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100. Samuelson, Plans for Stalin’s War Machine, pp. 113–15. Offi cers continued to be investigated in the early 1930s, and party membership withdrawn. See F. Schauff ‘Company Choir of Terror: The Military Council of the 1930s – the Red Army Between the XVIIth and XVIIIth Party Congresses’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 12 (1999), pp. 136–7, 141–2.

101. Rapaport and Alexeev, High Treason, pp. 15–19.

102. Samuelson, Plans for Stalin’s War Machine, p. 114; Nichols, Sacred Cause, pp. 42–3.

103. D. Volkogonov Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (London, 1991), p. 319; C.Andrew and O. Gordievsky KGB: the Inside Story (London, 1990), p. 106.

104. S. Main The Arrest and “Testimony” of Marshal of the Soviet Union M. N. Tukhachevsky (May – June 1937)’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 10 (1997), pp. 152–5.

105. V. Rogovin 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror (Oak Park, Mich., 1998), pp. 470–82; see too L. Martens Un autre regard sur Staline (Brussels, 1994), pp. 185–90.

106. A. Resis (ed.) Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (Chicago, 1993), p. 280.

107. A. M. Nekrich Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations 1922–1941 (New York, 1997), pp. 88–9, 99–100.

108. Resis, Molotov Remembers, p. 275; Nekrich, Pariahs, Partners, p. 100; R. C. Nation Black Earth, Red Star: a History of Soviet Security Policy 1917–1991 (Ithaca, NY, 1992.), pp. 90, 96. Rykov also confi rmed a ‘plot’: see N. Leites and E. Bernant Rituals of Liquidation: the Case of the Moscow Trials (Glencoe, Ill., 1954), p. 317.

109. R. Reese Stalin’s Reluctant Soldiers: a Social History of the Red Army, 1925–1941 (Lawrence, Kans., 1996), pp. 134–46; N. M. Yakupov ‘Stalin and the Red Army’, Istoria SSSR, 5 (1991), pp. 170–2.

110. H. Deutsch Hitler and his Generals: the Hidden Crisis, January-June 1938 (Minnesota, 1974), p. 40.

111. H. Trevor-Roper Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–1944 (London, 1974), p. 633, 16 August 1942.

112. Deutsch, Hitler and his Generals, pp. 80–87, 98–104.

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2. F.Taylor (ed.) The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941 (London, 1982), p. 415.

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4. L. Lochner (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries (London, 1948), p. 18.

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