90. Frieser, “Die Schlacht im Kursker Bogen,” 187–90; Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 4 August 1943, 3, pt. 6:891; Slepyan, Stalin’s Guerrillas, 91–101; Erickson, The Road to Berlin, 114–15; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 141; Glantz and House, The Battle of Kursk, 237, 273; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 250, 268–69; Sokolov, “The Battle for Kursk,” 82–83 (where some 860,000 Soviet casualties are claimed).
91. Frieser, “Die Schlacht im Kursker Bogen,” 190–93; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 143–51; Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 5–8 August 1943, 3, pt. 6:895, 904–5, 910–11, 915; Glantz and House, The Battle of Kursk, 225–26, 241, 247.
92. Frieser, “Die Schlacht im Kursker Bogen,” 193–96; Schramm, ed., Kriegstagebuch, 18, 20, 22, 24 August 1943, 3, pt. 6:963, 975–76, 986, 996–97; Glantz and House, The Battle of Kursk, 251, 426.
93. Frieser, “Die Schlacht im Kursker Bogen,” 197–98; Manstein, Lost Victories, 454–58.
94. Frieser, “Die Schlacht im Kursker Bogen,” 199–204; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 250; Sokolov, “The Battle for Kursk,” 81–84; Zetterling and Frankson, Kursk 1943, 116–17, 129; Glantz and House, The Battle of Kursk, 252, 425. On the Eastern Front as a whole in July and August, the Red Army lost almost ninety-three hundred tanks to slightly more than thirteen hundred for the Wehrmacht.
95. Frieser, “Die Schlacht im Kursker Bogen,” 200, 204–8; Töppel, “Die Schlacht bei Kursk,” 397; Guderian, Panzer Leader, 312; Warlimont, Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, 334; Sokolov, “The Battle for Kursk,” 88, and “The Cost of War,” 187.
8. Scorched Earth
1. Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 211–12, and “Hitler und die Choreographie des Untergangs,” 493–94.
2. Boberach, ed., Meldungen aus dem Reich, 30 May 1943; Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 212–14.
3. Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 212–14, and “Hitler und die Choreographie des Untergangs,” 495–98; TBJG, 2 March 1943; Browning, Ordinary Men, xv.
4. Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 214, and “Hitler und die Choreographie des Untergangs,” 506–7; Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 2:473–75; TBJG, 17–18 April 1943; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 583; Herf, The Jewish Enemy, 192–213.
5. Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 2:473–77; TBJG, 8, 10, 13 May 1943; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 582–84, 588–89; Herf, The Jewish Enemy, 213–15.
6. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 604–6; TBJG, 7 October 1943; Noakes and Pridham, eds., Nazism: A Documentary Reader, 3:1199–1200; Breitman, The Architect of Genocide, 242–43. For the full text of Himmler’s 4 October speech, see “Himmler’s Summation, October 4, 1943,” in Dawidowicz, ed., A Holocaust Reader, 130–40. Both the German and the English text of the specific references to the Jews, as well as an audio recording of Himmler’s 4 October speech, are available at http://www.holocaust-history.org/himmler-poznan (accessed 19 January 2010).
7. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 626–28; TBJG, 18 April 1944; Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 2:613–15, 617–19; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 616–17.
8. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 601, 626–28; TBJG, 10, 23 September 1943, 18 April 1944; Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 2:613–15, 617–19; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 617–18; Wegner, “Hitler und die Choreographie des Untergangs,” 506–8.
9. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 625, 627–28.
On the aerial war over Germany, see Boog, “The Strategic Air War,” 15–256.
10. Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 214–18; Friedrich, The Fire, 9–10, 16–17, 128–29, 144, 366; TBJG, 25, 29 July, 2, 6 August, 8, 10, 12–13, 21, 23 September, 1, 20 December 1943; Blank, “Wartime Daily Life.”
11. Rass, “Menschenmaterial,” 367–71; Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 262–64.
12. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 629–31; Herbert, “Labour and Extermination,” 188–92; Heinrich Himmler, “Speech to High-Ranking Wehrmacht Officers” (“Rede vor den Teilnehmern des politisch-weltanschaulichen Lehrgangs”) at the SS Ordenburg Sonthofen, 24 May 1944, NARA, RG 242, T-175, roll 94, frames 4648–56; Typed Copy, with Himmler’s Handwritten Corrections, NARA, RG 242, T-175, roll 94, frame 4647; Typed Copy, with Himmler’s Handwritten Corrections, NARA, RG 242, T-175, roll 145, frames 3270–93; Final Copy for the SS Archive, NARA, RG 242, T-175, roll 94, frames 4609–46; Incomplete Audio Recording, NARA, Tape 242-11; Mazower, Hitler’s Empire, 309–16; Fings, “Slaves for the ‘Home Front,’” 233–74.
13. Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 175.
14. Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 277, 360–62; Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 218–20, and “Hitler und die Choreographie des Untergangs,” 496–506; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 153–54.
15. Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 218–20, 246–50, and “Hitler und die Choreographie des Untergangs,” 496–506; Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 361–62; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 216–17.
16. Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 277; Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 222–25, 246–56; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 163–65, 211–16; Messerschmidt, “Die Wehrmacht,” 224, 228, 232–33.
17. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 603, 617–19; TBJG, 21 July 1943, 4 March 1944; Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 361–62; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 163–65; Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 222–23.
18. Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 361–62; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 163–65; Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 221–22; Manstein, Lost Victories, 458–69.
19. Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 297–301; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 158–60; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 274.
20. Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 301–5; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 167–68.
21. Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 344–57.
22. Ibid., 357–58; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 160–62, 166.
23. Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 357–59; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 166–67; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 274.
24. Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 168–69, 172; Frieser, “Der Rückschlag des Pendels,” 362–63.
25. Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 171; Wegner, “Die Aporie des Krieges,” 256–57; Rass, “Menschenmaterial,” 378–85.