berg, Oct. , , and testimony in IMT, ix, p. ff, and in Case (Mar. ,
) p. ,, and handwritten memoirs (IfZ, SI); see too his statement at
the GL conference on Dec. , (MD., ).
Oshima: For the American or British (“Magic”) decrypt of his dispatch to
Tokyo on Mar. , , see NA, RG., SRDJ.,.
Hitler’s speech on Mar. , : See the diaries of Von Waldau, the Naval Staff,
the High Command (OKW), and Halder.
Schwenke: See Schulenburg’s dispatch to German F.O., Moscow, Apr. ,
(NA film T//); Below MS, and Schwenke, interviewed for the
author on Aug. , , and his letter to the author on Dec. , . Georg
Thomas, “Replies to English Gentlemen’s Queries,” Aug. ,
(OCMH files).
Fight against the Jews: HG order dated May , , in Bunjes files, NA, RG.,
box .
Speer-Model: HG diary, and Speer’s Office Chronicle, May , .
Hess’s flight: Bodenschatz, talking in SRGG., and to the author on Nov. ,
; and Hewel diary (DJ film a); Messerschmitt, interrogated by
USSBS on May –, , and private papers (IWM file FD./, vol.
); HG interrog. on June (CCPWE, DJ-) and July , (Shuster).
“If I had any say in it”: HG interrog. at Nuremberg, Oct. , .
“Hermann”: Captured Luftwaffe officers’ conversations, reported in SRA.,
SRA., and SRA. (all in PRO file WO./).
Crete: HG interrog., SAIC/. Maj. Gen. Conrad Seibt, “Air Supply Problems
of the Crete Campaign,” Sept. , (APWIU, th Air Force, report no.
/); Gen. Meister, in SRGG., and Student in SRGG..
British code-breakers: In May the British cryptanalysts had used com-
puters to break the German air force’s operational code, with the result the
British and American archives today contain thousands of signals that
were lost or destroyed at the time of Germany’s collapse. See, for example,
the British analysis, “Use of CZ/MSS Ultra by the U.S. War Dept.,
/” in NA, RG., SRH-. The most important source used by this
author, apart from the few Ultra decrypts released to the PRO in London
(class DEFE.), was the long narrative written in June by the Ameri-
can Lt. Col. Haines, “Ultra: History of U.S. Strategic Air Force Europe ver-
sus German Air Force” (NA, RG., SRH-).
Luftwaffe overextended: Hewel diary (DJ film b). For Stalin’s secret speech,
see HG’s interrog. at Nuremberg, Aug. ; by the U.S. State Dept., Nov.
–, ; Bross, op. cit., p. ; and Ribbentrop’s meeting with the Bulgari-
ans Cyrill and Filoff on Oct. . . Soviet prisoner interrogs. confirming
the Stalin speech are on NA films T/ and /.
Broad hint: Hewel diary, June , and Oshima dispatch to Tokyo, June –,
(Hillgruber, WR [], p. ff); cf. letter of Hitler to Mussolini, May ,
(Mussolini Papers, NA film T//f).
June , : Meanwhile HG had summoned Dahlerus once more to Berlin:
The passport shows his arrival on June , departure on June , . Mal-
let’s dispatch to the F.O. reporting the “cryptic” message from HG, June ,
is in PRO file FO./; two days later he confirmed, “My informant
was Dahlerus.” Dahlerus also must have informed the Americans, be-
cause late on June Sumner Welles, in Washington, notified Lord Hali-