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1939,
NC A
, VII, pp. 847–54 (N.D. L–79). There is also an English translation in
DGFP
, VI, pp. 574–80. The German text is in
TMWC
, XXXVII, pp. 546–56.
    48 . For details of the plan, see N.D. NOKW-2584. This is in the
TWC
volumes [
Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
].
    49 .
NCA
, VI, pp. 926–27 (N.D. C–120).
    50 .
TMWC
, XXXIV, pp. 428–42 (N.D. C–126). The English translation of this document in
NCA
, VI, pp. 937–38, is so abbreviated that it has little value.
    51 .
NCA
, VI, p. 827 (N.D. C–23).
    52 . Text of the Anglo–French draft,
DBrFP
, V, No. 624; the British ambassador’s account of Molotov’s reaction is in the same volume, Nos. 648 and 657.
    53 . “Urgent” dispatch of May 31,
DGFP
, VI, pp. 616–17.
    54 . Dispatch of June 1,
ibid.
, pp. 624–26.
    55 .
Ibid.
, p. 547.
    56 .
Ibid.
, pp. 589–93.
    57 .
Ibid.
, p. 593.
    58 . Letter, Weizsaecker to Schulenburg, May 27, with postscript of May 30, pp. 597–98.
    59 .
Ibid.
, pp. 608–9.
    60 .
Ibid.
, pp. 618–20.
    61 .
Ibid.
, pp. 790–91.
    62 .
Ibid.
, pp. 805–7.
    63 .
Ibid.
, p. 810.
    64 .
Ibid.
, p. 813.
    65 .
DBrFP
, V, Nos. 5 and 38.
    66 .
Pravda
, June 29, 1939.
    67 . Dispatch of June 29,
DGFP
, VI, pp. 808–9.
    68 .
TMWC
, XXXIV, pp. 493–500 (N.D. C–142). It is given much more briefly in English translation in
NCA
, VI, p. 956.
    69 .
NCA
, IV, pp. 1035–36 (N.D. 2327—PS).
    70 .
NCA
, VI,’ p. 934 (N.D. C–126).
    71 . The secret minutes of the meeting of the Reich Defense Council, June 23, 1939,
NCA
, VI, pp. 718–31 (N.D. 3787–PS).
    72 .
DGFP
, VI, pp. 750, 920–21.
    73 .
Ibid.
, pp. 864–65.
    74 . Text of notes,
DGFP
, VII, pp. 4–5, 9–10.
    75 . Report of Burckhardt to the League of Nations, March 19, 1940. Text in
Documents on International Affairs, 1939–1946
, I, pp. 346–47.
    76 .
DGFP
, VI, pp. 936–38.
    77 .
Ibid.
, pp. 955–56.
    78 . Schnurre’s memo,
ibid.
, pp. 11069.
    79 .
Ibid.
, pp. 1015–16.
    80 .
Ibid.
, pp. 1022–23.
    81 .
Ibid.
, pp. 1010–11.
    82 .
Ibid.
, p. 1021.
    83 .
DBrFP
, IV, No. 183.
    84 . See
DBrFP
, VI, Nos. 329, 338, 346, 357, 358, 376, 399.
    85 .
Ibid.
,
    86 . Two dispatches of Aug. 1,
DGFP
, VI, pp. 1033–34.
    87 .
DBrFP
, Appendix V, p. 763.
    88 . Burnett’s letter in
DBrFP
, VII, Appendix II, p. 600; Seeds’s telegram,
ibid.
, VI, No. 416.
    89 .
DGFP
, VI, p. 1047.
    90 .
Ibid.
,
    91 .
Ibid.
,
    92 .
Ibid.
,
    93 .
Ibid.
,
    94 .
French Yellow Book
, Fr. ed., pp. 250–51.
    95 . Text of two letters,
DGFP
, VI, pp. 973–74.
    96 . Attolico’s dispatch on his July 6 meeting with Ribbentrop is printed in I
Documenti diplomatica italiani
[hereafter cited as
DDI
], Seventh Series, XII, No. 503. I have used the quotation and paraphrasing from
The Eve of the War
, ed. by Arnold and Veronica M. Toynbee.
    97 . Memo of Weizsaecker,
DGFP
, VI, pp. 971–72.
    98 .
The Ciano Diaries
, pp. 113–14.
    99 .
lbid.
, pp. 116–18.
    100 .
The Ciano Diaries,
pp. 118–19, 582–83. Ciano’s minutes of the meeting with Ribbentrop are in
Ciano’s Diplomatic Papers
, pp. 297–98; also in
DDI
, Eighth Series, XIII, No. 1. No German record of this meeting has been found.
    101 . The captured German minutes of the meetings on Aug. 12 and 13 were presented at Nuremberg as documents 1871–PS and TC–77. The latter is the more complete and is published in English translation in
NCA
, VIII, pp. 516–29. I have used the version signed by Dr. Schmidt, in
DGFP
, VII, pp. 39–49, 53–56. Ciano’s record of his two talks with Hitler are in
Ciano’s Diplomatic Papers
, pp. 303–4, and in
DDI
, XIII, Nos. 4 and 21. Also the entries for Aug. 12 and 13, 1939, and Dec. 23, 1943, in his
Diaries
, pp. 119–20, 582–83.
    102 . This extract from Halder’s diary is published in
DGFP
, VII, p. 556.
    103 . See
DDI
, Seventh Series, XIII, No. 28, and
DBrFP
, VI, No. 662.
CHAPTER 15
     1 . Schnurre’s memo of the meeting, taken from his dispatch to the embassy in Moscow, Aug. 14,