The Death of Hitler: The Final Word

Footnotes

1

Le Monde, 2 May 2000, Agathe Duparc.

2

Libération, 2 May 2000, Hélène Despic-Popovic.

3

The Independent, 20 February 1993, Helen Womack.

4

Sven Felix Kellerhoff, The Führer Bunker: Hitler‘s Last Refuge, Berlin, Berlin-Story-Verlag, 2004, p. 50.

5

Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot, London, Muller, 1958, p. 180.

6

Heinz Linge and Otto Günsche, Le Dossier Hitler, trad. par Danièle Darneau, Paris, Presses de la Cité, [2005] 2006, p. 281.190

7

GARF 9401/2/552, f.114

8

Ibid., p. 299.

9

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Valet, trans. Geoffrey Brooks, Barnsley, Frontline Books, 2013, p. 187.

10

Ibid., p. 174.

11

Erich Kempka, I was Hitler’s Chauffeur: The Memoirs of Erich Kempka, Barnsley, Frontline Books, 2012, p. 57.

12

Erich Kempka, I was Hitler’s Chauffeur, op. cit., p. 58.

13

Rochus Misch, J’étais garde du corps d’Hitler (1940–1945), Paris, Le Cherche Midi, 2006, p. 193.

14

Elena Rzhevskaya, Carnets de l’interprète de guerre, Paris, Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 2011, p. 287.

15

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, London, Orion, 1970, p. 229.

16

Heinz Linge and Otto Günsche, Le Dossier Hitler, op. cit., p. 306.

17

Nicolaus von Below, At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant, trans. Geoffrey Brooks, London, Greenhill, 2001, p. 236.

18

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End, op. cit., p. 189.

19

Elena Rzhevskaya, Carnets, op. cit., p. 289.

20

Ibid.

21

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, op. cit., pp. 482–3.

22

Rochus Misch, Hitler’s Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Bodyguard, pp. 158–9.

23

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, op. cit., p. 484.

24

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary, trans. Anthea Bell, Hachette, 2012.

25

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour, op. cit., p. 178.

26

Rochus Misch, Hitler’s Last Witness, op. cit., p. 197.

27

Rochus Misch, Hitler’s Last Witness, op. cit., p. 197.

28

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour, p. 185.

29

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour, p. 172.

30

Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot, op. cit., p. 188.

31

Elena Rzhevskaya, Carnets, op. cit., p. 227.

32

Zhukov (Marshal), Memoirs, New York, Delacorte Press, 1971, p. 622.

33

Karl Dönitz, Memoirs, Ten Years and Twenty Days, Barnsley, Frontline Books, 2012, p. 452.

34

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End, op. cit., p. 210.

35

Lev Bezymenski, The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives, New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969, p. 45.

36

Elena Rzhevskaya, Carnets, op. cit., p. 273.

37

Ibid., p. 276.

38

Ibid. p. 277.

39

Elena Rzhevskaya, Carnets, op. cit., p. 339.

40

Lev Bezymenski, The Death of Adolf Hitler, op. cit., p. 57.

41

Ibid., p. 67.

42

Secret report presented on 25 February 1956 to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR.

43

GARF archives: GARF 9401/2/551, f.58.

44

Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, Vol. I, no. 24, “Memorandum by the Assistant of the Secretary of State (Bohlen),” pp. 29–30.

45

Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home, Abilene, Kansas, United States [Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal Files, Box 156, Press Statements and Releases 1944–46 (1), NAID, #12007716], p. 4.

46

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End, op. cit., p. 211.

47

Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot, op. cit., p. 205.

48

Rochus Misch, Hitler’s Last Witness, op. cit., p. 176.

49

Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot, op. cit., p. 200.

50

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End, op. cit., p. 212.

51

Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot, op. cit., p. 211.

52

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqrrjzfnsVY

53

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End, op. cit., p. 213.

54

Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End, op. cit., p. 213.

55

Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot, op. cit., p. 221.

56

Ibid.

57

Ibid., p. 207.

58

Winston Churchill, The Sinews of Peace, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 5 March 1946.

59

New York Times, 14 March 1946.

60

US National Archives, no. 01 FIR 31, in Reidar F. Sognnaes and Ferdinand Ström, “The Odontological Identifications of Adolf Hitler: Definitive Documentation by X-Ray, Interrogations and Autopsy Finding,” Acta Odontology Scandinavica, 31 (1973), pp. 43–69, here p. 57.

61

Reidar F. Sognnaes and Ferdinand Ström, “The Odontological Identification of Adolf Hitler,” Acta Ondotologica Scandinavica, Vol. 31 No. 1 (1973), pp. 43–79.

62

Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour, op. cit., p. 177.

63

Lev Bezymenski, The Death of Adolf Hitler, op. cit., p. 89.

64

Audio archives of the interrogation of Otto Günsche, 1956, Munich State Archives (Staatsarchiv München), CD/DVD 71 à 74.

65

Ibid.

66

Ibid.

67

Ibid.

68

Erich Kempka, I was Hitler’s Chauffeur, op. cit., p. 77.

69

Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler, London, Pan Books, 1947, p. 6.

70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqrrjzfnsVY

71

Munich State Archives (Staatsarchiv München), op. cit.

72

Ibid.