6. Bock op cit p256.
7. Manteuffel op cit p153.
8. Bock op cit 21 Jul 41 p258, 23 Jul 41 p260.
9. Spaeter op cit p188.
10. Kister account from van Aaken op cit p35–6.
11. Ibid p45–7.
12. Bock op cit 25 Jul 41 p262.
13. Ibid 26 Jul 41 p263.
14. Halder op cit 8 Jul 41 p457.
15. Bock op cit 29 Jul 41 p266–7.
16. Manteuffel op cit Chart p167.
17. Fuchs op cit 5 Jul 41 p116.
18. Ibid 11 Jul p117 and 17 Jul 41 p119.
19. Manteuffel op cit p167–8.
20. Halder op cit 1 Aug 41 p491.
21. Spaeter op cit p192.
22. Bock op cit 5 Aug 41 p273–4.
23. Spaeter op cit p221.
‘Do not cry’… Soviet defeat in the West
1. Holliday op cit p253.
2. Krylov op cit p119.
3. Soviet Combat Documents 22–30 Jun 41 p532 and 534.
4. Knopp op cit p65.
5. Letter 10 Jul 41 Dollinger op cit p88.
6. Knopp op cit p65.
7. Front letter 18 Jul 41 from: Bähr, H. W.: Die Stimme Des Menschen; p126.
8. Kriegstagebücher p11 and 14.
9. Knopp op cit p64.
10. Starinov op cit p184.
11. Kohl op cit p131.
12. Starinov op cit p187.
13. Knopp op cit p65.
14. Kohl op cit p57.
15. Ibid p50.
16. Ibid p59.
17. Ibid p66 and 68–9.
18. Ibid p117.
19. Interview Steh auf es ist Krieg ZDF German TV. 1991.
20. Interview Red Empire Yorkshire TV 1990.
21. Extracts from Stalin’s speech from Werth op cit p165–8.
22. Halder op cit 8 Jul 41 p457.
23. Holliday op cit p254.
24. Interview Der Verdammte Krieg ZDF German TV 1991.
25. Knopp op cit p65.
Chapter 9: Refocusing victory conditions
The longest campaign
1. Bock op cit 28 Jul 41 p265.
2. Ibid 24 Jul 41 p261.
3. Kuby op cit 11 Aug 41 p160.
4. Letter 9 Aug 41 Soviet Feldpostbriefe p27.
5. Halder op cit 2 Aug 41 p492–3.
6. Bock’s op cit 2 Aug 41 p270–1.
7. Soldier R. K. 14/Inf Regt 111 35 Inf Div Feldpostbriefe 10 Aug 41 p77.
8. Ibid, 10 Aug 41. Nachsch Btl 563 p77.
9. Ibid, 11 Aug 41. 8 /Inf Regt 55 17 Inf Div p78.
10. Prüller, W. Diary of a German Soldier; Faber & Faber, 1963; 4 Aug 41 p89–91.
11. Kuhnert op cit p75.
Conditions for victory
1. Townsend, C. and E.: Der Überfall; Hoffman & Campe Verlag, Hamburg, 1984; p80.
2. Halder op cit 1 Aug 41 p506.
3. Interview Der Verdammte Krieg ZDF German TV 1991.
4. Halder op cit 22 Aug 41. p515.
5. Interview Der Verdammte Krieg ZDF German TV 1991.
6. Stahlberg op cit p172.
7. Interview. Der Verdammte Krieg ZDF German TV 1991.
8. Adamczyk, W.: Feuer!’ – An Artilleryman’s life on the Eastern Front. Broadfoot Pub Co, 1992; p143.
9. Haape op cit p88.
10. Keegan, J.: The Second World War; Arrow Books, 1990; p194.
11. Feldpostbriefe 8 Aug 41 p77.
12. Ibid p77.
13. Ibid Inf Regt 73 p77.
14. Ibid 22 Aug 41 Inf Regt 459 p79.
15. Ibid Inf Regt 481 p79.
16. KGS p50.
17. KGS Diary entry 22 Aug 41 p75.
18. Soviet Feldpostbreife Letter 28 Aug 41 p29.
19. Quoted Werth op cit p164.
20. Interview The World at War Thames TV.
21. Rürup, R.: Der Krieg gegen der Sowjet–Union 1941–45; p170–1.
A city ‘pulsing with life’… Leningrad
1. Interview Der Verdammte Krieg ZDF German TV 1991.
2. Diary 17 Aug 41 Dollinger op cit p93–4.
3. Statistics taken from Keegan op cit p197.
4. Clark, A.: ‘Leningrad’, War Monthly; Vol. 1. Issue 2 p13.
5. Interview Der Verdammte Krieg ZDF German TV 1991.
6. Ibid.
7. Diary entries 29 Aug 41, 25 Jun 41. Taken from Dollinger op cit p81–2, p94–5.
8. Interview Der Verdammte Krieg ZDF German TV 1991.
9. Knopp op cit p143.
10. Interview ZDF German TV 1991.
11. Halder op cit p458.
12. Ibid, 5 Sept and 12 Sept 41 p524 and 528.
13. Knopp op cit p147.
14. Vortragsnotiz Leningrad. Abteilung Landesverteidigung des Wehrmachtfuhrungstabes OKW 21 Sept 41 from: Leetz, A. and Wenner, B.: Blockade. Leningrad. 1941–44; Rowohlt 1992; p99–101.
15. Kriegstagebuch der Heeresgruppe Nord 01.15 Uhr. 12 Oct 41 from: Leetz and Wenner op cit p100–1.
16. Knopp op cit p147.
17. Kriegstagebuch der Quartiermeister Abteilung der 18. Armee 3 Oct 41 19.30 Uhr, 5 Oct 41. 21.30 Uhr.
18. Kriegstagebuch der Heeresgruppe Nord 01.15 Uhr 12 Oct 41.
19. Harald Brand Interview Der Unvergessene Krieg. Eickhoff/Pagels/Reschl. p75. Historische Stichworte WDR German TV 1982.
20. Kriegstagebuch der Heeresgruppe Nord 24 Oct 41 07.00 Uhr. Report on visit to 18th Army Sector by Ia [ie Ops staff offr].
Chapter 10: A war without garlands
‘Better three French campaigns than one Russian’
1. Dollinger op cit p92.
2. Diary 12 Aug 41 Kuby op cit p167.
3. Deutsche Wochenschau shown early July 1941.
4. Official Census Summer 1939. Quoted in Paul op cit p65–6.
5. ‘Ordinary Men. Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland’ p46–8.
6. Kriegstagebuch der Heeresgruppe Nord 07.00 Uhr 24 Oct 41.
7. Interview Mein Krieg German TV. 1991.
8. Interview Die Deutschen im Zweiten Weltkrieg SWF TV 1985.
9. Heer op cit p10.
10. ‘Images of War’ op cit p187.
11. Heer, H. and Naumann K.: Vernichtungskrieg – Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941–4; Hamburg 1995 p265–7.
12. Helmut Schmidt, later Chancellor of the Republic of West Germany, in an interview in Die Zeit newspaper 3 Mar 95 p14–20.
13. Interview Mein Krieg German TV 1991.
14. Ibid.
15. Hannes Heer op cit p9.
16. Interview Mein Krieg German TV 1991.
The pressures on the German soldier
1. Zeiser op cit p15–6 and 24.
2. Adamczyk op cit p109.
3. Dills op cit p150.
4. Zeiser op cit p166.
5. Adamczyk op cit p115.
6. Zeiser op cit p167–8.
7. Das Reich ’A popular German newspaper. 3 Aug 41.