Chapter : Victory in the West
The Train, Asia: See, e.g., the loading manifest for HG’s trip to Paris, Nov. ,
, on NA film T//ff; for the bathroom coach inventory,
T//ff.
Rotterdam air raid: The most reliable analysis is that by Prof. Hans-Adolf
Jacobsen in Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau (WR) (), p. ff; cf. Kes-
selring, interrogated by USSBS.
Unrepentant: HG interrog., May , : SAIC/. Churchill routinely wrote of
“thirty thousand dead” in Rotterdam, e.g., in his letter to the king of Swe-
den, Aug. , .
Fritz Görnnert: Born Mar. , ; became HG’s personal assistant in Jan.
; he had until then been assistant to Prof. Töpfer, who held the chair
for aircraft construction at Karlsruhe University. See Görnnert’s interrog.
in May (DJ film ), his testimony in Case , Nuremberg, and inter-
views by G. Heidemann in and . The testing of the air-raid
warning procedure was described to the author by Col. Hans-Karl von
Winterfeld, Milch’s adjutant, in .
Swedish consul general was Raoul Nordling. Cf. Paul Reynaud, Mémoires, ,
pp. and .
Mopping up at Dunkirk: Quoted by Gerhard Engel, MS (IfZ). On May
Richthofen (CO of Air Corps) noted in his diary instructions received
that the British in the Dunkirk pocket were to be “annihilated.” On HG’s
personal role: Below, MS (see note “Dictated a letter,” Chapter ).
Milch lectured Göring: Milch, SRGG..
Charisma: Overheard in SRA.. Squadron commander: SRA., of Sept.
, ; SRA. of Mar. , .
A bit ridiculous: SRA. of Aug. , . A deer from Carinhall: Winterfeld
(see note “Fritz Görnnert,” Chapter ). Shotdown pilot: SRA. of Nov.
, .
Trawling for art in Amsterdam: “Shopping list” from the papers of Walter
Andreas Hofer, “Curator of the Art Collections of the Reichsmarschall,”
in OMGUS files: NA, RG., box .
Compiègne: Diary of Gen. Otto Hoffmann von Waldau, June , ; kindly
placed at the author’s disposal by his daughter (DJ film b).
“Sea Lion” a bluff: Schmid (see note “San Remo,” Chapter ). General of
Signals Wolfgang Martini “had the impression” for a long time that the
whole Sea Lion plan “was a feint,” according to the interrog. report
ADI(K)/. The letter from Maj. (G. S.) Baron Sigismund von Falken-
stein to von Waldau, June , , is reproduced in Karl Klee, Dokumente
zum Unternehmen Seelöwe (Gottingen: ), p. f., and he enlarged on it
in an interview with the author, May , .
Reichstag and Reichsmarschall: HG interrogated by Shuster, July –, .
The Reichsmarschall’s baton was an ivory wand inches long, ¼ inches
thick, covered with an alternating pattern of eagles, military crosses, and
iron crosses all worked in solid gold; there were solid-gold coronets at each
end, encrusted with diamonds, HG’s name, and the date July , . HG
also carried a -inch interim baton, again of ivory, furnished with