The Third Reich at War
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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