1 As cited in Tripp, The Eighth Passenger.
2 Fitzpatrick, Mischka’s War.
3 Friedrich, The Fire.
4 Ursula Elsner, interviewed in the Daily Telegraph, 8 February 2015.
5 Biddle, ‘Sifting Dresden’s Ashes’.
6 DCA, file 506.
7 DCA, file 109.
8 DCA, file 472.
9 Friedrich, The Fire.
10 DCA, file 104.
11 An account from Dresden zoo inspector Otto Sailer-Jackson, cited in Alexander McKee, The Devil’s Tinderbox: Dresden 1945 (Souvenir Press, 2000).
12 Fitzpatrick, Mischka’s War.