Killing Hitler (52 page)
Authors: Roger Moorhouse
Tags: #History, #General, #Europe, #Western, #Germany
62
Hoffmann, in Mosse (ed.), op. cit., pp. 176–77.
63
Quoted in ibid., p. 183.
64
BA, R3017/110, Bavaud’s
Anklageschrift
, 20 November 1939, p. 9.
65
Ibid., pp. 20–21.
66
Michael Burleigh,
The Third Reich
(London, 2000), p. 265.
67
Anklageschrift
, op. cit., p. 24.
68
Ibid., p. 30.
69
Ibid., p. 31.
70
Ibid., p. 41.
71
See interview with Emil Reuter in Peter Spinatsch,
Maurice Bavaud—Geschichte und Wirkungsgeschichte
, at
http://www.maurice-bavaud.ch/symp.htm
.
72
See H. W. Koch,
Volksgerichthof
(Munich, 1988), p. 219.
73
Quoted by Hoffmann in Mosse (ed.), op. cit., p. 197.
74
See
Ehrenbuch der Opfer von Berlin-Plötzensee
(Berlin, 1974).
75
Quoted by Hoffmann in Mosse (ed.), op. cit., p. 182.
76
Quoted in Niklaus Meienberg,
Es ist kalt in Brandenburg
(Zürich, 1980), pp. 133–34.
77
Ibid., p. 46.
78
Ibid., pp. 46–47.
79
With thanks to Mr. Brian Baxter of the REME Museum, Berkshire, UK.
80
Rolf Hochhuth, “Tell 38,” in
Maurice Bavaud: Dokumentation zum 60.
Todestag
(Berne, 2001), p. 48.
81
Picker, op. cit., pp. 230, 247.
82
Ibid., p. 231.
83
BA R58/93–50.
84
Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 105.
Chapter 2
1
Bundesarchiv [hereafter BA], Elser Interrogation file, BA R3001/310/106.
2
Joseph Goebbels, Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei (Munich, 1934), p. 27.
3
Quoted in John Toland,
Hitler
(London, 1976), p. 298.
4
Rudolf Diels quoted in J. Noakes and G. Pridham (eds.),
Nazism 1919–45
, Vol. 1 (Exeter, 1983), p. 140.
5
Richard Grunberger,
A Social History of the Third Reich
(London, 1971), p. 82.
6
Ibid., p. 96.
7
Edward Crankshaw,
Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny
(London, 2002 edition), p. 91.
8
Quoted in ibid., p. 89.
9
Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showalter,
Voices from the Third Reich
(London, 1989), pp. 50–51.
10
Michael Burleigh,
The Third Reich
(London, 2000), p. 227.
11
Grunberger, op. cit., p. 255.
12
See the Web site of the Prora complex at
www.museum-prora.de
.
13
Burleigh, op. cit., p. 250.
14
Karl Dietrich Bracher,
The German Dictatorship
(London, 1971), p. 280.
15
Steinhoff et al., op. cit., p. 48.
16
Grunberger, op. cit., p. 350.
17
See Guido Knopp,
Hitler’s Children
(Stroud, 2002).
18
Joachim Fest,
The Face of the Third Reich
(London, 1979), p. 130.
19
Quoted in ibid., p. 147.
20
Ibid., p. 141.
21
Anthony Read,
The Devil’s Disciples
(London, 2003), p. 198.
22
Quoted in Ralf Georg Reuth,
Goebbels
(New York, 1993), p. 108.
23
Quoted in Read, op. cit., p. 295.
24
See Burleigh, op. cit., “Introduction.”
25
Quoted in Ulrich Herbert, “Good Times, Bad Times: Memories of the Third Reich,” in Richard Bessel (ed.),
Life in the Third Reich
(Oxford, 1987), p. 97.
26
On Elser see, for instance, Hellmut Haasis,
Den Hitler jag’ ich in die Luft
(Berlin, 1999); Anton Hoch, “Das Attentat auf Hitler im Münchner Bürgerbräukeller 1939,” in
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
, Vol. XVII (1969), pp. 383–413; and Lothar Gruchmann (ed.),
Autobiographie eines Attentäters. Johann Georg Elser
(Stuttgart, 1970).
27
Quoted in Haasis, op. cit., p. 164.
28
Quoted in Lothar Gruchmann and Anton Hoch,
Georg Elser: Der Attentäter aus dem Volke
(Frankfurt am Main, 1980), p. 89.
29
Ibid., p. 97.
30
BA R3001/310/91.
31
BA R3001/310/117.
32
BA R3001/310/123.
33
Hoch, op. cit., p. 400.
34
BA R3001/310/193.
35
BA R3001/310/150–53.
36
BA R3001/310/178.
37
BA R3001/310/184–85.
38
Nicolaus von Below,
At Hitler’s Side
(London, 2001), p. 42.
39
Haasis, op. cit., p. 10.
40
Max Domarus,
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–45
, Vol. III (London, 1997), pp. 1865–75.
41
Quoted in Haasis, op. cit., pp. 33–34.
42
Quoted in ibid., p. 33.
43
Quoted in Walter Schellenberg,
Schellenberg
(London, 1969), p. 41.
44
Quoted in Haasis, op. cit., pp. 24–25.
45
Toland, op. cit., p. 593.
46
Quoted in Heinz Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
(London, 1969), p. 288.
47
The British archival papers relating to the Venlo incident were released in 1995. They are held in FO371/23107/69 at the National Archives in London [hereafter NA].
48
See Schellenberg, op. cit., pp. 30–44.
49
See Sigismund Payne Best,
The Venlo Incident
(London, 1949).
50
Hans Gisevius,
To the Bitter End
(Cambridge, MA, 1947), p. 405.
51
Völkischer Beobachter
, 10 November 1939. “Die wunderbare Errettung des Führers—Chamberlains frommer Wunsch ging nicht in Erfüllung.”
52
Ian Kershaw,
Hitler: 1936–1945 Nemesis
(London, 2000), p. 275.
53
Burleigh, op. cit., p. 723.
54
Denis Mack Smith,
Mussolini
(London, 1981), p. 281.
55
BA file R43II/991.
56
BA R43II/903/105. Poem by Martha Hilgenfeld of Berlin-Steglitz.
57
NA GFM/33/1673/059585. Report from German legation in Berne, 10 November 1939.
58
NA GFM/33/1673/059593. Report from German consulate in Zürich, 14 November 1939.
59
NA GFM/33/804/2051. Report from German legation in Venezuela, 20 December 1939.
60
NA GFM/33/2372/384400. Report from German embassy in Washington, DC, 11 June 1940.
61
See BA file R43II/3465.
62
BA R58/93/52, Heydrich to all senior SS, SD, Gestapo, and Kripo personnel.
63
Hans Rothfels,
Die deutsche Opposition gegen Hitler
(Zürich, 1994), p. 111.
64
Quoted in Toland, op. cit., p. 593.
65
Gisevius, op. cit., p. 410.
66
Quoted in Toland, op. cit., p. 594.
67
Ibid., p. 591.
68
BA R58/93/86, Heydrich Memorandum, 9 March 1940.
69
See Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
(New York, 2000 edition), pp. 111–17.
70
Schellenberg, op. cit., p. 49.
71
Gisevius, op. cit., p. 407.
72
See, for example, Alan Bullock,
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
(London, 1962 edition), pp. 566–67; Peter Padfield,
Himmler
(London, 1990), p. 283.
73
Domarus, op. cit., pp. 1864–65.
74
Hoch, op. cit., p. 384.
75
Lothar Gruchmann and Anton Hoch.
76
Peter Steinbach and Johannes Tuchel, “Der Widerstandskämpfer und das Attentat vom 8. November 1939—Deutungen und Diffamierungen,” in
Frankfurter Rundschau
, 18 November 1999.
77
Haasis, op. cit., p. 234.
78
Peter Hoffmann,
The History of the German Resistance 1933–1945
(London, 1977), p. 258.
Chapter 3
1
“Hans Oster” in
Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol.
XIX (Berlin, 1998), p. 617.
2
Quoted in William Carr,
A History of Germany 1815–1945
, 3rd edition (London, 1987), pp. 263–64.
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