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by William Shirer


  Lenard, Philipp, 250, 251

  Lenin, Nikolai, 98, 542

  Leningrad, 811, 822fn., 853–54, 856–57, 859, 865, 926, 937, 942

  Leonding, 11, 17, 347

  Leonrod, Maj. Ludwig von, 1060, 1072

  Leopold III, King of the Belgians, 302, 561, 616, 652, 729–31

  Lerchenfeld, Count, 51

  Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 93, 97, 245

  Lessing, Theodor, 251

  Leuschner, Wilhelm, 373, 1030, 1032, 1072

  Lewis, Fulton, Jr., 748–49

  Ley, Dr. Robert, 127, 148, 177, 202–3, 263, 264, 265, 266–67, 275, 282, 671, 1142fn.

  Leyden, 721

  Lezhaky, 993

  Libau, 539

  Liberals, National, 56; see also German People’s Party

  Libya, 817, 818fn., 820, 821, 823, 826, 827, 912, 913

  Lichterfelde, 216, 222, 1066, 1071fn.

  Liddell Hart, B. H., 732fn., 734, 761, 762fn., 855, 916fn., 1041fn.

  Lidice, 991–94

  Liebknecht, Karl, 52, 54–55, 191

  Liege, 1086

  “Lila,” 924–25

  Lillehammer, 706, 708

  Lillesand, 695

  Limoges, 993

  Lindbergh, Charles A., 684, 749fn., 827fn.

  Lindemann, Gen. Fritz, 1030, 1072

  Linge, Heinz, 1134

  Linnertz, General, 1065

  Linz, 10–11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 25, 27fn., 326fn., 347, 351, 1107, 1127

  Lippe, 180

  Lippert, Michael, 222fn.

  Lippstadt, 1105

  Lipski, Josef, 212, 455–56, 460–61, 463–64, 583, 584–85, 587, 588, 589, 591, 603

  Lisbon, 783, 785–92

  List, Field Marshal Sigmund Wilhelm, 626, 755fn., 823, 826, 914, 915, 917, 918fn.

  List Regiment, 30, 47, 49

  Lithuania, 304, 429, 458, 461–62, 541, 580, 630–31, 794, 848, 962, 976

  Litt, Theodor, 251

  Littorio (It. battleship), 818fn.

  Litvinov, Maxim, 390, 404, 460, 478fn., 479, 480–81, 489, 531, 544

  Lloyd George, David, 232, 489, 537fn.

  Lobe, Paul, 201

  Locarno Pact, 112, 136, 212, 280, 282, 283, 285, 286–87, 290, 291, 294, 302, 714

  Loire river, 1037, 1076, 1085

  London, Jack, 241

  London: defense measures, 402, 404, 595; air bombing of, 423, 425, 590, 767–69, 771, 772, 776, 777, 780, 781, 1009, 1040; Dutch govt, in, 723; in German plans for invasion of Britain, 763, 767–69, 782–83, 829

  London, City of, 539–40

  London Daily Herald, 210

  London Daily Mail, 280–81, 453

  London Daily Telegraph, 344fn.

  London Spectator, 210

  London Times, 210, 245, 287–88, 294, 344fn., 376, 382, 384fn., 420, 453, 784, 914fn.

  Lonesome Guest (Goebbels), 124

  Loraine, Sir Percy, 603fn.

  Lorenz, Heinz, 1122, 1129

  Lorraine, 400

  Lossberg, Col. Bernhard von, 769fn.

  Lossow, Gen. Otto von, 65–72, 75–76

  Lothian, Lord, 293, 750

  Louis-Ferdinand, Prince, 907

  Louvain, 717, 724

  Louvre, 945

  Low Countries, 640, 652, 714, 775; see also Belgium; Netherlands

  Lubbe, Marinus van der, 192–94, 269, 654

  Lublin, 626, 631, 971, 974

  Lucas, Scott, 750fn.

  Ludecke, Karl, 119

  Ludendorff, Gen. Erich, 31, 32, 34, 46fn., 53, 56, 63–64, 69, 70–74, 75, 78, 118, 122, 123, 144, 150, 259, 312, 530, 754fn., 871

  Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen, 1101

  Ludin, Lieutenant, 139–42

  Ludwig III, King of Bavaria, 28

  Ludwigshafen, 234

  Luebeck, 238, 676, 1105, 1116

  Lueger, Dr. Karl, 24–25, 138

  Lueneburg, 981, 1141

  Luettwitz, Gen. Walther Frh. von, 55, 60

  Luettwitz, Gen. Heinrich von, 1093

  Luetzow (Ger. hvy. cruiser), 667, 668

  Luetzow (Ger. pocket battleship, former Deutschland), 702–3, 711

  Luftflotten (air fleets), 775

  Lufthansa, 146, 907

  Luftwaffe (German Air Force), 284, 317, 318, 423, 425, 571, 621, 749fn., 755fn., 813, 818fn., 820, 826, 827, 850, 881, 903fn., 923, 1004, 1034, 1043fn., 1056, 1072, 1126, 1128, 1130; building of, 282, 283, 299, 489, 853; in Spanish Civil War, 297, 300; war preparations, 305, 335, 336, 362, 369–70, 445, 487, 488, 497, 517fn., 529, 590; bombing of Poland, 597, 603; in war in the west, 619–20, 633, 646, 671–72, 726, 730, 738, 1036, 1039, 1040, 1099; Norway campaign, 673, 681, 682, 699, 702, 703, 706, 708, 711; operations in Holland, Belgium, 718–19, 721, 722, 725, 730; and stop order, 732, 733, 736–37; Battle of Britain, 752, 756, 758, 759, 761, 765–67, 771, 772, 775–77, 779–81; eastern front, 797, 860, 926, 947fn., 1009; in Mediterranean area and N. Africa, 912–13, 922; medical experiments for, 984–87; Battle of Berlin, 1112, 1115, 1122; Goering ousted, 1119

  Lunding, Colonel, 1073

  Lupescu, Magda, 800fn.

  Lusitania, S.S., 637

  Luther, Dr. Hans, 204

  Luther, Martin, 91, 174, 236, 237

  Lutze, Viktor, 221

  Luxembourg, 470, 561, 590, 644, 646, 650, 715, 720

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 52, 54–55

  Lwów (Lemberg), Poland, 628, 967

  Lyme Bay, 762, 763, 764, 766, 767

  Maas (Meuse) river, 721

  Maastricht, 724

  Mackensen, Field Marshal August von, 197, 225, 284

  Mackensen, Hans Georg von, 483, 553, 554, 565fn., 566, 568, 687, 890

  Mackesy, Maj. Gen. P. J., 707

  Maddalena I., 1003

  Madeira, 265, 817

  Madrid, 785–88

  Mafalda, Princess, 146, 352, 984fn., 1003

  Magdeburg, 1105

  “Magic,” 885, 886–87, 888fn.

  Maginot Line, 293, 294, 422, 531, 646, 718, 719, 720, 725

  Magistrati, Count Massimo, 553

  Maikop, 859, 909, 914

  Mainz, 400, 1101

  Maisel, Gen. Ernst, 1078

  Maisky, Ivan, 478fn., 495fn.

  Makins, R. M., 605fn.

  Malaya, 892, 901fn.

  Malcolm, Major General, 31fn.

  Maldon, 763

  Malkin, Sir William, 391

  Malmédy, 954, 1095fn., 1096fn.

  Maloyaroslavets, 868–69

  Malta, 912–13, 921, 922, 1002fn.

  Manila, 876

  Mann, Heinrich, 241

  Mann, Thomas, 241, 242

  Mannerheim, Marshai, 682fn.

  Manoilescu, Mihai, 800

  Manstein, Gen. Fritz Erich von (Lewinski), 284, 335, 345fn., 369, 370, 424, 488, 718, 726, 830fn., 840, 903fn., 926–27, 928, 1015, 1030

  Manteuffel, Gen. Hasso von, 1090, 1091, 1093, 1094

  Marahrens, Bishop, 239

  Marburg (Maribor), 13, 217

  Marburg, University of, 218, 219, 251

  Margival, 1039, 1040

  Marienbad, 251

  Marienburg, 255

  Marienwerder, 1072

  “Marita,” 823, 824

  Marne river, 727, 863, 1088

  Marseilles, 740

  Marshall, Gen. George C, 1001fn.

  Marx, Karl, 98

  Masarik, Dr. Hubert, 416–17, 418

  Masaryk, Jan, 404, 411, 784

  Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue, 358, 359, 443, 444, 445, 448

  Masefield, John, 384fn.

  “master race” concept, 21–28, 81–82, 86–89, 93, 97, 98, 100, 103–9, 232, 236, 249, 250, 255, 286, 937, 939, 991

  Mastny, Dr. Vojtech, 346, 416–17, 418

  Matisse, Henri, 244

  Matsuoka, Yosuke, 839, 871, 873, 874–6, 877, 878, 883, 888, 892

  Matuschka, Capt. Count von, 1030

  Matzelsberger, Franziska (Frau Hitler), 9

  Maurice, Emil, 42, 79fn., 132, 221, 223

  Maurice, Maj. Gen. Sir
Frederick, 31fn.

  Mauthausen, 272, 351, 955, 956, 967, 981

  Max, Prince of Baden, 32, 52, 55

  Maxwell-Fyfe, Sir David, 517

  May Day celebration (1933), 202

  Maydell. Baron Konstantin von, 685fn.

  McAuliffe, Gen. A. C, 1093

  McCarthy, Joseph R., 1095fn.

  McCloy, John J., 950fn., 1096fn.

  Mechelen-sur-Meuse, 671

  Mecklenburg, 161, 301

  medical experiments, Nazi, 979–91

  Medina Sidonia, Duke of, 914fn.

  Mediterranean, 301, 530, 554, 691, 757, 808, 812–13, 817–19, 827, 829, 912–14, 925, 995, 1007, 1008

  Mehlhorn, Doctor, 520

  Meinecke, Friedrich, 6

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), 80–81, 113, 129–30, 133, 134, 249; autobiographical material, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18–22, 25–29, 34, 36, 39, 40, 44, 109–10; cited, 6, 22, 25, 26, 32, 41, 43, 44, 82–90, 97, 110–11, 209, 230, 234, 240, 243, 248, 279, 288, 307–8, 429–30, 454, 544fn., 549, 796, 941, 1124, 1131

  Meissner, Otto von, 4, 155, 168–69, 173, 175, 181, 183–84, 196

  Meli, Max, 102

  Memel, 428–29, 456, 461–62, 1033

  Mendelssohn, Felix, 242

  Merekalov, Alexei, 476, 479–80

  Mersa Matrûh, 817

  Mertz von Quirnheim, Colonel von, 1058, 1060, 1067, 1068

  Mesny, General, 1100

  Messerschmitt, Wilhelm, 835

  Metz, 1076, 1086

  Meuse river, 716–18, 723–26, 1086, 1090fn., 1092–93, 1094

  Mézières, 717

  Michael, King of Rumania, 800fn.

  Michael (Goebbels), 124

  Middle East, 828, 829, 912, 919; see also Arabia; Iran; Palestine; Syria

  Miklas, Wilhelm, 331, 332, 334fn., 338, 339, 340, 341–43, 346, 347

  Mikoyan, Anastas, 494

  Milan, 482, 740fn., 995, 1131

  Milch, Field Marshal Erhard, 484, 497, 733, 755fn., 947fn., 985, 986

  Militaer-Wochenblatt, 260

  Minsk, 621, 855, 962fn., 967, 973fn., 1020

  Mirabeau, Count Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti de, 93

  Mius river, 861

  Moabit prison, 239, 1025fn., 1068

  Model, Field Marshal Walther, 947, 1076, 1078, 1088, 1090, 1095, 1105

  Moellendorff, Captain von, 1049, 1053

  Moerdijk, 721, 722

  Molde, 708

  Moll, Sergeant, 970

  Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 490, 544fn.; named Foreign Min., 480–81; negotiations with Germans, 476, 481–82, 491–94, 501, 505, 506, 513–14, 520–28, 535fn., 538, 540, 562, 622, 626–31, 639, 667, 793–95, 844; with British, French, 495, 496, 503, 504, 537; Berlin visit, 800, 803–9, 818; replaced as Prime Min. by Stalin, 841–44; receives German war declaration, 846–49

  Moltke, Hans Adolf von, 377, 460, 462, 499

  Moltke, Field Marshal Count Helmuth von, 374, 657, 723, 1081

  Moltke, Count Helmuth James von, 374, 558, 908, 1015, 1016, 1025, 1036, 1072fn.

  Monckton, Sir Walter, 789, 791

  Monschau, 1092–93

  Montevideo, 669–70

  Montgomery, Gen. Sir Bernard Law, 919, 920, 1001, 1086, 1088–89, 1102, 1105, 1138, 1141

  Monthermé, 724

  Montoire, 814, 815fn., 816

  Mooney, James D., 686fn.

  Moravia, 359, 362, 428, 429, 438, 440, 443, 444, 448, 449, 451, 460, 598, 657, 686, 991

  Moravská-Ostrava, 383, 444

  Morell, Dr. Theodor, 444, 447, 1056, 1102

  Morgan, J. P., 688

  Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 897fn.

  Morison, Samuel Eliot, 883fn.

  Morocco, 297, 814, 923

  Morris, Leland, 900

  Mościcki, Ignacy, 560–61

  Moscow: German war plans against, 798, 810, 811, 937; rumors of German attack in, 842, 844; German drive toward and defeat at, 853–54, 856–61, 863–70, 891, 905, 952, 1006, 1007, 1081; evacuated by govt., 859–60

  Moscow Pact, see Nazi–Soviet Pact

  Moselle river, 1086, 1088, 1089, 1099

  motion pictures, Nazi control of, 247

  Mozdok, 914

  “Mr. X,” see Bryans, J. Lonsdale

  Muehlmann, Doctor, 340

  Mueller, Heinrich, 519–20, 595, 953, 1044

  Mueller, Hermann, 137

  Mueller, Dr. Josef, 648, 693, 1024

  Mueller, Ludwig, 235, 237, 238

  Mueller, Wilhelm, 250–51

  Muenchener Neueste Nachrichten, 223

  Muenster, 239; Treaty of, 644

  Muenstereifel, 720

  Muff, Lt. Gen. Wolfgang, 323, 340, 342

  Munch, Edvard, 698

  Munich, 38–44, 46–49, 112, 118, 120, 123, 128–29, 131, 132, 138, 148, 156, 225, 244, 271, 279, 406, 457, 694, 923, 1107; Hitler moves to, from Vienna, 27–28; Hitler returns to after war (1918), 31, 33–36; a magnet for anti-Republic forces, 34; Roehm purge in, 220–23; Hitler-Duce meeting in, 740–41; Hitler-Laval meeting in, 924; Cianos take refuge in, 1004–5; conspirators plan to take over, 1033, 1034; see also Beer Hallc Putsch

  Munich, University of, 48, 124, 1022–23

  Munich Conference and Pact, 384, 403, 407, 409–28, 436–37, 439, 440, 443, 445, 448, 450–53, 496, 506, 531, 543, 544, 557, 562, 565, 566, 570, 571, 580, 583, 603, 611, 619, 635

  Munk, Kaj, 957

  Munters, Vilhelms, 471

  Murmansk, 667, 695fn., 811, 859

  Murray, Gilbert, 784

  music, Nazi control of, 242

  Mussolini, Benito, 63, 209, 261, 344, 450, 507, 562, 640fn., 645, 657, 727, 735, 747, 819, 849–51, 872, 923fn., 995; meetings with Hitler, 217, 301, 740–41, 774, 815–16, 821–22, 995–96, 1049, 1055–57; sends troops to bar Austrian Anschluss, 280; invades Ethiopia, 289–90, 296; Hitler gains support of, 296–99, 301–2, 324, 327; approves German annexation of Austria, 302, 324, 327, 334–35, 336–37, 339, 343, 345, 347; role in Czech problem, 377, 400, 403, 407–10, 414–19; reluctance to risk war against West, 436, 482–83, 493, 508, 509, 511–12, 529, 547–48, 551–57, 564–68, 570, 665–66, 687–92; conquest of Albania, 469; attitude toward U.S., 469–70, 875fn., 889–90, 893; opposes Axis amity with U.S.S.R., 478–79; signs Pact of Steel, 482–83; mediation in war crisis, 587–89, 592, 603–8, 615–18, 620–21, 640, 643; criticizes Nazi policy toward U.S.S.R., 666, 683, 687, 688; promises to enter war, 689–92; war, armistice with French, 739–41, 745, 746; war with British, 733, 755, 812–14, 928; invasion of Greece, 815, 816, 818, 825, 826; in war against U.S.S.R., 851, 909–11; relations with Japan, 875, 889–90, 893; urges Hitler to make peace in east, 928, 995; deposed, arrested, 996–98, 1002, 1003; is rescued by S.S., 999, 1000, 1003–6; assassinated, 1131

  Myth of the Twentieth Century, The (Rosenberg), 149

  Nacht und Nebel Erlass (Night and Fog Decree), 957–58

  Naggiar, Paul-Émile, 537

  Namier, Sir Lewis B., 556fn., 593fn., 611

  Namsos, 708

  Namur, 717, 724, 725, 726, 1086

  Nansen, Fridtjof, 675

  Nantes, 956

 

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