Felder, Josef 43, 46–7
Fernau, Walter 330–1, 348–9, 351–3
Fest, Joachim 98
Fiedler, Heinz 342–3, 344
Filippov, Lieutenant-Colonel 275–6
Finland, Soviet war with 155–6
former Nazis, attitudes of 9–12
Forster, Albert 117, 125, 126–7, 129–30
France
burning of Paris synagogues 316
and the Madagascar Plan 294–5
Nazi defeat of 146, 158
occupation of the Ruhr 25–6
and the outbreak of war 106, 107, 108, 109
and Polish Jews 132, 141
Frank, Hans 14, 111, 117, 130–2, 133–5, 141, 211,295–6, 318–19
Frenkiel, Estera 136, 137, 139–40, 323–4
Frick, Wilhelm 43
Fritsch, German Army commander 90, 93–4, 95, 99
Fuchs, Dora 139
Fyodorov, Veniamin 341–2
Gallay, Mark 150–2
Gareev, Makhmud 240, 241–2, 269, 340, 355
Gavrilchenko, Inna 212–13
Gehlen, Colonel Reinhard 227
Gellately, Professor Robert 59, 61, 62
German people
and the benefits of racism 334–5
and the final stages of the war 350–3
knowledge of the extermination of the Jews 335–9
and the Nazi state 56–65, 77–8
German Workers’ Party (later Nazi Party) 21, 22–4
Gestapo 58–65
Goebbels, Josef 14, 30, 35, 55–6, 70, 72, 92, 109, 152, 329
and the Jews 312–13, 318, 320
and Operation Barbarossa 161, 172, 184, 199
on Ribbentrop 85
Golokolenko, Ivan 270–2, 273–5, 276
Goncharov, Efim 222, 223–4
Göring, Hermann 24, 26, 43, 49, 55, 85, 88, 90, 94, 95, 207, 329
and Austria 98–9
and the Battle of Stalingrad 276–7
and Czechoslovakia 104
and the Jews 310
and Poland 131–2, 133
Gottberg, Curt von 228
Graf von Kielmansegg, Johann-Adolf 49–50, 81
Gramauskas, Juozas 302–3
Greiser, Arthur 111–12, 117, 125–9, 130, 131,136, 137–8, 139, 295, 314
Groeben, Peter von der 202, 229,230
Gruhn, Erna 94
Grynszpan, Herschel 70–2
Guderian, General Heinz 168–9, 198–9
Gurevich, Anatoly 162
Gutterer, Leopold 312
Hácha, Emil 104–5
Haerter, Ernst Erich 207
Hähnel, Bruno 30–1, 36, 43
Haider, Franz 147–8, 159, 198, 217, 250–1, 254
Hamann, Dr Brigitte 21–2
Hefelmann, Dr Hans 74
Helm, Major Erwin 351, 352, 353
Herwarth, Hans von 107, 331, 333, 334
Hess, Rudolf 163
Heydrich, Reinhard 65, 114, 161, 296, 310–11, 312,316, 337
and the Wansee conference 319–23
Himmler, Heinrich 9, 50, 56, 65, 100, 101–2, 160–1
and the final stages of the war 354–5
and the Jews 293–4, 310, 312, 316, 319, 320–1, 323
and the partisan war 230–1
and Poland 118, 125, 129, 130, 131–3, 135
Hindenburg, Paul 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 50, 51
Hindenlang, Gerhard 281–2
Hitler, Adolf
and anti-Semitism 21–2, 66, 69, 72, 291–2, 293, 294, 310, 337
appointment as Chancellor 39–44, 51
and the Armed Forces 50–1, 329–30
Army officers’ plot to kill (1944) 331–4
and the Battle of Stalingrad 249, 250–1, 254, 265, 276–7, 277–8, 281, 282–3
and Blitzkrieg 146
and Blomberg’s resignation 94, 95–6
and Britain 79–80, 83–6, 143–4
and the Children’s ‘Euthanasia’ Programme 73–7
daily routine 52–3
and the deportation of the Jews 310, 311, 313–14, 316–19, 323
early history 21–3
and the final stages of the war 348–50, 353–4, 355–6
foreign policy 79–80, 82–4, 90–4, 96–102
former Nazis’ attitudes to 9, 10–12
and the Nazi leadership 328–9
and the Nazi Party 21, 23–4, 29, 32–6, 37–40
and Nazi rule in Germany 46, 54–6, 72–3
and Operation Bagration 341, 343–4
and Operation Barbarossa 147–8, 154–5, 156–9, 160,163, 164, 166–7, 171, 182–4, 198–9, 201–2, 209, 234, 270, 275, 325
and Operation Blue 241–2
personality 11–12, 14, 32–3
and Poland 106–9, 112, 116–17, 117–18, 126,129–30, 132–3, 141–2
Putsch trial and imprisonment 26–9
rearmament programme 50, 51, 80–2, 83, 86–7, 88–90
rise to power 13–15
and the Soviet Union 144–5, 146, 147–8, 222
and Stalin 148–9, 153–4, 195, 218
and the Storm Troopers 49–50
suicide 357
and the Ukraine 203–7, 208, 210, 226, 227
and the USA 197–8, 318
and ‘working towards the Führer’ 53–4, 73, 112
‘Hitler over Germany’ presidential campaign 37–8
Holocaust 49, 143, 180, 294, 325, 348
Horn, Wolfgang 168, 169, 187–8, 199, 215
Hossbach Memorandum 90–4
Huxley, Aldous 33
inflation in Germany 26, 29
Italy 98, 327–8, 347–8
Jagemann, Franz 124, 124–5
Jager Report 309
Japan 166, 170, 198
Jews 287–325
‘Aryanization’ programme 67–9
Austrian 100–1, 294
and the Chelmno gas vans 314–15, 317, 324
deportation to the East 310–14, 316–19, 321–2
‘eastern’ 19–20
Einsatzgruppen killings of 173–4, 296–309
German 17–19, 69–70, 311–12, 312–17
German people and knowledge of the extermination of the Jews 335–9
and the Gestapo 60, 62–3
and the Jager Report 309
Łódź ghetto 118, 136–41, 293, 314–15, 323–4
Madagascar Plan 294–5
and Nazi rule in Germany 49, 65–72
Nuremberg Laws 67
in Poland 112, 113–14, 116, 118, 132, 134,136–42
Soviet 174, 312, 316
and Treblinka 287–91
in the Ukraine 209, 214, 239
and the Wannsee conference 319–23, 337
see also anti-Semitism
Jeziorkowska, Anna 111, 122–4, 130
Jodl, General Alfred von 21, 96, 147, 156, 158, 188
Kalmykova, Tamara 247, 263–4, 265
Kammerling, Walter 100–1
Kantovski, Vladimir 242–6
Kasprzyk, Stefan 124
Kershaw, Ian 338
Kershaw, Professor Ian 53, 54
Kharkov 211–14
offensive (1942) 234–41, 248, 250
Khrushchev, Nikita 149–50
Kielmansegg, Graf von 338–9
Kiev, German capture of 184–5, 188
Klein, Emil 26–7
Koch, Erich 205–7, 209, 210, 214, 218, 227
Konev, Marshal 355, 356
Kranz, Erna 56–8, 71, 336
Kraus, Maria 62–3
Krüger, Friedrich-Wilhelm 131
Krutova, Valentina 250, 252–3, 284
Krutova, Yuri 252, 253, 284
Lammers, Hans-Heinrich 72
Landau, Felix 303–4
Lange, Captain Herbert 314–15
Lashuk, Vladimir 222–3
League of Nations 83, 84, 90, 104
Lebensraum (living space) 83, 91, 144
Lenin, VI. 148, 149, 172, 175–6<
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Leningrad, siege of 188, 224
Leroy, Jacques 345–6
Leviné, Eugene 17–19, 44
Linn, Bernd 19–20, 26, 329, 346–7
List, Field Marshal 251
Lithuania, persecution of Jews in 297–309
Łódź ghetto 118, 136–41, 293, 314–15, 323–4
Lohse, Dr Günter 45–6, 72, 79
Losanskaya, Riva 298–301, 308–9
Lubbe, Marinus van der 46
Ludenfdorff, General 27
Madagascar Plan 294–5
Malenkov 193
Marder, Dr Karl 139
Mauth, Maria 172–3
Mauth, Walter 320
Mayr, Captain 21
Mein Kampf (Hitler) 11, 14, 21–2, 28, 82–3, 90
Meissner, Otto 39–40, 73
Mengele, Dr Josef 324
Menzel, Hubert 144, 158, 185
Mereshko, Anatoly 246–8, 254–5, 256, 259, 263, 274, 284, 356–7
Mering, Professor 290
Merkulov, V.N. 162, 163
Michalsky, Engelbert 351, 352
Mikhailovski, Aleksandr 227–8
Mikoyan, Anastas 192
Mikoyan, Stepan 149, 170, 171–2
Mirek, Anna 133–4
Mirzoyan, Suren 265–6, 284
Molotov, Vyacheslav 117, 156–7, 192
Morrell, Dr Theodor 104–5, 355
Moscow, Battle of 185, 189–94, 195–7, 198–9, 200
Moses, Wilhelm 113–14
Mühl-Kuhner, Dr 350, 351
Müller, General 160
Müller, Heinrich 64–5, 322
Munch, Gerhard 248, 260, 261, 276, 278–9, 281
Munich
‘Night of the Amazons’ 57
Putsch 26–8
Räterepublik 16–17
Munich Agreement 103, 105
Mussolini, Benito 45, 98, 103, 105, 157, 327–8
Naumov, Professor Vladimir 176
Navasinskas, Alfonsas 301–2
Nazi Party 29–32
economic policy 54–5, 80–1, 86–9, 207
general election results 15, 36, 37, 38, 40–1, 46
Gestapo 58–65
and Hitler 21, 23–4, 29, 32–6, 37–40
origins 21, 22–4
policies 24
propaganda 37–8, 40–1, 45
rise to power 14–15, 37–44
rule in Germany 45–78
symbols 24–5
see also Storm Troopers
Nefyodova, Nadezha 221–4
Neithardt, Georg 28
Nero Order 356
Neurath, Baron Konstantin von 90, 94, 95
Niebel, Dr Theo 76
‘Night of the Long Knives’ 41, 50, 89
Nuremberg Trials 91, 159, 329
Ogryzko, Vladimir 192–3, 200, 227
Operation Barbarossa 116, 142–94
Battle of Moscow 185, 189–94, 195–7, 198–9, 200
Battle of Vyazma 186–9
and ‘criminal’ orders 158–61
fall of Kiev 184–5, 188
German scorched earth retreat 320
and the Jews 325
and Operation Blue 241, 248–9, 269
partisan war 218–32
and Red Army officers 170–1
and Soviet prisoners of war 180–2, 184, 188, 189
and Stalin’s ‘cruel’ policy 200–1
in the Ukraine 202–14, 224–6
see also Stalingrad
Palfinger, Alexander 139
Papen, Franz von 39, 41, 42, 43, 96–7
Paul, Prince 167
Paulus, Friedrich 254, 265, 275, 279, 281–4
Pawelczak-Grocholska, Danuta 127–8
Pfaller, Alois 31–2, 36, 37, 44, 47–8, 49
Philip, Prince of Hesse 98
Pilacynski, Romuald 126–7
Pirkham, Dr Otto 97
‘Planspiel Otto’ (army war-game) 42–3
Pol Pot 114
Poland 13, 111–42
division of 117
Germanization of 118–36, 295–6
intelligentsia 114–16, 133
Jews in 112, 113–14, 116, 118, 132, 134, 136–42
YŁdź ghetto 118, 136–41, 293, 314–15, 323–4
Nazi invasion of 106–9
Ponomariev, Nikolay 185, 189–90
Pronin, V.S. 192
Pytkina, Zinaida 266–9
Rademacher, Franz 294–5
Rath, Ernst von 70
Rathenau, Walter 17
Ravensbrück 62, 324
Reichert, Rüdiger von 166, 168, 180, 197, 202, 210–11
Reichstag Fire Decree 46
Reski, Waltraud 357–8, 359
Reva, Anatoly 213–14
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 83–6, 92, 93–4, 95, 98, 104, 106, 109, 117, 145, 329
Richter, Herbert 15–16, 32–3, 79, 83, 85
Riefenstahl, Leni 45
Röhm, Ernst 23, 49, 50, 51
Rokossovksy, Konstantin 340
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 318
Rosenberg, Alfred 162, 204, 205–7, 208–9, 227, 311,313
Rüdiger, Jutta 25, 36, 37, 97
Sankovich, Petr 222, 223–4
Schacht, Hjalmar 41–2, 54–5, 67, 80–1, 86–9, 90
Schaefer-Kehnert, Walter 173, 183, 186–7, 188, 196–7, 211, 214–15
Schcherbakov, Comrade 191
Schenk, Herr 225–6
Schleicher, General von 41, 42, 43, 50
Schmiedel, Alfons 350
Schneider, Albert 169–70, 216, 217–18
Scholl, Hans and Sophie 338
Schröder, Kurt von 43
Schröer, Manfred Freiherr von 48, 82, 85, 102,103, 104–5, 106
Schuschnigg, Kurt von 96–7
Schwartz, Professor Meier 72
Seifert, Gustav 34–5
Seitz, Susi 99, 100, 101
Semenyak, Georgy 170–1, 181
Semenyuk, Meleti 210, 224
Sengenhof, Dr Weiner 76
Seubert, Anton 351
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur 97
Silkinaite, Viera 297–8
Simon, Sir John 84
SMERSH 266–9
Sorge, Richard 162
Soviet Union
Einsatzgruppen 114
and final days of war 355, 356–9
German fear and hatred of Bolshevism 338–9, 344–7
and Hitler 144–5
Non-Aggression Pact with Germany 106–8, 117,145, 156–7, 163–4, 175
Operation Bagration 339–44
and Poland 117, 118
SMERSH 266–9
see also Operation Barbarossa; Stalin, Josef; Stalingrad
Spaun, Fridolin von 20, 32
SPD (German Socialist Party) 37, 43
Speer, Albert 12, 52–3, 72, 355, 356
Spitzy, Reinhard 84–5, 86, 94, 96, 99, 105
SS (Schutzstaffeln) 50, 101
in Poland 113, 114, 116, 124, 130–1, 135
Stahlecker, Dr Walther 296–7
Stalin, Josef 53, 148–54, 245–6
and the Battle of Moscow 189–93, 195
and the Battle of Stalingrad 250, 255, 265, 269
and the final days of the war 355
and Japan 198
and the Kharkov offensive 234, 241
and the Nazi-Soviet pact 106–7, 108, 163–4, 175
and Operation Bagration 340
and Operation Barbarossa 162–7, 170–2, 174–80, 185, 200–1, 202, 233–4
and Operation Uranus 273–4
and order 227 242, 244, 247
and the partisan war 218–19, 220–1, 222, 224
and Poland 120
purging of the Red Army 150–3
Stalingrad 232, 249–65, 269, 275, 276–85, 327
and Operation Blue 241–2, 247–9, 254
and Operation Ring 280
and Operation Uranus 269–76
and Operation Winter Tempest 277
women soldiers in the Red Army 26
3–4, 265
Stamenov, Ivan 176–7
Stauffenberg, Count Klaus Schenk von 322–4, 331
Stauffenberg, Count von 51
Stempel, Joachim 237–8, 240, 241, 248, 249, 251–2, 259–60, 261, 279–80, 283–4
Storm Troopers 25, 30, 32, 42, 46, 49–50
and Jews 44, 65, 66–7, 69, 70–2
in Poland 124
Strasser, Gregor 41, 50
Strazdovski, Viktor 186, 188
Streicher, Julius 14
Sudaplatov, Pavel 176–9
Sverdlov, Fyodor 197
Tamir, Arnon 65, 66, 67–8, 69, 292
Taylor, A.J.P. 91–2
Ter-Nedden, Dr Wilhelm 206–7
Teschemacher, Hermann 339
Teubert, Wolfgang 30
Theresienstadt 322
Thomas, General 157
Timoshenko, Mikhail 155–6, 219–21, 240
Todt, Fritz 197
Totzke, Use Sonja 61–3
Traphöner, Walter 174
Treblinka 287–91, 324
Treskovski, Ivan 220, 221
Trevor-Roper, Hugh 355
Triumph of the Will 45
Trotsky, L. 149, 150
Tupolev, Andrei Nikolaevich 152
Ukraine
contraception issue 207–9
fall of Kiev 184–5, 188
German invasion of 202–14
Kharkov 211–14, 224–41, 248, 250
partisan war 224–6
unemployment, in Germany 36, 37, 39, 81
United States, and the Second World War 197–8, 318
Urbanczyk, Stanislaw 115
Vasilevskii 269, 270
Versailles peace treaty 10, 25, 31, 33, 39, 58, 80, 83, 89
and Poland 106, 108–9, 118, 119
Vitman, Boris 234–5, 236–7, 238–40
Volkogonov, Dimitri 179
Vormann, General Nikolaus von 343–4
Vyazma, Battle of 186–9
Walz, Helmut 257–8, 266
Wannsee conference 319–23, 337
War of the Century 7–8, 12
Weiglein, Karl 350–3
Wiedemann, Fritz 52
Willenberg, Samuel 287–8, 289, 290–1, 309, 324
Winckler, Gabriele 37, 325
Wirth, Captain Christian 315
Wittmann, Theodor 351
‘working towards the Führer’ 53–4, 73, 112
World War I 9, 10, 15–16, 18, 21, 55, 81, 146, 175–6, 312, 347–8, 349
Würzburg archive 58–65
Zahn, Johannes 42, 68, 80, 82–3, 86–7, 335, 352, 353–4
Zeitler, Kurt 251
Zelionka, Petras 304–8
Zhukov, Marshal Georgy 146, 164, 166, 170, 171–2, 179–80, 185, 234, 355, 356, 357
and the Battle of Moscow 189
and Operation Uranus 269, 270, 271
Zielke, Eugen 137, 138
Zinoviev, G.Y. 149
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