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Ostkrieg

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by Stephen G. Fritz


  and aerial bombardment of Germany, 330–31, 363, 402, 427, 436

  and casualties inflicted on Wehrmacht, 470–71

  “destroyers for bases” deal, 40, 45

  economic power, xxii–xxiii, 2, 10, 12, 29, 39–41, 44, 165, 325, 330, 335, 337, 359, 426–27, 471, 475, 485, 487

  and entry into the war, 179, 193–97, 484

  in Hitler’s calculations, xxiii, 6–8, 12, 15–17, 34–40, 42–46, 51–52, 58, 64, 71, 73, 75, 83, 90–91, 109–10, 174, 179, 193–97, 217, 226, 234–35, 253, 268, 271, 299, 326, 342, 350, 366, 368, 396, 419–20, 433, 474–76, 479, 484–87

  influence on Lebensraum, 91, 93, 254, 477, 479

  intelligence assessment of German situation, 324, 359–60

  and “Jewish conspiracy,” 15–17, 31–32, 107–8, 110, 180, 194, 474–75, 512n56

  and Lend-Lease, 40, 47, 64, 194 (see also Lend-Lease)

  Lend-Lease assistance to the Soviet Union, 165, 184, 191, 230, 238, 286, 305, 386, 471, 535n78

  linkup with Soviets at the Elbe, 465

  in Stalin’s calculations, 157, 325, 458–59, 464, 468–69

  Ural Mountains, 65, 93, 477

  Uranus, Operation, xvii, 292, 304

  USSR. See Soviet Union

  Vasilevsky, A. M. (Marshal), 248–49, 251, 264, 292, 303, 316, 349, 422

  Vatutin, N. F. (General), 347–48, 378, 387–88, 391

  Verdun, Battle of, 192, 293, 298, 300, 322, 325, 345, 411, 420

  Verkhne-Chirsky, 314

  Versailles, Treaty of. See World War I

  Vertyachiy, 286

  Vichy France, 46, 48

  Vienna, 14, 175, 277, 325, 474

  Vilnius (Vilna), 86, 418

  Vinnitsa, 279, 291–92, 367, 388

  Vistula-Oder operation, 438, 441, 449

  Vistula River, 406–8, 418–19, 429, 438, 441–42, 445–46, 448, 456

  Vitebsk, 122, 381–82, 408–9, 412–14

  Vlasov, A. A. (General), 211, 213

  Volchansk, 249, 252–53

  Volga Germans, 174

  Volga River, 81, 93, 156, 162, 184, 186, 200, 213, 232, 238, 268–71, 275, 281, 284–87, 289–91, 293–94, 296, 299, 300–301, 303, 322

  Volkhov River, 205, 211, 213

  Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), xvii, 18, 20, 21, 254–55, 257–59, 476, 481, 488

  Volksgemeinschaft (national community), xvii, 13, 17, 92, 136, 224, 328, 363, 376, 424–25, 428, 439, 449, 453, 483, 486–87

  Volkssturm (German national militia), xvii, 428–29, 433, 457, 459, 461, 467

  Vologda, 182

  Voronezh, 162, 185, 187, 232, 261, 264–67, 270, 283, 313, 323

  Voroshilovgrad, 182

  V-2 rockets, 335

  Vyazma, 152–57, 160, 199, 211, 214, 232

  Waffen-SS, xvii, 103, 384, 399

  Wagner, Adolf (Gauleiter of Bavaria), 137

  Wagner, Eduard (General), 66, 156, 168, 169, 189

  Walther, Gebhardt von, 59

  Wannsee Conference, 180–81, 219, 236, 505n59, 522n78

  War Economy and Armaments Office, 59, 83, 165

  Warlimont, Walter (General), 67, 280, 341

  Warsaw, 22, 272, 405, 408, 418, 441, 449

  fighting for, 418–20, 422, 429–30, 444–45

  ghetto, 257, 318, 361

  Uprising, 419, 548n24

  Warthegau, 175, 220,

  Wartheland, 20, 177, 476

  Warthe River, 460

  Washington, 40, 268

  weather, 27, 39, 73, 116, 118–19, 126, 129, 142, 144, 150, 155, 157–59, 162, 163, 168, 170, 183, 185, 219, 261, 297, 308, 310, 312, 318, 383, 387, 389–91, 437

  Wehrkraftzersetzung (undermining the war effort), xvii, 377, 454

  Wehrmacht. See German army; German navy; Luftwaffe; Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

  Weichs, Maximilian von (General), 284, 292, 298, 308, 312

  Weidling, Helmuth (General), 467

  Weimar Republic, 254, 427

  Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 36, 50

  Wenck, Walter (General), 448

  Werwolf complex (Vinnitsa), 279

  West Prussia, 20, 255, 449

  Wetzel, Erhard, 256

  White Russia, 37–38. See also Belorussia

  Wietersheim, Gustav von (General), 287

  Wilhelm, Operation, 252–53

  Winter Relief, 296

  Winter Storm, Operation (Wintergewitter), xvii, 313, 315

  Winter War, 36

  Wirth, Christian, 177

  Wöhler, Otto (General), 356, 454

  Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze), xvii, 263, 311, 430

  wonder weapons, 426

  “working toward the Führer,” 22, 107

  World War I, 1–2, 6, 37, 124, 138, 238, 337, 377, 383

  American entry into, 194

  Battle of the Marne, 183, 190, 192

  Battle of Verdun, 192, 293, 298, 300, 322, 325, 345, 411, 420

  blockade, 7, 12, 69

  collapse of German home front, 328

  exchange of populations, 478–79

  food shortages, 60–61, 224–25, 428

  German encirclement in, 234

  German surrender, 12

  hunger, 12, 69, 171, 317

  influence on German generals, 9, 26, 29, 81, 98, 125, 399, 480

  influence on Hitler, xxiii, 4–9, 12, 16–17, 63, 104–5, 170–71, 178–79, 194, 206, 208–9, 218, 234, 254, 280, 317, 328, 401, 411, 476–78

  reparations, 12

  “stab in the back” myth, 69, 474, 480, 487

  Treaty of Versailles, 2, 4, 10, 12, 18, 57, 194, 439, 473, 476, 482, 484

  trench war, 206, 293, 343, 407, 441

  Wotan position, 366

  Wriezen, 463–64

  Yakhroma, 191

  Yalta Conference, 447

  Yampol, 392–94

  Yaroslavl, 182

  Yelnya, 133, 141

  Yugoslavia, 71, 447

  Yukhnov, 154, 210–12

  Zamosc, 257–59

  Zaporozhye, 141, 163, 323, 368, 371, 379

  Zeitzler, Kurt (General)

  appointed Chief of Staff, OKH, 280

  attempts to resign, 397

  and Bagration, 413, 417

  and Citadel, 340, 342, 351, 366

  dismissed, 417

  and Hitler, 366, 397, 399

  and Stalingrad, 305, 307–8, 312–13, 316, 319

  Zentrale Planung, 229

  Zety, 288

  Zhitomir, 141, 380, 387–88

  Zhukov, Georgi (Marshal)

  and Berlin Operation, 461–68, 551n13

  and Cherkassy pocket, 391

  and counteroffensive (Moscow), 200–201, 206–7, 210, 214

  and defense of Leningrad, 142

  and defense of Moscow, 156–57, 161, 186–87

  and defense of Stalingrad, 290–92, 303–4, 316

  and Kursk, 347

  and Operation Little Saturn, 316

  and Operation Mars, 304

  and Operation Uranus, 292

  and preemptive strike against Germany, 80

  and Stalin, 80, 142, 143, 200, 207, 210, 214, 248, 290–92, 316, 391, 422, 462–63, 508n17, 551n13

  and Stavka, 207, 248

  and summer campaign, 1942, 248

  and summer offensive, 1944, 422

  and Vistula-Oder offensive, 442, 444–449

  and winter offensive, 1943–1944, 394–98

  Zossen, 464

  Zubtsov, 211

  Zvenigorodka, 388–89

  Zyklon-B, 177

  Zymlyanskaya, 267

 

 

 
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