¹ On Ribbentrop's optimism in foreign affairs, as compared with the doubts and hesitations of the professional diplomats, see Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1949, Series D, Vol. II, pp. 420, 593.

² The record of this conference-the so-called Hossbach Minutes-was first printed in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1946, III, 295 ff. In improved translation, it will be found in Documents on German Foreign Policy, Series D, Vol. I, pp. 29 ff.

³ Stolz, Otto, “Teufelsaustreibung mit Beelzebub,” Die Neue Zeitung, Nord-WestAusgabe, May 20, 1949.Google Scholar

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¹¹ Rosinski, Herbert, The German Army, Washington, Infantry Journal, 1944, p. 112.Google Scholar See also the comments in Speidel, Hans, Invasion 1944: ein Beitrag zu Rommels und des Reiches Schicksal, Tübingen and Stuttgart, 1949, p. 31.Google Scholar

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¹⁶ Writing in 1939 of the “fatal and irreparable mistakes” made by the army leaders, Hermann Rauschning said: “One of the most fundamental, whatever may have been the practical reasons for it, was the moral capitulation in face of the murder of Generals von Schleicher and von Bredow. It was a moral capitulation which has continued to breed capitulation.” The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West, New York, Longmans, Green, 1939, p. 157.

¹⁷ On this see, among others, Shulman, Milton, Defeat in the West, New York, Dutton, 1949, p. 7Google Scholaret passim; and The Goebbels Diaries 1942–43, ed. by Louis P. Lochner, New York, Doubleday, 1948, p. 288 et passim.

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