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6 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 372.
7 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 375.
8 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 377.
9 Conwell-Evans, None So Blind, 135.
10 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 369–70.
11 Quoted in Padfield, Himmler, 224.
12 Der Stürmer 30, July 1938.
13 Klemperer, Tagebücher, 415.
14 Der Stürmer, Sondernummer – der Jude in Oesterreich, July 1938.
15 Prager Presse, 22 July 1938.
16 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 154.
17 Daily Telegraph, 6 July 1938.
18 The Times, 6 July 1938.
19 Wolfgang von Weisl, ‘Illegale Transporte’, in Josef Fraenkel, ed., The Jews of Austria, London 1967, 172.
20 Geoffrey Wheatcroft, ‘No Fairy Tale: The History of Zionism: Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Difficult Legacy, and Its Powerful Supporters and Opponents’, in TLS, 22 February 2008.
21 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 111.
22 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 112–13.
23 Conversation with Eric Sanders, the former Ignaz Erich Schwarz, 8 November 2001. Sanders remembered a kindly woman at the PCO who suggested the best means of getting to Britain. In his case it was to apply for a full-time course in higher education.
24 London, Whitehall, 68.
25 Christopher Andrew, Secret Service, London 1986, 535–6, quoting Sherman, Island Refuge.
26 Smith, Foley, 148.
27 Klepper, Tagebücher, 619.
28 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 170.
29 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 94.
30 FLA, Germany Files, GE9, Ethel Houghton to Alice Nike, 9 July 1938.
31 Daily Telegraph, 16 July 1938.
32 Quoted in Gedye, Fallen Bastions, 350.
33 Chandler, ‘Church of England’, 234.
34 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 97.
35 Mendelsohn and Detwiler, Holocaust, V, 242–3.
36 Mendelsohn and Detwiler, Holocaust, V, 242–3, 250–2, 258.
37 Marc Eric McClure, Earnest Endeavors: The Life and Public Work of George Rublee, Westport and London 2003, 248.
38 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 104.
39 McClure, Rublee, 248–9.
40 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 98, 102.
41 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 101.
42 Mendelsohn and Detwiler, Holocaust, V, 152–6.
43 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 102. A Jewish acquaintance told the author recently that he had spent his early years in Kenya, where his father had a farm after training in Britain. His parents had emigrated from western Germany.
44 Amy Zahl Gottlieb, Men of Vision – Anglo-Jewry’s Aid to Victims of the Nazi Regime 1933–45, London 1998, 86.
45 T120/3183/E523535–E523542 in Mendelsohn and Detwiler, Holocaust, V.
46 FLA, Germany Files, GE9. Corder Catchpool to Wilfred Israel, 31 August 1938.
47 Der Stürmer 30, July 1938.
48 FLA Germany Files, GE9.HNN/IB to Emma Cadbury, 27 August 1938.
49 Author’s conversation with the late Gerhard Bronner in Vienna; FLA, Germany Files, GE9, Emma Cadbury to Hermia Neild, 27 August 1938.
50 McClure, Rublee, 249.
51 McClure, Rublee, 253–4.
52 Berger in Gouvish, Business and Politics, 220.
53 Stefan Spevak, NS Vermögensentzug, Restitution und Entschädigung in der Diözese St Pölten, Vienna and Munich 2004, 15.
54 Schuschnigg, Requiem, 69.
55 Bock, Österreichs Stifte, 12.
56 Spevak, St Pölten, 31-2, 35.
57 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 365.
58 Irving, Göring, 221.
59 Irving, Göring, 222.
60 Irving, Göring, 223.
61 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 349.
62 Martha Schad, Hitlers Spionin, Munich 2002, 96.
63 Schad, Hitlers Spionin, 98–102.
64 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 385.
65 BBD, E3/282.
66BBD, C11/7/1/4.
67 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 106.
68 Lang, Wolff, 96.
69 Grunberger, Social History, 537–8.
70 Adam, The Arts of the Third Reich, 115.
71 Breker, Strahlungsfeld, 109.
72 Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Art Under a Dictatorship, Oxford and New York 1954, 114.
73 Grunberger, Social History, 540, 543.
74 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 97, 399.
75 Hildegard Brenner, Die Kunstpolitik des Nationalsozialismus, Munich 1963–95.
76 Grunberger, Social History, 522.
77 Michael Kennedy, Richard Strauss, Oxford 1995, 95–7.
78 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 390.
79 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 366.
80 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 393.
81 Grunberger, Social History, 519.
82 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 394–5.
83 Frederick S. Potts, Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival, New Haven and London 1994, 165.
84 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 366.
85 Hamann, Winifred Wagner, 289.
86 Hamann, Winifred Wagner, 291–2.
87 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 331.
88 Lang, Wolff, 99.
89 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 401.
90 Elke Fröhlich, ed., Joseph Goebbels, Tagebücher, Teil 1, Band VI -August 1938 – Juni 1939, Bearbeitet von Jana Richter, Munich 1998, 29–30.
91 Hamann, Winifred Wagner, 293.
92 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 67.
93 Reich, Zweier Zeugen Mund, 209.
94 Wiechert, Totenwald, 108–9, 114.
95 Wiechert, Totenwald, 108.
96 Kautsky, Teufel und Verdamte, 146, 196.
97 Wiechert, Totenwald, 119.
98 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 32.
99 Reich, Zweier Zeugen Mund, 224.
100 Kautsky, Teufel und Verdamte, 137.
101 Reich, Zweier Zeugen Mund, 185.
CHAPTER 8: AUGUST
1 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, V, 367.
2 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 32.
3 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 34, 38.
4 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 44.
5Hassell, Diary, 11.
6 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 44.
7 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 47, 51, 67.
8 Daily Telegraph, 3 August 1938.
9 Daily Telegraph, 6 August 1938.
10 Neue Freie Presse, 3 August 1938.
11 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 153.
12 FLA, Germany Files, FSC/GE/5, Factual Notes on a German Trip by D. Robert Yarnall, 7 December 1938.
13 The Times, 5 August 1938.
14 Daily Telegraph, 15 August 1938.
15 Prager Presse, 26 August 1938; Hilberg, Destruction, 175–6.
16 Neue Wiener Presse, 22 August 1938.
17 Wiener Zeitung, 19 August 1938.
18 Daily Telegraph, 6, 8, 9 August; Der Stürmer 34, August 1938.
19 Daily Telegraph, 13 August.
20 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 54.
21 Klepper, Tagebücher, 627.
22 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 48.
23 Irving, Göring, 224–5.
24 Meehan, Unnecessary War, 140.
25 Catchpool Papers, letter from Sir Robert Vansittart, 8 August 1938.
26 Colvin, Intelligence, 55.
27 Colvin, Intelligence, 62.
28 Scheurig, Kleist-Schmenzin, 154, 158, 164–5.
29 Colvin, Intelligence, 67. Colvin was a friend and confidant of Kleist’s.
30 Meehan, Unnecessary War, 144.
31 Helmuth Groscurth, Tagebücher eines Abwehroffiziers 1938–1940, Stuttgart 1970, 104.
32 Klemperer, German Resistance, 103–4.
33 Colvin, Intelligence, 54.
34 PRO FO C3401 254.
35 Conversation with Mrs Chapman, Richter’s niece, 13 September 2000.
36 All these details in Richter’s trial before the Volksgerichthof: 1 J 172/38g3 L 46/39.
37 Daily
Express, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20 August 1938; Daily Telegraph, 20 August 1938.
38 Neue Freie Presse, 23 August 1938; Daily Telegraph, 22 August 1938.
39 Prager Presse, 19 August 1938.
40 PRO FO C8453/261.
41 The Times, 22 August 1938.
42 PRO FO C8533/270.
43 PRO FO C8454 263.
44 Prager Presse, 21 August 1938.
45 Peggie Benton, Baltic Countdown, London 1984, 11.
46 Nigel West, MI6, London 1983, 58.
47 Conversation with Mrs Gedye, 14 June 2000.
48 West, MI6, 115.
49 PRO FO 8564/274.
50 Smith, Foley, 116.
51 PRO FO C8982/241/18.
52 Guildhall Library, Uncatalogued, Cologne Chaplaincy, File 1936, 1950–7, Rev F.E. Collard letter to Mr Williams of 7 April 1950.
53 Fred Collard’s daughter-in-law remembers attending his ordination in Saint Paul’s Cathedral. Telephone conversation, 15 August 2000.
54 PRO FO C85264/309–310; PRO FO C8756.
55 Conversation with Mrs Collard, Fred Collard’s daughter-in-law, 15 August 2000. She said he was proud of what he had done for the Jews, and while he remained in Cologne, he used to tell them, ‘Get out and go as far as you can.’
56 BBD, Acc/3121/BO4/WE24, Wiesl to Waldman, 29 August 1938.
57 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 89.
58 PRO FO C8673 321–323.
59 Daily Express, 20 August 1938.
60 Erika Weinzierl, Zu wenig Gerechte, 103, 111.
61 Ulrich Trinks, ‘Die schwedische Mission in der Seegasse’, in Dialog-Du Siach 43, June 2001.
62 Communicated by Professor Munro Price.
63 PRO FO C8564 274.
64 PRO FO C8673 286.
65 Fromm, Diary, 278.
66 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 61.
67 Neue Wiener Presse, 26, 28 August 1938.
68 Ciano’s Diary, 148.
69 Meehan, Unnecessary War, 154.
CHAPTER 9: SEPTEMBER
1 Kley, Hitler, Ribbentrop, 122.
2 Meehan, Unnecessary War, 156.
3 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 61, 66, 70.
4 Gedye, Fallen Bastions, 440.
5 Quoted in Grunberger, Social History, 515.
6 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 76, 79.
7 Schad, Hitlers Spionin, 89–92; Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 80.
8 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 75.
9 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 78.
10 Spitzy, So haben wir das Reich verspielt, 305.
11 François-Poncet, Souvenirs, 322.
12 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 81.
13 Conwell-Evans, None So Blind, 141.
14 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 84
15Groscurth, Tagebücher, 117.
16 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 85.
17 Meehan, Unnecessary War, 167.
18 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 88.
19 Eberle and Uhl, Hitler Book, 29.
20 Schmidt, Interpreter, 90.
21 Eberle and Uhl, Hitler Book, 29.
22 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 90.
23 Roos, Polen und Europa, 33–9.
24 Schmidt, Interpreter, 93.
25 Spitzy, So haben wir das Reich verspielt, 307.
26 Eberle and Uhl, Hitler Book, 30.
27 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 120.
28 Lamb, Ghosts, 80.
29PROFOC11001.
30 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 97.
31 PROFOC11001.
32 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 103.
33 PRO FO C10929.
34PROFOC11001.
35 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 98.
36 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 102.
37 Ulrich von Hassell, The von Hassell Diaries 1938–1944, London 1948, 11.
38 Klepper, Tagebücher, 645.
39 Klemperer, Tagebücher, 424.
40 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 124.
41 Schwerin, junge Generation, 158.
42 PROFOC11001.
43 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 105–6.
44 PROFOC11001.
45 Kordt, Nicht aus den Akten, 261.
46 Bullock, Hitler, 458.
47 Schmidt, Interpreter, 99.
48PROFOC11001.
49 Roberts, Holy Fox, 115.
50 Goebbels, Tagebücher, I, VI, 111.
51 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 117.
52 Klepper, Tagebücher, 653.
53 Gräfin Maria von Maltzan, Memoirs, unpublished MS translated and communicated to the author by Peter Ede, 55.
54 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 111.
55 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 113.
56 Bullock, Hitler, 463.
57 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 124.
58 PRO FO C10931.
59 Reich, Zweier Zeugen Mund, 211.
60 Schmidt, Interpreter, 105.
61 Hassell, Diaries, 13.
62 Schwerin, junge Generation, 160.
63 Meehan, Unnecessary War, 52–3.
64 Klepper, Tagebücher, 656; Conwell-Evans, None So Blind, 148; Spitzy, So haben wir das Reich verspielt, 313.
65 Kordt, Nicht aus den Akten, 267.
66 Conwell-Evans, None So Blind, 148.
67 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 115.
68 Schwerin, junge Generation, 162.
69 Stephenson, Home Front, 62.
70 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 125.
71 François-Poncet, Souvenirs, 327.
72 Schmidt, Interpreter, 106.
73 Ciano’s Diary, 154, 156, 162.
74 PRO FO C10883/1941/18.
75 Moseley, Mussolini s Shadow, 37.
76 Hassell, Diaries, 15.
77 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 119; Spitzy, So haben wir das Reich verspielt, 316.
78 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 120.
79 Kershaw, Nemesis, 121.
80 Ciano’s Diary, 166.
81 Bullock, Hitler, 468.
82 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 128.
83 Bloch, Ribbentrop, 213–14.
84 Kley, Hitler, Ribbentrop, 140.
85 Hamann, Winifred Wagner, 295.
86 François-Poncet, Souvenirs, 331.
87 Schmidt, Interpreter, 109.
88 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 125–6.
89 Schmidt, Interpreter, 110.
90 Ciano’s Diary, 167.
91 François-Poncet, Souvenirs, 334.
92 Schmidt, Interpreter, 114.
93 Der Stürmer 44, November 1938.
94 Bullock, Hitler, 471.
95 Meehan, Unnecessary War, 132.
96 Klepper, Tagebücher, 657, 658.
97 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 121.
98 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 124.
99 Irving, Göring, 229.
100 Klemens von Klemperer, ed., A Noble Combat: The Letters of Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz 1932–1939, Oxford, 1988, 327, 329–30; quoted in Giles MacDonogh, A Good German: Adam von Trott zuSolz, London 1990, 118.
101 Colvin, Intelligence, 70.
102Prager Presse, 2 September 1938; Andrew McFadyean, Report on Italy, 25 January 1939, BBD, C2/2/2.
103 Quoted in Martin Gilbert, Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction, London 2005, 136.
104 Chandler, ‘Church of England’, 234–5.
105 Heilig, Men Crucified, 113.
106 BBD, Acc/3121/B04/WE24, Wolfgang von Wiesl to Mr Waldman, 21 September 1938.
107 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 94, 96.
108 BBD, Acc/3121/BO4/WE24, Wiesl to Waldman, 20 September 1938.
109 Clare, Last Waltz, 213.
110 BBD, C1 1/2/33, Joint Foreign Committee.
111 BBD, E3/282, N. Laski to George Rublee 4 October 1938.
112 BBDF, E3/282.
113 BBD, E1/37, Philip Vos KC, 7 September 1938.
114 BBD, Acc/3121/BO4/WE24, Wiesl to Waldman, 21 September 1938.
115 Leo Mazakarini and Andreas Augustin, Hotel Sacher Wien, Singapore 1994, 72–4; A.
A. Löwenthal, Sammtliche Schriften, Band VII, Stuttgart und Tübingen, 1959, 56–9.
CHAPTER 10: OCTOBER
1 Der Stürmer 47, November 1938.
2 Livia Rothkirchen, The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust, Lincoln 2006, 79.
3 London, Whitehall, 143; Gedye, Fallen Bastions, 489.
4 London, Whitehall, 146–7.
5 See, for example, Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki, A Garden of Eden in Hell, trans. Giles MacDonogh, London 2007, 106–7, for the plight of a Jewish doctor from the Sudetenland; Irving, Göring, 241.
6 Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945, D IV Washington 195182, 152, 183.
7 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 127.
8 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 135.
9 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 130.
10 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 131.
11 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 132.
12 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 134.
13 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 135.
14 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 146.
15 Donald Cameron Watt, How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, London 1989, 30.
16 McClure, Rublee, 256.
17 Klepper, Tagebücher, 660.
18 BBD, E3/282, Letter from Saly Mayer, 15 August 1938.
19 Erika Weinzierl, Zu wenig Gerechte, 37.
20 Yad Vashem Archives, 0–5/1–2; Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 157.
21 The Times, 7 October 1938.
22 Evan Burr Bukey, ‘Die Stimmung in der Bevölkerung während der Nazizeit’, in Talos et al., NS-Herrschaft, 78–9.
23 In Schmidt, 1938 . . .und was dann?, 297; Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 312.
24 Botz, Nationalsozialismus, 486.
25 Scholz and Heinisch, Wiener Pfarrer, 95.
26 Liebmann, Innitzer, 198.
27 Liebmann, Innitzer, 204.
28 Bock, Stifte unter dem Hackenkreuz, 90.
29 Stephenson, Home Front, 140.
30 DGFP, D IV 303.
31 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 141.
32 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 139.
33 DGFP, D IV, 54, 56.
34 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 158.
35 Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, Doctor Goebbels, London 1959, 170–2.
36 Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 158.
37 Hassell, Diaries, 18.
38 François-Poncet, Souvenirs, 342–3; Goebbels, Tagebücher I, VI, 131.
39 Groscurth, Tagebücher, 151.
40 Reich, Zweier Zeugen Mund, 231–3.
41 Henriette Mandl in Reich, Zweier Zeugen Mund, 300.
42 Rosenkranz, Verfolgung, 158.
43 BBD, C11/12/2 1938.
44 Quoted in BBD, E3/282.
45 Edward Crankshaw, Gestapo, Instrument of Tyranny, London 1956, 89.
46 Sybil Milton, ‘Menschen zwischen Grenzen: Die Polenausweisung 1938’, in Historisches Museum, Novemberpogrom, 48–9.