32 Ibid., p. 3 (30 January 1942). The same ploy was widespread at the institutional level. The Stalin Metal Works, inspectors discovered, had 729 registered workers, but of these 107 had in fact been evacuated, 70 were serving in the army, 21 had been arrested and 124 were dead.
1 Nikolai Gorshkov’s siege diary usefully records daily temperatures. It is included in Bernev and Chemov, eds,
2 Ales Adamovich and Daniil Granin,
3 Lidiya Ginzburg,
4 Yelena Skrjabina,
5 Ibid., pp. 31–2, 35, 37 (8 October, 6 and 7 November 1941).
6 Ibid., pp. 41, 47 (24 November and 16 December 1941).
7 Olga Grechina, ‘Spasayus spasaya chast 1: pogibelnaya zima (1941–1942 gg.)’,
8 Ginzburg,
9 Alexander Dymov, in Adamovich and Granin,
10 Ivan Korotkov, in ibid., p. 45.
11 Adamovich and Granin,
12 Quoted in an NKVD report to Zhdanov of 13 December 1941. Nikita Lomagin,
13 K. V. Polzikova-Rubyets, 20 January 1942. Quoted in Andrei Dzeniskevich, ‘Banditizm (osobaya kategoriya) v blokirovannom Leningrade’,
14 Sofia Pavlova, in
15 Interview with Dr Lyuba Vinogradova, Moscow, July 2007.
16 Elena Kochina,
17 Andrei Dzeniskevich, ed.,
18 National Archive of the USA. Reports on the situation in the USSR by the Security Police and SD, no. 136. Microfilm T-175/233, ss. 10–20. Given in Lomagin,
19 Ibid., p. 152 (4 December 1941).
20 Sidney Monas and Jennifer Greene Kupala, eds,
1 Hockenjos’s unpublished war diary, from which all the following extracts are taken, is with Freiburg’s Bundesarchiv/Militärarchiv, reference numbers MSG 2/4034, 4035, 4036, 4037, 4038.
2 David Glantz,
3 A. V. Karasev,
4 Vasili Churkin, 8 December 1941.
5 Paul Carell,
6 For a detailed account of the Ice Road’s functioning see Leon Gouré,
7 TsAMO: Fond 96a, op. 2011, delo 5, pp. 191–4.
8 Nikita Lomagin,
9 Charles Burdick and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, eds, Franz Halder,
10 Ibid., p. 598.
11 As Halder’s deputy Günther Blumentritt complained to the British historian Basil Liddell Hart after the war: ‘Only the admirals had a happy time in this war. Hitler knew nothing about the sea, whereas he felt he knew all about land warfare.’
12 Andrew Roberts,
1 Vera Inber,
2 Vasili Chekrizov, ‘Dnevnik blokadnogo vremeni’,
3 Yelena Kochina,
4 Dmitri Pavlov,
5 Irina Zelenskaya, ‘Dnevik’, in Kovalchuk, ed, ‘