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⁶²Hoffmann, in Mosse (ed.), op. cit., pp. 176–77.

⁶³Quoted in ibid., p. 183.

⁶⁴BA, R3017/110, Bavaud’s
Anklageschrift
, 20 November 1939, p. 9.

⁶⁵Ibid., pp. 20–21.

⁶⁶Michael Burleigh,
The Third Reich
(London, 2000), p. 265.

⁶⁷Anklageschrift
, op. cit., p. 24.

⁶⁸Ibid., p. 30.

⁶⁹Ibid., p. 31.

⁷⁰Ibid., p. 41.

⁷¹See interview with Emil Reuter in Peter Spinatsch,
Maurice Bavaud—Geschichte und Wirkungsgeschichte
, at
http://www.maurice-bavaud.ch/symp.htm
.

⁷²See H. W. Koch,
Volksgerichthof
(Munich, 1988), p. 219.

⁷³Quoted by Hoffmann in Mosse (ed.), op. cit., p. 197.

⁷⁴See
Ehrenbuch der Opfer von Berlin-Plötzensee
(Berlin, 1974).

⁷⁵Quoted by Hoffmann in Mosse (ed.), op. cit., p. 182.

⁷⁶Quoted in Niklaus Meienberg,
Es ist kalt in Brandenburg
(Zürich, 1980), pp. 133–34.

⁷⁷Ibid., p. 46.

⁷⁸Ibid., pp. 46–47.

⁷⁹With thanks to Mr. Brian Baxter of the REME Museum, Berkshire, UK.

⁸⁰Rolf Hochhuth, “Tell 38,” in
Maurice Bavaud: Dokumentation zum 60.
Todestag
(Berne, 2001), p. 48.

⁸¹Picker, op. cit., pp. 230, 247.

⁸²Ibid., p. 231.

⁸³BA R58/93–50.

⁸⁴Hoffmann,
Security
, p. 105.

Chapter 2

¹Bundesarchiv [hereafter BA], Elser Interrogation file, BA R3001/310/106.

²Joseph Goebbels, Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei (Munich, 1934), p. 27.

³Quoted in John Toland,
Hitler
(London, 1976), p. 298.

⁴Rudolf Diels quoted in J. Noakes and G. Pridham (eds.),
Nazism 1919–45
, Vol. 1 (Exeter, 1983), p. 140.

⁵Richard Grunberger,
A Social History of the Third Reich
(London, 1971), p. 82.

⁶Ibid., p. 96.

⁷Edward Crankshaw,
Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny
(London, 2002 edition), p. 91.

⁸Quoted in ibid., p. 89.

⁹Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showalter,
Voices from the Third Reich
(London, 1989), pp. 50–51.

¹⁰Michael Burleigh,
The Third Reich
(London, 2000), p. 227.

¹¹Grunberger, op. cit., p. 255.

¹²See the Web site of the Prora complex at
www.museum-prora.de
.

¹³Burleigh, op. cit., p. 250.

¹⁴Karl Dietrich Bracher,
The German Dictatorship
(London, 1971), p. 280.

¹⁵Steinhoff et al., op. cit., p. 48.

¹⁶Grunberger, op. cit., p. 350.

¹⁷See Guido Knopp,
Hitler’s Children
(Stroud, 2002).

¹⁸Joachim Fest,
The Face of the Third Reich
(London, 1979), p. 130.

¹⁹Quoted in ibid., p. 147.

²⁰Ibid., p. 141.

²¹Anthony Read,
The Devil’s Disciples
(London, 2003), p. 198.

²²Quoted in Ralf Georg Reuth,
Goebbels
(New York, 1993), p. 108.

²³Quoted in Read, op. cit., p. 295.

²⁴See Burleigh, op. cit., “Introduction.”

²⁵Quoted in Ulrich Herbert, “Good Times, Bad Times: Memories of the Third Reich,” in Richard Bessel (ed.),
Life in the Third Reich
(Oxford, 1987), p. 97.

²⁶On Elser see, for instance, Hellmut Haasis,
Den Hitler jag’ ich in die Luft
(Berlin, 1999); Anton Hoch, “Das Attentat auf Hitler im Münchner Bürgerbräukeller 1939,” in
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
, Vol. XVII (1969), pp. 383–413; and Lothar Gruchmann (ed.),
Autobiographie eines Attentäters. Johann Georg Elser
(Stuttgart, 1970).

²⁷Quoted in Haasis, op. cit., p. 164.

²⁸Quoted in Lothar Gruchmann and Anton Hoch,
Georg Elser: Der Attentäter aus dem Volke
(Frankfurt am Main, 1980), p. 89.

²⁹Ibid., p. 97.

³⁰BA R3001/310/91.

³¹BA R3001/310/117.

³²BA R3001/310/123.

³³Hoch, op. cit., p. 400.

³⁴BA R3001/310/193.

³⁵BA R3001/310/150–53.

³⁶BA R3001/310/178.

³⁷BA R3001/310/184–85.

³⁸Nicolaus von Below,
At Hitler’s Side
(London, 2001), p. 42.

³⁹Haasis, op. cit., p. 10.

⁴⁰Max Domarus,
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–45
, Vol. III (London, 1997), pp. 1865–75.

⁴¹Quoted in Haasis, op. cit., pp. 33–34.

⁴²Quoted in ibid., p. 33.

⁴³Quoted in Walter Schellenberg,
Schellenberg
(London, 1969), p. 41.

⁴⁴Quoted in Haasis, op. cit., pp. 24–25.

⁴⁵Toland, op. cit., p. 593.

⁴⁶Quoted in Heinz Höhne,
The Order of the Death’s Head
(London, 1969), p. 288.

⁴⁷The British archival papers relating to the Venlo incident were released in 1995. They are held in FO371/23107/69 at the National Archives in London [hereafter NA].

⁴⁸See Schellenberg, op. cit., pp. 30–44.

⁴⁹See Sigismund Payne Best,
The Venlo Incident
(London, 1949).

⁵⁰Hans Gisevius,
To the Bitter End
(Cambridge, MA, 1947), p. 405.

⁵¹Völkischer Beobachter
, 10 November 1939. “Die wunderbare Errettung des Führers—Chamberlains frommer Wunsch ging nicht in Erfüllung.”

⁵²Ian Kershaw,
Hitler: 1936–1945 Nemesis
(London, 2000), p. 275.

⁵³Burleigh, op. cit., p. 723.

⁵⁴Denis Mack Smith,
Mussolini
(London, 1981), p. 281.

⁵⁵BA file R43II/991.

⁵⁶BA R43II/903/105. Poem by Martha Hilgenfeld of Berlin-Steglitz.

⁵⁷NA GFM/33/1673/059585. Report from German legation in Berne, 10 November 1939.

⁵⁸NA GFM/33/1673/059593. Report from German consulate in Zürich, 14 November 1939.

⁵⁹NA GFM/33/804/2051. Report from German legation in Venezuela, 20 December 1939.

⁶⁰NA GFM/33/2372/384400. Report from German embassy in Washington, DC, 11 June 1940.

⁶¹See BA file R43II/3465.

⁶²BA R58/93/52, Heydrich to all senior SS, SD, Gestapo, and Kripo personnel.

⁶³Hans Rothfels,
Die deutsche Opposition gegen Hitler
(Zürich, 1994), p. 111.

⁶⁴Quoted in Toland, op. cit., p. 593.

⁶⁵Gisevius, op. cit., p. 410.

⁶⁶Quoted in Toland, op. cit., p. 594.

⁶⁷Ibid., p. 591.

⁶⁸BA R58/93/86, Heydrich Memorandum, 9 March 1940.

⁶⁹See Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
(New York, 2000 edition), pp. 111–17.

⁷⁰Schellenberg, op. cit., p. 49.

⁷¹Gisevius, op. cit., p. 407.

⁷²See, for example, Alan Bullock,
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
(London, 1962 edition), pp. 566–67; Peter Padfield,
Himmler
(London, 1990), p. 283.

⁷³Domarus, op. cit., pp. 1864–65.

⁷⁴Hoch, op. cit., p. 384.

⁷⁵Lothar Gruchmann and Anton Hoch.

⁷⁶Peter Steinbach and Johannes Tuchel, “Der Widerstandskämpfer und das Attentat vom 8. November 1939—Deutungen und Diffamierungen,” in
Frankfurter Rundschau
, 18 November 1999.