Masters of Death (54 page)

71
Strasser on Himmler:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 80.
“after Hitler”:
Schellenberg (1956), p. 52.
“small, cold eyes”:
Schellenberg (1956), p. 295.
“laughably pushing”:
George Hallgarten, quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 20.
“the heavy furniture”:
Manvell and Fraenkel (1965), p. 1.
“took every precaution”:
Smith (1971), p. 25.

72
“caricature of a sadistic school-teacher”:
Heiden (1944), p. 244.
“already wearing gold-rimmed glasses”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 24.
“The boy’s enthusiasm”:
Smith (1971), pp. 41–42.
Chauffeur incident:
Padfield (1990), p. 138.

73
“a strict schoolmaster”:
quoted in Reitlinger (1957), p. 15.
“In the upper classes”:
Ende (1979/80), pp. 252, 256.
“In contrast with pedagogical theory”:
Maynes (1996), pp. 152–53.
Suicide studies:
Baartman (1994), pp. 853–54.

74
“He was unsettled”:
Smith (1971), pp. 59–60.

74
Poetry:
Smith (1971), pp. 62–63.

75
“If there is another campaign”:
quoted in Höhne (1969), p. 37.
“Securing German expansion”:
Bramwell (1985), p. 132.

76
“What we wanted”:
Salomon (1930), p. 65.

77
“For whom I work”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 13. That this is the first entry re Himmler’s emigration plans is confirmed in Angress and Smith (1959), p. 210, n. 15.
“Today I have”:
Smith (1971), p. 78.
“In his relations with people”:
Smith (1971), pp. 79–80.

78
“Unlike other one-on-one”:
McAleer (1994), p. 141.
Early modern Europe:
for an extended discussion of these developments, cf. Elias (1994/1939).
“insults” to the state:
McAleer (1994), p. 29.

79
“He was concerned”:
Smith (1971), p. 87.
“Only very gradually”:
Smith (1971), p. 88.

80
“He was not very popular”:
Smith (1971), p. 113.
“stop talking”:
quoted in Smith (1971), p. 117.
“special assignments”:
quoted in Smith (1971), p. 126.

81
“Toward the authorities”:
Smith (1971), p. 137.

82
“anti-Semitic and
völkisch
”:
Smith (1971), p. 141.
Himmler’s sexuality and spiritualism:
Smith (1971), pp. 143–45.
Himmler’s 1924 memo:
quoted in Höhne (1969), p. 46.

83
“I told myself”:
quoted in Höhne (1969), p. 23.
“almost completely Jewish”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 90.
caste of noble warriors:
cf. Padfield (1990), p. 90; Smith (1971), p. 170.
“For [Hitler] I could do anything”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 99.

84
“Size 50 knickers”:
quoted in Höhne (1969), p. 164.
“From 1929 onwards”:
Höhne (1969), p. 56.

85
“For us, standing sublime”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 101.
“It remains the great”:
quoted in Frischauer (1953), p. 32.
More than fifty thousand men:
Fest (1970), p. 122.
Sixty thousand, “combing out”:
Höhne (1969), p. 144; quoting Himmler, Reitlinger (1957), pp. 72–73.
“like a nursery gardener”:
quoted in Höhne (1969), p. 52.

86
“The assurances given”:
Trotsky (1933), pp. 71–73.
“We propose to build”:
Calic (1971), pp. 72–81.

6 TRUEHEARTED HEINRICH II

88
“Through the door”:
Gisevius (1947), p. 152.

89
“Strasser had been taken”:
Gisevius (1947), p. 158.
“a piece of theatricality”:
Gisevius (1947), p. 160.
“From one of his pockets”:
Gisevius (1947), p. 161.

90
“Every time I face him”:
quoted in Fest (1970), p. 75.

90
Röhm’s murder:
Kershaw (1998), p. 516.
“For us as Secret State Police”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), pp. 162–63.

91
“People abroad take us”:
quoted in Höhne (1969), p. 166.
“I know that there are people”:
quoted in IMT 4, p. 230.
“From the purely territorial”:
Hitler (1927), p. 644.

92
“The National Socialist movement”:
Hitler (1927), p. 646.
Table-talk discussion:
Hitler (1953), pp. 28–29.
“In this debate”:
Lindqvist (1992), p. 10.
German-Herero war:
see Gewald (1999).
“annihilate these masses”:
quoted in Gewald (1999), p. 171.
Vernichtungsbefehl:
Gewald (1999), pp. 172–73.

93
“I find it most appropriate”:
Gewald (1999), p. 173.
“The exercise of violence”:
Gewald (1999), p. 174.
“When the rainy season came”:
Lindqvist (1992), p. 149.
“We’ll have to screen”:
Hitler (1953), pp. 56–57.
“The forces which are working”:
quoted in Lindqvist (1992), p. 8.

94
“just as the weeds”:
quoted in Lindqvist (1992), p. 132.
“the theory that this dying out”:
quoted in Lindqvist (1992), p. 144.
“Those with little culture”:
Lindqvist (1992), p. 145.
“the stunted hunting people”:
quoted in Lindqvist (1992), p. 145.
“But it is a mistake”:
Lindqvist (1992), p. 146.

95
“For Germany, consequently”:
Hitler (1927), p. 139.
“the mightiest counterpart”:
Hitler (1927), p. 308, p. 65.
“The usual interpretation”:
Friedlander (1994a), p. 496.

96
“a) The attack of an SS troop”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 248.
“We must be clear”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 289.
“I can say to them”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), p. 290.

97
“We as a
Volk
”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), pp. 223–24.
“These forces”:
quoted in Padfield (1990), pp. 238–39.

98
“And there is one thing”:
quoted in Krausnik et al. (1968), pp. 44–45, and Gerlach (1998), p. 784.
“Jews, Polacks and rabble”:
quoted in Browning (2OOO), p. 7.
“He suggested to commander-in-chief”:
Hilberg (1985), p. 252.
Himmler’s May 1940 memorandum:
reproduced in German with a preface and Himmler’s note in Himmler (1940). Translated by Michael Schmelzle.
“It is much more correct”:
Picker (1976), p. 340.

101
“An unfavorable comment”:
Kersten (1957), pp. 300–301.
“Fate gave him a position”:
Kersten (1957), p. 306.

102
“exhausted and twisted”:
Kersten (1957), p. 174.
His worst attack:
cf. Kersten (1957), p. 267.
“a fading option”:
Breitman, p. 78, in Cesarani (1994).
Eichmann report:
cited in Browning (2000), p. 19.
“Jewish emigration”:
quoted in Browning (2000), p. 19.
“In conformity with the will”:
quoted in Browning (2000), p. 20.

103 Brack and X rays: discussed in Browning (2000), p. 21.

103
“The documentation for this last plan”:
Browning (2000), p. 21.

104
“We must lay the foundations”:
Kersten (1957), p. 71.

7 EXTERMINATION

105
“Lenin left us”:
quoted in Volkogonov (1991), p. 409.
Stalin 3 July 1941 speech:
quoted in Werth (1964), p. 162ff.

106 Hitler 16 July 1941 conference: 221-L, IMT vol. 38, pp. 86–94; IMT vol. 4, pp. 10–11.
Hitler to Kvaternik:
quoted in Kershaw (2000), p. 470.

107
Globocnik biography:
cf. Pucher (1997), Höss (1992), p. 253ff; Reitlinger (1987), p. 245ff.
“a pompous ass”:
Höss (1992), p. 253.

108
“He made such a mess”:
Höss (1992), p. 256.
Globocnik antitank ditch:
Pucher (1997), p. 83.
“So we came finally”:
quoted in Pucher (1997), p. 71.
“promised Himmler”:
Höss (1992), pp. 255–56.

109
“major settlement area”:
quoted in Pucher (1997), p. 94.
“Himmler authorized Globocnik”:
Breitman (1991), p. 186.
“He acted incredibly important”:
Höss (1992), p. 253.

110
“They deliberately”:
IMT, vol. 4, p. 4.
“a studied plan”:
IMT, vol. 4, p. 9.
“many tens of millions”:
quoted in IMT, vol. 4, p. 9.
“was replaced in the fall”:
Gerlach (1998), p. 812.
Breitman dates Höss meeting:
Breitman (1991), p. 189.
As Höss recalled:
Höss (1992), p. 27ff.

111
“if the historian”:
Browning in Cesarani (1994), p. 139.
“I need these units”:
quoted in Büchler (1989), p. 459.
Himmler’s private army:
Büchler (1989), p. 460.
“combing the Pripet marshes”:
quoted in Büchler (1989), p. 460.
“Express order”:
quoted in Breitman (1998), p. 60.

112
23 July 1941 Order Police transfers:
Browning in Cesarani (1994), p. 140.
“from the reliable non-Communist”:
quoted in Breitman (1998), p. 52.
more than 33,000 men by the end of 1941:
Browning (1992), p. 106.
Prützmann’s parties:
cf. Bach-Zelewski (1946).
“Not what you think”:
IMT 3839-PS.
Final Solution needed legal order:
cf. Krausnik et al. (1968), p. 176.
Eichmann drafted the order:
Kershaw (2000), p. 471.
“Complementing the task”:
quoted in Breitman (1991), pp. 192–93.

113
“Then the question arose”:
quoted in Fleming (1984), p. 57.
“I believe that it is very simple”:
Ohlendorf testimony, EG Trial Tr., p. 661.
Police Battalion 45:
Browning (1992), p. 107ff.