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1106 Notes Regardless of the actual value of the medals, it can be established that as many as 3,700 of the around 4,600 Gold Medals for Bravery, i.e. 80 per cent, were awarded during the war. It cannot be ruled out that after the war members of German regiments were favoured somewhat. See Der Held. Organ der Bundesvereinigung der Tapferkeitsmedaillenbesitzer, Vol. 4, No. 2, 4 et seq. See also Hans Mühlfeith, Das goldene Buch der Tapferkeit (Vienna, 1960), as well as Bundesministerium für Landesverteidi- gung, Abt. Ausbildung 2, Die Tapferkeitsmedaille in der Österreichischen Armee (Vienna, 1979), 28 et seq. Unverifiable figures are also circulating, however, such as those in Werner Schachinger, Die Bosniaken kommen ! Elitetruppe in der k. u. k. Armee 1879–1918 (Graz, 1989), 355 et seq. The Bos- nian-Herzegovinian Infantry Regiment 2 is ranked in first place with 42 conferrals. It is quite obvious, however, that the data is incomplete and incorrect. I am very grateful to Ms Andrea Hackel from the Austrian War Archives for her help with working through the registers. 2267 Wilhelm Winkler, Die Totenverluste der öst.-ung. Monarchie nach Nationalitäten. Die Altersglied- erung der Toten. Ausblicke in die Zukunft (Vienna, 1919), esp. 6–17. 2268 KA, Nowak, Die Klammer des Reiches, 440. 2269 Ibid., 369. 2270 Quoted from Rothkappl, Der tschechische Nationalismus, 59. 2271 Österreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg, Vol. IV, 139 2272 KA, Nowak, Die Klammer des Reiches, 464. 2273 Ibid., 376. 2274 Ibid., 376 et seq. 2275 Schneider, Kriegserinnerungen, 363. 2276 KA, Nowak, Die Klammer des Reiches, 495–498. 2277 Österreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg, Vol. III, 537 et seq. 2278 KA, Nowak, Die Klammer des Reiches, 504. 2279 Wild von Hohenborn, Briefe und Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, No. 53, 102. 2280 TNA, Kew, Cab 37/157, Report by William von Max- Müller from 16.10.1916 on the economic situation of the Central Powers in September 1916, 21–39. 2281 TNA, Kew, FO 371/2602, Report by an agent to the Foreign Office on a trip through Bohemia and Moravia in June and July 1916, 30.8.1916. 2282 Sondhaus, In the Service of the Emperor, 109. 2283 Vladimir Buldakov, The National Experience of War, 1914–17, in : Facing Armageddon, 539–544. 2284 KA, Nowak, Die Klammer des Reiches, 481. 2285 Professor Hans Riedl, lieutenant of the reserve in Infantry Regiment No. 72, manuscript : Meine Krieg- serlebnisse 1914–1918 (Krems, 1937), 57, in the possession of the author, diary entry for 28.7.1915. I am very grateful to General of the Reserve Wilhelm Lachnit for making this manuscript available. 2286 Bernadette Schuh, Geschichte der Desertion in Österreich, doctoral thesis, University of Vienna, 2006, Enclosure 6, 361 et seq. 2287 KA, AOK Op 1916, No. 32,183. 2288 Schuh, Geschichte der Desertion, 177. 2289 Ibid., 121. 2290 Ibid., 149. See also Franz Exner, Krieg und Kriminalität in Österreich (=  Wirtschafts- und Sozialge- schichte des Weltkrieges, österreichische und ungarische Serie, edited by the Carnegie Stiftung für internationalen Frieden, Vienna/New Haven, 1927), 1–110. 2291 Ernst Junk, Das Verbrechertum im Kriege. Kriminalpsychologische und kriminalistische Denkwürdig- keiten aus dem Weltkriege (Vienna/Leipzig, 1920), 47. 2292 Junk, Das Verbrechertum, 82 et seq.