The Second World War (157 page)
‘
the sick man of Asia
’: van de Ven,
War and Nationalism in China
, p. 13
For the Nationalists
’ problems in recruiting and feeding their forces and population, see
ibid.
, pp. 253–83
here
The food crisis in Nationalist China: Collingham,
The Taste of War
, pp. 250–5
‘
offensive spirit
’: van de Ven,
War and Nationalism in China
, p. 10
Plan ‘Orange
’:
Philippine Islands
, USACMH, 1992
‘
Battling Bastards of Bataan
’:
Philippine Islands
, USACMH, 1992
18: War across the World
‘
Roosevelt is a fanatic
’: quoted Berezhkov,
History in the Making
, pp. 159–60
‘
like a bolt from the blue
’:
TBJG
, part II, vol. ii, p. 453
‘
A great power doesn’t let itself
’: Ernst von Weizsäcker,
Erinnerungen
, Munich, 1950, p. 280, quoted Kershaw,
Fateful Choices
, p. 422
‘
On the 11 December
’: Gefr. Bisch, 2.Kp./Pz.Rgt.3, 2.Pz.Div., 21.12.41, BfZ-SS Dönitz and Hitler: Kershaw,
Fateful Choices
, p. 384
‘
went to bed
’: Lady Soames interview, Brendon papers, quoted Carlo D’Este,
Warlord: A Life of Churchill at War, 1874–1945
, London, 2008, p. 622
Churchill and Arcadia
: Hastings,
Finest Years
, pp. 217–39
‘
United States policy
’: Anthony Eden,
The Eden Memoirs: The Reckoning
, London, 1965, p. 319
‘
The American Army does not
’: quoted John Ellis,
Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War
, New York, 1990, p. 525
‘
every promise the English
’: Robert Dallek,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945
, New York, 1979, p. 338
‘
I know you will not mind
’: Warren F. Kimball (ed.),
Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence
, 3 vols, Princeton, 1984, vol. i:
Alliance Emerging
, p. 421
‘Carry out your orders
!’: Georgii Zhukov,
Vospominaniya i Razmyshleniya
, 2 vols, Moscow, 2002, vol. ii, p. 51
‘
In order to beat a path
’: P. Gerasimov, VIZh, no. 7, 1967, quoted Rodric Braithwaite,
Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War
, London, 2007, pp. 327–8
‘
How did we miss him
’: Volkogonov,
Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy
, pp. 443–4
‘
a beautiful girl
’: Leonid Rabichev,
Voina vsyo spishet, vospominaniya ofitserasvyazista, 31-i armii, 1941–1945
, Moscow, 2009, p. 75
Nearly 1,400 arrested
: M. Gorinov (ed.),
Moskva Prifrontovaya, 1941–1942: Arkhivnye Dokumenty i Materialy
, Moscow, 2001, p. 415, quoted Braithwaite,
Moscow 1941
, p. 323
here
Soviet losses in the January–April 1942 offensives: Krivosheev,
Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses
, pp. 122–3
Moscow in the early months of 1942
: Braithwaite,
Moscow 1941
, pp. 333–9
Construction of the corduroy road
: Bellamy,
Absolute War
, pp. 366–70
‘
irresponsible and heartless treatment
’: quoted Reid,
Leningrad
, p. 278
‘
They hardly looked like
’: Alexander Werth,
Leningrad
, London, 1944, p. 89
‘
You don’t know what it was like
’: quoted
ibid.
, p. 22
Conditions in Leningrad
: Bellamy,
Absolute War
, pp. 377–84; Reid,
Leningrad
; Werth,
Leningrad
; David Glantz,
The Siege of Leningrad
,
1941–1944
, London, 2004
‘
People turn into animals
’: Yelena Skrjabina,
Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader
, Carbondale, Ill., 1971, p. 28
Arrests for cannibalism
: Bellamy,
Absolute War
, pp. 379–80; A. R. Dzheniskevich, ‘Banditizm (osobaya kategoriya) v blokirovannom Leningrade’,
Istoriya Peterburga
, no. 1, 2001, pp. 47–51
56th Division in 55th Army
: Vasily Yershov, untitled typescript, Bakhmeteff Archive, Columbia University, quoted Reid,
Leningrad
, p. 320
‘
Daddy, kill a German
!’: quoted Werth,
Leningrad
, p. 97
‘
once again we are
’: Sold. K.B., 23.1.42, BfZ-SS
‘
the small Afrika Korps
’: Hans-Hermann H., 13.3.42, BfZ-SS N91.2
19: Wannsee and the SS Archipelago
‘
undertake, by emigration or evacuation
’: Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, p. 163; ‘the physical annihilation’:
ibid.
, p. 163
‘
the instigators of this
’:
TBJG
, part II, vol. ii, pp. 498–9, quoted Kershaw,
The Nazi Dictatorship
, p. 124
‘
The Führer is determined
’:
TBJG
, part II, vol. ii, 13.12.41, pp. 498–9
Martin Luther
: see Echart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes and Moshe Zimmermann,
Das Amt und die Vergangenheit. Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik
, Munich, 2010; for the original Martin Luther and the Jews, see Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, pp. 13–15
‘
like miscarriages of hell
’: Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, p. 270
‘
the killers in the occupied USSR
’:
ibid.
, p. 99
On Henry Ford and the Nazis
, see Charles Patterson,
Eternal Treblinka
, New York, 2002, pp. 71–9; for Ford’s inspiration from slaughterhouses, see Henry Ford,
My Life and Work
, New York, 1922, p. 81; David L. Lewis,
The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and his Company
, Detroit, 1976, p. 135; Albert Lee,
Henry Ford and the Jews
, New York, 1980
‘
an unwritten and never to be written
’: IMT 29:145
‘
the road to Auschwitz
’: Ian Kershaw,
Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria, 1933–1945
, New York, 1983, p. 277
Medical experiments in Dachau, and ‘for use as saddles
’: Franz Blaha, ‘Holocaust: Medical experiments at Dachau’, IMT; NA II RG 238, B
OX
16
here
Danzig Anatomical Medical Institute: GARF 9401/2/96. Spanner was never prosecuted because there was no law against experiments on corpses
‘
It is the writer’s duty
’: Grossman papers, RGALI 1710/1/123
‘
In Bereza-Kartuska
’: Zahlm.d.R. Heinrich K., H.K.P. 610 Brest/Bug, 18.7.42, BfZ-SS 37 634
‘
Jewish girls who wanted
’: Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, p. 145
Warsaw ghetto uprising
: see
ibid.
, pp. 204–11
‘
The uproar was monstrous
’: quoted Padfield,
Himmler
, p. 449
‘
Waves of stone
’: RGALI, 1710/3/21
20: Japanese Occupation and the Battle of Midway
Occupation of Hong Kong
: Snow,
The Fall of Hong Kong
, pp. 77–148
For the Japanese occupation of Shanghai
, see Bernard Wasserstein,
Secret War in Shanghai
, London, 1998, pp. 216–39
$50 million ‘gift of atonement
’: Peter Thompson,
The Battle for Singapore
, London, 2005, p. 380
‘
quota of twenty enlisted men
’: Tanaka,
Hidden Horrors
, p. 93
Five million deaths in south-east Asia
: Max Hastings,
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944–1945
, London, 2007, p. 13
Indochina
: Ralph B. Smith, ‘The Japanese Period in Indochina and the Coup of 9 March 1945’,
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
, vol. 9, no. 2, September 1978, pp. 268–301
Massacre at Batanga
: Ronald H. Spector,
Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan
, London, 2001, p. 397
The United States, Nationalist China and the British Empire
: see Snow,
The Fall of Hong Kong
, pp. 142–8
‘
The British Grenadiers
’ and ‘
The Eton Boating Song
’:
ibid.
, p. 185
‘
insane provincial protectionism
’: Justice H. L. Braund, regional food controller for the Eastern Areas, quoted Lizzie Collingham,
The Taste of War
, p. 143; Bengal famine,
ibid.
, pp. 141–54
US submarines accounting for 55 per cent of all craft sunk
:
World War II Quarterly
, 5.2, p. 64
‘
beating
’: Admiral Nagumo Chuichi, quoted Office of Naval Intelligence, June 1947, NHHC, OPNAV P32-1002
‘
not aware of our plans
’:
ibid
.
‘
Service crews cheered
’: Fuchida Mitsuo, ‘Pearl Harbor: The View from the Japanese Cockpit’, in Ulanoff (ed.),
Bombs Away!
, p. 305
For the question of rearming Japanese torpedo bombers
, see Jeffrey G. Barlow in
World War II Quarterly
, 5.1, pp. 66–9; Dallas Woodbury Isom,
Midway Inquest: Why the Japanese Lost the Battle of Midway
, Bloomington, Ind.,
2007, p. 269; Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully,
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
, Dulles, Va, 2005, p. 171; and John B. Lundstrom,
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal
, Annapolis, 2006, pp. 254–5
‘
As soon as the fires
’: Admiral Nagumo, quoted Office of Naval Intelligence, June 1947, NHHC, OPNAV P32-1002
‘
At 23.50
’:
ibid.
‘
Had we lacked early information
’: Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet to Commander-in-Chief Fleet, 28.6.42, NHHC, Battle of Midway: 4–7 June 1942 Action Reports, F-2042
21: Defeat in the Desert
‘
The fighting has none
’: Uffz. Hans-Hermann H., 8.4.42, BfZ-SS N91.2
‘
a whole bloody German
’: quoted James Holland,
Together We Stand: North Africa, 1942–1943–Turning the Tide in the West
, London, 2005, p. 80
Defence of Bir Hakeim
: Kitchen,
Rommel’s Desert War
, pp. 225–6
‘
For the first time since
’: de Gaulle,
Mémoires de guerre
, vol. i, p. 323
‘
very unpleasant situation
’: Below,
Als Hitlers Adjutant
, p. 311
‘
Oh, the heart beating with emotion
’: de Gaulle,
Mémoires de guerre
, vol. i, p. 325
‘
We’ve got chocolate
’: Uffz. Hans-Hermann H., 30.6.42, BFZ-SS N91.2
‘
Defeat is one thing
’: Churchill,
The Second World War
, vol. iv:
The Hinge of Fate
, p. 344
Cairo and Alexandria during the ‘flap
’: Cooper,
Cairo in the War
, pp. 190–201
Groupe de Chasse Alsace
:
Global War Studies
, vol. 7, no. 2, 2010, p. 79
‘
when he made it home
’: Victor Gregg,
Rifleman
:
A Front Line Life
, London, 2011, p. 127
‘
not affect the world situation
’: quoted Roberts,
Masters and Commanders
, p. 233
22: Operation Blau–Barbarossa Relaunched
‘
Now that it’s fairly warm
’: Sold. Fritz S., 1.5.42, 25.Inf.Div.(mot.), BfZ-SS 26 312
‘
around eighty German soldiers
’: Sold. Ferdinand S., 88.Inf.Div., BfZ-SS 05831 E
Grossdeutschland
and SS divisions
: David M. Glantz and Jonathan House,
When Titans Clashed
, Lawrence, Kan., 1995, p. 105
‘
the great alarm
’: captured diary, TsAFSB 14/4/328, pp. 367–71
‘
You are under military law
’: order of 31.1.42, TsAMO 206/294/48, p. 346
‘
endless uncultivated fields
’: captured diary, TsAFSB 14/4/328, pp. 367–71
Mekhlis
: Montefiore,
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
, p. 365
‘
They have been hurriedly
’: TsAFSB 14/4/328, pp. 367–71
‘
It was terrible
’: Vladimirov,
Voina soldata-zenitchika
, p. 234
‘
We advanced from Volchansk
’: Yevgeny Fyodorovich Okishev in Drabkin (ed.),
Svyashchennaya voina
, p. 210
‘
Military orders must be obeyed
’, Stalin, Timoshenko and Khrushchev: Montefiore,
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
, pp. 366–7
‘Our pilots work
’: Sold. Heinrich R., 20.5.42, 389.Inf.Div., BfZ-SS 43 260
‘
Tanks! Tanks coming!
’, ‘
It looked like a magical
’: Vladimirov,
Voina soldatazenitchika
, p. 300
‘
We are really going
’: O’Gefr. Karl H., Aufkl.Stffl.4 (F) 122, 7.6.42, BfZ-SS L 28 420
‘
I can only say
’: O’Gefr. Kurt P., Radf.Rgt.4, 15.6.42, BfZ-SS 29 962
‘
The explosions blended
’: Yu. S. Naumov,
Trudnaya sudba zashchitnikov Seva-stopolya (1941–1942)
, Nizhni Novgorod, 2009, p. 15