67. Monologe, 69–71 (25 September 1941).
68. Monologe, 66 (23 September 1941).
69. Monologe, 67 (23 September 1941); Koeppen, Fol.29 (23 September 1941).
70. Monologe, 68 (25 September 1941). On 27–28 September, he spoke of the aim of fighting war ‘on the edges’ of German territory (Monologe, 72). Hitler had referred earlier to a ‘living wall’ to protect the new east ‘against the mid-Asian masses’ (Monologe, 55 (8–11 August 1941)). See also Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hitlers Ostkrieg und die deutsche Siedlungspolitik, Frankfurt am Main, 1991, 23–4.
71. Monologe, 71 (25–6 September 1941).
72. Monologe, 71 (25–6 September 1941).
73. Monologe, 58 (19–20 August 1941).
74. Monologe, 72 (27–8 September 1941).
75. Monologe, 65 (22–3 September 1941).
76. Monologe, 65 (22–3 September 1941).
77. An overemphasis on Hitler’s ‘modernity’ runs through the interpretation of Rainer Zitelmann, Hitler. Selbstverständnis eines Revolutionärs, Hamburg/Leamington Spa/New York, 1987. See also Rainer Zitelmann, Adolf Hitler. Eine politische Biographie, Göttingen, 1989, and his essay ‘Die totalitäre Seite der Moderne’, in Michael Prinz and Rainer Zitelmann (eds.), Nationalsozialismus und Modernisierung, Darmstadt, 1991, 1–20. For strong criticism of such an emphasis, see Hans Mommsen, ‘Nationalsozialismus als vorgetäuschte Modernisierung’, in Walter H. Pehle (ed.), Der historische Ort des Nationalsozialismus. Annäherungen, Frankfurt am Main, 1990,11–46; Norbert Frei, ‘Wie modern war der Nationalsozialismus?’, GG, 19 (1993), 367–87, here especially 374ff.; Axel Schildt, ‘NS-Regime, Modernisierung und Moderne. Anmerkungen zur Hochkonjunktur einer andauernden Diskussion’, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, 23 (1994), 3–22, here especially 11ff.
78. Monologe, 57 (8–11 August 1941).
79. Monologe, 64 (17–18 September 1941).
80. IMG, xxxviii, 86–94, quotation 87–8, Doc. 221-L; DGFP, 3, 13, 149–56, No.114; extracts in Klee and Dreßen, Gott mit uns, 22–3. See also Alexander Dallin, German Rule in Russia 1941–1945. A Study of Occupation Policies, (1957), 2nd edn, Basingstoke/London, 1981, 84, 123, 204; and Eberhard Jäckel, ‘Hitlers doppeltes Kernstück’, in Roland G. Foerster (ed.), ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’. Zum historischen Ort der deutsch-sowjetischen Beziehungen von 1933 bis Herbst 1941, Munich, 1993, 14–22, here 14–18.
81. IMG, xxix, 235–7, 1997-PS.
82. CP, 465 (24–7 November 1941); Klee and Dreßen, Gott mit uns, 23; Halder KTB, ii.335–8 (30 March 1941); IMG, xxxi.135–7, 126-EC. The plans for mass deportation were in the process of being worked out for the ‘General Plan for the East’. See Helmut Heiber (ed.), ‘Der Generalplan Ost’, VfZ, 6 (1958), 281–325; Czeslaw Madajczyk (ed.), Vom Generalplan Ost zum Generalsiedlungsplan, Munich etc., 1994; Mechtild Rößler and Sabine Schleiermacher (eds.), Der ‘Generalplan Ost’. Hauptlinien der nationalsozialistischen Planungs- und Vernichtungspolitik, Berlin, 1993.
83. Dallin, ch.3, especially 56ff.
84. Dallin, 84, 123–4. Civilian rule was established in the occupied territories in August and September 1941 (Dallin, 85).
85. Koeppen, Fols.12–13 (18 September 1941).
86. Dallin, 185ff.
87. Dallin, 203ff.
88. Halder KTB, iii.10 (24 June 1941).
89. Halder KTB, iii.15 (25 June 1941); trans. Halder Diary, 424.
90. Halder KTB, iii.20 (27 June 1941), 25 (29 June 1941), 29 (30 June 1941), 34–5 (2 July 1941), 39 (3 July 1941).
91. Halder KTB, iii.39 (3 July 1941); trans. Halder Diary, 448.
92. DRZW, iv.212–13; Leach, 53, 99; Dirks/Janßen, 137ff.
93. DRZW, iv.219–42; Leach, 99–118,250–69. See above, Chapter 7, n.157, for Loßberg’s post-war claim to have begun work on the strategic study already in early July 1940, and without any formal request to do so. In his post-war memoirs, Bernhard von Loßberg, Im Wehrmachtführungsstab. Bericht eines Generalstabsoffiziers, Hamburg, 1950, 104–8, Loßberg makes no mention of this.
