also used the Reich cabinet minutes, RI/ff (in part on DJ film ).
Schwerin von Krosigk: Diary, Nov. , , to Feb. , (DJ film , and file
DE/DIS).
Papen: Often interrogated, but see especially interrog. of July , (SI), and
of HG, Aug. and Nov. , ; and Hitler, Table Talk, May , (from
Heinrich Heim’s original note in the possession of François Genoud).
Aviation: Presidential decree of Feb. , , in Reich Law Gazette, , I, .
Dimitrov: HG interrog. by Shuster, July , .
Dimitrov, et al., were deported to the USSR despite strong protests by HG and
Diels; Hitler informed HG on Apr. , , he had ordered the men sent
quietly away (BA, RGII/). For the trial of Dimitrov, see the report i n
the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Nov. , .
Chapter : Göring’s Pet
Concentration camps: On May , , HG allowed foreign journalists to tour
his camp at Sonnenburg, where “leftists” were held without trial.
AP’s chief Berlin correspondent, Louis Lochner, satisfied himself that the
cruel treatment had now stopped and that the prisoners were being treated
humanely. Lochner, letter to daughter Betty, FDR Library, Toland papers,
box .
Diels: I have used (with proper caution) his affidavits of Oct. and Nov. ,
(ND, -PS and PS), and above all his BAOR interrog. in
Civilian Interrogation Camp and his manuscript, “The Prussian Politi-
cal Police and the Founding of the Gestapo,” both in NA, RG (series
MIS-Y), box . Decree of Apr. , , in Prussian Law Collection, ,
.
Chief architect: Heinz Tietze (of Berlin’s Dept. of Buildings and Finance), in-
terrog. by SHAEF PWE (“The Rebuilding of Göring’s Apartment”), May
, (NA, RG, OSS file ). Floor plans of Göring’s official resi-
dence are in the Hoover Library.
Forschungsamt: Diels called it “Göring’s darling” (BAOR, see note “Diels,”
above). HG himself was interrogated about the FA on June , July , ,
. The only history of the FA is my own Breach of Security, with Prof. D.
C. Watt (London: ). For the current work I interviewed FA officials
Dr. Gerhard Neuenhoff, Karl-Anton Loibl, and Milch; David Kahn in-
terviewed Walther Seifert (head of section Vb, evaluation). See too Ulrich
Kittel’s study on the FA in IfZ, ZS., and BA, K.Erw., and the affi-
davit of the FA’s legendary chief Gottfried Schapper in Case , Nbg., Mar.
and June , . For documents on FA operations see: security directives,
–, in BA-MA file RL./; correspondence files of the Führer’s adju-
tants in the BA, NS./, /, and /, and with HG’s ministerial bureau,
in the Hoover Library, HG Collection, box . Scattered “research reports”
(i.e., wiretap reports) will be found on NA film T/ (“from the Mu-
nich Agreement to August ”); HG in the Anschluss crisis (ND, -
PS); Bene in the Sudeten crisis, Sept. (PRO file FO./); Ciano
phone call on Aug. , (NA film T/). Intercepts:
Gisevius treachery: HG stressed (under interrog., June , ) that the deci-
phered dispatches of the American legation in Berne had “proved espe-