Tapping Hitler's Generals

First of all I would like to express my gratitude to my friend Dr Klaus Schmider for directing my attention to the transcripts and assisting me subsequently during the course of the work.

I should also like to offer special thanks to Herrn Felix Römer. He allowed me access to his partially-complete dissertation on the Commissar Order and helped me greatly to evaluate the written material bequeathed by General Ludwig Crüwell. I thank Dr Bernd Crüwell for placing his father’s notes at my disposal.

Tim Richter and Jörn Hasenclever were generous enough to make available important sources. Drs. Alexander Brakel and Matthias Spreger provided me with many useful references to obscure literary sources. Marcus A König rendered sterling support in my research for the commentary. The typescript was prepared in her usual reliable manner by Frau Gertraud Tinelli.

I am obliged to Professor Rolf-Dieter Müller for his critical reading of the manuscript, and also to my friend Dr Jürgen Förster, with whom I had many conversations about the Trent Park generals. His impressive knowledge of the sources proved very valuable during my research.

I should also like to thank Oberstleutnant Michael Poppe at the Bundesarchiv/Militärarchiv who throughout gave me unstinting help.

I am most grateful to the Propyläen publishing house, particularly to Herrn Christian Seeger, for accepting my manuscript into the publishing programme, and for their outstanding collaboration.

Finally I thank Dr Gundula Bavendamm for her many-sided support and the unwavering understanding she had for me during the work. It cannot have been easy to deal with somebody more mentally present at Trent Park than elsewhere. To her I dedicate this book in gratitude.

INDEX

Abberger, Erich (Aberger)

Aberfeldy Lord

Altemeyer, Werner (Altenmeyer)

Arnim, Hans-Jürgen von

Attila

Aulock, Andreas von

Bader, Paul

Badinsky, Curt

Bassenge, Gerhard

Bayerlein, Fritz

Beck, Ludwig

Beck, Rudolf

Below, Pawel

Bergen, van

Beukemann, Helmuth (Brückelmann)

Bierkamp, Walter

Bismarck, Otto Fürst von

Blaskowitz, Johannes

Blomberg, Werner von

Bock von Wülfingen, Detlef,

Bock, Fedor von

Bock, Leutnant

Bodenschatz, Karl Heinrich

Boes, Ulrich

Borcherdt, Gerhard

Borowietz, Willibald

Brauchitsch, Walther von

Braun, Otto

Bredow, Ferdinand von

Breith, Friedrich

Broich, Friedrich Freiherr von

Bruhn, Johannes

Brüning, Heinrich

Bruns, Walter

Buhle, Walter

Bühler, Unteroffizier

Buhse, Rudolf Gustav

Burckhardt, Walter

Burgdorf, Wilhelm

Busch, Ernst

Canaris, Wilhelm

Carius, Hauptmann

Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen

Chiang Kai-Shek

Choltitz, Dietrich von

Churchill, Winston

Clausewitz, Carl von

Cramer, Hans

Crüwell, Ludwig

Daser, Wilhelm

Dietrich, Sepp

Dittmar, Kurt

Ditz, Heinrich

Dollmann, Friedrich

Dönitz, Karl

Drange, Günther

Dunckern, Anton

Eberbach, Heinrich

Eberbach, Heinz Eugen

Eberding, Kurt

Eberl, Irmfried (Ebert or Ebes)

Egersdorf, Horst

Eisenhower, Dwight David

Elfeldt, Otto

Elster, Botho

Ernst August von Hannover, Prinz

Falkenhausen, Alexander von

Felbert, Paul von

Fellgiebel, Erich

Feuchtinger, Edgar

Fink, Johannes

Fischer, Gerhard

Ford, Henry

Frank, Hans

Frantz, Gotthart

Franz, Gerhard

Fraser, David

Frederick the Great

Freisler, Roland

Frick, Wilhelm

Friedeburg, Hans Georg von

Fritsch, Werner Freiherr von

Fromm, Friedrich

Gaulle, Charles de

Gause, Alfred

Genghis Khan

Gersdorf, Rudolph-Christoph Freiherr von

Gerstenberg, Alfred

Geyr von Schweppenburg, Leo Reichsfreiherr

Glasow, Erdmann von

Goebbels, Joseph

Goerbig, Paul

Goerdeler, Carl

Goering, Hermann

Goering, Karin

Graevenitz, Hans von

Greim, Robert Ritter von

Guderian, Heinz

Gürtner, Franz

Gutknecht, Alfred

Habermehl, Richard

Haeften, Hans-Bernd von (Hefden)

Halder, Franz

Hamm, Leutnant

Hase, Paul von

Hasse, Wilhelm (possibly)

Hassell, Ulrich von (Hasselt)

Heilmann, Ludwig

Heim, Ferdinand

Helldorf, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von

Hellwig, Eduard

Hennecke, Walter

Henry IV, King of England

Herrmann, Ernst

Hess, Rudolf

Heusinger, Adolf

Heydrich, Reinhard

Heydte, August Freiherr von der

Heyking, Rüdiger von

Heym, Johannes

Himmler, Heinrich

Hindenburg, Paul von Beneckendorff und von

Hitler, Adolf

Hoepner, Erich

Hofacker, Cäsar

Höhne, Gustav

Hollidt,Karl Adolf

Holste, Rudolf

Hoth, Hermann

Hubbuch, Klaus

Hube, Hans

Hübner, Rudolf

Hülsen, Heinrich-Hermann von

Irving, David

Jacob, Alfred (Jakobs)

Jaenecke, Erwin

Jebb, Sir Richard

Jodl, Alfred

Jösting, Erwin

Kähler, Otto

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst

Keitel, Wilhelm

Kempf, Werner

Kessler, Oberst

Kirchheim, Heinrich

Kittel, Heinrich

Klenk, Otto

Kluge, Hans Günther von

Koch, Erich

Kogler, Johann

Köhn, Walter

Köhncke, Kurt

Koppe, Wilhelm

Köstering, Ernst

Krause, Fritz

Krebs, Hans

Kreipe, Heinrich

Kriebel, Karl

Kroener, Bernhard

Krug, Hans

Krug, Ludwig

Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm

Krüger, Walter

Küchler, Georg von

Kuhn, Joachim (Kuhnert)

Lasch, Karl

Lattmann, Martin

Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter von

Lex, Franz August Maria

Ley, Robert

Liddell Hart, Basil

Liebenstein, Kurt Freiherr von

Lindemann, Gerhard

Loeffelholz von Colberg, Burkhart Freiherr (Löffelholz-Kolberg)

Loerzer, Bruno

Ludin, Hans

Manstein, Erich von

Manteuffel, Hasso von

Marcks, Erich

Massow, Gerd von

Materna, Friedrich

Meixner, Paul

Menny, Erwin