Hitler's Bandit Hunters (71 page)

49
. PRO, HW16/6, MSGP 27, August 21, 1941.

50
. Milovan Djilas, trans. Michael B. Petrovich,
Wartime
(London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977).

51
. BA R19/320, RFSS, Tgb. Nr. 1a 323/42 (Geheim) KSRFSS, Befehl-für die Unterdrückung der Bandentätigkeit in den Gebieten Oberkrain und Untersteiermark, June 25, 1942.

52
. Ibid, Tgb. Nr. 1a 323/42 (Geheim) KSRFSS, Befehl Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Aktion gegen Partisanen und sonstigen Banditen in Gebieten Oberkrain und Untersteiermark, June 25, 1942.

53
. TVDB, 39–40.

54
. NARA, RG242, BDC, A3345-OSS-096B, Dr. Erhard Schöngarth; and, Helmut Krausnick,
Hitler’s Einsatzgruppen: Die Truppe des Weltanschauungskrieges 1938–1942
(Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1985), 157 and 204.

55
. Heer, “The Logic of the War,” 111, n84.

56
. DKHH, 437–84.

57
. NARA-RG242, T175/81/2601616, letter Himmler to Daluege, July 28, 1942.

58
. NARA, RG242, BDC A3345-DS-J007, frames 0689-1843, collected sources on Bandenbekämpfung.

59
. NARA, RG242, T175/74/2591672. This order was first issued during a visit to Helsinki, February 17, 1942.

60
. NARA, RG242, T175/74/2591686-706, Gedanken über das Wort “Partisanen.”

61
. NARA, RG242, T175/135/22287909-12, Der Reichsführer-SS, Order No. 65, August 12, 1942.

62
. NARA, RG242, BDC A3345-DS-J007, frames 0689-1843.

63
. NARA, RG242, T175/74/2591688, letter from the personal staff of the RFSS to SS-Standarte “Kurt Eggers.”

64
. William L. Combs,
The Voice of the SS: A History of the SS Journal “Das Schwarze Korps”
(New York: Peter Lang), 376–7.

65
. NARA, RG242, T175/3/2503430-39, Betr. Richtlinien für Partisanenbekämpfung, circulated by Chef der Ordnungspolizei, November 17, 1941. BA-BL, R19-318, Bandenbekämpfung, Winkelmann’s confirmation approval for Richtlinien für Partisanenbekämpfung, November 17, 1941, see also DRZW, 1201–3.

66
. NARA, RG242, T175/140/2668141-355, Weisung Nr. 46: Richtlinien für die verstärkte Bekämpfung des Bandenunwesens im Osten, Der Führer, OKW/WFSt/ Op. Nr. 002821/42g.K., Führerhauptquartier, August 18, 1942. Refer to Walter Hubatsch,
Hitlers Weisungen für die Kriegführung 1939-1945: Dokumente des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
(reprinted by Osnabruck, 1999), 201–9; and Trevor-Roper,
Hitler’s War Directive
, 197–202.

67
. Kershaw,
Hubris
, 27–91; and Geoffrey Megargee,
Inside Hitler’s High Command
(Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2000), 63–4.

68
. BZ-IMT, October 25, 1945.

69
. Trevor-Roper,
Hitler’s War Directives
, 197–202.

70
.
Table Talk
, 621.

71
. DKHH, 542–4.

72
. Warlimont,
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
, 254–5.

73
. NARA, T175/56/2571332, Aktenvermerk über Besprechung mit Gauleiter Koch, Prützmann, September 27, 1942.

74
. NARA, T175/56/2571327, letter Himmler to Koch, October 9, 1942.

75
. NARA, T175/562571324-5, letter Prützmann to Koch, Betrifft: Bandenbekämpfung, October 2, 1942.

76
. Truman O. Anderson III, “Germans, Ukrainians and Jews: Ethnic Politics in Heeresgebiet Süd, June–December 1941,”
War in History
7, no. 3 (July 2000), 325–52.

77
. Peter Young,
Commando
(New York: Ballentine, 1969), 114–27.

78
. C. E. Lucas Phillips,
The Greatest Raid of All
(London: Heinemann, 1958), 157.

79
. Roger A. Beaumont,
Military Elites
(New York: Walker, 1976), 44–5.

80
. Oberkommando Des Heeres,
Das Britische Kriegshee
. Gen St d H/Abt. Fremde Heere West, Secret Nr. 3000/42, April 10, 1942, 425–6.

81
. NCA, document 8553-PS, Combating of single parachutists, August 4, 1942.

82
. USMT-12, 36.

83
. NCA, document, Jodl, affidavit, October 1946.

84
. NCA, document, 498-PS and document C-179, Führer order, October 18, 1942.

85
. Ibid.

86
. Ibid.

87
. Hubatsch,
Hitlers Weisungen für die Kriegführung 1939–1945
, 206–9.

88
. PRO, FO371-/30924, case 12246 papers, war crimes litigation.

89
. PRO, WO208/4294, Scotland Papers.

90
. Der Reichsführer-SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei, Bandenbekämpfung, I Ausgabe (RSHA, September 1942); also located on NARA, RG242, BDC, A3345-DS-J007, frames 0689-1843.

91
. Ibid., 1.

92
. Ibid, 21–4.

93
. Ibid., 8–21.

94
. Ibid., 10–13.

95
. NARA, RG242, T175/112/2710259, August 17, 1942.

96
. Ibid, 13–15.

97
. Ibid., 14–16.

98
. NARA, RG242, T175/81/2601880, Brandt to Holfeld, November 22, 1942.

99
. NARA, 175/140/8160, RFSS Befehl, October 23, 1942; and TVDB, 65. Bach-Zelewski received the confirmation on October 24, als Bevollmächtigter des Reichsführers SS für Bandenbekämpfung.

100
. TVDB, 51–2.

101
. Substitution enabled a career SS officer to experience senior responsibility, while the officer officially responsible for the position was released for other duties.

102
. Ibid, 65.

103
. NARA, RG242, T175/81/2601501-2034, message from RFSS to Karl Wolf, at Hitler field headquarters, October 28, 1942.

104
. Ibid, wireless message, Himmler to Bach-Zelewski, November 16, 1942.

105
. TVDB, 52–84.

106
. PRO, WO235-389, United Nations Charges against German War Criminals, The Fühlsbüttel Prison Case, July 1947, evidence against HSSPF Hamburg Georg Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr.

107
. NCA, document NOKW 1067
Kampfanweisung für die Bandenbekämpfung im Osten
, and Oberkommando d. Wehrmacht, Kampfanweisung für die Bandenbekämpfung im Osten, Merkblatt 69/1 (Berlin, November 11, 1942).

108
. CMH Pub 104-19,
The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941–44
(Washington, D.C., Center of Military History, 1956), 119–21.

109
. Warlimont,
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
, 289–92.

110
. NCA, document UK-66, Document marked “A” dated January 1, 1943, originating from NCA document NOKW 068, Combating of Partisans, December 16, 1942; and Gert Meyer (eds.),
Wehrmacht Verbrechen: Dokumente aus Sowjetischen Archiven
(Köln: PapyRossa, 1997).

111
. Soviet Embassy,
New Soviet Documents on Nazi Atrocities
, (London: Hutchinson, 1943) 49. Schenckendorff had the soldiers arrested and the officer reduced to the ranks.

112
. NARA, RG242, T175/ 81/2601524, Meldung, 51a, December 1942.

113
. NARA, RG242, T175, roll 3. Dienstbesprechung der Befehlshaber und Inspekteure der Ordnungspolizei January 1943, Berlin.

114
. Raul Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
(New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985), 148.

1
. NARA, T175 Roll 70/2586870, USMT, N331, Bandenbekämpfung, September 3, 1947.

2
. NS19/1433, “Bandenkampf-und Sicherheitslage.” Vortrag des Reichsführers-SS bei Hitler auf dem Obersalzberg am 19 June 1943 see also NARA, RG242, T175/ 70/2586239–60 and T175/81/2601501-2034, Reichsführer-SS, 28 June 1943.

3
. Ian Kershaw,
Hitler 1936–45: Nemesis
(London: Penguin, 2000); and Gerald Fleming,
Hitler and the Final Solution
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, Oxford, 1986).

4
. Kershaw,
Nemesis
, 589.

5
. NARA, RG242, T312/18/4758799-4758803, Proklamation des Führers, January 30, 1943.

6
. Werner Brill,
“Mitleid ist fehl am Platz” Über Vernichtungskrieg und Gewalt
(Saarbrücken: Blattlaus-Verl, 1999), 40–1.

7
. NCA, document 294-PS, document 1381-PS, and Noakes & Pridham, III, 912.

8
.
Table Talk
, October 18, 1942, 74.

9
. BA-MA, RW41/4, Geheime Reichssache, SS-Brigadeführer Zimmermann, Berlin 4 January 1943.

10
. Timothy Patrick Mulligan,
The Politics of Illusion: German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union
(New York: Praeger, 1988), 50–1.

11
. Noakes, IV, 490–4; and Richard Bessel,
Nazism and War
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004), 115.

12
. Ulrich Herbert,
Hitler’s Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich
(Cambridge, Berg, 1997), 257–61.

13
. Michael Thad Allen,
Hitler’s Slave Lords: The Business of Forced Labour in Occupied Europe
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2002).

14
. Soviet Embassy,
Soviet Government Statements on Nazi Atrocities
, 66–7. The
Münster Zeitung
announced that since 1942 2,000,000 million Russians had been deported to Germany.

15
. Breitman,
The Architect of Genocide
, 39–43.

16
. NARA, RG242, T354, roll 650, Behandlung der europäischen Volker, 23 April 1943.

17
. Refer to Nicholas M. Terry, “The German Army Group Centre and the Soviet Civilian Population, 1942-1944,” (PhD diss., University of London, 2005).

18
. TVDB, 75.

19
. NARA, RG242, T175/128/2654189-92 Himmler to Bach-Zelewski, memo on Vlasov, January 1943.

20
. Alexander Dallin,
German Rule in Russia 1941–1945: A Study of Occupation Policies
(London, Macmillan, 1957), 582–8; and Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, 467.

21
. J. J. Baritz, “War of the Rails,”
Purnell’s History of the Second World War
, 7, 1973, 2857–67.

22
. Klaus Hildebrand, “Die Deutsche Reichsbahn in der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur 1933-1945,” in Lothar Gall und Manfred Pohl (eds.),
Die Eisenbahn in Deutschland von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
(Munich: C.H. Beck, 1999), 165–249. See also Hans Pottgiesser,
Die Deutsche Reichsbahn im Ostfeldzug 1939–1944
(Neckargemünd: Kurt Vowinckel, 1975); Andreas Knipping and Reinhard Schulz,
Reichsbahn hinter der Ostfront 1941–1944
(Stuttgart: Transpress, 1999); Alfred B. Gottwaldt,
Heeresfeldbahnen: Bau und Einsatz der militärischen Schmalspurbahnen in zwei Weltkriegen
(Stuttgart: Motorbuch, 1998).

23
. NARA, RG338, FMS, D369, Railroad Transportation, Operation Zitadelle 1943, Herman Teske (1948).

24
. NARA, T78/556/789205 to end OKW records, map of railway attacks, September 1943.

25
. Goebbels,
Diary
, 272.

26
. Trevor-Roper,
Hitler’s War Directives
, 125–29; Absolon,
Die Wehrmacht
, V, 411.

27
. NCA document D-735, Foreign office file note, 23 December 1942, 194.

28
. NCA, document UK-66, attachment from 1 January 1943.

29
. NCA, document D-741, Memorandum regarding the discussion between Reich Foreign Minister and Ambassador Alfieri in Berlin on 21 February 1943, 196–7.

30
. Richard Holmes,
Bir Hacheim: Desert Citadel
(London: Pan Ballantine, 1971), 6 and 142–58.