95. Krausnick/Wilhelm, Truppe, 97–8, 102–3; Ernst Klee, Willi Dreßen, and Volker Rieß (eds.), ‘Schöne Zeiten’. Judenmord aus der Sicht der Täter und Gaffer, Frankfurt am Main, 1988, 14–15; Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, 1939–1945, Der Zweite Weltkrieg in Chronik und Dokumenten, 5th edn, Darmstadt, 1961, 606–8; Müller, Heer, 448–9.
96. See Müller, Heer, 428ff.
97. IfZ, MA 1564/24, Nuremberg Documents, NOKW-1799; text printed in Krausnick/Wilhelm, Truppe, 103–4 and n.425; Brauchitsch’s comments came a day after Blaskowitz’s final report, and five days after the complaint of Ulex.
98. Engel, 68; Krausnick, Morde, 204, n.42.
99. Krausnick/Wilhelm, Truppe, 103.
100. Müller, Heer, 451, n.152.
101. Cit. Krausnick/Wilhelm, Truppe, 106; Klaus-Jurgen Müller, ‘Zu Vorgeschichte und Inhalt der Rede Himmlers vor der höheren Generalität am 13.März 1940 in Koblenz’, VfZ, 18 (1970), 95–120, here 108. See Albert Zoller, Hitler privat. Erlebnisbericht seiner Geheimsekretärin, Düsseldorf, 1949, 195, for Himmler’s comments, evidently in the same context: ‘The person of the Führer must on no account be brought into connection with [the atrocities in Poland]. I accept full responsibility.’
102. IfZ, ZS 627, (Gen. Wilhelm Ulex) Fol.124: ‘Ich tue nichts, was der Führer nicht weiß.’ See also Krausnick/Wilhelm, Truppe, 105; Krausnick, Morde, 205; Müller, Heer, 451. Irving, HW, 13n, casts doubt on the veracity of Ulex’s recollection, on the grounds that no one else present on the occasion subsequently referred to these words.
103. Broszat, Polenpolitik, 41.
104. TBJG, I/7, 157 (17 October 1939). For the production and content of the film, see the detailed study of Stig Hornshøh-Møller, ‘Der ewige Jude’. Quellenkritische Analyse eines antisemitischen Propagandafilms, Institut fürden Wissenschaftlichen Film, Göttingen, 1995.
105. TBJG, I/7, 173 (29 October 1939); quotation, 177 (2 November 1939). Hitler took a direct interest in the film. He had suggestions to make when Goebbels spoke to him again about the development of the film in mid-November (TBJG, I/7, 201 (19 November 1939). Fritz Hippler, head of the film department in the Propaganda Ministry and producer of the film, claimed in his memoirs long after the war that Goebbels had told him when commissioning film of the Polish ghettos that the Führer wanted all the Jews resettled in Madagascar or elsewhere, and that the film was required for archival purposes (Hornshøh-Møller, ‘Der ewige Jude’ 16; Fritz Hippler, Die Verstrickung, Düsseldorf, 1981, 187). Goebbels’s language on the Poles resembled that of Hitler: ‘Drive over Polish roads. That’s already Asia. We’ll have a lot to do to germanize this area’ (TBJG, I/7, 177 (2 November 1939)).
106. Michael Burleigh, Germany turns Eastwards. A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich, Cambridge, 1988, especially ch.4.
107. Documenta Occupationis, v.2–28; Broszat, Polenpolitik, 26–7.
108. See Götz Aly and Susanne Heim, Vordenker der Vernichtung. Auschwitz und die deutschen Plane für eine neue europäische Ordnung, Frankfurt am Main, 1993.
109. For a brief sketch of Greiser’s personality and career, see Ian Kershaw, ‘Arthur Greiser — Ein Motor der “Endlösung” ’, in Ronald M. Smelser, Enrico Syring, and Rainer Zitelmann (eds.), Die Braune Elite II, Darmstadt, 1993, 116–27. Greiser’s motor-boat licence from 1930 is in his file in NA, IRR, Box 69, XE 000933, NND 871063, Folder 3. By then he had already joined the Party, because, he was said to have stated (letter in the file to Greiser from Rolf-Heinz Höppner, 22 November 1943), ‘that this was the only thing that could still save him’ (‘dass dies das einzige sei, was ihn noch retten könne’). His political enemies later claimed that he was engaged at the time in currency smuggling.
110. Cit. Kershaw, ‘Greiser’, 118.
111. Burckhardt, 78.
112. Burckhardt, 79.
113. Cit. Kershaw, ‘Greiser’, 125.
114. Rebentisch, 163–88, here especially 183.
115. Cit. Kershaw, ‘Greiser’, 125.
116. Cit. Kershaw, ‘Greiser’, 123.
117. Archiwum Panstowe Poznan, Best. Schutzpolizei Posen, Bd.7, S.1, Dienstabt. Jarotschin, 15 October 1939, Dienstbefehl Nr.i.
118. Dienstbefehl, Nr. 5, 20 March 1940.
119. Information kindly provided by Stanislaw Nawrocki, Director of the Archiwum Panstowe Poznan, 25 September 1993. The figures relate to the situation in 1942–3.
