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499 Notes 1. Dilemma 1. Shirer, Berlin Diary, 21 June 1940, 420–24; Horne, To Lose a Battle, 646–47; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 298–99; TBJG, 22 June 1940. 2. TBJG, 6 June 1940; Hoffmann, Mit Hitler im Westen; Hornshøj-Møller, “The Role of ‘Produced Reality.’” 3. Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 170–72; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 299–300; TBJG, 3 July 1940. 4. Mann, “Beim Propheten,” 275. 5. Förster, “Hitler’s Decision,” 30–31; Kershaw, Fateful Choices, 56–57; Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 380–81. For the best extended assessment of Hitler’s ideology, see Jäckel, Hitler’s World View. 6. Hitler, Mein Kampf, 284–329; Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, chaps. 1–6; Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 243–46. 7. Hitler, Mein Kampf, 679; Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 244–45. 8. Jäckel and Kuhn, eds., Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen, 775; Bloxham, The Final Solution, 88; Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1:73–113; Herf, The Jewish Enemy, 2–3; Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 244–46. 9. Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 248–49, and Fateful Choices, 56–57; Förster, “Hitler ’s Decision,” 31–32; Hitler, Mein Kampf, 610–11; Müller, “Das ‘Unternehmen Barbarossa’ als wirtschaftlicher Raubkrieg,” 174. For an excellent and extended discussion of the concept of Lebensraum, see Liulevicius, War Land on the Eastern Front, 247–77. 10. For Hitler’s general views on foreign policy, see Hitler, Mein Kampf, 607–67; and Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, passim. 11. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 8–9, 138, 144–45; Hitler, Mein Kampf, 654. 12. Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, 15–27, 48–54, 99–118, 160–74; Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 247–50, and Fateful Choices, 56–57; Förster, “Hitler’s Decision,” 31–32. 13. Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris, 249–50; Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 380– 82; Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, chaps. 1–6; Zitelmann, “Zur Begründung des ‘Lebensraum’ Motivs in Hitlers Weltanschauung”; Vogelsang, “Neue Dokumente zur Geschichte der Reichswehr,” 434–36. 14. Schmidt, Hitler’s Interpreter, 158; Bauer, Jews for Sale? 37–38; Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 376. 15. Frieser, The Blitzkrieg Legend, 10, 13, 17. 16. Hitler, Mein Kampf, 126–56, 607–67; Weinberg, ed., Hitler’s Second Book, 160–74, 228–38; Förster, “Hitler’s Decision,” 33; Kershaw, Fateful Choices, 62; Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 570; Ueberschär, “Hitlers Entschluß,” 88. 500  Notes to Pages 11–21 17. Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 390–91; Treue, “Hitlers Denkschrift”; Noakes and Pridham, eds., Nazism: A History, 2:281–87; Overy, Russia’s War, 34–35. 18. Treue, “Hitlers Denkschrift”; Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 219–22 and chaps. 7–8 generally; Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 383; Overy, Russia’s War, 35. 19. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, chaps. 7–9; Deist, “The Road to Ideological War,” 374–79, 383; Geyer, “German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare,” 575, 581. See also Deist, “The Rearmament of the Wehrmacht”; and Volkmann, “The National Socialist Economy in Preparation of War.” 20. Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 571; Herf, The Jewish Enemy, chaps. 1–3. 21. Wildt, ed., Judenpolitik, 35–60; Brechtken, “Madagascar für die Juden,” 176–85, 193–94; Jansen, Der Madagaskar-Plan, 236–39, 284–85; Nicosia, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question, 109–44; Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 571–72; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 132–35; TBJG, 25 July 1938. 22. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 274–75; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 135–36; Wildt, ed., Judenpolitik, 55–57; Barkai, “Schicksalsjahr 1938,” 101. 23. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 136–39; TBJG, 9, 10 November 1938. See also Graml, Reichskristallnacht. 24. Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 573; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 150–51 (Goering quote 151). 25. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 282–83; Herf, The Jewish Enemy, 46–49; Kershaw , Hitler: Nemesis, 151–52 (Das schwarze Korps and Hitler quotes 152). 26. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, 283–84; Jersak, “Blitzkrieg Revisited,” 574– 75; Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 152–53; Domarus, ed., Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen, 2:1049, 1057. 27. Domarus, ed., Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen, 2:1057–58. 28. Kershaw, Hitler: Nemesis, 136–39. See also Fritz, Frontsoldaten, 187–218, and “‘We are trying . . . to change the face of the world.’” 29. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 12–14. See also Sven Lindqvist, “Exterminate All the Brutes”; Ehmann, “From Colonial Racism to Nazi Population Policy ”; Smith, Ideological Origins. 30. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, 15–16. See also Halder, War Diary...

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