169. Walter Schellenberg, Schellenberg, Mayflower Paperback edn, London, 1965, 175; Trevor-Roper, 133 and n.i; TBJG, II/15, 613–14 (28 March 1945); Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 434; Padfield, Himmler, 577. Dietrich did not carry out the order, but was even so not dismissed by Hitler — an indication that the order had been issued in enraged frustration. (Weingartner, 124. And see n.146 above.)
170. TBJG, II/15, 480 (12 March 1945). Himmler experienced the displeasure at first hand when he had his next audience with Hitler on 15 March.(TBJG, II/15, 521 (16 March 1945). See also Padfield, Himmler, 569.)
171. TBJG, II/15, 525 (17 March 1945); and see also 532–3 (18 March 1945), 634 (30 March 1945).
172. See TBJG, II/15, 649 (31 March 1945).
173. See Guderian, 426.
174. See Boldt, 40–46 for the comparison (40, for the description of Keitel).
175. TBJG, II/15, 567 (22 March 1945), 615–16 (28 March 1945).
176. TBJG, II/15, 648 (31 March 1945). Hitler blamed Guderian, at the same time, for the winter crisis of 1941–2.
177. Guderian, 428–9, and see, for Krebs, 415–16.
178. TBJG, II/15, 606–7 (27 March 1945).
179. TBJG, II/15, 614–15, 617, 622–3 (28 March 1945); also 643 (31 March 1945), 678 (4 April 1945).
180. TBJG, II/15, 648 (31 March 1945).
181. TBJG, II/15, 616 (28 March 1945).
182. TBJG, II/15, 621 (28 March 1945).
183. Bormann Letters, 177–8 (7 February 1945).
184. See Rebentisch, 530.
185. TBJG, II/15, 613 (28 March 1945).
186. Orlow, ii.479–80.
187. TBJG, II/15,677 (4 April 1945).
188. Rebentisch, 529; Longerich, Hitlers Stellvertreter, 201–2.
189. Cit. Kurt Pätzold and Manfred Weißbecker, Geschichte der NSDAP 1920–1945, Cologne, 1981, 379.
190. Benz, Graml, and Weiß, Enzyklopädie, 802–4. For Goebbels’s criticism of both ‘Werwolf’ and ‘Freikorps Adolf Hitler’ — a brainchild of Robert Ley — see TBJG, II/15, 637–8 (30 March 1945).
191. Cit. Longerich, Hitlers Stellvertreter, 202.
192. See Pätzold/Weißbecker, 377; Orlow, ii.482.
193. TBJG, II/15, 672 (4 April 1945).
194. Trevor-Roper, 140–43.
195. TBJG, II/15, 638–9 (30 March 1945).
196. Speer, 467.
197. Trevor-Roper, 140–42; Speer, 467.
198. Below, 408.
199. Kesselring, 265.
200. Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieq, 429; Ludewig, 383–4.
201. See Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 433; Parker, Struggle for Survival, 221; Weinberg III, 820–21; Irving, HW, 790; Boldt, 113. As a consequence, Hitler had removed a number of divisions from Army Group Vistula and transferred them to Army Group Centre and Army Group South.
202. Weisungen, 355–6.
203. Weisungen, 357–8.
204. Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 436; DZW, vi.696–7; Irving, HW, 801–2.
205. KTB OKW, iv/2, 1438–9.
206. DZW, vi.686–703; Gruchmann, Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 435–7; see Below, 409–10.
207. Schroeder, 200; IfZ, ED 100, Irving-Sammlung, Traudl Junge Memoirs, Fol.126; Galante, 14 (Junge).
<p>CHAPTER 17: EXTINCTION</p>1. Below, 407–8, refers to Eva Braun’s return in late March. Schroeder, 168, has February, as does (without any precise indication of the date) Gun, Eva Braun-Hitler, 181. Speer noted (Speer, 468) that she came to Berlin ‘surprisingly and without being summoned’ in the first half of April. Irving, HW, 793 (without source reference) gives a specific date, 15 April. Joachimsthaler, 472 n.23 (also without source reference), provides an equally specific — but different — date: 7 March.
2. Based on Linge, Bis zum Untergang, 270–72; and also IfZ, ZS 194, the post-war recollections of Hitler’s Munich housekeeper, Anni Winter, Fol.4, noting what she had been told by the wife of Hitler’s major-domo, Arthur Kannenberg. According to this account, Hitler had needed assistance in walking when leaving his room to meet his staff.
3. Linge, Bis zum Untergang, 272.
