2. Overmans, Deutsche militärische Verluste, 238.
3. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 494–97; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 410–14.
4. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 495–506; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 236; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 335; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 418.
5. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 510–15; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 236–41; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 333–36; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 417–20.
6. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 496, 502–6; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 756–57; Guderian, Panzer Leader, 383–88; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 241–42; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 417–18.
7. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 516–18; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 242–44; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 420–22; Le Tissier, Zhukov at the Oder, 29–41.
8. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 518–19, 531–37; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 247–48; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 422, 428–29; Le Tissier, Zhukov at the Oder, 29–41.
9. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 520–23; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 244–45; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 421–22; Guderian, Panzer Leader, 392–94; Le Tissier, Zhukov at the Oder, 29–41.
10. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 523–26; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 245–47; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 423–27.
11. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 537–50; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 248; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 376–78; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 429–33.
12. Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 249–50; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 367–70; Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 527–31; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 439–44.
13. Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 249–50; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 367–70; Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 527–31; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 439–44.
Stalin also seemed to have been reminded by Zhukov of the Soviet experience in 1920 in front of Warsaw when, in its haste to break through and spread the Bolshevik Revolution to Germany, the Red Army under Tukachevsky (and with Stalin serving as political commissar) left its flanks exposed. The overextended forces were routed in a counterattack by Marshal Pilsudki and driven back in disorder. Stalin was also aware, as was Hitler, of the disaster that had befallen czarist forces in front of Berlin in 1760. Zhukov, Memoirs, 571–76.
14. Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 568–88; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 250–51; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 378–81; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 439–44.
15. Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, 444–48; Guderian, Panzer Leader, 412–15; Lakowski, “Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Verteidigung,” 550–68; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed, 251–52, 254–55; Mawdsley, Thunder in the East, 370–74.
16. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 741, 746, 751–52, 762; Domarus, ed., Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen, 2:2180–84; Echternkamp, “At War, Abroad and at Home,” 75–78; Diary entry of 28 January 1945, in Breloer, ed., Mein Tagebuch, 359–60; TBJG, 2 December 1944; Steinert, Hitler’s War, 288, 294–95, 298–300, 304.
17. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 762–63; Zeidler, “Die Rote Armee auf deutschem Boden,” 714–17; Overy, Russia’s War, 260; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 710–11; Merridale, Ivan’s War, 312–20; Naimark, The Russians in Germany, 69–83; Lehndorff, Ostpreußisches Tagebuch, 18–25; Kardorff, Berliner Aufzeichnungen, 228–29, 231; Andreas-Friedrich, Battleground Berlin, 1–19, 36–37, 54–57, 60–61, 83–84; Johr, “Die Ereignisse in Zahlen,” 47–48, 58–59; Grossmann, “A Question of Silence”; A Woman in Berlin, passim.
18. Zeidler, “Die Rote Armee auf deutschem Boden,” 705–9, 719–23, and Kriegsende im Osten, 105–34; Overy, Russia’s War, 260; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 707–8; Merridale, Ivan’s War, 300–306.
19. Zeidler, “Die Rote Armee auf deutschem Boden,” 681, 710–12, 721–22, and Kriegsende im Osten, 135–67; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 708–10; Merridale, Ivan’s War, 320–26; Andreas-Friedrich, Battleground Berlin, 17.
20. Merridale, Ivan’s War, 312–20; Grossmann, “A Question of Silence,” 46, 51; Naimark, The Russians in Germany, 69–83, 108, 133; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 710–12; Zeidler, “Die Rote Armee auf deutschem Boden,” 715–16.
21. Kunz, “Die Wehrmacht,” 28–29, 34; Longerich, “Davon haben wir nichts gewußt!” 325; Bajohr and Pohl, Der Holocaust als offenes Geheimnis, 65–67; Echternkamp, Kriegsschauplatz Deutschland, 86; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 759, 763–66, and The “Hitler Myth,” 220–25; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 683–86; Steinert, Hitler’s War, 281, 285, 287–88, 293–95, 298–300, 308.
22. Kunz, “Die Wehrmacht,” 29–33; Echternkamp, “The War, Abroad and at Home,” 49–60; Förster, “Ideological Warfare in Germany,” 648–69; Fritz, Frontsoldaten, 187–218, and “ ‘We are trying… to change the face of the world.’”
23. Kunz, “Die Wehrmacht,” 33–41; Fritz, Endkampf, 115–58; Messerschmidt and Wüllner, Die Wehrmachtjustiz im Dienste des Nationalsozialismus, 87, 91, 130–33, 143; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 763–64; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 686–87; Müller and Ueberschär, eds., Kriegsende 1945, 161–64, 166, 169–73; Paul, “ ‘Diese Erschiessungen haben mich innerlich gar nicht mehr berührt.’”
24. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 766–68; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 686–90; Blatman, “Die Todesmärsche,” 1063–92; Krakowski, “Death Marches”; Bauer, “The Death Marches”; Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, 327–71.
25. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 784; Evans, The Third Reich at War, 714–15; Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness, 437, 453.