in Prussian secret state archives, Dahlem, Inventory . Backe: diary of
his wife, July , .
Keppler: HG interrog., Nbg., Sept. , (Hoover Library, HG Collection).
Memo on conference with HG, July , (BA, EI/Ia). HG, undated
memo of July (ND, -PS).
Bodenschatz memo in ND, -PS. For the history of the Four-Year Plan,
see Wilhelm Treue, “Hitler’s Memo on the Four-Year Plan,” in VfZ
(), p. ff; and HG, manuscript OI-RIR/ of Oct. , , and inter-
rog. of Nbg., Oct. , . Wiedemann: note dated Mar. [] in his pa-
pers in the Library of Congress.
Franco’s letter: See the account by Angel Viñas in La Alemania Nazi y el de
julio (Madrid: ), p. ff, based on the testimony of HG’s man Johan-
nes Bernhardt and Spanish archives. Other details from Speer interrog. by
FIAT, June-July ; Milch diary, July , ; and HG interrog., July ,
(OCMH).
Lindbergh: Letters to Lt. Col. Truman Smith, June , July , Aug. , Sept. and
, (Hoover Library, Truman Smith Papers, box ); Harold Nicolson
diary, Sept. , .
Written submissions: Letter of HG to Schacht, Aug. (BA-MA, WiIF./);
reports of the R&E Section of HG’s Raw Materials and Currency Unit,
July , (BA, R/).
Four-Year Plan memorandum: In ADAP, C, v/, no. ; cf. Treue, Gramsch
(see above), and Esmonde Robertson, “The Four-Year Plan,” MS in IfZ
(Ms.).
Cabinet on Sept. , : BA-MA, WiIF./; cf. ND, -EC; Georg Thomas,
note of Sept. , (ND, -PS); Darré diary, and Herbert Backe, letter to
his wife of Sept. , (kindly provided by Frau Backe).
Vansittart: Report of Sept. , (Vansittart Papers, Churchill College,
Cambridge). For summaries of the payments to HG, July , , to Oct.
, , see SAIC/ dated May , : “HG Financial Report.” HG’s
account books are in NA, OMGUS files, RG, box . Cf. Gritzbach in-
terrog., Nbg., Sept. , .
Limberger: See her interrog. in NA, RG, box . She was born Aug. , ,
in the Saar, served as a librarian in the Prussian State Library in Berlin,
joined HG’s staff in ; her sister, a doctor, emigrated to London.
Reemtsma himself was interrogated at great length by CSDIC (WEA), FIR
report , Mar. , : He stated that HG agreed to stop the prosecution i n
Apr. in return for a RM million “donation” and million per an-
num in quarterly installments (NA, RG, Mis-Y, box ). My narrative
is also based on HG’s account books (see above); affidavit by Körner, Oct.
, (ND, NG-); HG interrog., Nbg., Dec. , ; Milch diary, Jan.
, ; report on Reemtsma trial in Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, Jan. , .
Görnnert, note for RM’s talk with Führer, July , (NA film
T//); HG conf. with the Reich commissars of the occupied territo-
ries, Aug. , (ND, exhibit USSR-). The Reemtsma receipt is in NA,
RG, box , “Art Fund” folder. Under § (simple passive bribery) and
§ (serious passive bribery) Reemtsma’s payments to HG were criminal
offenses under the Reich Penal Code.
Göring’s advice: Ordinance of Oct. , in RGB, , I, ; executive decree,