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201 Notes Introduction 1. See Arnold Krammer, “American Treatment of German Generals during World War II,” Journal of Military History 54 (January 1990): 27–46, for the only study of German prisoner-of-war generals in the United States. 2. War Diary, May 1943, WO 165/41, the National Archives of the United Kingdom , Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom (hereafter TNA). 3. Richard B. Speed III, Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990), 98–100. 4. Ibid., 101–3. 5. Ibid., 31, 105. 6. For more on the United States serving as a protecting power during the First World War, see Speed, Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War. 7. Ibid., 123–26. 8. Ibid., 126–35. 9. Ibid., 156. 10. Ibid., 138. 11. Matthew Barry Sullivan, Thresholds of Peace: Four Hundred Thousand German Prisoners and the People of Britain, 1944–1948 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979), 219–20. 12. F. H. Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1991), 2:32–51; War Diary, April 1943, WO 165/41, TNA. 13. Letter from P. H. Gore-Booth, March 14, 1944, FO 916/886, TNA. 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid.; Sullivan, Thresholds of Peace, 22. 17. CSDIC reports of interrogations and conversations between the German prisoner-of-war generals are housed in the Records of the War Office: Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, and Directorate of Military Intelligence; Ministry of Defense, Defense Intelligence Staff: Files (WO 208) at the National Archives of the United Kingdom; duplicate copies of some of the reports can be found in the files 202 Notes to Pages 7–12 of the U.S. War Department’s General and Special Staffs at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland. 18. Letter from P. H. Gore-Booth, March 14, 1944, FO 916/886, TNA; War Diary, November 1943, WO 165/41, TNA. 19. For an examination of the German officer corps, see Karl Demeter, The German Officer-Corps in Society and State 1650–1945 (New York: Praeger, 1965). 20. The last publicly accessible rank list for the World War II German Army is dated May 1, 1944. See Nikolaus V. Preradovich, “Die militärische und soziale Herkunft der hohen Generalität des deutschen Heeres am 1. Mai 1944,” Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau 20, no. 1 (1970): 44. 21. Ibid., 45–55. 22. Ibid.; Nikolaus V. Preradovich, Die militärische und soziale Herkunft der Generalit ät des deutschen Heeres, 1. Mai 1944 (Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag, 1978), 43, 51. 23. George A. Kourvetaris and Betty A. Dobratz, Social Origins and Political Orientations of Officer Corps in a World Perspective (Denver: University of Denver, 1973), 2–4, 21–22, 60. 24. Correlli Barnett, Britain and Her Army, 1509–1970: A Military, Political and Social Survey (London: Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 1970), 487–88; P. E. Razzell, “Social Origins of Officers in the Indian and British Home Army: 1758–1962,” British Journal of Sociology 14 (September 1963): 253. 25. Garry D. Ryan and Timothy K. Nenninger, eds., Soldiers and Civilians: The U.S. Army and the American People (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1987), 7. 26. Edward M. Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898–1941 (Cambridge , MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004), 50, 288; Kourvetaris and Dobratz, Social Origins and Political Orientations, 60. 27. Russell F. Weigley, Towards an American Army: Military Thought from Washington to Marshall (New York: Columbia University Press, 1962), 6. 28. Russell F. Weigley, The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 81. 29. Charles Robert Kemble, “Mutations in America’s Perceptions of Its Professional Military Leaders: An Historical Overview and Update,” Armed Forces and Society (prepublished April 4, 2007): 6–8, doi:10.1177/0095327X06293862, accessed via OnlineFirst, http://afs.sagepub.com; see also Charles Robert Kemble, The Image of the Army Officer in America (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973). 30. Kemble, “Mutations in America’s Perceptions,” 8–9; George MacMillan, “A Decade of War Novels: The Accent Has Been Political,” New York Times Book Review, December 1951, 235. 31. Andreas F. Lowenfeld, “The Free Germany Committee: An Historical Study,” Review of Politics 14, no. 3 (July 1952), 346–66. See also Bodo Scheurig, Free Germany : The National Committee and the League of German Officers (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1969). [18.118...

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