Authors: Roger Moorhouse
Tags: #History, #General, #Europe, #Western, #Germany
Killing Hitler (60 page)
34
Joachim Fest,
The Face of the Third Reich
(London, 1970), p. 309.
35
Joachim Fest,
Speer: The Final Verdict
(London, 2001), p. 193.
36
Ibid., p. 204.
37
Speer,
Inside
, p. 458.
38
Richard Overy,
Interrogations
(London, 2001), p. 460.
39
Speer,
Inside
, p. 538.
40
Ibid., p. 539.
41
Gitta Sereny,
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
(London, 1995), p. 482.
42
Quoted in Overy, op. cit., p. 460.
43
Fest,
Speer
, p. 232.
44
Hugh Trevor-Roper,
The Last Days of Hitler
, 7th edition (London, 2002), p. 70.
45
Quoted in Fest,
Face
, p. 307.
46
Gitta Sereny, correspondence with the author, 4 November 2004.
47
Sereny,
Speer
, p. 138.
48
Quoted in ibid., p. 422.
49
Quoted in Fest,
Speer
, p. 218.
50
Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf (London
, 1939 edition), pp. 501–02.
51
Ibid., p. 91.
52
Speer,
Inside
, p. 574.
53
Ibid.
54
Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 477.
55
Speer,
Inside
, p. 575.
56
National Archive (London) (hereafter NA), FO1078/236, Dieter Stahl Interrogation Report, 10 November 1945, p. 5.
57
Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 477.
58
See Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman,
A Higher Form of Killing
(London, 1982), pp. 53–57.
59
Ibid., p. 62.
60
NA, Stahl Interrogation, op. cit., p. 6.
61
Speer,
Inside
, p. 576.
62
Ibid., p. 577.
63
Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p. 72.
64
Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 486.
65
Speer,
Inside
, p. 577.
66
NA, Stahl Interrogation, op. cit., p. 7.
67
Speer,
Inside
, p. 622.
68
Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 507.
69
Speer,
Inside
, pp. 622–23.
70
Ibid., p. 659 and Sereny, op. cit., p. 511.
71
Speer,
Inside
, p. 575.
72
Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p. 215.
73
Airey Neave,
Nuremberg
(London, 1978), pp. 138, 144.
74
Speer,
Inside
, p. 689.
75
The Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal
(London, 1946), Vol. XVII, p. 32, testimony of Albert Speer, 20 June 1946.
76
Ann Tusa and John Tusa,
The Nuremberg Trial
(London, 1983), p. 399.
77
NA, Stahl Interrogation, op. cit., p. 6.
78
Sereny, op. cit., p. 473.
79
Matthias Schmidt,
Albert Speer, The End of ’a Myth
(London, 1985), p. 124.
80
Dan van der Vat,
The Good Nazi—The Life and Lies of Albert Speer
(London, 1997), pp. 222–23.
81
Fest,
Speer
, p. 246.
82
See, for instance, Speer,
Inside
, p. 464.
83
Ibid., p. 577.
84
Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
(New York, 2000 edition), p. 261.
85
Anton Joachimsthaler,
The Last Days of ‘Hitler
(London, 1996), p. 39.
86
Walter Warlimont,
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
(London, 1964), p. 442.
87
Van der Vat, op. cit., p. 157.
88
Robert Conot,
Justice at Nuremberg
(London, 1983), pp. 496–97.
89
Speer,
Inside
, p. 689.
90
Sereny, op. cit., p. 570.
91
Overy, op. cit., pp. 469–71.
92
Quoted in ibid., p. 139.
93
Tusa and Tusa, op. cit., p. 460.
94
Trial of the Major War Criminals
, op. cit., Vol. XXIII, p. 124, judgment regarding Albert Speer, 1 October 1946.
95
Fest,
Speer
, p. 9.
96
Sereny, op. cit., p. 478.
97
Speer,
Inside
, p. 682.
98
Schmidt, op. cit., p. 125.
99
Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 478.
100
Peter Hoffmann,
The History of the German Resistance 1933–1945
(London, 1977), p. 368.
101
Quoted in Tusa and Tusa, op. cit., p. 460.
102
Neave, op. cit., p. 149.
103
Speer,
Spandau
, p. 65.
104
Albert Speer,
Alles, was ich weiβ
(Munich, 2000), p. 50.
105
Speer,
Spandau
, p. 399.
106
Quoted in Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p. 74.
107
Speer,
Inside
, pp. 635–41.
108
Speer,
Spandau
, p. 215.
109
Quoted in Gitta Sereny,
The German Trauma
(London, 2000), p. 284.
110
Speer,
Spandau
, p. 211.
Epilogue
1
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier quoted in Sigrid Jacobeit (ed.),
Ich grüβe Euch als freier Mensch
(Fürstenburg, 1995), p. 162.
2
Joachim Fest,
Inside Hitler’s Bunker
(London, 2004), p. 31.
3
Antony Beevor,
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
(London, 2002), p. 410.
4
Ibid., p. 371.
5
Michael Foedrowitz,
The Flak Towers in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, 1940–1950
(Atglen, PA, 1998), p. 7.
6
Cornelius Ryan,
The Last Battle
(London, 1966), pp. 381–82.
7
Beevor, op. cit., p. 352.
8
John Erickson,
The Road to Berlin
(London, 1983), p. 599.
9
Quoted in Beevor, op. cit., p. 355.
10
Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
(New York, 2000 edition), p. 261.
11
Nerin E. Gun,
Eva Braun
(London, 1968), p. 261.
12
Traudl Junge,
Until the Final Hour
(London, 2003), p. 176.
13
Ibid., p. 178.
14
Quoted in Fest, op. cit., p. viii.
15
Quoted in Franz Siedler and Dieter Zeigert,
Hitler’s Secret Headquarters
(London, 2004), p. 177.
16
See, for example, Ernst Günther Schenck,
Patient Hitler
(Augsburg, 2000), pp. 199–200, and L. Heston and R. Heston,
The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler
(New York, 1979),
chapter 5
.
17
Ernst Günther Schenck quoted in James P. O’Donnell,
The Berlin Bunker
(London, 1979), pp. 139–40.
18
Walter Warlimont,
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
(London, 1964), p. 462.
19
National Archives (London), Liddell Diaries, KV4/195, p. 138, description by General Dietrich von Choltitz.
20
Schenck quoted in O’Donnell, op. cit., pp. 136–37.
21
Traudl Junge quoted in Gitta Sereny,
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
(London, 1995), p. 533.
22
Quoted in Fest, op. cit., p. 23.
23
Hugh Trevor-Roper,
The Last Days of Hitler
, 7th edition (London, 2002), p. 143.
24
See, for example, ibid., pp. 105–6, or Joachim Fest, op. cit., pp. 62–64.
25
Fegelein, SS liaison officer to the Reich Chancellery, had married Eva Braun’s sister Gretl in 1944. He was executed on the night of Hitler’s wedding.
26
Fest, op. cit., p. 92.
27
Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p. 124.
28
Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
(London, 1970), p. 639.
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