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44
   Jansen and Weckbecker,
Der ‘Volksdeutsche Selbstschutz’,
83–93.
45
   Ibid., 117–19.
46
   Ibid., 83–5: Oberstabsarzt Dr Wilhelm Möller to Hitler, 9 Oct. 1939; Engel,
Heeresadjutant bei Hitler,
68: 18 Nov. 1939, also in Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik,
41; Blaskowitz, notes for speech to Wehrmacht commanders on 15 Feb. 1940, in Jacobsen and Jochmann (eds),
Ausgewählte Dokumente zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus,
II; Clark, ‘Johannes Blaskowitz’, in Smelser and Syring (eds),
Die Militärelite des dritten Reiches,
28–50; Giziowski,
Enigma of General Blaskowitz;
Hürter,
Hitlers Heerführer,
184ff.; occupation forces, see Madajczyk,
Okkupationspolitik Nazideutschlands in Polen,
239–40.
47
   Hlond (ed.),
The Persecution of the Catholic Church in German-occupied Poland;
Blet,
Pius XII and the Second World War,
89–90; Brodie, ‘For Christ and Germany’, 47–51;
MadR,
555–6: 11 Dec. 1939; Körner, ‘Katholische Kirche und polnische Zwangsarbeiter’, 131–2.
48
   Hosenfeld,
‘Ich versuche jeden zu retten’,
286: 10 Nov. 1939.
49
   Ibid.
50
   Böll,
Briefe aus dem Krieg,
1, 78–9, and 62: to parents and sisters, 16 July and 2 May 1940; Defalque and Wright, ‘Methamphetamine for Hitler’s Germany’.
51
VB,
13 and 18 Aug. 1939; on the Wehrmacht Untersuchungsstelle, see forthcoming Oxford doctoral research of Jacques Schuhmacher, ‘Nazi Germany and the Morality of War’; de Zayas,
Die Wehrmacht-Untersuchungsstelle,
is an entirely uncritical and tendentious selection from this source.
52
   Bergen, ‘Instrumentalization of “Volksdeutschen” in German propaganda in 1939’.
53
   Auswärtiges Amt (ed.),
Dokumente polnischer Grausamkeit,
Berlin, 1939 and (2nd edn) 1940, 7;
VB,
11 and 16 Feb. 1940;
MadR,
5145: 19 April 1943; Schuhmacher, ‘Nazi Germany’, chapter 1.
54
Der Feldzug in Polen,
1940;
Feuertaufe – Der Film vom Einsatz unserer Luftwaffe in Polen,
1940;
Feinde,
Viktor Tourjansky, 1940;
Heimkehr,
Gustav Ucicky, 1941; Kundrus, ‘Totale Unterhaltung?’, 125; Trimmel,
Heimkehr;
Fox,
Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany.
55
   Evangelisches Zentralarchiv Berlin, 2877,
Gesetzblatt der Deutschen Evangelischen Kirche,
Berlin, 28 Sept. and 9 Nov. 1939.
56
Sopade
1939, 6, 980.
57
   Shirer,
Berlin Diary,
185–6: 6 Oct. 1939; Kershaw,
Hitler,
2, 238–9; 265–6; Domarus (ed.),
Hitler,
1377–94.
58
   Shirer,
Berlin Diary,
185–6: 6 Oct. 1939.
59
MadR,
339–40 and 347–8: 11 and 13 Oct. 1939; Shirer,
Berlin Diary,
189: 15 Oct. 1939.
60
MadR,
382: 23 Oct 1939.
61
   Hartmann,
Halder,
162; Martin,
Friedensinitiativen und Machtpolitik im Zweiten Weltkrieg,
82ff.
62
   Strobl,
The Swastika and the Stage,
170–98; Goebbels, radio broadcast, 1 April 1933, in Hippel (ed.),
Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit?,
344–5. The cast included Bernhard Minetti (Robespierre), Gustav Knuth (Danton), Gründgens himself (St Just), Marianne Hoppe (Lucile Duplessis), Kitty Stengel (Julie Danton) and Maria Koppenhöfer (Marion); sets were by Traugott Müller. Reviews: Hermann Pirich,
Der Angriff,
11 Dec. 1939; Bruno Werner, DAZ, 9 Dec. 1939; Franz Köppen,
Berliner Börsenzeitung,
11 Dec. 1939; also Strobl,
The Swastika and the Stage,
192.
63
   Georg Büchner,
Dantons Tod,
Act III, sc. ix: Danton; Act IV, sc. ix: Lucile Duplessis.
64
   Strobl,
The Swastika and the Stage,
192.
2
Closing Ranks
1
   Orlowski and Schneider (eds),
‘Erschießen will ich nicht!’,
38–9: 5 Sept. 1939; Lange and Burkard (eds),
‘Abends wenn wir essen fehlt uns immer einer’,
22–3; letters, 13 and 22 Sept. 1939.
2
   Kleindienst (ed.),
Sei tausendmal gegrüßt:
Bernhard Guicking to Ernst, 12 Sept. and 18 Dec. 1939; Brodie, ‘For Christ and Germany’, 272: Bishop of Fulda, 12 Oct. 1939;
MadR,
438–41: 8 Nov. 1939.
3
   Wildt,
‘Volksgemeinschaft’,
and Herbert, ‘Echoes of the
Volksgemeinschaft’,
both in Steber and Gotto (eds),
Visions of Community in Nazi Germany,
43–69.
4
   Winter and Robert (eds),
Capital Cities at War,
487–523; Offer,
The First World War;
Cox, ‘Hunger Games’,
Economic History Review,
Sept. 2014: doi: 10.1111/ehr.12070; Collingham,
The Taste of War,
18–32.
5
   Kleindienst (ed.),
Sei tausendmal gegrüßt:
Irene to Ernst, 5 and 28 Sept. 1939.
6
   Werner,
‘Bleib übrig’,
51–4; Kleindienst (ed.),
Sei tausendmal gegrüßt:
Irene Reitz to Ernst Guicking, 24 Sept. 1939.
7
MadR,
377–9: 20 Oct. 1939; Berth,
Biografien und Netzwerke im Kaffeehandel.
8
   Tooze,
The Wages of Destruction,
353–4; Corni and Gies,
Brot – Butter – Kanonen,
556–7; Kleindienst (ed.),
Sei tausendmal gegrüßt:
Irene to Ernst Guicking, 31 Oct. 1939.
9
MadR,
353–4, 370, 378–9, and 436: 13, 18 and 20 Oct. 1939 and 8 Nov. 1939; Keil,
Erlebnisse eines Sozialdemokraten,
2, 558.
10
   Werner,
‘Bleib übrig’,
129;
Sopade,
1939, 6, 978; Steinert,
Hitlers Krieg und die Deutschen,
110–21;
MadR,
580–1: 15 Dec. 1939.
11
Sopade,
1939, 6, 979–80: Grohé was Gauleiter of Cologne and Aachen from 1931 to 1945.
MadR,
421: 6 Nov. 1939.
12
   Strauss, ‘Jewish emigration from Germany’, 317–18 and 326–7; Kaplan,
Between Dignity and Despair,
118, 132 and 150–5; Rosenstrauch (ed.),
Aus Nachbarn wurden Juden,
118; Klepper,
Unter dem Schatten deiner Flügel,
794–5: 28 Aug. 1939; Herbert,
Hitler’s Foreign Workers,
88–94.
13
   Corni and Gies,
Brot – Butter – Kanonen,
555–7; Werner,
‘Bleib übrig’,
134, 126–7 and 198–9;
MadR,
2, 354 and 424: 13 Oct. and 6 Nov. 1939; Kundrus,
Kriegerfrauen,
279–81 on
Familienunterhalt,
and the Interior Ministry’s determination that state subsidies should not replace private earnings.
14
   Werner,
‘Bleib übrig’,
128–36.
15
   Ibid., 127–8.
16
MadR,
363 and 384: 16 and 23 Oct. 1939; Mason,
Arbeiterklasse und Volksgemeinschaft,
980–1234; Mason,
Social Policy in the Third Reich,
ed. Caplan, 345–6.
17
   Werner,
‘Bleib übrig’,
53–4; Steinert,
Hitlers Krieg und die Deutschen,
120; Shirer,
Berlin Diary,
219: 9 and 11 Jan. 1940; at the same time, he broadcast that the crisis was easing: Shirer,
This is Berlin,
182–3.
18
   Werner,
‘Bleib übrig’,
54–5 and 129: Hess forbade this practice, 17 Feb. 1940.
19
   Steinert,
Hitlers Krieg und die Deutschen,
121;
MadR,
357: 16 Oct. 1939;
Sopade,
1939, 6, 983: report from south-west Germany.
20
MadR,
416: 3 Nov. 1939.
21
   Bock,
Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus
; Weindling,
Health, Race, and German Politics;
Usbourne,
The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany;
Kühl,
The Nazi Connection.
For a comparative context, see Mahood,
Policing Gender, Class and Family;
Abrams,
Orphan Country,
Fishman,
The Battle for Children;
Mennel,
Thorns and Thistles;
Ceretti,
Come pensa il Tribunale per i minorenni;
Wachsmann,
Hitler’s Prisons,
364–9. On the Barnardo’s homes and migration to Australia and Canada, see Coldrey,
Child Migration;
Dunae, ‘Gender, generations and social class’, in Lawrence and Starkey (eds),
Child Welfare and Social Action;
on racist policies in Australia and the United States, see Haskins and Jacobs, ‘Stolen generations and vanishing Indians’, in Marten (ed.),
Children and War,
227–41; Haebich, ‘Between knowing and not knowing’, 70–90.
22
   See Stargardt,
Witnesses of War,
chapter 2; Dickinson,
The Politics of German Child Welfare,
213–14; Hansen,
Wohlfahrtspolititk im NS-Staat,
245.
23
   Ayass,
Das Arbeitshaus Breitenau,
162–9.
24
   LWV 2/8253 Ronald H., Weimar Amtsgericht, 10 Mar. 1942.
25
   LWV 2/8868, Anni N., 8–9, Kriminalpolizeibericht, 31 July 1940; Jugendamt Apolda, 13 Oct. 1941.
26
   LWV 2/8868, Anni N., 30: Direktor Breitenau to Jugendamt Apolda, 24 Feb. 1942; LWV 2/9565, Liselotte W., Hausstrafen, 3; LWV 2/9009, Waltraud P., d. 12 Sept. 1942: 57–8; LWV 2/8029, Ruth F., d. 23 Oct. 1942; LWV 2/9163, Maria S., d. 7 Nov. 1943: 30 and 32; Liselotte S. in LWV Bücherei 1988/323, Ulla Fricke and Petra Zimmermann, ‘Weibliche Fürsorgeerziehung während des Faschismus – am Beispiel Breitenau’, MS, 86–7.
27
   LWV 2/9189, Lieselotte S., 16–19: letter to mother, 14 Jan. 1940.
28
   Winkler, ‘Frauenarbeit versus Frauenideologie’, 99–126; Westenrieder,
Deutsche Frauen und Mädchen!;
Bajohr,
Die Hälfte der Fabrik;
Sachse,
Siemens, der Nationalsozialismus und die moderne Familie;
Dörr,
‘Wer die Zeit nicht miterlebt hat’,
9–37 and 81–99; Kershaw,
Popular Opinion and Political Dissent,
297–302; Noakes (ed.),
Nazism,
4, 313–25 and 335–8.
29
   MfK–FA, 3.2002.0306, Fritz P. to family: 13 Sept. 1939.
30
   MfK–FA, 3.2002.0306, Fritz P. to family: 30 Nov. 1939.
31
   MfK–FA, 3.2002.0306, Fritz P. to family: 29 Sept. 1939.
32
   Ross,
Media and the Making of Modern Germany,
355–6;
MadR,
334: 9 Oct. 1939.
33
   Kris and Speier (eds),
German Radio Propaganda,
203–4 and 328: 4 Feb. 1940.
34
   Ross,
Media and the Making of Modern Germany,
331–7; Goebbels,
Goebbels Reden,
ed. Heiber, 94–5: 25 Mar. 1933.
35
   Kleindienst (ed.),
Sei tausendmal gegrüßt:
Irene to Ernst Guicking, 13 Oct. 1939.
36

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