[Theobald]

Endnotes:

1. For more on Nazi occupation atrocities in the USSR, see Rhodes, Masters of Death, and Dallin, German Rule in Russia.
2. For the strongest critcism of G. F. Krivosheev's numbers and estimates, look into Boris Sokolov's writings in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, vol.9, no.1., March 1996, p.152-93.
3. Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, p.388.
4. Ibid., p.871.
5. German intelligence branch for Eastern Front.
6. Zeidler, Manfred. Die Tötungs- und Vergewaltigungsverbrechen der Roten Armee auf deutschem Boden 1944/45.
7. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago, p.21.
8. http://www.anthonybeevor.com/Berlin/cutsfour.htm.
9. http://www.anthonybeevor.com/Berlin/berlincutsone/htm.
10. McAteer, Sean.Reasons to Fight.
11. Zayas, Alfred M. de. Nemesis at Potsdam, p.61-65.
12. See Earl Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin, p. 421-433, and Christopher Duffy, Red Storm on the Reich, p. 67-124.
13. East Prussia and Silesia had a millenium of roots of both Germanic and Polish origin, but the majority of the population had been German for hundreds of years.
14. The German armed forces during WWII.
15. Duffy, p. 272.
16. Local district civilian leader.
17. McAteer, Sean. The Sack.
18. Cart or wagon pulled by horse.
19. Zayas, p.72.
20. Ibid., p.73.
21. Irving, David. Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden, p.104.
22. Beck, Earl R. Under The Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945, p.177-179.
23. German navy.
24. McAteer, Sean. Baltic Sea Action '45.
25. McAteer, Sean. The Sack.
26. Duffy, p.275.
27. Vol. 1, Documents On The Expulsion Of The Germans From Eastern-Central-Europe, p.27, Duffy, p.275.
28. Beevor, The Fall of Berlin, p.31.
29. Ibid, p.326.
30. Seaton, Albert. The Russo-German war, p.545.
31. Beck, p. 176.
32. Vol. 1, p.51.
33. Seaton, p.545.
34. Beevor, p.31.
35. Ibid., p.65, p.67.
36. Ibid., p.410.
37. Ibid.
38. Zayas, p.67-68.
39. Vol. 1, p.50.
40. Beck, p.176.
41. Ibid., p.53.
42. Ibid.
43. Zayas, p.66.
44. Zeidler, Manfred. Die Tötungs- und Vergewaltigungsverbrechen der Roten Armee auf deutschem Boden 1944/45.
45. Beevor, p.30.
46. McAteer, Sean. The Sack.
47. Vol. 1, p.74.
48. Ibid., p.85.
49. Ibid., p.86.
50. Ibid., p. 89.
51. Ibid., p. 108-109.
52. Ibid., p.65.
53. Ibid., p.68.
54. Zayas, p.70.
55. Ibid.
56. Vol. 1, p.62.
57. Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: A History, p.432.
58. Appendix 1.
59. "McAteer, Sean. May 1945.
60. Vol. IV, Documents On The Expulsion Of The Germans From Eastern-Central-Europe, p.3.
61. McAteer, Sean. Bohemia-Moravia, May 1945.
62. Duffy, p.282-283.
63. Vol. IV, p.66.
64. Hausner, Hennine. May 17, 1945: The Day I Will Never Forget.
65. Vol. IV, p.68.
66. Ibid., p.86.
67. Zayas, p.119.
68. Ibid., p.129.
69. Appendix 2.
70. Ibid.

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All chapters cited are part of complete work entitled 500 Days; 1944 and 1945 on the Eastern Front in the Second World War by Dr. Sean M. McAteer, privately published, copyright pending.