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1. J. Stalin The War of National Liberation (New York, 1942.), p. 13, speech on the German invasion of the Soviet Union, 3 July 1941.

2. F.Taylor (ed.) The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941 (London, 1982), p. 415.

3. Stalin, War of Liberation, p. 29, speech on the anniversary of the revolution, 6 November 1941.

4. L. Lochner (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries (London, 1948), p. 18.

5. F. Genoud (ed.) The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann Documents (London, 1961), pp. 103–4, 2 April 1945.

6. E. E. Ericson Feeding the German Eagle: Soviet Economic Aid to Nazi Germany, 1933–1941 (Westport, Conn., 1999), pp. 104–

5, 152; S. Pons Stalin and the Inevitable War 1936–1941 (London, 2002), p. 197.

7. Pons, Stalin and War, pp. 186–96; G. Roberts The Soviet Decision for a Pact with Nazi Germany’, Soviet Studies, 44 (1992), pp. 66–8.

8. A. M. Nekrich Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations 1922–1941 (New York, 1997), p. 230.

9. R. Tucker Stalin in Power: the Revolution from Above, 1928–1941 (New York, 1990), p. 49.

10. V. A. Nevezhin The Pact with Germany and the Idea of an “Offensive “War”’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 8 (1995), p. 811; Pons, Stalin and War, pp. 202–3.

11. Nekrich, Pariahs, Partners, p. 137.

12. Nevezhin, Tact with Germany’, p. 821.

13. R. E. Tarleton ‘What Really Happened to the Stalin Line?’ Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 6 (1993), p. 2, 9.

14. J. Schechter and V. Luchkov (eds) Khrushchev Remembers: the Glasnost Tapes (New York, 1990), p. 46; see too Pons, Stalin and War, pp. 198–9. On fear of Britain see G. Gorodetsky Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia (New Haven, Conn., 1999), pp. 14–19.

15. Ericson, Feeding the Eagle, p. 209; Nekrich, Pariahs, Partners, p. 156; H. Schwendemann Die wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und der Sowjetunion von 1939 bis 1941 (Berlin, 1993), pp. 373–5.

16. J. Förster ‘Hitler Turns East – German War Policy in 1940 and 1941’, in B. Wegner (ed.) From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia and the World, 1939–1941 (Providence, RI, 1997), p. 120; C. Hartmann Halder. Generalstabschef Hitlers 1938–1942 (Paderborn, 1991), pp. 225–6.

17. Hartmann, Halder, p. 226; J. Förster ‘Hitler’s Decision in Favour of War Against the Soviet Union’, in H. Boog et al. Germany and the Second World War: Volume IV: the Attack on the Soviet Union (Oxford, 1998), pp. 25–9.

18. G. Ueberschär and W. Wette (eds) ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’: Der deutsche Überfall auf die Sowjetunion (Paderborn, 1994), pp. 98–100.

19. Ueberschär and Wette, ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa? p. 90; N. von Below At Hitler’s Side: the Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant 1937–1945 (London, 2.001), pp. 42–3, 46–7.

20. Ueberschär and Wette, ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’, p. 91.

21. Genoud, Testament of Adolf Hitler, p. 63, 15 February 1945. In 1945 Hitler maintained that his primary motives were strategic and economic: ‘War with Russia had become inevitable, whatever we did’ (p. 66).

22. Förster, ‘Hitler Turns East’, pp. 121, 126.

23. Ueberschär and Wette, ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’, p. 107; von Below, At Hitler’s Side, pp. 91–2.

24. H. Trevor-Roper (ed.) Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945 (London, 1964), p. 86; Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, pp. 67–75.

25. F. W. Seidler and D. Zeigert Die Führerhauptquartiere: Anlagen und Planungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Munich, 2000), pp. 193–6.

26. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives, pp. 93–4.

27. Förster, ‘Hitler Turns East’, p. 127.

28. Förster, ‘Hitler Turns East’, p. 129; A. Hillgruber ‘The German Military Leaders’ View of Russia prior to the Attack on the Soviet Union’, in Wegner, From Peace To War, pp. 172, 182.

29. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives, pp. 130–31, Directive no. 32 ‘Preparations for the Period after Barbarossa’; Taylor, Goebbels Diaries, p. 414.

30. K. Alt ‘Die Wehrmacht im Kalkül Stalins’, in R.-D. Müller and H.-E. Volkmann (eds) Die Wehrmacht: Mythos und Realität (Munich, 1999), pp. 107–9.

31. D. Glantz Stumbling Colossus: the Red Army on the Eve of World War (Lawrence, Kans., 1998), pp. 90–93.

32. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pp. 95–6.

33. Tarleton, ‘Stalin Line’, p. 50; C. Roberts ‘Planning for War: the Red Army and the Catastrophe of 1941’, Europe – Asia Studies, 47 (1995), p. 1319; Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pp. 103–4.

34. Nevezhin, ‘Pact with Germany’, p. 821.

35. Alt, ‘Die Wehrmacht’, p. 111; L. A. Bezyminsky ‘Stalins Rede vom 5 Mai 1941 – neu dokumentiert’, in G. R. Ueberschär and L. A. Bezminsky (eds) Der deutsche Angriff auf die Sowjetunion 1941: Die Kontroverse um die Präventivkriegsthese (Darmstadt, 1998), pp. 136–41; see too J. Förster and E. Mawdsley ‘Hitler and Stalin: Secret Speeches on the Eve of Barbarossa’, War in History, 11 (2004), pp. 88–100 for recent versions of the 5 May speech.

36. Förster and Mawdsley, ‘Hitler and Stalin’, pp. 101–2.

37. V. A. Nevezhin ‘The Making of Propaganda concerning USSR Foreign Policy, 1939–1941’, in N. Rosenfeldt, J. Jensen and E. Kulavig (eds) Mechanisms of Power in the Soviet Union (London, 2000), pp. 159–60; Nekrich, Pariahs, Partners, p. 241; Förster and Mawdsley, ‘Hitler and Stalin’, pp. 86–7 for the reaction to the 5 May speech.

38. Nekrich, Pariahsy Partners, pp. 228–9.

39. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pp. 239–43.

40. G. F. Krivosheev Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century (London, 1997), p. 98; R. Stolfi Hitler’s Panzers East: World War II Reinterpreted (Norman, Okl., 1991), pp. 88–9; A. G. Chor’kov ‘The Red Army during the Initial Phase of the Great Patriotic War’, in Wegner, From Peace to War, p. 416.

41. For details see D. M. Glantz Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa – Hitler’s Invasion of Russia 1941 (Stroud, 2003), chs 7–8; Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives, pp. 152–5, Directive no. 35, 6 September 1941.

42. J. Toland Adolf Hitler (London, 1976), pp. 684–5.

43. V. P. Yampolsky (ed.) Organy Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine (Moscow, 2000), vol. ii, pp. 98–104.

44. Yampolsky, Organy, p. 107.

45. D. Volkogonov Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (London, 1991), pp. 434–5; G. A. Bordiugov The Popular Mood in the Unoccupied Soviet Union’, in R. Thurston and B. Bonwetsch (eds) The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (Chicago, 2000), pp. 58–9; M. M. Gorinov ‘Muscovites’ Moods, 22 June 1941 to May 1942’, in Thurston and Bonwetsch, People’s War, pp. 123–4; J. Barber ‘The Moscow Crisis of October 1941’, in J. Cooper, M. Perrie and E. A. Rees (eds) Soviet History 1917–1953: Essays in Honour ofR.W. Davies (London, 1995), pp. 201–18.

46. M. Cooper The German Army 1933–1945 (London, 1978), p. 344.

47. Alt, ‘Die Wehrmacht’, p. 111.

48. Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht 5 vols (Frankfurt am Main, 1961–3), vol. i, pp. 1120–21; Soviet fi gures calculated from J. Erickson ‘Soviet War Losses’, in J. Erickson and D. Dilks (eds) Barbarossa: the Axis and the Allies (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 264–5.

49. E. Zaleski Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth 1933–1952 (London, 1980), p. 291; S. Linz ‘World War II and Soviet Economic Growth, 1940–1953’, in S. Linz (ed.) The Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union (Totowa, NJ, 1985)” p. 13.

50. W. S. Dunn The Soviet Economy and the Red Army 1930–1945 (London, 1995), p. 195.

51. Linz, ‘Soviet Economic Growth’, p. 18; Imperial War Museum, London, FD 3056/49 ‘Statistical Material on the German Manpower Position During the War’, 31 July 1945. These fi gures are based on the annual labour balances produced by the

Reich Statistical Offi ce. The German manpower fi gure includes those classifi ed as ‘handworkers’ as well. Industrial wage-earners numbered 8.37 million in 1942.

52. S. R. Lieberman ‘Crisis Management in the USSR: The Wartime System of Administration and Control’, in Linz, Impact of World War II, pp. 60–61.

53. Zaleski, Stalinist Planning, pp. 287–8; M. Harrison Soviet Planning in Peaceand War, 1938–1945 (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 94–9; Lieberman, ‘Crisis Management’, pp. 60–66.

54. Zaleski, Stalinist Planning, pp. 286, 289–90.

55. Zaleski, Stalinist Planning, p. 317; M. Harrison ‘The Soviet Union: the defeated victor’, in M. Harrison (ed.) The Economics of World War II: Six great powers in international comparison (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 275–8.

56. Linz, ‘Soviet Economic Growth’, p. 20; Harrison, ‘The Soviet Union’, p. 286.

57. F. Kagan ‘The Evacuation of Soviet Industry in the Wake of Barbarossa: a Key to Soviet Victory’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 8 (1995), pp. 389–406; G. A. Kumanev ‘The Soviet Economy and the 1941 Evacuation’, in J. L. Wieczynski (ed.) Operation Barbarossa: The German Attack on the Soviet Union, June 22 1941 (Salt Lake City, 1993), pp. 161–81, 189.

58. Linz, ‘Soviet Economic Growth’, p. 17 on investment; on schools M. Hindus Russia Fights On (London, 1942), pp. 63–4; W. Moskoff The Bread of Affl iction: The Food Supply in the USSR during World War II (Cambridge, 1990), p. 83.

59. Linz, ‘Soviet Economic Growth’, pp. 19–20; J. Barber and M. Harrison The Soviet Home Front 1941–1945 (London, 1991), pp. 147–52 on labour mobilization. On rationing Zaleski, Stalinist Planning, pp. 328–30; Moskoff, Bread of Affl iction, pp. 143–55; Barber and Harrison, Soviet Home Front, pp. 214–15 for ration levels in 1944.

60. Zaleski, Stalinist Planning, pp. 333, 336–7; Moskoff, Bread of Affl iction, pp. 108–9, 175.

61. Moskoff, Bread of Affl iction, pp. 136–42.

62. A. Nove ‘The peasantry in World War II’, in Linz, Impact of World War II, pp. 79–84.

63. Zaleski, Stalinist Planning, pp. 337–40.

64. B. V. Sokolov ‘Lend Lease in Soviet Military Efforts 1941–1945’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 7 (1994), pp. 567–8.

65. Sokolov, ‘Lend Lease’, pp. 570–81; V. Vorsin ‘Motor Vehicle Transport Deliveries Through “Lend-Lease”’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 10 (1997), pp. 164, 172–3; H. P. van Tuyll Feeding the Bear: American Aid to the Soviet Union 1941–1945 (New York, 1989), pp. 156–7.

66. U. Herbert Fremdarbeiter: Politik und Praxis des ‘Ausländer-Einsatzes’ in der Kriegswirtschaft des Dritten Reiches (Berlin, 1985), pp. 270–72.

67. The term was used by Rolf Wagenführ, a Reich Statistical Offi ce offi cial, when he wrote a history of the German war economy for the Allies in 1945. See IWM, FD 3057/49 FIAT Report 1312 ‘Economic History of the Second World War’, pp. 6–8.

68. Hitler’s plan in IWM, MI 14/521 (Part I) ‘Munitionslieferung im Weltkrieg’; War Economy decree Reichsgesetzblatt 1939, Part I, p. 1609 ‘Kriegswirtschaftsverordnung’, 4 September 1939. Total war references in Bundesarchiv-Berlin R2501/7132, Reichsbank, notes for a speech by Director Lange, November 1941; R2501/7041, Report of speech by Reichsbank President 2 February 1940, p. 2.

69. R. J. Overy War and Economy in the Third Reich (Oxford, 1994), pp. 275–81; Soviet comparison in Harrison, ‘The Soviet Union’, p. 291.

70. Overy, War and Economyp, p. 352.

71. IWM, EDS Mi 14/433 (fi le 2), Führer decree ‘Vereinfachung und Leistungssteigerung unserer Rüstungsproduktion’, 3 December 1941, p. 1.

72. IWM AL/1571, Col. Thomas, ‘Aktennotiz über Besprechung mit Minister Speer, 3 March 1942’, p. 1.

73. Overy, War and Economy, pp. 356–64.

74. D. Winkler Frauenarbeit im ‘Dritten Reich’ (Hamburg, 1977), pp. 196–8; S. Bajohr Die Hälfte der Fabrik: Geschichte der Frauenarbeit in Deutschland 1914 bis 1945 (Marburg, 1979), p. 252; R. Wagenführ Die deutsche Industrie im Kriege (Berlin, 1963), pp. 145–7; F. Wunderlich Farm Labor in Germany 1810–1945 (Princeton, NJ, 1961), pp. 297–9; on part time work IWM Box S368, Report 69, p. 5. See too E. Hancock ‘Employment in Wartime: the experience of German women during the Second World War’, War & Society, 12(1994), pp.43–68.

75. On rationing see Overy, War and Economy, pp. 170–71, 282–4; H. Focke and U. Reimer Alltag unterm Hakenkreuz: Wie die Nazis das Leben der Deutschen veränderten (Hamburg, 1980), pp. 179–81.

76. L. Maks Russia by the Back Door (London, 1954), p. 169.

77. C. Simmons and N. Perlina Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s diaries, memoirs and documentary prose (Pittsburgh, 2002), p. 23, diary of Liubov Shaporina, 12 September 1941.

78. Simmons and Perlina, Siege of Leningrad, p. 60, diary of Anna Likhacheva, 16 May, 1942; p. 50, diary of Vera Kostrovitsknia [n.d.].

79. Simmons and Perlina, Siege of Leningrad, pp. 30–31, diary entry, 8 March 1942.

80. See O. Bartov The Eastern Front 1941–1945: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare (New York, 1985).

81. See in general T. Schulte The German Army and Nazi Policies in Occupied Russia (Oxford, 1989); H. Heer Tote Zonen: Die deutsche Wehrmacht an der Ostfront (Hamburg, 1999); H. Heer and K. Naumann (eds) Vernichtungskrieg, Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941–1944 (Hamburg, 1995). On the debate over Wehrmacht criminality K. H. Pohl ‘“Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941–1944’, in K. H. Pohl (ed.) Wehrmacht und Vernichtungspolitik. Militär im nationalsozialistischen System (Göttingen, (1999), pp. 141–60.

82. Ueberschär and Wette, ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’, p. 107; Förster and Mawdsley, ‘Hitler and Stalin’, pp. 70–78 for text of notes of the speech.

83. J. Förster ‘Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation’, in Boog et ah, Germany and the Second World War: Vol IV, p. 485.

84. Schulte, The German Army, pp. 321–2.

85. Förster, ‘Operation Barbarossa’, p. 514.

86. Förster, ‘Operation Barbarossa’, p. 510.

87. H.-H. Wilhelm (ed.) Rassenpolitik und Kriegführung: Sicherheitspolizei und Wehrmacht in Polen und der Sowjetunion

(Passau, 1991), p. 140, ‘Barbarossa-Studie’, Generaloberst Hoepner, 2 May 1941.

88. Förster, ‘Operation Barbarossa’, pp. 492, 500.

89. E. Hesse Der sowjetrussische Partisanenkrieg 1941 bis 1944 (Göttingen, 1969), p. 36; Förster, ‘Operation Barbarossa’, p. 504.

90. Schulte, German Army, p. 317.

91. Schulte, German Army, pp. 319–20; Wilhelm, Rassenpolitik, p. 138, General von Küchler, lecture to divisional commanders,

25 April 1941; Förster, ‘Operation Barbarossa’, p. 516. See too G.K. Koschorrek Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front (London, 2002), pp. 67–9.

92. K. Reddemann (ed.) Zwischen Front und Heimat: Der Briefwechsel des münsterischen Ehepaares Agnes und Albert Neuhaus 1940–1944 (Münster, 1996) p. 227, letter from Albert Neuhaus, 30 June 1941.

93. Koschorrek, Blood Red Snow, p. 64.

94. Stalin, War of Liberation, pp. 14–16.

95. Stalin, War of Liberation, p. 30.

96. A. Sella The Value of Human Life in Soviet Warfare (London, 1992), pp. 100–102; Volkogonov, Triumph and Tragedy, p. 430 for story of Yakov.

97. R. Bidlack ‘Survival Strategies in Leningrad during the First Year of the Soviet-German War’, in Thurston and Bonwetsch, People’s War, pp. 86–7.

98. Pravda, 17 August, 30 August 1942; A. Werth Russia at War 1941–1945 (London, 1964), p. 414; A. Weiner Making Sense of War: the Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (Princeton, NJ, 2001), pp. 162–3.

99. G. Geddes Nichivo: Life, Love and Death on the Russian Front (London, 2001), p. 40; on German treatment of their own soldiers see M. Messerschmidt ‘Deserteure im Zweiten Weltkrieg’, in W. Wette (ed.) Deserteure der Wehrmacht: Feiglinge – Opfer – Hoffnungsträger (Essen, 1995), pp. 61–2; O. Hennicke and F. Wüllner ‘Über die barbarischen Vollstreckungsmethoden von Wehrmacht und Justiz im Zweiten Weltkrieg’, in Wette, Deserteure, pp. 80–81.

100. Koschorrek, Blood Red Snow, p. 69; see too J. Stieber Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944–1945 (Dublin, 1995), pp. 18–19.

101. Koschorrek, Blood Red Snow, p. 275; E. Bessonov Tank Rider: into the Reich with the Red Army (London, 2003), p. 118; Stieber, Against the Odds, pp. 169–70.

102. A. Streim Sowjetische Gefangenen in Hitlers Vernichtungskrieg: Berichte und Dokumente (Heidelberg, 1982), p. 175; C. Streit ‘Die sowjetische Kriegsgefangenen in den deutschen Lagern’, in D. Dahlmann and G. Hirschfeld (eds) Lager, Zwangsarbeit, Vertreibung und Deportation (Essen, 1999), pp. 403–4. See more recently C. Hartmann ‘Massensterben oder Massen Vernichtung? Sowjetische Kriegsgefangenen im “Unternehmen Barbarossa”’, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 49 (2001).

103. Russkii Arkhiv 13: Nemetskii Voennoplennye v SSSR (Moscow, 1999), Part I, p. 9.

104. Russkii Arkhiv 13, Part I, p. 17, document 1, Molotov to International Red Cross, 27 June 1941. For Hitler’s views see Toland Adolf Hitler, p. 685. See too C. Streit ‘Die Behandlung der verwundeten sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen’, in Heer and Naumann, Vernichtungskrieg, pp. 78–91.

105. Hartmann, ‘Massensterben oder Massenvernichtung?’, p. 157.

106. Hartmann, ‘Massensterben oder Massenvernichtung?’, p. 158; Herbert, Fremdarbeiter, pp. 148–9.

107. Hartmann, ‘Massensterben oder Massenvernichtung?’, p. 158.

108. Herbert, Fremdarbeiterp, p. 136.

109. S. Karner Im Archipel GUPVI: Kriegsgefangenschaft und Internierung in der Sowjetunion 1941–1956 (Vienna, 1995), pp. 90–94, 194; Russkii Arkhiv 13, Part 2, pp. 69, 76, 159–60.

110. Karner, Archipel GUPVI, pp. 94–104, 195; Russkii Arkhiv 13, Part 2, pp. 171–9, 265–74; R. J. Overy Russia’s War (London, 1998), pp. 297–8.

111. Heer, Tote Zonen, p. 101.

112. C. Streit ‘Partisans – Resistance – Prisoners of War’, in Wieczynski, Operation Barbarossa, p. 271.

113. H. Heer ‘Die Logik des Vernichtungskrieges: Wehrmacht und Partisanenkampf’, in Heer and Naumann, Vernichtungskrieg, pp. 112–13.

114. Hesse, Partisanenkrieg, pp. 178–80; L. Grenkevich The Soviet Partisan Movement 1941–1944 (London, 1999), pp. 77–9; Wehrmachtsverbrechen: Dokumente aus sowjetischen Archiven ed. L. Besymensky (Cologne, 1997), p. 116, OKW Befehl,

16 December, 1942; K.-M. Mallmann “‘Aufgeräumt und abgebrannt”: Sicherheitspolizei und “Bandenkampf” in der besetzten Sowjetunion’, in G. Paul and K.-M. Mallmann (eds) Die Gestapo im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Heimatfront und besetztes Europa (Darmstadt, 2000), pp. 506–7.

115. J. A. Armstrong (ed.) Soviet Partisans in World War II (Madison, Wise. 1964), pp. 98–103, 662; Grenkevich, Soviet Partisan Movement, pp. 92–3.

116. Geddes, Nichivö, pp. 87–95.

117. Mallmann, ‘Sicherheitspolizei und “Bandenkampf”’, p. 503.

118. T. Anderson ‘Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Ukraine, October-December 1941’, Journal of Modern History, 71 (1999), pp. 611–13.

119. K. Lutzel Deutsche Soldaten – nationalsozialistischer Krieg? Kriegserlebnis und Kriegserfahrung (Paderborn, 1998), p. 184.

120. Mallmann, ‘Sicherheitspolizei und “Bandenkampf”’, pp. 513–14; see too B. Shepherd ‘The Continuum of Brutality: Wehrmacht

Security Divisions in Central Russia, 1942’, German History, 21 (2003), pp. 60–63.

121. R. Rhodes Masters of Death: the SS Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust (New York, 2002), pp. 219–20.

122. Public Record Offi ce, London, WO 311/45, letter from Judge-Advocate General Western Command Branch to Military Dept., Judge-Advocate General’s offi ce, 1 May 1945, p. 1.

123. See for example M. Mazower ‘Military Violence and National Socialist Values: The Wehrmacht in Greece 1941–1944’, Past & Present, 134 (1992), pp. 129–58; W. Manoschek ‘The Extermination of Jews in Serbia’, in U. Herbert (ed.) National Socialist Extermination Policies: Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies (Oxford, 2000), pp. 163–85.

124. Gorinov, ‘Muscovites’ Moods’, p. 119.

125. Weiner, Making Sense of War, pp. 172–3.

126. Weiner, Making Sense of War, pp. 177–9.

127. S. Bialer (ed.) Stalin and his Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II (New York, 1969), pp. 140–41, 143–8.

128. Soviet fi gures in Harrison, The Soviet Union’, p. 285. The armed forces employed 7.1 million in 1941, 11.3 million in 1942, 11.9 million in 1943 and 12.2 million in 1944. German fi gures from H.-U. Thamer Verführung und Gewalt: Deutschland 1933–1945 (Berlin, 1986), p. 718. The numbers conscripted by 1942 were 9.4 million, 1943 11.2 million, 1944 12.4 million.

129. Krivosheev, Soviet Casualties, pp. 85–91.

130. Sokolov, The Cost of War’, pp. 175–6, 187.

131. Bessonov, Tank Rider, p. 44; W. S. Dunn Hitler’s Nemesis: the Red Army 1933–1945 (Westport, Conn., 1994), pp. 62–4; R. Thurston ‘Cauldrons of Loyalty and Betrayal: Soviet Soldiers’ Behaviour 1941 and 1945’, in Thurston and Bonwetsch, People’s War, pp. 239–40; J. Erickson ‘Red Army Battlefi eld Performance, 1941–45: the System and the Soldier’, in P. Addison and A. Calder (eds) Time to Kill: the Soldier’s Experience of War in the West, 1939–1945 (London, 1997), pp. 237–41, 247–8.

132. On the Soviet balance between men and military equipment see J. Sapir The Economics of War in the Soviet Union during World War II’, in I. Kershaw and M. Lewin (eds) Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 219– 21; S. J. Zaloga and J. Grandsen Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles in World War II (London, 1984), pp. 146–9, 160–62. On Germany’s capital-manpower ratio see, for example, R. L. di Nardo Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism: Horses and the German Army in World War II (London, 1991), pp. 37–56, 92–7; R.M. Orgorkiewicz Armoured Forces: a history of armoured forces and their vehicles (London, 1970), pp. 74–9. In general O. Bartov Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis and War in the Third Reich (Oxford, 1991), ch. 2.

133. Ogorkiewicz, Armoured Forces, pp. 123–4; Zaloga and Grandsen, Soviet Tanksy pp. 146–9, 160–62.

134. V. Hardesty Red Phoenix: the Rise of Soviet Air Power 1941–1945 (London, 1982), pp. 83–8; M. O’Neill The Soviet Air Force, 1917–1991’, in R. Higham and F. W. Kagan (eds) The Military History of the Soviet Union (New York, 2002), pp. 159–62.

135. van Tuyll, Feeding the Bear, pp. 156–7; J. Beaumont Comrades in Arms: British Aid to Russia, 1941–1945 (London, 1980), pp. 210–12.

136. D. R. Beachley ‘Soviet Radio-Electronic Combat in World War IF, Military Review, 61 (1981), pp. 67–8.

137. Koschorrek, Blood Red Snow, p. 64.

138. D. Kahn Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II (New York, 1978), pp. 440–41.

139. Liebermann, ‘Crisis Management’, pp. 61–6; Bialer, Stalin and his Gen-erals, pp. 352–4, 350–51.

140. See P. Schramm Hitler the Man and the Military Leader (London, 1972), pp. 194–205, Appendix II ‘Memorandum on Hitler’s Leadership, 1946’ by Col. A. JodI; W. Warlimont The German High Command during World War IP, in D. Detweiler (ed.) World War II German Military Studies (24 vols, New York, 1979) vol. vi, pp. 6–59. On the record of his meetings on technical and economic issues see W. A. Boelcke (ed.) Deutschlands Rüstungim Zweiten Weltkrieg: Hitlers Konferenzen mit Albert Speer (Frankfurt am Main, 1969); IWM, Box S363, Kartei des Technischen Amtes, 1941–4, pp. 1–24: ‘Liste von Rüstungs-Besprechungen bei Adolf Hitler, 1940–1945’.

141. B. Bonwetsch ‘Stalin, the Red Army, and the “Great Patriotic War”’ in Kershaw and Lewin, Stalinism and Nazism, pp. 203–6; Overy, Russia’s War, pp. 187–90.

142. National Archives, College Park, MD, RG332 USSBS, interview 62, Col-Gen. A. Jodl, 29 June 1945, pp. 6–7.

143. H. Trevor-Roper (ed.) Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–1944 (London, 1973), p. 340, 26–27 February 1942.

144. NA, RG332, Jodl interview p. 3.

145. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 82, 21–22 October 1941. See too the remark recalled in T. Junge Until the fi nal Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary (London, 2003), p. 83. Hitler wanted to’never see any more offi cers’ after the war: They’re all stubborn and thick-headed, prejudiced and set in their ways.’

146. Bonwetsch, ‘Stalin, the Red Army’, p. 203; E. O’Ballance The Red Army (London, 1964), p. 179.

147. M. Fainsod How Russia is Ruled (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), pp. 269, 480–1; T. H. Rigby Communist Party Membership in the USSR 1917–1967 (Princeton, NJ, 1968), pp. 249–6.

148. A. W. Zoepf Wehrmacht zwischen Tradition und Ideologie: Der NS Führungsoffi zier im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Frankfurt am Main, 1988), pp. 35–9.

149. H. Heiber and D. M. Glantz (eds) Hitler and his Generals: Military Conferences 1942–1945 (London, 2002), p. 386; J. Förster ‘Ludendorff and Hitler in Perspective: The Battle for the German Soldier’s Mind, 1917–1944’, War in History, 10 (2003), pp. 329–31.

150. Heiber and Glantz, Hitler and his Generals, pp. 393, 396, meeting of 7 January 1944.

151. Koschorrek, Blood Red Snow, pp. 275–6, 278–9.

152. Förster, ‘Ludendorff and Hitler’, p. 333.

153. Koschorrek, Blood Red Snow, pp. 305–6.

154. Koschorrek, Blood Red Snow, p. 311.

155. Stalin, War of Liberation, p. 23, speech of 7 November 1941.

156. See the many examples of popular enthusiasm in D. Loza (ed.) Fighting for the Soviet Motherland: Recollections from the Eastern Front (Lincoln, Nebr., 1998); on propaganda J. Barber ‘The Image of Stalin in Soviet Propaganda and Public Opinion during World War 2’, in J. Garrard and C. Garrard (eds) World War 2 and the Soviet People (London, 1993), pp. 38–48; J. Brooks Thank You, Comrade Stalin: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (Princeton, NJ, 2000), pp. 165–84; D. Brandenberger National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity (Cambridge, Mass., 2002), pp. 161–80.

157. Loza, Fighting for the Soviet Motherland, pp. 220–21, appdx B. ‘Order of the People’s Commissar of Defense, no. 227’, 28 July 1942.

158. Erickson, ‘Soviet Losses’, p. 262. Figure of those condemned to death in review by E. Mawdsley, War in History, 4 (1997), p. 230.

159. Gorinov, ‘Muscovites’ Moods’, p. 126.

160. A. R. Dzeniskevich ‘The Social and Political Situation in Leningrad in the First Months of the German Invasion: the Social Psychology of the Workers’, in Thurston and Bonwetsch, Peopled War, pp. 77–9.

161. Bordiugov, ‘Popular Mood’, pp. 59–60.

162. Bordiugov, ‘Popular Mood’, p. 68.

163. B. Bonwetsch ‘War as a “Breathing Space”: Soviet Intellectuals and the “Great Patriotic War”’, in Thurston and Bonwetsch, People’s War, p. 146.

164. Wehrmachtsverbrechen, p. 20.

165. Lochner, Goebbels Diaries, pp. 4–5, entry for 22 January 1942.

166. Lochner, Goebbels Diaries, p. 320, entry for 25 July 1943.

167. Z. Zeman Nazi Propaganda (Oxford, 1968), pp. 165–6.

168. J. Hermand Der alte Traum von neuen Reich: Völkische Utopien und NS (Frankfurt am Main, 1988), p. 341.

169. Hermand, alte Traum von Reich, p. 342.

170. Genoud, Hitlefs Testament, p. 89.

171. P. Winterton Report on Russia (London, 1945), pp. 108–12.

172. Weiner, Making Sense of War, p. 37.