1. Keitel to von Brauchitsch, Göring, and Raeder, 16.6.41, in NA, T-77/537/1711038–39; Todt to Thomas, Fromm, Witzell, and Udet, 11.7.41, in NA, T-77/194/929154; Germany, Das Deutsche Reich, 5/1:556–80; Overy, “Mobilization,” 631–32.
2. Schubert chronicle, 23.6., 25.6., 27.6., and 3.7.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208; Löhr (WD) Vortragsnotiz, 27.6.41, Kipping to Koch, 28.6.41, and Thom/Wa Prüf 11 to Koch and Wa Prüf 12, 20.8.41, in NASM, FE342.
3. Löhr (WD) Vortragsnotiz, 27.6.41, in NASM, FE342; WD, V-2, 71, “The German V-2,” 402–3, and “European Rocketry,” 256–59.
4. Löhr (WD) Vortragsnotiz, 27.6.41, Kipper to Koch, 28.6.41, Leeb (WD) Vortragsnotiz, 5.7.41, for adjutants of Hitler and von Brauchitsch, Löhr to Fromm, 5.7.41, and Rühne (Fromm’s liaison to von Brauchitsch) to Fromm’s chief of staff, 17.7.41, in NASM, FE342.
5. Todt to Fromm, and Todt to WD, 30.7.41, in NASM, FE342; Todt order, 2.7.41, Schubert chronicle, 12.7.41, Schubert to WD, 18.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208.
6. Rühne to Fromm’s chief of staff, 17.7.41, and WD Vortragsnotiz, 31.7.41, in NASM, FE342.
7. Graupe, “Berechnung…,” 29.7.40, Roth?, handwritten calc., 9.9.41, Roth, “Zweistufenaggregat (180/30) A10 A9,” c. 9.41, all in DM, (FE1135/1?); TA/Proj., “Entwicklungsstand der Gleiteraggregate am 1.1.1941,” 21.1.41, in DM, (FE1604); WD Vortragsnotiz, 31.7.41, in NASM, FE342; Roth, “Die Flugbahn eines Zweistufengleiters,” 20.10.41, NASM, Arch. 68/21; Dahm OHI, 8–9; Overy, “From ‘Uralbomber’ to ‘Amerikabomber’.”
8. WD Aktennotiz, 21.8.41, in NASM, FE341; movie script, c. 10.40, in NASM, FE338. Dornberger appears to have omitted this crucial meeting from his memoirs because it did not fit his self-serving view that Hitler was converted to the A-4 only in July 1943.
9. Hölsken, V-Waffen, 29; Walker, German National Socialism, 46–60; Speer, Inside, 309. For occasional contacts between Peenemünders and the nuclear project, see WvB minutes of 15.2.41 meeting on cyclotron in NASM, FE728/f; Stegmaier (Thiel) to Schumann, 31.8.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; WD, V-2, 105.
10. WD Vortragsnotiz, 21.8.41, and Keitel to von Brauchitsch, 20.8.41, in NASM, FE341; Stegmaier minutes of 29.8.41 meeting in NASM, FE357; biographical information courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Zanssen.
11. WD, V-2, 69, and idem “The German V-2,” 401, indicate von Brauchitsch’s role but are chronologically misleading. See Schubert chronicle, 22.9.41 and 13.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208; Stegmaier to Stellv. Generalkommando II. AK/Stettin, 15.11.41, in NASM, FE728/f; WvB(?), report on A-4 and A-8, c. 10.12.41, BA/MA, RH8/V.1955; Hoelzer OHI, 55–56; Heimburg OHI, 18–19; Schubert minutes, 29.7.42, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1209.
12. Todt to WD, 13.9.41 (with Leeb’s marginal comment) and 20.9.41, WD to Todt, 19.9.41, Todt to Leeb, 10.10.41, and Leeb to Todt, 28.10.41, in NASM, FE342; WD Aktennotiz, 21.8.41, Thomas priority order, 15.9.41, and WD Vortragsnotiz, 8.10.41, in NASM, FE341; Schubert chronicle, 16.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208.
13. WD to Leeb, 26.8.40, in NASM, FE349; Thiel, “Vorschläge zur Triebwerksvereinfachung des A4,” 4.9.41, and Thiel minutes of 17.9.41 meeting, in DM (FE1068); Thiel Aktenvermerk, 5.9.41, in NASM, FE728/d; Broszat Aktennotiz of 8.9.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; OKW/WiRüAmt documents, 12–23.9.41, in NA, T-77/37/750312–19; WD to Peenemünde, 13.11.41, in NASM, FE342.
14. Thiel monthly reports, 6–11.41, in NASM, FE728/e; Thiel minutes of 17.9.41 meeting in DM, (FE1068); WD to Peenemünde, 13.11.41, in NASM, FE342; WvB(?), report on A-4 and A-8, c. 10.12.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1255; minutes of 20.3.42 meeting at OKW/WiRüAmt, in NASM, FE341.
15. Lohr order, 23.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; WD to Arbeitsstab members, 13.11.41, and related documents in NASM, FE357; WvB(?), report on A-4 and A-8, c. 10.12.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1955; Germany, Das Deutsche Reich, 5/1:541–42, 558–59.
16. WvB(?), report on A-4 and A-8, c. 10.12.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1955.
17. Stegmaier minutes of 3–4.9.41 meetings in NASM, FE728/b; WD draft Vortragsnotiz for Leeb, 18.9.41, in NASM, FE342; WvB minutes of 16.12.41 meeting with Hertel/RLM, in NASM, FE728/f; Rees OHI, 23.
18. Germany, Das Deutsche Reich, 5/1:607–24; Overy, “Mobilization,” 632–33; Schubert chronicle, 19.12.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208; Bartov, Hitler’s Army.
19. Schubert chronicle, 1–3.10.41 and 8.12.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208; same, 16.1.42, 21.1.42 (with WD marginal comment), and 28.1.42, in BA/MA, RH8/V.1209; Thom to Wa Z, 2.12.41, in NASM, FE728/f.
20. Germany, Das Deutsche Reich, 5/1:610–77; Overy, Goering, 205–8; Seidler, Frite Todt, 256–60.
21. Schmidt, Albert Speer, 60–63; Speer, Inside, 260–66; Germany, Das Deutsche Reich, 5/1:677–78.
22. Speer, Inside, 262–65; Germany, Das Deutsche Reich, 5/1:678–79; Carroll, Design, 234–40; Overy, Goering, 208–12.
23. Speer, Inside, 467–69; Speer interrogations, 21.5.45, USSBS report 5, in NA, T-73/193/3406764–81.
24. Engel, Heeresadjutant, 121; Speer, Inside, 469; Speer minutes, 5–6.3.42 and 19.3.42, in Boelcke, Deutschlands Rüstung, 71, 74. See also minutes of 20.3.42 meeting at OKW/WiRüAmt, NASM, FE341.
25. Hölsken, V-Waffen, 32; WD to Thomas, 24.3.42, in NASM, FE333. See also WD intro., 21.3.42, to HAP/EW, “Vorschläge fur den Einsatz der Fernrakete A4…,” DM, GD639.1.4.
26. Speer quoted in Hölsken, V-Waffen, 35; WvB minutes of 16.12.41 meeting with Hertel/RLM, WD minutes of 11.3.42 meeting with Milch, and related documents in NASM, FE728/f. See also NASM, FE357.
27. WD marginal comment on Busemann/DFL Braunschweig to OKH, 21.3.38, and WD (WvB) to Banse/RLM, 25.4.40, in DM (FE722); P. Schmidt, “On the History…,” and F. Gosslau, “Development of the V-1 Pulsejet,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 375–418.
28. Werrell, Evolution, 7–42; Hölsken, V-Waffen, 33–35. For older accounts, see Irving, Mare’s Nest, 23–24; Young, Flying Bomb, 10–12.
29. Minutes of meeting with LGW (Siemens), 27.11.41, in NASM, FE119; Steinhoff minutes of 11.12.41 meeting, in NASM, FE728/b.
30. Schubert Aktennotiz, 15.4.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208; Reisig OHI, 1989, 67–69, 71.
31. Dellmeier Starthilfe report, 12.3.40, NASM, Arch. 70/1; Cerny/Peenemünde-West Aktenvermerk, 7.9.40, in NASM, FE746; Stegmaier Starthilfe report, 3.2.42, NASM, FE692/e; Starthilfe report of 6.41, with changes, 15.4.42, in NASM, FE692/f.
32. Overy, Goering, 155, 181–92.
33. WD (Dellmeier) to Beck/RLM, 24.11.41, in NASM, FE752; Stegmaier Starthilfe report, 3.2.42, NASM, FE692/e; WD, V-2, 126.
34. Stegmaier Aktenvermerk, 7.5.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260.
35. Schabel, “Wunderwaffen?” 302–5; Klein, Vom Geschoss, 111–16; Halder(?), “Entwicklung und Planung in der deutschen Luftwaffe, Teil 3,” Heft 9, c. 1945, NA, T-971/27/317–18.
36. WvB to Leeb, 13.5.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; WvB, rocket-fighter proposal, 6.7.39 (English translation, 29.4.46), RSIC, FE595; WvB, “Einsatzmöglichkeiten des Strahlantriebs…,” 27.5.41, NASM, Arch. 58/1; Schabel, “Wunderwaffen?” 197–99; Späte, Top Secret Bird; H. von Zborowski, “BMW-Developments,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 297–324.