by Duffy, Peter
Versailles Treaty, 7, 13, 49, 62, 106, 107, 293n
Vetterli, Reed, 142, 316n
Vickers Ltd., 100
Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court), 43
von Boetticher, Friedrich, 15
von Klitzing, Irmgard, 16–17
von Richthofen, Wolfram Freiherr, 10, 11
Waalen, Leo, 201, 209–10, 214, 239, 243–44, 254
Wagner, Robert F. Jr., 299n
Walischewski, Adolf Henry August, 208
Wallace, James G., 132
Walsh, Frank, 230, 234, 244–45
War Department, 258
Warner Brothers, 90
Washington (ship), 134–35, 138, 139
Washington Post, 31, 127
Weustenfeld, Else, 192, 193, 201, 207
Wheeler, Burton K., 190, 203, 253
Whitehead, Don, 278
Wiedemann, Fritz, 74
Wien, Rosa “Rosie” Büchner, 64, 227
Wien, Victor, 64
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 29, 60, 102, 123, 216
Willkie, Wendell, 184, 190
Wilson, Woodrow, 313n
Winchell, Walter, 222, 227–28, 291n
Wittels, David A., 54, 90
Wood, Clement, 33–34
Woodring, Harry, 182
Workmen’s Circle Camp, New York, 86
World’s Fair, New York City, 172, 208, 211, 256
World War I (Great War), 14, 29, 38, 60, 69, 102, 172, 223
armament boom during, 98
Czechoslovakia’s creation after, 45
Sebold’s service in, 60, 63, 114, 125
treatment of ethnic Germans in, 122, 164, 246, 258
World War II
actual first shots of, 119
anti-German sentiment during, 314n
British army in, 100
Lend-Lease aid during, 206–7
microwave radar in, 184
Pearl Harbor attack and, 1, 245, 253
Sebold’s work during, 259
U-boat usage during, 213
US entry into, 238, 312–13n
US victory in, 2
Wright, Richard, 53
Yorkville neighborhood, New York City, 20–21, 22, 59, 64, 65, 101, 132, 136, 179, 245, 248, 255, 266, 289–90n, 291n, 296–99n, 306n, 307n
Yugoslavia, 207
Ziegler, Bertha, 307n
Zimmerman Telegram, 313n
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