24. H. Trevor-Roper (ed.) Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945 (London, 1964), p. 86; Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, pp. 67–75.
25. F. W. Seidler and D. Zeigert Die Führerhauptquartiere: Anlagen und Planungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Munich, 2000), pp. 193–6.
26. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives, pp. 93–4.
27. Förster, ‘Hitler Turns East’, p. 127.
28. Förster, ‘Hitler Turns East’, p. 129; A. Hillgruber ‘The German Military Leaders’ View of Russia prior to the Attack on the Soviet Union’, in Wegner, From Peace To War, pp. 172, 182.
29. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives, pp. 130–31, Directive no. 32 ‘Preparations for the Period after Barbarossa’; Taylor, Goebbels Diaries, p. 414.
30. K. Alt ‘Die Wehrmacht im Kalkül Stalins’, in R.-D. Müller and H.-E. Volkmann (eds) Die Wehrmacht: Mythos und Realität (Munich, 1999), pp. 107–9.
31. D. Glantz Stumbling Colossus: the Red Army on the Eve of World War (Lawrence, Kans., 1998), pp. 90–93.
32. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pp. 95–6.
33. Tarleton, ‘Stalin Line’, p. 50; C. Roberts ‘Planning for War: the Red Army and the Catastrophe of 1941’, Europe – Asia Studies, 47 (1995), p. 1319; Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pp. 103–4.
34. Nevezhin, ‘Pact with Germany’, p. 821.
35. Alt, ‘Die Wehrmacht’, p. 111; L. A. Bezyminsky ‘Stalins Rede vom 5 Mai 1941 – neu dokumentiert’, in G. R. Ueberschär and L. A. Bezminsky (eds) Der deutsche Angriff auf die Sowjetunion 1941: Die Kontroverse um die Präventivkriegsthese (Darmstadt, 1998), pp. 136–41; see too J. Förster and E. Mawdsley ‘Hitler and Stalin: Secret Speeches on the Eve of Barbarossa’, War in History, 11 (2004), pp. 88–100 for recent versions of the 5 May speech.
36. Förster and Mawdsley, ‘Hitler and Stalin’, pp. 101–2.
37. V. A. Nevezhin ‘The Making of Propaganda concerning USSR Foreign Policy, 1939–1941’, in N. Rosenfeldt, J. Jensen and E. Kulavig (eds) Mechanisms of Power in the Soviet Union (London, 2000), pp. 159–60; Nekrich, Pariahs, Partners, p. 241; Förster and Mawdsley, ‘Hitler and Stalin’, pp. 86–7 for the reaction to the 5 May speech.
38. Nekrich, Pariahsy Partners, pp. 228–9.
39. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pp. 239–43.
40. G. F. Krivosheev Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century (London, 1997), p. 98; R. Stolfi Hitler’s Panzers East: World War II Reinterpreted (Norman, Okl., 1991), pp. 88–9; A. G. Chor’kov ‘The Red Army during the Initial Phase of the Great Patriotic War’, in Wegner, From Peace to War, p. 416.
41. For details see D. M. Glantz Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa – Hitler’s Invasion of Russia 1941 (Stroud, 2003), chs 7–8; Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives, pp. 152–5, Directive no. 35, 6 September 1941.
42. J. Toland Adolf Hitler (London, 1976), pp. 684–5.
43. V. P. Yampolsky (ed.) Organy Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine (Moscow, 2000), vol. ii, pp. 98–104.
44. Yampolsky, Organy, p. 107.
45. D. Volkogonov Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (London, 1991), pp. 434–5; G. A. Bordiugov The Popular Mood in the Unoccupied Soviet Union’, in R. Thurston and B. Bonwetsch (eds) The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (Chicago, 2000), pp. 58–9; M. M. Gorinov ‘Muscovites’ Moods, 22 June 1941 to May 1942’, in Thurston and Bonwetsch, People’s War, pp. 123–4; J. Barber ‘The Moscow Crisis of October 1941’, in J. Cooper, M. Perrie and E. A. Rees (eds) Soviet History 1917–1953: Essays in Honour ofR.W. Davies (London, 1995), pp. 201–18.
46. M. Cooper The German Army 1933–1945 (London, 1978), p. 344.
47. Alt, ‘Die Wehrmacht’, p. 111.
48. Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht 5 vols (Frankfurt am Main, 1961–3), vol. i, pp. 1120–21; Soviet fi gures calculated from J. Erickson ‘Soviet War Losses’, in J. Erickson and D. Dilks (eds) Barbarossa: the Axis and the Allies (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 264–5.
49. E. Zaleski Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth 1933–1952 (London, 1980), p. 291; S. Linz ‘World War II and Soviet Economic Growth, 1940–1953’, in S. Linz (ed.) The Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union (Totowa, NJ, 1985)” p. 13.
50. W. S. Dunn The Soviet Economy and the Red Army 1930–1945 (London, 1995), p. 195.
51. Linz, ‘Soviet Economic Growth’, p. 18; Imperial War Museum, London, FD 3056/49 ‘Statistical Material on the German Manpower Position During the War’, 31 July 1945. These fi gures are based on the annual labour balances produced by the
Reich Statistical Offi ce. The German manpower fi gure includes those classifi ed as ‘handworkers’ as well. Industrial wage-earners numbered 8.37 million in 1942.
52. S. R. Lieberman ‘Crisis Management in the USSR: The Wartime System of Administration and Control’, in Linz, Impact of World War II, pp. 60–61.
53. Zaleski, Stalinist Planning, pp. 287–8; M. Harrison Soviet Planning in Peaceand War, 1938–1945 (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 94–9; Lieberman, ‘Crisis Management’, pp. 60–66.
54. Zaleski, Stalinist Planning, pp. 286, 289–90.