95. Picker, 300–303 (29 April 1942). Hitler praised Furtwängler for making the Berlin Philharmonic a far superior orchestra to the Vienna Philharmonic, despite smaller subsidies. For an assessment of the relationship with the regime of Walter, Knappertsbusch, Furtwängler, and — a rapidly rising star combining musical brilliance with ruthless career-opportunism — Herbert von Karajan, see Michael H. Kater, The Twisted Muse. Musicians and their Music in the Third Reich, New York/Oxford, 1997, 40–46, 55–61, 93–4, 114–16, 195–203. Richard J. Evans, Rereading German History 1800–1996. From Unification to Reunification, London, 1997, 187–93, offers a necessary corrective to the uncritical treatment of Furtwängler in Fred K. Prieberg, Trial of Strength: Wilhelm Furt-wängler and the Third Reich, London, 1992, and Sam H. Shirakawa, The Devil’s Music Master: the Controversial Life and Career of Wilhelm Furtwängler, New York, 1992.
96. CD, 461 (29 April 1942); Schmidt, 562.
97. Staatsmänner II, 65 (29 April 1942).
98. CP, 481–4 (29–30 April 1942); CD, 461–2 (29 April 1942); Schmidt, 562–3.
99. CD, 462–3 (dated 29 April 1942, though refers to both meetings, and here to the meeting on 30 April 1942).
100. CD, 463–4.
101. Andreas Hillgruber and Jürgen Förster (eds.), ‘Zwei neue Aufzeichnungen über “Führer–Besprechungen” aus dem Jahre 1942’, Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen, 11 (1972), 109–26, here 116.
102. Rommel’s offensive was launched on 26 May against the numerically superior British forces of the 8th Army at Gazala in Libya, on the Mediterranean coast between Benghazi and Tobruk (Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 183; Weinberg III, 350). The invasion of Malta was never to take place. The summer of 1942 proved to be the height of the siege of the island. (See Oxford Companion, 713–16.)
103. Staatsmänner II, 79 (30 April 1942); Hillgruber and Förster, 114–21.
104. Picker, 304 (1 May 1942).
105. Weisungen, 215.
106. Weisungen, 213–19; Haider KTB, iii.420 (28 March 1942).
107. IMG, vii.290 (Testimony of Field–Marshal Friedrich Paulus).
108. See the comments of Bernd Wegner, ‘Hitlers zweiter Feldzug gegen die Sowjetunion. Strategische Grundlagen und historische Bedeutung’, in Michalka, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 652–66, here 659.
109. Hartmann, 314–16; Wegner, ‘Hitlers zweiter Feldzug’, 657.
110. Wegner, ‘Hitlers zweiter Feldzug’, 660.
111. Wegner, ‘Hitlers zweiter Feldzug’, 658–9.
112. Hartmann, 313 (on the basis of figures compiled on 2 April 1942; see 314 n.14).
113. Wegner, ‘Hitlers zweiter Feldzug’, 654.
114. Halder KTB, iii.430–32 (21 April 1942).
115. Hartmann, 314.
116. Overy, Why the Allies Won, 66.
117. Halder KTB, iii.442–4 (15–19 May 1942).
118. Halder KTB, iii.449–50 (28 May 1942).
119. Hartmann, 320 (and see n.58 for criticism of Irving’s interpretation, giving all credit to Hitler, and claiming Halder had subsequently altered his diary entry); Below, 310.
120. Domarus, 1883; TBJG, II/4, 344 (23 May 1942).
121. TBJG, II/4, 354 (24 May 1942).
122. TBJG, II/4, 354, 360–61 (24 May 1942). At lunch the previous day, Hitler had already launched into further scathing attacks on the judiciary (Picker, 371–2 (22 May 1942)); TBJG, II/4, 343 (23 May 1942).
123. TBJG, II/4, 357 (24 May 1942).
124. TBJG, II/4, 358–9, 362 (24 May 1942).
125. TBJG, II/4, 360 (24 May 1942).
126. TBJG, II/4, 361 (24 May 1942).
127. TBJG, II/4, 355 (24 May 1942).
128. TBJG, II/4, 355–7 (24 May 1942).
129. TBJG, II/4, 358–9, 361 (24 May 1942).
130. TBJG, II/4, 362–4 (24 May 1942).
131. Domarus, 1887–8; see also Picker, 493–504.
132. TBJG, II/4, 401 (30 May 1942).
133. TBJG, II/4, 402 (30 May 1942).
134. TBJG, II/4, 406 (30 May 1942). At his meeting with Mussert on 10 December 1942, Hitler would make plain that he envisaged, in the future new European order, the Netherlands, like Belgium, while not being treated as a conquered country, having no independence and being incorporated into a ‘Greater German Reich’ (‘groß-germanisches Reich’). Hitler explicitly mentioned the incorporation of Austria as an indicator of what he had in mind. (Hillgruber and Förster, 121–6, here 125.)
135. Charles Wighton, Heydrich. Hitler’s Most Evil Henchman, London, 1962, 268ff.; Charles Whiting, Heydrich. Henchman of Death, London, 1999, 141–7; M. R. D. Foot, Resistance. European Resistance to Nazism 1940–45, London, 1976, 204–6; Oxford Companion, 1018–22.
