The Trail of the Fox
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Danzig, ref1
D day, see Normandy invasion
Death Zone, Rommel’s European coastal defenses, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Defors, Monsieur, ref1
de Gaulle, Charles, ref1
Deir el Abyad, ref1
Deir el Hamra, ref1
Denmark, ref1
Derna, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Desert Fox, The, ref1
De Stefanis, Giuseppe, ref1
Devil’s Garden, Rommel’s, ref1, ref2
DG 7 (Durchgangsstrasse), ref1, ref2
Dieppe, ref1
Dietrich, Sepp, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Dihm, Friedrich, ref1
Dittmar, Kurt, ref1
Dollmann, Friedrich, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
death of, ref1, ref2
Dönitz, Karl, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Doose, Heinrich, ref1
Dortmund, ref1
Dümmler, Hans, ref1, ref2
Dunkirk, evacuation of, ref1, ref2
Eastern Dorsale mountains, ref1, ref2
eastern front, see Soviet Union
Eberbach, Hans, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Egypt:
anti-British sentiment in, ref1, ref2
British buildup in (1941), ref1, ref2
Germany’s plan for invasion of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Rommel in, ref1
Rommel’s retreat from, ref1, ref2
Egyptian frontier:
besieged German garrisons at, ref1, ref2
British offensive at, ref1
Crusader operation and, ref1
defenses on, ref1, ref2
German breach of, ref1
German holding action at, ref1, ref2, ref3
German operations resumed at (June 1942), ref1, ref2, ref3
“Midsummer Night’s Dream” operation on, ref1
Rommel’s counterattack at, ref1
Rommel’s dash to, ref1
Rommel’s withdrawal from, ref1
strategic importance of, ref1
Egyptian officers, ref1
Ehlers, Major, ref1, ref2
Ehrnsperger, Anton, ref1, ref2
Eighth Army, British:
in Crusader operation, ref1
in Italy, ref1
organization of, ref1
vs. Panzer Army at El Alamein, ref1, ref2
see also Montgomery, Bernard; North African campaign
Eisenhower, Dwight D., ref1, ref2
in Normandy invasion, ref1, ref2
Rommel compared to, ref1
in Tunisia, ref1, ref2
El Adem, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
El Agheila, ref1, ref2, ref3
El Alamein, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Axis military condition after, ref1
Battle of (October 1942), ref1
British defense of, ref1
British offensives at, ref1, ref2
condition of German forces at, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4,. ref5, ref6
German supply problems at, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
intelligence intercepts and, ref1, ref2
minefields used at, ref1, ref2
Panzer Army vs. Eighth Army at, ref1, ref2
retreat concealed from Hitler, ref1, ref2
Rommel’s absence from, ref1
Rommel’s advance on, ref1
Rommel’s defenses for, ref1, ref2, ref3
Rommel’s retreats from, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Elba, ref1
Elbo (Rommel’s dog), ref1
El Daba, ref1, ref2, ref3
El Duda, ref1, ref2
El Mreir depression, ref1
Elser, Georg, ref1
Enfidaville line, ref1, ref2
“England Fanfare,” ref1
English Channel coast, seen as invasion target by Rommel, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
English Channel coast invasion defenses:
French civilian assistance in, ref1
panzer controversy in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Rommel’s new techniques for, ref1, ref2
Rommel’s work on, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Enigma code, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
see also Ultra intercepts
Erdmann, Major, ref1, ref2
Esch, A., ref1, ref2
Esebeck, Hanns-Gert von, ref1, ref2
Esebeck, Hans-Karl von, ref1, ref2
Faid Pass, ref1
Falaise, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Falkenhausen, Alexander von, ref1
Falkenhausen, Gotthard von, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Farny, Oskar, ref1, ref2
Fegelein, Hermann, ref1
Fehn, Gustav, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fellers, Bonner, ref1, ref2, ref3
Feriana, ref1, ref2, ref3
Feuchtinger, Edgar, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Feurstein, Valentin, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Finckh, Eberhard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Flächenmarsch (“formation drive”), ref1
Flak 41 guns, ref1, ref2
Florence, ref1, ref2
Foggia, ref1
“formation drive,” ref1
Fortitude, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
“Fortress Europe,” ref1
Fortune, Victor, ref1
Fougier, Rino, ref1
France, ref1
Allied invasion of, see English Channel coast invasion defenses; Normandy invasion
civilian casualties in, ref1, ref2
colonial troops of, ref1
First Army of, ref1
German conquest of (1940), ref1
High Command of, ref1
inland waterways of, ref1, ref2
Ninth Corps of, ref1
occupation of, ref1
outbreak of war and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Spook Division in, ref1, ref2, ref3
underground in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Vichy, ref1, ref2
in World War I, ref1
see also specific battle sites
Franz, Ernst, ref1, ref2
Fraser, William, ref1
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, ref1
French legionnaires, ref1
Fressen, Lt Colonel, ref1
Freyer, Hellmuth, ref1
Fröhlich, Stefan, ref1
fuel (gasoline) supplies, ref1 ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
airlifts of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
for ships, ref1
shortages of, in North Africa, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16
Fuka, Rommel’s planned retreat to, ref1, ref2
Funck, Hans von, ref1, ref2
Gabr Saleh, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Gaeta, ref1
Gafsa, ref1, ref2, ref3
Gambara, Gastone, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Gambut, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Garda, Lake, ref1, ref2
Gariboldi, Italo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Gause, Alfred, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26
released by Rommel, ref1
Rommel’s views on, ref1
Gazala, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Genoa, ref1, ref2
German air force, see Luftwaffe
German army units
(numerically arranged):
First Army, ref1, ref2
First Panzer Army, ref1
Second Corps, ref1
Second Panzer Division, ref1,
ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Third Panzer Division, ref1
Third Reconnaissance Battalion, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fourth Army, ref1, ref2
Fifth Light Division, (later Twenty-first Panzer Division), ref1, ref2, ref3 passim, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Fifth Panzer Army, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fifth Panzer Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Fifth Panzer Regiment, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 passim, ref7, ref8
Sixth Army, ref1
Seventh Army, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 passim, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15
Seventh Panzer Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Seventh Panzer Regiment, ref1
Eighth Army, ref1
Eighth Machine Gun Battalion, ref1 passim, ref2, ref3
Eighth Panzer Regiment, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Tenth Corps infantry, ref1, ref2
Tenth Panzer Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Thirteenth Württemberg Infantry Regiment, ref1
Fourteenth Army, ref1, ref2
Fifteenth Army, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12 passim, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16
Fifteenth Corps, ref1
Fifteenth Panzer Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12 passim, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28
Seventeenth Infantry Regiment, ref1
Nineteenth Army, ref1, ref2
Nineteenth Light Division (Special Service Afrika), ref1, ref2, ref3
Twenty-first Corps infantry, ref1
Twenty-first Panzer Division (formerly Fifth Light Division), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9 passim, ref10 passim, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18 passim, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26
Twenty-fifth Panzer Regiment, ref1, ref2, ref3
Twenty-sixth Panzer Division, ref1
Thirty-second Infantry Division, ref1
Thirty-third Reconnaissance Battalion, ref1, ref2, ref3
Thirty-ninth Antitank Battalion, ref1
Forty-fourth Infantry Division (“Hoch und Deutschmeister”), ref1, ref2, ref3
Forty-ninth Field Artillery Regiment, ref1
Fifty-first Corps, ref1
Seventy-fourth Corps, ref1
Seventy-seventh Infantry Division, ref1
Eighty-first Corps, ref1
Eighty-fourth Corps, ref1, ref2
Eighty-eighth Corps, ref1
Ninetieth Light Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
Ninety-first Airborne Division, ref1
104th Infantry Regiment, ref1
104th Rifle Regiment, first battalion of, ref1
115th Regiment, ref1
116th Panzer Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
124th Württemberg Infantry Regiment, ref1, ref2
125th Panzer-Grenadier Regiment, ref1
164th Light Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
272nd Infantry Division, ref1
305th Infantry Division, ref1
352nd Division, ref1
501st Heavy Tank Battalion, ref1
711th Infantry Division, ref1
716th Infantry Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
German General Staff, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28
anti-Hitler faction in, see Hitler plot
Foreign Armies West branch of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
German High Command:
Cherbourg loss inquiry of, ref1, ref2, ref3
invasion defense plan (1944) and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
invasion surprise landing inquiry by, ref1, ref2
Italian campaign and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Normandy invasion (1944) and, ref1, ref2, ref3 passim, ref4
North African campaign and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22
Rommel’s relationship with, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
German navy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
invasion surprise landing and, ref1, ref2
Naval Group West of, ref1
postwar, ref1
U-boats in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
German supreme command (World War I), ref1
Germany:
aircraft production in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Allied bombing of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
civil war feared in, ref1
Italy as ally of, ref1
Nazi atrocities of, ref1, ref2, ref3
Rommel as viewed by public in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
tank production in, ref1
after World War I, ref1
Germany, Federal Republic of (West), ref1
Gestapo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Hitler plot and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 passim, ref6
Geyr von Schweppenburg, Leo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8 passim, ref9
Giarabub oasis, ref1
Giesen, Hermann, ref1
Gloria, Allesandro, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Goebbels, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21
Goebbels, Magda, ref1
Goerdeler, Carl, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Göring, Hermann, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
jealously of Rommel by, ref1, ref2
Goslar, ref1, ref2
Got el Ualeb (The Cauldron), ref1, ref2, ref3
Grant tanks, ref1
Graziani, Rodolfo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Great Britain, ref1, ref2
air battle over (1940), ref1
air force of, see Royal Air Force
army units of, see British army units
Chiefs of Staff of, ref1
Eighth Army of, see Eighth Army, British
French fall (1940) and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
German planned invasion of, ref1
Greek expedition of, ref1
invasion of Italy by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
navy of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
in North African campaign, ref1 passim
Polish invasion and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Rommel assassination plan of, ref1
Rommel respected by, ref1, ref2
Rommel’s view of German future under, ref1
Rommel’s view of military of, ref1, ref2, ref3
Special Air Service (SAS) of, ref1
U.S. mobile warfare compared with, ref1
in western campaign (1944), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Greece, ref1
British expedition to, ref1
Italian attack on, ref1
Rommel’s command in, ref1
Grolmann, Major von, ref1
Guderian, Heinz, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Günther, Herbert, ref1, ref2, ref3
Haas, Colonel, ref1
Habata, ref1, ref2
Hacha, Emile, ref1
Hafid Ridge, ref1
Halder, Franz, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Halfaya Pass, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Halm, Günther, ref1
Hamburg, bombing of, ref1, ref2
Hammermann, Lieutenant, ref1, ref2, ref3
Hanke, Karl August, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Hannibal, Rommel compared to, ref1, ref2, ref3
Hansen, Georg, ref1
Hartlieb, Max von, ref1, ref2
Hausberg, Siegfried, ref1
Hausser, Paul, ref1, ref2
Hayes, A. J., ref1
Heggenreiner, Heinz, ref1
Heidkämper, Otto, ref1
Hellmich, Heinz, ref1
Hercules Operation, ref1, ref2
Herff, Maximilian von, ref1, ref2, ref3
Hesse, Kurt, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Heydrich, Reinhard, ref1
“High Command Rehabilitation Unit, Munich,” ref1
Hildebrandt, Hans-Georg, ref1, ref2, ref3
Hill 28 (El Alamein), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Hill 209 (Ras el Mdauuar), ref1, ref2
Hill 713 (Tunisia), ref1, ref2
Hill 1114 (World War I), ref1, ref2, ref3
Himeimat ridge, ref1, ref2
Himmler, Heinrich, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Hitchcock, Alfred, ref1
Hitler, Adolf, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15
assassination attempt on (1944), see Hitler plot
Channel invasion site issue and, ref1, ref2
“Commando Order” of (1942), ref1
conspirators as seen by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Czechoslovakia and, ref1, ref2
eastern front campaign plans of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
homeland defense plans of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Italians as viewed by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
last speech to Reichstag by, ref1
manifesto of allegiance to (1944), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Mediterranean campaign plans of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
military’s support won by, ref1
Mussolini and, see Mussolini, Benito
North African campaign plans of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
peace moves of (1939), ref1
physical condition of, ref1, ref2
Poland and, ref1, ref2
political decision sought from, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Rommel and, see Rommel, Erwin
in strategy conference (June 28, 1944), ref2
Victory or Death message of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
on war morality, ref1
war outcome as seen by, ref1, ref2
western campaign strategy of (1940), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
western front (1944) and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
winter offensive planned by (1944), ref1
Hitler plot, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
assassination plan in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
intelligence role in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
panzer forces diverted for, ref1, ref2