Chapter : Exit Jeschonnek
“Bigger barrage balloons”: All these observations are quoted from HG’s
handwritten notebook (IfZ, ED.).
Heavy raids on Russia: See the paper by Herhudt von Rohden in WR (), p.
ff.
Fi robot plane conference with HG: June , , transcript in archives of
Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg.
Göring’s stock is low: Goebbels’s unpublished diary (DJ film ).
Aircraft designers visit Hitler: Capt. Wolf Junge, typescript memoirs (IfZ, SI);
USSBS interrog. of Messerschmitt, and his briefing notes for the confer-
ence in IWM file FD./; and Bormann diary, June , .
Hüls: Milch to HG, June , (MD., ).
Herrmann conference with HG, June , (MD., ff) and interview
with the author; Milch telegram to HG, June , (MD., ).
Hitler’s speech of July , : Summary in Gen. Johannes Friessner’s papers,
BA-MA, RH.–/; partial verbatim record on NA film T/ (= ND,
-PS); referred to by Gen. von Knobelsdorff, in report X-P, May , ,
and a paper by Gen. W. E. Kempff in BA-MA, N./.
Ruhr inspection by Milch: Milch, report dated June , (MD., ff); di-
ary, July –, , and testimony in Case , Mar. , ; Axthelm,
SRG..
Euphoria about Citadel: Rommel diary, July , (DJ film ).
Hitler furious: Hitler at war conference, July , ; Helmut Heiber, Hitlers
Lagebesprechungen (Stuttgart: ), p. ff.
Bodenschatz: In SRGG.; Milch diary, Aug. , ; cf. Wilfried von Oven,
Mit Goebbels bis zum Ende (Buenos Aires: ). HG phone call to Milch,
July , : MD., .
New night fighter tactics: Milch telegram to HG, Aug. , (MD., ). See
too the interrog. report on Galland and Gollob, “The Birth, Life, and
Death of the German Day Fighter Arm,” ADI(K) /; and that on
Schmid, Kammhuber, Stumpff, and Ruppel, “The History of German
Night Fighting,” ADI(K) /. Both are to be found in NA, RG. box
m.
HG unpopular: Letter from Berger to Himmler, July , (NA film
T//).
Jeschonnek: Suchenwirth’s interviews of Lotte Kersten, Kurt Student, Hans-
Georg von Seidel.
Jostling for position: HG interrog., July , , by Shuster.
Peiner: Letter from Limberger to HG, Aug. , (NA, RG., box ).
Ondarza: Interview with Suchenwirth, Apr. , .
All night fighters to Bear: Telegram of Weise to HG, Aug. , (files of the
Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg); author’s interview of
Kammhuber, Nov. , . Raid on Peenemünde: David Irving, The
Mare’s Nest (London: ).
Suicide of Jeschonnek: See notes “Jeschonnek” and “Peiner,” Chapter ; and
Suchenwirth’s study, “Hans Jeschonnek,” on DJ film b.