1. NCA, VI, pp. 905–6 (N.D. C–74). The complete text in German, TMWC, XXXIV, pp. 298–302.
2. Halder Report (mimeographed, Nuremberg).
3. NCA, VI, p. 929 (N.D. C–123).
4. Ibid., p. 931 (N.D.C–124).
5. Article by Gen. Blumentritt in The Fatal Decisions, ed. by Seymour Freidin and William Richardson, p. 57.
6. Liddell Hart, The German Generals Talk, p. 147.
7. Ibid., p. 145.
8. Halder Report,
9. Heinz Guderian, Panzer Leader, pp. 159–62. The page references in this and subsequent chapters are to the Ballentine soft-cover edition.
10. Blumentritt article, loc. cit., p. 66.
11. Interrogation of Rundstedt, 1945. Quoted by Shulman, op. cit., pp. 68–69.
12. Guderian, op. cit., pp. 189–90.
13. Ibid., p. 192.
14. Ibid., p. 194.
15. Ibid., p. 191.
16. Ibid., p. 199.
17. Goerlitz, History of the German General Staff, p. 403.
18. The Goebbels Diaries, pp. 135–36.
19. Hitler’s Secret Conversations, p. 153.
20. Halder, Hitler als Feldherr, p. 45.
21. NCA, IV, p. 600 (N.D. 1961–PS).
22. Blumentritt article, loc. cit., pp. 78–79.
23. Liddell Hart, The German Generals Talk, p. 158.