunker
, p. 131.

2
. Simon Sebag Montefiore,
Stalin
, London: Phoenix, 2004, p. 431.

3
. Sereny,
Albert Speer
, p. 539.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Junge,
Until the Final Hour
, p. 187.

6
. Joachimsthaler,
The Last Days of Hitler
, p. 154.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid., p. 156.

9
. O’Donnell,
The Berlin Bunker
, p. 187.

10
. Joachimsthaler,
The Last Days of Hitler
, p. 193.

11
. Ibid., p. 197.

12
. Junge,
Until the Final Hour
, p. 188.

13
. Joachimsthaler,
The Last Days of Hitler
, p. 213.

14
. Ibid., p. 214.

16.
The Germans Want to Talk

1
. Chuikov,
The End of the Third Reich
, p. 217.

2
. Marshal Zhukov,
The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov
, London: Jonathan Cape, 1971, p. 622.

3
. Chuikov,
The End of the Third Reich
, p. 231.

4
. Altner,
Berlin Dance of Death
, p. 184.

5
. Knef,
The Gift Horse
, p. 91.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Joachim Fest,
Inside Hitler’s Bunker
, London: Pan, 2005, p. 137.

8
. Junge,
Until the Final Hour
, p. 175.

17.
The Nazis Regroup

1
. Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
, p. 487.

2
. Ibid., p. 488.

3
. Willi Frischauer,
Göring
, London: Odhams Press, 1951, p. 272.

4
. Sereny,
Albert Speer
, p. 544.

18.
May Day in Russia

1
. Josef Stalin, War Speeches, London, Hutchinson, 1946, p. 128

2
. Nikita Khrushchev,
Memoirs Vol I
, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004, p. 633.

3
. Clementine Churchill,
My Visit to Russia
, London: p. 28.

4
. Ibid., p. 45.

5
. Ibid., p. 46.

6
. Carol Ann Lee,
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
, London: Penguin Books, 2003, p. 132.

19.
Operation Chowhound

1
. Operationmanna.secondworldwar.nl/maxkrell.

2
. Ibid, /chowhound2

3
. Harry Crosby,
A Wing and a Prayer
, London: Robson Books, 1993, p. 317.

4
. Cameron Garrett,
Stalag VIIIA
, oral history.
www.moosburg.org

5
. Ibid.

6
. Charles Messenger,
The Last Prussian
, London: Brassey’s 1991, p. 231.

7
. Joseph Ratzinger,
Milestones
, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2001, p. 36.

20.
Dönitz Speaks to the Nation

1
. O’Donnell,
The Berlin Bunker
, p. 207.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ibid., p. 208.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid., p. 211.

6
. Fest,
Inside Hitler’s Bunker
, p. 144.

7
. O’Donnell,
The Berlin Bunker
, p. 220.

8
. Junge,
Until the Final Hour
, p. 193.

9
. O’Donnell,
The Berlin Bunker
, p. 226.

10
. Ibid., p. 227.

11
. Knef,
The Gift Horse
, p. 91.

12
. Ibid., p. 92.

13
. Altner,
Berlin Dance of Death
, p.188.

14
. Leni Riefenstahl,
The Sieve of Time
, London: Quartet, 1992, p. 304.

15
. Göring,
My Life with Göring
, p. 130.

16
. Willy Brandt,
My Road to Berlin
, London: Peter Davies, 1960, p. 136.

21.
The News Is Out

1
.
Hansard
, May 1, 1945, col. 1239.

2
. John Colville,
The Fringes of Power
, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985, p. 596.

3
. Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters, 1939–1945
, London: Collins, 1967, p. 453.