1. Iring Fetscher, Joseph Goebbels im Berliner Sportpalast 1943. ‘Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?’, Hamburg, 1998, 95, 98; Hofer, Der Nationalsozialismus, 251. The text of the speech is printed in Helmut Heiber (ed.), Goebbels-Reden, 2 Bde., Düsseldorf, 1971, 1972 (Bd.1:1932–1939; Bd.2: 1939–1945), ii.172–208; and Fetscher, 63–98; and analysed in Fetscher, 104–22, and Günter Moltmann, ‘Goebbels’ Rede zum totalen Krieg am 18. Februar 1943’, VfZ, 12 (1964), 13–43 (background to speech, 13–29, analysis 30–43); English trans., Günter Moltmann, ‘Goebbels’ Speech on Total War, February 18, 1943’, in Hajo Holborn (ed.), Republic to Reich. The Making of the Nazi Revolution, Vintage Books edn, New York, 1973, 298–342. See also Reuth, Goebbels, 518ff.; Irving, Goebbels, 421ff. Fetscher, pt.II, offers a thorough analysis of the reception of the speech abroad.
2. Boelcke, Wollt 1hr, 445–6. See also, for the aims of the speech, Fetscher, 107–8.
3. Boelcke, Wollt 1hr, 25.
4. For conflicting interpretations, see Moltmann, ‘Goebbels’ Speech’, 310 — 14; and Irving, HW, 421, 659 n.II.
5. TBJG, II/7, 373 (19 February 1943).
6. Moltmann, ‘Goebbels’ Speech’, 311, 313–14; TBJG, II/7, 508 (9 March 1943).
7. See Mason, Sozialpolitik, ch.1. Moltmann, ‘Goebbels’ Speech’, 305, refers to Göring’s opposition to ‘total war’ measures in 1942.
8. See Stephen Salter, ‘The Mobilisation of German Labour, 1939–1945. A Contribution to the History of the Working Class in the Third Reich’, unpubl. D.Phil, thesis, Oxford, 1983, 29–38, 48–56, 73–4, emphasizing the concern to avoid damage to morale and political tension on the home front; and Dörte Winkler, ‘Frauenarbeit versus Frauenideologie. Probleme der weiblichen Erwerbstätigkeit in Deutschland 1930–1945’, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 17 (1977), 99–126, here 116–20, acknowledging the morale question but stressing the decisive role of Hitler’s ideological objections.
9. Moltmann, ‘Goebbels’ Speech’, 306–7.
10. On the rival power-blocs of Sauckel and Speer, contesting control of labour deployment, see Walter Naasner, Neue Machtzentren in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft 1942–1945, Boppard am Rhein, 1994, pts.1 — 2.
11. TBJG, II/7, 561 (16 March 1943).
12. He was empowered to issue directives but not binding decrees, and Hitler reserved to himself the right to decide where objections were raised to Goebbels’s directives (Rebentisch, 516 — 17).
13. TBJG, II/8, 521 (24 June 1943).
14. TBJG, II/8, 265 (10 May 1943).
15. Speer, 315. In fact, Hitler seemed remarkably cool and businesslike rather than outwardly friendly towards Eva Braun in overheard telephone conversations in the Wolfsschanze (Schulz, 90–91).
16. Schroeder, 130.
17. TBJG, II/8, 265 (10 May 1943).
18. Speer, 259.
19. Moltmann, ‘Goebbels’ Speech’, 312; Hauner, Hitler, 1 81–7; Domarus, 1999–2002 (21 March 1943), 2050–9 (8 November 1943).
20. Hauner, Hitler, 18 1–7.
21. TBJG, II/9, 160 (25 July 1943).
22. Rebentisch, 463.
23. Monologe, 221–2 (24 January 1942); Rebentisch, 466 and n.295.
24. Rebentisch, 466–70.
25. Rebentisch, 470–72.
26. Rebentisch, 473 and n.318. Vast rebuilding projects for Berlin and Linz were among the other fantasy-schemes Hitler had in mind.
27. Rebentisch, 475.
28. Rebentisch, 477.
29. Steinert, 356.
30. Speer, 234–5.
31. See Dörte Winkler, Frauenarbeit im Dritten Reich, Hamburg, 1977,114–21, for Hitler’s attitude to the Women’s Service Duty (Frauendienstpflicht).
32. IMG, xxv.61, 63–4, Doc. 016-PS (Sauckel’s statement of 20 April 1942).
33. See, for the figures, Sozialgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch III. Materialien zur Statistik des Deutschen Reiches 1914–1945, ed. Dietmar Petzina, Werner Abelshauser, and Anselm Faust, Munich, 1978, 85. By 1944, foreign workers would account for 26.5 per cent of the total labour force in Germany, and no less than 46.5 per cent of those working in agriculture (Herbert, Fremdarbeiter, 270).
34. Rebentisch, 478.
35. Moll, 311–13; Michalka, Das Dritte Reich, ii.294–5 (Doc.169). For the impact of the decree, see especially Ludolf Herbst, Der Totale Krieg und die Ordnung der Wirtschaft. Die Kriegswirtschaft im Spannungsfeld von Politik, Ideologie und Propaganda 1939–1945, Stuttgart, 1982, 207–31.
