by Emma Craigie
Rodger, George 168
Rokycany, Czechoslovakia 85
Romanova, Antonina 238–9
Romilly, Giles 42
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin 63
Roosevelt, Eleanor 161, 257
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
death 77, 122
Yalta Conference 65–7
Rosenman, Judge Samuel I. 242
Ruffle, Corporal Bert
after the war 278, 309
drinks beer 153
hard labour 174, 187
health 97
hides in latrine 270, 274, 275
liberation 277–8
sent for materials in Brüx 96–7, 128
stays in bed 193
Russian forces
advance on Berlin 26, 32, 43, 44, 72, 95, 100, 280
assault on Reichstag 194–5, 197, 198, 214, 224, 238, 260, 265, 268, 273, 280
atrocities 88, 165, 180
in Königsberg 180, 181
number of war deaths 79
River Elbe 77
Rzhevskaya, Yelena 95, 160, 162, 229, 309–10, 314
Sachsenhausen 39
salt mine art storage 81
San Francisco 77–8, 105, 106, 198, 282
Scandinavian prisoners 216
Schwebel, Ernst 90, 226
Schellenberg, Walter 59–61
Schenck, Dr. Ernst 188–9, 190, 191, 193–4, 310
Schmöger, Anni Antonie 84
Schnee, Captain Adelbert 280–2
Scholl, Sophie 36
Schörner, Field Marshal Ferdinand 87
von Schuschnigg, Kurt 40, 255
Schwägermann, Günther 295
Schwartz, John 246
Sellier, Claus
after the war 310
arrested by GIs 254–5
arrives in Traunstein 217, 219, 232–3
heads for Traunstein 95–6, 102–3, 114–15, 153, 157–8, 178–9, 204, 212
listens to radio news 211–12
Lofer, Austria 85–6, 92
mission details 85–6
Reichenhall 130–1
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur 226–7, 233, 238, 245–6
Shatilov, General Vasily 195, 198, 260
Sheil, Brigadier Jerry 230
Shirley, John 100
Sippenhaft law 62
Skodzensky, Lieutenant Heinrich 135
SMERSH 95, 160, 162, 229
Smith, Harry ‘Shoe’ 153
Smith, Lieutenant Marcus J. 203, 206, 210, 223–4, 243
‘snot break’ 109
snow 188
sources for the book 27
Spalding, Betty 105
Spalding, Charles 199
Sparks, Lieutenant Colonel Felix L.
at Dachau 131–2, 134, 135–6, 147–9
interviewed by Patton 136–7
ordered to Dachau 97–8, 120
Speer, Albert 22, 24, 32
SS
at Dachau 132, 135–6
development in 1920s 21
Emil Maurice 110
execute German soldiers 115
mass executions in the Netherlands 226
at Stalag IV-C 153
at Stalag VII-A 76, 132
at Villabassa 38–9, 40–1, 61, 117–18
Stalag IV-C 174
Stalag IV-C, Wistritz 96, 153, 193, 270, 274, 275, 277
Stalag VII-A, Moosburg 76, 93–4, 126–7, 132, 174–5, 207
Stalag VII-B 93
Stalin, Joseph
after the war 310–11
disbelief at Hitler’s death 314–15
informed of taking of Reichstag 198
learns of Hitler’s death 303
name 42
opinion on soldier brutality 88
plans for advance 78–9
Poland cable from Churchill 146–7
Yalta Conference 65–7
von Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus 62
Stettinus, Edward 283
Stevens, Major Richard 39
Stimpson, General William 313
Stimson, Henry 257, 258
Stirling, John 229
storm troopers 20
Strauss, Richard 222–3, 225
Stumpfegger, Dr Ludwig 272, 292
Stuttgart 82
Sudetenland 96, 174, 187, 288
Swaab, Jack 229–30
Sweden 216
T-Force 142, 230–1, 300–1
Talbot, Frank 96, 128, 153
telephone eavesdropping 100
Theresienstadt 107
Thomann, George 211
Tiergarten 44, 51, 176
The Times 200–1
Tito, Marshal Josip Broz 65, 146, 161, 270, 271
Tornow, Fritz 151–2, 311
Traunstein 217, 219
Trenaman, Lieutenant J. 124
Trevor-Roper, Hugh 290–1
Trieste 65, 160–1, 265, 270–1
Truman, Harry
after the war 312
background 122
becomes President 122
character 123
at church service 155
letters to family 121–2
meeting with Judge Rosenman 242
meets with Joseph E. Davies 256–7
peace plans 77
Poland cable from Churchill 146–7
telegrams from Churchill 65, 261
as Vice President 123
tulip bulbs 89
Tuskegee Institute Experiment 94
U-boats 143, 162, 163, 179, 182, 280–2
United Nations 77–8, 105, 106–7, 198–9, 282, 312
US 45th Infantry Division 97–8
USAAF, black pilots 94
Ushijima, General Mitsuru 125–6, 152
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt 161
V2 rockets 50, 208–10
van Heemstra, Edda see Hepburn-Rushton, Audrey
van Maarsen, Jacqueline 247
Vassiltchikov, Missie 196
Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford 69, 81
VE Day 81
Venice 123, 130, 154–5, 236, 254, 259–60, 270
Vienna 17
Vietinghof, General 67
Villabassa 38–9, 40, 67, 117–18
Viney, Major Elliott 76, 93–4, 127, 132, 175
Vogt-Svendsen, Rev. Conrad 216
Volkssturm 164
Wagner, Walther 42, 53, 54, 55–6, 59
Wakefield, Yorkshire 287
Walsh, Lieutenant Bill 120, 131, 132, 134, 136
Wannop, Robert 90
War Cabinet meetings 264–5
war criminals 242–3
wedding dresses 31, 52–3, 201
wedding rings 55
Wedgwood Benn, Anthony 192–3
Weidling, General Helmuth 199–200, 227–8, 260, 268, 312
Weimar 81
Weimar Republic 16
Weiss, Rudolf
after the war 290, 291
drinking 112–13
escaping through Berlin 159, 176, 178, 181, 185, 195, 271, 274
leaves bunker 133
plan to contact Wenck 125
Wenck, General Walther 103, 113, 176, 313
Wermuth, Henry 266–7
‘When That Man Is Dead and Gone’ 15, 28
Whicker, Second Lieutenant Alan 99, 115, 132–3, 313–14
‘White Buses’ 216
White Rose group 36
Whitney, Terence ‘Lofty’ 153, 275
Wiedemann, Fritz 18
Wigan, Tony 106, 107
Wilczek, Sisi 153–4, 196
Wilhelm Gustloff 218
Windsor, Edward, Duke of 239
Wolff, Karl 144–5
Wollenhaupt, August 109
World Jewish Congress 24
Wulf (dog) 111, 152
Wulff, Walther 59, 60
Yahara, Colonel Hiromichi 126
Yalta Conference 65–7
Young, Gordon 209
Yugoslav Fourth Army 65
Zander, Wilhelm 87, 119–20, 158, 190, 272–3, 299, 300
; Zevelyov, Pyotor 227
Zhukov, General 273, 303
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