Lancaster bombers 144–5, 187
land reform 166, 175, 345
Landefeldt family 13
Landefeldt, Johann 18
landlords (Rittergutsbesitzer) 17, 18–19
Lang, Fritz 58
Latvia 110
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour (1935) 98
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (1933) 80, 96, 148
Law for the Revocation of Citizenship (1933) 133
Lehár, Franz 119
Leibstandarte 109
Leipzig 98, 128, 292–3
Lengsfelder, Hans 116
Lenz, Otto 42, 43, 45, 48, 49
Lesser, Emil 109, 110
Lesser, Franz 109, 110
Lesser, Rosa 109, 110
Liebe im Ring 117
Liebermann, Max 40
Liebeserwachen 121
‘Lila Lied, Das’ 115–16
Lion, Marcel 116
London, England 1, 4, 73, 81, 94, 95, 97, 100, 101, 104, 121, 247, 312, 313
‘Looky Looky’ 303
Lopez, Jennifer 324
Lorbeer, Stefan 294
Love Salons, Berlin 114
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich 36
Ludwig’s Restaurant, Groß Glienicke 290, 355
Luftwaffe 88, 90, 91, 132, 137, 165
Luftwaffe Day 91
Luisenstraße, Berlin 133
Lysa Góra mountain 131
M
Magna Carta 4
Mannheim 338
manor house (schloss) 14, 19, 20, 26, 35, 62, 63, 66, 83, 87, 91, 130, 137, 143, 152, 166–7, 186, 211
Marienwerder 113
marijuana 324
Martin Luther Hospital, Berlin 41, 85
Marx, Karl 16
Matthias 323, 324, 347
Mauerspechte (wall woodpeckers) 298
Max Reimann factory, Groß Glienicke 276, 308
May, Hans 116
Measures for the Recovery of the Political Situation in the DDR’ 211
Meier family 192–3
Mein Herz für Sylvia 139
Meisel Group 303
‘Meisel Schlager – Nie Versager’ 116
Meisel School of Dance, Berlin 113
Meisel, August Wilhelm 112–21, 115, 121, 122–6, 124, 128–9, 132–3, 135–46, 149, 150, 152, 166, 168, 170, 173, 174–83, 187–9, 203–4, 214, 222, 223, 236, 238, 302–3, 347
1897 birth 112; 1917 suffers gas poisoning at Third Battle of Ypres 113; 1918 joins Royal Court dance venue in Berlin 114; 1926 marries Ilona von Fövenyessy 114; founds Edition Meisel & Co. 115, 173; 1930 writes score for Liebe im Ring 117; 1931 writes score for Wenn die Soldaten 117; 1932 splits up with Ilona 116–17; 1933 Edition Meisel’s songs banned; creative director barred from Chamber of Culture 117, 178, 181; attends Labour Day rally at Tempelhof airport 117–18; joins Nazi Party 118, 178; 1934 commissioned for film scores; meets Eliza Illiard 118–19; 1935 marries Eliza Illiard; birth of Peter Hans 120; hires Paul Fago 178; hires Hanns Hartmann 120, 149, 178; 1937 helps obtain Hanns Hartmann ‘special permit’ from Chamber of Culture 150, 178, 180; leases lake house in Groß Glienicke 112, 121, 179, 180; first summer in lake house for 122–5; returns to Berlin to develop publishing house 125; spends winter holiday at lake house 125–6; 1938 offers to buy lake house from Alexander family 126; writes to Hans Hinkel enquiring about purchasing ‘aryanised’ businesses 128–9, 179, 188, 189; attempts to buy Universal Edition 128, 181–2; 1939 Eliza becomes pregnant 129; 1940 birth of Thomas 132; purchases lake house from Gestapo 133, 180, 302; 1942 discovers that Willy Rosen and Harry Waldau have disappeared 135; transfers ownership of lake house to Edition Meisel 139; seeks Goebbels’ support for Mein Herz für Sylvia operetta 139; 1943 writes Königin einer Nacht at lake house with Ernst Nebhut and Just Scheu 139–40; receives orders to report for duty; military service deferred 140; relocates to Groß Glienicke after Berlin evacuated 141; Herbert Würzburg and Harry Waldau transported to Auschwitz 179; Königin einer Nacht opens at Metropol Theater 143–4; Edition Meisel storage facilities hit by Allied bomb 144; 1944 faces conscription to Volkssturm; leaves for Bad Gastein 146, 181; 1945 offered option of buying land beneath lake house 166; 1946 returns to Berlin; Hanns Hartmann leaves for Cologne 174–5; 1948 denazification trial 177–83, 188; makes ‘hamster trip’ to East Berlin during Blockade 187–8; writes ‘Berlin bleibt doch Berlin’ with Bruno Balz 188; request made to British Military Government for business license 188–9; 1949 request for business license rejected 189; 1951 receives business license 198; 1952 learns Berlin border has closed; invites Ella Fuhrmann to reside in lake house 199, 207, 302; 1962 awarded Federal Cross of Merit 302; 1964 presented with Paul Lincke Ring 302; 1965 makes compensation claim for loss of lake house 302; 1967 death from stroke in Badenweiler 302–3; 1968 compensation claim denied 302; Meisel, Eliza 118–21, 119, 122–6, 129, 132–3, 136, 138, 140, 141, 143, 144, 145, 166, 174, 236
Meisel, Emil 113
Meisel, Ilona 114
Meisel, Olga 113
Meisel, Peter Hans 120, 121, 124–6, 137, 141–2, 166, 303–4, 316, 322
Meisel, Sven 203–4
Meisel, Thomas 132, 137, 141, 166
‘Meisel’s surprise parcels’ 116
Meistersaal, Berlin 203
Mendelsohn, Erich 40
Mendelssohn, Felix 115
Mercedes-Benz 33, 250, 270, 301
Mertens, Herr 120
Metropol Theater, Berlin 140, 143–4, 145, 171, 173
Metropolis 58
Meyer, Otto 78, 100
mezuzah 46
migration from DDR 198–9, 232–4, 250, 257–8, 288–90, 293–300
Military Intelligence 260
Military Personnel Department 140
military service in DDR 279–80
Miltmann, Herr 61
mines 235, 290, 342
Ministry for State Security (MfS) see Stasi
Ministry of Aviation 88, 90, 143
Ministry of Interior for Brandenburg 195
Ministry of Propaganda 136, 139, 143, 178
Missouri, USS 165
Mitläufer 177
Mitte district, Berlin 143
Moabit, Berlin 133
Molody, Konon 258
Mond, Frau 31, 84, 152
Monopol Edition 170
Montgomery, Bernard Law 162
Morgen 13
Moroder, Giorgio 303
Moscow, Russia 211, 259
Moscow, Treaty of (1970) 269
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 72
Müller, Dorothea see von Wollank, Dorothea
Müller, Fritz 89
Müller, Heinrich 134
Müllheim Hospital 302
Munich Ludwig Maximilian University 36
Munich Soviet Republic 29
Munk, Cordula 304–6, 325, 333–4, 339–40
Munk, Fritz 41–2, 49, 62, 84, 85–6, 85, 123, 131, 151, 155, 168, 186, 199, 266–7, 277, 304
Munk, Hildegard 151, 155–6, 157–8, 168, 186, 266–7, 277
Munk, Klaus 168
Munk, Peter 168
murders 192–6
music industry 114–21, 123, 125, 128, 135–6, 138–41, 147–51, 170–1, 173, 175, 178, 181, 203, 302–3
‘Mustergut’ 22
N
Nagasaki, Japan 164
National People’s Army (NVA) 228, 239, 266, 279–80, 317
National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) see Nazi Party
National Theatre Department 140
nationalism 67
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) 280
Nauen 42
Nazi Party, Nazism 4–5, 68–9, 73–86, 87–91, 93–4, 96, 98–102, 108–10, 111–12, 117–18, 120, 127–33, 134–5, 139–46, 148–60, 164, 166, 170–83, 188–9, 196, 199, 204–5, 219, 233, 302, 333, 337–8, 344, 345, 349, 355–6; denazification 171–83, 188–9; Gestapo 100, 129–30, 134, 143, 146, 150, 162, 180, 189; Hitler Youth 127, 142; neo-
Nazism 337–9; Schutzstaffel (SS) 87, 109, 127, 134, 143, 189; Sturmabteilung (SA) 69, 74, 75, 76, 78, 83, 84, 87–8, 89, 127; Winterhilfswerk 75, 125
Nebhut, Ernst 139–40
Nedlitz fire station, Berlin 238
neo-Nazism 337–9
Netherlands 27, 55, 76, 103–4, 135, 270
Neubauer 166
Neue Ostpolitik 269
Neues Deutschland 196, 213, 232
Neukölln, Berlin 58, 113
Neuruppin 212
New York, United States 258
New York Stock Exchange 67–8
New York Times 191
New Zealand 131
Niemann family 138
Night of the Long Knives (1934) 87–8, 89
NKVD (Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del) 192, 193, 195
nobility 17, 22–3, 27, 28
‘non-Aryans’ 98
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung 23–4
North-West German Radio 175
Norway 142
nuclear bombs 164, 191–2, 220
Nuremberg Laws (1935) 98–100, 149–50, 181
Nuremberg Rally (1935) 98
Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946) 164, 172
O
‘oh hell’ (game) 95
Olympia Erika typewriters 71, 103
Olympic Games 101–2, 127, 159, 273–5
1936 Berlin Summer Olympics 101–2, 159; 1936 Berlin Winter Olympics 127; 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics 274
Olympic Stadium, Berlin 1
Olympic Village, Berlin 101–2, 159, 195, 343
operettas 115, 117, 119, 123, 139, 140, 143–4, 145, 148
‘orangerie’ 53–4
Oranienburg 30
‘Ordinance 110’ 176
Ortsfremde (outsiders) 50
Oswald, St John 260
Owens, Jesse 102, 159
Owl Mirror, Berlin 114
P
Paganini (film) 119
Palais, Berlin 114
Palestine 127
Pallenberg, Max 56
Panjewagen (four-wheeled carts) 157
Pankow, Berlin 17, 23
Panzerhallen (tank hangars) 130, 317
von Papen, Franz 41, 74
Paprika, Berlin 114
Paris, France 114, 135, 196
parish council (Gemeinde) 175, 215, 240, 241, 267, 278
Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) 310
Passauer Straße, Berlin 144
Patchett, Brian 259–61
Paul Lincke Ring 302
Pearl Harbor 136
People’s Court 162
Perleberger Straße, Berlin 109
Persilschein (whitewash certificates) 179
Pfingstberg Park, Potsdam 276
Pflanzer, Hans 138
Philip, duke of Edinburgh 249, 250
Physicum 36
Picard, Amelia 38, 100
Picard, Henny see Alexander, Henny
Picard, Lucien 38, 57, 92–3, 95, 100, 347
Pieck, Wilhelm 264, 318
Pohl, Alfred 60
Poland 29, 131, 135, 151, 153, 159–60, 164, 269, 291
pollution 52, 227–8
Polterabend party 239
Pomerania 125
popular music 136
Potsdam 5, 6, 13, 15, 22, 23, 29, 76, 84, 89, 154, 162, 163, 193, 203, 212, 213, 215, 216, 217, 227, 230, 247, 258, 265, 268, 271, 281, 275, 276, 320, 285, 289, 308, 320, 321, 326, 330, 334, 340, 342, 350
Potsdam Conference (1945) 163–5, 269
Potsdam Criminal Police 195
Potsdam Rally (1933) 76, 163
Potsdamer Chaussee 20, 33, 62, 66, 102, 107, 236, 252, 264, 277
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin 58, 203, 212, 250
Potsdamer Tor 1, 18, 20, 33, 34, 53, 62, 62, 66, 102, 138, 152, 165, 167, 185–6, 210, 236, 239, 252, 263, 265, 270, 274, 277, 305, 308
Powers, Francis Gary 258–9
Prague, Czechoslovakia 148, 276, 293
Presley, Elvis 116
Pressefest 125, 276
Prinz, Joachim 81
prisoners of war (POWs) 143
Pritzwalk 212
Protestantism 14, 210–11, 212
Prunk-und Zechgelage rauschende Feste’ 66
Prussia 13, 67, 76, 77
Przewalski’s horses 343
Puhdys 277
Putlitzstrasse station, Berlin 110
Q
Queen (band) 277, 278
Queen for a Night 140, 143–4, 145
Quitzowstraße, Berlin 109
R
Rachuy, Ingeborg see Kühne, Ingeborg
Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) 251, 256, 279
radio stations 78, 93, 95, 116, 125, 136, 138, 150, 153, 171, 175, 181, 197, 251, 256, 324
Radtke, Burkhard 108, 142, 152, 158, 166, 167, 303–4
Radtke, Erich 142, 158, 166
Radtke, Gerda 142–3, 152, 156, 158, 159, 166, 192–3, 196, 208
Radtke, Gerhard 142, 158, 166
Raphael 16
Red Army 154, 263
Reform synagogue, Cape Town 313
Regnitz River 35
Rehsprung, Groß Glienicke 241
Reich Chamber of Culture 117, 128, 144, 149–50, 177, 180
Reich Chancellery 162
Reich Citizenship Law (1935) 98
Reich Music Chamber 179
Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) 112, 134
Reichsbürger (German citizens) 98
Reichsfluchtsteuer 101
Reichsgesetzblatt 129
Reichstag 15, 69, 75, 79, 159, 162
Reichstag Fire Decree 75
Reinhardt, Max 40
Reinmann, Herr 152
Rembrandt 16
reunification of Germany 301–10
Rex (mongrel) 286, 296, 311
Rhein Echo 194
Rhine River 72
‘Ribbeck Estate’ 13
Ribbeck, Hans Georg 20
Richter, Sonja 107–8
Richtfest (‘topping out’) ceremony 44
Richtkrone 44
Riesel, Augusta 60
Riga, Latvia 110
Rilke, Rainer Maria 72
Rillo, Richard 115
Rittergutsbesitzer (landlords) 17, 18–19
‘Rocky’ 303
Röhm, Ernst 87
Roland see Schmidt, Roland
Rosen, Willy 115, 135, 181
Rot-Weiß 286
Rothschild family 38
Royal Air Force (RAF) 161, 249, 259
Royal Canadian Air Force 137
Royal Court, Berlin 114
Royal Signals Detachment 259
Rückübertragung 309
Rügen 31, 91
Russian Intelligence Corps 259
Russian Revolution (1917) 28
S
S-Bahn 214, 233, 308
Sachsenhausen concentration camp 128
Sacrower Allee, Groß Glienicke 152, 318
Sacrower See 281
Sagebiel, Ernst 90
Sandmännchen 317
Sarajevo, Bosnia 24
Scandinavia 13
Schabowski, Günter 293–4
Scheu, Just 139–40, 145
Schlager Musik 136
schloss (manor house) 14, 19, 20, 26, 35, 62, 63, 66, 83, 87, 91, 130, 137, 143, 152, 166–7, 186, 211
Schlösser, Rainer 139
Schlüterstraße, Berlin 177
Schmeling, Max 117
Schmidt, Roland 285–7, 295–7, 315, 321, 322–6, 323, 329–30, 337, 338–9, 347
1987 moves into lake house 285–7; 1989 knocks hole in Berlin Wall with Wolfgang 295–7; 1993 Elsie Harding visits lake house with children 315; 1999 Inge moves out of lake house; Marcel moves in 321, 322–5, 338–9; 2000 Marcel moves out; dismissed from apprenticeship 325–6; 2003 evicted from lake house 326; 2014 interviewed by author’s researcher 329–30
schnapps 44, 240, 266
Schneider, Operative 229–30
Schönefeld Airport, Berlin 1
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bsp; ‘School Number 2’ 252–4, 255, 273
Schopenhauer, Arthur 16
Schulenberg, Herman 114
Schultz, Ilse Katharina von 19, 26, 30–1, 62–3, 112, 126, 166, 175
1924 marries Robert von Schultz 30–1; 1929 reading of father’s will; inherits Groß Glienicke Estate 62–3; 1934 request from Hermann Göring to purchase land 88; 1935 construction of Berlin-Gatow airfield on estate 90; 1936 leaves Groß Glienicke Estate for Rügen 91; 1937 Wilhelm Meisel leases land in Groß Glienicke 112; 1939 Groß Glienicke property confiscated in lieu of unpaid taxes 130; Schultz, Robert von 30–1, 62, 64–7, 64, 69, 83, 84, 88, 112, 126, 127, 131, 133, 166, 175, 177; 1924 marries Ilse Katharina von Wollank 30–1; 1929 reading of Otto von Wollank’s will 62; becomes landlord of Groß Glienicke Estate 64; 1934 joins Nazi Party 83; offers to sell Fritz Munk land 84; arrested during ‘Night of the Long Knives’ 87–8; stands trial for opposing Hitler’s rule 88–90, 177; 1935 construction of Berlin-Gatow airfield on estate 90; 1936 leaves Groß Glienicke Estate for Rügen 91; 1937 Wilhelm Meisel leases land in Groß Glienicke 112; 1939 Groß Glienicke property confiscated in lieu of unpaid taxes 130; outbreak of World War II; enlisted into military 131
Schuppien, Horst 144
Schuster, Friedel 144
Schutzstaffel (SS) 87, 109, 127, 134, 143
Schwabach, Kurt 115
Schwartzkopf, Ottilie see Hartmann, Ottilie
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