62. Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 373–74; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 424–31; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1032–34; Engel, Heeresadjutant bei Hitler, 15–16 August 1942, 123–24.
63. Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 438–53; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1032–34; Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad, 168–70.
64. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1036–38; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 237–38; Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad, 170–71; Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 29, 30, 31 August, 3 September 1942, 2, pt. 3:654, 658, 662–63, 674.
65. Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 8 September 1942, 2, pt. 3:695–98; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1048–49; Megargee, Inside Hitler’s High Command, 179–89; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 238–39; Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad, 166, 170–71; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 527, 530; Beevor, Stalingrad, 79–80; TBJG, 20 August 1942; Halder, War Diary, 22 August 1942, 660; Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, 313; Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 239–40.
66. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1048–50; Halder, War Diary, 9 September 1942, 669; Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 9 September 1942, 2, pt. 1:705–7; Megargee, Inside Hitler’s High Command, 179–80; Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, 315; Warlimont, Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, 254–56; Hartmann, Halder, 333; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 377–78.
67. Engel, Heeresadjutant bei Hitler, 4, 24 September 1942, 124–25, 128; Warlimont, Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, 256–60; Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, 315–16; Halder, War Diary, 24 September 1942, 670; Hartmann, Halder, 328–31, 337–39; Megargee, Inside Hitler’s High Command, 180–84; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 531–34; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1050–52; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 449–50.
68. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1053–59; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 473–86.
69. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1053–59; Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad, 212; “Führerbefehl vom 8. September 1942 über ‘grundsätzliche Aufgaben der Verteidigung,’” in Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 8 September 1942, 2, pt. 4:1292–97; “Führerbefehl vom 13. September 1942 betr. Ablösung abgekämpfter Divisionen aus dem Osten,” in ibid., 13 September 1942, 1298–99; “Operationsbefehl Nr. 1 vom 14. Oktober 1942 betr. weitere Kampfführung im Osten,” in ibid., 14 October 1942, 1301–4; Engel, Heeresadjutant bei Hitler, 27 August, 8, 18 September 1942, 125, 127–28 (on 27 August, Hitler had said that he would like to “trample” on his uniform).
70. Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 432–37; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 239–40; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 374–75, 379–81.
71. Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 239–43; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 432–37; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 374–75, 379–81, 453–54; Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad, 172–82; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1042–43, 1047–48. Destruction of the Maikop and Grozny oil fields would not strike a decisive blow to Soviet oil production as even German experts estimated it would reduce it by only 15 percent (Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1048 n. 115).
72. Beevor, Stalingrad, 75–77, 87–88.
73. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1060–65; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 244–45; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 217–48, 265–67; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 382–83; Beevor, Stalingrad, 92–95; Halder, War Diary, 25, 27–28, 30 July 1942, 646–49.
74. Engel, Heeresadjutant bei Hitler, 29 July 1942, 123; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1060–65; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 244–45; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 272–73; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 382–83; Roberts, Victory at Stalingrad, 64.
75. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1064–65; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 290–303; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 246–47; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 382–83.
76. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1065–66; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 297–303, 308–19; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 247.
77. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1066; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 321–26; Doerr, Der Feldzug nach Stalingrad, 127–29; Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad, 185.
78. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1066–67; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 329–38; Beevor, Stalingrad, 110. More ominously, as early as 16 August, OKW had received reports of substantial quantities of tanks and armored equipment from America arriving at Stalingrad. See Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 16 August 1942, 2, pt. 3:597.
79. Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 339–64; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1068–69; Beevor, Stalingrad, 102–19; Roberts, Victory at Stalingrad, 77–78; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 247–48; Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad, 188–89.
Estimates of the number of people killed in the German bombing of Stalingrad run as high as forty thousand, although a more conservative estimate of twenty-five thousand is probably more accurate. For a very useful summary of the literature on both the air attack on Stalingrad and the fighting in the city itself, see Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 367–71 nn. 89 and 91.
80. Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 339–64; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1068–69; Roberts, Victory at Stalingrad, 77–78; Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad, 188–89; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 247–48; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad, 387; Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 26 August 1942, 2, pt. 3:642; Halder, War Diary, 25–28 August 1942, 661–63.
81. Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1069–70; Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 277–90.
82. Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 364–81; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1070–71; Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht, 248.
83. Glantz, To the Gates of Stalingrad, 383–93; Wegner, “The War against the Soviet Union,” 1072–76; Halder, War Diary, 29 August 1942, 663; Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 27 August 1942, 2, pt. 3:646–47.