Killing Hitler (54 page)

¹⁰⁷
Barry Leach, “Halder,” in Barnett, op. cit., p. 105.

¹⁰⁸
Gisevius, op. cit., p. 326.

¹⁰⁹
Kordt, op. cit., p. 375.

¹¹⁰
Deutsch, op. cit., p. 41.

¹¹¹
Theodore Hamerow,
On the Road to the Wolf’s Lair
(Cambridge, MA, 1999), p. 239.

¹¹²
Fest, op. cit., p. 98.

¹¹³
Hoffmann, op. cit., p. 89.

¹¹⁴
General Georg Thomas quoted in Hamerow, op. cit., p. 243.

¹¹⁵
Spitzy, op. cit., p. 302.

¹¹⁶
Witzleben quoted in Parssinen, op. cit., p. 167.

¹¹⁷
Brissaud, op. cit., p. 89.

¹¹⁸
Parssinen, op. cit., p. 100.

¹¹⁹
Höhne, op. cit., p. 556.

¹²⁰
Christabel Bielenberg,
The Past Is Myself
(London, 1968), p. 79.

¹²¹
Walter Schellenberg,
Schellenberg
(London, 1969), pp. 150–51.

¹²²
Ibid., p. 159.

¹²³
Ibid., pp. 160–61.

¹²⁴
Brissaud, op. cit., pp. 325–26.

¹²⁵
Ibid., p. 326.

¹²⁶
Höhne, op. cit., p. 583.

¹²⁷
Ibid., p. 595.

¹²⁸
Ibid.

Chapter 4

¹
Jan Szalewski quoted in Stanisław Majewski, “Zamach na Hitlera pod Starog-ardem,” in
Litery
(Gdańsk, 1962), No. 3, p. 6.

²
See, for instance, William Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
(London, 1964), p. 653.

³
Text quoted at
http://www.mdr.de/viaeuropa/themen/377134.html
.

⁴
See Jürgen Runzheimer, “Der Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz im Jahre 1939,” in
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
(hereafter
VfZ)
, Vol. X, 1962, pp. 408–26; see also Alfred Naujocks’s deposition at Nuremberg, dated 20 November 1945.

⁵
Henric Wuermeling,
August ’39
(Berlin, 1989), p. 21.

⁶
Jarosław Tuliszka,
Westerplatte 1926–1939. Dzieje wojskowej składnicy tranzy-towej w Wolnym Mieście Gdańsku
(Toruń, 2002), p. 151.

⁷
Max Domarus,
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–1945
, Vol. III (London, 1997), p. 1754.

⁸
Charles Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
(Princeton, 1990 edition), p. 40.

⁹
Quoted in Polish Ministry of Information,
The German Invasion of Poland: Polish Black Book
(London, 1940), p. 134.

¹⁰
See Andrzej Suchcitz, “Poland’s Defence Preparations in 1939,” in Peter Stachura (ed.),
Poland Between the Wars 1918–1939
(Basingstoke, 1998), pp. 109–32.

¹¹
See, for instance, Wesley Adamczyk,
When God Looked the Other Way
(Chicago, 2004).

¹²
From “Dąbrowski’s Mazurka,” which became the Polish national anthem in 1926; quoted in Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse,
Microcosm
(London, 2002), pp. 240–41.

¹³
Norman Davies,
God’s Playground: A History of Poland
(Oxford, 1981), pp. 36, 41.

¹⁴
See Davies and Moorhouse, op. cit., p. 336.

¹⁵
John Connelly, “Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice,” in
Central European History
, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 1–33.

¹⁶
The Goebbels Diaries, 1939–1941, trans. F. Taylor (London, 1984), p. 16.

¹⁷
Norman Davies,
Rising ’44
(London, 2003), p. 90.

¹⁸
Michał Grynberg (ed.),
Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto
(London, 2003), p. 29.

¹⁹
Richard Lukas,
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939–1944
, revised edition (New York, 2001), p. 9.

²⁰
Quoted in ibid., p. 33.

²¹
Roman Frister,
The Cap: The Price of a Life
(London, 1999), p. 9.

²²
Lukas, op. cit., p. 34.

²³
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski,
The Secret Army
(London, 1950), p. 22.

²⁴
Lukas, op. cit., p. 35.

²⁵
Ibid., p. 36.

²⁶
Quoted in Joachim Fest,
The Face of ’the Third Reich
(London, 1970), p. 325.

²⁷
Quoted in Davies,
Rising
, p. 86.

²⁸
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., p. 38.

²⁹
Włodzimierz Borodziej,
Terror und Politik
(Mainz, 1999), p. 174.

³⁰
See K. S. Rudnicki,
The Last of the War Horses
(London, 1974), p. 103. Also Wolfgang Jacobmeyer, “Henryk Dobrzański [“Hubal”]—Ein biographischer Beitrag zu den Anfängen der polnischen Résistance im Zweiten Weltkrieg,” in
VfZ
, Vol. XX, 1972, pp. 65–74.

³¹
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., p. 22.

³²
Marek Ney-Krwawicz,
The Polish Home Army 1939–1945
(London, 2001), p. 2.

³³
Ibid., p. 27.

³⁴
See, for instance, Jan Karski,
Story of a Secret State
(Boston, 1944), or Stefan Korboński,
The Polish Underground State
(Boulder, 1978).

³⁵
See Appendix 35 in Davies,
Rising.

³⁶
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., p. 28.

³⁷
Jozef Garlinski,
Poland, SOE and the Allies
(London, 1969), p. 31.

³⁸
National Archives (London), T 160/1412, ref. C/8297, 10 December 1941, Menzies to Herbert Brittain (Treasury).

³⁹
See Martin Middlebrook,
The Peenemünde Raid
(London, 1982).

⁴⁰
Garlinski, op. cit., pp. 150–54.

⁴¹
Ben Pimlott (ed.),
The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton
(London, 1985), p. 67.

⁴²
M. R. D. Foot,
SOE: The Special Operations Executive, 1940–1946
(London, 1984), p. 191.

⁴³
See, for instance, E. T. Wood,
Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
(London, 1994).

⁴⁴
Ney-Krwawicz, op. cit., p. 36.

⁴⁵
Bohdan Kwiatkowski,
Sabotaz i Dywersja
(London, 1949), Vol. 1, p. 21.

⁴⁶
Lukas, op. cit., p. 49.

⁴⁷
Ney-Krwawicz, op. cit., p. 51.

⁴⁸
Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
(New York, 2000 edition), pp. 150–51.

⁴⁹
Kwiatkowski, op. cit., p. 21.

⁵⁰
Ney-Krwawicz, op. cit., p. 48.

⁵¹
Studium Polski Podziemnej Archive (hereafter SPP), ref: 3.6.3.3.13/1, 2, and 3.

⁵²
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., pp. 115–16.

⁵³
Lukas, op. cit., p. 92.

⁵⁴
Ibid., p. 91.

⁵⁵
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., p. 152.

⁵⁶
Borodziej, op. cit., p. 53.

⁵⁷
Kwiatkowski, op. cit., p. 21.

⁵⁸
See, for example, the file compiled for the failed attack on SS
Obergruppen-führer
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, SPP, ref: BI.9/71.

⁵⁹
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., p. 155.

⁶⁰
Placard reproduced at
http://wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/∼whatfor/specjalna_oper-acja_bojowa_kutsch.htm
.

⁶¹
Halina Czarnocka (ed.),
Armia Krajowa w Dokumentach 1939–1945
, Vol. I (London, 1970), p. 220.

⁶²
On the Forster assassination attempt, see “Próba zamachu na kata Pomorze,” in
Gdański Przekaz
, No. 5, 2000, pp. 9–10.

⁶³
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., p. 114.

⁶⁴
Bundesarchiv, Berlin [hereafter BA], ref: NS19/2653.

⁶⁵
BA ref: NS19/2653, Europapress report, 10 May 1943.

⁶⁶
Stanisęaw Okecki,
Polish Resistance Movement in Poland and Abroad 1939–1945
(Warsaw, 1987), p. 95.

⁶⁷
Quoted in Lukas, op. cit., p. 91.

⁶⁸
Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., p. 156.

⁶⁹
On the Kutschera attack, see Bór-Komorowski, op. cit., pp. 156–60, and Tomasz Strzembosz,
Akcje zbronje podziemnej Warszawy, 1939–44
(Warsaw, 1979), pp. 312–27.

⁷⁰
Quoted in Davies,
Rising
, p. 198.

⁷¹
Quoted in Waclaw Długoborski, “Die deutsche Besatzungspolitik gegenüber Polen,” in K. D. Bracher, M. Funke, and H-A. Jacobsen (eds.),
Nationalsozialistische Diktatur 1933–1945
(Bonn, 1983), p. 579.

⁷²
Hans Frank quoted in Norman Rich,
Hitler’s War Aims
, Vol. II (London, 1974), p. 96.

⁷³
Czesław Madajczyk,
Die Okkupationspolitik Nazideutschlands in Polen, 1939–1945
(Cologne, 1988), p. 131. Goebbels’s support for Frank is expressed in L. Lochner (trans. and ed.),
The Goebbels Diaries
(London, 1948), pp. 313–14, entry for 25 May 1943.