20. See Gun, Eva Braun, pp. 214–215. This alleged document is cited uncritically by Sigmund (Die Frauen der Nazis, p. 274).
21. See Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, pp. 382 and 384.
22. Junge, Bis zur letzten Stunde, p. 146.
23. See John Zimmermann, “Die deutsche Kriegführung im Westen 1944/55,” in Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, vol. 10.1, ed. Rolf-Dieter Müller for the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Munich, 2008), p. 277.
24. See Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, p. 722.
25. Goebbels, entry of March 14, 1944, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil II, vol. 11, p. 472.
26. See Schenck, Patient Hitler, pp. 44ff. and 78f.
27. Loringhoven, Mit Hitler im Bunker, p. 10.
28. Junge, Bis zur letzten Stunde, p. 160.
29. See Theodor Morell, 1944 pocket calender, in Theodor Morell Papers, N 1348–2, BA Koblenz. See also Schenck, Patient Hitler, p. 57; Schroeder, Er war mein Chef, p. 149; Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, pp. 387 and 389; Junge, Bis zur letzten Stunde, p. 152; Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, p. 726. Karl Brandt and Hanskarl von Hasselbach ceased to be Hitler’s accompanying physicians on October 10, 1944; the role was taken on by SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Stumpfegger (Reichsleiter Martin Bormann [Secretary to the Führer] to Reich Press Chief Dr. Dietrich, Führer Headquarters, October 10, 1944 (original), in Theodor Morell Papers, N 1348–4, BA Koblenz).
30. See Speer, Inside the Third Reich, p. 415; Albert Speer: Die Kransberg-Protokolle 1945, p. 394; Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, p. 731. This idea of Hitler’s was strengthened by Alfred Jodl, Artillery General and Chief of the Operations Staff of the Army, who had been convinced since fall 1943 that the war would be “decided” in the west (Werner Rahn, “Die deutsche Seekriegführung 1943 bis 1945,” in Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, vol. 10.1, p. 21).
31. See reproduction of the last page of her handwritten directions from October 26, 1944, in Gun, Eva Braun, after p. 176. Eva Braun noted in her last letter to her friend Herta Schneider, April 22, 1945, that she had left her last “testament at Wasserburgerstrasse” (see reproduction in Gun, Eva Braun, after p. 192).
32. See Gerda Bormann to Martin Bormann, Obersalzberg, October 24, 1944, and Martin Bormann to Gerda Bormann, Führer Headquarters, October 25, 1944, in Bormann, The Bormann Letters, pp. 138, 139.
33. See Schmidt, Karl Brandt, pp. 495ff.
34. See Hoffmann, “Mein Beruf,” p. 67. See also Gerda Bormann to Martin Bormann, Obersalzberg, October 24, 1944, in Bormann, The Bormann Letters, p. 138. On August 28, Gerda Bormann still wrote that Eva Braun very much hoped to be able to work with Hoffmann in Munich or Reichenhall, but that nothing was yet decided (Gerda Bormann to Martin Bormann, August 28, 1944, in The Bormann Letters, pp. 91f.).
35. See Gun, Eva Braun, pp. 145ff. Also named are paintings by Karl Rickelt, Johann Fischbach, and Adalbert Wex. Eva Braun is said to have owned a picture of Hitler and another of herself by Theodor Bohnenberger, a painter of portraits and nudes.
36. See Hans Sarkowicz, ed., Hitlers Künstler: Die Kultur im Dienst des Nationalsozialismus (Frankfurt am Main, 2004).
37. See Eva Braun testament of October 26, 1944, in Gun, Eva Braun, pp. 233f.
38. Quoted in Henriette von Schirach, Frauen um Hitler, p. 235.
11. THE DECISION FOR BERLIN
1. Theodor Morell, 1944 pocket calendar, in Theodor Morell Papers, N 1348–2, BA Koblenz. On November 22, Goebbels noted in his diaries: “The Führer has now arrived in Berlin, thank God” (entry of November 22, 1944, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil II, vol. 14, p. 258.
2. See Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 395.
3. Theodor Morell, 1944 pocket calendar, in Theodor Morell Papers, N 1348–2, BA Koblenz. Morell also notes in his calendar under the same date: “Met Miss E.” Again, a few lines later: “Met E. when leaving.” See also Lambert, The Lost Life of Eva Braun, p. 511.
4. Goebbels, entry of November 24, 1944, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil II, vol. 14, p. 269.
5. See Ulrich Völklein, ed., Hitlers Tod: Die letzten Tage im Führerbunker (Göttingen, 1998), pp. 23ff.
6. See Junge, Bis zur letzten Stunde, p. 167.
7. See Sönke Neitzel, Abgehört: Deutsche Generäle in britischer Kriegsgefangenschaft 1942–1945 (Berlin, 2007), p. 166.
8. See Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, pp. 743; Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 398.
9. See Besymenski, Die letzten Notizen von Martin Bormann, p. 64: “1/18 19.10 departure with Sonderwagen to Bln. Dad with Mom, with E. B., Frau Fegelein, and Bredow.”
10. Dr. Hans-Otto Meissner, “Der letzte Befehl,” undated manuscript, p. 11, in Ms 291, IfZ Munich. See also Schroeder, Er war mein Chef, p. 168, which says that Eva Braun arrived “in Berlin at the Chancellery in February 1945, against Hitler’s will.”
11. Junge, Bis zur letzten Stunde, p. 169.
12. See Loringhoven, Mit Hitler im Bunker, pp. 72f. The encounter is here erroneously dated to “shortly before Christmas,” at which time Hitler was at his headquarters on the western front.
13. Goebbels, entry of February 1, 1945, in Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil II, vol. 15, p. 296.
14. See Martin Bormann to Gerda Bormann, Führer Headquarters, December 28, 1944, in Bormann, The Bormann Letters, pp. 154f.
15. See Richard Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung zwischen Ostsee und Karparten,” in Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, vol. 10.1, pp. 588ff. See also Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, p. 400.
16. See Seidler and Zeigert, Die Führerhauptquartiere, p. 324; Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, p. 793. Gun, on the other hand, claims that Eva Braun celebrated her last birthday on February 8 in Munich (Eva Braun, p. 239).
17. See Meissner, “Der letzte Befehl,” p. 11: “The bedroom next door, originally intended as just a cloakroom was furnished with a bed, table, and chair only in February 1945 so that it could serve as a place to sleep, and then occupied by Eva Braun when she showed up in Berlin unexpectedly and against Hitler’s orders.” See also Junge, Bis zur letzten Stunde, p. 177, and Speer, Inside the Third Reich, p. 484: Eva Braun “had had some one the expensive furniture which I had designed for her years ago brought from her two rooms in the upper floors of the Chancellery.”
18. These figures are taken from the following: Horst Boog, “Die strategische Bomberoffensive der Alliierten gegen Deutschland und die Reichsluftverteidigung in der Schlussphase des Krieges,” in Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, vol. 10.1, p. 790. See Kershaw, Hitler 1936–1945, p. 792. See also Antony Beevor, Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (London, 2002), pp. 74f.