Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel
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Sudetenland, 140, 141–142, 144, 507
Suez Canal, 181, 192, 219, 235, 238, 284–285, 319, 340, 346–347, 374, 396, 552
Supercharge, Operation, 386, 389, 417
Swabia (and Swabians), 26–27, 125, 131, 133, 387, 469, 542
Thirty Years’ War, 22, 23, 110
von Thoma, Lt. Gen. Wilhelm, 376, 385, 388
Tmimi, 315, 330
Tobruk, 169, 182, 183, 195, 218, 222–223, 224, 231, 223, 234, 236, 238, 239–240, 244, 245, 246, 249, 260, 262, 264, 265, 271, 280, 286–287, 293 passim, 307, 322, 330–331, 333, 339, 345, 366, 390, 407; Axis attacks on, 219–220, 221, 226–230, 231, 242–243, 256, 257; Italian-built defenses of, 181, 224–225, 226, 237; relieved by Eighth Army (1941), 301, 303; taken by Afrika Korps, 334–336, 337, 338, 342, 369; taken by Western Desert Force (1940), 182, 226
Todt organization, 453, 454, 468
Treaty of Versailles, 86, 88–90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 101, 108, 109, 118, 125, 126, 127, 134–135, 137, 139, 145, 240, 278
Tripoli, 178, 179, 188, 192, 205, 308, 406, 422, 428; abandoned by Axis, 424, 425–426; importance of to Axis, 222, 414
Tunis, 391, 396, 406, 407
Tunisia, 188, 391, 394, 396, 397–399, 406–407, 413, 438, 441, 454, 456, 495, 514, 553
Axis defense of, 412–413, 414, 425, 427–428, 430
Ultra (Enigma cipher breaking system), 199–200, 211, 249, 288, 291, 310, 314, 354, 362, 381, 437, 490
United States, 19, 39, 41, 235, 284, 309, 382, 396
United States Army (American army), 14, 309, 348, 364, 390, 463, 493, 504; actions in Tunisia, 407, 412, 421, 422, 427–428; equipment and organization of, 433; at Kasserine Pass, 431–432; in Normandy, 460. 480, 484–485, 488, 492, 497, 526
United States Army Air Force, 364, 447, 463, 472
V-weapons (vergeltungswaffen), 496, 501
Varennes-en-Argonne, 47
Vichy (Provisional French Government), 127, 178, 188, 406, 420
Volksgerichtshof—see People’s Court
Warlimont, Gen. Walter, 444
Warning, Lt. Col. Elmar, 503–504
Wavell, Fld. M. Archibald, 182, 184–185, 186, 200, 211, 214, 223, 224, 225, 247, 262, 263, 277–278, 279; and Battleaxe, 250, 264, 265, 267, 268, 270, 271, 272, 277; and Brevity, 250, 252; and Compass, 182, 184, 185
Wehrmacht—see German Army (Wehrmacht)
Weimar Constitution, 87, 94, 109, 118, 123, 139
Weimar Republic, 85, 88, 89, 92, 110, 115, 120, 128, 130, 555; establishment of, 87; evasion of Versailles Treaty by, 94, 109, 110; and “Kapp Putsch,” 93–95; and Reichswehr, 94–95;
Wellington, 1st Duke of (Arthur Wellesley), 18, 60, 316, 551
Werner, Theodor, 59, 64
Westphal, Col. Siegfried, 301, 304, 327, 329, 334, 359, 365, 387
Weygand, Gen. Maxime, 171
Wiener Neustadt, 137, 142, 178, 292, 318, 320, 331, 374, 439, 447, 511
Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, later Kaiser, 24, 127
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 26, 41, 81, 83–84, 85, 87, 90, 91, 129, 518
Wilson, Woodrow, 83–84
von Witzleben, Fld. M. Marshal Erwin, 529, 530
Württembergische Gebirgsbataillon (Württemberg Mountain Battalion), 51, 56, 69, 81, 102