Göring. A Biography

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Oct.  (BA, RII/a); HG speeches of Dec. ,  (ND, NI-) and

Apr. , : “Apart from this, bargain orally and don’t write things

down!” (BA-MA, WiIF./). HG quotation is from his interrog. on

June ,  (USAISC).

Chapter : The Bridge at Guernica
Burckhardt, Prof. Carl F.: My Danzig Mission (Stuttgart: ), p. f. And
telegram of British delegation in Geneva to British F.O., May , 
(PRO file FO./).
Seasick: Kessler interrog., Sept. ,  (see above).
Backe: Frau Backe diary, Dec. , . Vansittart: report (see note “Vansit-
tart,” Chapter ).
HG staff conference: ND, -PS. Udet’s planning: memo of Jan. , 
(MD., p. ).
Udet: I have used a chronology drawn up by his adjutant, Max Pendele (BA-
MA, Lw./), and Udet’s conference notes in MD.. On the cancella-
tion of the four-engined bomber project, see Milch to Adm. Lahs, Nov. ,
 (MD., pp. ff), and his testimony in IMT, ix, .
Visit to Mussolini: See Malcolm Muggeridge, ed., Ciano’s Diplomatic Papers
(London: ), p. ff. There is a German transcript of HG’s talk with
Mussolini on Jan. , , in the German Central Archives, Potsdam
(DZA file ).
Guernica: Richthofen diary, Apr. ,  (extracts in SI). Maj. Klaus Maier,
Guernica, Apr. , . The German Intervention in Spain and the Guernica
Affair (Freiburg: ); and Siegfried Kappe-Hardenberg, “Guernica 
and No End” in Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart (), p. ff.
Lothian: Report of May ,  (PRO file FO./); on the general antipa-
thy to HG in Britain, see /.
Henderson reported his talk to F.O. on May ,  (/). See especially
Nevile Henderson, Failure of a Mission (London: ).
Iron ore: For materials on Germany’s native iron ore resources, see BA,
R/ through /. Protest by the steel bosses: see the facsimile in T. R.
Emesen, From Göring’s Writing Desk (East Berlin: ).
Brassert: Hermann Alexander Brassert, of H. A. Brassert & Co., Chicago. Cf.
HG interrog., Dec. , . For an analysis of the HGW’s pan-European
tentacles, see FBI report to FDR, Feb. ,  (FDR Library, file OF.b).
Reichswerke Hermann Göring: Göring MS, OI-RIR/, Oct. ,  (SI); inter-
rog. at “Ashcan,” June , .
Carinhall: HG to Hitler, July ,  (BA, Führer’s adjutants’ files, NS./).
Second Henderson interview on July , : reports by Sir G. Ogilvie-Forbes
and Henderson in PRO file FO./ and /.

Chapter : The Very Private Kingdom
“That green Freemasonry”: See, above all, the papers of Oberstjägermeister
Ulrich Scherping (BA file K.Erw.).
Swiss diplomat: Burckhardt (see first note to Chapter ).
Reich Game Law: in RGB., , I, . Cabinet meeting of July , : Papen
in X-P, and Darré diary.