cow. The author has deposited copies in the BA-MA (archived there a s
N./). In reconstructing the chronology, the author has used the dia-
ries of Keitel’s adjutant, air-force Capt. Wolf Eberhard (DJ film ), Jodl
(DJ film ), and Milch (DJ film ); he has also used narratives written
by Keitel, Milch, Bodenschatz (IfZ, ZS. ), Lt. Gen. Biron (PWB/SAIC/,
of June , ) and a memoir written by Puttkamer for him in June .
Cf. Ministerial Direktor Heinrich Rosenberg, “The Dismissal of...
Fritsch,” Deutsche Rundschau (), p. ff; Blomberg’s own version
(SAIC/FIR/) and confidential memoirs, now in the hands of his heirs.
Police file no. on his bride, Erna Grühn, is now held by the IfZ. See
too the interrogs. of Blomberg at Nuremberg, Aug. , (NA, RG.)
and (in confidence) of HG, Nuremberg, Nov. , .
Blomberg: Bodenschatz, ZS.; Lehmann, cited by Bross. p. f; Puttkamer,
ZS., and in interviews with the author in – and .
“Battle against the Jews”: Private letters from Fritsch to his friend Baroness
Margot von Schutzbar; the originals are in the Wheeler Bennett Papers,
St. Anthony’s College, Oxford.
Hitler’s dissertation of Jan. , : Milch diary, and text in BA-MA file RH.-
/.
“For three hours I sat”: HG interrog., Nuremberg, Oct. , . HG’s question
to Henderson: see DBFP () , nos. and . Göring wanted to suc-
ceed Blomberg: Bodenschatz in conversation with Suchenwirth, June ;
von Below, ditto, July , (BA-MA, Lw.), and in IfZ, ZS.; Boden-
schatz, ZS.; Blomberg, affidavit of Nov. , (IMT, , ).
Gestapo interrogation: The text is on NA film T//ff, and in BA-MA,
Fritsch Papers, N./. Werner Best’s diary unfortunately has vanished.
In it was in the Royal Danish State Archives in Copenhagen, where
British officers used it during their interrog. of this top Gestapo function-
ary.
Attorney von der Goltz: See his papers in the BA, K.Erw./. Information on
Heitz is in Weichs’s memoirs, BA-MA.
Court opening: Goltz (see above and SAIC/); Keitel, interrogated by U.S. State
Dept., Oct. , ; letter from Fritsch to Hitler, Apr. , .
Chapter : The Winter Ball
Pecking order: Letter from Meissner to Brückner, Feb. , (BA, NS./).
Austria: Tauschitz’s dispatches to Vienna were captured when Hitler annexed
Austria in . See Serial in the Political Archives of the German
Foreign Office, on NA films T/ through ; a few were cited i n
the Schmidt Trial. See too HG interrog., Nuremberg, Sept. , , and
ND, -PS.
Berghof confrontation with Schuschnigg: Bross, p. ; HG interrogs. of Oct.
and , ; and Milch diary, June , .
Dictated a letter: HG to Schmidt, Mar. , , draft reproduced in Emesen, op.
cit. In the winter of – Nicolaus von Below (Hitler’s Luftwaffe ad-
jutant, June , , through Apr. , ) wrote a -page memoir,
From Rise to Fall: Hitler and the Luftwaffe; he kindly made this available to
the author.