You were ten

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You were ten is an adventure and war novel by Heinz G. Konsalik from 1979 , set in the Soviet Union against the backdrop of World War II . The book is about an attack by a command group of selected paratroopers on Stalin , based on the historical company Zeppelin .

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In the summer of 1944, the Canaris Defense Department made the decision to kill Stalin and thereby turn the war around. Ten German officers are selected for the "Wildgänse" company, all of whom speak Russian and are supposed to adopt a new identity. They are trained for this mission in a hard training and finally dropped off with a parachute, separated from each other, in front of Moscow . The men are supposed to mingle with the people there, then invade the Kremlin unnoticed and carry out an attack on Stalin there. But this has used three doppelgangers and can thus escape the attack. All but four people were killed in the commandos.

Blurb

“ The most daring commando of World War II. On a June night in 1944, ten German officers of Baltic origin jump from a Dornier machine near Moscow. Your mission: to penetrate the Kremlin and eliminate Stalin. A fascinating novel about a documentary, heroic and senseless adventure full of tragedy . "

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The general story begins in 1978 with the relocation of the Boranov family from Moscow to Germany . The family man Kyrill Semjonowitsch Boranow is of German descent and was a captain in the Wehrmacht during the war . His real identity is Asgard Kuehenberg. Because of his past, he was forced to spend ten years in the Siberian Kolpocheva labor camp, Narym labor district . He was also interrogated and tortured several times by the KGB . Before they leave, they are questioned by a Soviet commissioner. He expresses his complete contempt for the fact that they voluntarily want to leave " Mother Russia ", declares that this departure is final and that they will never be allowed to re-enter the Soviet Union afterwards, but in the end hands them their exit papers. Kyrill Semjonowitsch Boranow had a well-paid job as a tram inspector and could afford a life of modest prosperity for his family. But in old age he longs more and more for his old home. His wife Lyra is Muscovite and his children were born in Russia . But her decision is irrevocable. The Boranow family will travel to Camp Friedland via Bebra , Göttingen . The 62-year-old Kuehenberg finally wants to be free again and has given Cologne as the relocation address , where a former comrade, First Lieutenant Willy Hecht lives. In the Friedland camp, Kuehenberg is intercepted by Captain Heinz Wildeshagen, an official of the BND , and questioned about a secret Wehrmacht operation, the company "Wildgänse". At the beginning, Kuehenberg reacts indignantly to being repeatedly asked about his past. A story with which he has long since finished. Wildeshagen enables the family to stay at the Cologne luxury hotel Blum, transfers DM 5,000 to the family, which has hardly any financial means, and takes Kuehenberg to Hardthöhe in Bonn , where he is already expected. Before that, they take a break on the autobahn and Kuehenberg wants to test the new freedom in a provocative way by shouting in public " Chancellor Schmidt is an asshole!" To his great surprise, he was neither beaten up by the population nor arrested by a secret service . Since then he has been aware that he has taken the right step by emigrating to a western country. The Kuehenberg family is deeply impressed by the affluent society .

The host on the Hardthöhe is his old friend Willy Hecht, who has meanwhile been promoted to lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr . Hecht wants to know everything about "wild geese". When it came to dealing with the history of the Third Reich and the Wehrmacht's past, the “Wild Geese” operation has remained a mystery until now. All personnel files from this time have disappeared. The search reports that had been sent by the DRK since 1946 were also unsuccessful. His question aims at the story and fate of the ten men who were dropped off at ten places outside Moscow 34 years ago. Kuehenberg reveals to him that not all ten perished, but that four of them still live in Russia under false identities. While maintaining a certain degree of secrecy, Kuehenberg promises his old friend to tell her story.

The actual action begins in 1944.

Lieutenant Radek fights in a section of the front near Pleskau. It is a miserable sector and anonymous death rages around it. His company has to hide from Soviet snipers in holes in the ground. Daily kindled minor skirmishes with enemy raiding parties . The hope of an early evasion into a rearward catching position does not completely collapse morale. Then Radek received the order from OKW to move to Eberswalde near Berlin immediately .

Oberleutnant von Ranowski is deployed in a section near Orsha in which there is currently heavy partisan activity. His job is to protect the vital runway against further acts of sabotage. von Ranowski experienced the war at its worst. It is a cruel slaughter on both sides. The civilian population is doing very badly and starving. The Red Army calls on women to engage in sexual intercourse with the occupiers for their “fatherland” (“Always remember: This is a sacrifice for the fatherland! [...] You can wash it off afterwards, everything can be washed off, dear comrades, it does not penetrate the soul. It's only the skin. Your brothers give their life ... what is your sacrifice on the other hand? "), so that you can kill them better in an unprotected moment. He himself is reluctant to shoot women and children at night who attach explosive charges to the railroad tracks. Since v. Ranowski the order to march to Eberswalde.

Lieutenant Solbreit, the self-proclaimed "swamp king" is in a kind of "guerrilla war" in the hostile environment of the Pripjet swamps. Here the war is different from other places on the Eastern Front . Instead of tank battles, hand-to-hand combat dominates the swampy ground . In the dense, inaccessible vegetation, it is a kind of "jungle war" against an invisible enemy who usually strikes surprisingly from an ambush. After a patrol in the watercourses, Solbreit is ordered to Eberswalde.

Lieutenant von Baldenow is the deputy commander of the cavalry regiment 2 "Öseler Hussars". v. Baldenow is a war hero of tank destruction. With the PAK he shot down nine Soviet T-34s and is thus a candidate for the Knight's Cross . For him, however, it was not about heroism, but about sheer survival. During his home leave in East Prussia , he recovers from the stresses and strains of everyday life at the front and enjoys numerous sexual escapades with aristocratic free girls on his forest rides. Then he has to take the fastest route to Eberswalde.

Lieutenant Poltmann is injured with a light rump shot in the hospital on the stage of Mogilew and is adored by the nurses because of his blond curly hair. He enjoys his strong erotic attraction to the "carbolic mice", " lightning girls ", news workers and nurses, with whom he has achieved a certain fame. He is flown to Eberswalde by plane.

Lieutenant Adler, a lover of classical music , is very lucky, unlike many of his comrades, and is deployed in extremely quiet Norway , where there is hardly any hostility and where he can lounge undisturbed, fish salmon, sunbathe and enjoy the paradisiacal nature in the Sauda Fjord. Until he has to leave for Eberswalde.

Captain Kuehenberg has been awarded the German Cross in Gold for special bravery and is celebrated for it by his family on Gut Thernauen in Livonia , Latvia , near Dünaburg . His father Elmfried is particularly proud of him and during a home leave he is "passed around" at various social receptions of the landed gentry . Asgard warns his father of an imminent offensive. But he doesn't want to know anything about it and sees his place on the agricultural estate and his Trakehner breeding . Only a few weeks later he was killed with a rifle butt by a Red Army soldier. Asgar has long been in Eberswalde and is inaugurated into the “Wildgänse” company.

A scouting group led by Lieutenant Semper commandeered a pig from poor farmers near the "front nose of Kovel ". It is an area with also strong partisan activity and the population is fighting against starvation. The soldiers at the front feel great contempt for the well-fed soldiers in the stage. Before the pig is slaughtered, however, Semper has to go to a special company in Germany.

The knight's cross bearer, Major von Labitz, celebrates the birth of his ancestor, Heiko von Labitz, in Tiraspol in his distant home. To this end, he invites officers from several battalions and the division commander for a sumptuous meal. Then he has to follow an order from the OKW and go to Eberswalde immediately. He never gets to see his son Heiko.

Ensign Dallburg is the youngest, the "Benjamin", the "Ten". He serves in France with the 914 regiment of the 352nd Infantry Division. The only “danger” currently in quiet France is to get infected with gonorrhea . Dallberg falls in love with the occasional prostitute Gabrielle, is practically dragged out of her bed and has to report to Eberswalde.

Little by little the ten officers arrive at the officers' riding school in Eberswalde. The company is run by Colonel von Renneberg and Lieutenant Colonel Hansekamm. Before that, Renneberg and the chief of the OKW, Field Marshal Keitel , had a meeting with Hitler in Wolfsschanze and there obtained clearance for the secret Reich matter. According to its own account, it will be “the largest and riskiest enterprise of the war”. The ten officers have officially disappeared from their units, are pronounced dead and their personal files destroyed. There are no written records or notes on this secret operation. The OKW hopes that the liquidation of Stalin will paralyze Russia and prevent a total collapse of the German war front “at the last minute”. Not even Himmler and Bormann are informed of this operation. Meanwhile, on June 6, 1944, the invasion of Normandy took place and the focus was no longer on the Eastern Front.

Nonetheless, the preparations for "wild geese" continue with increased urgency. The ten officers are prepared for the commando operation using high-resolution aerial photographs and a map of Moscow and the surrounding area. All participants in “Wild Geese” speak Russian like their mother tongue and must adopt Russian identities to camouflage themselves. They are given Russian uniforms and papers and have to spend three days in a Russian officers' camp in Frankfurt an der Oder . They also have to memorize their new vita, as all papers will be destroyed. The preparation is a race against time, as the feared Soviet summer offensive could begin at any moment. Stalin is supposed to die at the precise moment when the Red Army is still full of confidence in victory. Milda Ifanowa Kabakowa is introduced to the ten men. She is their agent leader and contact person in Moscow, waiting at 19 Lesnaya Ulitsa for those who should get through. According to the rules of probability , at least two should get through. Milda is a downright “ sex bomb ” and the ten sexually starved officers react to her presence like pubescent high school students. You go through the aerial photographs and the large map of Moscow with Milda . The preparation continues with jump training for paratroopers . From the diving platform and from a Junkers Ju 52 . Milda is the first to be parachuted down. She survived, but her plane was probably shot down by a Soviet night fighter on the return flight . The ten men are assigned their drop zone: Selkin - Uvarowa / Moshaisk (Можайск); Bunurian - Maximowo; Petrovsky - Kostewo; Germanovich - Kolchugino (Кольчугино) / Alexandrov (Алекса́ндров); Ivanov - Dubna (Дубна́); Kraskin - Stupino (Ступино); Boranov - Vjerjejo; Tarski - lataschino; Sassonov - Yegorievsk (Его́рьевск); Pleiin - Pereslavl- Zalessky (Переславль-Залесский). They drink Crimean champagne and play balalaika . von Labitz writes a farewell letter to his wife and newborn son. Then he burns it.

Colonel von Renneberg hands the "wild geese" cyanide capsules so that if they are arrested they can avoid interrogation by suicide. The commandos got their flights from different airports: Sepkin and Kraskin from Fürstenfelde , Boranow and Petrowski from Frankfurt an der Oder, Renneberg (who does not jump with him), Bunurian and Plejin from Stettin , Hansekamm (also does not jump with him), Tarkin and Iwanow von Küstrin and Duskow and Sassonow from a field airfield in the Muskauer Heide . The Soviet air defense does not notice the isolated machines or thinks they are their own. Bunurian is set down in the Maximowo forest as planned. He is supposed to take the train from Volokolamsk to Moscow. However, his parachute jump gets out of control and Bunurian lands hard in the trees, seriously injuring himself. He breaks his ankle and can no longer move on his own. Duskow lands in the hills of Kolchugino and wanders through the forests of the swampy lowlands of the river Njerl. In doing so, he benefits from the good orientation training that Milda gave them along the way. The “infinite” vastness of Russia is the best “weapon” for the “wild geese”, which as individuals do not attract attention. When meeting the Russian rural population, Duskow avoids everything (such as German chocolate) that could make him suspicious. He pretends to be an inspector who is looking for illegal black slaughtering among the farmers. Kraskin lands in the woods of Stupino in the early hours of the morning. He looks for a hotel in the next town and wants to take the freight train to Moscow the next day. You find yourself in the vicinity of Moscow in the "lowest stage", in which already peace-like conditions prevail. There are still large troop transports to the front in the west and the "" wild geese have to be constantly on guard so as not to be exposed by the military police or militia . Not everyone succeeds in hiding the parachute. Duskov's parachute, for example, is found by a kolkhoz farmer who is making a dress from the parachute silk. Boranov takes the tram to the Russian capital. He met the conductress Lyra Pavlovna Sharenkova, who later became a love affair .

Bunurian wakes up in pain in the forest. His parachute is visible from afar in the branches and prompts the loggers to hunt the person who has jumped off. There he is tracked down by the dogs. His cyanide capsule was lost during the jump and he is helpless due to his injury to the loggers who are hostile to him. They strip him and search his clothes. In the process, they find a telltale item that a Russian cannot have. They then killed him on the spot with clubs and axes. The case is reported to the NKVD service in the Kalinin area , not Moscow, and it petered out .

Milda maintains a subversive circle in her private apartment and deceives it by various meetings with artists and writers. In order to get close to the Kremlin and Stalin, she begins a violent affair with Major Wolnow, an officer in the bodyguard. She also learned from him that on June 20, 1944 a major offensive against the German Wehrmacht began in Belarus . She sends an encrypted radio message, which the General Staff of the 2nd Army laughs at as "nonsense" and ignores it. In the meantime, Ivanov, Sepkin and Petrovsky are approaching Moscow by different means of transport. Sepkin arrives at the Belarusian station , Petrovsky at the Kazan and Ivanov at the Yaroslavl station . Ivanov gets to know the foreman Wanda Semenovna, who is very impressed by the alleged veteran and who gives him a job at the Kremlin.

Kraskin is hiding in a cattle wagon that is due to arrive at the Moscow freight station the next day. During the journey, the freight train is overflown by bombers of the Soviet Air Force . The loud noises of the engine caused the cows to panic and Kraskin to trample. When he arrives in Moscow, his remains are recovered by a worker. The body is so distorted that it cannot be identified.

Sergin Tarski lands in a meadow near Lataschino. He is caught by the militia , but can still swallow the cyanide capsule before he can be interrogated. Duskow meets the doctor Anna Ivanovna Pleaskina, who works as a surgeon in the Botkin clinic in Moscow. In the end, only four out of ten “wild geese” make it through. The assassination attempt on Stalin is foiled. The four "wild geese" Boranow, Duskow, Sepkin and Petrowskij can, with the help of their partners, whom they get to know and love through fortunate coincidences, adopt new and unrecognized identities and begin a completely new life. The book ends with the statement that these people have left their past behind them, have found happiness in a foreign country and should no longer be looked for.

characters

  • Peter Radek alias Piotr Mironowitsch Sepkin: 25 years. First Lieutenant 3rd Kp. Radek fights with Army Group North in northern Russia in the area around Lake Peipus and Lake Pleskauer .
  • Berno von Ranowski alias Iwan Petrowitsch Bunurian: 24 years. First Lieutenant v. Ranowski takes part in anti-partisan operations near Orsha in Belarus.
  • Elmar Solbreit alias Luka Ivanovich Petrowskij: 22 years. Lieutenant 7th Company. Solbreit fighting in the Pripet Marshes .
  • Venno Freiherr von Baldenow alias Leonid Germanowitsch Duskow: 26 years. “With regard to women, they were considered to be descendants of the abandoned bison. Where a beautiful body could be suspected under a woman's skirt, the Baldenows roared in the throat, chest and between the legs. ” Captain and Deputy BtlKdr d. Cavalry Regiment 2 "Öseler Hussars" is mentioned in the army report with praise for fighting tanks near Kischinew / Moldova .
  • Johann Poltmann alias Fjedor Pantilijewitsch Iwanow: 21 years. Lieutenant. Poltmann cures his third wound in the hospital in Mogilew / Belarus.
  • Detlev Adler alias Alexander Nikolajewitsch Kraskin: First Lieutenant, 25 years. Adler spends his time on the quiet front at the Saudafjord in southern Norway.
  • Asgard Kuchenberg alias Kyrill Semjonowitsch Boranow: Captain, 28 years. Kuchenberg spends his vacation at the front from Orgayev in Ukraine with his family in his homeland.
  • Dietrich Semper alias Sergeij Andrejewitsch Tarski: Lieutenant, 22 years. Semper leads a patrol near Kovel in the Ukraine and uses force to requisition food from the Russian rural population.
  • Bodo von Labitz alias Pawel Fedorowitsch Sassonow: Major, 31 years. Chief of Staff of the 6th Army celebrates the birth of his son.
  • Alexander Dallburg alias Nikolai Antonowitsch Plejin: Ensign, 20 years. Graduate of War School. Currently in the 914th Regiment of the 352nd Infantry Division.
  • Larissa Alexandrovna Khrulankova: tractor driver, 22 years old
  • Lyra Pavlovna Sharenkova: tram conductor, 20 years
  • Anna Ivanovna Pleaskina: doctor, 28 years
  • Lyudmila Dragomirovna Cherkasskaya: Lieutenant of the female militia, 26 years
  • Wanda Semjonowna Haller: Construction foreman, 23 years old
  • Jelena Lukinischna Pushkina: Secretary in the Kremlin, 19 years old
  • Igor Wladimironowitsch Smolka: Colonel of the Soviet Defense, 40 years
  • Yefim Grigoryevich Radovsky: General Liaison Staff Red Army / Stalin
  • Vladimir Leontievich Pleasikovsky
  • Nikolai Ilyich Tabun
  • Anton Wasiljewitsch Nurashvili

Reviews

“ Bunurian was in a maddening pain, the broken ankle buckled again when he had to put weight on his foot, and that was more than even a brave man can bear. Bunurian roared, his red-rimmed eyes bulged out of their sockets, saliva ran from his open mouth, and as he held on to a branch and lifted his shattered foot, tears ran from his eyes and ran down his twitching face. "Be ... be human ... Listen to me ..." Pavel Tichonowitsch was the first to hit him with his thick, gnarled club. Oleg Viktorovich followed immediately, hitting the leg meanly and cunningly, which Bunurian was holding across the floor, fully dressed. The abused cried out again, wanted to drop to the ground, but three woodcutters grabbed him, held him tight, and standing he received the blows ... On the head, on the neck, on the temples, on the shoulders, in the face. Blood gushed out of the nose and mouth, the scalp burst open, a torrent of blood flooded the whole head and ran down the body. The men beat Bunurian in silence, doggedly, as if the task was to fell a particularly stubborn tree. When the three finally let go of him, he rolled onto the forest floor, twisted like a worm, a shapeless pile of clothes and blood. "Get his bowels out!" Growled Oleg Viktorovich like a chain dog. “He's a spy! A wretched spy! ”Bunurian felt no more pain. There is a limit ... But he could still think. Mother, he thought, Mama! I'm dying now. How nice that you will never find out how I died. I am missing for you And as long as you live you will hope that I will come back. That's the mean thing about being missing. Those who love us never give up believing in a miracle. Mom mom…! Bunurian finally passed out. It was due to a good blow on his skull. He smashed the top of his skull, crushed his brain. His death was not noticed ... the lumberjacks continued to drum on his body until Oleg, the hunchback, took the ax and split his already shapeless head with one blow ... "

- The cruel death of Bunurian among the loggers

“ Kraskin plopped back on the wagon floor. He slipped on the slippery floor, smeared with feces and urine, fell to his knees, and was immediately struck by a cow kick. Half-stunned, he tried to get up, but there were the bodies around him and above him, rocks of flesh breaking down, throwing him completely to the ground. He thrust his fists around again, the cleft hooves drummed down on him, kicked him into the pulpy droppings, he responded with kicks, clawed a thick udder with both hands and pulled himself off the ground, as if between the wildly pounding cow a cossack crawling under his horse at full gallop and swinging between his whirling legs. It was just a scant reprieve for Kraskin. A push threw him back to the ground, and there a hoof crushed his right hand. He heard the cracking of the bones right into his brain. He bit his left forearm, began to cry with hopelessness and fear of death, a sob ran through his body, on which the hoof kicks rattled down, and then Kraskin was just a callous, pathetic mass, losing all shape under roaring cows flowed and mixed with feces and urine. Around five o'clock the cow transport arrived at the freight yard in Moscow. The animals had long since calmed down, stood swaying in their wagons and let themselves be hosed down without any noticeable movement. Three columns with thick hoses, mostly women in high rubber boots, pushed the iron doors aside and washed the dung from the floor of the car with high water pressure. They also came to car number 27, slammed the bolts and pushed the roller door away. The jet of water twitched from the syringe, the dung sludge rolled lazily over the edge of the wagon. A lump remained in one corner. The worker Antonia Nikolayevna uttered a gross curse, called the bulky pile a bitch and kept the water jet full on it. The lump remained as if it had been baked on the floor. Antonia Nikolaijewna gave an example that a woman in the work process is not inferior to a man when it comes to swearing. She clamped the hose to the door, let the water jet patter over the cows and leaned forward into the car. Then she gave a bright scream, threw her hands over her head and ran away gasping, eyes bulging. Two cars further she vomited and then sat down on the rails as if stunned . "

- The end of Kraskin. Kraskin was hiding in a cattle wagon. During a bombing raid on the train, the cows panic ...

In the novel You were ten , various cruel scenes are described in which the exposed commandos die a cruel death. When asked about the explicit nature of these scenes, Konsalik replied in an interview that he had witnessed much more brutal things during the Russian campaign. Experiences that Konsalik had processed well thanks to his self-discipline. The story is written with a tough male ethos and a number of erotic love scenes. According to the author, its story is based on the real enterprise Zeppelin , a covert warfare operation that started in July 1944 with the aim of killing Stalin. The title, which falls into the period of the writer's “age style”, is one of Konsalik's most extensive war novels and was of central importance in the author's oeuvre. They were ten , he considered himself one of his best books. Contrary to the impressive sales figures, there are the overwhelming negative reviews. There is talk of writing “anti-communist” and “revanchist”. He would have reduced the reality of war to "adventurous events" and "belittled" military events to an idyll. In addition, he would have "turned Nazi violence into German male heroism" and defamed Soviet citizens either as "fanatical killers", idiots or cowards. Horst Schüler even speaks in the Hamburger Abendblatt that he “seldom read such nonsense”.

Historical context: Operation Zeppelin

Stalin from 1943

Konsalik's novel is based on the historical Operation Zeppelin. SS-Obersturmbannführer Gräfe, from Group VI c of the Reich Security Main Office, was entrusted with the destruction of the Soviet high command. A company that was to be carried out as early as the summer of 1943. Gestapo agent Politov was to be smuggled into the USSR by air and, together with his fiancée and radio operator Shilova, carried out his plan near Moscow. An agent group "L" was also to be brought into the Russian hinterland to find suitable landing sites for the Arado-332 special aircraft. The actual enterprise was not implemented until September 5, 1944. Due to the damage caused by flak fire to the Moscow air defense belt, Politov was supposed to be deposited on a reserve landing site near Smolensk . Presumably, all occupants were killed in a crash landing. Only Politov was able to escape with a motorcycle (sidecar krad), but was arrested by the secret police a little later.

Economic success

In economic terms, the novel You Were Ten, published in the autumn of 1979 , was a great success and followed on from the sales of The Doctor of Stalingrad . Shortly after its publication, the book immediately made it to 9th place in the bestseller list of Spiegel magazine and was among the most interesting new publications of the season for 25 weeks. In April 1982, the pre-orders of this title were so numerous that Goldmann-Verlag brought a new edition of 200,000 copies onto the market. There were ten of them and the women's battalion became "super racers" in the 1980s, according to the newspaper Welt.

Text output

literature

  • Matthias Harder: Experience of War. To depict the Second World War in the novels by Heinz G. Konsalik. With a bibliography of the author's German-language publications from 1943 to 1996. (= Epistemata - Würzburg scientific writings. Literature series. Volume 232). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1565-7 .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Heinz Konsalik: You were ten . Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1979, ISBN 3-442-06423-6 .
  2. ↑ Heinz Konsalik: You were ten . Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1979, ISBN 3-442-06423-6 , p. 22.
  3. ↑ Heinz Konsalik: You were ten . Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1979, ISBN 3-442-06423-6 , p. 38.
  4. ↑ slang for nurse
  5. ↑ The lucky one
  6. ↑ possibly the Army Riding and Driving School and Cavalry School Krampnitz is meant
  7. ^ The history of the Krampnitz barracks. From riding school to film set. In: Potsdam latest news. 20th January 2013.
  8. ↑ so sharp that you can even spot a pair of lovers copulating in a cornfield. Milfa I. Kabakova's dry comment is that a new son is being conceived for the glorious Russian motherland.
  9. ↑ large and renowned clinic in the Russian capital
  10. ↑ The one-man dream factory. Portrait of the bestselling author Heinz G. Konsalik. In: The time. No. 41, October 3, 1980.
  11. ↑ Heinz G. Konsalik: You were ten. Neuer Kaiser Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7043-1448-2 , pp. 170f.
  12. ↑ Heinz G. Konsalik: You were ten. Neuer Kaiser Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7043-1448-2 , p. 193.
  13. ↑ Interview with Heinz Günther Konsalik 1982. on: elfriedejelinek.com/
  14. ↑ Konsalik review: They were ten in Heidtmann's books
  15. ↑ a b Zeppelin planned the assassination of Stalin. In: Der Spiegel. 17th July 1967.
  16. ^ Matthias Harder: Experience of War. To depict the Second World War in the novels by Heinz G. Konsalik. With a bibliography of the author's German-language publications from 1943 to 1996. (= Epistemata - Würzburg scientific writings. Literature series. Volume 232). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, p. 193.
  17. ^ Zeppelin company. In: Spiegel online. Contemporary history, November 16, 1992.
  18. ^ Himmler's plan to assassinate Stalin. Bad luck for the agent couple. In: New Germany. September 4, 1999.
  19. ↑ Book report 13th year. No. 11. March 19, 1982.
  20. ^ Matthias Harder: Experience of War. To depict the Second World War in the novels by Heinz G. Konsalik. With a bibliography of the author's German-language publications from 1943 to 1996. (= Epistemata - Würzburg scientific writings. Literature series. Volume 232). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, p. 191.
  21. ↑ The world. October 16, 1981.