vate collectors and at public auctions. All agencies of the State, Party, and
Wehrmacht are directed to assist him in the execution of his office” (NA,
RG., box ).
Party treasurer: HG’s correspondence with Rosenberg, Nov. , is in ND,
-PS; HG’s letter to R., Nov. , , is in PID report DE./DIS.
(Hoover Library, Lerner Papers, box ). The correspondence between ERR
and Party Chancellery, Dec. , is in NA, RG., box .
Cartier: Numerous visits are recorded in HG’s diary; and see his interrog.,
SAIC/, May , . Cash: Col. Pasewaldt overheard in SRGG. (“I
heard him [HG] say that with my own ears”).
HG’s visit to the Wilkinsons: Wilkinson letter to HG, Dec. , (NA, RG.,
box ).
paintings: Rosenberg report, Apr. , (ND, -PS). After Prof. Voss
inspected the ERR’s “salvage depot” at Neuschwanstein castle, he reported
on Apr. , , to Hitler, with the result that Bormann transmitted a
Führer directive to Rosenberg ordering him to hand over all works of art
to Voss; when Rosenberg protested, he was informed that the reason for
the directive was that “a major part of the seized works of art” had found
their way into HG’s collection.
Italy: For Mussolini’s files on HG’s purchase of Italian art treasures between
May and June , see NA film T/.
Harassed secretary: Gisela Limberger, interrogated at Nuremberg on May
and July , (IWM files).
Forged Vermeer: See the list headed “Swap of Vermeer (Miedl) and Seven
Pictures from Renders Collection, Brussels,” in NA, RG., box ; and
Limberger, memo for Dr. Lohse, July , (ibid.). HG originally pur-
chased the “Vermeer” for ,, guilders. Since Miedl refused to iden-
tify the seller (in fact the forger Van Meegeren), HG kept him waiting six
months for payment, then converted the deal into a swap (OSS report,
July , : NA, RG., box ; and Miedl dossier in box ). For the
unmasking of Jan van Meegeren, see the British United Press report, July
, .
Final interrogations: HG interrog., Nuremberg, Aug. , (NA, RG., box
).
Chapter : The Big Decision
Winter at Rominten: HG interrogs., July –, .
Bodenschatz: GRGG..
Molotov visit: HG interrog., Nuremberg, Aug. , . For the British (“Ul-
tra”) decrypt of Schulenburg’s Moscow dispatch to the German F.O., Nov.
, (reporting Gustav Hilger’s notes on HG’s meeting with Molotov),
see FDR Library, John Toland Papers, box .
Von Waldau: Diary, – (DJ film b).
Doctors: From a list in Miss Limberger’s files (NA, RG., box ); Dr. Ge-
hrke was at Bad Gastein, Stubenrauch at Nuremberg.
Letter to Eric: Letter from HG to Count Eric von Rosen, Nov. , , in P I D
report DE./DIS. (Hoover Library, Lerner Papers, box ).
Göring diary, : The original diary was read in by the author at the IfZ,