War Without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 (85 page)
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Authors: Robert Kershaw
18.
Ibid p117.
19.
Interview
Steh auf es ist Krieg
ZDF German TV. 1991.
20.
Interview
Red Empire
Yorkshire TV 1990.
21.
Extracts from Stalin’s speech from Werth op cit p165–8.
22.
Halder op cit 8 Jul 41 p457.
23.
Holliday op cit p254.
24.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
25.
Knopp op cit p65.
The longest campaign
1.
Bock op cit 28 Jul 41 p265.
2.
Ibid 24 Jul 41 p261.
3.
Kuby op cit 11 Aug 41 p160.
4.
Letter 9 Aug 41
Soviet Feldpostbriefe
p27.
5.
Halder op cit 2 Aug 41 p492–3.
6.
Bock’s op cit 2 Aug 41 p270–1.
7.
Soldier R. K. 14/Inf Regt 111 35 Inf Div
Feldpostbriefe
10 Aug 41 p77.
8.
Ibid, 10 Aug 41. Nachsch Btl 563 p77.
9.
Ibid, 11 Aug 41. 8 /Inf Regt 55 17 Inf Div p78.
10.
Prüller, W.
Diary of a German Soldier
; Faber & Faber, 1963; 4 Aug 41 p89–91.
11.
Kuhnert op cit p75.
1.
Townsend, C. and E.:
Der Überfall
; Hoffman & Campe Verlag, Hamburg, 1984; p80.
2.
Halder op cit 1 Aug 41 p506.
3.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
4.
Halder op cit 22 Aug 41. p515.
5.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
6.
Stahlberg op cit p172.
7.
Interview.
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
8.
Adamczyk, W.:
Feuer!
’
– An Artilleryman’s life on the Eastern Front.
Broadfoot Pub Co, 1992; p143.
9.
Haape op cit p88.
10.
Keegan, J.:
The SecondWorldWar
; Arrow Books, 1990; p194.
11.
Feldpostbriefe
8 Aug 41 p77.
12.
Ibid p77.
13.
Ibid Inf Regt 73 p77.
14.
Ibid 22 Aug 41 Inf Regt 459 p79.
15.
Ibid Inf Regt 481 p79.
16.
KGS
p50.
17.
KGS
Diary entry 22 Aug 41 p75.
18.
Soviet
Feldpostbreife
Letter 28 Aug 41 p29.
19.
Quoted Werth op cit p164.
20.
Interview
The World at War
Thames TV.
21.
Rürup, R.:
Der Krieg gegen der Sowjet–Union 1941–45
; p170–1.
1.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
2.
Diary 17 Aug 41 Dollinger op cit p93–4.
3.
Statistics taken from Keegan op cit p197.
4.
Clark, A.: ‘Leningrad’,
War Monthly
; Vol. 1. Issue 2 p13.
5.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Diary entries 29 Aug 41, 25 Jun 41. Taken from Dollinger op cit p81–2, p94–5.
8.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
9.
Knopp op cit p143.
10.
Interview ZDF German TV 1991.
11.
Halder op cit p458.
12.
Ibid, 5 Sept and 12 Sept 41 p524 and 528.
13.
Knopp op cit p147.
14.
Vortragsnotiz Leningrad
.
Abteilung Landesverteidigung des Wehrmachtfuhrungstabes OKW
21 Sept 41 from: Leetz, A. and Wenner, B.:
Blockade. Leningrad. 1941–44
; Rowohlt 1992; p99–101.
15.
Kriegstagebuch der Heeresgruppe Nord
01.15 Uhr. 12 Oct 41 from: Leetz and Wenner op cit p100–1.
16.
Knopp op cit p147.
17.
Kriegstagebuch der Quartiermeister Abteilung der 18. Armee
3 Oct 41 19.30 Uhr, 5 Oct 41. 21.30 Uhr.
18.
Kriegstagebuch der Heeresgruppe Nord
01.15 Uhr 12 Oct 41.
19.
Harald Brand Interview
Der Unvergessene Krieg
. Eickhoff/Pagels/Reschl. p75. Historische Stichworte WDR German TV 1982.
20.
Kriegstagebuch der Heeresgruppe Nord
24 Oct 41 07.00 Uhr. Report on visit to 18th Army Sector by Ia [ie Ops staff offr].
‘Better three French campaigns than one Russian’
1.
Dollinger op cit p92.
2.
Diary 12 Aug 41 Kuby op cit p167.
3.
DeutscheWochenschau
shown early July 1941.
4.
Official Census Summer 1939. Quoted in Paul op cit p65–6.
5.
‘Ordinary Men. Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland’ p46–8.
6.
Kriegstagebuch der Heeresgruppe Nord
07.00 Uhr 24 Oct 41.
7.
Interview
Mein Krieg
German TV. 1991.
8.
Interview
Die Deutschen im ZweitenWeltkrieg
SWF TV 1985.
9.
Heer op cit p10.
10.
‘Images of War’ op cit p187.
11.
Heer, H. and Naumann K.:
Vernichtungskrieg – Verbrechen derWehrmacht 1941–4;
Hamburg 1995 p265–7.
12.
Helmut Schmidt, later Chancellor of the Republic of West Germany, in an interview in
Die Zeit
newspaper 3 Mar 95 p14–20.
13.
Interview
Mein Krieg
German TV 1991.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Hannes Heer op cit p9.
16.
Interview
Mein Krieg
German TV 1991.
1.
Zeiser op cit p15–6 and 24.
2.
Adamczyk op cit p109.
3.
Dills op cit p150.
4.
Zeiser op cit p166.
5.
Adamczyk op cit p115.
6.
Zeiser op cit p167–8.
7.
Das Reich
’A popular German newspaper. 3 Aug 41.
8.
Heer and Naumann op cit p448–9.
9.
Ibid, Letters Sporrenberg 17.7.41, Egon Kolbenhoff 13.10.42. and other quotations p450.
10.
Interviews with Ostfront veterans
The World at War
Thames TV.
11.
Letter 2 Sept 41.
KGS
p112.
12.
‘Diary of a German Soldier’. 1 Jul p69, 5 Jul. p75 and 15 Aug 41. p96.
13.
Sieg Heil
! 3 Aug 41. p122.
14.
Feldpostbriefe. Nachrichten Regt 501. 9 Jul 41. p73–74.
15.
M. Graf von Nayhauss.
Zwischen Gehorsam und Gewissen
. p144–146.
16.
Interview
Mein Krieg
German TV 1991.
17.
‘The Devil on my Shoulder’. p32.
18.
Interview
Mein Krieg
German TV 1991.
19.
Testimony of Survivors.
DieWehrmachts Untersuchungs – Stelle
. Alfred M de Zayas p273–276. Interviews Leutnant Franz Kroning, Oberschutze Wilhelm Metziger from
Kriegsverbrechen Nach der Akten derWehrmachts Untersuchungsstelle
. Venohr, Vogt and de Zayas. WDR German TV 1983.
20.
Kriegstagebuch (KTB) des OKW. Vol II. 1940–41. P. Schramm. Chart p1120–1121.
21.
By 1945 it was down to 20–25%. Kurt Böhme
Die Deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Sowjetischer Hand
. p49. München 1966. De Zayas p277.
22.
De Zayas p277–278 and 280–282.
23.
Communication Central Office for Political Propaganda of Soviet 5th Army signed by Maj Gen M. I. Potapov C in C 5th Army. De Zayas p288.
24.
De Zayas p289.
25.
Report Major Euler. 25 Jul 41. ‘Ich Offizier Armeeoberkommando 6’. Ibid p300.
26.
Both interviews from
Red Empire
Yorkshire TV 1995 production, presented by Dr Robert Conquest.
27.
Feldpostbriefe
3 Jul. 41. p73.
28.
Ibid 10 Jul 41. p74.
29.
Ibid 8 Aug 41. p77.
30.
Meldungen. Nr 201
. 10 Jul 41. p2505.
1.
Under Hitler’s Banner
. E. Blandford p127.
2.
Figures were 799,919 rising to 3,350,639 (15,179 officers). KTB des OKW. Vol II P. Schramm p.1106.
3.
Die Zeit
’ German newspaper ‘Forum’. 3 Mar 95.
4.
Soldat
p211.
5.
O. Bartov. ‘
Eastern Front 1941–45. German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare
’. Charts 13 and 18 p108.
6.
Martin van Creveld.
SupplyingWar
. p152.
7.
Interview.
Mein Krieg
. Eder and Kufus. German TV 1991.
8.
Zeiser op cit p50.
9.
Soldat
p211.
10.
Blandford, E.:
Under Hitler’s Banner
; Motorbooks, 1995; p31.
11.
Soldat
p211.
12.
Zeiser op cit p50.
13.
Blandford op cit p31.
14.
Soldat
p211.
15.
Streit
Das Schicksal der verwundeten Sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen
from Heer and Naumann op cit p78.
16.
Ibid p79 and 80.
17.
Interview
Mein Krieg
German TV 1991.
18.
Zeiser op cit p51.
19.
Heer and Naumann op cit p327.
20.
Bartov, O.:
The Eastern Front 1941–45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare
; Macmillan, 1985; p111.
21.
Zeiser op cit p51.
22.
Heer and Naumann op cit p328–9.
23.
Heer and Naumann Nov 41 op cit p81.
24.
Interview
Mein Krieg
German TV 1991.
25.
Zeiser op cit p53.
26.
Bartov op cit p116–7.
27.
Heer op cit p11, p17 and p28.
28.
Bartov op cit p110.
29.
Hammer and zur Nieden op cit p127.
30.
Heer and Naumann ‘Die 62 Inf Div’ p300–1 and p325.
31.
Adamczyk op cit p144.
32.
Hammer and zur Nieden 2 Jul 41 op cit p116.
33.
Interview
Mein Krieg
German TV 1991.
34.
The Untersturmführer was subsequently killed in action. Steinhoff, Pechel, Showalter op cit p49.
35.
Heer and Naumann ‘Korück 582’ op cit p325–7.
36.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
German TV 1991.
37.
24 Sept 41. 5th SS Viking, following a massacre at Karasnaya, Army Group South, from Neumann, P.:
The Black March
; Bantam, 1958/60; p149.
38.
Steinhoff, Pechel, Showalter op cit p202–3.
39.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg.
German TV 1991.
40.
Neumann op cit p131.
41.
Browning, C. R.:
Ordinary Men – Reserve Police Bn 101 and the Final Solution in Poland;
Harper Perennial, 1992, looks at how ordinary men in Reserve Police Battalion 101 were transformed into active participants of the ‘Final Solution’ in German-occupied Poland.