Prologue 1: Carl Goerdeler
Notes Prologue xxix ‘If we aim at’ John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Transaction Publishers, 2009, p.xv xxx ‘a life’s savings’ https://www.historyonthenet.com/authentichistory/1930–1939/4- roadtowar/1-germany/index.html xxx ‘In [these] times’ Fest, Hitler, p.373 xxx ‘Within two months’ Eltscher, Traitors or Patriots?, p.16 xxxi ‘I confront everything’ Fest, Hitler, p.376 xxxii ‘a feeling as if ’ Ibid., p.384 xxxii ‘Harsh rulers don’t’ Ritter, The German Resistance, p.42 1: Carl Goerdeler 1 ‘Schneidemuehl’ Now Pila in Poland 2 ‘Goerdeler was a’ Fest, Plotting Hitler’s Death, p.146 2 ‘Königsberg’ Now Kaliningrad 3 ‘Goerdeler accepted’ Young, The ‘X’ Documents, p.27 4 ‘Night of the Long Knives’ Its official title was ‘Unternehmen Kolibri’ (Operation Hummingbird). In fact the German phrase ‘Nacht der langen Messer’ long predates this event as a description of acts of unrestrained mass violence 4 ‘the army general’ General Kurt von Schleicher 4 ‘personal secretary of another Chancellor’ Herbert von Bose, head of the press division of the Vice Chancellery under Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen 5 ‘local Leipzig Nazi leader’ Hans Rudolf Haake 5 ‘There is one of ’ quoted in Deutsch, The Conspiracy Against Hitler, p.11 5 ‘All of us’ Orbach, The Plots Against Hitler, p.24 5 ‘his position’ See Mommsen, Germans Against Hitler, p.259 5 ‘a local Gauleiter’ Gauleiters were the Nazi district governors. In this case Martin Mutschmann, the Gauleiter of Saxony 6 ‘as a patriot’ Ritter, The German Resistance, p.82 6 ‘call black, black’ quoted in Young, The ‘X’ Documents, p.24 6 ‘He has decided’ Sir William Deedes, quoted in ibid.
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