1 DCA, file 107.
2 More on the ‘Bob Gerry Troupe’ and their interesting post-war career at http://www.circopedia.org/Bob_Gerry_Troupe.
3 Griebel’s memoir, Ich war ein Mann der Strasse. Lebenserinnerungen eines Dresdner Malers (I Was a Man on the Street: The Memoirs of a Dresden Painter) (Röderberg, 1986), now out of print, has been widely cited for his intense and at times grotesque account of that night.
4 Fitzpatrick, Mischka’s War.
5 DCA, file 802.
6 DCA, file 133.
7 DCA, file 477.
8 DCA, file 116.