Berlin at War (80 page)

Deutschland-Berichte der Sopade, quoted in Hans Dieter Schäfer (ed.),
Berlin im
Zweiten Weltkrieg
, p. 83. •
33.
‘Night Brings Home War to Berliners’, op. cit., p. 11. •
34.
All the following details of the Ogorzow murders are from the 392

berlin at war

Kriminalpolizei files held at the LA-B, A.Pr.Br.Rep. 030-03 Tlt. 198B Nr.

1782–1789. The Ogorzow murders are covered in my article ‘The Nazi

Serial Killer’, in
BBC History Magazine
, May 2009. •
35.
See
Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger
, 6 November 1940, p. 5. •
36.
LA-B, A.Pr.Br.Rep. 030-03 Tlt. 198B

Nr. 1620, Tötungsdelikte, December 1940. •
37
. Horst Bosetzky,
Wie ein
Tier
(Berlin, 1995), p. 176. •
38.
LA-B, A.Pr.Br.Rep. 030-03 Tlt. 198B Nr. 1784, Abschrift, p. 6. •
39.
Kriminalrat Hans Lobbes quoted in
Der Spiegel
, 19 January 1950, p. 26. •
40.
Völkischer Beobachter
, 30 December 1940, p. 5.

•
41.
LA-B, A.Pr.Br.Rep. 030-03 Tlt. 198B Nr. 1788, Kripo report, 23 December 1940. •
42.
Ibid., Kripo report, 23 December 1940 and 12 February 1941.

•
43.
Ibid., Kripo reports, 23 December 1940, 12 January, 1941 and 17 January 1941. •
44.
LA-B, A.Pr.Br.Rep. 030-03 Tlt. 198B Nr. 1789, Mordkommission

Koziol, 3 July 1941. •
45.
Ibid., 9 July 1941, p. 51. •
46.
See http://

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Heuser •
47.
BA-B, R3001/123286, pp. 19–

24. Execution of Ogorzow. •
48.
Ibid., Kriminalpolizei Schlussbericht, 22

July 1941, pp. 159 and 189. •
49.
LA-B, A.Pr.Br.Rep. 030-03 Tlt. 198B Nr. 1620, Tötungsdelikte, Statistical summaries for 1940. •
50.
Quoted in Norman

Longmate,
The Bombers: The RAF Offensive against Germany 1939–1945
(London, 1983), p. 200. •
51.
British Library, London, ‘Blind Eye’ (H2S) Target Chart of Berlin, ref. X. 5523. •
52.
For a discussion of the accuracy of H2S, see Louis Brown,
A Radar History of World War II
(Philadelphia, 1999), p. 324. •
53.
BA-B, RL41/6, Pressematerial des RLB Präsidiums, 22 May 1944, p. 1. •
54.
Quoted in Wolfram Wette, Ricarda Bremer and Detlef Vogel (eds),
Das letzte halbe

Jahr
, pp. 203–4.

3
A Guarded Optimism

•
1.
William Shirer,
This Is Berlin
, p. 108. •
2.
Ibid., p. 108. •
3.
Heinz Boberach (ed.),
Meldungen aus dem Reich 1938‒1945
, p. 442. •
4.
William Shirer,
Berlin
Diary 1934–41
(illustrated edition), p. 108. •
5.
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
, 21 December, 1939, p. 3. •
6.
Fred Taylor (ed. and trans.),
The Goebbels Diaries
1939–41
, p. 73. •
7.
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,
10 December 1939, p. 1. •
8.

Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl (eds),
The Hitler Book
(London, 2005), p. 53.

•
9.
Otto Tolischus, ‘Inside Germany: The Mark of War’, in
New York

Times
, 17 December 1939, p. 12. •
10.
E. Rinner (ed.),
Deutschland-Berichte
der Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
, vol. 7, p. 69. •
11.
Roger Boyes,

‘Swastikas and twisted carols’,
The Times
, 17 November 2009, p. 39. •
12.
Ruth Andreas-Friedrich,
Berlin Underground, 1938–1945
, pp. 53–4. •
13.
Shirer,
Berlin
Diary
, p. 122. •
14.
Ibid., pp. 122–3. •
15.
William Russell,
Berlin Embassy
, p. 142.

•
16.
Otto-Herbert Leonhardt,
Spuren eines Lebens
, p. 89. •
17.
Shirer,
Berlin
Diary
, p. 124. •
18.
Christabel Bielenberg,
The Past Is Myself
, p. 70. •
19.
Howard notes

393

K. Smith,
Last Train from Berlin
, p. 38. •
20.
Boberach (ed.), op. cit., p. 1006.

•
21.
Russell, op. cit., p. 235. •
22.
Smith, op. cit., p. 68. •
23.
Shirer,
This Is
Berlin
, pp. 258–9. •
24.
Rinner (ed.), op. cit., p. 221. •
25.
Shirer,
This Is Berlin
, p. 269. •
26.
Boberach (ed.), op. cit., pp. 1127 and 1163. •
27.
Smith, op. cit., p. 68. •
28.
Heinz Knobloch,
Eine Berliner Kindheit
, p. 100. •
29.
New York
Times
, 15 June 1940, p. 2. •
30.
Ibid., 7 July 1940, p. 1. •
31.
Ibid. •
32.
Andreas-Friedrich, op. cit., pp. 56–7. •
33.
Ibid., p. 58. •
34.
Marie Vassiltchikov,
Berlin
Diaries 1940–1945
, p. 18. •
35.
Shirer,
This Is Berlin
, p. 326. •
36.
See Götz Aly (ed.),
Volkes Stimme
, pp. 116–29. •
37.
Smith, op. cit., p. 66. •
38.
Roger Moorhouse,
Killing Hitler
(London, 2006), p. 80. •
39.
Reinhard Spitzy,
How
We Squandered the Reich
, p. 308. •
40.
Smith, op. cit., p. 69. •
41.
New York
Times
, 19 July 1940, p. 7. •
42.
Shirer,
This Is Berlin
, p. 353. •
43.
Smith, op. cit., p. 69. •
44.
Boberach (ed.), op. cit., p. 1307. •
45.
New York Times
, 4 August 1940, p. 56. •
46.
Hans Albrecht Schraepler,
At Rommel’s Side
(London, 2009), p. 104. •
47.
See, for instance, Wolfgang Willrich,
Des Edlen ewiges Reich
(Berlin, 1939) or
Die Männer unserer Luftwaffe
(Berlin, 1940). With thanks to Gregers Forssling. •
48.
Tom Carver,
Where the Hell Have You Been?
(London, 2009), p. 25. •
49.
Author interview with Christa R., Berlin, October 2006. •
50.
On this subject see Fred Taylor (ed. and trans.),
The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941
, pp. 390, 408 and passim. •
51.
‘Invasion of Russia is denied by Reich’,
New
York Times
, 20 June 1941, p. 4. •
52.
Boberach (ed.), op. cit., p. 2394. Report from 12 June 1941. •
53.
Max Domarus,
Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen 1932–

1945
, vol. III (Wiesbaden, 1973), pp. 1731–2. •
54.
Ibid., p. 1732. •
55.
Völkischer
Beobachter
, 24 June 1941, p. 2. •
56.
Lutz R. correspondence with the author, December 2008. •
57.
Taylor (ed.), op. cit., p. 425. •
58.
Henry Flannery,
Assignment to Berlin
, p. 259. •
59.
Ibid. •
60.
See Hans-Rainer Sandvoss,
Die

‘andere’ Reichshauptstadt
, p. 462 passim. •
61.
Helmuth James von Moltke,
Letters to Freya 1939–1945
, p. 141. •
62.
Andreas-Friedrich, op. cit., p. 68. •
63.

Die Weltwoche
(Zurich), ‘Berliner Stimmungen’, 5 September 1941, pp. 3

and 9.

4
Marching on their Stomachs

•
1.
Weather statistics from the Deutsche Wetterdienst at www.dwd.de/klima-daten with thanks to Walter Koelschtzky. •
2.
William Shirer,
This Is

Berlin
, p. 195. •
3.
Ibid., p. 196. •
4.
Dorothea von Schwanenflügel-Lawson,
Laughter Wasn’t Rationed
, p. 218. •
5.
New York Times
, 16 February 1940, p. 6, and 19 February 1940, p. 6. •
6.
Ibid., 12 January 1940, p. 5. •
7.
William Russell,
Berlin Embassy
, p. 148. •
8.
Shirer, op. cit., p. 182. •
9.
Russell, op. cit., p. 153.

•
10.
Heinz Boberach (ed.),
Meldungen aus dem Reich 1938–1945
, p. 721. •
11.

Ibid., p. 689. •
12.
New York Times
, 17 January 1940, p. 10. •
13.
The Times
, 394

berlin at war

22 February 1940, p. 7. •
14.
New York Times
, 12 January 1940, p. 5. •
15.
The
Times
, 8 February 1940, p. 7. •
16.
Ibid., 16 February 1940, p. 7. •
17.
Boberach (ed.), op. cit., p. 720. •
18.
Russell, op. cit., p. 151. •
19.
Frederick Oechsner,
This Is the Enemy
, p. 126. •
20.
Shirer, op. cit., pp. 192–3. •
21.
Marie Vassiltchikov,
Berlin Diaries 1940–1945
, p. 4. •
22.
Russell, op. cit., p. 152. •
23.
Ibid. •
24.
LA-B, A.Pr.Br.Rep. 030-03 Tlt. 198B Nr. i620 Tötungsdelikte, January 1940. •
25.

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
, 16 February 1940, p. 7. •
26.
See, for instance,
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
, 15 February 1940, p. 7, and 16 February 1940, p. 7. •
27.
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
, 20 January 1940, p. 3. •
28.
Ibid., 29

January 1940, p. 4. •
29.
Boberach (ed.), op. cit., p. 705. •
30.
Ibid., p. 706.

•
31.
Ibid., p. 685. •
32.
Ibid., p. 723. •
33.
Ibid., p. 662. •
34.
Ibid., p. 677. •
35.

Ibid., p. 687. •
36.
Ibid., p. 687. •
37.
The Times
, 22 January 1940, p. 6, and Boberach (ed.), op. cit., p. 719. •
38.
New York Times
, 14 January 1940, p. 34.

•
39.
Boberach (ed.), op. cit., p. 649. •
40.
Howard K. Smith,
Last Train from
Berlin
, p. 92. •
41.
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
, 20 January 1940, p. 3. •
42.
Ibid., 8 February 1940, p. 3. •
43.
Russell, op. cit., p. 151. •
44.
Otto Tolischus, op.

cit., p. 13. •
45.
New York Times
, 23 February 1940, p. 4. •
46.
Shirer, op. cit., p. 208. •
47.
See, for example, ‘Genug für alle’, in
Das Schwarze Korps
, 7

September 1939, p. 8. •
48.
Der Angriff
, 2 September 1939, p. 14. •
49.
Quoted in Terry Charman,
The German Home Front 1939–1945
(London, 1989), p. 47.

•
50.
Jeremy Noakes (ed.),
Nazism 1919–1945
, vol. 4,
The German Home Front
in World War II
p. 512. •
51.
Rachel Becker, testimony, Yad Vashem Archive, ref: 03/1806. •
52.
Hans-Rainer Sandvoss,
Widerstand in Steglitz und Zehlendorf
, p. 191. •
53.
Noakes (ed.), op. cit., p. 525. •
54.
Richard Grunberger,
A Social
History of the Third Reich
, p. 271. •
55.
See Norman Davies,
Europe at War
(London, 2006), pp. 356–7. •
56.
Noakes (ed.), op. cit., pp. 513–15. •
57.
Russell, op. cit., p. 157. •
58.
Smith, op. cit., p. 99. •
59.
Russell, op. cit., pp. 153–4. •
60.
Ibid., p. 154. •
61.
Ibid., p. 162. •
62.
Ibid., p. 142. •
63.
Smith, op. cit., p. 96. •
64.
Ibid., p. 95. •
65.
Ibid., p. 94. •
66.
Vassiltchikov, op. cit., p. 13. •
67.
‘Gestohlene Fleischmarken’, in
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
, 10 December 1939. •
68.
Berliner
Lokal-Anzeiger
, 19 April 1944. •
69.
Christabel Bielenberg,
The Past Is Myself
, p. 61. •
70.
Smith, op. cit., p. 92. •
71.
Vassiltchikov, op. cit., p. 34. •
72.
Author interviews with Renate K. and Renate B., Berlin, October 2006. •
73.
Smith, op.

cit., p. 93. •
74.
Irene Guenther,
Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich
(Oxford, 2004), p. 238. •
75.
Quoted in Richard Evans,
The Third Reich at War
, pp. 427–8. •
76.
Quoted in Russell, op. cit., pp. 206–7. •
77.
Smith, op. cit., p. 96.