Papers, in the collection of Reinhard Spitzy); for R.’s conversation with
HG, see PRO file FO./.
Hitler’s Berghof speech: Diaries of Gen. Halder and Milch, Adm. Albrecht and
Boehm (latter, ND, Raeder exhibit ), Gen. von Bock and Adm. Canaris
(ND, - and -PS), and Manstein (latter kindly provided to the
author by the field marshal’s son). No credit can be attached to the ver-
sion in ND, -L; see Winfried Baumgart’s essay on this speech in VfZ
(), p. ff.
Cabinet meeting: Based on Darré’s diary and the private letter written by Her-
bert Backe on Aug. , (kindly furnished to the author by Frau Ursula
Backe).
“Is this just temporary?”: HG interrogated at Nuremberg, Aug, , .
Italian raw material demands: For the Forschungsamt’s “Brown Page” inter-
cept of Aug. , , see NA film T/.
Dahlerus: His negotiations and telephone calls in the final days of Aug.
are recorded in PRO files FO./, /, FO./, and the British
cabinet minutes of Aug. and .
Vormann: Copies of the diaries and private letters of Col. Nikolaus von Vor-
mann, the liaison officer of the Army High Command to the Führer, were
provided by his widow to the author, who has deposited them in the SI at
the IfZ. Vormann would write later, “During all those days I did not hear
one bellicose word uttered by [Göring]; in fact from all his remarks it was
clear that he viewed the situation as deadly serious and was racking his
brains for a better way out. And Göring had no reason at all to try and
fool me, an old cadet comrade of his.”
Disembodied voice: See the Forschungsamt’s dossier, N, “On British
Foreign Policy from the Munich Agreement to the Outbreak of War,” on
NA film // (DJ film ). A transcript of this phone call is also
on NA film T//.
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Schmid: See note “San Remo,” Chapter .
Wiegand: Quoted in FBI report, FDR file OF.b.
Warsaw: See the captured dispatch of the French air attaché in Warsaw, Gen.
Armendgaud, reproduced in the German White Book no. , Dokumente
über die Alleinschuld Englands am Bombenkrieg gegen die Zivilbevölkerung
(Berlin: ), especially document no. , dated Bucharest, Sept. , :
“The German air force has not attacked the [Polish] civil population. I
must emphasize that the German air force has acted in accordance with
the laws of war; it has attacked only military objectives... It is vital that
people in Britain and France hear of this so that nobody exacts reprisals
where there is no cause for reprisal, and so that we are not the ones to u n -
leash total air warfare.”
Dahlerus: Reports from Sept. , , are in PRO file FO./.
Bialystok: Von Vormann, unpublished MS (IfZ).
Ministerial Defense Council: See the handwritten memoirs of Lutz Count
Schwerin von Krosigk in the IfZ archives, ZS/A.. During one session on
Sept. the OKW’s legal chief, Lehmann, briefed Field Marshal Göring on