read the remarkable diaries of Prime Minister William
Mackenzie King.
Among the West German institutions consulted were the
Bundesarchiv in Koblenz (for civil records) and Bundesarchiv-
Militärarchiv in Freiburg (military files); the Militärgeschichtli-
ches Forschungsamt (by kind permission of the Wissenschaftli-
cher Leiter, Dr. Horst Boog) in Freiburg; the Politisches Archiv
des Auswärtigen Amtes in Bonn (diplomatic files); the Staatsar-
chiv Nürnberg (trial and some attorney records); the Bay-
erisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich (early police records on the
Nazis and the beerhall putsch), and the Geheimes Preus-
sisches Staatsarchiv in Berlin-Dahlem.
Among many scores of individuals to whom I am indebted,
I make mention only of Richard J. Giziowski, who passed on
hints about unknown collections of Göring materials; Reinhard
Spitzy, who provided copies from the papers of Prince Max von
Hohenlohe; Oberstleutnant a.D. Hans-Joachim Kessler, who
supplied material from his father’s papers; Nerin Gun, Gerd
Heidemann, Billy F. Price, Charles E. Snyder, and Keith Wilson,
who all supplied copies of Göring’s Nuremberg letters, which his
next of kin had regrettably sold off (most of the other letters
have vanished irretrievably); Freifrau Jutta von Richthofen, who
permitted me to quote from her late husband’s diaries (to which
Oberst a.D. Dr. Karl Gundelach provided access); Ursula Backe,
who let me use her diaries and Herbert Backe’s letters to her;
Lev Bezymenski, who furnished copies from the Fritsch papers;
Lieutenant Colonel Burton C. Andrus, Jr., who allowed inspec-
tion at Colorado Springs of his late father’s Nuremberg prison
files; Walter Lüdde-Neurath, who sent me the manuscript of his
prison memoirs; Philip Reed, of the Foreign Documents Centre
at the Imperial War Museum; the family of Daily Express jour-
nalist Ronald Selkirk Panton, who let me consult his papers in