Where the Iron Crosses Grow

13. Gottlob H. Bidermann, In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000), p. 119.

14. J. F. Borsarello and W. Palinckx, Wehrmacht & SS Caucasian – Muslim – Asian Troops (Bayeux, France: Editions Heimdal, 2007).

15. O.Qu./Qu. 2, Report by Einsatzgruppe D of the Sicherheitspolizei about Rekrutierung der Krimtataren, April 4 –September 8, 1942, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 421.

16. Munoz, Forgotten Legions: Obscure Combat Formations of the Waffen SS, pp. 173–174.

17. Aleksandr B. Shirokorad, Bitva za Krym [Battle of the Crimea] (Moscow: AST, 2005).

18. Tätigkeitsbericht vom 1.-15.10.42, Feldkommandantur 287, 16 October 1942, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-501, Roll 233, frames 969.

19. Tätigkeitsbericht vom 16.-31.10.42, Feldkommandantur 287, 1 November 1942, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-501, Roll 233.

20. Shirokorad, Bitva za Krym [Battle of the Crimea].

21. Bandentätigkeit in der Zeit vom 1.-7.12.43, AOK 17, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 740.

22. Stephen McLaughlin, Russian and Soviet Battleships (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003), p. 402.

23. Vasiliy I. Achkasov and Nikolai B. Pavlovich, Soviet Naval Operations in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981), pp. 262–264.

24. Achkasov and Pavlovich, Soviet Naval Operations in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945, pp. 258–259.

Chapter 8

1. Philipp Humberts, “Ich Bitte Ershossen zu werden,” Der Spiegel, 5/1949, January 29, 1949.

2. la, Anlage 1 z. KTB Nr. 8, Kriegsgliederungen der Armee, AOK 17, Oct 12–Dec 11, 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 738.

3. la, Anlage 9 z. KTB Nr. 8, Lagenkarten, AOK 17,Oct 10–Dec 31, 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 740.

4. la, Anlagenband 2 z. KTB Nr, 8. Unternehmen “Michael” mit Sondervorgang, AOK 17, Oct 19–31, 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 738.

5. Paul Carell, Scorched Earth (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1994), p. 456.

6. la, Anlage 4 z. KTB Nr. 8, AOK 17, Oct 10–Dec 31, 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 739.

7. Ia, 336. Infanterie-Division, October-December 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-315, Roll 2,097.

8. lc, Gefangenenvernehmung, AOK 17, November 1, 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 741.

9. Anatoly N. Grylev, Dnipro-Karpaty-Krym: Osvobozhdenie pravoberezhnoi ukrainy i kryma v 1944 gody [Dnepr-Carpathians-Crimea: The Liberation of the Right Bank of Ukraine and Crimea, 1944] (Moscow: Nauka, 1970).

10. Ic, Tatigkeitsbericht, Verteidigung der Nordzugange zur Krim, XXXXIX Gebirgs-Korps, October 30 – December 31, 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-314, Roll 1226.

11. la, Anlage 1 z. KTB Nr. 8, Kriegsgliederungen der Armee, AOK 17, Oct 12–Dec 11, 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 738.

12. Franz Kurowski, Sturmgeschütz vor! Assault Guns to the Front! (Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1999), p. 53.

13. Andrei Kuznetsov, Bolshoi desant Kerchensko Eltigenskaya operatsiya [The Large Landing at Kerch-Eltigen] (Moscow: VECHE, 2011).

14. la, Anlage 4 z. KTB Nr. 8, AOK 17, Oct 10–Dec 31, 1943, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 739.

15. Franz Kurowski, Generalmajor Erich Bärenfänger: vom Leutnant zum General (Würzburg: Fleschig Verlag, 2007), pp. 146–147.

16. Kurowski, Generalmajor Erich Bärenfänger: vom Leutnant zum General, p.148.

17. O.Qu., Anlagenband LXX z. KTB Nr. 8, AOK 17, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, March 1944, Roll 744.

18. Fritz Morzik, German Air Force Airlift Operations (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2002), p. 240.

19. la, Anlagen z. KTB 9, Teil II, February 1–29, 1944, XXXXIX Gebirgs-Korps, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-314, Roll 1227.

20. O.Ou./VII, AOK 17, November 1, 1942–February 28, 1944, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, Roll 745.

21. O.Qu., Anlagenband LXX z. KTB Nr. 8, AOK 17, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), Series T-312, March 1944, Roll 744.