was arrested “as he was about to take a powder with RM,.” Cf.
Gilbert, op. cit., p. , and Bross, p. .
Schleicher’s murder: The reports by the district attorney of the Potsdam Assize
Court, Tetzlaff, are to be found in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (VfZ)
(), p. ff; for HG’s role, see OSS R&A Branch report, “HG as W a r
Criminal,” June , (DJ film ).
Gerlich: For HG’s lawsuit against, see Hans Frank’s files, BA, NL./AH.;
Gerlich’s defense lawyers introduced homosexual letters written by Ernst
Röhm and the suit was dropped. (See BA, Reich Justice Ministry files,
R/, and Schumacher/.)
Darré: Diary, June and July , ; and Milch diary.
Moulin-Eckart: HG interrog. by Shuster, July , . Leon Graf du Moulin-
Eckart, doctor at law, was chief of the Nazi party’s information service i n
the Brown House in , and Röhm’s adjutant. Born Jan. , ; indicted
for procuring and for unnatural sexual intercourse on Oct. , , hav-
ing provided his apartment to Röhm for homosexual activities; acquitted
(BA, R/).
Next of kin: See Himmler’s note for a meeting with Hitler on Aug. , ,
item : “Provision for next of kin,” i.e., of the executed plotters (NA film,
T//); in the files of party treasurer Schwarz is a letter from
Himmler to Lammers and others on Aug. , , reporting that at their
meeting the Führer had ruled that the next of kin were to be provided for
“as in the case of the Röhm putsch of June ” (IfZ file, Fa.).
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Rewarded the Gestapo: Görnnert, note for Gritzbach, Nov. , (NA film,
T//).
Croneiss: See note “Bribery,” Chapter .
Swearing in: Lt. Gen. H. J. Rieckhoff’s memoirs, Trump or Bluff, Twelve Years
of the German Luftwaffe (Zürich: ), p. f.
Belgrade: Sir Nevile Henderson’s dispatch to the F.O., Oct. , (PRO file
FO./); Heeren’s dispatch to German F.O., Oct. , (ADAP, C, iii/,
no. ).
Thomas von Kantzow: Diary, Dec. , (Fontander, op cit., p. f).
Air Ministry building: RAF Air Central Interpretation Unit, report K.(R),
“Berlin Main Air Ministry Building,” Feb. , .
Expansion in the East: Lipski, memo cited in Wojciechowski, op. cit., p. ; and
cf. memo by Lt. Gen. Schindler, the German military attaché in Warsaw,
Feb. , (BA, Beck Papers, NL./).
Don: The interpreter at HG’s interview was the then C.O. of the Flying
Training School at Warnemünde, Col. (later Lt. Gen.) Ulrich Kessler;
Kessler interrog. Sept. , (NA, RG, box ), and Kessler’s private
papers, kindly made available to me by his son.
Little dinner party: Letters from Phipps to John Simon and Orme Sargent,
Mar. and May , (PRO file FO./).
Twelve rings: Darré, overheard describing this on May , (X-P).
Rug: Tietze (see note “Chief architect,” Chapter ).
Medals: Reich cabinet meeting, Apr. , (BA, RI/). Schacht, interrog