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³⁴Joachim Fest,
The Face of the Third Reich
(London, 1970), p. 309.

³⁵Joachim Fest,
Speer: The Final Verdict
(London, 2001), p. 193.

³⁶Ibid., p. 204.

³⁷Speer,
Inside
, p. 458.

³⁸Richard Overy,
Interrogations
(London, 2001), p. 460.

³⁹Speer,
Inside
, p. 538.

⁴⁰Ibid., p. 539.

⁴¹Gitta Sereny,
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
(London, 1995), p. 482.

⁴²Quoted in Overy, op. cit., p. 460.

⁴³Fest,
Speer
, p. 232.

⁴⁴Hugh Trevor-Roper,
The Last Days of Hitler
, 7th edition (London, 2002), p. 70.

⁴⁵Quoted in Fest,
Face
, p. 307.

⁴⁶Gitta Sereny, correspondence with the author, 4 November 2004.

⁴⁷Sereny,
Speer
, p. 138.

⁴⁸Quoted in ibid., p. 422.

⁴⁹Quoted in Fest,
Speer
, p. 218.

⁵⁰Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf (London
, 1939 edition), pp. 501–02.

⁵¹Ibid., p. 91.

⁵²Speer,
Inside
, p. 574.

⁵³Ibid.

⁵⁴Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 477.

⁵⁵Speer,
Inside
, p. 575.

⁵⁶National Archive (London) (hereafter NA), FO1078/236, Dieter Stahl Interrogation Report, 10 November 1945, p. 5.

⁵⁷Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 477.

⁵⁸See Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman,
A Higher Form of Killing
(London, 1982), pp. 53–57.

⁵⁹Ibid., p. 62.

⁶⁰NA, Stahl Interrogation, op. cit., p. 6.

⁶¹Speer,
Inside
, p. 576.

⁶²Ibid., p. 577.

⁶³Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p. 72.

⁶⁴Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 486.

⁶⁵Speer,
Inside
, p. 577.

⁶⁶NA, Stahl Interrogation, op. cit., p. 7.

⁶⁷Speer,
Inside
, p. 622.

⁶⁸Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 507.

⁶⁹Speer,
Inside
, pp. 622–23.

⁷⁰Ibid., p. 659 and Sereny, op. cit., p. 511.

⁷¹Speer,
Inside
, p. 575.

⁷²Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p. 215.

⁷³Airey Neave,
Nuremberg
(London, 1978), pp. 138, 144.

⁷⁴Speer,
Inside
, p. 689.

⁷⁵The Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal
(London, 1946), Vol. XVII, p. 32, testimony of Albert Speer, 20 June 1946.

⁷⁶Ann Tusa and John Tusa,
The Nuremberg Trial
(London, 1983), p. 399.

⁷⁷NA, Stahl Interrogation, op. cit., p. 6.

⁷⁸Sereny, op. cit., p. 473.

⁷⁹Matthias Schmidt,
Albert Speer, The End of ’a Myth
(London, 1985), p. 124.

⁸⁰Dan van der Vat,
The Good Nazi—The Life and Lies of Albert Speer
(London, 1997), pp. 222–23.

⁸¹Fest,
Speer
, p. 246.

⁸²See, for instance, Speer,
Inside
, p. 464.

⁸³Ibid., p. 577.

⁸⁴Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
(New York, 2000 edition), p. 261.

⁸⁵Anton Joachimsthaler,
The Last Days of ‘Hitler
(London, 1996), p. 39.

⁸⁶Walter Warlimont,
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
(London, 1964), p. 442.

⁸⁷Van der Vat, op. cit., p. 157.

⁸⁸Robert Conot,
Justice at Nuremberg
(London, 1983), pp. 496–97.

⁸⁹Speer,
Inside
, p. 689.

⁹⁰Sereny, op. cit., p. 570.

⁹¹Overy, op. cit., pp. 469–71.

⁹²Quoted in ibid., p. 139.

⁹³Tusa and Tusa, op. cit., p. 460.

⁹⁴Trial of the Major War Criminals
, op. cit., Vol. XXIII, p. 124, judgment regarding Albert Speer, 1 October 1946.

⁹⁵Fest,
Speer
, p. 9.

⁹⁶Sereny, op. cit., p. 478.

⁹⁷Speer,
Inside
, p. 682.

⁹⁸Schmidt, op. cit., p. 125.

⁹⁹Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 478.

¹⁰⁰Peter Hoffmann,
The History of the German Resistance 1933–1945
(London, 1977), p. 368.

¹⁰¹Quoted in Tusa and Tusa, op. cit., p. 460.

¹⁰²Neave, op. cit., p. 149.

¹⁰³Speer,
Spandau
, p. 65.

¹⁰⁴Albert Speer,
Alles, was ich weiβ
(Munich, 2000), p. 50.

¹⁰⁵Speer,
Spandau
, p. 399.

¹⁰⁶Quoted in Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p. 74.

¹⁰⁷Speer,
Inside
, pp. 635–41.

¹⁰⁸Speer,
Spandau
, p. 215.

¹⁰⁹Quoted in Gitta Sereny,
The German Trauma
(London, 2000), p. 284.

¹¹⁰Speer,
Spandau
, p. 211.

Epilogue

¹Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier quoted in Sigrid Jacobeit (ed.),
Ich grüβe Euch als freier Mensch
(Fürstenburg, 1995), p. 162.

²Joachim Fest,
Inside Hitler’s Bunker
(London, 2004), p. 31.

³Antony Beevor,
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
(London, 2002), p. 410.

⁴Ibid., p. 371.

⁵Michael Foedrowitz,
The Flak Towers in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, 1940–1950
(Atglen, PA, 1998), p. 7.

⁶Cornelius Ryan,
The Last Battle
(London, 1966), pp. 381–82.

⁷Beevor, op. cit., p. 352.

⁸John Erickson,
The Road to Berlin
(London, 1983), p. 599.

⁹Quoted in Beevor, op. cit., p. 355.

¹⁰Peter Hoffmann,
Hitler’s Personal Security
(New York, 2000 edition), p. 261.

¹¹Nerin E. Gun,
Eva Braun
(London, 1968), p. 261.

¹²Traudl Junge,
Until the Final Hour
(London, 2003), p. 176.

¹³Ibid., p. 178.

¹⁴Quoted in Fest, op. cit., p. viii.

¹⁵Quoted in Franz Siedler and Dieter Zeigert,
Hitler’s Secret Headquarters
(London, 2004), p. 177.

¹⁶See, for example, Ernst Günther Schenck,
Patient Hitler
(Augsburg, 2000), pp. 199–200, and L. Heston and R. Heston,
The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler
(New York, 1979),
chapter 5
.

¹⁷Ernst Günther Schenck quoted in James P. O’Donnell,
The Berlin Bunker
(London, 1979), pp. 139–40.

¹⁸Walter Warlimont,
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
(London, 1964), p. 462.

¹⁹National Archives (London), Liddell Diaries, KV4/195, p. 138, description by General Dietrich von Choltitz.

²⁰Schenck quoted in O’Donnell, op. cit., pp. 136–37.

²¹Traudl Junge quoted in Gitta Sereny,
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
(London, 1995), p. 533.

²²Quoted in Fest, op. cit., p. 23.

²³Hugh Trevor-Roper,
The Last Days of Hitler
, 7th edition (London, 2002), p. 143.

²⁴See, for example, ibid., pp. 105–6, or Joachim Fest, op. cit., pp. 62–64.

²⁵Fegelein, SS liaison officer to the Reich Chancellery, had married Eva Braun’s sister Gretl in 1944. He was executed on the night of Hitler’s wedding.