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33 Maser, Legend, Myth & Reality, pp. 85–88.
34 Wiedemann, Feldherr, pp. 25–26. Table Talk, p. 119. Maser, ibid., p. 88.
35 Berliner Tageblatt, 1 August 1918. Age (Melbourne), 6 August 1918.
36 Ludendorff, Memories, vol. II, p. 679. Bose, Katastrophe, pp. 45, 201. Lossberg,
Tätigkeit im Weltkrieg, p. 438.
37 Ludendorff, Memories, vol. II, p. 679. Berliner Tageblatt, 8 August 1918.
38 Ludendorff, ibid., p. 711 and vol. I, p. 379. Berliner Tageblatt, 9, 10 August 1918.
39 Berliner Tageblatt, 10, 11 and 12 August 1918.
40 Berliner Tageblatt, 14 August 1918.
41 Foerster, Ludendorff in Ungluck, pp. 48–49. Berliner Tageblatt, 24 August 1918.
Deutsche Tageszeitung, 22 August 1918.
42 Wiedemann, Feldherr, pp. 29–31. Baligrand, ‘Ende wie Anfang’, pp. 328–32.
43 Figaro, 2 September 1918.
44 Bean diary, AWM38 3DRL 606, item 116, 21 September 1918. Lasswell, Propaganda
Technique, p. 28. Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 200–201. Berliner Tageblatt, 5 September
1918. Morgen-Post, 9 September 1918.
45 Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 201–202.
46 Joachimsthaler, Korrektur, p. 177.
47 Westenkircher, Lugauer and Raab in Joachimsthaler, Korrektur, pp. 177–78.
48 Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 202–206.
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OF ALL TIME
1 Since 1918, Black Mary’s has been an estaminet, a butcher’s shop and a photo-copying
business, but has recently reverted to private use. The wall-studs, dating from 1942,
which once held a plaque identifying this as Hitler’s wartime billet are still there, though
the plaque itself is now housed in a trench museum at Fromelles. Once rural outposts
connected by narrow-gauge tramways, modern-day Fromelles and Fournes are feeder
suburbs, inhabited mostly by urban professionals who live in neat modern cottages and
commute to the Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing conurbation.
2 Breker, Hitler et moi. Keitel in Hoffmann, Hitler im Westen, p. 5.
3 Hoffmann, Hitler im Westen, p. 108.
4 Churchill, World Crisis, p. 950.
5 Lieutenant Colonel von Lüneschloss, Major General Friedrich Petz and Colonel
Spatny, all cited in Maser, Legend, Myth & Reality, p. 87.
6 Mend, Hitler im Felde, pp. 9–10, 186–87. Brandmayer, Meldegänger Hitler, pp. 7–8,
32.
7 Meyer, Mit Adolf Hitler, p. 15.
8 Schnell cited in Maser, Legend, Myth & Reality, p. 85.
9 Meyer, Mit Adolf Hitler, p. 65. Mend, Hitler im Felde, pp. 87–88, 160, 186–87.
10 Wiedemann, Feldherr, p. 26.
11 Ibid., p. 24.
12 Ibid., pp. 54–55.
13 Scherff in Maser, Legend, Myth & Reality, p. 270, 280–81. Keitel at War Trials,
Nuremburg, IMT, vol. X, p. 600. Kielmannsegg in Knopp, Bilanz, p. 231.
14 De Maizière in Knopp, Bilanz, p. 231. Wiedemann, Feldherr, p. 249.
15 Wiedemann, ibid., pp. 249–53.
16 Mayr in Knopp, Bilanz, p. 92.
17 Ibid.
18 Irving, ‘Goebbels’ Diary’, and Goebbels: Mastermind. Knopp, Bilanz, p. 126. Wiedemann,
Feldherr, p. 33.
19 Wiedemann, ibid. Table Talk, pp. 17, 28, 665.