Reich Research Council: A shorthand record of this opening session on July ,
, is in Milch’s papers: MD., p. ff. For the gauleiters’ conference
of Aug. , see the shorthand record (ND, exhibit USSR-) and M. Bor-
mann’s diary, Aug. –, (DJ film ).
“All cruelty”: HG interrog,, SAIC/X/. And see HG’s diary, e.g., Apr. ,
(see second note to Chapter ). According to a newspaper item of Nov.
(“Göring’s job for Bouhler”) on NA film T//, HG, acting a s
chairman of the Ministerial Defense Committee, had given B. the task of
“examining all tips and complaints coming in from ordinary members
of the public.” Typical samples of HG’s office (Görnnert) passing on to
Bouhler’s such cases are on film T//ff, /; the Greim case,
T//f; the Stengl case, T//ff; the Waizer case, T//; the
Manasse/Cohn case, T//, T//, and T//. Körner’s
statement about Auschwitz at the Central Planning session of July , ,
is in Milch’s papers, MD. and ND, R-; cf. Körner’s testimony i n
Case , Aug. , , p. ,.
Chapter : The Thousand-Bomber Raid
Sponeck: Waldau diary, Jan. (DJ film b). See particularly the paper by
Dr. Günter Gribbohm in the Deutsche Richterzeitung, May , p. ff,
and Feb. , p. ff. For Himmler’s speech of Aug. , , see VfZ (),
p. f.
Heat packs: Hitler’s Table Talk. Code-breakers: NA, RG., SRH- (see note
“British code breakers,” Chapter ).
Robert Ley: See too Ley’s personal files in Library of Congress, R. H. Jackson
Papers (DJ film ).
Visit to Rome: Itinerary on NA film T/; Paul Schmidt minutes, Jan. ,
(see note “Pétain,” Chapter ); and Ciano’s diaries. In Rome HG
also spoke with Japanese Gen. Oshima, whose Jan. report to Tokyo w a s
intercepted by “Magic.” HG asked for Japanese expertise in designing
landing craft. “I feel,” he added, “that I have made a great mistake in not
giving more study to the matter of launching aerial torpedoes.” FDR Li-
brary, PSF box .
Appointment of Speer: Milch diary (DJ film ) and memoirs; Speer office
chronicle.
Milch documents: Offer a full account of his expansion of Luftwaffe produc-
tion during : correspondence between HG and Milch, MD.; HG
conferences, , MD.; General Luftzeugmeister (GL, director of air
armament) conferences, , MD.–; and Central Planning, ,
MD.. All these volumes are now archived at the BA-MA; for an index to
them, see DJ film . See too the Messerschmitt Papers in IWM, FD./
and /.
Reprisals against London: HG conference, Mar. ; and shorthand diary of
Koller, Mar. (DJ film ). See too the Milch file, “Briefings of
Reichsmarschall and Führer, –” (DJ film ).
Ohlendorf: See note “Gifts,” Chapter . Hans Lange: RG., Hofer Papers,
box .
Veltjens, Josef: Richthofen squadron veteran, later SA Oberführer; evicted