and Crimea, 241–47
deep battle, concept of, 79, 210, 249, 303–4, 341
German assessment of, 26, 36, 44, 52–53, 79, 81, 85, 112, 114, 120–22, 148, 237–38, 262–63, 275, 305, 337, 402, 406
and Kharkov, 248–52, 323–24, 353, 355–56
and Kiev pocket, 141–45
and Kursk, 341–53
logistics, 122, 186, 252, 421–22, 471
and Moscow: counterattack at, 199–204, 207–14
defense of, 152–63, 182–85, 186–92
prisoners of war (see prisoners of war [Soviet])
replacements, 145, 210, 373, 377
and Stalingrad, 269, 283–99, 303–10, 315–16, 319–22
and summer offensive (1943), 353–57
tanks: fear of Soviet models, 114–15, 155, 188, 204, 207, 310
losses of, 88–90, 125, 214, 252, 305, 319–20, 149, 245, 252, 305, 349–52, 354, 356–57, 369, 371, 389, 392, 399, 414, 416–17, 420–21, 430, 433, 447, 468, 509n21, 543n94
numbers of, 78, 81, 114, 200, 230, 272, 283, 304, 319, 343, 348, 353, 355, 369, 381, 384, 386–87, 409, 419, 421, 435, 442, 461, 468, 535n78
superiority of, 114–15, 155, 159, 204, 207 (see also tank production [Soviet])
troop strength, 78, 114, 117, 125, 151–52, 153, 183–84, 199–200, 207, 212, 307, 367, 369, 381, 384, 400, 409–10, 421, 435, 442, 460–61, 524n2, 547n75
use of blocking units, 143, 273
trucks, 370, 386, 421
and winter offensive (1943–1944), 365, 369–73, 377–95, 402
and winter offensive (1944–1945), 432–38
Vistula-Oder offensive (January 1945), 441–49
and Warsaw Uprising, 419–20, See also Armies; Corps; Divisions; Fronts
Red October Steel Works. See Krasny Oktyabr
refugees, 16, 287, 427, 430, 445, 449, 452, 456, 465, 467
regiments (German)
Panzer Regiment Bäke, 390, 392
Police Regiment South, 103
Reich Air Ministry, 426–27
Reich Chancellery, 8, 31, 72, 137, 329, 467
Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of the German People (RKFDV), 93, 254, 256
Reichel, Joachim (Major), 263
Reichenau, Walter (Field Marshal), 27, 97–98, 102, 141, 164–65
Reich Labor Service (RAD), 376
Reich Ministry for Armaments and Munitions, 228–29
Reich Ministry for Food, 224, 477, 505n60
Reichsbahn, 120, 150, 170, 220. See also railroads
Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), xvi, 24, 65, 168, 177, 480, 485
Criminal Technical Institute, 177
Reichskommissariat Ostland, 180
Reichstag, 32–34, 64, 109, 178, 196, 218, 224, 439, 467, 476
Reinhardt, Hans (General), 88, 161, 413, 446–47
Rendulic, Lothar (General), 447
reparations, 12, 47
Replacement Army (German). See Armies (German): Replacement
Reserve Police Battalions, 70
resettlement, 20–21, 65, 83, 92–93, 106, 108, 139, 177, 181, 254, 257–59, 476
Rhine River, 455, 457–58
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 9, 24, 36, 45, 48–49, 195, 299, 363
Richthofen, Wolfram von (General), 242–44, 250, 287, 294–95, 299, 311–13, 315
Riga, 88, 176, 178, 220, 433
Ring, Operation, xvi, 319
roads, 54, 56–57, 89, 118–19, 142, 150, 154, 161, 203, 208–9, 219, 245, 255, 261, 282, 310, 382–83. See also Rollbahn
rockets (German), 335, 431
rockets (Soviet), 309. See also Katyusha rocket launchers
Rohland, Walter, 189–90
Röhm Purge (1934), 69
Rokossovsky, Konstantin (Marshal), 345, 444, 447, 449
Roland, Operation, 351
Rollbahn, xvi, 158, 382, 414
Rommel, Erwin (Field Marshal), 247, 281, 299, 307, 400, 402, 469
Romny, 143–44
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 15, 32, 39–40, 45, 64, 107, 110, 157, 174, 194, 196–97, 458, 474–75
Roques, Franz von (General), 98
Rosenberg, Alfred, 62, 105, 173, 174, 180, 219, 256
Roslavl, 210–12
Rostock, 461
Rostov, 164–65, 200, 267, 269–72, 283, 292, 303–4, 306, 315, 322
Rotkopf ammunition, 207
Rotmistrov, Pavel (General), 348–50
Rovno, 89
Rozan bridgehead, 444
rubber, 58, 63, 119, 169, 486
Ruhr, 137, 230, 330–31, 337, 458
Rumania
changes sides in war, 436
fighting in, 89, 141, 395, 405, 435
forces fighting in the Soviet Union: assessment of, 306–7, 309, 314, 367, 434–36
in Barbarossa, 89, 141
in Blau, 236, 276
in the Crimea, 242, 245, 278
morale in, 307
at Stalingrad, 288–89, 292, 306–9, 314–15, 321, 539n30
and Germany, 44, 234, 236, 306, 362, 435
German military intervention in, 49
oil, 37, 39, 41, 47, 49, 83–84, 132, 169, 241, 245, 272, 277, 379, 392, 406, 427
relations with Hungary, 49, 436
Soviet pressure on, 32, 36, 41, 49–50
surrender, 436
Rundstedt, Gerd von (Field Marshal), 89, 140–41, 143, 145, 164–65, 170
Russia. See Soviet Union
Rybinsk, 182
Rynok, 286
Rzhev, 161, 167–68, 210–11, 213–14, 303–4
Sachsenhausen, 260. See also concentration camps
Salsk, 275
Sandomierz, 442–43
Sapun Heights, 246
Saratov, 282
Saturn, Operation, xvi, 304, 316
Sauckel, Fritz, 178, 220–23, 226, 257, 259, 327–28, 332, 481
Sauer, Karl Otto, 426
Saxony, 465, 468
Schirwindt, 430
Schlieffen Plan, 74
Schmidt, Paul, 8–9
Schmidt, Rudolf (General), 147, 208, 313
Schmundt, Rudolf (General), 36, 203–4, 281, 396
Schörner, Ferdinand (General), 397, 432–34, 445, 447
Schubert, Helmut, 256
Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz. See Krosigk, Lutz Schwerin von
Schwerpunkt, xvii, 28, 53, 56, 84, 125, 243, 252, 276, 344, 381, 387, 407–8, 410, 412, 429, 461, 486
scorched-earth policy (German), 206, 372, 374, 455, 457
SD (Sicherheitsdienst [Security Service]), xvii, 13, 70, 103, 107–9, 135–36, 171, 178, 325, 331, 359, 428, 431, 449, 479
SD2 fragmentation bombs (devil’s eggs), 243–44
Sea Lion, Operation, 38
Sea of Azov, 323, 365, 370
second front, 234–35, 268, 277, 299, 325, 337–39, 342, 366, 399–400, 475
security troops (German), 333
security troops (Soviet), 269
Seelow, 463–64
Seelow Heights, 459, 462
Sejm River, 144, 154
Serafimovich, 285
Serock bridgehead, 444
Sevastopol, 164, 241, 245–47, 264, 268, 291, 398
Severnaya Bay, 246
Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Walter von (General), 213, 301, 312
Shaposhnikov, Boris (Marshal), 248–49
Shirer, William L., 1, 34, 40
Shlisselburg, 146
shortages. See German army: logistic problems; Red Army: logistics
Siberia, 62, 108, 115, 162, 174, 186, 200, 256, 327
Sicily, 350–52, 469
Sickle Cut, Operation (Sichelschnitt), 27–28, 54, 433
Siemens, 260
Silesia, 38–39, 260, 429, 441, 444–45, 447–49, 456, 460
Simonov, Konstantin, 274, 467
Sinelnikovo, 370
slave labor (German). See forced labor
Slavs
Nazi racial policy toward, 62, 93, 178, 225, 256, 259, 506n64
viewed as subhuman, 7,
18, 44, 69–70, 91, 106, 170, 254, 476
See also forced labor; Generalplan Ost; hunger policy; Lebensraum
Slovenia, 256
Slutsk, 86
Smolensk, 86–88, 113, 120–30, 133, 140, 149, 152, 200, 207, 219, 326, 360, 368–69, 450, 476, 484
Sobibor, 177, 181, 253, 361. See also concentration camps
social Darwinism. See Hitler
Sodenstern, George von (General), 143, 184
Somme, Battle of, 420
Sonnenwende, Operation, 448
Soviet Union
armaments production, 12, 41, 59, 81–82, 115
civilians: evacuated by Germans, 369, 372–74 (see also forced labor); German use of forced labor (see forced labor); Soviet use of to build fortifications, 157, 186
climate (see mud; rasputitsa; weather)
economic importance to Germany, 40–41, 58–62, 82–83, 127
foreign policy of (see Stalin)
German atrocities in (see Einsatzgruppen; Final Solution; Generalplan Ost; German army; Germany: occupation policy; hunger policy; Jews)
German invasion of (see Barbarossa)
German racial policies in (see Final Solution; Generalplan Ost; Germany: occupation policy; hunger policy; Lebensraum)
German treatment of civilians (see Generalplan Ost; Germany: occupation policy; hunger policy)
German transportation difficulties in (see German army: logistics; mud; rasputitsa; weather)
Hitler’s plans for “living space” (see Generalplan Ost; Lebensraum)
Hitler’s views of (see Bolshevism; Hitler)
and hunger policy (see hunger policy)
impact of war on, xxii, 94, 214, 230, 238, 305, 333–34, 369–71, 471, 481
and Lend-Lease, 184, 230, 305, 471, 535n78
manganese mines, 371, 379
NKVD (secret police), 157, 269
Non-Aggression Pact with Germany, 9, 19, 25, 32, 36, 45, 50
oil in (see oil)
partisan war (see German army; partisans)
prisoners of war (see Red Army: prisoners of war)
relocation of industry, 115
and resettlement of Volga Germans, 174
Russian nationalism, 273–75
and Soviet patriotism, 273–75
State Defense Committee, 156–57
tank production, 90, 115, 189–90, 230, 238, 305, 367
use of Germans as forced labor, 451
and Western allies (see Stalin)
See also Red Army; Stalin; Stavka
Spain, 38, 44, 46–48
Speer, Albert
and aircraft industry, 334–35, 401–2, 426
and Allied bombing of Germany, 330–31, 363, 402
and armaments production, 228–30, 239, 260, 328, 366, 401–2, 421, 426–27, 440, 459, 472
and cooperation with Himmler, 331, 334–35
and establishment of “rings,” 229
and Final Solution, 219
and forced labor, 334–36
and Hitler, 3, 228, 268, 279, 399, 424, 434, 527n45
physical breakdown, 336
plans for preservation of post-war economy, 455–56
at Posen (October 1943), 335
and rationalization of war economy, 228–30, 239, 260, 328
and scorched earth (Germany), 456–57
and self-responsibility concept, 229
succeeds Todt, 228
and total war mobilization, 328–30, 334–36, 423–26
and war, 233
Zentrale Planung, 229
Spree River, 461, 464
Spring Awakening, Operation, 438
SS (Schutzstaffel)
Central Resettlement Office, 255
clashes with Hans Frank, 19, 21, 65, 73, 180, 258–59
Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA), 260–61
economic empire, 65, 259–61, 334–35, 364, 426
Waffen-SS, 103, 384, 399 (see also Armies; Corps; Divisions)
See also Einsatzgruppen; Final Solution; Generalplan Ost; Heydrich; Himmler; hunger policy
“Stab in the back” myth (Dolchstoss), 69, 474, 480, 487
Stahlecker, Franz Walter, 94, 97, 111
Stalin, Joseph
and Bagration, 406–8, 418
and Barbarossa, 84–86, 89, 124, 140, 508n17
and battle for Kiev, 140–45
and Berlin offensive, 458, 460–66, 468–69
and Blau, 264–66, 273, 276
and counterattack at Moscow, 200, 207, 210–12, 214
and defense of Moscow, 148, 156–58, 186–87, 200
deportation of Volga Germans, 174
fear of Allied-German separate peace, 458, 466, 468
foreign policy, 29, 32, 37–38, 40–41, 45, 48–49, 73, 475
and the Hess affair, 79
and Hitler, 32, 38, 66, 75, 78, 90–91, 110, 131, 155–56, 231, 300, 475–76, 484
and Lend-Lease, 184, 230, 305, 471, 535n78
and mobilization of USSR, xxiii, 12, 23, 54, 75, 81, 115, 148, 230–31, 336, 357, 401, 455, 472, 486, 508n8
and offensive (spring 1942, Kharkov), 248–52
and offensive (summer 1943), 348, 356–57
and offensive (winter 1942–1943), 323–24
and offensive (autumn-winter 1943–1944), 369–70, 382, 391–92
and Operation Jupiter, 304
and Operation Little Saturn, 315–16
and Operation Mars, 304
and Operation Saturn, xvi, 304, 316
and Operation Uranus, xvii, 292, 303–4, 306
and Order No. 227 (“Not one step back”), 273, 281, 405
and Order No. 270 (1941), 141
and partisan war, 98, 332
pre-invasion strategy, 78–80
and purge of Red Army, 44, 367
and the Reichel affair, 264
and separate peace with Germany, 131, 157, 184, 300, 325
and Stalingrad, 287–91, 303
and Stavka, 264, 324, 423, 458, 460 (see also Stavka)
as Supreme Commander, 75, 84, 89, 124, 140, 210, 212, 214–15, 244, 247–49, 264, 276, 323–25, 348, 356, 370, 406–8, 422–23, 431, 462
and Vistula-Oder operation, 441–42, 447–48, 551n13
and Warsaw Uprising (1944), 419–20, 551n13
and Western allies, xxii, xxiv, 110, 157, 406, 458, 462, 468–69, 471
Stalingrad
battle for, 289–301
encirclement of Sixth Army, 304–10, 316–18
German air attack on, 287, 535n79
German army moves toward, 271–72, 277, 283–89
German airlift for, 213, 311–12, 318 538n25
in German calculations, 164, 182, 213, 261, 267–69, 271, 275–76
and German relief attack, 313–16
and Hitler, 276, 281, 284, 290, 296–98, 300–301, 313, 405–6, 439
last days, 320–22
losses at, 116, 321–22, 337, 539n30
significance of, 197, 232, 259, 275–76, 284, 290, 298, 322, 325–26, 328, 336, 399, 469
Soviet counteroffensive, 303–10
Soviet defense of, 290–92, 293–94, 301, 535n78
Stalino, 279
Stavka (Soviet Supreme High Command), 122–24, 144, 154–55, 186, 207, 213–14, 248, 264, 288–89, 304, 324, 354, 385, 394, 396, 407, 422–23, 435–36, 441–42, 445, 448, 458, 460, 462, 466, 524n2
steel, 26, 169, 229, 289, 322, 330, 338, 366
Stemmermann, Wilhelm (General), 391
Stettin, 144, 446, 461, 465
Stockholm, 300
strategic bombing. See Germany: Allied bombing of
Strecker, Karl (General), 321
Strehla, 465
Stuckart, Wilhlem, 522n78
Stukas, xvii, 222, 243–44, 291, 294, 298–99
submarines, 38, 402, 418, 431
Sudeten crisis, 14
Sudetenland, 14
Sukhinichi, 208, 210–13
Sukhumi, 278–79
Sultanovka line, 242,
244
Sumy, 143
supply. See German army: logistic problems; Red Army: logistics
Sweden, 298, 385
iron ore, 385, 431
Szeged, 437
Taganrog, 163, 165
Taifun, xvii, 145. See also Typhoon, Operation
Tallinn, 146
Taman peninsula, 278
tank losses
German (see German army)
Soviet (see Red Army)
tank production
German (see Germany: tank production)
Soviet (see Soviet Union: tank production)
Tarnopol, 393–94, 411
Terek River, 272, 275–77, 282
Thomas, Georg (General), 9
and armaments production, 227
and Hunger Policy, 61
and invasion of Soviet Union, 58–61, 66, 83, 165, 233, 235, 239
and Speer, 233
Thuringia, 220
Tikhvin, 200
Tiger tanks. See German army: tanks
Tilsit, 94
Timoshenko, Semyon (Marshal), 80, 123–24, 144, 234, 244, 249–51, 508n17
Tim River, 208
Tinguta Station, 288
Tippelskirch, Kurt von (General), 414
Tobruk, 247
Todt, Fritz, 11, 178, 189–90, 227–28
Topf Company, 178
Torgau, 465
Toropets, 211, 213
“total war” initiative. See Germany: and total war
tractor factory (Stalingrad). See Krasny Oktyabr
Transnistria, 219
Trappenjagd (Operation Bustard Hunt). See Bustard Hunt, Operation
Treaty of Versailles. See World War I
Treblinka, 181, 226, 254, 257, 361. See also extermination camps
Tripartite Pact, 45, 48–50
troop strength, German. See German army: troop strength
troop strength, Soviet. See Red Army: troop strength
trucks. See German army: trucks; Red Army: trucks
Tsaritsa River, 290, 294
Tuapse, 277–78
Tula, 155, 156, 162, 184, 186–87, 190, 200, 203
Tundutovo Station, 288
Tunisia, 46
Turkey, 46, 241, 298
Turkish Wall, 242
Typhoon, Operation, 145, 150, 152–54, 175, 185–87, 200, 207, 211, 214
U-boats, German, 196, 233, 359, 385, 432–34
Ukraine
fighting in, 53, 56, 59, 84, 89, 115, 140–46, 148, 153, 323, 369–72, 377–81, 384, 387–99, 405–8, 434–35, 469
importance of, 37, 129, 132–33, 224–25, 255–56, 259, 402, 427 (see also Lebensraum)
murder of Jews in, 95, 97, 102, 254–56, 259, 481, 511n44
resources of, 55, 59, 61, 73, 89, 113, 140, 148, 172, 224–25, 366, 427
and scorched earth policy, 371–74
Ulianovo, 354
Uman, 141, 388, 394
United States
aid for Britain, 40, 45, 47, 51, 484
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