Endnotes
Prologue: Arrest the Reichsmarschall!
Martin Bormann’s handwritten drafts of the signals and diary, and his letter
to Heinrich Himmler, were provided to me by Col. James W. Bradin, U.S.
Army. The originals will go the USAMHI; I have deposited copies in m y
collection at the IfZ, Munich, along with all my other research files. (See
my microfilm list on page .)
The events after Apr. , : In Berlin, Koller’s diary and his telegram to
Hitler, Apr. (BA, Schumacher/; NA film T//ff;
DE/DIS; and BA-MA, RL/); and Koller, SRGG. and . I
also used Hermann Göring’s (HG’s) version under interrog. at “Ashcan”
(Mondorf on June , and Lammers’s version in telegram to Hitler, Apr.
, . Lammers Papers, NA film T/; ND, NG-; DJ film ).
Apr. on the Obersalzberg: Koller diary, and diary of Col. Berndt von Brau-
chitsch, read out in SRGG.. There are two versions of HG’s Apr.
telegram to Hitler in Bradin’s papers and the Berlin Document Center
(BDC) file on HG, and a different text in DE/DIS; Bradin’s file
contains HG’s messages to Keitel, Below, Ribbentrop, and Himmler. I also
relied on U.S. interrogs. of HG’s personal staff: Archmann, Görnnert,
Brandenburg, and Lau (University of Pennsylvania Library and SI) and
HG’s remarks on May (SAIC/X/), Steenracht’s (X-P/), and a
memorandum by Lammers, July , (OCHM, and SI).
Testament: Lammers Papers, NA film T/.
In Hitler’s bunker: Bradin Papers; my interview of Below, ; interrog. of
Speer, June , and (BAOR) Sept. , ; CSDIC interrog. of SS Obergrup-
penführer Jüttner, May , , and of Below, Mar. , (both TRP).
“Prevent” his flight: Speer to Galland, Apr. (NA film T//f; Beppo
Schmid, SRGG.).
Arrest: Hitler to HG, Apr. (war diary, WFSt North); diaries of Koller, Brau-
chitsch, and Bormann; interrogs. of Görnnert; Prof. Richard Suchenwirth,
interview of Ondarza (BA-MA, Lw./); SS Obersturmbannführer Dr.
Bernhard Frank, interrog. in SAIC/PIR/, and book Die Rettung von
Berchtesgaden und der Fall Göring (Berchtesgaden); interrog. of SS Bri-
gadeführer Dr. Ernst Rode, NA, RG: OSS file XL), and letter of
Oct. , (Lw./). In general, Maj. Ernst Evans (a.k.a. Ernst Eng-
lander, major in U.S. Air Force), “Göring Almost Führer,” in Interavia
(), nos. and ; and “The Flight of the Culprits” (Hoover Library,
Germany, F).
I found HG’s hitherto unpublished letter to Eisenhower and Devers, May ,
, in the files of Mrs. Ardelia Hall, OMGUS (NA, RG, box , file
HG); there is no copy in the Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas.
Capture: For American portrayals, see The Fighting th: A Pictorial History o f
the th Div. (Austin, Texas: ); Capt. Harold L. Bond, “We Captured
HG,” in The Saturday Evening Post, Jan. , ; Robert Stack, “Capture of
Göring,” in The T-Patcher, th Div. Journal, Feb. ; and T-Patch, spe-
cial edition, May , .