Document Sources
Archives consulted:
BA Bundesarchiv Berlin
IWM Imperial War Museum London/RAF Duxford
NA National Archives Washington
PRO UK National Archives London
SKA Skoda Archive Pilsen
Many thanks to Skoda Archivist Vladislav Kratky for digging out material on Albert Goering’s time with the company.
Books
Alford, K., Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War Two (USA 2001)
Andrus, Colonel B., The Infamous of Nuremberg (UK 1969)
Barron, S. (eds), Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-garde in Nazi Germany (USA 1991)
Beevor, A., Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 (UK 2002)
____, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (UK 1993)
____, Stalingrad (UK 1998)
Bekker, C., The Luftwaffe War Diaries: The German Air Force in World War Two (UK 1967)
Below, N. von, At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937–1945(UK 2001)
Bierman, J. and Smith, C., Alamein: War Without Hate (UK 2002)
Birkenhead, Earl of, Halifax: The Life of Lord Halifax (UK 1965)
Black, E., IBM and the Holocaust: How America’s Most Powerful Corporation Helped Nazi Germany Count the Jews (USA 2001)
Blair, C., Hitler’s U‑boat War: The Hunters, 1939–1942 (USA 1996)
____, Hitler’s U‑boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945 (USA 1998)
Bloch, M., Ribbentrop (UK 1994)
Bogdanovich, P., Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors (USA 1997)
Bormann, M., The Bormann Letters: The Private Correspondence between Martin Bormann and his Wife from January 1943–April 1945 (UK 1954)
Bosworth, R., Mussolini (UK 2002)
Bracher, K., The German Dictatorship: The Origins, Structure and Consequences of National Socialism (UK 1970)
Browning, C., Ordinary Men: Reserve Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (UK 2001)
Browning, C. and Matthias, J., The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939–1942 (UK 2004)
Brozat, M. and Krausnik, H., Anatomy of the SS State (UK 1968)
Brustein, W., The Logic of Evil: Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925–1935 (UK/USA 1996)
Bullock, A., Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (UK 1952)
Bungay, S., The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain (UK 2002)
Burleigh, M., The Third Reich: A New History (UK 2000)
Cecil, A., The Myth of the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi Ideology (UK 1972)
Cesarani, D., Eichmann – His Life and Crimes (UK 2004)
Ciano, G., The Ciano Diaries, 1939–1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Galeazzo Ciano (USA 1946)
Channon, Sir H., Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon (UK 1967)
Christiansen, E., The Northern Crusades (UK 1997)
Cocks, G., Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Goering Institute (USA 1985)
Cooper, R., The Nuremberg Trial (USA 1947)
Cornwell, J., Hitler’s Scientists: Science, War and the Devil’s Pact (UK 2003)
Crowe, C., Conversations with Wilder (USA 1999)
Dahlerus, B., The Last Attempt (UK 1948)
Davies, N., Europe: A History (UK 1997)
Dreisziger, N. (ed.), Hungary in the Age of Total War, 1938–1948 (USA 1998)
Evans, R., Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial (UK 2002)
____, The Coming of the Third Reich (UK 2003)
Farrell, N., Mussolini: A New Life (UK 2003)
Fenby, J., Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the China He Lost (UK 2003)
Fest, J., Hitler (UK 1974)
____, Inside Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich (USA 2004)
____, Plotting Hitler’s Death: The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933–1945 (UK 1996)
____, Speer: The Final Verdict (UK 2001)
____, The Face of the Third Reich (UK 1970)
Fokker, A. and Gould, B., Flying Dutchman (USA 1931)
Forbes, N., Doing Business with the Nazis: Britain’s Economical and Financial Relations with Germany, 1931–1939 (UK 2000)
Fox, W., The I.C.I. (UK 1934)
Franks, N., Dogfight: Aerial Tactics of the Aces of World War I (UK 2003)
Franks, N. and Bailey, F., The Jasta Pilots (UK 1996)
____, and Duiven, R., The Jasta War Chronology: A Complete History of Claims and Losses, August 1916–1918 (UK 1998)
Franks, N. and Gibling, H., Under the Guns of the German Aces (UK 1997)
Frischauser, W., Goering (UK 1951)
Frommer, B., National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia (USA 2005)
Fyfe, Sir D. M., Political Adventure: The Memoirs of the Earl of Kilmuir (UK 1964)
Gallo, M., The Night of the Long Knives (UK 1973)
Gaskin, H., Eyewitnesses at Nuremberg (UK 1990)
Genoud, F., (ed.), The Testament of Adolf Hitler: The Hitler–Bormann Documents, February–April 1945 (UK 1959)
Gedye, G., Fallen Bastions: The Central European Tragedy (UK 1939)
Gilbert, G., Nuremberg Diary (USA 1947)
Gilbert, M., The Dent Atlas of the Holocaust: The Complete History (UK 1993)
____, The Second World War (UK 2000)
Gillen, D., Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shansi Province, 1911–1949 (USA 1967)
Giurescu, D., Romania in the Second World War (USA 2000)
Goebbels, J., Goebbels Diaries (trans by Lochner L., UK 1948)
____, Goebbels Diaries: The Last Days (trans by Trevor-Roper H., UK 1978)
____, Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941: The Historic Journal of a Nazi War Leader (trans by Taylor F., UK 1982)
Goering, H., Germany Reborn (UK 1934)
____, The Political Testament of Hermann Goering: A Selection of Important Speeches and Articles (UK 1938)
Goldensohn, L., The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist’s Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses (USAA 2004)
Gregor, N., Daimler Benz in the Third Reich (USA 1998)
Griehl, M., Jet Planes of the Third Reich: The Secret Projects Vol 1 (UK 2000)
Gritzbach, E., Hermann Goering: The Man and his Work (UK 1938)
Graber, G., The Life and Times of Reinhard Heydrich (UK 1981)
Grunberger, R., A Social History of the Third Reich (UK 1971)
Gunning, T., The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories and Visions of Modernity (UK 2000)
Hake, S., Popular Cinema in the Third Reich (USA 2002)
Hamann, B., Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth (UK 2005)
Handler, A., A Man For All Connections: Raoul Wallenberg and the Hungarian State Apparatus (USA 1996)
Harris, Sir A., Bomber Offensive (UK 1947)
Hassell, U. von, The von Hassell Diaries, 1938–1944 (UK 1994)
Hastings, M., Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945 (UK 2004)
____, Bomber Command (UK 1979)
Hayes, P., Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era (UK 1987)
Heiber, H. and Glantz, D. (eds), Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences, 1942– 1945 (UK 2002)
Henderson, Sir N., Failure of a Mission, 1937–1939 (UK 1940)
Henderson, W., The German Colonial Empire, 1884–1919 (UK 1993)
Herwig, D. and Rode, H., Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Strategic Bombers, 1935–1945 (UK 2000)
Hiden, J., The Weimar Republic (UK 1974)
Higham, C., Trading with the Enemy (UK 1983)
Hobsbawm, E., Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century (UK 1994)
Hohne, H., The Order of the Death’s Head (UK 1967)
Homze, E., Arming the Luftwaffe: The Reich Air Ministry and the German Aircraft Industry (UK 1976)
Hooton, E., Eagle in Flames: The Fall of the Luftwaffe (USA 1997)
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Hunter, J., The Blue Max (UK 1964)
Ioanid, R., The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of the Jews and Gypsies under the Antonescu Regime, 1940–1944 (USA 2000)
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., The History of Nobel’s Explosives Company Ltd and Nobel Industries Ltd, Vol I, 1871–1926 (UK 1938)
Irons, R., Hitler’s Terror Weapons: The Price of Vengeance (UK 2002)
Irving, D., Goering: A Biography (UK 1989)
Johnson, E., The Nazi Terror: Gestapo, Jews and Ordinary Germans (UK 2000)
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Jones, N., The Birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps Blazed a Trail for Hitler (UK 2004)
Jünger, E., Storm of Steel (UK 2003)
Kahn, D., Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War Two (UK 1978)
Kay, A., Junkers Aircraft and Engines, 1915–1945 (UK 2004)
Keegan, J., Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (UK 2003)
____, The First World War (UK 1998)
____, The Mask of Command: A Study of Generalship (UK 1987)
____, The Second World War (UK 1989)
Kelley, D., 22 Cells in Nuremberg (USA 1947)
Kennedy, P., The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic and Military Conflict, 1500–2000 (USA 1988)
Kershaw, I., Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris (UK 1998)
____, Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis (UK 2000)
____, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War (UK 2004)
Kilduff, P., The Red Baron: Beyond the Legend (UK 1994)
Killen, J., The Luftwaffe: A History (UK 1967)
Kinderman, G., Hitler’s Defeat in Austria, 1933–1934: Europe’s First Containment of Nazi Expansionism (UK 1988)
Kirkpatrick, I., Mussolini: Study of a Demagogue (UK 1964)
Knopp, G., Hitler’s Henchmen (UK 2000)
____, Hitler’s Hitmen (UK 2002)
____, Hitler’s Warriors (UK 2005)
Koehl, R., The Black Corps: The Structure and Power Struggles of the Nazi SS (USA 1983)
Kreimeier, K., The UFA Story: A History of Germany’s Greatest Film Company, 1918– 1945 (USA 1996)
Landy, M., Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931–1943 (USA 1986)
Lang, J. von, The Secretary: Martin Bormann – The Man Who Manipulated Hitler (UK 1979)
LeBor, A., Hitler’s Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust (USA 1997)
LeBor, A. and Boyes, R., Surviving Hitler: Choices, Corruption and Compromise (UK 2000)
Liang, H., The Sino-German Connection: Alexander von Falkenhausen between China and Germany, 1900–1941 (Amsterdam 1978)
Low, A., The Anschluss Movement (USA 1985)
Luza, R., Austro-German Relations in the Anschluss Era (USA 1975)
Luza, R. and Kella, C., The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance (USA 2002)
Lyttelton, A., The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy, 1919–1929 (UK/USA 1973)
McCord, E., The Power of the Gun: The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism (USA 1993)
MacDonald, C., The Killing of SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (UK 1989)
MacDonagh, G., The Last Kaiser: William the Impetuous (UK 2000)
McGilligan, P., Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (USA 1997)
Mackensie, W., The Secret History of the S.O.E. (UK 2000)
Manvell, R. and Fraenkel, H., Goering (USA 1962)
Marrus, M., (ed.), The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945–1946: A Documentary History (USA 1997)
Matyszak, P., The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun (UK 2004)
Mazower, M., Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (UK 1998)
____, Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–1945 (UK/USA 1993)
____, The Balkans: From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day (UK 2000)
Middlebrook, M. and Everitt, C., Bomber Command War Diaries: Operational Reference Book, 1939–1945 (UK 1985)
Miller, M., Bulgaria during the Second World War (USA 1975)
Morton, F., Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913–1914 (USA 1989)
Mosley, L., The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering (UK 1974)
Muggeridge, Malcolm (ed.), Ciano’s Diplomatic Papers (UK 1948)
Neave, A., Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals (UK 1978)
Neillands, R., The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive, 1939– 1945 (UK 2001)
Nicholas, L., The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (USA 1994)
Overy, R., Goering: The Iron Man (UK 1984)
____, The Battle (UK 2000)
____, The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia (UK 2004)
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____, Why the Allies Won (UK 1995)
Padfield, P., Himmler: Reichsführer SS (UK 1990)
Pakenham, T., The Scramble for Africa, 1876–1912 (UK 1991)
Papen, F. von, Memoirs (UK 1952)
Parker, M., Monte Cassino: The Story of the Hardest-Fought Battle of World War Two (UK 2003)
Passingham, I., All the Kaiser’s Men: The Life and Death of the German Army on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (UK 2003)
Patton, General G., War as I Knew It (UK 1948)
E. Permora (E. Perou de Moravek), El Frente Desarmado (Buenos Aires 1952)
Persico, J., Nuremberg: Infamy On Trial (USA 1994)
Petropoulos, J., The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (USA 2000)
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____, The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax (UK 1991)
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____, Farewell Austria (UK 1938)
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