Dönitz: The Last Führer (87 page)

  
60
   1/Skl. KTB A 17.5.1943

  
61
   ibid., 24.5.1943

  
62
   F/
Vorträge
, May 31, 1943

  
63
   Frank,
Sea Wolves
, p. 177

  
64
   
Niederschrift über die Ansprache des ObdM an die Hauptamts- und Amtschefs am 2.6.43
; KTB Ca BA/MA. PG 31747; cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 633

  
65
   
Denkschrift des Chefs der Skl
. 8.6.43; cited Salewski, vol. III, pp. 359 ff.

  
66
   
Besprechung der Oberbefehlshaber in Berlin
, June 8, 1943; cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 311

  
67
   F/
Vorträge
, June 15, 1943

  
68
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July 1982

  
69
   v. Puttkamer, p. 55

  
70
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July 1982

  
71
   l/Skl. KTB A 5.7.1943

  
72
   Final decision promulgated Aug. 13, 1943; see Rössler, p. 216

  
73
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July 1982

  
74
   Speer:
Erinnerungen
, p. 286; but see a later date for sectional construction in Rössler, pp. 214 ff.

  
75
   F/
Vorträge
, July 8, 1943

  
76
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July, 1982

  
77
   Cited F. Gilbert, p. 18

  
78
   Cited v. Roon, p. 225

  
79
   Ruge, p. 241

  
80
   Irving, p. 549

  
81
   F/
Vorträge
, July 28,1943; similar remarks repeated at Führer conferences through August

  
82
   Cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 372

  
83
   F/
Vorträge
, Aug. 9–10, 1943

  
84
   ibid.

  
85
   
Lagebetrachtung der Skl
., Aug. 20, 1943; BA/MA KTB Ca Case 280. PG 31747; cited Salewski, vol. III, p. 371

  
86
   Schaeffer, p. 128

  
87
   F. Gilbert, p. 40

  
88
   F/
Vorträge
, Aug. 19, 1943

  
89
   KTB B V, BA/MA III M 1005/8 1Skl. 273629; cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 638

  
90
   See for instance Ruge, pp. 240–1

  
91
   Statement of Diesel Maat of U 333 to F. Lynder, witnessed K. Behnke, 14/15.11.1978 in Berlin. Photocopy in author’s possession

  
92
   See Speer’s rebuttal of the charge in Reif, pp. 395 ff., 404 ff.

  
93
   ibid., p. 396

  
94
   Smith & Peterson, pp. 169 ff.

  
95
   B. v. Schirach:
Ich Glaubte Hitler
, Hamburg 1967, p. 269; cited Reif, p. 389

  
96
   Speer:
Erinnerungen
, p. 341. In 1973 E. Goldhagen pointed to this passage in his memoirs as proof of his attendance at the Posen convention; Speer then said he had mistaken the occasion at which the Gauleiters became drunk, and produced sworn statements that he had driven away from Posen at lunchtime, thus before Himmler’s speech; ‘
Antwort an E. Goldhagen
’ in Reif, pp. 395 ff.

  
97
   IMT Doc. 663-D, vol. 25, pp. 338 ff.

  
98
   F/
Vorträge
, Aug. 19, 1943

  
99
   See also BdU KTB 23.8.1943, ‘VI General’

100
   See Roskill, vol. 3, pt. 1, pp. 38 ff.; also BdU KTB 20.2.1944; Appendix: summary of U-boat campaign

101
   F/
Vorträge
, Sept. 24, 1943

102
   BdU KTB 20.2.1944; Appendix: summary of U-boat campaign

103
   See Salewski, vol. III, pp. 372 ff.

104
   ibid., p. 373

105
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July 1982

106
   Wireless log, U 515, Nov. 17, 1943

107
   BdU KTB 7.1.1944

108
   
Fernschreiben
, cited Salewski, vol. II, pp. 508–9

109
   
Gr.adml. Dönitz Schlussansprache auf die Tagung für Befehlshaber der Kriegsmarine in Weimar
, 17.12.1943; printed in IMT Doc. 443-D, vol. 35, pp. 106 ff.

110
   1/Skl. KTB A 26.4.1943

111
   BdK KTB 22.11.1943; cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 332

112
   IMT Doc. 443-D, vol. 35, p. 109

113
   F/
Vorträge
, Dec. 19–20, 1943

114
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July 1982

115
   Adml. E. Wegener to author, June 1981

116
   Cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 337

117
   ibid., p. 338

118
   1/Skl. KTB A 25.12.1943

119
   Cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 339

120
   Mar. Gr. Kdo. Nord/Flotte KTB 25.12.43, 20.46
Uhr
; cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 340

121
   See P. Beesley, pp. 213 ff; also Humble, pp. 184 ff; see Humble pp. 187 ff. for a blow-by-blow account of the action from the British side

122
   F/
Vorträge
, 1.1.1944

123
   ibid., 12.4.1944

124
   Cited Irving, p. 578

125
   See Salewski, vol. II, p. 343

126
   IMT Doc. 2878-PS, vol. 31, p. 250

127
   F/
Vorträge
, 1–3.1.1944

128
   To his Commanders in Italy, June 28, 1944; cited Irving, p. 202

129
   
Ansprache des ObdM vor den Oberbefehlshabern
, 15.2.1944; printed IMT Doc. 640-D, vol. 35, pp. 238 ff.

130
   Speech printed in
Völkischer Beobachter
, 14.3.1944

131
   See analysis in Rohwer

132
   Mar. Gp. Süd KTB 29.1.1944 (pp. 121–22) Absatz IV; cited Rohwer, p. 50. These two pages had been extracted from the KTB found in the archive captured by the British – proof of archival ‘weeding’ towards the end of the war. Rohwer cited from another copy of the KTB deposited with the BA/MA. The Foreign Ministry’s ruling on Adml. Fricke’s request was also ‘weeded’ from the archive, but the note of the request itself can be seen in 1/Skl. KTB A 25.1.1944 (p. 457). PG 32073

133
   Stevens, p. 8

134
   Skl. li 446/43 gKdos. Chefs,
Behandlung von Saboteuren
; printed IMT Doc. 178-C, vol. 35, pp. 770 ff.

135
   Stevens, p. 32

136
   ibid., pp. 76–8

137
   BdU KTB 1.3.1944, Enclosure ‘e’ to ‘U-boat situation report’

138
   Eck’s cross examination, in Cameron, p. 58

139
   ibid., p. 62

140
   ibid., p. 103

141
   ibid., p. 139

142
   OKM 2/Skl BdU op. 1961 gKdos, 27.3.1944, KTB C 11b, BA/MA III M 1012/8; cited Salewski, vol. II, p. 415

143
   ibid., pp. 415–6; see also Dönitz;
10 Jahre
, p. 414

144
   See Salewski, vol. II, p. 414

145
   Br. Naval Intelligence file on Karl Dönitz, based on interrogation of survivors from S 141. The records at Tübingen University are not sufficiently complete to trace Klaus’s entry

146
   BdS KTB 13.5.1944

147
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July 1982

148
   1/Skl. KTB A 6.6.1944

149
   June 19, 1944; cited Beesley, p. 30

150
   1/Skl. KTB A 10.6.1944

151
   See Irving, p. 631

152
   Manvell & Fraenkel, p. 82

153
   See Speer:
Spandau
, p. 191

154
   F/
Vorträge
, June 29, 1944

155
   Aug. 31, 1944; cited F. Gilbert, p. 105

156
   See F/
Vorträge
, July 9 and 11–13, 1944

157
   July 25, 1943; cited F. Gilbert, p. 44

158
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July 1982

159
   See Salewski, vol II, p. 46

160
   See Trevor-Roper:
Last Days of Hitler
, pp. 35 ff.; also Manvell & Fraenkel, pp. 110 ff.

161
   F/
Vorträge
, July 20–21, 1944

162
   ibid.

163
   J. Hansen-Nootbar to author, July 1982

164
   Adml. E. Wegener to author, June 1981

165
   See F/
Vorträge
, July 20–21, 1944

166
   IMT Doc. 2878-PS, Vol. 31, pp. 250–51

167
   ibid.

168
   Cited v. Roon, p. 277

169
   
Flottenkommando
B Nr. gKdos 411/44 Chefs,
Ansprache Dönitz vom
24.8.1944. PG 48609. It is interesting that of 52 copies printed, only one has been found in the archives.

170
   1st draft of Kreisau Circle’s ‘German participation in the punishment of war criminals’, 14.6.1943; cited v. Roon, pp. 340–1

171
   2nd draft of above, 23.7.1943, cited ibid., p. 343

172
   Himmler’s ‘Posen’ speech; Smith
&
Peterson, p. 168

173
   Speer:
Erinnerungen
, p. 378

174
   March 13, 1945; Trevor-Roper:
Goebbels Diaries
, p. 125

175
   F/
Vorträge
, Dec. 3, 1944

176
   ibid., Jan. 1,1945

177
   ibid., Jan. 3, 1945

178
   ibid., Jan. 25, 1945

179
   ibid., Feb. 17, 1945

180
   ibid., Feb. 28, 1945

181
   Feb. 27, 1945; Trevor-Roper;
Goebbels Diaries
, p. 1

182
   March 13, 1945; ibid., p. 128

183
   March 20, 1945; ibid., p. 181

184 Boldt, p. 48

185
   Adml. E. Wegener to author, June 1981

186
   Schaeffer, p. 146

187
   ibid.

188
   Speer:
Erinnerungen
, p. 434

189
   ibid.

190
   Boldt, p. 35

191
   
Denkschrift
, Sept. 29, 1944, BA/MA Case 280. PG 3174; cited Salewski, vol. III, p. 382

192
   1/Skl. KTB A 3.11.1944

193
   
Denkschrift
, Nov. 14, 1944; cited Salewski, vol. III, pp. 394–5

194
   F/
Vorträge
, Jan. 23, 1945

195
   Salewski, vol. II, p. 522

196
   Dec. 29–30, 1944; cited F. Gilbert p. 178

197
   F/
Vorträge
, March 18, 1945

198
   ibid., April 7, 1945

199
   ibid., Nov. 1, 1944

200
   ibid., March 12, 1945

201
   ibid., March 26, 1945

202
   March 13, 1945; Trevor-Roper;
Goebbels Diaries
, p. 124

203
   March 21, 1945; ibid., p. 195

204
   Fragment Hitler conference, end Feb./beginning March, 1945 in Univ. Pennsylvania Library

205
   F/
Vorträge
, Feb. 20, 1945

206
   March 13, 1945; Trevor-Roper:
Goebbels Diaries
, p. 127

207
   F/
Vorträge
, April 7, 1945

208
   ibid., April 14, 1945

209
   March 27, 1945; Trevor-Roper:
Goebbels Diaries
, p. 250

210
   
Geheimerlass des Gr.admls Dönitz
; SSD MBKO 6611;
Gltd. Plan ‘Paula’ Ost
; IWM

211
   See F. Lynder: ‘
7 Helgoländer narrten Hitler
’ in
Bild am Sonntag
, Berlin, 2.5.1965

212
   
Geheimerlass des Gr.admls Dönitz
v. 11.4.1945; KMA 25641/45, IWM

213
   See Irving, p. 792

214
   See O’Donnel, p. 117

215
   Speer:
Erinnerungen
, p. 467

216
   Lüdde-Neurath, pp. 21–2

217
   Goerdeler: ‘Declaration for publication after the revolt against Hitler had succeeded’; cited Gaevernitz, p. 109

218
   
Ostseebefehl
Nr. 19
von
19.4.1945. IWM

219
   Lüdde-Neurath, p. 27

220
   Speer:
Erinnerungen
, p. 474

221
   Boldt, p. 82

222
   July 21, 1945; 14.00 Hrs, Schuster File, National Archives, Washington

223
   See Salewski, vol. II, p. 544

224
   Lüdde-Neurath, p. 38

225
   See ibid., p. 39

226
   H. Macher to F. Lynder: photocopy of interview in author’s possession

227
   See, for instance, Boldt, p. 118

228
   OKW KTB 28.4.1945

229
   See Lüdde-Neurath, pp. 23, 33

230
   OKW KTB 27.4.1945

231
   See account based on conversation with G. Hessler in Steinert, pp. 58–9

232
   Lüdde-Neurath, p. 41

233
   O’Donnel, p. 184

234
   Cited, for instance in Lüdde-Neurath, pp. 120–21

235
   OKW KTB 29, 30.4.1945

236
   See Lüdde-Neurath. pp. 34, 125

237
   OKW KTB 30.4.1945

238
   Cited, for instance, in Lüdde-Neurath, p. 126

239
   Ali Cremer to F. Lynder

240
   H. Macher to F. Lynder

241
   ibid.

242
   Dönitz:
10 Jahre
, p. 346. In an earlier statement published in Lüdde-Neurath, pp. 86–7, Dönitz said Himmler stayed an hour discussing his position; he had fantastic ideas about his ‘resonance’ in the West. Lüdde-Neurath gives the time of Himmler’s departure as 2.30 am.