cially helpful”; confirmed by Körner, interrog., July , . O n
Gisevius’s role as an OSS agent, see Allen Dulles’s letter to R. H. Jackson,
in Library of Congress, R. H. Jackson Papers, boxes –.Chapter : Renaissance Man
Most powerful in the world: Luftwaffe G-, “The Air Situation in Europe,”
May , (app. to ADI[K] /).
Blomberg held a conference on “the proposed development of the air force” i n
Oct. (Liebmann Papers, IfZ, ED.). On the rebirth of the Luftwaffe, I
have used mainly the personal and official papers of Field Marshal
Erhard Milch: his diaries (see note “Milch diaries,” Chapter ), interro-
gations (DJ film ), selected Reich Air Ministry files (DJ film ), trial
documents from Case (DJ film ). The voluminous collection of Milch
documents from the Reich Air Ministry has now been repatriated to Ger-
many by the British government: among them, the verbatim records of
the most important conferences held by Milch, HG, Director of Air Ar-
mament, Fighter Staff, Central Planning, and other agencies; for a listing
of these volumes (cited below as MD-) and documents, see ADI(K) report
a/; DJ film ; or SI); I have deposited in the IfZ my own index to
the conferences. Of major importance is the volume Conferences with the
Reichsmarschall and Führer, – (DJ film ).
Loerzer and Kesselring: Quoted by Prof. Richard Suchenwirth. Suchenwirth’s
well-constructed interviews with Milch, Roeder (Judge Advocate General),
Loerzer, Ploch, Kreipe, Stumpff, Körner, Bodenschatz, HG adjutant Brau-
chitsch, Schmid, Seidel, Student, Kesselring, Hammerstein, Ondarza,
Klosinski, Knipfer, and Jeschonnek’s colleagues Lotte Kersten, Leuchten-
berg, Meister, and Christ are in the BA-MA, file Lw..
Croneiss: BDC file on Croneiss. In Croneiss was still cited in overheard
prisoners’ conversations as being the authority for Milch’s “Jewish” de-
scent. His true parental background, of which I am aware, shows that
Milch had no Jewish blood.
Letter to Rust: Quoted by Oskar Söhngen in Arbeiten zur Geschichte des
Kirchenkampfes (Göttingen: ), vol. , p. f.
Martin Niemöller, Hitler, and Protestant church leaders: What Happened on
Jan. , (Bielefeld: ); Bishop T. Worm, Memoirs (Stuttgart: );
Jörgen Glenthöy, Hindenburg, Göring, and the Protestant Church Leaders
(Göttingen: ), vol. , p. ff. On Hitler’s confrontation with
Niemöller, see especially Table Talk, Apr. , ; Alfred Rosenberg, diary,
Jan. , ; HG interrog. by Shuster, July , ; manuscripts by Lam-
mers, Dönitz, and Schwerin von Krosigk, July (OCMH); and a letter
from Niemöller to myself (SI).
The Forschungsamt report of Jan. , , is in HG’s file, “Political Excesses
by Protestant Clerics,” Jan. –, (BA, RII/; and cf. / and /).
Also the news item in Allgemeine Evangelische Landeskirchenzeitung, Feb.
, . For a letter from HG to Franz Gürtner about Niemöller and the
Confessional Church dated July , , see the Stütz Collection at Yale
University.
Galland: Interrog., “Birth, Life, and Death of the German Day Fighter Arm,”