Love and Terror in the Third Reich by Peter Matheson Heinke Sommer-Matheson

Author:Peter Matheson, Heinke Sommer-Matheson [Peter Matheson, Heinke Sommer-Matheson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Germany, Modern, 20th Century
ISBN: 9781532661204
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

205. Mann, Deutsche Geschichte 1919–1945, 173 (my translation); Littell, The Kindly Ones, 101 is probably unsurpassed as an imaginative depiction of the Russian campaign, with its theme “You must resist the temptation to be human.”

206. Lilo, to Ernst, June 20, 1940; April 23, 1941.

207. Lilo, to Ernst, June 9, 1941; March 17, 1940.

208. Bauer, 290. Infanterie Division. Weg und Schicksal; the history is detailed and accurate, but its perspectives betray its postwar genesis; the Russian forces are apostrophized as “Iwan.”

209. Ernst to Lilo, March 27, 1941.

210. Ernst to Lilo, April 9, 1941.

211. Ernst to Lilo, undated, probably December 1941.

212. Ernst to Lilo, April 10, 1941; April 13, 1941.

213. Pollmann, ed., Wohlauf Kameraden! Ernst’s copy dates from his time in Schalkholz.

214. Ernst to Lilo, April 15, 1941.

215. Ernst to Lilo, April 17, 1941; April 19, 1941; May 31, 1941.

216. Ernst to Lilo, April 21, 1941; April 23, 1941.

217. Ernst to Lilo, May 4, 1941; May 18, 1941.

218. Ernst to Lilo, May 9, 1941.

219. Ernst to Lilo, May 13, 1941; the reference appears to be to the unpredictability of politics.

220. Ernst to Lilo, May 26, 1941; May 13, 1941; May 24, 1941; May 29, 1941.

221. Ernst to Lilo, May 28, 1941.

222. Ernst to Lilo, May 6, 1941.

223. Ernst to Lilo, May 11, 1941.

224. Ernst to Lilo, June 3, 1941; it is worth mentioning, because generally Ernst got along well with the men.

225. Ernst to Lilo, March 31, 1941; June 1, 1941.

226. Lilo to Ernst, May 29, 1941.

227. Lilo to Ernst, January 5, 1941.

228. Ernst to Lilo, May 18, 1941.

229. Dieter to Lilo, June 2, 1941; the letter is typed; in a letter to his mother from the Front on 1 February 1942 he described himself as “the happiest man in the world” in his role as a lieutenant.

230. The official history suggests that most were well aware that an attack was in the offing; Bauer, 290. Infanterie Division. Weg und Schicksal, 41–42.

231. Ernst to Lilo, June 18, 1941.

232. Rußland hätte nicht kommen dürfen. Lilo to Ernst, September 3, 1941.

233. Lilo to Ernst, June 28, 1941.

234. Defeatist utterances could attract the most draconian penalties under the Kriegssonderstrafrechtsverordnung (Special Criminal Code for the War) of 1938.

235. One such pamphlet is headed this way: Verzagte Briefe schreibt man nicht; Die Front erwartet Zuversicht, and it portrays a sobbing woman writing a letter, and a deeply upset soldier having to read it.

236. Lilo to Ernst, August 12, 1941.

237. Ernst to Lilo, June 27, 1941; July 9, 1941.

238. Ernst to Lilo, July 27, 1941.

239. In her novel about generational conflict after the war, Ulla Hahn points out that it was very much military policy, as the Mitteilungen für die Truppe (Information for Frontline Troops) made clear: letters home should be “manly,” positive, free of all doubts about the aims of the Führer. Field post should strengthen the morale of the home front; Hahn, Unscharfe Bilder, 74.

240. Ernst to Lilo, May 16, 1941.

241. Ernst to Lilo, July 1, 1941; July 3, 1941; July 4, 1941; July 9, 1941.

242. Ernst to Lilo, July 10, 1941; July 11, 1941

243.

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