587. See Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs, and Detlef Vogel, eds.,
588. Boog, Krebs, and Vogel, eds.
589. Hans-Günther Kluge to Hitler, 21 July 1944, BA-MA, RH 19 IX/8.
590. John Zimmermann,
591. Ibid., esp. pp. 282–323.
592. SRX 1965, 9 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4164
593. The situation was the same on the Eastern and Western fronts. On 30 June 1941 some two hundred men from the Army Group South were captured and killed by Russian soldiers. Korpstagesbefehl KG III, AK, 3 July 1941; BA/MA, RH 27—14/2.
594. SRM 521, 8 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138. Gundlach directed the combat academy of the 716th Infantry Division, which offered training for noncommissioned officers. Little is known about him, but he must have been an infantry officer with combat experience. An account of the battle from the perspective of Private Josef Häger is contained in Cornelius Ryan,
595. SRM 716, 31 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
596. SRM 622, 6 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
597. Radio Message, 27 June 1944, B. No. 1/Skl 19633/44 GKdos, BA/MA, RM 7/148.
598. SRN 3925, 10 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4153.
599. SRM 639, 8 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
600. SRGG 1061, 24 September 1944, TNA, WO 208/4169; Welf Botho Elster,
601. For example, Friedrich Paulus in Stalingrad, Hans Aulock in Saint-Malo, and Bernhard Ramcke in Brest. See Sönke Neitzel, “Der Kampf um die deutschen Atlantik- und Kanalfestungen und sein Einfluß auf den alliierten Nachschub während der Befreiung Frankreichs, 1944/45,” in
602. SRN 3924, 8 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4153.
603. SRN 3932, 11 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4154.
604. SRGG 934, 1 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4168.
605. Room Conversation, Bernzen-Almenröder, 11 February 1945, NARA, RG 165, Entry 179, Box 448.
606. SRN 3935, 11 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4154.
607. Neitzel,
608. BA/MA, N 267/4, 11 November 1944
609. SRM 160, 4 February 1943, TNA, WO 208/4136.
610. SRX 1548, 4 February 1943, TNA, WO 208/4162.
611. SRM 71, 20 November 1942, TNA, WO 208/4136.
612. Murawski,
613. Zagovec, “Gespräche mit der ‘Volksgemeinschaft,’” in particular, p. 358.
614. GRGG 270, 9 March 1945, TNA, WO 208/4177.
615. Günter Wegmann,
616. SRGG 1125, 27 January 1945, TNA, WO 208/4169.
617. GRGG 276, 25–27 March 1945, TNA, WO 208/4177.
618. SRM 1158, 2 January 1945, TNA, WO 208/4140.
619. Room Conversation, Neher–Glar, 19 September 1944, NARA, RG 165, Entry 179, Box 474.
620. SRGG 934, 1 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4168.
621. SRGG 935, 2 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4168.
622. SRM 539, 12 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
623. SRM 522, 9 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.
624. SRGG 844, 24 February 1944, TNA, WO 208/4168.
625. See Room Conversation, Guetter-Tschitschko, 27 June 1944, NARA, RG 165, Entry 179, Box 477.
626. See ibid.
627. Kurt Böhme,
628. “Gedanken des Oberbefehlshabers der Kriegsmarine,” in Rahn and Schreiber, eds.,
629. See Michael Salewski,
630. 1. Skl No. 18142/43 g., 17 June 1943, BA/MA, RM 7/98. See also KTB Skl, Teil A, 17 August 1944, S. 417.