Army of Evil: A History of the SS (63 page)

9
Burleigh,
Death and Deliverance
, p. 98.

10
Burleigh,
Death and Deliverance
, p. 114.

11
Franz Stangl, quoted in Gitta Sereny,
Into that Darkness
, p. 50.

12
Burleigh,
Death and Deliverance,
p. 125.

13
Quoted in Weale,
Science and the Swastika,
p. 79.

14
Friedlander,
The Origins of Nazi Genocide
, p. 17.

15
Friedlander,
The Origins of Nazi Genocide
, p. 149.

16
Friedlander,
The Origins of Nazi Genocide
, p. 151.

Chapter Thirteen: Origins of the Waffen-SS

1
UKNA, KV2/172.

2
NARA BDC, SSO105a Personalakt Höss.

3
SS-Colonel Karl Heinz Bühler, letter to author, 3 March 1981.

4
UKNA, KV2/172.

5
UKNA, KV2/172.

6
NARA, T-354/194/3853322.

7
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 6.

8
NARA, T-354/203/3865608.

9
Gelwick,
Evolution and Structure of the Waffen-SS
, p. 32.

10
NARA, T-580/87, directive dated 16 December 1934.

11
Gelwick,
Evolution and Structure of the Waffen-SS
, p. 31.

12
NARA, T-175/153/682779ff.

13
NARA, T-175/91/2613342.

14
NARA, T-175/153/682747.

Chapter Fourteen: Militarising the “Political Soldiers”

1
Quoted in Hathaway,
In Perfect Formation
, p. 141.

2
UKNA, KV2/397.

3
Wegner,
The Waffen-SS
, p. 159.

4
Wegner,
The Waffen-SS
, p. 160.

5
Hathaway,
In Perfect Formation
, p. 103.

6
Wegner,
The Waffen-SS
, p. 154.

7
Wegner,
The Waffen-SS
, p. 271.

8
Quoted in Weale,
Renegades: Hitler’s Englishmen
, p. 149.

9
USNA, SSO153B.

10
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 14.

11
Der Freiwillige
, May 1982.

12
NARA BDC, SSO152.

13
UKNA, KV2/172.

14
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Gille.

15
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Jüttner.

Chapter Fifteen: Expansion of the Militarised SS

1
Kershaw,
Hitler: Nemesis
, p. 53.

2
Kershaw,
Hitler: Nemesis
, p. 54.

3
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 230.

4
Gelwick,
Evolution and Structure of the Waffen-SS
, p. 61.

5
Nuremberg Doc 467-PS.

6
NARA, T-580/87.

7
Mooney,
Dietrich’s Warriors
, p. 30.

8
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 416.

Chapter Sixteen: The Invasion of Poland and the Special Task Groups

1
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 275.

2
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head,
p. 277.

3
Burleigh,
Death and Deliverance
, p. 129.

4
Burleigh,
Death and Deliverance
, p. 130.

5
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 230.

6
Heydrich, letter to Special Task Force commanders, 21 September 1939, quoted in Aly,
“Final Solution,
” p. 14.

7
Aly,
“Final Solution,
” p. 15.

8
Rossino,
Hitler Strikes Poland
, pp. 90‖91.

9
Westermann,
Hitler’s Police Battalions
, p. 121.

10
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 280.

11
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 280.

12
Rossino,
Hitler Strikes Poland
, p. 96.

13
Westermann,
Hitler’s Police Battalions
, p. 144.

14
USNA, T-175/237/725997ff.

Chapter Seventeen: The SS and the Polish Jews

1
Cesarani,
Eichmann
, p. 78.

2
Cesarani,
Eichmann
, p. 79.

3
Cesarani,
Eichmann
, p. 79.

4
For a detailed discussion of the resettlement programme as it impacted on the Jews of Poland, see Aly,
“Final Solution.
”

5
Yerger,
Allgemeine-SS
, p. 20.

6
Aly,
“Final Solution,
” p. 107.

7
Cesarani,
Eichmann
, p. 83.

8
Padfield,
Himmler
, p. 301.

9
Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, p. 161.

10
Goldhagen,
Hitler’s Willing Executioners
, p. 146.

11
Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, pp. 74ff.

12
Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, pp. 80ff.

13
Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, p. 90.

14
Browning,
The Path to Genocide
, p. 43.

15
Browning,
The Path to Genocide
, p. 51.

16
Browning,
The Path to Genocide
, p. 44.

17
Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
, p. 338.

Chapter Eighteen: Gottlob Berger and the Creation of the Waffen-SS

1
UKNA, KV2/172.

2
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 419.

3
Private Bob Brown, Royal Norfolk Regiment, quoted in “Britannia and Castle,”
Journal of the Royal Norfolk Regiment
, Number 104, December 2018.

4
NARA, SSO186A Personalakte Knöchlein.

5
Brunnegger,
Saat in dem Sturm
, p. 76.

6
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 106.

7
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 109.

8
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 109.

9
Brian Fahey, account on www.jazzprofessional.com, accessed 19 February 2018.

10
Mooney,
Dietrich’s Warriors
, p. 40.

11
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 420.

12
NARA, T-175/104/626381.

Chapter Nineteen: Making Up the Numbers: Foreign Volunteers and Criminals in the Waffen-SS

1
Gelwick, “Personnel Policies and Procedures of the Waffen-SS,” p. 537.

2
Gelwick, “Personnel Policies and Procedures of the Waffen-SS,” p. 539.

3
Eichmann, quoted in Lang and Sibyll,
Eichmann Interrogated
, pp. 16’17.

4
NARA BDC, SSO Personalakte Riedweg.

5
UKNA, KV2/376.

6
Sydnor,
Soldiers of Destruction
, p. 41.

7
Michaelis,
SS-Heimwehr Danzig
, p. 38.

8
UKNA, KV2/376.

9
USNA, T-175/50/2564266.

10
UKNA, HO336/2.

11
UKNA, HO45/25805.

12
UKNA, HO45/25805.

13
NARA, T-175/104/626381.

14
Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
, p. 422.

15
USNA, T-175/19/2523362-2523363.

16
Littlejohn,
Foreign Legions of the Third Reich
, I, p. 35.

17
USNA, T-175/19/2523346.

18
Quoted in Gelwick, “Personnel Policies and Procedures of the Waffen-SS,” p. 545.

19
Gelwick, “Personnel Policies and Procedures of the Waffen-SS,” p. 547.

20
USNA, T-175/103/2625971, quoted in Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 101.

21
BA, R 22/1019, Bl. 23, quoted in Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform
, p. 32.

22
IMT Nuremberg, testimony of Gottlob Berger.

23
IMT Nuremberg, testimony of Gottlob Berger.

24
BA, R 22/1019, Bl. 25, quoted in Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform
, p. 32.

25
Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform
, p. 33.

26
Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform
, p. 35.

27
Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform
, p. 35.

28
NARA, SSO, Personalakt Dirlewanger.

29
NARA, SSO, Personalakt Dirlewanger.

30
NARA, SSO, Personalakt Dirlewanger.

31
BA, R 22/1019, Bl. 25, quoted in Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform,
p. 33.

32
Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform
, p. 46.

33
Maclean,
The Cruel Hunters
, p. 58.

34
Klausch,
Antifaschisten in SS-Uniform
, p. 52.

35
Rubinstein, William D, “The Secret of Leopold Amery,”
History Today
, Volume 49, Issue 2, February 1999, pp. 17’23.

36
SS-
Hauptsturmführer
Alexander Dolezalek, letter to author, 1994.

37
UKNA, WO71/Wilson.

38
UKNA, WO71.

39
3./SS-Frw.-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 11.

40
UKNA, KV2.

41
UKNA, KV2.

42
UKNA, HO45.

43
UKNA, KV2/631.

44
See, for example, SSO files on Dad Quan Allah and Gurbacan (
sic
) Singh Mangat: NARA BDC series.

45
Quoted in
46
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 195.

47
Bergmeier and Lotz,
Hitler’s Airwaves
, pp. 79’80.

48
Du Vair family Web site: http://www.du-vair.nom.fr/index.htm.

49
Bergmeier and Lotz,
Hitler’s Airwaves
, p. 81.

50
Bergmeier and Lotz,
Hitler’s Airwaves
, p. 82.

51
USNA, SSO058, Personalakte Gottlob Berger, fr. 66178.

52
USNA, SSO058, Personalakte Gottlob Berger, fr. 66177.

Chapter Twenty: The Waffen-SS Heads East

1
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 120.

2
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, pp. 130–32.

3
Oxford Companion to the Second World War
, p. 113.

4
Oxford Companion to the Second World War
, p. 437.

5
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 152.

6
Buss and Mollo,
Hitler’s Germanic Legions
, p. 17.

7
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 155.

8
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 162.

9
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 170.

10
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 180.

11
Stein,
The Waffen SS
, p. 181.

12
Lepre,
Himmler’s Bosnian Division
, pp. 82–108, is the best account of the mutiny.