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  INDEX

  Adams, John, 181

  Admiral Hipper, 127–9, 155, 174

  Afton Bladet, 170

  alarm sirens on ship, 134–5, 157

  Allies of World War II, 15–16, 50, 73, 76–7, 80–1, 106, 108, 116, 155, 171, 175–7, 180, 200, 213n21

  Amber Room, 177–8

  Anglo-German Naval Treaty, 102

  Anschluss (1938), 54, 56–7

  anti-German riots, 26

  “anti-German” sentiments, 35, 39–40

  antisubmarine nets (walross), 108

  antitank ditches, 14, 42–3, 60, 66, 82

  Antonio Delfino, 62

  Arabic, 125

  “Aryan ideal,” 24, 54

  Athenia, 103

  Aufnahmekrasse, 79–80

  Auschwitz, 27, 29–30, 82, 180

  Auschwitz-Birkenau, 29, 82, 180

  Baer, Gertrud, 180

  Bagration, Peter, 38

  ballroom (Wilhelm Gustloff), 117, 123, 129, 133

  Baltic, battle for the, 101–12, 169–73

  Baltic Germans, 12, 17, 24, 59, 69, 108, 180

  Baltic Home, 24

  Baltic Sea, 80, 83, 89–91, 94–8, 101, 169

  Baltic States, 22, 27, 43, 88, 105–6, 108

  Baptist faith, 13

  Battan Death March (1942), 181

  Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945), 103

  Battle Cry, 179

  Battle of France (1940), 23

  Battle of North Cape (1943), 104

  BDM, See Bund Deutscher Mädel

  Beck, Jozef, 23

  Belarus, 27

  Bendrich, Franz, 195

  Bendrich, Inge, See Inge Bendrich Roedecker

  Bendrich, Milda, 11–13, 71–2, 84, 124, 128, 133–4, 139–41, 163, 194–6

  background of, 13

  boarding the ship, 11–13, 124

  escape of, 139–41

  and life after the shipwreck, 194–6

  rescue of, 163

  and torpedo hits, 133–4

  and trek to the ship, 71–2

  Berlin, 62

  Bessarabia, 22

  Biddle, Jr., Anthony J. Drexel, 26

  Bismarck, 55

  Black Sea fleet (Soviet Navy), 90

  Blohm & Voss, 55, 121

  boarding of Wilhelm Gustloff, 5–20, 113–128, 129–30

  and air raids, 116

  and chaos, 113–16, 121

  and cramped quarters, 115, 121–4, 129–30

  and demographic of refugees, 6–7, 13–14, 128

  and deserters, 113–14, 118

  and sanitation, 118, 129–30

  and seasickness, 80, 126, 128–9

  statistics on, 121–2

  Bobruisk, 38

  Boring, Mike, 176

  bulkheads, 55, 136–7

  Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) (League of German Girls), 35, 69

  Bydgoszcz, 26

  Caffery, Jefferson, 190

  Calvinism, 25, 70

  Canada, immigration to, 2, 184–6, 191

  Cap Arcona, 62

  C.A.R.E., 192

  Carls, Rolf, 104

  Catherine the Great, 177

  Catherine Palace (St. Petersburg), 177–8

  Catholicism, 14

  Churchill, Winston, 19, 184

  Combat Order of the Red Banner, 187

  Communist Party, 27, 31, 88–9

  “Comradeship” (Wolf), 25

  concentration camps, 27–9, 43, 76, 82–4, 172, 200

  Condor Legion, 58

  conscription, 30, 74

  crematorium, 29–30, 84

  crew of Wilhelm Gustloff, 125–6, 132, 136–7, 147–9

  Czechoslovakia, 15–16, 178, 219n3

  D-Day (1944), 181

  Dachau, 29

  Danzig, 6, 8, 13, 28–9, 33, 43–4, 48–51, 59, 62, 66, 68, 79, 83–4, 95, 102, 111, 120, 128, 203

  Danzig-Elbing highway, 28

  DAW, See Deutsche Auskustungswerke

  defeatism, 5–6

  dehumanization, 37–8

  depth charges, 99, 104, 127, 155–7

  Der Deutsche, 56–7

  Der Reichdeutsche (Nazi newspaper), 52

  deserters, 5, 45, 73, 75, 80, 88, 113–14, 118

  Deutsche Auskustungswerke (DAW), 29, 53

  Deutsche Stuttgard
, 58

  Deutschland, 62, 123

  dining room (Wilhelm Gustloff), 121–3, 129–30

  Dommash, Rudolph, 198–9

  Dönitz, Karl, 47–51, 60–1, 84, 97, 102, 104, 106–7, 114, 154, 169, 172–4, 179

  Dorn, Matius Brantmeyer, 11

  Dorn, Paulina Aliza, 11

  “DP housing,” 184

  drained swimming pool sleeping quarters, 115, 119–20, 133, 157, 163–4

  Dresden firebombing, 165, 180

  Dunkirk evacuation (1940), 50

  East, Irene Tschinkur, 17–19, 21, 24–5, 33–5, 46, 64–5, 67, 80–2, 117, 120, 123, 130, 133, 143–4, 160–2, 164, 166–8, 184–6, 191–2, 201

  boarding of, 17–19, 130

  and bombing, 81

  and education, 33–4

  escape of, 143–4, 160

  and evacuation, 46, 64–5, 67

  and life after shipwreck, 184–6, 191–2, 201

  and Hitler, 33–4

  rescue of, 160–1, 201

  and torpedo hits, 133

  and trek to ship, 81–2

  East Germany, 2, 189–90

  East Prussia, 2, 5–10, 13–14, 21–46, 47–8

  and atrocities, 44–5

  and conscription, 30

  and demographics, 13–14, 21–5

  evacuation of, See Operation Hannibal

  life in, 21–46

  and Nazi ideology, 25–6 See Hitler Youth

  and Nazi atrocities, 25–30, 75

  post-WWI, 25

  East Prussian Offensive (1945), 43–5, 61–2, 64–7, 72–82, 174–5

  “Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fu_rher!” (“One People, One Empire, One Leader”), 55

  Einsatzgruppen (special task forces), 26

  Elbing, East Prussia, 7–10, 13, 21, 28–9, 35, 40, 42–3, 46, 63–5, 67–9, 77–80, 119, 152, 191, 203

  Elbing IV, 79

  Englehardt, Conrad, 49, 84, 154, 172, 174, 179

  engine room (Wilhelm Gustloff), 135–6

  Englehardt, Conrad, 49, 84–5

  English language, 17–18, 26, 186, 193–4

  Enigma code, 106