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by Richard J. Evans


  blind people

  Blitz

  ‘Baby Blitz’

  see also Britain, bombing raids on

  Blitzkrieg (’lightning war’)

  Blobel, Paul

  Blondi (Hitler’s dog)

  Bl̈cher (battle cruiser)

  Blue Angel, The (film)

  Blue Danube (Strauss)

  Blum, L’on

  Blumentritt, G̈nther

  BMW

  Bochum

  Bochum Association

  Bock, Fedor von

  and military administration of occupied Poland

  and invasion of France

  and invasion of Soviet Union

  and Hess’s mission to Britain

  concern with treatment of Russian prisoners of war

  and Soviet counter-attacks

  and German push towards Moscow

  collapse in health

  Crimean campaign

  relieved of command

  background and career

  death

  Bodelschwingh, Friedrich von

  Bodganovka

  Boer War

  Bohemia and Moravia (Reich Protectorate)

  B̈hm, Karl

  B̈hme, Franz

  B̈hme, Hans-Joachim

  Bohr, Niels

  Bolshevism, Bolsheviks

  ‘Jewish’

  Soviet

  in Yugoslavia

  and Christianity

  anti-Bolshevik films

  see also Communists, Communism

  Bolz, Eugen

  Bomb Damage Committee, Inter-Ministerial 453

  bombing raids

  on Poland

  on Allied forces in Norway

  on Allied forces in Holland, Belgium and France

  on Britain

  on Germany

  on Yugoslavia

  on Soviet Union

  on Bulgaria

  on Italy

  Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

  Borbet, Walter

  Bordeaux

  Border Police School, Pretzsch

  Boris, King of Bulgaria

  Bormann, Martin

  and Germanization programmes in Poland

  and ‘euthanasia action’ programme

  succeeds Hess

  and Hess’s mission to Britain

  noting down of Hitler’s monologues

  and Fritz Sauckel

  surveillance of foreign workers

  in ‘Committee of Three’

  appoined ‘Secretary of the Leader’

  and judiciary

  and population growth

  anti-Christian policies

  and Arno Breker

  alliance with Goebbels

  and ‘wonder-weapons’

  Bormann, Martin - cont.

  appeals for people’s will to stand firm

  last days in the bunker

  suicide

  in Hitler’s Political Testament

  in absentia death sentence

  Bormann, Martin (son)

  Boryslaw

  Bosnia and Hercegovina

  Bouhler, Philipp

  ‘bouncing bombs’

  Bousquet, Ren’

  Brack, Viktor

  Brackmann, Albert

  Bradley, Omar

  Brandenburg

  Brandt, Karl

  Bratislava

  Brauchitsch, Walther von

  Braun, Eva

  Braun, Magnus von

  Braun, Wernher von

  Braune, Paul Gerhard

  Br̈utigam, Otto

  Brazil

  Brecht, Bertolt

  Breker, Arno

  Bremen

  Brenner Pass

  Breslau

  Brest-Litovsk

  bribery

  Britain

  and German invasion of Poland

  Hitler’s ‘peace offer’ to

  and Jewish emigrants to Palestine

  rearmament

  declaration of war on Germany

  and German invasion of Norway

  supplies from USA

  resignation of Chamberlain and appointment of Churchill

  and German invasion of Holland, Belgium and France

  Dunkirk evacuation

  German plans for invasion

  sinking of French ships at Mers-el-K’bir

  Battle of Britain

  bombing raids on

  attacks on Italian ports

  code-breaking

  North Africa campaigns

  Middle Eastern territories

  expeditionary force in Greece

  and German plans for invasion of Soviet Union

  Hess’s mission to

  ‘lend-lease’ arrangements with USA

  and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’

  and assassination of Heydrich

  Special Operations Executive

  armaments production

  oil supplies to

  women in workforce

  aircraft production

  and Bulgarian neutrality

  invasion of Italy

  reports on Jewish genocide

  anti-British films

  pro-German propaganda

  Normandy landings

  and July 1944 bomb plot

  Battle of the Bulge (1944-45)

  flying bomb and rocket attacks

  Allied forces advance through Germany

  take over of concentration camps

  and German surrender

  postwar use of German military

  technological equipment and expertise

  see also Royal Air Force; Royal Navy

  British Empire

  British Secret Service

  Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)

  brownshirts see also SA

  Bruckner, Anton

  Brunner, Alois

  Brussels

  Brzezany

  Brzezinka (Birkenau) see also Auschwitz concentration camp

  Bucharest

  Buchenwald concentration camp

  medical experimentation

  resistance groups

  ‘Work Camp Dora’ sub-camp

  B̈chner, Franz

  Budapest

  Buenos Aires

  Bug, river

  Bukovina

  Bulgaria

  Romanian territory ceded to

  and German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece

  annexation of Macedonia and Thrace

  antisemitic legislation

  and German invasion of Soviet Union

  declares war on USA

  deportation of Jews from

  refusal to deport remainder of Jews

  declares neutrality

  declares war on Germany

  Bulge, Battle of the (1944 -)

  Bullenhuser Damm sub-camp

  Bullock, Alan

  Bumke, Erwin

  buna (synthetic rubber)

  B̈rckel, Josef

  Burckhardt, Carl J.

  Burckhardt, Ren’

  Burgdorf, Wilhelm

  Burgenland

  Burma

  Burmeister, Johann

  Busch, Ernst

  Byelaya Tserkow

  Cairo

  Calabria

  Canada

  Canaris, Wilhelm von

  cannibalism

  Canterbury, Archbishop of

  Cap Arcona (liner)

  Capriccio (Strauss)

  carbon monoxide

  Caribbean Sea

  Carinhall (G̈ring’s hunting lodge)

  Caritas Association

  Carl Peters (film)

  Carl Zeiss (optics factory)

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Carmina Burana (Orff)

  Carol, King of Romania

  Carpathian mountains

  Casablanca conference (1943)

  Caspian Sea

  Catholic Church

  in Poland

  and ‘euthanasia action’ programme

  and persecution of Jews

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  in France

  in Holland

  autonomy curtailed

  in Hungary

  see also Vatican

  Catholics, Catholicism

  Polish

  and opposition to Nazism

  Croatian

  in France

  in Belgium

  in Hungary

  and suicide

  Caucasus

  C’line, Louis-Ferdinand

  Celle

  Cephalonia

  cerebral palsy

  Chamberlain, Austen

  Chamberlain, Neville

  Chancellery of the Leader

  Charlotte. (diarist)

  Chartres

  Chechens, Chechnya

  Chekhov, Anton

  Chelmno extermination camp

  Cherbourg

  Chetniks

  Chicago Symphony Orchestra

  children

  Germanization of Polish children

  murder of Jewish children in Poland

  in ghettos

  ‘mixed race’

  killing of handicapped children

  in occupied Greece

  included in massacres of Jews in east

  in extermination camps

  in concentration camps

  labour schemes

  of foreign workers

  deportation of Jewish children from France

  Dutch Jewish children in hiding

  evacuees

  killing of babies of forced labourers

  killing of Gypsy children

  birth rates

  fathers at the front

  rescue of Jewish children

  cinema-going

  medical experimentation on

  drafted into war-effort

  German refugees

  see also Hitler Youth; schools

  China

  Chios

  Chisinau

  Chopin, Fr’d’ric

  Christian, King of Denmark

  Christianity

  chrome

  Chuikov, Vasili

  Churches

  and ‘euthanasia action’ programme

  and persecution of Jews

  and evacuation schemes

  Nazi anti-Christian policies

  see also Catholic Church; Confessing Church; Evangelical Church; German Christians; Orthodox Church

  Churchill, Winston

  appointed Prime Minister

  relations with French leaders

  and Duke of Windsor

  rejection of Hitler’s ‘peace offer’

  concedes mistake of sending troops to Greece

  signs ‘Atlantic Charter’

  and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’

  Casablanca conference (1943)

  portrayed in Uncle Kruger

  Hitler blames his ‘love of conflict’

  Ciano, Galeazzo

  Ciepiel’w

  cigarettes

  cinema see films

  Citadel, Operation

  Civil Air War Measures, Reich Inspectorate for

  civil service

  coal

  Cocteau, Jean

  code-breaking

  Codreanu, Michael

  Cold War

  collaboration

  in occupied Poland

  in Vichy France

  and Communist groups

  in Slovakia

  Cologne

  Columbus (Egk)

  Combined Armed Forces Supreme

  Command (Oberkommando der

  Wehrmacht)

  Commissar Order

  ‘Committee of Three’

  Communist Party of Germany

  Communists, Communism

  in Soviet-occupied Polish territory

  German fear of

  labour movements

  in Norway

  order to kill commissars in occupied east

  in Baltic States

  in Ukraine

  in Yugoslavia

  bomb attack on anti-Soviet exhibition (May 1942)

  in ghettos

  Gestapo arrests

  resistance movements in occupied countries

  in France

  in Holland

  in Belgium

  partisan groups in Italy

  political prisoners

  revolutions in Munich (1919)

  resistance movements in Germany

  in concentration camps

  in postwar Poland

  in East Germany

  see also Bolshevism, Bolsheviks

  Como, Lake

  Compiègne

  concentration camps

  Polish deportations to

  Jews to be imprisoned for duration of war

  Gypsies deported to

  in Croatia

  in Serbia

  Special Detachments

  new camps created following conquest of Poland and France

  corruption in

  operation of

  prisoner labour

  change in nature and administration in 1942

  sub-camps

  prisoners transferred to

  transformed into centres of labour supply

  14f13 euthanasia programme

  medical experimentation on inmates

  liquidation of

  Allied forces take over

  ‘floating concentration camps’

  turned into museums

  see also Auschwitz; Buchenwald;

  Dachau; extermination camps;

  Flossenb̈rg; Gross-Rosen; Majdanek;

  Mauthausen; Natzweiler;

  Neuengamme; Ravensbr̈ck;

  Sachsenhausen; Stutthof;

  Theresienstadt

  Condor Legion

  Confessing Church

  Conradstein (Kocborowo)

  conscription

  Conservative Party (British)

  Constance, Lake

  Constantinople

  Conti, Leonardo

  Continental Oil

  Conze, Werner

  Copenhagen

  copper

  Corday, Charlotte

  corruption

  in occupied Poland

  in Jewish ghettos

  in Romania

  in concentration camps

  in foreign workers’ camps

  and Dutch Jewish community

  in Salò regime see also bribery

  Corsica

  Count Spee (battleship)

  courts

  military

  Supreme Court

  People’s Court

  Special Courts

  Coventry

  Cracow

  Crete

  Crimea

  Criminal Law, Commission on the Reform of the

  Criminal Police Office, Reich

  criminals

  Criminial-Technical Institute

  Croats, Croatia

  Ustashe ethnic cleansing and genocide

  deportation of Jews from

  concentration camp guards

  Croatia as client state

  Cronin, A. J.

  Crusading Teutonic Knights

  Culture Chamber, Reich

  Curzon Line

  cyanide

  Cyc’w

  Cyprus

  Czartoryski family

  Czechoslovakia

  dismemberment

  German occupation

  ethnic German population

  planned deportations

  internees in North African labour camps

  government in exile

  Heydrich’s racial policies

  resistance movement

  reprisals for Heydrich’s assassination

  Czech Jews in Theresienstadt concentration camp

  deportation of Jews from

  Czech labourers in Germany

  see also Bohemia and Moravia (Reich Protectorate); Slovakia; Sudetenland

  Czerniako’w, Adam

  Dachau concentration camp

/>   Dachau concentration camp

  Catholic priests in

  Höss camp officer at

  gassing facilities unused

  prisoner labour

  homosexuals in

  medical experimentation

  typhus in

  Daimler-Benz

  Dalheim

  Dalmatia

  Daluege, Kurt

  Dannecker, Theodor

  Danube, river

  Danzig

  Danzig-West Prussia (Reich District)

  Darnand, Joseph

  Darquier, Louis

  Darr’, Richard Walther

  de Gaulle, Charles

  deaf people

  ‘death marches’

  death penalty

  for Poles and Czechs

  for Jews

  for soldiers

  for ‘national pests’ and ‘habitual criminals’

  statistics

  for homosexuals

  for paedophiles

  Death’s Head Units

  Defence of the Reich, Ministerial Council for the

  Degesch (poison gas manufacturer)

  Degussa (precious metals and chemical company)

  Deipenhof estate

  ‘Deists’

  Demjanjuk, Ivan

  Demmin

  denazification

  Denmark

  German invasion

  deportation of Jews from

  and the ‘New Order’

  administration during occupation

  Military SS recruitment

  prisoners

  surrender of German forces

  dental fillings

  Derain, Andr’

  Deutsche Bank

  Devonshire (cruiser)

  Diebner, Kurt

  Diehl, Karoline

  Dietrich, Josef ‘Sepp’

  Dietrich, Marlene

  Dietrich, Otto

  diphtheria

  Djakovo concentration camp

  Dnepropetrovsk

  Dnieper, river

  doctors see also medicine, medical experimentation

  Dohmen, Arnold

  Dollfuss, Engelbert

  D̈lzschen

  Domagk, Gerhard

  Domanevka

  Don, river

  Donbas

  Donets Basin

  Dongen, Kees van

  Dongo

  D̈nitz, Karl

  Doorn

  Dora-Central Works (rocket factory)

  Doriot, Jacques

  Dornberger, Walter

  Dornier(bomber)

  Dorsch, Xaver

  Dortmund

  Dounias, Minos

  Down’s syndrome

  Dragass

  Drancy

  Dresden

  Klemperers’ life in

  deportation of Jews from

  bombing of

  provision of air-raid shelters

  museums

  Technical University

  Dresden State Theatre

  Dresdner Bank

  Dreyfus, Alfred

  Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre

  Dubossary

  Duisburg

  Dunkirk

  D̈sseldorf

  Dvina, river

  dwarfs

  Dyn’w

  dysentery

  East Germany (German Democratic Republic)

  East Prussia

  Eastern Front

  ideological fanaticism of both sides

  scale of losses

  Eastern Land, Reich Commissariat of the

  ‘Eastern Nutrition’ (̈stliche Kostform)

  Eastern Territories, Reich Ministry for Occupied

 

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