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Index
Abwehr, 1, 2
Abyssinia, 1
Acheson, Dean, 1
Adelboden, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Adler (German train), 1, 2, 3
A-4 rocket, see V-2 rocket
Aga Khan, 1
Ain, 1
Albania, 1
Albertville, 1
Alexander, Field Marshal Harold: appeal for resistance in Italian Alps, 1, 2, 3;
Clark replaces in Italy, 1;
and Cuneo impasse, 1;
ends campaigning for winter, 1, 2;
and German surrender in Italy, 1;
on Italian partisans, 1;
requests JANL withdrawal from Carinthia, 1
Algiers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Allied Forces Headquarters, Caserta (AFHQ), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT), 1, 2, 3, 4
Alpenfestung (Alpine Fortress): Allied forces converge on, 1;
Dulles’s belief in, 1;
Göring on, 1;
Himmler’s planning for, 1;
lack of intelligence on, 1;
Pfeiffer’s order, 1;
replaces Berlin as Allied focus, 1;
SHAEF on, 1, 2;
US War Department warning, 1
‘Alpine cure’, 1, 2
Alps, see Austrian Alps; Bavarian Alps; French Alps; Italian Alps; Swiss Alps; Yugoslavia
Altaussee, 1
Anderson, Captain Harry, 1
A-9/A-10 rocket, 1
Anjot, Capitaine Maurice, 1, 2
Annecy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Annemasse, 1
Antwerp, 1, 2
Apennines: Alexander’s difficulties in, 1; Gothic Line, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Marzabotto massacre, 1;
partisans in, 1;
Mussolini rescue, 1
Ardennes offensive, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Arnold, Matthew, 1
Arnold-Baker, Richard, 1
Aron, Robert, 1
Arosa, 1
Ascona, 1
Ashenden (Maugham), 1
Ashford-Russell, Major Brian, 1
Astier de la Vigerie, Emmanuel d’, 1, 2
Augsburg, 1, 2, 3, 4
Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Austria: Anschluss, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; concentration camps, 1;
expulsion of Jews, 1;
as fascist state, 1;
in Great Depression, 1;
and Grossdeutsches Reich, 1, 2;
Hitler’s Vienna speech, 1;
murder of Dollfuss, 1;
partition at war’s end, 1;
as potential Soviet state, 1;
regains independence, 1
Austrian Alps: Allies enter Innsbruck, 1; British–Yugoslav face-off in Carinthia, 1;
Churchill’s post-war plans, 1;
following Anschluss, 1;
and ‘Fortress Europe’ idea, 1;
French forces advance into, 1, 2;
Mauthausen subcamps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
post-Depression flourishing of resorts, 1;
under AMGOT rule, 1;
underground industrial production, 1;
‘Werewolves’ in, 1;
White Rose leaflets, 1;
see also Alpenfestung
Austrian resistance: announces armistice, 1; formation of O5, 1;
leads de Lattre’s forces in Alps, 1;
Molden meets Dulles, 1, 2, 3;
O5 cells, 1;
Provisorisches Österreichisches Nationalkommitee (POEN), 1, 2;
seizes Wehrmacht Innsbruck HQ, 1;
Vienna protest, 1, 2
Bachmann, Professor Gottlieb, 1
Bad Godesberg, 1
Bad Ischl subcamp, 1
Bad Reichenhall, 1
Badoglio, Pietro: Churchill on, 1; numbers dictators, 1;
on Mussolini’s declaration of war, 1;
post-Achse declaration and armistice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
as Prime Minister, 1, 2
Baedeker’s Guide, 1, 2
Bailey, Colonel S. W. ‘Bill’, 1
Balbo, Italo, 1
Baldwin, Henry, 1
Balkans, see Yugoslavia
Ball, Sir Joseph, 1
Bancroft, Mary, 1
Barbère, 1
Barbie, Klaus, 1
Barcelonnette, 1, 2, 3, 4
Barratt, Air Marshal Arthur, 1
Basel: fascist groups in, 1; impossibility of defending, 1, 2
Bavarian Alps: anti-Semitism in, 1; assembly of Messerschmitts, 1, 2;
Churchill’s post-war plans, 1;
Dachau and Mauthausen subcamps, 1, 2;
and ‘Fortress Europe’ idea, 1;
Nazi gold and currency sent to, 1, 2, 3, 4;
under AMGOT rule, 1, 2;
underground industrial production, 1;
‘Werewolves’ in, 1;
see also Alpenfestung
Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW), 1
BBC: Alexander’s appeal for resistance, 1, 2, 3; broadcasts Vercors liberation, 1;
de Gaulle’s appeals for resistance, 1, 2;
de Gaulle’s regular broadcasts, 1;
publicises French resistance, 1, 2;
warns of Milice attack, 1
Bechmann-Lescot, Roland, 1
Beevor, Antony, 1, 2
Béguin, ‘Captain’ André-Henri, 1
Belfort Gap, 1, 2
Belgrade, 1, 2
Belluno, 1
Beneš, Edvard, 1, 2
Berchtesgaden: air-raid shelters, 1, 2; architecture and surroundings, 1;
Barbarossa legend, 1;
Bormann remodels railway station, 1;
captured Nazi bosses, 1;
French forces enter, 1;
Hitler’s first visit, 1;
‘Munich’ better named as, 1;
replaces Berlin as Allied focus, 1, 2;
survives RAF bombing, 1;
US troops enter 1;
see also Berghof;
Obersalzberg
Berghof: Allied looting, 1; building history, 1;
bunker system, 1, 2, 3;
Chamberlain meeting, 1, 2, 3;
Ciano visit, 1;
demolished, 1;
Halifax visit, 1, 2, 3;
industrialists’ meeting at, 1;
Junge on, 1;
pilgrimages to, 1;
post-Anton meeting, 1;
Raeder meeting, 1, 2;
RAF flattens, 1;
Rommel at, 1;
Seelöwe meeting, 1
Bergier commission, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bergün, 1, 2
Berlin: Alpenfestung replaces as Allied focus, 1, 2; as Hitler’s final base, 1, 2, 3;
Potsdam Conference, 1;
RAF bombing, 1, 2;
Red Army advances to, 1, 2;
Red Army’s behaviour in, 1;
Reich Chancellery, 1, 2;
Stalin’s deception, 1
Bernadotte, Count Folke, 1
Berne: British legation departs, 1; importance of MI6 base, 1;
impossibility of defending, 1, 2;
Kolbe–Cartwright meeting, 1, 2;
Lunn on post-war, 1;
Nazi gold in, 1;
Shirer on mood in, 1
Bertin, General, 1
Béthouart, Lieutenant General Emile, 1
Bierling, Alfred, 1
Biner, Bernard, 1, 2
Bir Hacheim, Battle of, 1
Black Forest, 1
Blaskowitz, Generaloberst Johannes, 1
Bletchley Park, 1, 2, 3, 4
Blondi (Hitler’s Alsatian), 1, 2
Blum, Léon, 1
Blum, Paul, 1
Blye, William, 1
BMW, 1, 2
Bock, Generaloberst Fedor von, 1
Bodensee, see Constance, Lake
Boer War, 1
Böheim, General Johannes, 1
Bologna, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bolzano, 1, 2
Bonomi, Ivanoe, 1, 2
Borgo San Dalmazzo, 1, 2, 3
Bormann, Martin: accuses Göring of treason, 1, 2; Berghof bunker system, 1, 2;
builds Kehlsteinhaus, 1;
death, 1;
defences at Obersalzberg, 1;
Ober
salzberg rebuilding, 1;
Obersalzberg residence, 1, 2, 3;
and succession to Hitler, 1;
urges Hitler’s escape to Obersalzberg, 1
Bourg-Saint-Maurice, 1
Bowlby, Captain Cuthbert, 1
Bradley, General Omar, 1, 2
Brauchitsch, Oberst Berndt von, 1, 2
Brauchitsch, Generalfeldmarschall Walther von, 1
Braun, Eva, 1, 2, 3
Braun, Magnus von, 1
Braun, Wernher von, 1, 2, 3
Bredow, SS-Obersturmführer von, 1
Bregenz, 1, 2, 3
Brenner Pass: Americans block access, 1; 88th Division sent to, 1;
and ‘Fortress Europe’ idea, 1;
Hitler–Mussolini meeting, 1;
Italian forces mass on, 1;
and Operation Achse, 1, 2;
as Wolff’s escape route, 1
Briançon, 1
Britain: Anglo-Swiss relations, 1; appeasement, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Blitz, 1, 2;
declaration of war, 1;
early Alpine adventurers, 1;
German invasion plans, 1, 2, 3;
Hitler’s attitude to, 1;
and Jewish immigration, 1, 2;
Pilet-Golaz seeks to sever relations, 1;
status at war’s end, 1;
VE Day, 1
Britannia Hut, 1
British army armies: Eighth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
divisions: 88th, 1, 2
British Council, 1
British Expeditionary Force, 1, 2, 3, 4
Brooke, Lieutenant General Alan, 1
Browning, Frank, 1
Browning, Colonel Freddie, 1
Bruce, David, 1
Brunner, SS-Hauptsturmführer Alois, 1, 2
Buchan, John, 1
Buchenwald concentration camp, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor, 1, 2
Burgh, Captain Hugo de, 1, 2
Bütefisch, Heinrich, 1
Byron, Lord, 1
Cairo, 1, 2
Canadian forces, 1
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm, 1
Cap Martin, 1, 2
Carthage, 1, 2
Cartwright, Colonel Henry: interrogates Marais, 1; Kolbe meeting, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;