by Jim Ring
as military attaché (Berne), 1
Casemate du Pont St Louis, 1, 2
Caserta, see Allied Forces Headquarters, Caserta
Castellane, 1
Cerise, Col de, 1, 2
Cerri, Sergeant Roger, 1
Chaigneau, Jean, 1
Chamberlain, Neville: Bad Godesberg meeting, 1; Berghof meeting, 1, 2, 3;
declares war, 1;
on Hitler, 1;
unveils Plan Z, 1
Chambéry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Chamonix, 1
Channon, Henry ‘Chips’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Chants, 1
Chateaubriand, François-René de, 1
Chavant, Eugène, 1, 2, 3, 4
Chetniks, 1, 2
Chiasso, 1
Churchill, Winston: on Ardennes offensive, 1; and assessment of Yugoslav resistance, 1, 2;
on Britain in 1940, 1, 2;
on British POWs in Italy, 1;
cables Stalin on German surrender in Italy, 1;
Carthage meeting, 1;
chairs D-Day meeting, 1, 2, 3;
contacts Truman over Cuneo impasse, 1;
creation of SOE, 1;
d’Astier meeting, 1;
and de Gaulle’s post-war role, 1;
dispatches Maclean to Yugoslavia, 1;
effect on Hitler, 1;
on El Alamein victory, 1;
on ending of war, 1;
on failure of Ossola republic, 1;
fears Red Tide, 1;
on French Alpine success, 1;
on French–German partnership, 1;
Fulton speech, 1, 2;
‘Germany first’ policy, 1;
on government of Italy, 1;
on Hitler’s death, 1;
on Lenin’s train, 1;
and ‘loot declaration’, 1;
Marrakesh meeting, 1, 2;
moniker for Chetniks, 1;
Moscow Conference, 1;
observes Riviera landings, 1;
at Octagon conference, 1;
opposes Alpenfestung plan, 1;
orders shackling of German POWs, 1;
post-war plans for Germany, 1, 2;
potential fight with JANL, 1;
Potsdam Conference, 1;
pragmatism over Yugoslavia, 1;
praises Switzerland, 1;
Reynaud phone call, 1, 2;
on Röhm purge, 1;
on Soviet view of early surrender, 1;
on stalled Allied advance, 1;
supports Glières plateau action, 1;
Tehran Conference, 1, 2, 3;
University of Zurich speech, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on VE Day, 1;
on Warsaw Rising, 1;
writes memoirs in Switzerland, 1;
Yalta Conference, 1
Ciano, Galeazzo: Berghof visit, 1; declares Mussolini mad, 1;
on Mussolini and postponement of Seelöwe, 1;
on Mussolini’s humiliation, 1
Clark, General Mark W., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Clarke, Rosemary, 1
Cocteau, Jean, 1
Cohen, Lieutenant Commander Kenneth, 1
Cold War, 1, 2, 3, 4
Colditz, 1
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 1, 2
Constance, Lake, 1, 2
Cook, Thomas, 1
Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1, 2
Crittenberger, Major General Willis D., 1
Croatia, 1, 2
Cumming, Sir George Mansfield (‘C’), 1, 2
Cuneo, 1, 2
Cvetković, Dragiša, 1
Czechoslovakia: Beneš declares martial law, 1; and British appeasement, 1, 2, 3;
creation of, 1
Dachau concentration camp, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Dahlquist, General John, 1, 2
Daladier, Édouard, 1, 2
Dalloz, Pierre, 1, 2
Dalton, Hugh, 1, 2
Dansey, Claude: career, 1; low view of Dulles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Molden plan, 1;
returns to London HQ, 1;
sets up Organisation Z, 1;
success of MI6 Swiss section, 1
Darlan, Admiral François, 1
Darnand, SS-Sturmbannführer Joseph, 1, 2, 3
Davidson, Basil, 1
Davos: and ‘Alpine cure’, 1; Gustloff assassination, 1;
as holiday resort, 1, 2;
as Nazi centre, 1, 2, 3, 4;
POW camp for Allies, 1, 2;
World Economic Forum, 1
D-Day landings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Deakin, Captain William, 1, 2, 3, 4
Dedijer, Vladimir, 1
Dehmel family, 1
Delgado, Alois, 1
Denniston, Commander Alastair, 1
Descour, Colonel Marcel, 1, 2
Desserteaux, Sous-Lieutenant Henri, 1, 2
Devers, General Jacob, 1, 2, 3, 4
Dickens, Charles, 1
Dieppe raid, 1
Dietl, General Eduard, 1
Dietrich, SS-Oberstgruppenführer Josef ‘Sepp’, 1
Dirksen, Dr Herbert von, 1
Dohle (German train), 1, 2, 3
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 1, 2
Dollmann, SS-Standartenführer Eugen, 1, 2
Dolomites, 1, 2, 3
Domodossola, 1, 2
Donati, Angelo, 1
Dongo, 1
Dönitz, Grossadmiral Karl, 1, 2, 3, 4
Donovan, William ‘Wild Bill’, 1, 2
Doyen, Lieutenant General Paul-André, 1
Drancy internment camp, 1, 2, 3
Dulles, Allen Welsh: on Abwehr, 1; affair with Bancroft, 1;
avoids witnessing German surrender, 1;
Berne apartment, 1;
Berne posting, 1, 2;
career, 1;
CLN meeting, 1, 2, 3;
declines Lenin meeting, 1;
further German attempts to surrender, 1, 2, 3;
Gisevius meetings, 1;
Kolbe meetings, 1, 2, 3;
Marshall Plan work, 1;
Molden meetings, 1, 2, 3;
and Nazi gold, 1;
negotiations with Wolff (Operation Sunrise), 1;
and Ossola republic, 1, 2, 3;
progress during 1943, 1;
Washington consultations, 1
Dunant, Henri, 1
Dunkirk, 1, 2, 3
Durmitor massif, 1
Eastern Approaches (Maclean), 1, 2
Ebensee subcamp, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Eden, Anthony, 1, 2, 3
Eichmann, Adolf, 1, 2
Eiger, 1, 2, 3
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.: and Alpenfestung, 1; ‘Berchtesgaden not Berlin’ cable, 1;
call for general offensive, 1;
Carthage meeting, 1;
commands Operation Torch, 1;
Göring attempts to surrender, 1;
Italian surrender broadcast, 1, 2, 3;
leads Sicily invasion, 1
El Alamein, Battle of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Elliott, Nicholas, 1
Entraque, 1
Entremont, 1
European Coal and Steel Community, 1
European Economic Community (EEC), 1
Évian-les-Bains, 1, 2
Evilard, 1
Feltre, 1, 2
Fenestre, Col de, 1, 2
Fest, Joachim, 1
Festung Gütsch (Oberalp), 1
Feurstein, General der Gebirgstruppe Valentin, 1, 2
Finhaut, 1
First World War: Churchill on, 1; intelligence in Switzerland, 1;
Italy’s alliances, 1;
Tito in, 1;
Swiss diplomatic representation, 1
Fischer, E. R., 1
Fischhorn Castle, 1, 2
Fiume, 1
Fleming, Ian, 1, 2
Flossenbürg concentration camp, 1, 2
Focke-Wulf 1, 2, 3
Foertsch, General Hermann, 1
Foot, M. R. D., 1
Fort Airolo (St Gotthard), 1
Fort Chaberton, 1, 2
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Fort de l’Olive, 1
Foreign Office (UK), 1, 2
Foster, Captain Mayhew, 1
France: armistice with Italy and Germany, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Churchill on partnership with Germany, 1;
controls western Austrian Alps, 1;
discussion on post-war fate, 1;
Fall of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Italy declares war on, 1;
les trentes glorieuses, 1;
Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF), 1;
Rhineland reoccupied, 1;
status at war’s end, 1;
see also Vichy regime
Franco-Prussian War, 1, 2
François-Poncet, André, 1
Frank, Hans (Nazi Gauleiter), 1
Frank, SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans, 1, 2, 3
Frankfurter, David, 1
Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, 1, 2, 3, 4
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 1, 2
Freiburg (Baden-Württemberg), 1
Fréjus tunnel, 1
French Alps: de Gaulle’s appeal for resistance, 1; defensive forts (Ligne Alpine), 1;
demilitarised zone, 1, 2;
Germans seize in Operation Achse, 1;
Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (GPRF), 1;
Italian failure in (1940), 1, 2, 3, 4;
Jewish deportation, 1;
Jews escape, 1;
Jews in, 1, 2, 3, 4;
liberation of Grenoble, 1;
residual fascist troops, 1;
resistance in, 1, 2;
see also Vercors
French army armies: Armée des Alpes, 1, 2; First, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
corps: I, 1; XV, 1;
XVI, 1;
XLV, 1
divisions: 2nd Armoured, 1; 8th Armoured, 1;
27th Mountain, 1
brigades: Brigade Alpin de Forteresse, 1, 2
regiments: 154th Position Artillery, 1
other formations: Chasseurs Alpins, 1, 2
French resistance: combatant numbers, 1; Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR), 1;
de Gaulle’s appeals, 1, 2;
Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI), 1, 2, 3;
France Combat, 1;
Free French Forces, 1, 2, 3;
in French Alps, 1, 2;
German reprisals, 1;
Glières plateau action, 1;
Libération, 1;
Milice as enemy, 1, 2, 3;
Moulin’s arrest and murder, 1;
Operation Montagnards, 1, 2;
post-D-Day role, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
post-Dragoon role, 1;
and Special Projects Operations Centre, 1;
STO as recruiting agent, 1, 2;
support from OSS and SOE, 1, 2, 3;
training camps, 1;
see also Vercors
French Riviera: distance from Algiers, 1; Operation Dragoon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
resistance and planned Allied landings, 1, 2, 3
Friedrich, Caspar David, 1
Frutigen, 1
Funk, Walther, 1, 2
Fuorcla Pischa, 1
Furka Pass, 1
Gallagher, Wes, 1
Gamelin, General Maurice, 1, 2
Ganz, SS-Obersturmführer Anton, 1, 2
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; subcamp, 1
Gastello, General Giuseppe, 1
Gaulle, General Charles de: in Allied leaders’ estimation, 1; appeals for resistance, 1, 2;
bestows honour on Grenoble, 1;
blamed for Vercors fiasco, 1;
creation of FFI, 1;
endorses Montagnards, 1;
fails to seize Cuneo, 1;
fuses resistance groups, 1;
gives Morel posthumous award, 1;
at Marrakesh meeting, 1, 2;
regular BBC broadcasts, 1;
rejects Churchill’s Zurich proposal, 1
Gay, Warrant Officer, 1
Geneva: fascist groups in, 1; and ICRC, 1, 2;
impossibility of defending, 1;
League of Nations closes offices, 1, 2;
MI6 station, 1, 2, 3;
as ‘Protestant Rome’, 1;
Shirer on mood in, 1
Geneva Conventions, 1, 2
Genoa, 1, 2, 3
German Alps, see Bavarian Alps
German army army groups: A, 1; B, 1;
C, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
E, 1, 2, 3;
G, 1, 2, 3;
South, 1
armies: Fifth Panzer, 1; Sixth, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Sixth Panzer, 1;
Seventh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
Tenth, 1;
Fourteenth, 1;
Fifteenth, 1
corps: XVI Panzer, 1, 2, 3
divisions: 2nd Panzer, 1; 7th Panzer, 1;
11th Panzer, 1, 2;
13th Motorised, 1;
26th Panzer, 1;
44th Infantry, 1;
104th Jäger, 1;
118th Jäger, 1;
157th Reserve, 1, 2, 3, 4
other formations: Afrika Korps, 1; Gebirgsjäger, 1, 2, 3, 4
see also operations; Waffen-SS
Germany: Allied post-war plans for, 1, 2, 3; armistice with France, 1, 2;
Battle of Britain, 1;
Churchill on partnership with France, 1;
dissent in, 1;
exports to Switzerland, 1, 2, 3;
Federal Republic created, 1;
feigned invasion of Switzerland, 1;
forced euthanasia program, 1, 2;
general surrender, 1, 2, 3;
Hitler as chancellor, 1;
industrial production, 1, 2, 3;
invasion of Poland, 1, 2, 3;
invasion of Yugoslavia, 1, 2;
Jewish emigration, 1;
Kristallnacht, 1;
media censorship, 1;
Nazi gold, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Night of the Long Knives, 1;
Nuremberg Laws, 1, 2;
Pact of Steel with Italy, 1;
peace feelers with Allies, 1, 2;
planned invasion of Britain, 1, 2, 3;
planned invasion of Switzerland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
shackling of POWs, 1;
slave labour, 1;
surrender in Italy, 1;
surrender by Kesselring, 1
Geron, First Lieutenant Alva, 1
Gestapo: absorbs Abwehr, 1; in Austrian Alps, 1;
difficulties with Wehrmacht, 1;
and forced euthanasia, 1;
manhunt in French Alps, 1;
OVRA as model, 1;
threat to Shirer, 1;
trails Allies in Switzerland, 1;
watches Dulles in Berne, 1;
and White Rose, 1, 2
Giesler, Paul, 1
Gilbert, Senior Corporal Jean, 1
Gisevius, Hans Bernd, 1, 2
Glières plateau, 1, 2
Gloria, General Alessandro, 1, 2
Goebbels, Joseph: Alpenfestung plans, 1; and censorship, 1;
death, 1;
defence of Berlin, 1;
endorses incorporation of Switzerland, 1;
on Hitler–Mussolini meeting, 1;
invasion of Switzerland plans, 1;
on Mussolini and Petacci, 1;
Obersalzberg residence, 1, 2;
sentence for Gustloff’s assassin, 1;
‘Vergeltungswaffen’ coinage, 1;
‘Werewolves’ coinage, 1
Goings, James, 1
Göring, Emmy, 1, 2, 3
Göring, Hermann: Allies move to Kitzbühel, 1; art collection and booty, 1, 2, 3;
attempts surrender to Eisenhower, 1, 2;
at Berghof, 1, 2;
directs Battle of Britain, 1;
dress, 1;
escapes to Obersalzberg, 1;
friendship with Messerschmitt, 1;
Hitler orders his arrest, 1;
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sp; as Hitler’s successor, 1;
invasion of Switzerland plans, 1;
map with Switzerland in Germany, 1;
Obersalzberg residence, 1, 2, 3;
reaction to Hitler’s death, 1;
tried at Nuremberg, 1;
at V-2 rocket test, 1
Gort, General Lord (John), 1, 2, 3
Gran Sasso, 1
Graz, 1
Great St Bernard Pass, 1
Greece, 1, 2, 3
Greene, Graham, 1
Grenoble: Allied liberation of, 1; as ‘capital of the maquis’, 1;
de Gaulle bestows honour on, 1, 2;
157th Reserve Division (Heer) in, 1, 2;
Italian leniency towards Jews, 1;
Italians seize, 1;
Jewish deportation, 1;
mood in, 1;
Polygon arsenal destroyed, 1;
screening for Vercors camps, 1
Grimsel Pass, 1
Grindelwald, 1
Gruber, Karl, 1, 2
Gubbins, Brigadier Colin, 1
Guderian, Generaloberst Heinz, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Guidon, Fortunat, 1
Guidon, Matteus, 1
Guidon, Trudi, 1
Guisan, General Henri: Alpine Redoubt plan, 1, 2, 3, 4; character and career, 1;
consequences of Alpenfestung, 1;
defiance, 1, 2;
demobilises army, 1;
eager for Molden’s intelligence, 1;
expects German invasion, 1, 2;
mobilises army, 1, 2;
orders bombers shot down, 1;
Nuremberg Trials, 1;
on rail tunnels as crucial, 1;
recalls older home defence soldiers, 1;
reinforces Belfort Gap, 1, 2;
Rütli rally, 1
Gümlingen Castle, 1, 2
Gustloff, Wilhelm, 1, 2
Gysin, First Lieutenant Emile, 1
Gysin, Marguerite, 1, 2
Haar, 1
Ha-Elion, Moshe, 1, 2, 3
Hague Convention, 1, 2, 3
Halder, Generaloberst Franz, 1, 2, 3
Halifax, Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hamburg, 1, 2, 3
Harfenes, Rav Yechezkel, 1
Harrer, Heinrich, 1