Army of Evil: A History of the SS (62 page)

6
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 91.

7
Reportedly Hitler’s words to von Blomberg, quoted in Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 96.

8
Kershaw,
Hitler: Hubris
, p. 511.

9
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 102.

10
Kershaw,
Hitler: Hubris
, p. 513.

11
Messenger,
Hitler’s Gladiator
, p. 61.

12
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 116.

13
Koehl,
The SS
, p. 100.

14
Koehl,
The SS
, p. 98.

15
Koehl,
The SS
, p. 100.

16
Kershaw,
Hitler: Hubris
, p. 522.

Chapter Seven: Dachau and the Establishment of the Concentration Camps

1
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Eicke.

2
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 4.

3
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 5.

4
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Eicke.

5
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Eicke.

6
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Eicke.

7
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 8.

8
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Eicke.

9
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 9.

10
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, pp. 10–11.

11
Höss,
Commandant of Auschwitz
, p. 65.

12
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 13.

13
Weale,
Science and the Swastika,
p. 126ff.

14
Quoted in Weale,
Science and the Swastika
, p. 127.

15
Quoted in Weale,
Science and the Swastika
, p. 132.

16
NARA BDC, SSO007B Personalakt Rascher.

17
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 10.

18
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakt Eicke.

19
Caplan and Wachsmann,
Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany,
p. 21.

20
Caplan and Wachsmann,
Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany,
p. 23.

21
For details of the concentration camps, see Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction;
Krausnick and Broszat,
Anatomy of the SS State;
and Allen,
The Business of Genocide.

22
Caplan and Wachsmann,
Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany,
p. 33.

Chapter Eight: The Central Organisation of the SS

1
The following organisational structures are derived primarily from Gelwick,
Evolution and Structure of the Waffen-SS
and “Personnel Policies and Procedures of the Waffen-SS” Koehl,
The SS;
and Yerger,
Allgemeine-SS.

2
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Pohl.

3
Allen,
The Business of Genocide
, p. 26.

4
Goldensohn,
The Nuremberg Interviews
, p. 398.

5
Allen,
The Business of Genocide
, p. 24.

6
Goldensohn,
The Nuremberg Interviews
, p. 399.

7
Goldensohn,
The Nuremberg Interviews
, p. 400.

8
Allen,
The Business of Genocide
, pp. 27–29.

9
Allen,
The Business of Genocide
, pp. 31–33.

10
Allen,
The Business of Genocide
, pp. 33–35.

11
Allen,
The Business of Genocide
, p. 59.

12
Allen,
The Business of Genocide
, p. 85.

13
Gelwick,
Evolution and Structure of the Waffen-SS
, p. 70.

14
Gelwick,
Evolution and Structure of the Waffen-SS
, p. 72.

15
NARA BDC, SSO058 Personalakte Berger.

16
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 417.

17
NARA BDC, SSO058 Personalakte Berger.

18
UKNA, KV2/172.

19
NARA BDC, SSO058 Personalakte Berger.

Chapter Nine: The Race and Settlement Office

1
Hathaway,
In Perfect Formation
, p. 26.

2
Evans,
The Third Reich in Power
, p. 27.

3
Yerger,
Allgemeine-SS
, p. 15.

4
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, pp. 271–72.

5
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 145.

6
Koehl,
The SS
, p. 114.

7
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakt Himmler.

8
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakt Steiner.

9
Yerger,
Allgemeine-SS
, p. 15.

10
Gelwick,
Evolution and Structures of the Waffen-SS
, p. 90.

11
Koehl,
The SS
, p. 116.

12
Goodrick-Clarke,
The Occult Roots of Nazism
, p. 178.

13
Pringle,
The Master Plan
, p. 47.

14
Pringle,
The Master Plan
, p. 47.

15
Pringle,
The Master Plan
, p. 49.

16
Goodrick-Clarke,
The Occult Roots of Nazism
, p. 187.

17
Goodrick-Clarke,
The Occult Roots of Nazism
, p. 191.

18
Pringle,
The Master Plan,
p. 50.

19
Pringle,
The Master Plan
, pp. 57–62.

20
For a full account of the SS mission to Tibet, see Hale,
Himmler’s Crusade.
The mission forms the backdrop to the Hollywood movie
Seven Years in Tibet
(1997).

21
Pringle,
The Master Plan
, p. 191.

22
Yerger,
Allgemeine-SS
, p. 15.

Chapter Ten: The SD—The Intelligence and Security Wing of the SS

1
In his monumental work on the leadership corps of the SD: Wildt,
Generation des Unbedingten.

2
Wildt,
Generation des Unbedingten
, p. 10 (from a lecture given at the International Institute of Holocaust Research).

3
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 162.

4
Kershaw,
Hitler: Hubris
, p. 365.

5
Westermann,
Hitler’s Police Battalions
, p. 56.

6
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 185.

7
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakt Six.

8
Browder,
Hitler’s Enforcers
, p. 180.

9
Cesarani,
Eichmann
, p. 48.

10
NARA, T-175/265.

11
UKNA, KV2/2646.

12
UKNA, KV2/279.

13
UKNA, KV2/279.

14
UKNA, KV2/279.

15
UKNA, KV2/279.

16
UKNA, KV2/279.

17
UKNA, KV2/279.

18
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 281.

19
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 237.

20
UKNA, KV2/95.

21
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 236.

22
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 235.

23
Wildt,
Generation des Unbedingten
, p. 11.

24
Wildt,
Generation des Unbedingten
, p. 13.

25
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 235.

26
UKNA, KV3/249.

27
UKNA, KV3/249.

28
UKNA, KV3/249.

29
UKNA, KV3/249.

30
Burleigh,
The Third Reich
, p. 671.

31
UKNA, KV2/397.

32
UKNA, KV2/397.

33
UKNA, KV2/397.

34
Fest,
Plotting Hitler’s Death
, p. 199.

35
UKNA, KV2/95.

36
UKNA, KV2/95.

37
Hinsley and Simkins,
British Intelligence in the Second World War
, IV, p. 195.

38
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, pp. 456–57.

39
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakt Daluege.

40
This was revealed by Schellenberg during his post-war interrogation: See UKNA, KV2/95.

Chapter Eleven: The Path to Genocide

1
See, for example, Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews.

2
Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, p. 28 (all references to Hilberg are from the single-volume, abridged version, unless a volume number is given).

3
Weale,
Science and the Swastika
, p. 40.

4
Weale,
Science and the Swastika
, p. 40.

5
Rigg,
Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers
, p. 80.

6
Quoted in Gellately,
The Gestapo and German Society
, p. 109.

7
Browder,
Hitler’s Enforcers
, p. 81.

8
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 303.

9
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakt Eichmann.

10
Lang and Sibyll,
Eichmann Interrogated
, p. 14.

11
Lang and Sibyll,
Eichmann Interrogated
, p. 16.

12
Lang and Sibyll,
Eichmann Interrogated
, p. 23.

13
Lang and Sibyll,
Eichmann Interrogated
, p. 23.

14
Lozowick,
Hitler’s Bureaucrats
, p. 26.

15
Lang and Sibyll,
Eichmann Interrogated
, pp. 32–33.

16
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 309.

17
Lang and Sibyll,
Eichmann Interrogated
, p. 34.

18
Cesarani,
Eichmann
, p. 58.

19
Cesarani,
Eichmann
, p. 65.

20
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 311.

21
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 311.

22
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 314.

23
Overy,
Goering.

24
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 319.

Chapter Twelve: Euthanasia and the Beginning of Mass Murder

1
Weale,
Science and the Swastika
, p. 44.

2
Weale,
Science and the Swastika
, p. 45.

3
Wolfgang Eckhardt, quoted in Weale,
Science and the Swastika
, p. 47.

4
Quoted in Weale,
Science and the Swastika
, p. 64.

5
Quoted in Weale,
Science and the Swastika,
p. 66.

6
Quoted in Burleigh,
The Third Reich
, p. 382.

7
Burleigh,
Death and Deliverance
, pp. 99–100. This is the best and most accessible discussion of the National Socialist euthanasia programme.

8
Burleigh,
Death and Deliverance
, p. 98.