85. Randolph L. Braham, The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry. A Documentary Account, New York, 1963, vol.I, 399 (facsm., 13 June 1944).
86. Hilberg, Destruction, 547. And see Staatsmänner II, 462–6, for Hitler’s comments to the new Hungarian premier Sztojay at Klessheim on 7 June 1944.
87. Goebbels (TBJG, II/11, 515 (20 March 1944)), recorded the meeting taking place at Klessheim, but Manstein (531, 533), who was present, wrote of being summoned to the Obersalzberg, and the meeting taking place there.
88. TBJG, II/11, 368 (29 February 1944), 454–5 (11 March 1944); II/12, 128 (18 April 1944).
89. See above, note 22.
90. Manstein, 532. Hitler had been particularly pleased that Manstein, his most openly critical field-marshal, had signed the declaration (TBJG, II/11, 475 (14 March 1944)).
91. Manstein, 532; TBJG, II/11, 515 (20 March 1944).
92. Manstein, 536–43. Goebbels, when he heard about it, was dismayed at the weakening of the western front. So, he had heard, was Jodl. According to his own remarkable logic, the more the Soviets advanced, the better the German political situation would be, since the western allies would then see their own peril from Bolshevik expansion. Should, however, a western invasion succeed, then the Reich would indeed be in a ‘fateful situation’ (TBJG, II/11, 568–9 (28 March 1944). See also 556–7 (26 March 1944) and 564 (27 March 1944) for Goebbels’s strong criticism of Manstein then, typically, acceptance of Hitler’s volte-face.)
93. Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 250.
94. Manstein, 544.
95. TBJG, II/11, 589 (31 March 1944), II/12, 33 (1 April 1944); Manstein, 544–6. The passage in Tb Reuth, v.2030–1 (31 March 1944), deviates from the entries in TBJG.
96. Weisungen, 289.
97. Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 251–2.
98. Parker, Struggle for Survival, 194.
99. TBJG, II/12, 128 (18 April 1944); Irving, HW, 624.
100. TBJG, II/12, 129–30 (18 April 1944).
101. TBJG, II/11, 472 (14 March 1944).
102. Domarus, 2090; TBJG, II/11, 456 (11 March 1944).
103. TBJG, II/12, 132 (18 April 1944).
104. TBJG, II/12, 134–40 (here, 136).
105. TBJG, II/12, 126 (18 April 1944), for Goebbels’s reporting to him on poor mood.
106. TBJG, II/12, 155 (20 April 1944).
107. TBJG, II/12, 167 (22 April 1944).
108. Kershaw, ‘Hitler Myth’, 214.
109. VB (Süddeutsche Ausgabe), 20 April 1944, printed in Hans Mommsen and Susanne Willems (eds.), Herrschaftsalltag im Dritten Reich: Studien und Texte, Düsseldorf, 1988, 88–9: ‘Niemals hat das deutsche Volk so gläubig zu seinem Führer aufgeschaut wie in den Tagen und Stunden, da ihm die ganze Schwere dieses Kampfes um unser Leben bewußt wurde…’
110. Below, 367; TBJG, II/12, 160 (21 April 1944); Irving, HW, 619.
111. Below, 367–8; TBJG, II/12, 168 (22 April 1944), 191 (27 April 1944), 194–5 (27 April 1944); Domarus, 2099.
112. Staatsmänner II, 418ff.; trans. N & P, iii.868.
113. Speer, 336–47; Sereny, Speer, 409–28.
114. Speer, 344.
115. Speer, 347–8.
116. Speer, 348–54; also Below, 368–9; and Sereny, Speer, 428–30; Fest, Speer, 282–9.
117. IfZ, ED 100, Irving-Sammlung, Hitler-Dokumentation, 1944 (copy of Göring’s comments on the need to increase bomber production, at a meeting on 23 May 1944 on the Obersalzberg, attended by Speer, Milch, Koller, and others); Irving, HW, 626–8.
118. Irving, HW, 580; Irving, Göring, 410–11; Carr, Hitler, 80.
119. Speer, 372–3.
