fax, the British ambassador. From London, Vincent Massey (Canadian
high commissioner) cabled to his government in Ottawa on June the
same information (Mackenzie King Papers, file MG , J, vol. : Public
Archives of Canada). But Hitler’s preparedness to attack the Soviet Union
was known to Churchill from Ultra code breaking in any case, and on
June , Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden passed a warning to Soviet a m -
bassador Ivan Maisky (PRO file FO./). Sikorski’s warning is
quoted in Biddle’s letter to Roosevelt, June , (FDR Library, PSF box
, file: A. J. Biddle, /).Chapter : Signing His Own Death Warrant
Jeschonnek: Beppo Schmid, interviewed by Suchenwirth, Feb. , (BA-MA,
Lw./). Planes shot down: Milch diary (DJ film ); HG interrog., May
, ; the figures are confirmed in the official Soviet History of the Great
Patriotic War.
Secret decree of June , : Lammers Papers, NA film T/.
Diamonds: SS Obergruppenführer Berger, SRGG.. Heydrich: HG interrog.,
Dec. , .
Heart specialist: HG diary, passim. Stumpff: Related in interview by Suchen-
wirth, Nov. , (BA-MA, Lw./).
Führer conference of July , : Bormann, “Memo on the Definition of Ger-
man Objectives in the East” (ND, -PS); cf. Thomas memo, “Outcome
of the Discussions with HG and Keitel,” July , (NA film T/). I n
his memoirs, p. , Rosenberg would describe Koch as “a favorite of
Göring, who set great store by Koch’s business acumen.” Rosenberg
managed to keep Koch out of the Baltic provinces, but not out of the (more
important) Ukraine.
Bräutigram, Otto: The quotation is from the handwritten diary kept by h i m
from June , , through Feb. , (DJ film ).
Dahlerus: HG told him that “Japan had been granted a free hand in east Rus-
sia,” that despite the surprising Soviet tank strength HG “felt that power
of Russian armies will be crushed in about six weeks,” and that “it is then
planned to divide Russia into small states, Göring to be economic dictator
and Rosenberg political dictator.” Telegram of Greene (Stockholm) to
Hull, July , , in FDR Library, PSF box .
Instruction to Heydrich: Photocopy (with HG’s signature) in BDC file on
Heydrich, attached to latter’s letter to chief, SS Main Office, Jan. ,
(DJ film ); further copies: unsigned, ND, NG-; undated, ND, -
PS.
Palace of Minos: Roeder, cited in Milch diary, Oct. , (DJ film ).
Italian tapestries: Limberger note for HG, listing purchase in Italy, Oct. ,
; letter of Ondarza to Limberger, Aug. , ; note by Angerer to HG,
Sept. , (NA, Angerer Papers, RG., box ). Rothschild treasure:
Letter from Naval Signals Command West, Apr. , (ibid., box ).
Ramcke: SRGG..
No comparing... : Waldau diary, Sept. , (DJ film b). On the following,
I have used primarily Suchenwirth’s study on Udet (DJ film b), Col.
Max Pendele’s chronology (BA-MA, Lw./), and Milch’s diary