152. IfZ, MA 316, Frames 2615096 — 8, ‘Vortrag beim Führer am 19.6.1943 auf dem Obersalzberg: “Bandenkampf und Sicherheitslage”’, quotation Frame 2615097; Fleming, Hitler und die Endlös-ung, 33. That the suggestion came from Himmler is supported by the similar wording of his letter to Hans Frank some weeks earlier, on 26 May, when he wrote: ‘The evacuation also of the last 250,000 Jews, which will without doubt provoke unrest for some weeks, must despite all the difficulties be completed as rapidly as possible’ (IfZ, MA 330, Frames 2654157–8, ‘Einladung des Generalgouverneurs an den Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler zu Besprechung’, 26 May 1943; 2654162–3, Antwortschreiben Himmlers, 26 May 1943 (quotation, 2654162: ‘Die Evakuierung auch der letzten 150,000 Juden, die für Wochen noch ohne Zweifel Unruhe hervorrufen wird, muß trotz aller Schwierigkeiten so rasch wie möglich vollzogen werden’).
153. Schirach, 288; TBJG, II/8, 265 (10 May 1943), 458 (II June 1943).
154. Schirach, 289.
155. Schirach, 290–91.
156. Schirach, 291–2.
157. Schirach, 292–4; also Monologe, 403–6, for a watered-down version; TBJG, II/8, 538–41 (25 June 1943), describing Frau von Schirach as behaving like a ‘silly goose (dumme Pute)’; Hoffmann, Hitler Was My Friend, 190–91; Below, 340 (who does not mention the incident with the Jewish women); Henriette von Schirach, DerPreis der Herrlichkeit. Erlebte Zeitgeschichte, (1956), Munich/Berlin, 1975, 8–10.
158. Guderian, 310.
159. Guderian, 3II.
160. Warlimont, 333–4.
161. TBJG, II/8, 531–2 (25 June 1943).
162. Domarus, 2021; see also Irving, HW, 532–3.
163. Below, 340.
164. See LB Stuttgart, 269–75, 297_8, 309–12, 338–40, 364–8 (midday and evening briefings, 25 July 1943), where it is apparent that tank production figures were lower than those Hitler had expected; Guderian, 306–9; Manstein, 448–9; Earl F. Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin: the German Defeat in the East, Washington, 1968,130–32,135–73; John Erickson, The Road to Berlin, Boulder, Colorado, 1983, 86, 97ff., 135; Ernst Klink, Das Gesetz des Handelns: Die Operation ‘Zitadelle’ 1943, Stuttgart, 1966, 140–44, 196; Weinberg III, 601–3; Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 239; Overy, Why the Allies Won, 86–97; Overy, Russia’s War, ch.7, especially 203–12; Glantz and House, 166–7; Irving, HW, 533. Accounts of the battle give differing numbers of tanks involved. Ziemke, 101, has 4,000 Soviet and 3,000 German tanks. DZW, iii.545, numbers the Soviet tanks at 2,700; see also Erickson, Road to Berlin, 144–5; and Klink, 205.
165. Guderian, 311; and see Manstein, 448.
166. Below, 341; Manstein, 448 — 9; Weinberg III, 603.
167. Guderian, 312.
168. Warlimont, 334.
169. Below, 341; Warlimont, 335–8; Weinberg III, 594; Irving, HW, 534–5; Oxford Companion, 1001–3. Looking back in 1944, Mussolini himself remarked on the poor morale of the Italian troops in Sicily prior to the Allied landing (Benito Mussolini, My Rise and Fall, (1948), New York, 1998, two vols, in one, ii.25.
170. Warlimont, 336–7.
171. Staatsmänner II, 287–300; Baur, 1ch flog Mächtige der Erde, 245–6; Warlimont, 339.
172. Based on: Staatsmänner II, 286–300; IfZ, ED 100, Irving-Sammlung, Hitler-Dokumentation (1943), extracts from Mussolini’s diary, Auswärtiges Amt, Serial 715/263729–32, 263755–8 (in Italian, and in German translation); Mussolini, ii.49–51; Irving, HW, 541–2; Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini, Paladin edn, London, 1985, 341–2; Warlimont, 339–40; Schmidt, 340; Domarus, 2022–3-
173. IfZ, MA 460, Frames 2567178–81. Himmler was informed on 19 July and cabled Bormann without delay. See also Irving, HW, 543; and Meir Michaelis, Mussolini and the Jews. German Italian Relations and the Jewish Question in Italy 1922–1945, Oxford, 1978, 339–40.
174. LB Darmstadt, 148 and n.207 (25 July 1943); TBJG, II/9, 157 (25 July 1943); Below, 342.
175. Mussolini, ii.55–67; Mack Smith, 342–5; Domarus, 2023 and n.250. See also Hans Woller, Die Abrechnung mit dem Faschismus in Italien 1943 bis 1948, Munich, 1996, 9–35.
176. Mussolini, ii.68–81; Mack Smith, 346–9.
