66. Domarus, 1857, 1859–60; Rebentisch, 419; Ralph Angermund, Deutsche Richterschaft 1919–1945. Krisenerfahrung, Illusion, politische Rechtsprechung, Frankfurt am Main, 1990, 249–50. For further interventions by Hitler in sentencing, see Rebentisch, 399 and n.83; Broszat, Staat, 418. It has been estimated that there were some 25–30 cases between 1939 and 1942 in which Hitler imposed the death sentence instead of a lesser penalty (Jeremy Noakes and Geoffrey Pridham, Documents on Nazism 1919–1945, London, 1974, 276). The supine behaviour of Schlegelberger in the Schlitt case stood in contrast to the readiness, remarkable in the circumstances, of Gauleiter Rover of Oldenburg, to take up with Hitler on 2 May the complaint of the President of the Higher Regional Court in Oldenburg and persuade him that he had been mistaken in presuming the sentence on Schlitt had been too lenient. Rover was left to convey Hitler’s regrets to the Oldenburg judges. His fury was directed at those who had ‘misled’ him. (Domarus, 1881; Angermund, 250.)
67. Picker, 199 (22 March 1942).
68. TBJG, II/4, 162–3 (24 April 1942).
69. Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 197; Steinert, 286; Below, 308.
70. TBJG, II/4, 174 (26 April 1942).
71. TBJG, II/4, 176 (26 April 1942).
72. TBJG, II/4, 175–6 (26 April 1942).
73. See also Picker, 294–5 (25 April 1942) for an extended account of Hitler’s comments on vegetarianism at the lunchtime gathering.
74. TBJG, II/4, 177 (26 April 1942).
75. TBJG, II/4, 180 (27 April 1942).
76. TBJG, II/4, 181 (27 April 1942).
77. TBJG, II/4, 183–4 (27 April 1942). Picker’s account of the midday conversation deals solely with the question of the political comments of actors, particularly of Emil Jannings. Goebbels’s own account of the lunchtime session makes plain that this was only an unimportant subsidiary theme. (Picker, 296; TBJG, II/4, 185–6 (27 April 1942).)
78. TBJG, II/3, 561 (27 March 1942).
79. TBJG, II/4, 184 (27 April 1942).
80. TBJG, II/4, 183 (27 April 1942).
81. TBJG, II/4, 186–7 (2–7 April 1942).
82. Domarus, 1865–74.
83. Domarus, 1874–5.
84. Rebentisch, 420–21.
85. RGBl, 1942, I.247. See also Rebentisch, 421 and n.154 (for Lammers’s insertion); and Max Domarus, Der Reichstag und die Macht, Würzburg, 1968, 149–51.
86. Domarus, 1877.
87. MadR, x.3673–4 (27 April 1941); 3685–8 (30 April 1942); Steinert, 289.
88. MadR, x.3686–7; Steinert, 289–92; Angermund, 248–9; Klaus Oldenhage, ‘Justizverwaltung und Lenkung der Rechtsprechung im Zweiten Weltkrieg’, in Rebentisch and Teppe, 100–20, here 114–15.
89. Cit. Oldenhage, 115.
90. Steinert, 289–90.
91. Picker, 298–9 (26 April 1942); TBJG, II/4, 188 (27 April 1942).
92. StA Neuburg an der Donau, vorl.LO 30/35, KL Nördlingen, 11 May 1942: ‘Verzagte Gemüter… scheinen nur von einer Stelle der Rede des Führers beeindruckt worden zu sein: als der Führer von den Vorbereitungen zum Winterfeldzug 42/43 sprach. Je mehr die Grausamkeit und Härte des Winterkampfes im Osten der Heimat voll bewußt geworden ist, umso mehr ist die Sehrsucht nach einem Ende gestiegen. Nun aber ist das Ende noch nicht absehbar — darunter leiden viele Frauen und Mütter.’
93. The ‘Osteria Bavaria’ was in Schellingstraße 62, in the ‘Party district’ of Munich (Domarus, 1878, n.198).
94. Picker, 299–300 (27 April 1942). For Hitler’s railway plans, see the excellent study by Anton Joachimsthaler, Die Breitspurbahn. Das Projekt zur Erschließung des groß-europäischen Raumes 1942–1945 (1985), 6th edn, Munich, 1999.
