30. TBJG, II/1, 30 (9 July 1941).
31. TBJG, II/1, 35 (9 July 1941).
32. TBJG, II/1, 32–5 (9 July 1941).
33. Schroeder, 113.
34. Staatsmänner I, 293. Oshima was impressed by what he heard of German progress in the war and recommended to his government that Japan quickly strike against the Soviet Union in the east (Boyd, 27).
35. Schroeder, 114.
36. Below, 283; Domarus, 1740.
37. TBJG, I/9, 412 (30 June 1941). Domarus, 1740 n.323 mistakenly suggests that the ‘Russian Fanfare’ was based upon Liszt’s ‘Hungarian Rhapsody’ instead of his Symphonic Poem No. 3, ‘Les Préludes’.
38. TBJG, I/9, 412, 415–16 (30 July 1941), 415–16 (1 July 1941), 426 (5 July 1941).
39. Willi A. Boelcke (ed.), Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg? Die geheimen Goebbels-Konferenzen 1939–1943, Munich, 1969, 235–7; Tb Reuth, 1623 n.144. And see Wolfram Wette, ‘Die propagandistische Begleitmusik zum deutschen Überfall auf die Sowjetunion am 22. Juni 1941’, in Gerd R. Ueberschär and Wolfram Wette (eds.), ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’. Der deutsche Überfall auf die Sowjetunion 1941. Berichte, Analysen, Dokumente, Paderborn, 1984, 111–29, here especially 118–19.
40. See TBJG, II/1, 30–9 (9 July 1941): ‘The Führer is blazing about the Bolshevik leadership clique which intended to invade Germany, and thus Europe, and at the last moment, with the Reich weakened, to carry out the attempt to bolshevize the continent that had been planned since 1917’ (31). ‘The preventive war is always still the surest and mildest, if there is certainty that the enemy will in any case attack at the first best opportunity; and that was the case with Bolshevism’ (33). ‘Without doubt [the Kremlin] wanted this autumn, when we had no further possibility of aggressive action against Russia on account of the weather, to occupy Romania. Through this the Kremlin would have cut off our petroleum supply’ (38). Hitler told his entourage in mid-September: ‘It needed the greatest strength to take the decision last year for the attack on Bolshevism. I had to reckon that Stalin would go over to the attack in the course of this year. It was necessary to move as soon as at all possible. The earliest date was June 1941.’ (Monologe, 60–61 (17–18 September 1941).)
41. DRZW, iv.461.
42. Leach, 200.
43. Leach, 202.
44. KTB OKW, i.1021; DRZW, iv.487; Leach, 201.
45. Halder KTB, iii, 38; trans. Halder Diary, 446–7 (3 July 1941).
46. Monologe, 39 (5–6 July 1941).
47. ‘Aufzeichnungen des persönlichen Referenten Rosenbergs Dr Koeppen über Hitlers Tischgesprä-che 1941’(= Koeppen), Fol. 15 (19 September 1941). In fact, as the hopes of the Volkswagenwerk of returning to production of cars for civilian use dimmed over the summer and autumn of 1941, the campaign in the east demanded the production of more and more tanks. (See Hans Mommsen and Manfred Grieger, Das Volkswagenwerk und seine Arbeiter im Dritten Reich, Düsseldorf, 1996, 453, 46off.)
48. Monologe, 39 (5–6 July 1941).
49. Koeppen, Fol.9 (10 September 1941).
50. Koeppen, Fol.12 (19 September 1941). Goebbels reported Hitler’s intention on 18 August as the starvation of St Petersburg (Leningrad) and Kiev. Once Leningrad had been put under siege and the bombardment had taken place, ran Hitler’s plan, ‘there would probably not be much left of this city’ (TBJG, II/1, 260–61 (19 August 1941)).
51. Monologe, 48 (27 July 1941).
52. Koeppen, Fol.28 (23 September 1941).
53. Monologe, 38 (5 July 1941).
54. Koeppen, Fol.12 (19 September 1941).
55. Koeppen, Fol.28 (24 September 1941).
56. Monologe, 42 (11–12 July 1941).
57. In September, Hitler commented that it would be a mistake to educate the native population. All this would achieve would be the sort of semi-knowledge that leads to revolution. (Monologe, 63 (17–18 September 1941); Koeppen, Fol.12 (18 September 1941).
58. Monologe, 48 (27 July 1941).
59. Monologe, 54–5 (8–11 August 1941).
60. Monologe, 51 (1–2 August 1941).
61. Monologe, 54 (8–11 August 1941).
62. Monologe, 55 (8–11 August 1941). He repeated the sentiments in similar words a month later. ‘The Russian territory (Raum) is our India,’ he stated, ‘and just as the English rule it with a handful of people, so we will govern this, our colonial territory’ (Monologe, 62–3 (17–18 September 1941)); Koeppen, Fol.12 (18 September 1941).
63. A month after these comments in mid–August, Hitler enthused about the capture of the iron-ore district of Kriwoi-Rog, whose productive capacity, he claimed, removed all worries about covering demand (Koeppen, Fol 10 (17 September 1941)).
64. Monologe, 58 (19–20 August 1941).
65. Monologe, 63 (17–18 September 1941).
66. Monologe, 62 (17–18 September 1941).
