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by Giles MacDonogh


  The outstanding book on Soviet policy is Vojtech Mastny’s The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity (New York and Oxford 1996), and more recently I have found Geoffrey Roberts’s Stalin Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 (New Haven and London 2006) extremely useful. Something can be gleaned from Georgi Zhukov’s Reminiscences (Moscow 1985). For the roles of other Cold Warriors, see Curtis F. Morgan Jnr’s James F. Byrnes, Lucius Clay and American Policy in Germany 1945-1947 (Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter 2002) or Byrnes’s own account in Speaking Frankly (London 1947). For Clay’s role in Germany there is Jean Edward Smith’s The Papers of Lucius D. Clay (Bloomington and London 1974). Truman covers his back in his two-volume Year of Decisions and Years of Trial and Hope (London 1955). They are very useful for Potsdam. George Kennan’s Memoirs (London 1968) provide the dissenting view. Ernest Bevin’s time as foreign secretary is amply covered by Alan Bullock (London 1983) and in less detail by Peter Weiler (Manchester and New York 1993). Charles Williams provides a useful, recent account of the rise of Adenauer (London 2000).

  More detailed references and non-English sources will be found in the notes.

  Index

  Aachen

  Abramski, Stanisław, Bishop of Katowice

  Abzug, Robert H.: Inside the Vicious Heart

  Acher, Achille von

  Ackermann, Anton

  Adelheide camp

  Adenauer, Konrad: forced retirement; resumes mayoralty of Cologne; dealings with British; and formation of German Federal Republic; suppresses political rivals; antipathy to Schumacher; on return of German POWs; visits Russia; protests at dismantling of German industries; attends United Europe Congress (May 1948); relations with French; and Ruhr authority; and German reunification; made Chancellor; favours European union

  Adler, Guido

  Adler, Viktor

  Agee, James

  Ahrenshoop (seaside resort)

  Albrecht, Professor (of Prague)

  Alexander, Field Marshal Haroldt Earl

  Alexander, Peter A.

  Allied Control Council: established; and Potsdam Agreement; meets in Berlin; constitution; French obstruct

  Allied High Commission: formed from Military Government

  Althof’s travelling circus

  Altmann, Karl

  Alvensleben, Bodo von

  Alvensleben, Captain von

  Amelunxen, Rudolf

  American Forces Network

  American Military Government (AMG)

  American zone (Germany): material plenty in; refugees in; cooperation with British and French zones; HQ at Frankfurt-am-Main; civil administration; US separation from Germans in; extent; anti-frat order relaxed; theft and plunder in; rapes in; German marriages to US servicemen; ‘occupation children’ born in; political life in; denazification; culture in; industrial dismantling prevented; Jewish DP camps in; internment of Nazis in; food donations in; rations and shortages in; and war crimes trials; see also United States of America

  Amery, John

  Andernach camp

  Andersch, Alfred

  Andrus, Colonel Burton C.

  Annan, Noël, Baron

  Antipenko (Zhukov’s adjutant)

  Ardennes: US campaign in (1944-5)

  Arendsee, Marthe

  Arendt, Hannah: Organised Guilt and Universal Responsibility

  Arnim, General Hans-Jürgen von

  Arnold, Karl art: plundered and destroyed

  artists: colony at Ahrenshoop

  Astafiev, Major

  Atlantic Charter (1941)

  Atlantic Pact (1949)

  Atrocities Committee Austria

  Attlee, Clement (later 1st Earl): plans occupation; dislikes Germans; succeeds Churchill as Prime Minister; at Potsdam Conference; favours withdrawing from Germany

  Auden, W. H.

  Auerbach camp

  Aufbau (periodical)

  Aufbau Verlag

  Augsburg

  Augstein, Rudolf

  August William, Prince of Prussia (‘Auwi’)

  Auschwitz: liberated; reused by Poles

  Aussig (Ustí nad Labem), Czechoslovakia

  Aust, Adolf

  Austin, Sergeant-Major

  Austria: Allies’ view and policy on post-war settlement; elite purged by Nazis; German annexation (Anschluss, 1938); Jews in; attempts to form fighting units with Allies; doubts on independence from Germany; denies war guilt; Russians capture and occupy; political parties formed; declaration of independence from Germany; forms interim government (1945); Nazis and Nazism in; German-speaking refugees in; territorial demands; divided into occupation zones; industrial plant and property removed and confiscated; communists in; free elections (1945) and Figl government; under Allied administration; food shortage and supply; receives foreign aid; four-power Agreement on (1946); State Treaty (1955); Germans expelled; property claims and restitution; Soviet zone; vineyards; British zone; American zone; borders agreed; Russian DPs in; French zone; Habsburgs banned; refugees and DPs in; denazification; capital punishment in; elections (October 1949); German POWs in; and South Tyrol; peace treaty proposed; Soviet kidnappings in; Soviet obstructionism in; currency; see also Upper Austria; Vienna

  Austrian Centre

  Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP)

  Austrian Socalist Party (SPÖ)

  Avenarius, Johannes

  Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem

  Bacque, James: Other Losses

  Bad Kreuznach-Bretzenheim camp

  Bad Nenndorf

  Bad Oeynhausen

  Baden

  Baden-Baden

  Bader, Untersturmführer

  Badoglio, Marshal Pietro

  Baeck, Leo

  Bähr, Erna (‘Bärchen’)

  Balfour, Michael

  Baltic States: German-speaking population

  Barkow

  Barnetson, Major William

  Barraclough, Brigadier John

  Baruch, Bernard

  BASF, Ludwigshafen

  Bauer, Christoph

  Bauer, Otto

  Baum, Otto

  Baur, Hans

  Bavaria

  Baxa, Captain

  Bayreuth

  Bayrische Volkspartei (BVP)

  Becher, Johannes R.; Manifest des Kulturbundes zur demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands

  Becher, Lily

  Beck, Colonel-General Ludwig

  Becker, Frau (of Brandenburg)

  Becker, Hans von

  Beckmann, Christel

  Bédarida, Renée

  Beethoven, Ludwig van

  Beheim-Schwarzbach, Martin

  Behr, Fritz

  Bekessy, Imre

  Belgium: POW camps in; post-war trials

  Belokopitov, Andrei

  Belsen see Bergen-Belsen

  Ben-Gurion, David

  Beneš, Edvard

  Benn, Gottfried

  Berchtesgaden

  Bergen-Belsen concentration camp: Jewish prisoners in; British enter; as Jewish DP camp; newsreel photographs from; Germans forced to visit; food rations; Gollancz visits; SS prisoners in; culprits tried and punished

  Berger, Gottlob

  Bergius, Friedrich

  Berlin: French granted sector; Soviet conquest and occupation of; ceasefire signed (2 May 1945); rape in; illegitimate children; Western Allies arrive in; surrender document signed in; communist-nominated administration; local elections (September 1945); rubble cleared and city reorganised; food shortages and subsistence; isolation; disease; Allied Control Council established in; US-RUSSIAN conflicts in; partition into zones; burial of dead in; houses requisitioned by Allies; mortality rate under occupation; music and concerts; conditions (1945-6); German refugees in; Kommandatura in; Russian dominance in; deputy military governors (DMGs); Soviet administrative structure; arts and culture in; homes restored; monuments destroyed; industries removed by Russians to east; British in; Soviet blockade and Allied airlift (1947-8); denazification in; deaths from TB; black market in; cr
ime in; art treasures plundered; Truman visits; severe winters; elections (May 1946); (October 1946); and Allied disagreements; Reuter’s mayoralty; Western zone prosperity; Allied military strength in; police; Russians cut off milk supply; Soviet military strength in; currency circulation; Soviet-inspired violence in; Western demonstrations for democratic freedom; divided; tuberculosis; housing; road traffic resumes

  Berlin, Irving

  Berlin Free University

  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

  Berling, General Zygmunt

  Bernadotte, Count Folke

  Berry, Sir Vaughan

  Bersarin, Colonel-General Nicholas E.

  Bersin, Sergeant

  Besser, Walter

  Béthouart, Lieutenant-General Emile-Marie: on destruction in Vienna; status in Vienna; meets Clark; Koniev meets; acquires Palais Lobkowitz in Vienna; visits Mauthausen; on Archduke Otto; on punishment of Nazis; on hardships in Vienna; and Koenig

  Bevin, Ernest: declines to defend Austria; as Foreign Secretary; and Pakenham; on French communists; and Ruhr; at Potsdam; hostility to Soviet Russia; on maintenance of Hess; favours divided Germany; favours remaining in Germany; and cession of South Tyrol to Austria; and Molotov’s wish for unified Germany; invites US to station B-29 bombers in Britain; refuses communication with Russians during Berlin blockade

  Biberteich camp, Czechoslovakia

  Bidault, Georges

  Biddle, Francis

  Biel, Heinz

  Bielenberg, Christabel

  Bierut, Bołesław

  Big Lift, The (film)

  Bildt, Paul

  Bimko, Dr Hadassah

  Birley, Sir Robert

  Biscari

  Bismarck, Prince Otto von

  Bizonia (US-British zones)

  black market: transactions; development and operation; and crime

  Blaha, General

  Blanckenburg family

  Blankenhorn, Herbert

  Blaschtowitschka, Dr

  Blaskowitz, General Johannes

  Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von

  Bluméon

  Blum, Moritz

  Bogomolov, Alexander

  Bohle, Ernst

  Bohlen, Charles (‘Chip’)

  Bohlen und Halbach, Gustav von

  Böhler, Josef

  Böhm, Johann

  Böhm, Karl

  Böhm-Baweerk family

  Bohrer, Karl-Heinz

  Boislambert, Hettier de

  Böll, Heinrich: Die Botschaft; ‘Geschäft ist Geschäft’ in Wanderer kommst du nach Spa, Erzählungen; Kreuz ohne Liebe; ‘Kumpel mit dem langen Haar’; ‘Lohengrins Tod’; ‘Mein Onkel Fred’; ‘When the War Was Over’

  Bolling, General Alexander

  Bolzano-Bozen

  Bongers, Else

  Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

  Bonin, Colonel Bogislaw von

  Bonn: as West German capital

  Borchard, Leo

  Borchert, Wolfgang: Draussen vor der Tür (play; filmed as Liebe 1947)

  Bormann, Martin

  Bornholm (island), Denmark

  Borotra, Jean

  Böttner, Professor Arthur

  Boveri, Margret: reaches Teupitz; disparages Dönitz; in Charlottenburg; on Red Army soldiers’ behaviour; on women working in Berlin; meets surviving Jews; on food shortage; on Americans in Germany; crosses into Franconia; attends Berlin concert; on Bamberg; on Western Allies’ plundering; on Fragebogen; on shortage of German men; on prisoners in Soviet Union; on accused at Nuremberg; on arrests in Potsdam; on number of French arrests; Tage des Überlebens

  Bradley, General Omar

  Brandenburg

  Brandt, Karl

  Brandt, Willy

  Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von

  Braun, Eva

  Braunschweig, Eberhard von

  Brech, John

  Brecht, Bertolt

  Breker, Arno

  Bremen: ceded by British to Americans

  Brenner

  Breslau (Wrocław)

  Briand, Aristide

  Bridgend, South Wales

  Britain: policy on Germany; advance into Germany and central Europe; wartime alliance with USSR; refuses to recognise Renner regime in Austria; dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste and Carinthia; and Dönitz government; and Princess Victoria Louise; arrival in Berlin; popularity in Berlin; and development of German constitution; complains of Russian thefts; forms Rhineland-Westphalia, 255; reputation; dealings with Adenauer; supports Schumacher; Austrian policy; presence in Austria; administration in Vienna; and deportation of Cossacks to Russia; employs German and Austrian Jews in army; suspicion of Jewish influx into Germany; changes policy on fraternising with Germans; treatment of German POWs; POW camps in; and Nazi war criminals; and war crimes trials; ends war trials; general election (July 1945); policy at Potsdam; economic and financial weakness; rejects People’s Congress; and Berlin airlift; Adenauer opposes entry to Common Market; effects of war on; post-war retribution; decline as power

  British Austrian Legal Unit (BALU)

  British Control Commission

  British Free Corps

  British zone (Germany): German refugees in; co-operation with American and French zones; tolerance; denazification; military government in; education in; industrial plant removed; culture in; food and clothing shortages in; thefts in

  Britten, Benjamin

  Brno, Czechoslovakia: death march

  Broch, Hermann

  Brost, Erich

  Brown, Ralph

  Brüning, Heinrich

  Brunner, Alois (‘Jupo’)

  Brunswick

  Brunswick, Ernest-Augustus, Duke of

  Brussels Pact (1948)

  Brüx (Most), Czechoslovakia

  Bryant, Lieutenant-Colonel George (born Breuer)

  Buchenwald concentration camp

  Büderich camp

  Bugner, Helene

  Bühler (state secretary)

  Bulganin, Marshal Nikolai Alexandrovich

  Bulgarians: population transfer (1913)

  Bumballa, Raoul

  Burgenland

  Bürklin, Wilhelm Burschenschaften (student corps)

  Busch, Field Marshal Ernst

  Bussche-Streithorst, Axel Freiherr von dem

  Byrnes, James: on Roosevelt’s anger with Germans; and Polish borders; policy on Germany; and Austrian settlement; accompanies Truman to Potsdam Conference; on Churchill at Potsdam; and Bevin’s hostility to Soviet Russia; at Moscow CFM (December 1945); offers to merge American zone with British; and German curency reform

  Čabrinovič, Nedeljko

  Cadogan, Sir Alexander

  Cailliau, Madame Alfred (née de Gaulle)

  Calmon, Major

  Canada: German POW camps in; tries German war criminals

  Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm

  cannibalism

  Cannon, General John

  Caprivi, Georg Leo, Graf von

  CARE see Co-operative of American Remittances to Europe

  Carinthia

  Carpenter, Len

  Carr, Edward Hallett

  Carsten, F. L.

  Casablanca Conference (1943)

  Cassel

  Celibidache, Sergiu censorship: in Soviet zone

  Chaloner, Major (of Hanover Information Council)

  Chapigneulles, Major

  Charlemagne, Emperor: crown discovered

  Cheetham, N. J. A.

  Cherrière, General P. R. P.

  chewing gum

  children: conditions and life

  Chotinsky, Fyodor

  Christian Democratic Union (CDU): formed; leaders; and Berlin elections (1946); demands national representation; in West German elections (1949)

  Christlich-Sozial Union (CSU)

  Chuikov, Vassily

  Churcher, Brigadier John Bryan

  Churchill, Mary

  Churchill, Rhona

  Churchill, (Sir) Winston S.: on treatment of Germa
ns; drafts Atlantic Charter; as premier (1940); hostility to Prussians; apprehensions over Soviet Russia; and Polish borders; promises to free Austria from Prussians; and Dönitz government; sends ‘iron curtain’ telegram to Truman; protests at British treatment of German leaders; approves expulsion of Germans in central Europe; Fulton speech (1946); and British entry into Vienna; Horthy writes to; Göring quotes; intercedes for Kesselring; hostility to Russians; pleads for French zone in Germany; at Yalta; at Potsdam Conference; concern for weakened British economy; loses premiership to Attlee; and granting of Königsberg to Russia; supports Byrnes; addresses United Europe Congress (May 1948) cigarettes: as currency cinema: in Soviet zone; in American zone; in Austria

  Civil Affairs Division (CAD; US War Department)

  Clare, George: finds Jewish survivors; with British in Berlin; on Neumann’s satire; attends theatre; meets Karl Arnold; shares rations with children; and denazification; on German-speaking colleagues; on Karajan; and Austrian Nazis; and Anglo-German fraternising; and German scientists

  Clark, Clifford

  Clark, General Mark: aggressiveness; on Soviet looting; on Figl; administration in Vienna; relations with Koniev; anti-Soviet stance; on Austrian food supply; popularity in Austria; and Austrian culture; on Moscow Conference (1947); and Austrian airlift; doubts over Allied achievements

  Clarke, Eric

  Clay, General Lucius: and arrest of Dönitz; and absence of Nazi underground movement; heads US mission in Berlin; relations with Russians; and expulsion of ethnic Germans from central Europe; authority; in Frankfurt-am-Main; attitude to Russians; on anti-frat order; background; policy on Germany; and retention of German industry; and appointment of German political leaders; denies Ruhr benefits to Russians; Schumacher negotiates with; on French depredations in Baden-Württemberg; differences with Koenig; on French demands for coal; prevents dismantling of German industrial sites; and French customs wall in Saar; praises RIAS; favours German self-government; and denazification process; and food shortages; attempts to stop use of cigarettes as currency; requests relief from USA; and German art treasures; denies looting charges against soldiers; apologises for US interrogation methods; on Russia’s German POWs; and German POWs in Poland; and Nuremberg trials; calls for execution of Malmédy murderers; and agreement on Berlin; meets Zhukov; supports Byrnes; antipathy to French; favours inter-zonal co-operation; and currency reform; and Soviet blockade in Berlin; on US military strength in Berlin; and Berlin airlift; concedes Soviet request for currency circulation; and founding of West German state; and Soviet-provoked rioting in Berlin; and Berliners’ anti-communist demonstrations; on proposed Soviet air force manoeuvres over Berlin; and founding of Free University in Berlin; counters Russian condemnation of Dresden bombing; honoured in Berlin; on future of Ruhr

 

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