2. TBJG, 6 June 1940; Hoffmann, Mit Hitler im Westen; Hornshøj-Møller, “The Role of ‘Produced Reality.’”
3. Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 170–72; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 299–300; TBJG, 3 July 1940.
4. Mann, “Beim Propheten,” 275.
5. Förster, “Hitler’s Decision,” 30–31; Kershaw, Fateful Choices, 56–57; Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 380–81. For the best extended assessment of Hitler’s ideology, see Jäckel, Hitler’s World View.
6. Hitler, Mein Kampf, 284–329; Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, chaps. 1–6; Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 243–46.
7. Hitler, Mein Kampf, 679; Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 244–45.
8. Jäckel and Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, 775; Bloxham, The Final Solution, 88; Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1:73–113; Herf, The Jewish Enemy, 2–3; Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 244–46.
9. Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 248–49, and Fateful Choices, 56–57; Förster, “Hitler’s Decision,” 31–32; Hitler, Mein Kampf, 610–11; Müller, “Das ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’ als wirtschaftlicher Raubkrieg,” 174. For an excellent and extended discussion of the concept of Lebensraum, see Liulevicius, War Land on the Eastern Front, 247–77.
10. For Hitler’s general views on foreign policy, see Hitler, Mein Kampf, 607–67; and Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, passim.
11. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 8–9, 138, 144–45; Hitler, Mein Kampf, 654.
12. Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, 15–27, 48–54, 99–118, 160–74; Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 247–50, and Fateful Choices, 56–57; Förster, “Hitler’s Decision,” 31–32.
13. Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 249–50; Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 380–82; Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, chaps. 1–6; Zitelmann, “Zur Begründung des ‘Lebensraum’ Motivs in Hitlers Weltanschauung”; Vogelsang, “Neue Dokumente zur Geschichte der Reichswehr,” 434–36.
14. Schmidt, Hitler’s Interpreter, 158; Bauer, Jews for Sale? 37–38; Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 376.
15. Frieser, The Blitzkrieg Legend, 10, 13, 17.
16. Hitler, Mein Kampf, 126–56, 607–67; Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, 160–74, 228–38; Förster, “Hitler’s Decision,” 33; Kershaw, Fateful Choices, 62; Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 570; Ueberschär, “Hitlers Entschluß,” 88.
17. Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 390–91; Treue, “Hitlers Denkschrift”; Noakes and Pridham, eds., Nazism: A History, 2:281–87; Overy, Russia’s War, 34–35.
18. Treue, “Hitlers Denkschrift”; Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 219–22 and chaps. 7–8 generally; Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 383; Overy, Russia’s War, 35.
19. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, chaps. 7–9; Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 374–79, 383; Geyer, “German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare,” 575, 581. See also Deist, “The Rearmament of the Wehrmacht”; and Volkmann, “The National Socialist Economy in Preparation of War.”
20. Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 571; Herf, The Jewish Enemy, chaps. 1–3.
21. Wildt, ed., Judenpolitik, 35–60; Brechtken, “Madagascar für die Juden,” 176–85, 193–94; Jansen, Der Madagaskar-Plan, 236–39, 284–85; Nicosia, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question, 109–44; Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 571–72; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 132–35; TBJG, 25 July 1938.
22. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 274–75; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 135–36; Wildt, ed., Judenpolitik, 55–57; Barkai, “Schicksalsjahr 1938,” 101.
23. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 136–39; TBJG, 9, 10 November 1938. See also Graml, Reichskristallnacht.
24. Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 573; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 150–51 (Goering quote 151).
25. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 282–83; Herf, The Jewish Enemy, 46–49; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 151–52 (Das schwarze Korps and Hitler quotes 152).
26. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 283–84; Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 574–75; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 152–53; Domarus, ed., Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen, 2:1049, 1057.
27. Domarus, ed., Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen, 2:1057–58.
28. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 136–39. See also Fritz, Frontsoldaten, 187–218, and “ ‘We are trying… to change the face of the world.’”
29. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 12–14. See also Sven Lindqvist, “Exterminate All the Brutes”; Ehmann, “From Colonial Racism to Nazi Population Policy”; Smith, Ideological Origins.
30. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 15–16. See also Halder, War Diary; Baumgart, “Zur Ansprache Hitlers vor den Führern der Wehrmacht”; “Ansprache des Führers auf dem Berghof am 22. 8. 1939,” in Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 1, pt. 2:947–49.
31. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 16–24; Groscurth, Tagebücher, 202 (9 September 1939), 298 (18 October 1939); Müller, Das Heer und Hitler, 667 (doc. 45: Brauchitsch to Army Commanders, 21 September 1939); Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 240–44; Mommsen, “Die Realisierung des Utopischen.”
For the best assessments of Einsatzgruppen activities in Poland and the army reaction, see Rossino, Hitler Strikes Poland, passim. Other important recent works focusing on Poland as the dress rehearsal for later atrocities are Rossino, “Destructive Impulses”; Böhler, Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg; Westermann, Hitler’s Police Battalions; and Rutherford, Prelude to the Final Solution.
32. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 25–28.
33. Ibid., 27–28, 46; TBJG, 10 October 1939. See also Aly and Heim, Architects of Annihilation, chap. 4.
34. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 14; Aly and Heim, Architects of Annihilation, 149–59.
35. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 36–63; Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 2:30–37.
36. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 36–63; Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 2:30–37; Goshen, “Eichmann und die Nisko-Aktion”; Moser, “Nisko”; Pohl, Von der “Judenpolitik” zum Judenmord, 47–54.