The Second World War (158 page)

‘
I lost many comrades at my side
’: Uffz. Arnold N., 377.Inf.Div., 8.7.42, BfZ-SS 41 967

‘
at least have it within
’: Weisung Nr. 41, quoted Below,
Als Hitlers Adjutant
, p. 309

‘
As far as the eye can see
’: Clemens Podewils,
Don und Volga
, Munich, 1952, p. 47

‘
53 degrees in the sun
’: Helmuth Groscurth,
Tagebücher eines Abwehroffiziers
, Stuttgart, 1970, p. 527

‘
For the local people
’: O’Gefr. Fritz W., Ldsschutz.Btl.389, 9.7.42, BfZ-SS 05 951

‘
If we don’t take
’: Friedrich Paulus,
Ich stehe hier auf Befehl
, Frankfurt am Main, 1960, p. 157

‘
Panic-mongers and cowards
’: TsAMO 48/486/28, p. 8

30,000 Gulag prisoners
: GARF 9401/1a/128, p. 121

‘
Comrade commissar I’ve always been a good man
’: Yefim Abelevich Golbraikh in Drabkin (ed.),
Svyashchennaya voina
, pp. 114–15

‘
Make use of us today
!’: Podewils,
Don und Volga
, p. 107

‘
In the late afternoon
’: Richthofen KTB, 23.8.42, BA-MA N671/2/7/9, p. 140

‘
We looked at the immense steppe
’: conversation with Generalleutnant A.d. Bernd Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven, 23.10.95

‘
intently at each soldier
’: Berezhkov,
History in the Making
, p. 193

‘
He has got an unpleasantly
’: Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, p. 301

‘
Let’s open the Second Front
’: Ehrenburg,
Men, Years–Life
, vol. v, p. 78

Performance of Shostakovich’s Leningrad symphony
: Bellamy,
Absolute War
, pp. 389–90

‘
The air filled with
’: Boris Antonov letter in ‘Ot party do obeliska’,
Nasha voina
, Moscow, 2005, p. 256

‘
that the Russians were finished
’: Below,
Als Hitlers Adjutant
, p. 313

Hitler and Italian ambassador
: ADAP Series E, vol. iii, pp. 304–7, quoted Kitchen,
Rommel’s Desert War
, p. 286

‘
Anyway, we will not be taking
’: Sold. Heinrich R., 389.Inf.Div., 28.8.42, BfZ-SS 43 260

‘
Hopefully the operation
’: Gefr. Eduard R., 16.Pz.Div., 25.8.42, BfZ-SS 28 148

‘
very cool
’: Richthofen KTB, 23.8.42, BA-MA N671/2/7/9, p. 140

‘
in chains
’, ‘
given land in Transylvania
’: TsAMO FSB 14/4/326, pp. 269–70

Romanian pay and rations
: TsA FSB 14/4/777, pp. 32–4

23: Fighting Back in the Pacific

‘
to let off steam
’: 30.3.42, Ernest J. King Papers, quoted Spector,
Eagle against the Sun
, p. 143

‘The Fever was on us
’: Robert Leckie,
Helmet for my Pillow
, London, 2010, p. 82

‘
Everyone looked the other way
’:
ibid.
, p. 89

Marines bartering
: Spector,
Eagle against the Sun
, p. 205

‘
Take Buna today
’, ‘
striking victory
’: quoted
ibid.
, pp. 216–17

‘
steep little hills
’: Lt Col. Frank Owen, quoted William Fowler,
We Gave our Today: Burma, 1941–1945
, London, 2009, p. 82

‘
I can’t be rude
’: quoted
ibid.
, p. 85

‘
the rapid build-up
’: memorandum for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, MP, II, pp. 475–6

‘
accomplish the downfall of Japan
’: quoted van de Ven,
War and Nationalism in China
, p. 36

24: Stalingrad

‘
What’s the matter with them
?’: quoted Volkogonov,
Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy
, p. 461

‘
This war on the border
’: RGALI 1710/3/50

‘
The Führer commands
’:
KTB OKW
, vol. ii/I, p. 669

‘
Please send me a present
’: TsA FSB 114/4/326, pp. 167–8

‘
too sad to watch the newsreels
’: TsA FSB 14/4/943, pp. 38–9

‘
That is a lie
!’: Domarus, vol. ii, p. 1908

For the List –Jodl crisis at Führer headquarters
, see also Kershaw,
Hitler, 1936– 1945: Nemesis
, pp. 532–3

‘
long stare of burning hate
’: Walter Warlimont,
Im Hauptquartier der deutschen Wehrmacht, 1939–1945
, Frankfurt am Main, 1962, p. 269

‘
a confrontation between two rams
’: Sergo Beria,
Beria, my Father: Inside Stalin’s Kremlin
, London, 2001, p. 85

‘
Comrade Chuikov
’: Vasily Chuikov,
The Beginning of the Road: The Battle for Stalingrad
, London, 1963, p. 84; ‘Time is blood’:
ibid.
, p. 89

‘
Nobody believes that Stalingrad
’: diary of assistant political officer Sokolov, 92nd Reserve Regiment, 11.9.42, TsA FSB 40/31/577, p. 42

‘
A mass of Stukas
’:
Gefreiter
, 389.Inf.Div., BfZ-SS

‘
the blocking unit of the 62nd Army
’: Selivanovsky, chief of Special Department Stalingrad Front, TsA FSB 14/4/326, pp. 220–3

‘
Stalingrad looks like
’: Anurin diary, 7.9.42 (private collection, Moscow)

‘
From the very first days
’: 1.4.43, TsA FSB 3/10/136, pp. 45–73

‘
nine grams
’: TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 162

‘
the defeatist mood
’: Dobronin to Shcherbakov, 8.10.42, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 74

‘
is exploited by German agents
’:
ibid.
, p. 77

‘
It is hard for them
’: Dobronin to Shcherbakov, 11.11.42, TsAMO 48/486/25, pp. 138–9

‘
When we were moved
’: Amza Amzaevich Mamutov,
http://www.iremember.ru/pekhotintsi/mamutov-amza-amzaevich/stranitsa-3.html
‘
What if your beloved girl
’:
Stalinskoe Znamya
, 8.9.42, TsAMO 230/586/1, p. 79

‘
For the defenders of Stalingrad
’: Koshcheev to Shcherbakov, 17.11.42, TsAMO 48/486/25, p. 216

‘
Since yesterday
’: anon., 29.Inf.Div.(mot.), 15.9.1942, BfZ-SS

‘
Our pilots feel that
’: Dobronin to Shcherbakov, 4.10.42, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 48

‘
A sub-machine gun is
’: Amza Amzaevich Mamutov,
http://www.iremember.ru/pekhotintsi/mamutov-amza-amzaevich/stranitsa-3.html

‘
The ammunition brought over during the night
’: Belousov, Special Detachment Stalingrad Front, 21.9.42, TsA FSB 14/4/326, pp. 229–30

‘
a full set of limbs
’: Ilya Shatunovsky, ‘I ostanetsya dobryi sled’, in
Vsem smertyam nazlo
, Moscow, 2000

‘
Germans are fighting without counting ammunition
’: Second Special Dept NKVD to Beria and Abakumov, 4.9.42, TsA FSB 14/4/913, pp. 27–31

‘
You can’t imagine
’: TsA FSB 41/51/814, p. 7

‘the morning rise’ etc
.: Grossman papers, RGALI 1710/3/50

‘
The soldier who was carrying
’: Uffz. Alois Heimesser, 297th Infantry Division, 14.11.42, TsA FSB 40/22/11, pp. 62–5

‘
A report had to be sent in
’: Vladimir Vladimirovich Gormin,
Novgorodskaya Pravda
, 21.4.95

Tobacco hunger and the vodka ration
:
ibid.

‘
If they don’t
’: 4.11.42, TsAMO 48/486/25, p. 47

‘
the introduction of a unified command
’: TsAMO 48/486/25, pp. 176–7

‘
absolutely incorrect attitude
’, ‘
political department is
’: Koshcheev to Shcherbakov, 14.11.42, TsAMO 48/486/25, p. 179

Stalingrad Front interrogations
: TsAMO 62/335/7, 48/453/13, 206/294/12, 206/294/47, 206/294/48, 226/335/7

‘
On some parts of the front
’: Dobronin to Shcherbakov, 8.10.42, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 81

‘
Russians in the German army
’: interrogation, 4.3.43, TsAMO 226/335/7, p. 364

Events in Sinkiang province
: Garver,
Chinese–Soviet Relations
, pp. 169–77

‘
A furious artillery bombardment
’: Vladimir Vladimirovich Gormin,
Novgorodskaya Pravda
, 21.4.95

‘
real mass heroism
’: TsAMO, 48/486/24, p. 200

‘
In the last two days
’: Koshcheev to Shcherbakov, 6.11.42, TsAMO 48/486/25, p. 69

‘
I often think of the words
’: TsAFSB 40/22/12, pp. 96–100

‘
It’s impossible to describe
’: Gefr. Gelman, quoted in Volgograd University project, AMPSB

‘
the dogs fight like lions
’: Gefr. H.S., 389.Inf.Div., 5.11.42, BfZ-SS

‘
the sooner I am
’: quoted Grossman papers, RGALI 1710/1/100

‘
Time is of no importance
’: Domarus, vol. ii, pp. 1937–8

‘
The ice floes collide
’: Grossman papers, RGALI 618/2/108

‘
If the Katyusha sings
’: TsA FSB 14/4/326, p. 307

‘
shift the strategic situation
’: Zhukov,
Kakim my yego pomnim
, p. 140

‘
sold their Motherland
’: TsAMO 48/453/13, p. 4

‘
enough to buy one litre of milk
’: interrogation Romanian cavalry lieutenant, 26.9.42, TsAMO 206/294/47, p. 561

‘
very rude to soldiers
’, ‘
a sin against
’, ‘
low political moral state
’: TsAMO 48/453/13, pp. 4–7

‘
raping all the women
’: TsA FSB 14/4/326, pp. 264–7

‘
moved from the central part
’: Professor O. A. Rzheshevsky at the Stalingrad Seminar, London, 9.5.2000

here
Zhukov’s movements in the autumn of 1942: S. I. Isaev, ‘Vekhi frontovogo puti’,
VIZh
, no. 10, Oct. 1991, pp. 22–5

David Glantz on
Operation Mars
: see his
General Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat: The Red Army’s Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942
, London, 2000

‘
2.5 to 4.5 ammunition loads
…’, Gen of the Army M.A. Gareev, session of the National Committee of Russian Historians on 28.12.99. I am grateful to Professor Oleg Rzheshevsky, the President of the Russian Association of the Second World War Historians for sending me their Information Bulletin No.5, 2000, with the verbatim record of the meeting.

‘
The offensive predicted by Max
’: Pavel Sudoplatov,
Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness–A Soviet Spymaster
, London, 1994, p. 159

‘
One part of a small wood
’: Ehrenburg,
Men, Years–Life
, vol. v, pp. 80–1 Soviet casualties in Operation Mars: see Glantz,
Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat
, pp. 304, 318–19 and 379

‘
as if it were 1870
’: BA-MA RW4/v.264, p. 157

‘
I’m not leaving
’: Koshcheev to Shcherbakov, 21.11.42, TsAMO 48/486/25, p. 264

‘
Sixth Army stand firm
’: BA-MA RH 20-6/241

‘
I don’t know how it is all
’: letter 21.9.42, TsA FSB 40/22/142, p. 152

25: Alamein and Torch

‘
that German transports
’: Below,
Als Hitlers Adjutant
, p. 322

‘
Americans can only make
’: quoted Kitchen,
Rommel’s Desert War
, p. 316

‘
In the position in which
’: BA-MA RH/19/VIII/34a

Hitler’s journey to Munich
: Kershaw,
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis
, p. 539

‘
standing at a turning point
’:
TBJG
, part II, vol. vi, p. 259

For the Madagascar campaign
, see Smith,
England’s Last War against France
, pp. 281–355

‘
This admiral knows how to swim
’: Édouard Herriot,
Épisodes, 1940–1944
, Paris, 1950, p. 75

‘
I hope the Vichy people
’: quoted Jean Lacouture,
De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890– 1944
, New York, 1990, p. 397

‘
Jee-sus Christ!
’: quoted Rick Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
, New York, 2003, p. 123

‘
How Green is our Ally
’: Guy Liddell diary, 6.1.43, TNA KV 4/191

‘
Bring on the panzers!
’: Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn
, p. 160

26: Southern Russia and Tunisia

‘
temporary encirclement
’ : BA-MA RH 20-6/241

‘
a bull-necked
’: GBP

‘
that would be a Napoleonic ending
’: BA-MA N601/v.4, p. 3

‘
whatever the circumstances
’: Manfred Kehrig,
Stalingrad: Analyse und Dokumentation einer Schlacht
, Stuttgart, 1974, p. 562

here
For a discussion on the numbers surrounded and their different sources, see Antony Beevor,
Stalingrad
, London, 1998, pp. 439–40; Rüdiger Overmans,

here
‘Das andere Gesicht des Krieges. Leben und Sterben der 6. Armee’, in Jürgen Förster (ed.),
Stalingrad: Ereignis, Wirkung, Symbol
, Munich, 1992, p. 442; BA-MA RH20-6/239, p. 226; Peter Hild, ‘Partnergruppe zur Aufklärung von Vermisstenschicksalen deutscher und russischer Soldaten des 2. Weltkrieges’, in A. E. Epifanov (ed.),
Die Tragödie der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Stalin-grad
, Osnabrück, 1996, p. 29

‘
it’s useless to feed
’: 12.12.42, TsA FSB 40/22/11, pp. 77–80

‘
Even death is preferable
’: NKVD Don Front interrogation, 12.12.42, Sold.

here
Karl Wilniker, 376th Infantry Division, TsA FSB 14/5/173, p. 223

‘
The worst is past
’: Sold. K.P., 14.12.42, BfZ-SS