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18. Lebert and Lebert, Car tu portes mon nom, 97
19. Bormann, Leben gegen Schatten, 196.
20. Lebert and Lebert, Car tu portes mon nom; 96–97
21. Bormann, Leben gegen Schatten, 196.
22. Ibid., 261.
The Höss Children
1. Interrogation of Rudolf Höss at Nuremberg, April 15, 1946.
2. Höss, Rudolf, Pery Broad, and Johann Paul Kremer, Auschwitz as Seen by the SS, eds. Jadwiga Bezwinska, Danuta Czech, trans. Constantine Fitzgibbon, Krystyna Michalik, New York: H. Fertig, 1984, 19.
3. Prisoners in the concentration camps wore colored triangles to indicate the reason for their detention: red for political prisoners; green for common criminals; black for people considered “asocial,” such as the mentally ill; purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses; and pink for homosexuals.
4. Harding, Thomas, Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Commandant of Auschwitz, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013, 103.
5. Höss et al., Auschwitz as Seen by the SS, 19.
6. Arendt, Hannah, Antisemitism: Part One of the Origins of Totalitarianism, New York: Schocken Books, 1951.
7. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 258.
8. Höss, Rudolf, Kommandant in Auschwitz: Autobiographische Aufzeichnungendes, Munich: Martin Broszat, 1963; Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, ed. Steven Paskuly, trans. Andrew Pollinger, Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1992, 186.
9. Ibid., 50.
10. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 251.
11. Ibid., 258.
12. Höss, Death Dealer, 83.
13. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 260.
14. Höss, Death Dealer, 122.
15. Ibid., 125.
16. Höss may have incorrectly remembered the date of Himmler’s orders for the Final Solution.
17. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 250.
18. Ibid., 250.
19. Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews, Volume One, New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1985, 192.
20. Höss, Death Dealer, 28.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., 161.
23. Fest, The Face of the Third Reich, 283–284.
24. Höss et al., Auschwitz as Seen by the SS, 156.
25. Cronin, Frances, “Nazi Legacy: The Troubled Descendants,” BBC Magazine, May 23, 2012.
26. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 259.
27. Höss et al., Auschwitz as Seen by the SS, 292.
28. Ibid., 291.
29. Ibid., 294.
30. “Report of Janina Szczurek,” in Höss et al., Auschwitz as Seen by the SS, 294.
31. Höss, Death Dealer, 156.
32. Höss et al., Auschwitz as Seen by the SS, 43.
33. Höss, Death Dealer,163.
34. Ibid., 164.
35. Höss et al., Auschwitz as Seen by the SS, 288.
36. Ibid., 194
37. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 259.
38. Höss, Kommandant in Auschwitz, 221.
39. Höss, Death Dealer, 186.
40. Ibid., 185.
41. Harding, Hanns et Rudolf, 271–272.
42. Ibid., 275.
43. Harding, Thomas, “Hiding in N. Virginia, a Daughter of Auschwitz,” Washington Post, September 7, 2013.
44. Anderson, Graham, “My Nazi Family,” Exberliner, May 6, 2014.
45. Lianos, Konstaninos, “Auschwitz’s Commander’s Grandson: Why My Family Call Me a Traitor,” The Telegraph, November 20, 2014.
46. Lianos, “Auschwitz’s Commander’s Grandson.”
47. Eldad, Beck, “Ghouls cash in on Auschwitz as death camp crumbles away,” Express, May 18, 2011, http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/201830/Ghouls-cash-in-on-Auschwitz-as-death-camp-crumbles-away.
48. Harding, “Hiding in N. Virginia.”
The Speer Children
1. Smoltczyk, Alexander, “2022 World Cup in Qatar: The Desert Dreams of German Architect Albert Speer,” Der Spiegel, June 1, 2012.
2. Speer, Albert, Jr., Die intelligente Stadt, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1992.
3. Beyer, Susanne, “Improving on the Nazi Past: Albert Speer’s Son, Urban Planner,” Der Spiegel, December 21, 2007.
4. Smoltczyk, “2022 World Cup in Qatar.”
5. Beyer, “Improving on the Nazi Past.”
6. Khrushsheva, Nina, “Olympic Hubris: Albert Speer’s Son Helped Design the Architecture of the Beijing Games, but the Similarities with Berlin 1936 Don’t End There,” The Guardian, August 7, 2008.
7. Millot, Lorraine, “Albert Speer, 63 ans, est architecte. Comme son homonyme de père, le bâtisseur de Hitler. Mais lui a choisi le Francfort la libérale. Tel père, quel fils?” Libération, February 10, 1998.
8. Interview with Albert Speer Jr., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=033OGnfRKJY.
9. Matzig, Gerhard, “Hitler war für uns ein netter Onkel,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 20, 2010.
10. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 112.
11. Trevor-Roper, Hugh, The Last Days of Hitler, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, 269.
12. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 14.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., 18–19.
15. Ibid., 18.
16. Schaal, Hans Dieter, Hans Dieter Schaal, In-between: Exhibition Architecture, Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 1999, 14.
17. Speer, Albert, Journal de Spandau, Paris: Robert Laffont, 1976, 156.
18. Matzig, “Hitler war für uns ein netter Onkel.”
19. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 17.
20. Nissen, Margret, Sind Sie die Tochter Speer?, Cologne: Bastei Lübbe, 2005; München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005.
21. Speer, Journal de Spandau, 76.
22. Schramm, Hilde, Meine Lehrerin, Dr. Dora Lux 1882–1959, Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag, 2012.
23. Interview with Arnold Speer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=033OGnfRKJY.
24. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 516.
25. Sereny, Gitta, Albert Speer. His Battle with Truth, New York: Vintage, 1996.
26. Fest, Joachim C., Speer: The Final Verdict, trans. Ewald Osers, Alexandra Dring, New York: Harcourt, 2002, 281.
27. Fest, Speer: The Final Verdict, 311
28. Speer, Journal de Spandau, 218.
29. Fest, Speer, 314.
30. Sereny, Albert Speer, 336.
31. Fest, Speer, 314.
32. Nissen, Sind Sie die Tochter Speer?.
33. Speer, Journal de Spandau, 163.
34. Bundesarchiv Koblenz, Article B122/28025.
35. Sereny, Albert Speer, 651–652.
36. Hamrén, Henrik, “I Feel Ashamed,” The Guardian, April 17, 2005.
37. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 24–25.
38. Van der Vat, Dan, The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997, 6.
39. Ibid.
40. Speer, Journal de Spandau, 321.
41. Fest, Speer, 315.
42. Sereny, Albert Speer, 643.
43. Speer, Journal de Spandau, 548
44. Nissen, Sind Sie die Tochter Speer?, 59
45. Ibid., 159
46. Millot, “Albert Speer, 63 ans, est architecte.”
47. Norden, Eric, “Albert Speer, Hitler’s Architect,” Playboy 18 no. 6, June 1971, 69.
48. Ibid.
49. Sereny, Albert Speer, 706.
50. Speer, Journal de Spandau, 93.
51. Raben, Mia, “MS - Vergangenheit: Der lebenslange Schatten,” Der Spiegel, February 7, 2004.
52. Hamrén, “I Feel Ashamed.”
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. Speer, Journal de Spandau, 219.
56. Hamrén, “I Feel Ashamed.”
57. Nissen, Sind Sie die Tochter Speer?, 159.
58. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 112.
Rolf Mengele
1. Alexander Historical Auctions, Sale 45, July 21, 2011, Lot 4: “The Hidden Journals of Dr. Josef Mengele,” Full De
tail, http://auctions.alexautographs.com/auction-lot-detail/THE-HIDDEN-JOURNALS-OF-DR.-JOSEF-MENGELE---Hammer-Price:-$24&salelot=45+++++++++4+&refno=+++70337.
2. Ibid., Lot 650 dated July 31, 1960–April 26, 1962.
3. Aderet, Ofer, “In His Diary Mengele Predicted 90% of Humans Would Die of Stupidity,” Haaretz, February 2, 2010, http://www.haaretz.com/in-his-diary-mengele-predicted-90-of-humans-would-die-of-stupidity-1.262577.
4. Posner, Gerald L. and John Ware, Mengele: The Complete Story, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000, 234–235.
5. Mengele, Rolf, interview with Gerald Posner, 1985.
6. Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews, Volume III, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, 1011.
7. Posner and Ware, Mengele, 25.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Sereny, Albert Speer, 467.
11. Mengele interview with Gerald Posner, 1985.
12. “In the Matter of Josef Mengele. A Report to the Attorney General of the United States,” October 1992.
13. Posner and Ware, Mengele, xvii.
14. Rolf Mengele, interview with Gerald Posner, 1985.
15. Ibid.
16. Posner, Hitler’s Children, 128.
17. Ibid., 130.
18. Henry, Marc, “Comment le Mossad a rate la capture de Josef Mengele,” Le Figaro, Sept 4, 2008.
19. “In the Matter of Josef Mengele. A Report to the Attorney General of the United States,” October 1992.
20. Jessen, Norbert, “Vati, der Massenmörder. Die israelische Zeitung ‘Jedioth’ veröffentlicht ein Interview mit Rolf Mengele,” Die Welt, May 8, 2008.
Conclusion
1. Jessen, Norbert, “Vati, der Massenmörder.”
2. “Le prix Nobel de littérature Günter Grass a servi dans les Waffen-SS,” Le Monde, August 12, 2006, http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2006/08/12/le-prix-nobel-de-litterature-gunter-grass-a-servi-dans-les-waffen-ss_803111_3246.html.
3. Frei, Norbert, “L’Holocaust dans l’historiographie allemande, un point aveugle dans la conscience historique,” Vingtième Siècle: Revue d’histoire, 34 (1992): 157–162.
4. Welzer, Harald, Sabine Möller, and Karoline Tschuggnall, Opa war kein Nazi. Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedächtnis, Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2002.
5. Ibid.
6. Oeser, Alexandra, Enseigner Hitler: Les adolescents allemands face au passé nazi en Allemagne. Appropriations, interprétations et usages de l’histoire, Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2010.
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