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