1 DCA, file 802.
2 Ibid.
3 DCA, file 115.
4 Der Freiheitskampf, Dresden edition, 16 April 1945, for this and what follows.
5 Fitzpatrick, Mischka’s War.
6 Griebel, Ich war ein Mann der Strasse, quoted in a fascinating essay by Francesco Mazzaferro which can be seen at letteraturaartistica.blogspot.com/2018/10/otto-griebel29.html.
7 As cited in an absorbing essay by Johannes Schmidt: ‘Dresden 1945: Wilhelm Rudolph’s Compulsive Inventory’, Art in Print, vol. 5, no. 3 (2015), artinprint.org/article/wilhelmrudolph/.
8 The Carus Classics 2013 CD issue of Dresdner Requiem has interesting sleeve notes by Matthias Herrmann, a detailed look at Mauersberger’s musical inspirations and English translations of the requiem’s lyrics.
9 Schmidt, ‘Dresden 1945’.
10 DCA, file 475.
11 Ibid.
12 There is some interesting background on Elsa Frölich and her husband as well as Dresden’s other underground communists at www.stadtwikidd. de/wiki/Elsa_Frölich (in German).
13 Victor Klemperer, The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945–59, trans. Martin Chalmers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003).
14 There is some information on Nieland’s surprising post-war life and rehabilitation to be seen at Sächsische Biografie, saebi.isgv.de/biografie/Hans_Nieland_(1900-1976).