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missing is a study of the French ZOF: John Young’s France, the Cold War and the Western Alliance (Leicester and London 1990) is not really that, because it is more concerned with foreign policy than with administration. There is no book in French either, where the literature is largely confined to the cultural achievements of the French occupation.
    Nor is there much on Austria. The standby is Gordon Brook-Shepherd’s Austrocentric The Austrians - A Thousand Year Odyssey (London 1996), which explains the political background to the State Treaty, but does not offer much on the events of April 1945. The best source in English is probably Reinhold Wagnleitner, ed., Understanding Austria (Salzburg 1984), a compilation of the reports filed by the American OSS man Martin Herz. Mark Clark’s account, Calculated Risk (London 1956), was written at the height of the Cold War, and it shows.
    There is a similar lack of documentation in English on events in Czechoslovakia. The best remains Alfred M. de Zayas’s Nemesis at Potsdam (London 1979). All the rest is in German. For a few pages of Czech perspective, see Zbynek Zeman and Antonin Klimek, The Life of Edvard Beneš 1884-1948 (Oxford 1997).
    De Zayas also provides material on the events in the Prussian east. Count Hans Lehndorf ’s unbelievably moving East Prussian Diary was published in English in 1963. It should be reissued. We also possess Christian von Krockow’s Hour of the Women (London 1991), which charts the fortunes of his sister Libussa in Pomerania.
    Two books record the fates of individual cities: Danzig is covered by Chris Tighe’s Gdansk - National Identity in the Polish-German Borderlands (London and Concord 1990), and Breslau’s fate is recounted in Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse (London 2002).
    The anonymous Woman in Berlin (London 1965) is a graphic account of the Russian arrival in the city. There is also an abridged edition of Ursula von Kardorff’s Diary of a Nightmare (London 1965). The most recent German edition, however, has restored the full text. Wolfgang Leonhard’s Child of the Revolution was translated by C. M. Woodhouse (London 1979) and is the standard account of the arrival of the Moscow-based German communists.
    There are a few serious American studies of denazification: James F. Tent’s Mission on the Rhine (Chicago and London 1982) and Timothy R. Vogt’s Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany (Cambridge, Mass. and London 2000). The most relaxed account of denazification is George Clare’s Berlin Days (London 1989). On individual cases Brigitte Hamann’s Winifred Wagner - At the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth (London 2005) is highly recommended.
    For the pursuit and conviction of Nazi war criminals there is an emotional account by Tom Bower ( Blind Eye to Murder , London 1981). R. T. Paget’s argument in Manstein - His Campaigns and his Trial (London 1951) is still cogent. G. M. Gilbert’s Nuremberg Diary (New York 1947) is another old book that has its uses. There are also the translated memoirs of the Nazis who served custodial terms: Speer (1976) and Papen (1952), as well as Peter Padfield’s life of Hess (1995) and lives of Göring by David Irving (1989) and Willy Frischauer (1950). Frank M. Buscher’s US War Crimes Trial Program in Germany (New York, Westport and London 1989) presents an academic approach. On the treatment of POWs there is nothing in English, and the leading American expert - Arthur L. Smith - publishes in German. The best there is can be found in Ernst von Saloman’s highly coloured account of his own imprisonment: The Answers (London 1954).
    Robert H. Abzug gives details of the grisly discovery of the inner workings of the camps in his Inside the Vicious Heart (New York and Oxford 1985), as does Brewster Chamberlin and Marcia Feldman’s The Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Washington DC 1987), to which he provides an introduction. Ben Shepherd’s