Hitler's Bandit Hunters (73 page)

41
. Ibid.

42
. Wolfgang Sawodny,
Die Panzerzüge des Deutschen Reiches 1904–1945
(Freiburg: EK-Verlag, 1996).

43
. The 1944 regulations.

44
. William Green,
The Warplanes of the Third Reich
(London: Macdonald and Co., 1970), 165–8.

45
. BA-MA, RL10-290, Luftwaffe Flying Operations, JG 54 Kriegstagebuch, November 1942, anti-partisan operations between July 11 and August 11, 1942. The III/KG 55, September 28, 1942 to February 27, 1943, flew Heinkel HE 111 bombers and ME 108 (training aircraft), attacked partisans around Leningrad supporting ground troops.

46
. The 1944 regulations.

47
. Hans-Ulrich Rudel,
Trotzdem
(Oldendorf, 1981); Raymond F. Tolver and Trevor J. Constable,
The Blond Knight of Germany
(Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Aero Pub., 1985); and Adolf Galland,
Die Ersten und die Letzten: Jagdflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg
(Munich: F. Schneekluth, 1953).

48
. Gerhard L. Weinberg, “Airpower in Partisan Warfare,” in John A. Armstrong (ed.),
Soviet Partisans in World War II
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964), 361–88.

49
. Trevor-Roper,
Hitler’s War Directives
, 197–202.

50
. G. A. Shepperd, “Ground to Air Liaison: Strategy and Tactics,”
Purnell’s History of Second World War
8 (1975), 3217–20.

51
. BA-MA RL 35/1, Kriegstagebuch, Hauptmann Christ (Ia), Generalstab der Legion Condor, January 6–June 30, 1938; RL 35/ 12, German staff officers in Spain; RL35/13, Officers serving with S/88 including advisors and civilians; RL35/ 38, Kriegstagebuch General Richtofen.

52
. Johannes Buder,
Die Reorganisation der preussischen Polizei 1918–1923
(Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1986), 99–103.

53
. NARA, RG242, T175/65/2581292, Besprechung Reichsmarschall Göring, Oberst Meister, August 13, 1942.

54
. PRO, HW16/6, MSGP 37, August 11, 1942.

55
. BA NS19/3717, KSRFSS, Betr. Unterstellung und Einsatz der Fliegergruppe z. b.V. 7, September 25, 1943.

56
. BA NS19/1165, KSRFSS, Betr. Einsatz der Flugzeuge des Fliegergeschwaders z.b.V.7, May 27, 1944, Analge 2, Betr. Einsatz der Gruppe mit den zur Zeit zur Verfügung stehenden Flugzeugen.

57
. Ibid, KSRFSS, Betr. Einsatz der Flugzeuge des Fliegergeschwaders z.b.V.7, May 27, 1944, Analge 3, Betr. Standorte und Stärke der einzelnen Staffeln im Endzustand.

58
. BA NS19/1165, KSRFSS, Betr. Einsatz der Flugzeuge des Fliegergeschwaders z.b.V.7, May 27, 1944.

59
. Reitlinger,
The SS
, 21; Walter Schellenberg,
The Schellenberg Memoirs
(London: Andre Deutsch, 1956), 68–72; and Padfield,
Himmler
, 267.

60
. Perry Biddiscombe,
“Unternehmen Zeppelin:
The Deployment of SS Saboteurs and Spies in the Soviet Union, 1942–1945,”
Europe-Asia Studies
52, no. 6 (2000), 1115–42.

61
. NCA document 2939-PS, affidavit Walter Schellenberg, November 17, 1945. NCA document 3838-PS, affidavit Martin Sandberger, November 19, 1945.

62
. TVDB, 62.

63
. Schellenberg,
Memoirs
, 309–20.

64
. Alexander Dallin and Ralph S. Mavrogordato, “Rodionov: A Case-Study in Wartime Redefection,”
The American Slavic and East European Review
1 (1959), 25–33.

65
. PRO, HW16/13, file covering the reaction to the bomb plot, July 20, 1944.

66
. Hans-Peter Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform: Schicksal und Widerstand der deutschen politischen KZ-Häftlinge, Zuchthaus-und Wehrmachtstrafgefangenen in der SS-Sonderformation Dirlewanger
(Bremen: Edition Temmen, 1993); French MacLean,
The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, Hitler’s Most Notorious Anti-partisan
(Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Military History, 1998).

67
. MacLean,
The Cruel Hunters
, 42.

68
. Ibid.

69
.
Table Talk
, 682.

70
. NARA, RG242, BDC A3343-OSS-139B, Otto Skorzeny, correspondence Himmler and Bender April–June 1944.

71
. Ibid, letter, Bender to Himmler, May 13, 1944.

72
. Ibid, letter, Bender to Himmler, April 22, 1944.

73
. Ibid, letter, Bender to Himmler, May 13, 1944.

74
. Stein, Waffen-SS: Hitler’s Elite Guard at War, 291.

75
. Wegner,
The Waffen SS
, 3.

76
. NARA, RG242, T175/135/149539, SS-Führungshauptamt, Verzeichnis der zuständigen Ersatztruppenteile der Waffen-SS.

77
. NCA, document 1972-PS, Intermediate report on the civilian state of emergency.

78
. NARA, RG319, IRR, investigation of Wilhelm Bittrich, 1945–54.

79
. NARA, RG242, T175/9/2511009-53, various battalions’ correspondence, January–July 1944.

80
. NCA, document L-221, July 1941. Translator’s italics.

81
. PRO, HW16-100, Waffen SS decode reports, Q.18, November 13, 1943; and PRO, WO208-4359, History of the Waffen-SS division: MI.14 notes on the composition and history of the SS divisions.

82
. PRO, WO208-4359, History of the Waffen-SS division: MI.14 notes on the composition and history of the SS divisions. The reports were based upon the interrogations of captured Waffen-SS men.

83
. Tessin et al.,
Waffen-SS und Ordnungspolizei
, 557.

84
. BA R19/103, Schnellbrief, Daluege, Betr. Zusammenfassung der Polizei bzw Res Polizei Bataillon zu Polizei Regimentern und Bestimmung neuer Heimatstandorte, July 9, 1942.

85
. PRO, HW16/6, MSGP 37, August 11, 1942.

86
. NARA, RG242, T175/3/2503430-2, Dienstbesprechung der Befehlshaber und Inspekteure der Ordnungspolizei im Januar 1943 in Berlin.

87
. Tessin et al.,
Waffen-SS und Ordnungspolizei
, 652.

88
. BA R19/94 Rechnung Schutzpolizei, 1944.

89
. BA R19/103, Schnellbrief, Winkelmann, Betr. Neuaufstellung der SS Polizei-Regimenter 14, 15, 26 and Todt, April 6, 1943.

90
. BA R19/111, 23 November 1943, CdO, Schnellbrief, Betr. Aufstellung des Polizei-Schütz Regiments 37.

91
. BA, R19/331, Polizei Panzer Ersatz Abteilung Wien, August 23, 1944. See also Ruggenberg.

92
. NARA, RG242, T175/199/2740020-60, formation of the Police Battalion 311.

93
. Ibid, Schnellbrief: Aufstellung von Polizei-Wach-Bataillon, CdO, September 9, 1942.

94
. BA R19/91, report on manpower wastages in the Verwaltungspolizei, Sicherheitspolizei and Schutzpolizei, September 17, 1942.

95
. NARA, RG242, T175/3/2503379-416, Dienstbesprechung der Befehlshaber und Inspekteure der Ordnungspolizei im Januar 1943, in Berlin. Bericht des Chefs der Ordnungspolizei, über den Kräfte-und Kriegseinsatz der Ordnungspolizei im Kriegsjahre 1942.

96
. Tessin et al.,
Waffen-SS und Ordnungspolizei
, 652–3.

97
. Ibid., 652–3.

98
. NARA, RG242, T175/9/2511009-53, various battalions” correspondence, January -July 1944.

99
. Michael O. Logusz,
Galicia Division: The Waffen-SS 14th Grenadier Division 1943–1945
(Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Military History, 1997), 52–6.

100
. Ibid., 56–9

101
. PRO, WO208-4359, History of the Waffen-SS division: MI.14 notes on the composition and history of the SS divisions.

102
. NARA, RG242, T175/222/2759241–9715, SS order, June 21, 1943.

103
. NCA, document 498-PS, Hitler’s Commando order, October 18, 1942.

104
. NCA, documents 503-PS Hitler’s statement on the changing nature of the war.

105
. The 1944 regulations.

106
. Bartov,
Hitler’s Army
, 59–105.

107
. CMH, SHAEF G2 Reports, “The Allgemeine-SS,” Annexe L Hauptamt SS Gericht, 1945.

108
. NARA, RG242, BDC, A3343-SS0-023, Bach-Zelewski, letter to Kurt Daluege, January 8, 1943; and IWM, RFSS papers, Chef des Generalstabes des Heeres, Auszug: aus einem Bericht des Ia der 365 JD über die Kämpfe bei der 8. italienischen Armee, March 23, 1943.

109
. TVDB, 73, although Daluege maintained a missing person file on him until June 1943.

110
. NARA, RG242, BDC, A3343-SS0-023, Bach-Zelewski, letter to Kurt Daluege, January 8, 1943.

111
. IWM, Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer, “Himmler papers”, letter of May 6, 1943.

112
. IWM, Himmler papers, list of surviving and dead officers of the 14th SS-Police Regiment issued through the Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei (June 17, 1943).

113
. PRO, HW16/6, MSGP 52, a new 14th SS-Polizei Regiment was recreated out of Police Regiment Griese, December 12, 1943. Oberst der Ordnungspolizei Griese should not be confused with Oberst der Kolonialpolizei Karl Gaisser.

114
. PRO, HW16/6, MSGP 40, November 9, 1942.

115
. PRO, HW16/6, MSGP 44, April 8, 1943.

116
. Buchrucker,
Schwarze Reichswehr
, 32.

117
. TVDB, 80.

118
. Logusz,
Galicia Division
, 403–11.

119
. George Lepre,
Himmler’s Bosnian Division: The Waffen-SS Handschar Division, 1943–1945
(Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Military History, 1997), 81–108.

120
. TVDB, 71–2.

121
. TVDB, 65.

122
. NCA, document 705-PS, Minutes of the conference (January 12, 1943).

123
. NCA, document PS-204, this document became a subject of a major disagreement between Bach-Zelewski and Fritz Sauckel, the latter attempting to disguise his control of labor round-up operations.

124
. BA, NS/19/3717, Keitel, Betr. Unterbringung von Zivilbevölkerung, July 24, 1943.

125
. NARA, RG242, T354, roll 650, Gewinnung von Arbeitskräften fur die deutsche Rüstungs-und Ernährungswirtschaft bei der Bandenbekämpfung, RFSS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei - Der Chef der Bandenkampf-Verbände, September 1, 1943.

126
. BA MA, RW41/60, Field Marshal Busch, Obkdo.H.Gr.Mitte, Ia Nr.15 598/43 g.Kdos, December 1943.

1
. DZWK, 1192.

2
. Liulevicius,
War Land on the Eastern Front
, described how in the First World War the Germans had caused hardship for the indigenous population, 207–9; Hannes Heer,
Tote Zonen: Die Deutsche Wehrmacht an der Ostfront
(Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 1999), refers to the killing fields in the east, 11–40; whereas Gerlach,
Kalkulierte Morde
, explained how the Eastern Front was transformed into a desert of people and economy, while in “German Economic Interests, Occupation Policy, and the Murder of the Jews in Belorussia,” in Ulrich Herbert (ed.),
National Socialist Extermination Policies: Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies
(Oxford: Berghahn, 2000), he reinforced his argument by summarizing that “Economic interests and crises were far more important influences on the tempo of the liquidation of the Jews,” 227.

3
. Terry, “The German Army Group Centre and the Soviet Civilian Population, 1942–1944,” entwines Soviet and German history in his study of the Army Group Centre occupation zone to explain his view of the economic geography of a region under occupation. He suitably described this as “The Quartermasters’ State,” implying that the quartermaster of the army group was all powerful, 36–57.

4
. PRO, HW16/6, 43, February 6–March 6, 1943.