The Air Corps radio message is in SRH- (see note “British code
breakers,” Chapter ). The author has also relied on the war diaries of C -
in-C West, the OKW, the Naval Staff, and Army Group B, and the inter-
rogs. of HG and von Brauchitsch quoted by Ernst Englander in Interavia,
July .
Karl Koller’s papers: Primarily the series of “Daily Records” dictated by h i m
throughout June (DJ film ).
Decoding: A study well founded on the Ultra files now in the PRO is Ralph
Bennett, Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign of – (London:
).
Suicide pilots: Reitsch (see note “Suicide squadron,” Chapter ); Koller’s
daily records, June and ; Milch diary, July and , Aug. ; Speer, sec-
ond memo on hydrogenation plants, July ; memo on conference with
SS Col. Skorzeny, July , (MD., ), and letter from him to the
author, June , .
Galland: Overheard in SRGG..
Poltava: Koller daily record, June , (DJ film ).
Luftwaffe production in summer : GL conferences, MD.; Fighter Staff
conferences, MD. and MD.; Central Planning conferences, MD.
Radio signal by HG, July , : English text in SRH.. Berghof conference of
June , : War diary of Army Group B (on NA films T/ and
T/), and the notes taken by Dönitz, Koller, and Jodl (whose diary for
this period has been largely disregarded by historians).
Art treasures: Correspondence between Bunjes and Hofer, July –, (NA,
RG., box ). The “Diana” was from Château Anet, sculpted in mar-
ble, probably by Jean Goujon; the French sculptor G. Chauvel had been
commissioned to make a copy for HG, who had a special truckload of
marble brought up from Italy. (Letter, Bunjes to Limberger, Feb. , ,
in RG., box .)
Hitler’s strategy: Koller daily record, July , (DJ film ).
HG on morning of July : Letter from Maj. Gen. Friedrich Kless to the author,
Oct. , .
Couldn’t stand Mussolini: HG interrog., SAIC/.
Bomb attempt on Hitler’s life: The author has used, in particular, the file of
documents collected by Maj. Hugh Trevor-Roper for British military in-
telligence after the war (DJ film ). HG’s presence at Hitler’s that day:
Letter from Martin Bormann to his wife, July (original in the posses-
sion of François Genoud; cf. The Bormann Letters [London: ]). The
most reliable eyewitness accounts are by Bodenschatz (SRGG.), Doll-
mann (CSDIC/CMF/X-), von Below (BAOR report, Jan. , ), and
Buchholz (DJ film ). See Paul Schmidt’s note on Hitler’s conference
with Mussolini, and the Naval Staff war diary, July . HG’s views on
Beck: HG interrog., SAIC/.
Secret speech: Verbatim record of HG’s speech, Nov. , , is in Koller’s pa-
pers (DJ film ). “No officers of my Luftwaffe.. .”: Quoted by Heydt,
GRGG..
Barsewisch: Handwritten memoir in Trevor-Roper’s papers (DJ film ). I n -
volvement of Herbert L. W. Göring: Handwritten testimony of SS Maj. Dr.
Georg Kiessel, Aug. , (ibid.); and more especially the BAOR interrog.