White, D. F., The Growth of the Red Army. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1944.
White, W. L., Report on the Germans. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947.
Wilmot, Chester, The Struggle for Europe. London: Collins. 1957.
Windsor, Philip, City on Leave. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963.
Woodward, Llewellyn. British Foreign Policy in World War II. London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1962.
Younger, Carlton, No Flight from the Cage. London: Frederick Muller, Ltd., 1956.
RUSSIAN BOOKS, OFFICIAL PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS
Andronikov, N. G., and others (collective authorship), Bronetankovye i mekhanizirovannye voiska Sovetskoi Armii (Tank and mechanized forces of the Soviet Army). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1958.
Batov, Gen. P. I., V pokhodakh i boyakh (Campaigns and battles). In the series Voennye Memuary. Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1962: History of the 65th Army. Moscow: Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1959.
Boltin, Gen. E. A., and others (collective authorship), Istoriya Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny Sovetskovo Soyuza, 1947-1945 (History of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. 1941-1945). Vols. 1-6. Moscow: Dept. of History, Institute of Marxism-Leninism, and Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1960-64.
Chuikov, Col. Gen. V. I., and Gen. Krebs, Stenographic record of conversations between Berlin: 30 April—1 May, 1945. Document. Moscow: Soviet privatearchives, individual possession; “Shturm Berlina” in Literaturnaya Rossiya (“The Storming of Berlin” in Literary Russia). Moscow: March 27, 1964; The Beginning of the Road. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1963.
Correspondence 1941-45: Winston Churchill; Franklin Roosevelt; Josef V. Stalin; Clement Atlee (Vols. 1-2). Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1957.
Ehrenburg, Ilya, We Come As Judges. London: Soviet War News, 1945; “Lyudi, gody, zhizn” in Novyi Mir (“People, Years, and Life” in New World). Moscow: 1962-63.
Gladkii, Lt. Col., 8 Guards Army, Interrogations Report of. Opisanie peregovorv s nachalnikom Generalnovo shtaba Sukhoputnykh Voisk Germanskoi Armii generalom pekhoty Gansom Krebsom i komanduyushym oboronoi goroda Berlin generalom artillerii Veidlingom o kapitylyatsii nemetskikh voisk v Berline (Record of conversations with the Chief of the General Staff of the Land Forces of the German Army, General of Infantry Hans Krebs, and the Commander of the Defense of the City of Berlin, General of Artillery Weidling, on the capitulation of German Forces in Berlin). Document. Moscow: Ministry of Defense Archives.
Gvardeiskaya tankovaya (History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army). Collective authorship. Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1963.
Kochetkov, Col. D., S zakrytymi lyukami in the series Voennye Memuary (With Closed Hatches). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1962.
Krivoshein, Gen. S. M., Ratnaya byl’ (This Was War). Moscow: Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1959.
Neustroyev, Lt. Col. S. A., Put’ k Reikhstagu (The Road to the Reichstag) in series, Voennye Memuary. Moscow: Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1948; “Shturm Reikhstagu” (The Storming of the Reichstag) in Voenno-istoricheskii Zhurnal, 1960.
Platonov, Lt. Gen. S. P. (editor), Vtoraya mirovaya voina 1939-1945 gg. Voennoistoricheskii ocherk (The Second World War, 1939-1945, Military-historical outline). Moscow: Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1958.
Popiel, Lt. Gen. N., “Vperedi—Berlin!” (Forward—Berlin!) in Zvezda (Star). Personal memoir. Moscow: Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1958.
Poplawski, Gen. S. G. (editor), Boevye deistviya Narodnovo Voiska Pol’skovo, 1943-1945 gg (Combat operations of the Polish National Army, 1943-45). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1961.
Samchuk, I. A., 13-ya Gvardeiskaya (13th Poltava Rifle Division). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1962.
Shturm Berlina (The Storming of Berlin). Collective authorship (Soviet participant accounts). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1948.
Simonov, K., Front Ocherki i rasskazy 1941-1945 (The Front. Sketches and stories, 1941-1945). Moscow:Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1960.
Smakotin, M. P., Ot Dona do Berlina (From the Don to Berlin). Combat history of the 153rd Rifle Division, later 57th Guards Rifle Division. Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1962.
Solomatin, Col. Gen. M. D., of Tank Troops, Krasnogradtsy (1st Krasnograd Mechanized Corps). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1963.
Soviet War News (Vols. 1-8, 1941-1945). London: Soviet Embassy Press.
Stavka Directives: 2-23 April, 1945. Document. Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R.
Sychev, Gen. K. V., and Malakbov, Col. M. M., The Rifle Corps Offensive. Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1958.
Telpukhovskii, Boris Sejonovitsch, The Soviet History of the Great National War, 1941-45. Moscow: Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1959.
Troyanovskii, Lt. Col. P., Poslednie dni Berlina (The Last Days of Berlin). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1945.
Vyshevskii, V., Dnevniki voennykh let (Diary of the War Years). Vol. 4. Moscow: Publishing House for Artistic Literature, 1958; Sobranie sochinenii(Collected Works). Moscow: Publishing House for Artistic Literature, 1958.
Weidling, Gen., Interrogation of. By representative of the Soviet commander, Maj. Gen. Trusov. Document. Moscow: Ministry of Defense Archives, May, 1945.
What We Saw in Germany with the Red Army to Berlin. Thirteen Soviet war correspondents. London: Soviet Embassy Press, 1945.
Yedenskii, P. I., The Berlin Operation of the 3rd Shock Army. Moscow: Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1961.
Yuschuk, Maj. Gen. I. I., of Tank Troops, Tank Operations and the Storming of Berlin. Moscow: Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1962.
Zhilin, Col. P. A., Vazhneishie operatsii Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny 1941-1945 gg (The Most Important Operations of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R., 1956.
Not listed above are battle orders, maps, intelligence estimates, extracts from certain interrogation reports and other voluminous documentation supplied to the author by the Soviet government and its various agencies.
GERMAN MANUSCRIPTS, MILITARY STUDIES AND CAPTURED DOCUMENTS
Adjutantur der Wehrmacht beim Führer, Beurteilung der Feindlage vor deutscher Ostfront im grossen—Stand 5.1.45 (Estimate of Soviet intentions). Document. German Military Archives.
Arndt, Lt. Gen. Karl, 39th Panzer Corps, 22 April—7 May, 1945. Office of the Chief of Military History (hereafter referred to as OCMH), Dept. of Army, U.S.A., MS B-221.
Blumentritt, Gen. Guenther, The Last Battles of the AOK Blumentritt, 10 April—5 May, 1945. OCMH, MS B-361; Battles Fought by the 1st Parachute Army, 29 March—9 April, 1945. OCMH, MS B-354.
Busse, Gen. Theodor, The Last Battle of the 9th German Army (Vol. 5). German Military Research Studies,Military Science Review, April, 1955.
Edelsheim, Gen. Freiherr von, Capitulation Negotiations between the 12th German Army and the Ninth U.S. Army, 4 May, 1945. OCMH, MS B-220.
Eismann, Col. Hans Georg, Eismann Papers: Diary, Narrative and Personal Notes by the Chief of Operations, Army Group Vistula, 14 January—7 May, 1945. Also, letters, battle sketches and other military studies prepared for Col. Gen. Heinrici. German sources.
End of Army Group Weichsel (Vistula) and Twelfth Army, The, 27 April—7 May, 1945, and Ninth Army’s Last Attack and Surrender, 21 April—7 May, 1945. Research studies by Magna E. Bauer, 1956. Foreign Studies Branch, OCMH.
Estor, Col. Fritz, The 11th Army, 1-23 April, 1945. OCMH, MS B-581.
Feindkrafteberechnungen (FHO): Feb. 19—Apr. 15, 1945 (Estimates of enemy strength). Document. German Military Archives.
FHO: “Wesentliche Merkmale des Feindbildes” for April 23-28
1945(Enemy order of battle; telegrams). Document. German Military Archives.
Fighting Qualities of the Russian Soldier, The (German estimates of). Vol. II, No. 8.OCMH, MS D-036.
Gareis, Gen. Martin, Personal Papers and Diary of the Commander of the 46th Panzer Corps, 1945. German sources.
Gehlen, Gen. Reinhard, Gedanken zur Feindbeurteilung 2.2.45 (Estimate of Soviet intentions). Document. German Military Archives; Vermutliche Weiterführung der souwj. russ.—Operationen … (Fremde Heere Ost): Stand: 2.2.45. Document. German Military Archives.
Gen. StdH/Abt. FHO (Chef): “Befehle Op.-Abt.” (Operational Orders: 7 March—25 April, 1945). Document. German Military Archives.
Heeresarzt/OKH: (German casualties, July 1943—April 1945 for German Army central military medical authorities). Document. German Military Archives.
Heinrici, Col. Gen. Gotthard, Account by the Commander of the Army Group Vistula of the Last Battle of the Reich, 1945. Translated by Susanne Linden; Heinrici Papers and Diary. Translated by Professor John Erickson, 1964; Heinrici: Army Group Vistula War Diary, March-April, 1945. Translated by Dr. Julius Wildstosser, 1963; Heinrici Telephone Log, as recorded in Army Group Vistula War Diary by Lt. Col. Hellmuth von Wienskowski, 20-29 April, 1945. Translated by Helga Kramer, 1963; Papers, monographs, maps, battle sketches, provided by Col. Gen. Heinrici for the author’s use. Translated by Ursula Naccache.
Hengl, Gen. Georg Ritter von, The Alpine Redoubt. OCMH, MS B-461.
Hofer, Gauleiter Franz, The National Redoubt. OCMH, MS B-458, B-457.
Jodl, Col. Gen. Alfred, Diary Extracts; Operation Eclipse Notes and Affidavit; Nuremberg Notes; Private Papers. All translated by Frau Luise Jodl for the author’s use.
Koller, Gen. Karl, The Collapse Viewed from Within (The diary notes of General Koller, German Chief of Air Staff, 14 April—9 May, 1945). British Air Ministry Archives.
Kriegstagebuch: OKH/Gen. Stab. des Heeres: Operationsabteilung. 4 April—15 April, 1945; 16 April—24 April, 1945. Document. German Military Archives.
Krukenberg, SS Maj. Gen. Gustav, Battle Days in Berlin (by the Commander of the SS Nordland Division). Personal manuscript prepared especially for the author.
Lageberichte Ost: 1-21 April, 1945; 23-28 April, 1943; 29 April, 1945. Document. German Military Archives.
Last Russian Offensive, The, 1945 (27th Corps Sector). OCMH, MS D-281.
Letztes Kriegstagebuch O.d.M. (Doenitz) (Bormann’s telegram, signals on devolution of power re: Hitler’s death). Documents. German Military Archives.
Notizen nach Führervortrag (to 31 March, 1945; for the Eastern Front). Document. German Military Archives.
Operation Eclipse. Captured and annotated copy from files of Organisationsabteilung, Generalstab des Heeres. Translated by John Flint.
Organization of the Volkssturm from Organisationsabteilung, Generalstab des Heeres. Document. German Military Archives.
Politische Angelegenheiten (The German White Book). German Military Archives.
Raus, Col. Gen. Erhard, The Pomeranian Battle and the Command in the East. Discussions with Reichsführer SS Himmler and Report to the Führer. OCMH, MS D-189.
Refior, Col. Hans, Diary of the Chief of Staff of the Berlin Defense Area, 18 March—5 May, 1945. German sources.
Reichhelm, Col. Günther, Battles of the 12th Army, 13 April—7 May, 1945 (By the Chief of Staff). OCMH, MS B-606; Personal papers, maps, diary. Given to the author.
Reitsch, Fl/Capt. Hanna. Accounts extracted from U.S. and British interrogation and summarized in the Nuremberg Papers; Personal narrative in the U.S.A.F. psychological evaluation and study, Air Medical Intelligence Report of Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch, 1945.
Remagen Bridgehead, The, 11-21 March, 1945. OCMH, MS A-965.
Rendulic, Col. Gen, Lothar, Army Group A, South, 7 April—7 May, 1945: Report of the Commander. OCMH, MS B-328.
Reymann, Gen. Hellmuth, Personal Account of the Battle for Berlin by the Commander of the Berlin Defense Area, 6 March—24 April, 1945. German sources.
Schramm, Professor Percy E., Wehrmacht Losses, World War II. German War Potential at the Beginning of 1945. OCMH, MS B-716.
Schultz, Maj. Joachim, OKW War Diary Extracts, 20 April—19 May, 1945. Translated by Giselle Fort. German sources.
Weidling, Lt. Gen. Helmut, The Final Battle in Berlin, 23 April—2 May, 1945 (By the last commander of the Berlin Defense Area). Translated from the Soviet Defense Dept. Military Historical Journal by Wilhelm Arenz. Military Science Review, Jan., Feb. and March, 1962.
Wenck, Gen. Walther, 12th Army: Report of the Commander. OCMH, MS B-394; Personal Journal and Maps. Given to the author.
Willemer, Col. Wilhelm, The German Defense of Berlin. With contributions by: Col. Gen. Gotthard Heinrici, Col. Hans Georg Eismann—Army Group Vistula; Maj. Gen. Erich Dethleffsen, Maj. Gen. Thilo von Trotha, Col. Bogislaw von Bonin, Col. Karl W. Thilo—Army High Command; Col. Hans Oscar Wöhlermann, Artillery Commander—56th Panzer Corps; Col. Gerhard Roos, Chief of Staff—Inspectorate of Fortifications; Col. Ulrich de Maizieres, Operations Branch—Army General Staff; Maj. Gen. Laegeler—Replacement Army; Lt. Gen. Helmut Friebe, Lt. Col. Mitzkus—Deputy Headquarters, Third Corps; Lt. Gen. Hellmuth Reymann, Commander—Berlin Defense Area; Lt. Col. Edgar Platho, Artillery Commander—Berlin Defense Area; Lt. Col. Karl Stamm, Maj. Pritsch—Wehrmacht Area Headquarters; Col. Gerhardt Trost—Luftwaffe; M/Sgt. Schmidt—Ordnance; Col. Erich Duensing, Police Commander—Berlin; Dr. Hans Fritsche, Chief, Radio Dept.—Propaganda Ministry; and Col. Guenther Hartung. Introduction by Col. Gen. Franz Halder, former Chief of the German General Staff. OCMH, MS P-136.
Wöhlermann, Col. Hans Oscar, An Account of the Final Defense Eastward and in Berlin, April—May, 1945 (By the Artillery Commander of the 56th Panzer Corps and later Artillery Commander of the Berlin Defense Area). German sources.
SELECTED ARTICLES
Aichinger, Gerhard, “Wenck and Busse at the End of April, 1945.” Tagespiegel, January, 1957.
Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth, “Observation Post Berlin.” Die Zeit, July, 1962.
Arzet, Robert, “The Last Ten Days.” Tagespiegel, March, 1946.
Bailey, George, “The Russian at Reims.” The Reporter, May 20, 1965.
Baldwin, Hanson, “Victory in Europe.” Foreign Affairs, July, 1945.
“Battle for Berlin, The.” Revue de la défense nationale, January-June, 1953.
Bolte, Charles G., “Breakthrough in the East.” The Nation, January, 1945.
Cartier, Raymond, “The Day Hitler Died.” Paris-Match, July, 1962.
Chatterton-Hill, Dr. G., “The Last Days in Berlin.” Contemporary Review, May, June, 1946.
Codman, Lt. Col. Charles R., “For the Record: Buchenwald.” Atlantic Monthly, July, 1945.
Creel, George, “The President’s Health.” Collier’s, March, 1945.
“Dead Heart of Berlin.” From a Special Correspondent, The Times of London, June, 1945.
Ehrenburg, Ilya, “On to ‘Tamed Berlin.’” New York Times Magazine, August, 1944.
Erickson, John, “The Soviet Union at War (1941-45): An Essay on Sources and Studies.” Soviet Studies (Vol. XIV, No. 3). Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1963.
Flynn, John T., “Why Eisenhower’s Armies Did Not Take Berlin.” Reader’s Digest, August, 1948.
Franklin, William M., “Zonal Boundaries and Access to Berlin.” World Politics, Vol. XVI, No. 1, October, 1963.
Freidin, Seymour, and Fleischer, Jack, “The Last Days of Berlin” (two articles). Collier’s, August, 1945.
Geilinger, Dr. Eduard, “The Siege of Berlin” (A Swiss correspondent’s account). Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June, 1945.
Jacobi, Oscar, “Berlin Inferno.” New York Times Magazine, January, 1944; “Berlin Today.” New York Times Magazine, September, 1944.
Kuhn, Irene Corbally, “Patton: ‘The Russians Really Took Us for Suckers.’” Human Events, November, 1962.
Lauterbach, Richard, “Zhukov.” Life, February, 1945.
“Letters from Berlin.” Catholic World, November, 1945.
Mitchell, Donald W., “Allied Pincers Close on Germany.” Current History, March, 1945.
Morris, Joe Alex, “Germany Waits to Be Saved.” Collier’s, September, 1945.
Mosely, Philip E., “Dismemberment of Germany.” Foreign Affairs, April, 1950; “The Occupation of Germany.” Foreign Affairs, July, 1950.
Olson, Sidney, “Defeated Land.” Life, May, 1945.
Paret, Peter, “An Aftermath of the Plot Against Hitler: the Lehrterstrasse Prison in Berlin, 1944-45.” Journal of the Institute of Historical Research (Vol. 32, No. 85). University of London. The Athlone Press, 1959.
Powell, Robert, “Berlin Today.” Fortnightly, October, 1945.
Prinz, Gunther, “When the Guns Fell Silent.” Berliner Morgenpost, May, 1945.
Rosinski, Herbert, “The Red Flood.” U.S. Army Combat Forces Journal, July, 1953.
Sayre, Joel, “Letter from Berlin.” The New Yorker, August, 1945; “That Was Berlin” (five articles). The New Yorker, September, October, 1948.
Singh, Brig. Thakul Sheodatt, “The Battle of Berlin.” Journal of the U.S. Institute of India, 1949-50.
Sondern, Frederic, “Adolf Hitler’s Last Days.” Reader’s Digest, June, 1951.
Thompson, John H., “Meeting on the Elbe.” Chicago Daily Tribune, April, 1945.
Warner, Albert, “Our Secret Deal over Germany.” The Saturday Evening Post, August, 1952.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The information for this book came principally from the participants themselves—the men of the Allied armies, the German troops they fought, and the Berliners who survived the battle. In all, over two thousand people contributed to the book. Over a three-year period beginning in 1962, some seven hundred men and women provided written accounts as well as interviews. They gave me memorabilia ranging from diaries to maps, and from personal accounts to cherished scrapbooks. The names of these people appear in the list of Soldiers and Civilians.
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