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Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II

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by Nicholas Best


  Hungary

  informers (in a concentration camp), killing of

  Innsbruck

  internment, of surrendered German soldiers

  IRA

  Ireland (Eire)

  iron curtain

  Ischia

  Italian partisans

  Italy

  American army in

  British army in

  Communist party in

  contempt for, from Allied troops

  end of war in

  German army in

  Jackson, George

  Jagiellonian University

  Japan

  Jewish Office (of SS)

  Jews

  extermination of (Final Solution)

  Ezra Pound’s ranting against

  hiding them

  prisoners, kept alive as hostages

  Jews, Dutch, rounded up and sent to concentration camps

  Jews, German

  count of, pre-war and post-liberation

  deportation of

  Gestapo files on

  segregation of

  women raped by Russians

  Jews, Hungarian

  Jews, Italian

  Jews, Norwegian

  Jews, Polish

  Jodl, General

  hanged

  Johnson, Mabel

  journalists

  Joyce, William (“Lord Haw-Haw”)

  executed

  final address to British people

  Juliana, Princess

  birthday celebrations

  Junge, Traudl

  later life

  Kaiser. See Wilhelm II

  Kaiser, Sergeant Major

  Kaltenbrunner, Ernst

  escape plan

  hanged

  Kammler, Hans

  Karajan, Herbert von

  Karnau, Herman

  Kaufmann, Gauleiter

  Keitel, Field Marshal

  contempt of soldiers for

  hanged

  Kempf, Annemarie

  Kempka, Erich

  Kennedy, Jack

  later life

  at United Nations conference in San Francisco

  Why England Slept

  Kennedy, Joseph

  Kennedy, Joseph, Jr., death of

  Kesselring, Field Marshal

  Khaldei, Lt. Yevgeny

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  Kiel

  Kiev

  killing, in war, effect on soldiers

  Kinzel, Gen. Hans

  Kissinger, Henry

  later life

  Kitzbühel

  Klein, Fritz

  executed

  Klemperer, Eva

  Klemperer, Victor

  later life

  Knappe, Major (staff officer)

  Knappe, Siegfried (artillery officer)

  Knef, Hildegard (Hildegard Neff)

  later life

  Koller, Gen. Karl

  Komsomol

  Koniev’s division

  Köster, Ursula

  Krakow

  Kramer, Josef

  executed

  Krause, Standartenführer

  Krebs, General

  Krefeld

  Krell, Max

  Kreuzberg

  Krüger, Else

  later life

  Kühlbach

  Kuntsevo

  Kunz, Dr., dentist chair of

  Lago di Braies

  Lake Carezza

  Lake Como

  Lake Eutin

  Lancaster bombers

  Landshut

  Latin America

  Latvia

  Laval, Pierre

  executed

  League of Nations

  Leahy, William

  leaking to the press

  Lee, John

  Lee House, Washington, D.C.

  Leipold, Josef

  Lemnitzer, Lyman

  Leningrad

  Liechtenstein

  Linden, Henning

  Linge, Heinz

  lipstick, for concentration camp survivors

  Lithuania

  Lloyd George, David

  London, rocket attacks on

  loot (Nazi booty)

  looting (by conquering troops)

  “Lord Haw-Haw.” See Joyce, William

  Loren, Sofia (Sofia Villani Scicolone)

  later life

  Lorenz, Heinz

  Loy, Leland

  Lübeck

  Lubianka prison, Moscow

  Lüdde-Neurath, Walter

  Lüdtke, Bobby

  Luftwaffe

  Lüneberg

  Lüneberg Heath

  Macher, Heinz

  Macmillan, Harold

  later life

  Maddaloni

  Makarov, Boris

  malingering, charge of

  Mann, Karl

  Mansfeld, Erich

  Manstein, Field Marshal von

  Manziarly, Konstanze

  Marchi, Giuseppe

  Marienbad

  Masalov, Nikolai

  Maurel, Micheline

  Maurer, Victor

  Mauterndorf castle

  Mauthausen work camp and stone quarry

  May Day celebrations, Moscow, May 1

  gun salutes

  parade

  May Day celebrations, Soviet Union, May 1, 1945, gun salutes in many cities

  May Day celebrations, Sweden, May 1

  Mayrhofen

  McDonnell, Bob

  medals, awarded to German troops in the last days of the War

  medical experiments, Nazi

  Mein Kampf

  Mengershausen, Harry

  Mexico

  Milan

  Piazzale Loreto

  military vehicles, traffic jam of

  Miller, Lee

  later life

  Milligan, Spike

  later life

  Minsk

  Miramare

  Misch, Rochus

  Modena

  Mohnke, Gen. Wilhelm

  message to Dönitz

  Molotov, Vyacheslav

  Monfalcone

  Montecatini

  Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard

  Moosburg (POW camp)

  Moosburg (town)

  Moroccan troops

  Moscow

  May Day celebrations

  Mosley, Leonard

  Mosley, Sir Oswald

  Mulsum

  Munich

  birthplace of Nazism

  Hitler’s apartment in, at Prinzregentenplatz 16

  Hofbräuhaus (beer hall)

  Marienplatz

  Nazi headquarters in

  reporting from

  resistance movements in

  ruins of

  taking of

  Mürwik

  Mussolini, Alessandra

  Mussolini, Anna

  Mussolini, Benito

  arrest of

  autographed photo of

  autopsy of

  body of, displayed

  burial places of

  execution of

  flight of

  letter to Rachele Mussolini

  news of death of

  Mussolini, Bruno

  Mussolini, Rachele

  arrested and imprisoned

  later life

  Mussolini, Romano

  Mussolini, Mrs. Romano (Maria Villani)

  Naples

  Naumann, Werner

  Nazi leaders

  hanging of

  hunt for

  remains cremated and scattered

  retreat to Berchtesgaden

  summary execution of, demanded by Russians

  trials of

  Nazi Party, membership in, necessary for advancement

  Nazism

  birthplace in Munich

  crimes of

  disavowal of, post-liberation

  fanatical

  paraphernalia of (torture chambers, etc.)

  Neilandis
, Lt.

  Neubrandenburg (POW camp), liberation of

  Neubrandenburg (town)

  looting and burning of

  Neuhaus

  Neurath, Konstantin von

  Neuroofen

  Neustadt

  Neustadt-Glewe

  neutral states. See also Ireland; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland

  newspapers

  news of Himmler offer in

  news of Hitler’s death

  New Zealand troops

  Nicholas II, Tsar

  Nicholson, Harold

  Niederdorf

  Niemöller, Martin

  Nijmegen

  Nikiforowa, Antonina

  Nikulina, Major Anna

  Ninety-sixth Bomb Group (American)

  Ninth Army (German)

  NKVD

  Nordhausen

  Normandy, fighting in

  North Sea

  Norway

  German invasion and takeover of

  Nuremberg

  hanging of Nazis at

  trials of Nazis at

  Oak Leaves of the Knight’s Cross

  oath to Hitler

  Oberammergau, camp at

  Oberjoch

  Odessa

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

  Olav Tryggvason, medieval king of Norway

  Oldenburg

  Olds, officer

  Olson, Sidney

  Olympia (film)

  Olympic Games of 1936

  102nd Guards Rifle Regiment

  179th Regiment (American)

  Operation Chowhound (food drops in Netherlands)

  Operation Manna (food drops in Netherlands)

  Operation Market Garden (at Arnhem)

  Panter-Downes, Mollie

  Panzerbär (newspaper)

  partisans. See Resistance; particular countries

  Patton, Gen. George

  army of

  Paulus, Gen. Friedrich von

  peace negotiations, by Bunker survivors

  Russian demand for surrender

  safe conduct wished by Germans

  peace negotiations, Himmler’s offer via Bernadotte

  refused by Allies

  released to the press

  Pearl Harbor Day

  Peck, John

  Peenemünde

  penal servitude (Soviet)

  Petacci, Clara

  buried next to Mussolini

  execution of

  public display of body of

  Petacci, Marcello

  Pétain, Marshal

  Peters, Sgt. Arthur

  Pistoia

  Pius XII, Pope

  Plön

  poison, death by

  Poland

  freedom of

  Nazi rule of

  Polanski, Roman

  later life

  Polish girls, Nazi medical experiments on

  Poltawska, Wanda

  Portugal

  Potsdam

  Potthas, Liesel

  Pound, Dorothy Shakspear

  Pound, Ezra

  indicted for treasonous broadcasts

  later life

  Po Valley

  Pozzuoli

  Pravda

  prisoner of war camps

  for Allied prisoners

  conditions of, noted by Patton

  prisoners, concentration camp

  Dutch

  Jewish

  liberated

  photographed in their huts

  prostitution by

  westward evacuation of, by Germans

  prisoners of war

  British, liberated by Russians

  German, reaction to Hitler’s death

  German, treatment of by Allies

  Soviet, released to fight again

  Probst, Margarete

  Promeist, Margarete

  Prominente (important political prisoners of the Nazis)

  rescue of

  propaganda

  Allied

  black

  Nazi

  Propaganda Ministry (German)

  prostitution

  child

  in concentration camps

  forced

  Pruitt, Albert

  Prützmann, Hans

  Quisling, Vidkun

  executed

  name, a byword for treason

  would not run away from Norway

  Raatgever, J. G.

  “rabbit girls” (used in Nazi medical experiments)

  radio, German

  Radio Stockholm

  RAF

  strafing by

  Rankine, Paul Scott

  Rapallo

  rapes, by Russians

  rations

  airdropped to Dutch civilians

  military

  Ratzinger, Josef (later Pope Benedict XVI)

  anti-Nazi family of

  training for the priesthood

  Raubal, Geli

  Ravensbrück

  Red Banner of Victory

  planted on Reichstag

  reenactment of planting of, for photographers

  Red Cross

  British

  Refior, Colonel

  refugees, German

  Reichstag (Berlin)

  fight for

  red flag over

  Russian soldiers occupying

  as target of Russian advance

  Reims

  Reitsch, Hanna

  reporters

  Republicans (Spanish)

  Resistance

  captured members of, imprisonment and execution of

  in Germany

  in Holland

  in Norway

  in Poland

  Reuters news agency

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  despised by other Nazi leaders

  hanged

  post-War plans of

  Riefenstahl, Leni

  later life

  Rimini

  Robinow, Wolfgang

  rocket science

  scientists held by Germans as bargaining chips

  Rokossovski, Gen. Konstantin

  Romania

  Rome

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  death of

  Roper, Jim

  Royal Marines

  royals, imprisoned by Nazis

  Rudge, Olga

  Ruhleben

  rumors

  Runcie, Lt. Robert

  later Archbishop of Canterbury

  Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von

  Russell, Pat

  Russia. See Soviet Union

  Russian army

  closing in on Berlin

  drunkenness and raping by

  German flight from

  German surrender to

  liberation of POW camps

  taking Berlin

  westward advance of

  women of, looking for loot

  sailors, German

  St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D.C.

  Salerno, landing at

  Salzburg

  Sampson, Father Francis

  Sandbostel

  San Francisco conference of United Nations

  Sansom, Odette (“Frau Churchill”)

  later life

  Sant’Ambrogio

  Sapieha, Archbishop

  Scandinavia

  Schacht, Hjalmar

  Schellenberg, Walter

  Schenck, Ernst-Günther

  Scherman, Dave

  Schindler, Oskar

  later life

  Schindler’s List

  Schliersee

  Schmargendorf

  Schneeberger, Gisela

  Schneeberger, Hans

  Scholl, Sophie and Hans

  Schörner, Field Marshal Ferdinand

  Schuschnigg, Kurt von

  Schwägermann, Captain

  Schweinitz, Viktor von

  Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz Graf

  Schwie
del, Corporal

  Scots Guards

  Scots soldiers

  Security Council of the United Nations

  “Seeing Is Believing” exhibition of concentration camp horrors

  separate peace with West

  Himmler’s secret proposal

  hoped for by Germany

  refused by West

  756th Regiment (Soviet)

  sex, group

  Seyss-Inquart, Arthur

  hanged

  shelters for civilians

  Slaughterhouse Five

  slave labor

  slave labor camps

  SMERSH

  Smith, Walter Bedell

  smoking, forbidden in Hitler’s presence

  Smuts, Jan

  Smuts, J. C. (son of Jan Smuts)

  Snetterton Heath

  snipers

  Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

  later life

  Soviet High Command

  Soviet Union

  criminal code, penalties of

  danger from, not apprehended by some Western statesmen

  intentions for Europe

  at United Nations conference

  See also Russian army

  Spain

  isolation and pariah status of, after World War II

  neutrality in World War II

  Spandau

  Spanish Civil War

  Sparks, Felix

  Speer, Albert

  escape to Greenland offered

  mourns the death of Hitler

  secret radio recording of address urging German people to ignore Hitler’s scorched-earth decrees

  sentenced to twenty years

  Spree river

  SS

  atrocities of

  Bolzano headquarters

  character of individuals of

  concentration camp guards

  concentration camps run by

  fanatical defense of Berlin

  fleeing from camps

  foreigners joining

  Göring arrested and held by

  Himmler’s bodyguards

  Jewish Office of

  massacres of, by Allied troops

  orders to execute prisoners, not carried out

  post-War plans

  puts down Munich Resistance

  recruitment into

  refuses to surrender

  slave labor used by

  and the Wehrmacht

  SS girls

  SS-Totenkopf, concentration camp guards

  Staaken

  Stalin, Jacob

  Stalin, Josef

  learns of Hitler’s death

  at May Day celebrations

  military shortcomings of

  speech of

  Stalingrad, Battle of

  Starace, Achille

  Stars and Stripes (newspaper)

  starvation

  in Berlin

  death by

  in Holland

  Stauffenberg, Klaus von

  Stettinius, Edward R.

  Stimson, Harry

  Stockholm

  Strausberg

  Stucki, Walter

  Student, Gen. Karl

  Stumpfegger, Dr.

  Sudetenland

  Sühren, Fritz

  executed

  suicides, of Hitlerites after Hitler’s death

  surrender

  to Americans

  ceremonies of

  of a concentration camp

  factions pro and con

  offers to surrender to the West

  refusal to

  to Russians by German soldiers, outcome of

  solicited by Americans, refused

  unconditional, demanded of Germany

  Susloparov, Gen. Ivan

  Sweden

  Switzerland

  frontier

 

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