‘the political crisis in the …’, Goebbels diaries, 1.12.44, TBJG II/14, 305
‘We have all been …’, SS Standartenführer Lingner, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1211
‘The only thing …’, Generalleutnant Heim, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4364 GRGG 220
‘What a filthy trick!’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1210
‘There were many comments …’, Warlimont, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3151
Dietrich refuses Kruse, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4178 GRGG 330 (c)
‘was not commanded as one formation …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4178 GRGG 330 (c)
‘Objectives, objectives! …’, TNA WO 231/30
‘a people’s general’, ibid.
Questionnaire after 20 July, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1199
‘and then give the English …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/5541 SIR 1425
‘The Führer has ordered …’, FMS B-823
‘There was nothing but …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1187
‘Germany’s last reserves …’, ibid.
‘Only two pilots …’, ibid.
‘who was heavily …’, ‘Success or failure …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3662
‘the entire offensive had not more …’, Heydte, FMS B-823
‘an old non-commissioned …’, ibid.
‘All that was known …’, ibid.
‘We’ll annihilate them,’ CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1167
‘a highly overstrung …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/5541 SIR 1425
‘Skorzeny, this next …’, Skorzeny’s account to his officers, NARA RG 407 ML 2279
‘typical evil Nazi’, Heydte to Leutnant von Trott zu Solz, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1182
‘a real dirty dog …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4178 GRGG 301
‘order from the Reichsführer’, SS-Untersturmführer Schreiber, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1259
‘Everything I know …’, Mobile Field Interrogation Unit No. 1, NARA RG 407 ML 2279
‘decisive effect on …’, ibid.
Leutnant zur See Müntz, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3619
‘with the fork …’, Mobile Field Interrogation Unit No. 1, NARA RG 407 ML 2279
‘emphasized that the …’, ibid.
‘conspicuous friendship’, Schreiber, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1259
‘he was our pirate captain’, Hans Post, One Man in his Time, Sydney, 2002, 167
‘according to the German radio …’, Leutnant Günther Schultz, captured Liège 19.12.44, Mobile Field Interrogation Unit No. 1, NARA RG 407 ML 2279
150th Panzer-Brigade, ‘Ardennes Offensive’, Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, ETHINT 12
Skorzeny and plans for Basle, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/5543 SIR 1673
SHAEF and plan to go through Switzerland, NARA RG 407 270/65/7/2, Box 19124 ML 754
Trains needed for Ardennes offensive, TNA WO 231/30
‘was already seeing in his mind’s eye …’, Nicolaus von Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant, 1937–1945, Mainz, 1980, 396
‘Is your army ready?’, SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich, ETHINT 16
Hitler’s speech, HLB, 535–40
‘the worst prepared …’, Dietrich, ETHINT 16.
Divisions remove insignia, 116th Panzer-Division, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3628
Peiper’s orders, 14.12.44, Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper, ETHINT 10
‘In twelve or fourteen …’, Gefreiter Unruh, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3611 SIR 1408
‘an extraordinary optimism …’, SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Harmel, 10th SS Panzer-Division Frundsberg, FMS P-109f
‘the fighting spirit …’, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS P-109e
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‘pathetically alone’, etc., 6.12.44, CBHD, Box 5
‘If we were fighting …’, ibid.
‘Victory or Siberia!’, John S. D. Eisenhower, The Bitter Woods, New York, 1970, 200
‘sledgehammer blows …’, 7.12.44, CBHD
‘Field Marshal Montgomery …’, ‘Notes of Meeting at Maastricht on 7.12.1944’, Sidney H. Negrotto Papers, Box 4, USAMHI
‘all operations north …’, ibid.
‘I think only Attila …’, PP, 576
‘This is General Patton …’, James H. O’Neill, former Third Army chaplain, ‘The True Story of the Patton Prayer’, Leadership, No. 25
‘Well, Padre …’, ibid.
Eberbach conversation, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4364 GRGG 220
‘the big offensive …’, Leutnant von der Goltz (St./Gren-Rgt 1039), CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4139 SRM 1083
German deserter, CMH SC, 363
‘Germany’s crippling shortage …’, TNA CAB 106/1107
‘the enemy’s present practice …’, CMH SC, 365
‘aware of the danger’, Strong, letter of 31.8.51, quoted ibid.
‘as a Christmas present for the Führer’, CMH SC, 370
‘Hitler’s orders for setting up …’, ‘Indications of the German Offensive of December 1944’, dated 28.12.44, ‘C’ to Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, TNA HW 13/45
‘as soon as replenishing …’, BAY/XL 152, TNA HW 13/45
‘The GAF [Luftwaffe] evidence shows …’, etc., ‘Indications of the German Offensive of December 1944’, 28.12.44, ‘C’ to Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, TNA HW 13/45
‘a little startling …’, ‘Ever since …’, ibid.
‘quiet paradise …’, ‘The Ardennes’, CSI Battlebook 10-A, May 1984
‘The steady traffic …’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War: Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian, Lexington, KY, 2001, 250
Evacuation of eastern cantons, Peter Schrijvers, The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge, Lexington, KY, 2005, 12
Elections and Rucksackdeutsche, ibid., 7–8
‘The bloody Heinies!’, Louis Simpson, Selected Prose, New York, 1989, 117
‘La Dietrich was bitching’, 8.12.44, CBHD
‘a good part of the afternoon’, 13.12.44, PWS
‘It is now certain that attrition …’, TNA CAB 106/1107
12th Army Group short of 17,581 men, NARA RG 498 UD603, Box 3
‘We think he is spread …’, etc., 15.12.44, CBHD
‘GI’s in their zest …’, Omar N. Bradley, A Soldier’s Story, New York, 1964, 428
‘German manpower …’, John Buckley, Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, London, 2013, 259
‘My men were amazed …’, Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander, New York, 2002, 78
‘It has been very quiet …’, Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy, St. Vith: Lion in the Way: The 106th Infantry Division in World War II, Washington, DC, 1949, 15–16
‘Dear Ruth …’, captured letter translated 19 December, headquarters 1st Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 2
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German artillery targeting houses, V Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1455
Manderfeld, Peter Schrijvers, The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge, Lexington, KY, 2005, 14
‘a World War I concept …’, Manteuffel, Fifth Panzer Army, ETHINT 46
‘a significant obstacle …’, ‘The Ardennes’, CSI Battlebook 10-A, May 1984
‘that surprise had been …’, Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, ETHINT 51
‘If in places …’, Charles P. Roland, 99th Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 4
‘They might at least …’, John S. D. Eisenhower, The Bitter Woods, New York, 1970, 229
Lanzerath engagement, letter from Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Kriz, 394th Infantry; and letter from Lyle J. Bouck, 19 January 1983, CBMP, Box 4
‘Hold at all costs!’, Eisenhower, Bitter Woods, 188
‘to push through rapidly …’, Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper, 1st SS Panzer-Regiment, ETHINT 10
‘shouting that they were …’, Adolf Schür, Lanzerath, CBMP, Box 6
‘They might just as well …’, Peiper, ETHINT 10
‘We pulled our jeep …’, FO, C Battery, 371st FA Bn, 99th Infantry Division, Richard H. Byers Papers, Box 1, USAMHI
br /> ‘There were fellows …’, Standartenführer Lingner, 17th SS Pzg-Div, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1205
‘At 06.00 the Germans …’, ‘Defense of Höfen’, Infantry School Quarterly, July 1948, CBMP, Box 4
‘On the K Company front …’, CBMP, Box 4
‘We administered plasma …’, Harry S. Arnold, E Company, 393rd Infantry, 99th Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 4
Nervous breakdown and self-inflicted injuries, Charles P. Roland, 99th Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 4
‘The American Army never retreats!’, Sidney Salins, CBMP, Box 4
Volksgrenadier divisions and artillery, General der Artillerie Kruse, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4178 GRGG 330 (c)
‘just a local diversion’, NARA RG 407 270/65/7/2 ML 2280
‘05.15: Asleep in …’, etc., Matt F. C. Konop, diary, 2nd Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 2
‘local enemy action’, ibid.
‘They turned searchlights …’, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1455
28th Infantry Division and artillery, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1463
‘Ten Germans will be reported …’, 28th Infantry Division, ibid.
‘on the morning of the …’, 112th Infantry Regiment, NARA RG 498 290/56/5/2, Box 3
‘nearly destroyed’, Generalmajor Siegfried von Waldenburg, 116th Panzer-Division, FMS A-873
‘was the fact that …’, Generalmajor Heinz Kokott, ‘26th Volksgrenadier Division in the Ardennes Offensive’, FMS B-040
‘willing but inept’, etc., Major Frank, battalion commander, III/13th Fallschirmjäger, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4140 SRM 1148, and WO 208/5540 SIR 1375
‘a very ambitious, reckless soldier …’, Heydte, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/5541 SIR 1425
‘der Schlächter von Cassino’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3611
Crossing the Our, ‘Ardennes Offensive of Seventh Army’, FMS A-876
‘We are here!’, ‘The Ardennes’, CSI Battlebook 10-A, May 1984
Lauterborn, ibid.
‘It was the towns and road junctions …’, ibid.
‘God, I just want to see …’, 16.12.44, CBHD
‘The room, with two …’, ibid.
‘Tell him that Ike …’, Eisenhower, Bitter Woods, 266
‘That broke our hearts …’, William R. Desobry Papers, USAMHI
‘looks like the real thing’, PP, 595
‘It reminds me very much …’, PP, 596
‘Hodges [is] having a bit …’, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI
‘very conscientious …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/5541 SIR 1444
‘new and nervous’, ibid.
‘an utter failure’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3628
‘pitifully small …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/5541 SIR 1444
‘German People, be confident!’, TNA WO 171/4184
‘We will win …’, ibid.
‘We heard a siren-like …’, Arthur S. Couch, ‘An American Infantry Soldier in World War II Europe’, unpublished memoir, private collection
Order to 2nd Division, Major William F. Hancock, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 2
‘the decisive role …’, Peiper, ETHINT 10
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‘Say, Konop, I want you …’, Matt F. C. Konop, diary, 2nd Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 2
‘had had the hell knocked out …’, Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander, New York, 2002, 82–3
‘The snow around …’, ibid.
‘Owing to the wretched condition …’, General der Waffen-SS H. Priess, I SS Panzer Corps, FMS A-877
Peiper’s Kampfgruppe in Honsfeld, Peter Schrijvers, The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge, Lexington, KY, 2005, 35–6
Nazi civilian in Büllingen, ibid., 35
Fifty American prisoners shot at Büllingen, CMH Ardennes, 261
254th Engineer Battalion, V Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1455
26th Infantry, CBMP, Box 2
‘I think the war …’, Gefreiter W.P., 17.12.44, BfZ-SS
‘I will never move backwards …’, etc., 17.12.44, CBHD
‘the last air-raid …’, Ralph Ingersoll, Top Secret, London, 1946, 194
‘whether 12th Army Group …’, First Army diary, quoted D. K. R. Crosswell, Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith, Lexington, KY, 2010, 810
‘The Army Group commander called …’, Gaffey Papers, USAMHI
‘a diversion for a larger …’, ‘everything depends …’, 17.12.44, GBP
Kampfgruppe Heydte, Oberstleutnant von der Heydte, ETHINT 75
106th on 16–17 December, CMH Ardennes, 156–7
‘great bear of a man’, John S. D. Eisenhower, The Bitter Woods, New York, 1970, 280
‘Air Resupply to Isolated Units, Ardennes Campaign’, OCMH, Feb. 1951, typescript, CMH 2-3.7 AE P
Devine’s combat fatigue, ‘Report of Investigation, Action of 14th Cavalry Group on Occasion of German Attack Commencing on 16 Dec. 1944’, 29.1.45, First Army IG NARA RG 338 290/62/05/1–2
‘When I told him …’, General der Panzertruppe Horst Stumpff, ETHINT 61
‘I expected the right-hand …’, NARA RG 407 270/65/7/2 ML 2280
‘It was a case of …’, Major Donald P. Boyer, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, RWHP, Box 1
‘panic stricken soldiers …’, AAR, 7th AD Artillery, RWHP, Box 1
‘the continuous stream of …’, RWHP, Box 1
‘The build-up of a defensive …’, ibid.
‘herded together …’, ‘Immediate publicity …’, 17.12.44, PWS
‘took the breath away from …’, 18.12.44, CBHD
‘What utter madness …’, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/5516
Werbomont reprisals in September, Schrijvers, Unknown Dead, 40
Kampfgruppe Peiper at Stavelot, Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper, 1st SS Panzer-Regiment, ETHINT 10
Dogfight over Wahlerscheid, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry, CBMP, Box 2
‘Against this demoralizing picture …’, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 2
‘screaming among the enemy’, ibid.
‘In heavy and close combat …’, ‘The Ardennes’, CSI Battlebook 10-A, May 1984
‘One enemy soldier …’, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry, CBMP, Box 2
‘plunged through the thickly …’, ‘I felt like …’, MacDonald, Company Commander, 97, 100
‘The Germans had sent him …’, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 2
‘the crews were picked off …’, ibid.
‘a mediocre division with no …’, General der Infanterie Baptist Kniess, LXXXV Corps, ETHINT 40
‘A group of men nearby …’, 28th Infantry Division, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1463
German infiltration of Clervaux, interview Joseph Maertz, Clervaux, 22.8.81, CBMP, Box 6
‘sitting in his …’, and defence of Clervaux, ‘The Breakthrough to Bastogne’, vol. ii, Clervaux, typescript, n.d., CMH, 8-3.1 AR
‘If you’re a Jewish …’, Roger Cohen, ‘The Lost Soldiers of Stalag IX-B’, New York Times Magazine, 27.2.2005
Jean Servé, Clervaux, CBMP, Box 6
‘rolled headlong …’, ‘The Ardennes’, CSI Battlebook 10-A
‘The G-2 estimate tonight’, 17.12.44, PWS
XLVII Panzer Corps, Lüttwitz, XLVII Panzer Corps, ETHINT 41
‘to advance as rapidly …’, Kniess, ETHINT 40
‘All I know of the situation …’, NARA RG 407 270/65/8/2 ML 130
‘most of them, to hear them tell it …’, Louis Simpson, Selected Prose, New York, 1989, 134
‘As we walked through …’, Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower’s Six Great Decisions, London, 1956, 103
‘There’s been a complete …’, Stanley Weintraub, Eleven Days in December, New York, 2006, 54–5
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‘yells, catcalls and many …’, NARA RG 498, 290/56/5/2, Box 3
‘cumbersome’, etc., NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3,
Box 1455
‘tanks knocked out of action …’, V Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1455
‘When the Battalion assembled …’, CBMP, Box 2
‘it was artillery …’, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division, CBMP, Box 2
Battalion commander relieved, CO, 2nd Bn, 394th Inf., NARA RG 407, E 427-A (270/65/4/7)
‘Trojan Horse trick’, CBMP, Box 2
‘A tank was observed …’, V Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1455
‘The bayonet was …’, ‘gunners, drivers, assistant drivers …’, ibid.
‘saw a soldier silhouetted …’, Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander, New York, 2002, 103
‘observed a Mark VI …’, V Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1455
‘man from another outfit’, ibid.
‘None of them got away’, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry, 2nd Division, CBMP, Box 2
‘But I’ve a rendezvous …’, FO, C Battery, 371st FA Bn, 99th Infantry Division, Richard Henry Byers, ‘Battle of the Bulge’, typescript, 1983
‘It is dangerous at any time …’, V Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1455
Attack on Stavelot, Peiper, 1st SS Panzer-Regiment, ETHINT 10
Evacuation of fuel, CMH Ardennes, 667
‘General, if you don’t get out …’, J. Lawton Collins, SOOHP, USAMHI
‘The situation is rapidly deteriorating’, 18.12.44, PWS
‘He says that the situation …’, William H. Simpson Papers, Box 11, USAMHI
‘American flags, pictures of the President …’, 21.12.44, PWS
‘Hell, when this fight’s over …’, John S. D. Eisenhower, The Bitter Woods, New York, 1970, 303
‘it would have been a simple …’, Peiper, ETHINT 10
‘in their winter clothing …’, Louis Simpson, Selected Prose, New York, 1989, 134
‘How many teams …’, NARA RG 407 270/65/8/2 ML 130
Tensions in XLVII Panzer Corps, Kokott, FMS B-040
‘The long resistance of Hosingen …’, Generalmajor Heinz Kokott, 26th Volksgrenadier-Division, FMS B-040
‘arrived too late …’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, FMS A-942
The defence of Wiltz, ‘The Breakthrough to Bastogne’, typescript, n.d., CMH 8-3.1 AR
‘Panzer Lehr, with their barrels …’, Bayerlein, FMS A-942