If the Allies Had Fallen by Harold C. Deutsch

Author:Harold C. Deutsch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2010-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

1 Personal experience of the writer. His own scheduled interrogation of Göring in November 1945 had to be cancelled when he was called home because of a family emergency. In his place, two colleagues of the State Department Special Interrogation Mission, DeWitt C. Pole and Harold Vedeler, interrogated Göring.

2 Jodl's deputy, Warlimont, discovered in a roundabout way that Hitler's voiced intention was to move in late September 1940. Walter Warlimont, Inside Hitler's Headquarters, 1930-1944 (Praeger: New York, 1964), 112, and conversations with Warlimont, September 1945 and in later years.

3 The story from the German side is related by Harold C. Deutsch, The Conspiracy Against Hitler in the Twilight War (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 1968).

4 Deutsch, 74-77. The author later conferred with the two British diplomats who passed on the information from Stockholm and Copenhagen. Interviews with Peter Tennant and Jasper Leadbitter

5 Interrogations by the writer of Jodl and Keitel, October-November 1945.

6 Interviewed by the writer in 1958, a number of Spanish generals who had been close to Vigón asserted that for him “Canaris could do no wrong.” Notably General Esteban-Infantes.

7 Shortly after the armistice with France, dining with Josef Müller in a Munich hotel, Canaris was so distressed when he was jokingly told that the British would most certainly come to some understanding with Hitler, that he quit eating. When the contrite Müller apologized, the admiral replied that it was not a matter for joking. Britain must somehow hang on to become the future “aircraft carrier of the United States.” Conversations with Josef Müller, 1958 and subsequent years.

8 Interview with Ramón Serrano Suner, April 1958.

9 Interviews with Wilhelm Leisner and Erich Heberlein, April 1958.

10 Discussions with Warlimont, September-October 1945 and subsequently.

11 War Cabinet Joint Planning Staff Paper J.O. (43)18 (Final), “Brimstone” versus “Husky”, 9 Jan. 1943, Public Record Office, Kew, London.

12 Michael Howard, British Intelligence in the Second World War, Vol. V, “Strategic Deception,” (London: 1990), 91.

13 Samuel W. Mitchum Jr., and Friedrich von Stauffenberg, The Battle of Sicily, (New York: 1991), 300-301.

14 Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt quoted in Samuel Eliot Morrison, Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, (Boston: 1954), 249.

15 For a more detailed and annotated account of this topic see Thomas M. Barker, “The Ljubljana Gap Strategy: Alternative to Anvil/Dragoon or Fantasy?” in the Journal of Military History, 56 (1992), 57-86.

16 PRO PREM [Public Record Office, Premier] 3,275/3. The Brkini and the iarija run from the southeast to the northwest; roads lead toward Trieste through adjacent (southeastern) valleys.

17 PRO WO 204/1832 (undated, circa 30 October 1944 AFHQ study, “Transadriatic Operations in the Spring of 1945”; the appended comments of U.S. Brigadier General G.L. Eberle (the G 3), were especially skeptical while the document itself reveals annoyance over Alexander's initiative; and PRO WO 204/8085 (Eighth Army “Memorandum on Operation Gelignite” of 12 November 1944).

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