Chapter 101 historical notes

The war history involved in this novel, like the novel, is true; the cited digital materials are all reliable; all the words and deeds of prominent figures are also quoted from official history, or from their similar situations. The following is a record of words and deeds.The main historical figures, the time and place of their appearance, all have historical authenticity. The book "World Massacre" by "Armin von Long" on strategy is of course a fiction throughout.However, Feng.General Long's work may represent an alternative view of the German professional soldier, limited in content by that self-justifying literature, but nevertheless reliable.The arguments cited by Long, although distorted by his deeply nationalist views, are none other than those that have been identified by Victor.Except for the part that Henry directly refuted, the rest is generally correct.

All the famous battles and events—including the Battle of Singapore, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Conference of Teheran, the offensive and defensive battles of Imphal and Leningrad, etc.—concerning their reliability, readers who are familiar with current affairs We all understand.Notes are appended below only to account of lesser known or generally obscure historical facts of the story, and those passages in which history and legend are particularly intertwined. The exploits of several fictional submarines, such as the Squid, Moray, and Barracuda, are based on actual wartime submarine patrol reports.Qatar.Esther's death was based on Howard, the commander of the US submarine "Chinfish". W. Gilmore's deeds were rewritten. Because of his sacrifice for the country, it was a sensation. Gilmore was posthumously awarded the highest congressional Medal of Honor after his death.But Esther is a fictional character.

All other naval ships in the novel are real, and their movements and battles have historical records that can be verified.All the generals in the Pacific Fleet are real people and are depicted as important political figures.Except for the stories of the two captains Hickman and Henry, the stories about the heavy cruiser "Northampton" refer to the period when the ship sailed from Pearl Harbor to its sinking in the Battle of Tassafaronga. Written in his combat diary. The names of the pilots and gunners of the three torpedo squadrons that participated in the Battle of Midway are so difficult to trace that the records were soon lost.The list contained in the novel was found after a long period of collection.More reliable information in this regard would be welcome, so that corrections can be made in reprints.

The story of "Izmir" was written with reference to the actual records of some refugees fleeing from the Nazi-occupied areas by smuggling. These people fled to Palestine like that, or died on the way. The Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, as described in this book, is a historical document; due to a bureaucratic accident, only one of its thirty copies of this top-secret minutes has survived.The discovery that a photographic copy was smuggled to the US embassy in Bern is fictional, as are the staff at the embassy. During the Great War, those Americans lost in Italy were interned in Siena as described in this book.Those who were lost in the south of France, as described in the novel, were first detained in Lourdes and then transferred to Baden-Baden; after that, the Germans put forward harsh conditions to make things difficult, delaying the war for more than a year. time to ask.

Germany.The Count and Count Chamblon were real; the Count had indeed been in charge of the American Hospital in Paris.Otto, German ambassador to Paris.Abetz is a historical figure.Werner.Baker is a fictional character. It is a historical fact that the United Nations Joint Declaration issued in December 1942 led to the Bermuda Conference.The full text of the manifesto is reproduced in the novel.Deputy Secretary of State Breckenridge.Lang is a real person, and his conversations and actions are mainly based on his own memoirs and testimony in Congress.The character Fox Davis is fictional. "The convening of the Bermuda Conference was as described in the book. How it gradually aroused public reactions and how the War Refugee Bureau was established are all facts.

In 1943 there was outcry over the Soviet Union's obstruction of Lend-Lease, largely according to Wilhelm.Written from material in the autobiography of General Standley.Let me mention here by the way that we can still see this style of the Soviet Union until today.General Yevlenko is fictional. The "Three Kingdoms Declaration on Iran" (called "Iran Declaration" in this book) is a historical document, and the general circumstances of the issuance of the declaration are also historical facts; of course, Victor Henry and the court minister Hussein. Allah's (a real person) talk is a fabrication. General Connolly at Persian Gulf Command was a real person, and Lend-Lease supplies were shipped to the USSR by that road. Granville. Seton He is a fictional character, but what he describes is the real history of Persia.

The "Jewish Paradise" of Therezin (or Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia) was already known during the war.There is nothing fictional or exaggerated about the narrative in this regard, although the roles played by Natalie and Dr. Jastrow are made up.Those SS officers and senior elders Epstein and Mermelstein, are real people.The general accounts of the ghetto are true.The "beautification campaign" organized for a visit by Red Cross observers from neutral countries, with all its bizarre details, is well documented, as is the visit itself. Fragments from the film "The Führer Grants a City to the Jews" are still preserved in the Yad-Washem Museum in Jerusalem.The shooting of the film has been described in this book, but the film has never been released.

When writing about the scene of Auschwitz (or Auschwitz), the author researched all available literature and talked to some of the survivors.These descriptions have been carefully examined and checked by eminent authorities on this dreadful subject.The truth about Auschwitz may never be fully understood, and now there is nothing left but a dead museum, hoping that those who survived Auschwitz will be able to share their memories with a person who never went. Comparing the recollections compiled by those who have been there, they can see that a serious effort has indeed been made by the author to impress upon those who were not there then the horrors of the past.

The transfer of Soviet prisoners of war from Ramsdorf to Auschwitz; cannibalism; the use of "Zyklon B" to test the function of gas killing these Soviet prisoners of war in order to massacre the Jews: all this It is true.An important source for this is postwar Rudolf.Commander Hoth's own memoir while awaiting trial.He confessed to the mass murder and was hanged at Auschwitz. With the exception of Kringle, who is fictional, the other SS officers are real.Himmler's inspection, and the whole process of him watching the use of poison gas to kill people, happened in the same way as the details described in the book, except that the real thing happened in July instead of June.The construction of the crematoriums, the general description of the welfare zone of Auschwitz, including its industrial and agricultural equipment, and the handling of captives who tried to escape, and the implementation of the so-called "Canadian" roll call, are also facts .

The 1005 Special Detachment, a German mobile force specializing in excavating mass burials and destroying corpses, is written based on historical facts.SS Colonel Paul.Blobel is a real person.The Mutpel riot was made up.The mass escape of some captives is based on a similar account of the escape of SS slaves. Barrell.Jastrow's legendary journey from Tarnopil to Prague via the Carpathian Mountains is based on several equally incredible travel accounts, in which the Jews carried photos and documents with them Etc., escaped from the death camps, crossed all of Nazi-occupied Europe, and revealed the truth to the outside world, but almost all the people he met "wouldn't believe it."The fictional partisans of Nikonov and Levine evolved from existing literature on partisans.In this description, some real guerrillas are also mentioned.

The descriptions about the manufacture of landing craft and atomic bombs are all documentary texts.At one point, there was indeed controversy over the issue of prioritizing one type of connector.Victor.Henry's interlude in this matter is of course purely fictional; Dr. Oppenheimer's trip to Oak Ridge is a fictional story; Kirby, Peters, and Anderson are all fictional characters.Dr. Oppenheimer had introduced to Oak Ridge the latest Navy method of thermal diffusion to provide sufficient charge during the electromagnetic separation procedure to make a combat Uranium-235 bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima .The plutonium bomb that bombed Nagasaki was made in the Hanford reactor.When these two bombs were dropped, there were indeed no more Manhattan Project atomic bombs available. The description of the FM sonar "Hell's Bell", and its use in the latter part of the war, is true. Generally speaking, the author's writing and purpose are to review the past deeds clearly and vividly through the personal experience, observation and feelings of a few people in the great war turmoil.In order to achieve this goal most effectively, it is necessary to try to be correct, to describe some places and events that happened in history, and use this as a background, so that the written drama can be performed against it.At least, that's my ideal for writing. Herman Walker 1962 - 1978