Exorcising Hitler (73 page)
Authors: Frederick Taylor
2
NA Kew FO 1013/701, ‘German Officials: Dr Adenauer’, Memorandum from (Sir) Charles Ferguson, General (retired), 10 July 1945. The writer of the letter (1865–1951) had gone on to be Governor-General of New Zealand.
3
Annan,
Changing Enemies
, p. 172.
4
Full text available at the website of Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik,
http://www.hdg.de/lemo/html/
dokumente/JahreDesAufbausInOstUndWest_erklaerungAdenauer
Regierungserklaerung1949/index.html
(in German).
5
Kossert,
Kalte Heimat
, p. 171.
6
Annan,
Changing Enemies
, p. 210.
7
Biddiscombe,
The Denazification of Germany
, p. 210.
8
Ibid., p. 211.
9
Ibid., p. 212.
10
Herausg. Norbert Frei,
Hitlers Eliten nach 1945
, p. 278.
11
Manchester,
The Arms of Krupp
, p. 780.
12
For the post-war careers of the IG executives see Jeffreys,
Hell’s Cartel
, pp. 346ff.
13
Judt,
Postwar
, pp. 152f.
14
See Frei,
Hitlers Eliten nach 1945
, p. 284, for Adenauer’s first memoranda of August 1950 regarding a possible ‘contribution to defence’
(
Wehrbeitrag
).
15
Kossert,
Kalte Heimat
, p. 171.
16
See in general ibid., pp. 266–305, ‘Die Abwicklung des Kriegsverbrecher-problems’.
17
Quote from Schmid, ibid., pp. 299f.
18
See ibid., p. 277.
19
Frodien,
Um Kopf und Kragen
, pp. 180ff.
20
Interview with Lothar Löwe, Berlin, 25.03.2008 (these words in English).
21
Ibid.
22
Ibid.
23
For an account of this conference see Hans Dieter Müller, ‘Ich werde Deutschland wiedervereinigen, ob Sie es glauben oder nicht: Geschichte und Analyse des Springer-Konzerns’, part 1 in
Der Spiegel
,
3/1968 (15 January 1968).
24
Figures in
Der Spiegel
, Nr 17/1968, pp. 44f.
25
See Rudolf Augstein, ‘Ist der Staat noch zu retten?’ in
Der Spiegel
, 39/1967 (18 September 1967), a transcript of his lecture to the ‘Freie Gesellschaft’ of Hamburg at the Auditorium Maximum of the University of Hamburg, 7 September 1967.
26
For Springer in 1967 see Ben Witter, ‘Mit Axel Springer am Wannsee’,
in
Die Zeit
, 49/1967, and for his charm in the early days, see Clare,
Berlin Days
, pp. 159–60. Clare ended up working for Springer after he left the army, and stayed with Springer-International as the company’s UK representative until his retirement.
27
See
http://www.axelspringer.de/artikel/Unternehmens
grundsaetze_40574.html
(German) and
http://www.axelspringer.
de/en/artikel/Corporate-principles-for-a-liberal-world-view_40575.html
(English). There are now five, with the reunification ambition replaced by one of German integration in Europe, and since 11 September 2001 a clause specifically emphasising support for the transatlantic alliance with America.
28
Judt,
Postwar
, pp. 271f.
29
Ibid., p. 355.
30
See
Time
10 January 1955, ‘It just happened’. The full English title was ‘The Answers of Ernst von Salomon to the 131 Questions in the Allied Military Government “Fragebogen”’, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon with a Preface by Goronwy Rees.
31
See ‘Es war ein Kampf: Rudolf Augstein über die Spiegel-Affäre und ihre Folgen’, in
Der Spiegel
, 43/2002 (21 October 2002).
32
Margaret Bourke-White,
Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly: A Report on the Collapse of Hitler’s ‘Thousand Years’
, p. 5.
33
Cited in part 4 of the
Spiegel
series by Peter Brügge on the ‘new nationalism’ in Germany, ‘Rechts ab zum Vaterland’, in
Der Spiegel
, 21/1967 (15 May 1967).
34
See the series in
Der Spiegel
about Axel Springer’s rise, entitled ‘Ich werde Deutschland wiedervereinigen, ob Sie es glauben oder nicht’, in
Der Spiegel
, 3–8/1968.
Frederick Taylor was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School, read History and Modern Languages at Oxford and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers
Dresden
and
The Berlin Wall
, both of which have appeared in many languages, and also edited and translated
The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941
. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives in Cornwall.
Dresden
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Changing Enemies
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Exorcising Hitler : the occupation and denazification of Germany / Frederick Taylor. —1st U.S. ed.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-536-7 (hardcover)
1. Germany—History—1945–1955. 2. Germany—Social conditions—1945–1955. 3. Denazification—
History. 4. Hitler, Adolf, 1889–1945—Influence. 5. Reconstruction (1939–1951)—Germany. 6.
Germany—Politics and government—1945–1990. 7. Germany—Economic conditions—1945–1990. I.
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