119. TBJG, II/8, 114–15 (17 April 1943). Hitler let Goebbels know a few days later that he wished to talk with him about the future treatment of the ‘Jewish Question’, of which he had very high hopes (II.8, 165 (25 April 1943)). For Goebbels’s exploitation of Katyn for propaganda purposes, see Bramsted, 330–32; Reuth, Goebbels, 526–7; and David Welch, The Third Reich. Politics and Propaganda, London, 1993, 112–13. Reports of the Katyn massacres by the Bolsheviks had the effect, however, of provoking comment about the killing of the Jews by the Germans. See the entry in the diary of Hassell, 365 (15 May 1943), indicating knowledge of gassing of hundreds of thousands in specially built chambers (Hallen). And see also Steinert, 255; Lawrence D. Stokes, ‘The German People and the Destruction of the European Jews’, Central European History, 6 (1973), 167–91, here 186–7; Bankier, 109; Kershaw, Popular Opinion, 365–7; and Kulka, ‘“Public Opinion”’, 289 (for the telling report from the Gauleitung of Upper Silesia pointing out wall-daubings in the area comparing Katyn and Auschwitz).
120. TBJG, II/8, 235, 237 (and see 229) (8 May 1943). Hitler returned on several occasions to emphasize the vital role to be played by antisemitic propaganda in discussions with Goebbels during the following days (TBJG, II/8, 261 (10 May 1943), 297–90 (13 May 1943)).
121. TBJG, II/8, 105 (14 April 1943), 225 (7 May 1943).
122. TBJG, II/8, 236 (8 May 1943).
123. Deutschland im Zweiten Weltkrieg, ed. Wolfgang Schumann et al., 6 vols., East Berlin, 1974 — 84, iii.411–13.
124. TBJG, II/8, 236, 238 (8 May 1943).
125. TBJG, II/8, 224 (7 May 1943).
126. TBJG, II/8, 229, 233–40 (8 May 1943).
127. Warlimont, 313; Domarus, 2014; Weinberg III, 446; Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 221.
128. Karl Doenitz, Memoirs. Ten Years and Twenty Days, (1958), New York, 1997, 299ff., 342ff.; Thomas, 218, 226–7. On taking office Dönitz had, however, changed his mind about scrapping the battleships and was successful in persuading Hitler to retain them (Doenitz, 371ff.; Thomas, 227).
129. TBJG, II/7, 239 (8 May 1943).
130. Lagevorträge, 510 (5 June 1943): ‘Niederschrift über die Besprechung des Ob.d.M. beim Führer am 31.5.43 auf dem Berghof.’
131. Doenitz, 341; Roskill, ii.470; Thomas, 230–31.
132. Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War. Volume V, Closing the Ring, London etc., 1952, 6–10; Overy, Why the Allies Won, 50–9; Oxford Companion, 68–9, 1168–9.
133. Weinberg III, 594.
134. Warlimont, 317–19.
135. LB Darmstadt, 97–8 (20 May 1943).
136. LB Darmstadt, 100–101.
137. LB Darmstadt, 104–6.
138. Warlimont, 331.
139. TBJG, II/8, 300 (15 May 1943), 314 (17 May 1943), 337 (21 May 1943), 351 (23 May 1943).
140. Below, 339.
141. TBJG, II/8, 492–8 (19 May 1943).
142. Kershaw, ‘Hitler Myth’, 202–3.
143. TBJG, II/8, 527–8 (25 June 1943). Hitler thought, as he had said before on occasion, that it was not so bad that the inner-cities had been destroyed. Most of the industrial cities had been badly laid out and constructed. The British air-raids gave the opportunity for grandiose rebuilding schemes after the war.
144. TBJG, II/8, 533 (25 June 1943).
145. TBJG, II/8, 291 (13 May 1943).
146. TBJG, II/8, 287 (13 May 1943).
147. TBJG, II/8, 288 (13 May 1943).
148. TBJG, II/8, 288 (13 May 1943).
149. TBJG, II/8, 290 (13 May 1943).
150. The Stroop Report. The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More. A facsimile edition and translation of the official Nazi report on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, introd. by Andrzej Wirth, (1960), London, 1980,(unpaginated), entry for 16 May 1943.
151. Broszat, Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik, 164–71; Madajczyk, Okkupationspolitik, 422–8; Irving, HW, 528–9. Hitler expressed on several occasions his dissatisfaction with Frank, and thought of replacing him with Greiser. But, as so often, he took no decision, and ultimately pointed out that Frank’s task in the General Government was so difficult that it was beyond anyone to accomplish. (See TBJG, II/8, 226 (7 May 1943), 251 (9 May 1943), 535 (25 June 1943).)
