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NOTES TO PAGES 000–000 275 NOTES PREFACE 1. Hans Mommsen, “The Dissolution of the Third Reich: Crisis Management and Collapse, 1943–1945,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 27 (fall 2000): pp. 9–23; See also: Doris Bergen, “Death Throes and Killing Frenzies: A Response to Hans Mommsen’s ‘The Dissolution of the Third Reich: Crisis Management and Collapse , 1943–1945,’”Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 27 (fall 2000): pp. 25–37. 2. Mommsen, “Dissolution of the Third Reich,” pp. 17–19. 3. Curt Riess, “Will Goebbels Win His Goetterdaemmerung?” New York Times Magazine, February 25,1945,pp.35–36;Mommsen,“Dissolution of the ThirdReich,” pp. 17–19. 4. Stephen Kellert, In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Synamical Systems (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 3; Ilya Prigogine and Isabele Stengers, Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), passim; Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (NewYork:Simon and Schuster,1992),passim;A.B.Cambel, Applied Chaos Theory: A Paradigm for Complexity (San Diego: Academic Press,1993), pp. 3–4, 15; Friedrich Cramer, Chaos and Order: The Complex Structure of Living Systems,trans.DavidI.Loewus(NewYork:VCHPublishers,1993),pp.6–7;JudyPetree, “History of Chaos Theory,” http://www.wfu.edu/~petrejh4/HISTORYchaos.htm. Accessed and material gathered on November 2, 2001. “History of Chaos Theory,” “Order and Sustainability in Chaos,”“Deep Chaos,” and “Complexity: Self-Organization in Chaos” all in author’s possession. 5. Kellert, In the Wake of Chaos, pp. 3–8; Prigogine and Stengers, Order Out of Chaos, pp. xxvii, 189; Cambel, Applied Chaos Theory, pp. 3–4, 15; Uri Merry, Coping with Uncertainty: Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-Organization and Complexity (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1995), p. 65; Ilya Prigogine and NOTES TO PAGES 000–000 276 Gregoire Nicolis, Exploring Complexity: An Introduction (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1998), p. 218; Judy Petree, “Order and Instability in Chaos,” http://www.wfu.edu/ ~petrejh4/Instability.htm; Judy Petree, “Complexity: Self-Organization in Chaos,” http://www.wfu.edu/~petrejh4/selforg.htm. Accessed November 2, 2001. 6. Herfried Münkler, Machtzerfall: Die letzten Tage des Dritten Reiches dargestellt am Beispielder hessischenKreisstadt Friedberg (Berlin:SiedlerVerlag,1985), p. 7. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid., pp. 8–10; Karl Kunze, Kriegsende in Franken und der Kampf um Nürnberg im April 1945 (Nuremberg: Selbstverlag des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnbergs, 1995), p. 1. 9. Elke Fröhlich, “Ein junger Märtyer,” in Martin Broszat and Elke Fröhlich, ed., Bayern in der NS-Zeit, vol. 6, Die Herausforderung des Einzelnen. Geschichten über Widerstand und Verfolgung (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1983), p. 232. 10. Kunze, Kriegsende in Franken, p. 3. 1. WAITING FOR THE END 1. George Axelsson, “German Turmoil Is Reflected in Many Rumors,” New York Times Magazine, September 10, 1944, p. 3; George Axelsson, “The Nazis Still Hope for a Miracle,” New York Times Magazine, November 12, 1944, pp. 8, 44; Harry Vosser, “Hitler’s Hideaway,” New York Times Magazine, November 12, 1944, p. 36. 2. Marvin L. Meek,“Ultra and the Myth of the German ‘National Redoubt,’” (M.A. thesis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1999), ch. 3; Stephen Ambrose, The Supreme Commander (New York: Doubleday, 1970), p. 649. 3. Meek, “Ultra,” ch. 1, 3; Völkischer Beobachter, February 3, 1945, February 13, 1945, March 13, 1945, April 3, 1945, April 28, 1945; Rodney Minott, The Fortress That Never Was: The Myth of Hitler’s Bavarian Stronghold (NewYork: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1964), pp. 12, 38, 48–55, 72, 74, 141–45; Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (New York: Doubleday, 1948), p. 397; Stephen Ambrose, Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945 (New York: Norton, 1967), pp. 73–76; Charles B. MacDonald, The Last Offensive (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army, 1973), p. 407; Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953), pp. 452, 457; Kenneth Strong, Intelligence at the Top: The Recollections of an Intelligence Officer (London: Cassell, 1968), pp. 187– 88; F. Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988), pp. 713–16. 4. Minott, Fortress That Never Was, pp. 10–14; Generalmajor August Marcinkiewicz, “Report on the Alpenfestung,” Foreign Military Study B-187, pp. 1– 5, U.S. National Archives (NA), Record Group (RG) 319; General der Pionier Alfred Jacob,“Report Concerning...

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