6. Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters, 1931–19 50, Oxford, 1954, 191 (30 April 1936).
7. Domarus, 621 and n.121.
8. Heinz Höhne, Die Zeit der Illusionen. Hitler und die Anfänge des 3. Reiches 1933 bis 1936, Düsseldorf/Vienna/New York, 1991, 347; Richard D. Mandell, The Nazi Olympics, London, 1972, 93–4, 142–3.
9. Höhne, 345.
10. Albert Speer, Erinnerungen, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin, 1969, 94, where the architect’s name is mistakenly given as Otto March (the father of Werner).
11. Arnd Krüger, Die Olympischen Spiele 1936 und die Weltmeinung, Berlin, 1972, 63; Mandell, 39, 125 (where it is pointed out that the stadium was only a twentieth of the enormous sporting complex, of a size equivalent to that of the city of Berlin itself in the late seventeenth century), 292.
12. Mandell, 141–50.
13. See Leni Riefenstahl, A Memoir, New York, 1993, 190–206. For a description of the film, Olympiade, see David Welch, Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933–1945, Oxford, 1983, 112–21.
14. Mandell, 227–9; Riefenstahl, 193.
15. Baldur von Schirach, Ich glaubte an Hitler, Hamburg, 1967, 217–18.
16. Chips. The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, ed. Robert Rhodes James, London, 1967, 110–11. See also Joachim von Ribbentrop, The Ribbentrop Memoirs, London, 1954, 63–4; William E. Dodd and Martha Dodd (eds.), Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 1933–1938, London, 1941, 346; Schmidt, 337–8; Mandell, 156–8.
17. Mandell, 206–7; Höhne, 352.
18. Höhne, 352. The racial, as well as nationalist, overtones had been obvious in German reactions to the unexpected victory of the heavyweight boxing hero Max Schmeling over the presumed invincible ‘Black Bomber’, Joe Louis, in New York on 18 June 1936. Goebbels, listening to the fight at 3.00a.m., noted in his diary: in the 12th round, Schmeling knocks out the negro. Wonderful. A dramatic, exciting fight. Schmeling has fought and won for Germany. The white man over the black man, and the white man was a German.’ (Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels. Sämtliche Fragmente, Teil I, Aufzeichnungen 1924–1941, 4 Bde., ed. Elke Fröhlich, Munich etc., 1987 (TBJG), vol.2, 630 (20 June 1936); and see Mandell, 117–21.
19. Krüger, 200.
20. Krüger, 201; Mandell, 138–9.
21. Krüger, 196.
22. Höhne, 351–2. The US Ambassador Dodd was not among them. He thought the propaganda had pleased the Germans, but had ‘had a bad influence on foreigners’. (Dodd, 349. Most eyewitnesses appear to have had a far more favourable impression.)
23. William Shirer, Berlin Diary, 1934–1941, Sphere Books edn, London, 1970, 58 (16 August 1936).
24. Viktor Klemperer, Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten. Tagebücher 1933–1941, 2 vols., ed. Walter Nowojski and Hadwig Klemperer, Darmstadt, 1998, i.293 (13 August 1936).
25. Melita Maschmann, Fazit. Mein Weg in die Hitler-Jugend, 5th paperback edn, Munich, 1983, 30–31.
26. Dieter Petzina, Autarkiepolitik im Dritten Reich. Der nationalsozialistische Vierjahresplan, Stuttgart, 1968, 35.
27. Petzina, 37.
28. Hjalmar Schacht, Abrechung mit Hitler, Berlin/Frankfurt am Main, 1949, 61–2; and see Höhne, 375.
29. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, 6 vols, so far published, ed. Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Stuttgart, 1979 (=DRZW), i.431–3.
30. Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, Oldenburg, Best.131 Nr.303, Fol.131V.
31. See Höhne, 373.
32. Petzina, 46.
33. Stefan Martens, Herman Goring. ‘Erster Paladin des Führers’ und ‘Zweiter Mann im Reich’, Paderborn, 1985, 68–9; Petzina, 35–40; Höhne, 377–8.
34. Petzina, 39.
35. Der Prozeß gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof. Nürn-berg, 14. November 1945–1 Oktober 1946, 42 vols. (=1MG) ix.319; Arthur Schweitzer, Big Business in the Third Reich, Bloomington, 1964, 544; Petzina, 40; Martens, 69.
36. IMG, ix.319; Petzina, 35–40; Martens, 69; Alfred Kube, Pour le mérite und Hakenkreuz. Hermann Goring im Dritten Reich, Munich, 1986, 140–41.
37. Carl Vincent Krogmann, Es ging um Deutschlands Zukunft 1932–1939, Leoni am Starnberger See, 1976, 272.
