154. Carlo Gentile,
155. Lieb,
156. SRA 5522, 25 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4134.
157. SRA 5664, 30 November 1944, TNA, WO 208/4135.
158. For example, Lieutenant William Calley, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the My Lai massacre (the sentence was commuted a short time later), is quoted as saying: “ ‘The old men, the women, the children—the babies—were all VC or would be VC in about three years,’ he asserted, continuing, ‘And inside of the VC women, I guess there were a thousand little VC now.’ ” See Bourke,
159. SRA 2957, 9 August 1942, TNA, WO 208/4127.
160. Jochen Oltmer, ed.,
161. Georg Wurzer, “Die Erfahrung der Extreme: Kriegsgefangene in Rußland 1914–1918,” in Oltmer, ed.,
162. Christian Streit,
163. Cited in Felix Römer, “ ‘Seid hart und unerbittlich …’ Gefangenenerschießung und Gewalteskalation im deutsch-sowjetischen Krieg, 1941/42,” in
164. Ibid., p. 319.
165. SRM 599, 25 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138. See also SRA 2671, 19 June 1942, TNA, WO 208/4126; SRA 2957, 29 August 1942, TNA, WO 208/4127; SRX 1122, 22 September 1942, TNA, WO 208/4161.
166. Hartmann,
167. Johannes Hürter,
168. SRM 1023, 15 November 1944, TNA, WO 208/4139.
169. Dieter Pohl,
170. SRM 49, 24 February 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
171. On the execution of 180 Russian POWs because no means of transport were available, see SRA 2605, 10 June 1942, TNA, WO 208/4126.
172. SRX 2139, 28 April 1945, TNA, WO 208/4164. Walter Schreiber, born 15 July 1924 in Großaming/Steyr Land, joined the Waffen SS in 1942 and served in the “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler” in the area around Charkow in spring 1943. He is perhaps referring to an incident from this period. A passionate National Socialist, he joined a frogman commando unit in July 1944. On 7 March 1945 he was captured in fighting around the bridge at Remagen. Michael Jung,
173. SRA 4273, 14 August 1943, TNA, WO 208/4130; cf. Room Conversation, Müller–Reimbold, 22 March 1945, NARA, RG 165, Entry 179, Box 530.
174. SRA 2957, 9 August 1942, TNA, WO 208/4127. See SRA 5681, 21 December 1944, TNA, WO 208/4135.
175. SRA 5681, 21 December 1944, TNA, WO 208/4135; SRA 4742, 20 December 1943, TNA, WO 208/4132; SRA 2618, 11 June 1942, TNA, WO 208/4126.
176. GRGG 169, 2 August-4 August 1944, TNA, WO 208/4363.