73. Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, 307 (citing UD:s Arkhiv 1920 ARS, HP/1557/LVII, Swedish ambassador in Moscow, June 16). According to the unpublished memoir of his daughter, American ambassador Steinhardt observed at the Moscow airport how von Walther, in tears, had had to part with his beloved boxer, which was being shipped back to Berlin. Lukes, On the Edge of the Cold War, 75–6 (citing Steinhardt Sherlock, “R.S.V.P.,” 65; interview with Laurene Sherlock and Peter Rosenblatt, Oct. 27, 2007).
74. Schmidt, Statist auf diplomatische Bühne, 214.
75. Naumov, 1941 god, II: 414–5 (AVP RF, f. 06, op. 3, pap. 1, d. 5, l. 8–11), 416 (l. 1: text of the protest); Iampol’skii et al., Organy, I/ii: 370–1; DGFP, XII: 1070–1; Sontag and Beddie, Nazi-Soviet Relations, 355–6 (Schulenburg account); DVP SSSR, XXIII/ii: 751–2; Hilger and Meyer, Incompatible Allies, 335–6; Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, 310 (citing AVP RF, f. 06, op. 3, pap. 1, d. 5, l. 6–7). Schulenburg’s summary reached the foreign ministry in Berlin at 2:30 a.m. on June 22. See also Vishlev, “Pochemu zhe,” 80; and Fel’shtinskii, Oglasheniiu podlezhit, 371–6.
76. Molotov’s departure to receive Schulenburg was not recorded. Na prieme, 337.
77. Kumanev, Riadom so Stalinym, 409–10 (Chadayev); Kuznetsov, Nakanune, 355.
78. Zolotarev et al., Russkii arkhiv: Velikaia otechestvennaia, XIII (II/i), 282 (TsAMO, f. 48–A, op. 1554, d. 90, l. 257–9); Naumov, 1941 god, II: 423; Pospelov, Istoriia Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, II: 11; Zakharov, General’nyi shtab, 224–5; Zhukov, Vospominaniia (1971), 233–4; Zhukov, Vospomininia (1995), I: 387. See also Erickson, Road to Stalingrad, 110; and Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, 311.
79. Beria at some point left and came back, but only his re-arrival was recorded in the logbook. Others present might have come and gone without their movements having been recorded.
80. Erickson, Road to Stalingrad, 114–5; Bialer, Stalin and His Generals, 193 (Kuznetsov).
81. DGFP, series D, XII: 1061–3; Sontag and Beddie, Nazi-Soviet Relations, 353–4; Vishlev, “Pochemu zhe,” 80; Taylor, Goebbels Diaries, 423. Precisely when Dekanozov informed Moscow of his failure remains unclear. Berezhkov, the Soviet embassy employee who claimed he had been tasked with phoning the German foreign ministry to obtain the meeting with Ribbentrop, wrongly implied that no meeting had been arranged until the German foreign ministry itself called back at 3:00 a.m. Berlin time (5:00 a.m. Moscow time) with a summons for Dekanozov. Bialer, Stalin and His Generals, 215–6 (Berezhkov).
82. “Stalin sought by the condition and behavior of troops in the border military districts to make it clear to Hitler that we had a quiet atmosphere, bordering on carelessness,” recalled army general Semyon Ivanov. He characterized this as a form of criminal self-demobilization. Ivanov, Shtab armeiskii, 104–6.
83. Lieutenant General Nikolai Klich, head of artillery in the Western special military district, told Colonel Ilya Starinov of Pavlov’s phone calls to Moscow about every ominous development: “Always the same reply—‘Don’t panic! Keep calm! “The Boss” knows everything.’” Bialer, Stalin and His Generals, 222–3 (Starinov).
84. The defector was Alfred Liskow. (Nekrich writes that he crossed the border around 11:00 p.m.) The NKGB established that he was a lance corporal, thirty years old, a furniture joiner and Communist (before Hitler’s rise), who said that his unit had been told they would cross the Bug River on boats and pontoons in a few hours. Liskow was still being held by the NKGB when the German attack commenced. Naumov, 1941 god, II: 422; “Nakanune voiny (1940–1941 gg.),” 218; Nekrich, 1941, 22 iuinia, 197.
85. Germany continued to send military equipment to the Soviets in June, with Göring and others reasoning that the Soviets would never be able to make full use in time of the advanced technology that was delivered. Von Strandmann, “Appeasement and Counter-Appeasement,” 171 (citing HA Krupp, WA 40, B, C 381); Schwendemann, Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit, 265–79.
