Kampfgruppe Euling, 357
Kampfgruppe Jeckeln, 270–271
Kampfgruppe Nord, 105, 130, 131, 150–152
Kampfgruppe Steiner, 49, 50
Kampfgruppe Weidinger, 337
Kampgruppe Frey, 337
Kandler, Willi, 339
Kempf, Werner, 45–46, 51, 57, 155, 179
Kennard, George, 124
Keppler, Georg, 41–42, 58, 98, 145, 168, 205, 214
invasion of Netherlands and, 67, 70, 72–73
Kepplinger, Ludwig, 70, 98
Kesselschlact battle, 185–187
Kharkov battle, 209–219
Kiev, battle over, 254–257
Killinger, Manfred von, 12
Kirponos, Mikhail, 153
Kleinheisterkamp, Matthias, 22, 92, 102, 144, 145, 157, 183, 397
Kleinkrieg (Little Wars) (Ehrhardt), 291
Kleist, Paul Ludwig Ewald von, 153, 160, 162, 163, 171, 201
Klidi Pass, 119–121
Kling, Heinz, 226
Klingenberg, Fritz, 117–118
Klisura Pass, 121
Kluge, Hans von, 77, 231, 339, 343–344, 346, 348, 350
Knight’s Cross, importance of, 98–99
Knoblauch, Kurt, 92, 103, 105
Knöchlein, Fritz, 87–88, 92, 412
Kohlroser, Martin, 20, 361
Köhne, Heinz, 29
Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS, 131
Krabbe, Olaf, 136
Kraemer, Fritz, 316, 328, 336, 346, 348, 411
Krause, Bernhard, 340
Kretzler, Paul, 150
“Kristallnacht,” 42
Krüger, Walter, 71, 222
Krukenberg, Gustav, 360
Kryssing, Christian Peder, 136–137
Küchler, Georg, 51, 59, 68, 185
Kumm, Otto, 73, 74, 84, 168, 183, 304, 308, 379, 383, 415
Kursk offensive, 222, 223–231
Kyriss, Reinhold, 384
Lammerding, Heinz, 103, 145, 331–333, 343, 412
Landstorm Nederland, 361–362
Langemarck Brigade, 239–240, 262, 263, 361
Latvia, 250, 270–271, 290, 418, 421–422
Latvian Divisions, 251, 272–273
Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter, 128, 141, 185
Légion des Volontaires Français, 241, 359
Legion Flandern, 137–138, 191–192, 239–240
Legion Niederlande, 137, 194–195
Legion Norwegen, 138, 193–194
Legion Wallonie, 199, 240–241
Lehmann, Rudolf, 221, 386
Leibstandarte
Allied offensive in France and, 340, 352
antipartisan warfare and, 288
casualties in Normandy, 352
defense against Red Army advance into Hungary, 386
on Eastern Front during winter 1941–1942, 180–181
end of war and, 401
garrison duties in Metz, 100
German offensive in France and, 345, 346, 350, 351
Germany’s final offensive in Belgium and, 363, 365, 366, 368–369
improvements in soldierly bearing, 91
invasion of France and, 82–83, 85–86, 88–90, 93, 96–97, 98
invasion of Netherlands and, 66, 68, 70–72
invasion of Poland and, 43–44, 48–49, 54–55
invasion of Ukraine and, 155, 159
invasion of Yugoslavia and, 118–119
Kharkov battle and, 216–218
Kharkov counterstroke and, 209, 211–213
Kursk offensive and, 225–227, 228–230
military assessment of, 421
new battalion from Hitler Youth volunteers, 182
Night of the Long Knives and, 18–20
Operation Barbarossa and, 130, 131
Panzer Corps and, 221
as part of Panzer Corps, 207
performance of during invasion of Poland, 51–53, 56
plans for invasion of Britain and, 101
praise for performance at Eastern Front, 178–179
preparation to return to Eastern Front 1942, 209
retreat from Ukraine and, 254, 255–257
sent to Italy, 231, 232–233
transfer to France in 1942, 205
Leibstandarte Kampfgruppe, Allied invasion of France and, 336, 337
Leibstandarte SS “Adolf Hitler,” 15, 16, 22, 27
Allied invasion of France and, 334
Dietrich and, 30–32
invasion of Austria and, 41
invasion of Greece and, 116
invasion of Poland and, 45
invasion of Ukraine and, 153–154, 157
redeployment to West, 59–60
upgrade of, 103–104
Leningrad
German advance on, 141–152
Soviet offensive from, 267
Le Paradis shootings, 92, 412
Lettow-Vorbeck, Hans von, 187
Lippert, Lucien, 241
Lippert, Michael, 19, 191, 192, 354, 357
List, Wilhelm, 116, 118, 122
Lithuania, 128, 250
Lombard, Gustav, 380
Longerich, Peter, 11
Luftwaffe
Allied invasion of France and, 322
Kursk offensive and, 223–224
Operation Fall Blau and, 198
as source of replacements for Leibstandarte, Das Reich, and Totenkopf, 222
Lumans, Valdis, 112–113
Lutz, Victor, 20
Lynn-Allen, James, 89
Mackensen, Eberhard von, 154, 158–159, 163, 179
Maeger, Herbert, 209, 217
Maitla, Paul, 272
Malmédy Massacre, 366, 368, 411
Manstein, Erich von, 2, 65–66, 253
Army Group North’s campaign and, 141–142, 144, 145–146
Kharkov counterstroke and, 213–214, 217, 219
Kursk offensive and, 223, 230
Ukraine and, 157–158, 159, 257, 258, 260
maps
battle for Normandy, 1944, 320
Eastern Front, 1941–1942, 129
Eastern Front in the North, 1943–1945, 394
Eastern Front in the South 1943–1944, 210
German blitzkrieg, 69
Maria Theresa Division, 378, 380
Martinsen, Knud Børge, 187
“masked ball,” SS training and, 27
massacres
of Allied prisoners, 87–88, 89–90, 412
in Italy, 232, 311
Le Paradis, 92, 412
Malmédy, 366, 368, 411
Oradour and Tulle, 412
by SS during Allied offensive France, 332–333
by Totenkopf troops during invasion in France, 82, 92, 412
See also atrocities
mass rapes, war on Eastern Front and, 133–134
Mauthausen concentration camp, 42
Mazière, Christien de la, 360
Meier, Heinz, 399
Meitzel, Bernhard, 335
Mengele, Josef, 197
Messerle, Fritz, 283–284
Meyer, Kurt, 23
Allied offensive in France and, 317, 318–319, 322, 323–324, 328, 335, 337, 340, 341
capture by Belgian Resistance, 353
German offensive against Allies in France and, 348–349
HIAG and, 413
invasion and occupation of Greece and, 121, 123, 124
invasion of France and, 94
invasion of Netherlands and, 70–71, 74–75
invasion of Poland and, 48, 53
invasion of Ukraine and, 157–158, 161
Kharkov counterstroke and, 213, 216–217
on Nogai Steppe, 159–160
Panzer Corps and, 221
trial of, 411
war memoirs, 416
MG42 machine guns, 207
Model, Walter, 183, 223, 350, 355, 357, 362, 368
Mohnke, Wilhelm, 89, 90, 383, 401, 412
Allied offensive in France and, 317, 327, 335
Germany’s final offensive in Belgiu
m and, 367
invasion of Yugoslavia and, 118
Montgomery, Bernard, 341–342, 348–349, 354, 403
Montigny, Cassius von, 64–65, 87
Mooyman, Geradus, 195
Morawetz, Alois, 324
Moscow, German drive on, 149, 165–176
Mühlenkamp, Johannes, 196, 281–282
Mulgan, John, 309
Müller, Thomas, 361
Muller-John, Hermann, 55
Mülverstadt, Arthur, 145
Munck, Jan, 26
Munich Agreement of October 1938, 42
Muslim units, in Waffen-SS, 245–248, 305, 308
Mussert, Anton, 137
Mussolini, Benito, 115, 122–123, 231, 233, 299
“Narwa,” Army Detachment, 268–270, 271, 272
national legions
absorption into SS Infantry Brigades, 237–238
British Free Corps, 241
on Eastern Front 1942–1943, 191–195
Estonian Legion, 250–252
Freikorps Danmark, 136–137, 187–188, 192–193, 421
Légion des Volontaires Français, 241
Legion Flandern, 137–138, 191–192, 239–240
Legion Neiderlande, 137, 194–195
Legion Norwegen, 138, 193–194
number of recruits, 138–139
Walloon Legion, 199, 240–241
war on Eastern Front and, 135–136
National Socialism, SS training and indoctrination into, 24
Nazi propaganda, continued fighting among Waffen-SS and, 398
Nazis
dissension among leadership after failed Russian campaign, 263–266
Jews on Eastern Front and program of genocide, 172, 173
Volksdeutsche and, 111–113
Nederland Brigade, 239, 267
Netherlands
invasion of, 65, 66, 67–77
Legion Neiderlande, 137, 194–195
Operation Market Garden, 354–358
Neumann, Sturmmann, 201
New Jerusalem Monastery, 175
Nicolussi-Leck, Karl, 280
Night of the Long Knives, 18–20, 194, 361
Nogai Steppe, 159–160
Nord Division, 273–276, 370–371, 422
“Nordland” Regiment, 108–109, 204
antipartisan warfare and, 288
end of war and, 401, 402
formation of, 238–239
invasion of Ukraine and, 154, 162
leadership of, 111
military assessment of, 421
Operation Sonnewende and, 393, 395
retreat from northern Eastern Front and, 267–268
“Nordost” Battalion, 131
“Norge” Battalion, 382, 401, 402
Normandy, battle for, 315–358
Allied aerial strength and, 329–330, 332, 337–338, 340, 346–347
Allied naval artillery support, 321–322, 328
Allied offensive, 315–344
flight of Vichy paramilitary troops to Germany, 359–360
German casualties in, 352
German offensive against Allies, 345–352
German retreat, 352–353
map of, 320
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 415
Norway
German conquest of, 104–105
Legion Norwegen, 138, 193–194
Nugiseks, Harald, 269
Nuremberg trials, 411–413
Oberkamp, Karl von, 110–111, 302, 303, 304
Olafsen, Jutte, 138, 193–194
Olboeter, Erich, 340, 353
Operation Bagration, 277–282
Operation Barbarossa, 127–135, 139–140, 178
advance on Leningrad, 141–152
antipartisan warfare and, 289
drive on Moscow, 165–176
Eastern Front 1941–1942, 177–189
Eastern Front 1942–1943, 191–204
invasion of Ukraine, 153–164
Russian weather and terrain and, 139–140
Operation Black, 301
Operation Bluecoat, 343
Operation Citadel, 223–233
Operation Cobra, 342–343
Operation Easter Egg, 304–305
Operation Epsom (Third Battle of Caen), 335, 338–339
Operation Fall Blau, 197–204
Operation Goodwood, 341–342
Operation Knight’s Move, 306
Operation Konrad, 381
Operation Konrad I, 381
Operation Konrad II, 381
Operation Konrad III, 382
Operation Margaretha, 310
Operation Market Garden, 354–358
Operation Maypole, 305
Operation Nordwind, 370–373, 397
Operation Perch, 325
Operation Sealion, 101–102
Operation Sonnenwende, 393–395
Operation Spring Awakening, 384–390
Operation Totalize, 348–349
Operation Tractable, 349
Operation Typhoon, 173–175
Operation Uranus, 208–209
Operation Waldrausch, 304
Operation White, 300–301
Oradour Massacre, 412
Organization Todt, 238
Ostendorff, Werner, 57, 71, 170, 330–331, 343, 386
Ott, Eugen, 199–200, 201, 202
Pan-Germanic Europe, Himmler and, 1–2, 4, 60, 252, 421, 430
Panzerbrigade 150, 363–364
Panzer Corps, 207–208, 239
Allied offensive in France and, 334, 336, 337, 338
defense against Red Army advance into Hungary, 381, 382, 383, 384, 386, 388
defense of Warsaw and, 282–284
Dietrich and, 221
Germany’s final offensive in Belgium and, 363, 365, 367–368
in Italy, 231
Kursk offensive and, 225–233
retreat from northern Eastern Front and, 267–269
in Ukraine, 260–264
Panzer Division Kempf, invasion of Poland and, 45–47, 49, 50, 51, 53–54, 56
Panzergrenadier Division, Allied invasion of France and, 328, 329–331
panzergrenadiers, reassignment of infantry to, 206
Panzer Group Kleist, 93, 95, 97, 154
Parachute Battalion, antipartisan warfare in Yugoslavia and, 306–308
partisan warfare, on the Eastern Front, 287–297. See also antipartisan warfare
Patton, George S., 342–343, 347, 369
Pavelić, Ante, 242
Pehrsson, Hans-Göta, 401–402
Peiper, Jochen, 211–212, 218, 232, 256–257, 346, 366–367, 383, 411–412
Peiper Kampfgruppe, Germany’s final offensive in Belgium and, 366–367
Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Karl, 63, 94, 270, 380, 382, 383–384
Phleps, Artur, 111, 154, 242, 246, 300, 302, 304
Pleiss, Gerd, 120
Poland
antipartisan warfare in, 294–296
German invasion of, 42–44, 45–56
Red Army incursion into, 282–285
Polish Resistance, 282–283, 294–295
Polizei Division, 62–63, 66, 94, 131, 145, 308–309
Postenberg, Hans, 363, 365–366
Priess, Hermann, 222, 363, 365, 383, 411
Prinz Eugen Division, 248
antipartisan warfare and, 288, 308
end of war and, 403
formation of, 242–243
military assessment of, 422
in Yugoslavia, 299–300, 302, 303–304, 308, 379–380
“Prinz Eugen” regimental march, 42
Pripet Marshes, 172–173, 291, 293
prisoners of war
Allied, 87–88, 89–90, 412
German, 408–410
Puard, Edgar, 360
Quassowski, Hans, 131–132
Quisling, Vidkun, 193, 410
RAF, Allied invasion of France and, 322, 338
Ramcke, Hermann, 414
rasputists
a, 160–161, 215
recruitment for Waffen-SS, 14, 22–23, 102, 106–110, 195, 261
of Volksdeutsche, 107–113, 118, 238, 241–248, 261, 378, 380
Red Air Force, 224
Red Army
advance into Yugoslavia, 379–380
German troops desire to avoid capture by Soviets, 403–404
Operation Bagration and, 277–282
in Poland, 282–285
state of at time of German invasion, 128
winter offensive 1941–1942, 176, 177–178
See also Eastern Front
Reder, Walter, 311
Red Star Brigade, 311
Reich, Otto, 194
Reich Division
drive on Moscow and, 165, 166–172, 174, 175–176
on Eastern Front during winter 1941–1942, 182–184
invasion of Yugoslavia and, 116–117
Operation Barbarossa and, 130
transfer to France in 1942, 205
See also Das Reich Division
Reich Germans in Waffen-SS, 108, 130, 206, 238–239, 292
Reich Labor Service, 23
Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD), 261
Reichsführer-SS Division, 310–311
Rhineland, remilitarization of, 40
Ribbentrop, Rudolf von, 229, 399
Richthofen, Wolfram von, 198, 200
Ringsdorf, Alfred, 356
Röhm, Ernst, 10, 18–19
Romania
collapse of, 379
Soviet invasion of, 308
Volksdeutsche from in Waffen-SS, 113, 118, 238, 241, 243, 244
Rommel, Erwin, 2, 80, 81, 315–316, 336–337, 339, 341
Rossner, Erich, 169
Rostov-on-Don, drive on, 159, 160–161, 162–163
Royalist Chetniks, 241
Rundstedt, Gerd von, 65, 85, 177
Allied offensive in France and, 313, 315, 317, 336–337, 339
invasion of Ukraine and, 130, 153, 155–156, 163
Russia. See Eastern Front; Red Army
Rybka, Kurt, 306, 307
SA. See Sturmabteilung (SA)
Salomon, Ernst von, 12
Sauberzweig, Karl-Gustav, 247, 304
Schalburg, Christian von, 137, 187
Schellenberg, Walter, 233
Schellong, Konrad, 192
Schick, Otto, 28
Schlect, Hein, 81
Schleicher, Kurt von, 19
Schmauser, Heinrich, 19
Schmidt, Andreas, 113
Schnabel, Dieter, 411
Scholz, Fritz von, 111, 158, 201, 204, 239, 272
Schönberger, Georg, 256
Schreck, Julius, 9
Schrecklichkeit, 288
Schrijnen, Remi, 271–272
Schulze, Richard, 365
Schürmann, Paul, 76
Schweppenburg, Geyr von, 316, 339
Schwert und Plug (Sword and Plough) (Nazi curriculum), 103
Schwinke, Georg, 184
SdKfz 251 vehicle, 206–207
Seela, Max, 148, 185
selection criteria
for national legions/foreign volunteers, 109, 135
Waffen-SS, 23–24, 62–63, 109–110
Serbia, expansion of Waffen-SS and Volksdeutsche from, 241, 243
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