30. Speer, 210; Seidler, 832.
31. Seidler, 403–4; Speer, 210; Speer Papers, AH/I/Bl.4.
32. Speer, 210; Sereny, Speer, 276–7; Seidler, 382.
33. Speer, 211,215,217; Overy, War and Economy, 355; Herbst, Das nationalsozialistische Deutsch-land, 410.
34. Domarus, 1836–40; Thorwald, 148.
35. Speer, 217.
36. Dietrich Eichholtz, Kriegswirtschaft 1939–1945, Bd.II 1941–1943, East Berlin, 1985, 265, 308ff.; Overy, War and Economy, 366–7.
37. TBJG, II.3, 299 (13 February 1942), 303, 308 (14 February 1942), 311–12, 318 (15 February 1942). See also Irving, HW, 367–8, 371–2; Domarus, 1841 n.73. The German delight was soon tempered by the news that the Scbarnhorst and Gneisenau had run on to mines laid by the RAF. The Scbarnborst was out of action for months; the Gneisenau was bombed while under repair and incapable of further deployment (Weinberg III, 358).
38. TBJG, II.3, 321 (15 February 1941); Below, 307.
39. Staatsmänner II, 48 (11 February 1942). Hitler had said on 18 December in the Wolfsschanze: ‘I didn’t want that in East Asia. For years I said to every Englishman: “You’ll lose East Asia if you begin a conflict in Europe”’ (Monologe, 156). He was rumoured to be unenthusiastic about the Japanese successes and have remarked that he would most like to send twenty divisions to the English to repel ‘the Yellows’ (Hassell, 305 (22 March 1942)). Over a year later he would ruminate wistfully on ‘whether the white man can sustain his superiority at all in the long run in the face of the enormous human reservoirs in the east’ (TBJG, II/6, 236 (8 May 1943)).
40. Schroeder, 132.
41. TBJG, II/3, 514 (20 March 1942).
42. Schroeder, 131.
43. TBJG, II/3, 319 (15 February 1942).
44. Domarus, 1842.
45. Below, 306.
46. Domarus, 1851.
47. Domarus, 1850. Hitler repeated the claim in his Reichstag speech on 26 April. In fact, the previous winter, of 1940–41, had been colder in the east (Domarus, 1871 and n.181; see also 1872 and n.183).
48. Domarus, 1850.
49. MadR, ix.3486–8 (19 March 1942); Steinert, 283–5. See also TBJG, II/3, 479 (16 March 1942), on the basis of SD reports: ‘The German people is in the main concerned with the foodstuffs situation.’ As a consequence ‘interest in military events dies away somewhat’.
50. TBJG, II/3, 488 (18 March 1942), 496 (19 March 1942).
51. TBJG, II/3, 479 (16 March 1942).
52. TBJG, II/3, 496 (19 March 1942).
53. TBJG, II/3, 497 (19 March 1942).
54. TBJG, II/3, 489 (18 March 1942), 496 (19 March 1942).
55. TBJG, II/3, 494 (19 March 1942).
56. TBJG, II/3, 484 (17 March 1942).
57. TBJG, II/3, 495 (19 March 1942).
58. TBJG, II/3, 499 (20 March 1942).
59. TBJG, II/3, 503 (20 March 1942). Clearly, however, Hitler detested being reminded of poor morale. Only a few days later he noted on a report on the decline in mood which had been presented to him: ‘If it were decisive, what people always say, everything would long since have been lost. The true bearing of the people lies much deeper and rests on a very firm inner bearing. If that were not the case, all the achievements of the people would be inexplicable’ (Picker, 206 (25 March 1942)).
60. TBJG, II/3, 504 (20 March 1942); Weiß, Biographisches Lexikon, 457–9.
61. For the capitulation of justice to the police-state, see especially Martin Broszat, ‘Zur Perversion der Strafjustiz im Dritten Reich’, VfZ, 6 (1958), 390–443; and Broszat, Staat, ch.10, especially 421–2. Thierack was appointed Reich Minister of Justice on 20 August 1942 (Wistrich, Wer war wer, 272).
62. TBJG, II/3, 505 (20 March 1942); Irving, HW, 366.
63. TBJG, II/3, 506 (20 March 1942).
64. MadR, ix.3526–9 (26 March 1942); Steinert, 287–9.
65. Picker, 222–5, here 225 (29 March 1942).
