Cavallero, Diario (Rome: ).
Mundane duties: See, e.g., Görnnert’s files, NA film T// and ff. A
typical day, Dec. , , saw lined up for HG a list of twenty-four ap-
pointments listing fifty names of people, some of whom had been waiting
for weeks to see him: Frau Mölders Jr., Gauleiter Forster, Reich Minister
Rüst, Dr. Popitz, Dr. Ley, von Hammerstein, Dr. Richard Conti, Milch,
Himmler, Sauckel, followed by a board meeting of H.G.W.-Romania.
Stalingrad airlift decision: The best study is by Johannes Fischer, in Militär-
geschichtliche Mitteilungen (Stuttgart; ), p. ff. Fischer, however, did not
have access to the Milch documents and diaries or those of Richthofen,
Manstein, Pickett, and Fiebig (DJ film a) upon which this author partly
relies. HG interrog., SAIC/, and especially his remarks to Richthofen
(diary, Feb. ) and his secret speech to the other Luftwaffe commanders
on Feb. , (Koller shorthand diary, DJ film ).
Oil conference: Shorthand minutes, Nov. , , on NA film T//ff.
Special train Asia: “Itinerary for the Trip from Berchtesgaden via Munich to
Paris,” Nov. –, , on NA film T//.
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Shopping in Paris: The receipts, estimates, and dispatch lists are in the papers
of Prof. Jacques Beltrand, dated Paris, Nov. –, (NA RG., box
).
Jewish brothers Löbl: Orion interrogs. of Walter Hofer and Bruno Lohse (NA,
RG., box ); Lohse, memo (ibid., box ); Limberger, note of June ,
(box ).
Rommel appears at headquarters: Rommel diary (shorthand text on NA film
T/, transcribed by author on DJ film ) and journey report ( N A
film //ff).
Trip to Rome: See interpreter Eugen Dollman’s report to Himmler, Dec. ,
(NA film T//ff); Lt. Alfred-Ingemar Berndt, briefing note
for HG, Nov. , (T//ff); and diaries of Rommel, Milch, and
Greiner.
Mussolini reception: Cavallero diary.
Rommel weeps: Milch diary, and handwritten memoirs (DJ films and a).
Ciano and Cavallero arrive: Italian minutes in Comando Supremo, files, Dec.
, (NA film T//ff), and Cavallero diary.
Stalingrad: Zeitzler Papers (BA-MA class N.) and files of the Sixth Army
and Army Group Don in BA-MA.
Luftwaffe production: Records for will be found in the files of GL confer-
ences, MD.; GL-Development conferences, MD.; Central Planning
conferences, MD.–. The author also relied on HG’s appointment di-
ary, Jan. to June , (IfZ, ED.), and a more comprehensive note-
book written up by HG from late May to July , ; as the IfZ’s Hermann
Weiss has observed (VfZ [], p. ff), these are worthwhile sources
only when used in conjunction with the Milch diaries and documents.
Stalingrad mission for Milch: Diary of Task Force Milch, Jan. to Feb. ,
(DJ film a; BA-MA, Lw./ and III.L/–); Maj. Werner Beumel-
burg, study on the Stalingrad airlift, June , (Milch Papers, DJ film