– The US Army in the Occupation of Germany 1944–1946, Washington, DC, 1975
– Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East, Washington, DC, 1987
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Freie Welt (DDR) Pravda
Index
Abakumov, Viktor, 16, 96–8, 136, 389, 422
and Ehrenburg, 197, 198
and plot against Zhukov, 407, 426, 427, 428
Adlerhorst HQ, 6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 26
Adlon Hotel, 48, 323, 391
Agranenko, Zakhar, 28, 30, 34, 87, 106, 122, 124, 125
Akhmatova, Anna, 169
Aleksandrov, G. F., 36, 46
and Pravda reply to Ehrenburg, 197–8, 207
Alexander, Field Marshal Sir Harold, 193
Alexanderplatz, 340, 348, 393
Allenstein, 26, 28, 29, 30
Alpine Fortress (National Redoubt), 141, 146, 192, 195–6
Anhalter Bahnhof, 280, 296, 319, 339, 340, 367, 371
Antonov, Gen. A. I., 79, 101, 137, 140, 145, 146, 147, 211, 232–3, 305, 400
Antwerp, 5
Appel, Reinhard, 181, 270
Ardenne, Prof. Baron v., 325
Ardennes offensive, 5–6, 7, 8, 83, 84, 91, 142, 192
Armia Krajowa, 20, 99, 100, 199
Atrocity propaganda, xxxiv, 3–4, 19, 25, 166–7, 169–70
Red Army ‘revenge scores’, 170, 176, 199, 244
Auguste-Viktoria hospital, 224–5
Axmann, Reichsjugendführer Artur, 180–81, 245, 340, 382, 383
Baklanov, Gen. Gleb V., 305
‘Baltic balcony’, see Pomeranian campaign
Barby, 202, 329
Bärenfänger, Maj. Gen. Erich, 384
Baruth, 256, 265, 331, 332, 333, 337
Bastogne, 6
Baumbach, Col., 159
Baumgart, Eberhard, 72, 73, 182
Baur, Hans, 388
Beelitz, 224, 272, 286, 298, 328, 329, 337, 377, 378
Below, Col. Nicolaus v., 8, 188, 254, 262
Bendlerstrasse and ‘Bendlerblock’, 320, 353, 358, 364, 367
Berchtesgaden, 275, 276, 278, 288–9, 290
Berghof, see Berchtesgaden
Beria, Lavrenty, xxxiv, 15, 20, 68, 69, 368, 391, 400
and East Prussia, 29, 36, 419
and atomic bomb, 138, 324–5
and Poles, 199, 420
and NKVD control in Germany, 307–9, 420
and Red Army commanders, 309, 423, 425, 426
Berlin, Gen. Wilhelm, 229
Berlin Philharmonic, 188–9
Bernadotte, Count Folke, 150, 250, 275, 292–3, 341, 342
Bernau, 248, 259, 263
Berzarin, Col. Gen. Nikolai, 64, 69, 149, 150, 220, 226, 236, 256, 389, 400
as commandant of Berlin, 321, 392, 393, 409, 416, 419
Bewilogua, Dr Ludwig, 325
Blumentritt, Gen. Günther, 3, 39, 429
Bogdanov, Gen. S. I., 17, 64, 222, 223, 235, 255, 315, 404
Boldt, Capt. Gerhard, 265, 299, 351
Boiling, Maj. Gen. Alexander, 191
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 181
Bonin, Col. Bogislaw v., 21, 22
Bormann, Reichsleiter Martin, 19, 22
and Volkssturm, 39
and Himmler, 42, 293
and diary, 75, 191, 251, 341, 350
and ambitions, 154, 343, 361–2
and Eva Braun, 155
and concealing Nazi loot, 155
and Gauleiters, 157, 209, 340
and raising troops, 160
in Führer bunker, 251, 252, 276, 278, 288, 289, 341, 343, 359, 361–2, 364, 369, 379
and attempted escape, 381–2, 383
Bradley, Gen. Omar N., 141, 202, 203–4, 305, 401
Brandt, Dr Karl, 252–3
Bräuer, Gen. Bruno, 236–7, 243
Braun, Eva, 19, 47, 59, 75
and return to Berlin, 155, 252
and Hitler, 253–4, 278, 289, 341, 342–3, 350, 357, 358, 359
and Speer, 288, 290
Braun, Ilse, 48
Braun, Margarete, see Fegelein, Gretl
Bremen, 203
Breslau, 48, 61, 62, 91, 92–3, 230
surrounded, 125–6
siege of, 343
Brezhnev, Leonid, 428
British Army, 192–3
21st Army Group, 140–41, 144
Second Army, 191, 203, 247, 251, 400
1st Airborne Div., 194
Britz, 287, 297, 302
Bromberg, 64, 68
Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Alan, 80, 82, 84, 138, 139, 141–2
Budapest, fighting for, 8
fall of, 82–3
Budyonny, Marshal S. M., 427
Bulganin, Lt. Gen. Nikolai A., 100
Bull, Maj. Gen. Harold, 98, 107
Bunyachenko, Maj. Gen. S. K., 183
Burgdorf, Gen. Wilhelm, 7, 152, 154, 225, 262, 266, 268, 275, 344, 351, 359, 362, 382, 387
Busse, Gen. Theodor, 88, 132, 135, 151, 152, 160
and Oder battle, 183, 228, 237, 242, 243, 263
and withdrawal to Spreewald, 256, 270
and joining Twelfth Army, 285, 329, 330, 331, 337, 362, 378
Cairncross, John, 138
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm, 181
Casablanca conference, 194
Celle, 191
Charité hospital, 9, 224–5, 382
Charlottenbrücke (Spandau), 384, 385
Charlottenburg, 340, 341, 356, 358, 416
Chemical weapons, 171–2, 376–7
Chernyakhovsky, Col. Gen. Ivan D., 17, 24–5, 26, 27, 33, 49
Christen, Lt. Col. v., 22
Christian, Gerda, 278, 343, 358, 359, 382, 388
Chuikov, Col. Gen. Vasily I., 44, 64, 65, 70, 71, 88, 91, 149, 150, 206, 321
and Oder battle, 216–17, 220, 222, 227, 229, 242
and Berlin fighting, 317–18, 319, 353
and German surrender, 367–8, 386, 392
Churchill, Winston S., 5, 19, 20
and Poland, 69, 77, 80–82, 143
and Yalta, 77–82, 145
and Eisenhower, 84, 141–2, 143, 195
and Berlin, 138, 195
and Dulles, 142
and post-war fears, 143, 364, 400
and surrender negotiations, 194, 341, 400
Clark Kerr, Sir Archibald, 145, 196
Clay, Maj. Gen. Lucius, 309
Combined Chiefs of Staff, 143
Cottbus, 239, 245
Courland encirclement (Army Group North), 12, 89, 152, 180, 241, 402
Courts martial, summary (Standgericht), 130–31, 176
Crimean conference, see Yalta
Dahlem, 232, 324, 326, 384
Danzig, 37, 49, 50, 88, 93, 94
Anatomical Medical Institute, 94–5
defence of, 117, 120–22, 145
Deane, Maj. Gen. John R., 140, 145, 210, 211
Dekanozov, Vladimir, 304
Demmlhuber, SS-Obergpfh., 89
Dempsey, Lt. Gen. Sir Miles, 191
Dessau, 191, 196, 201, 263
Dethleffsen, Maj. Gen., 304
Devers, Gen. Jacob L., 192
Dietrich, SS-Oberstgpfh. Sepp, 5, 90
Djugashvili, Yakov, 136
Dneper flotilla, 297
Döberitz, 201, 267
Doberke, SS-Oberstmbannfh., 294
Dohnanyi, Hans v., 181
Dönitz, Grand Admiral Karl, 50, 83, 154, 159, 188, 201, 250–51, 288, 289, 298, 341, 343, 361, 368, 369, 381, 402
Dresden, bombing of, 83, 146, 192, 211, 244, 325
Dufving, Col. Theodor v., 364, 367, 386
Dulles, Allen, 142, 194, 195
Eberswalde, 246, 267
Edelsheim, Gen. Maximilian Freiherr v., 395, 396
Eden, Anthony, 77
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 25, 28, 36, 169, 194, 195–6, 425
Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf v., 36, 197
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight, 78
and Rhine crossing, 83–4
and British, 84, 139–40, 141–2, 143
and Soviet Union, 139–40, 141, 143, 145, 147, 194, 210–11, 306, 400
and SCAF-252, 141, 143, 145
and Berlin, 141, 142–4, 191, 195, 202–3, 204, 304
and German surrender, 294, 305, 400
and Zhukov, 425–6
Eismann, Col. Hans Georg, 53, 54, 89, 150, 159, 160, 242
Elbing, 26, 28, 50, 115, 116, 117, 119
Elser, Johann Georg, 181
Elsholz, 377, 378
Erkner, 265
Fedyuninsky, Gen. 1.1., 117
Fegelein, Gretl (Margarete Braun), 19, 59, 75, 253, 290, 341
Fegelein, SS-Gpfh. Hermann, 59, 60, 75, 154–5, 253, 290, 293, 341
Feldgendarmerie, 123, 132, 163, 234–5, 247, 258, 264, 281, 339
Fenet, Henri, 291, 292, 302, 303, 352, 379, 382
Ferch, 353
Ferchland, 396
Förster, Gauleiter Albert, 94, 120
Frankfurt am Main, 152
Frankfurt an der Oder, 27, 70, 71, 150, 183, 228
garrison of, 260, 270, 329
Frederick the Great, 204, 208, 390
Free Germany (Freies Deutschland), see National Committee for a Free Germany
Freisler, Roland, 74–5
Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East), 6
French First Army, 192, 251, 402
Freytag v. Loringhoven, Maj. Bernd
Freiherr, 12, 42, 58, 59, 151, 152, 153, 277, 278, 299, 350
Friedeburg, Admiral Hans Georg v., 400, 403, 404, 405
Friedrichshain flak tower, 287, 323
Friedrichstrasse, 380
station, 3, 48–9, 382
Fuchs, Dr Klaus, xxxiv, 138
Fuchs, Maj. Gen., 238
Fürstenwalde, 330
Gall, Capt. Vladimir S., 214, 373–6
Gatow, 323
Gdynia (Gotenhafen), 50, 88, 117
defence of, 120–21, 145
Gehlen, Maj. Gen. Reinhard, 6, 7, 26
Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 83, 286
German Army, see also Waffen SS
ARMY GROUPS
Centre, 11, 92, 241, 244
North, 19, 152
‘A’, 21
‘B’, 190, 200, 201
Vistula, 52, 54, 68, 88, 91, 130, 132, 150, 153, 159–60, 188, 189, 207, 228, 242–3, 256, 267, 291, 320, 337
ARMIES
Second, 26, 49, 50, 88, 90, 115, 119, 402
Fourth, 50, 88
Ninth, 22, 54, 88, 151, 160;
on Oder front, 162, 188, 267;
and defence of Berlin, 179;
and Oder battle, 219, 221, 223, 225, 243, 246;
and withdrawal to south-west, 256, 260, 270, 276;
and breakout to Twelfth Army, 298, 328, 329, 337, 362, 377–9, 395–8;
and Hitler’s fantasies, 304
Twelfth, 201, 202, 263, 276, 284, 291, 298, 304, 328, 329, 353, 377–9, 395–8
Seventeenth, 60, 61, 126
Twenty-First, 400
First Panzer, 132
Third Panzer, 50, 88, 160, 243, 337–8, 400
Fourth Panzer, 125, 208, 239, 241, 329
Fifth Panzer, 5
CORPS
Grossdeutschland, 18, 26, 45, 119, 126
V Corps, 329
XX Corps, 284, 328
XIV Panzer, 126
XLI Panzer, 379
LVI Panzer, 225, 237, 246, 259, 264, 286, 386
CI Corps, 225, 229, 236, 246, 248, 259, 263, 267
DIVISIONS
Grossdeutschland, 11, 121
168th Inf., 129
169th Inf., 62
303rd Döberitz Inf., 73, 163, 209
359th Inf., 126
Ulrich von Hutten, 202, 329
Friedrich Ludwig Fahn, 260
Theodor Körner, 328
Scharnhorst, 263, 264, 286, 328, 329, 395, 398, 403
7th Pz., 243
16th Pz., 17
19th Pz., 18
20th Pz., 127
21St Pz., 232, 330
25th Pz., 18
Kurmark Pz., 235, 246, 330, 362, 377–8
Müncheberg Pz., 286, 303, 319, 339, 340, 384
18th Pzgren., 257, 286, 296, 384
20th Pzgren., 206, 286, 296
391st Security, 208
REGIMENTS
Grossdeutschland Gd Regt, 72, 208, 226, 263
Kurmark Pz., 71
Potsdam, 161–2, 236
11th Training Bde, 223
German Communist Party (KPD), 181, 321, 346, 372, 417–18
Gestapo and SD (Sicherheitsdienst), 42, 56, 154, 155, 283, 386
headquarters Prinz-Albrechtstrasse, 22, 74, 340, 351, 379–80, 382, 386–7
Bundschuh resistance groups, 174
and Kriminalpolizei, 176
and deserters, 260
Hitler’s bodyguards, 341
Giesebrechtstrasse, 345, 346
Goebbels, Reichsminister Joseph, xxxiv, 1, 4, 5, 28
and Volkssturm, 39
as Gauleiter and Reich Commissar for Defence, 57, 58, 133, 245, 261, 268
as Minister of Propaganda, 70, 100, 133, 135, 175, 180, 224, 229, 250, 253, 261, 291, 339, 340
and Cossacks, 73–4
and Dresden, 83
and Lauban, 126–7
and Berlin, 139, 177, 245, 347
and Kamarilla rivalries, 154, 289
and death of Roosevelt, 204
in Führer bunker, 276, 288, 343, 359, 361, 362, 364
and surrender, 368, 370, 379
and suicide, 380, 381, 390
Goebbels, Magda, 276, 278, 289–90, 343, 359, 361, 380, 381, 390
Goebbels children, 278, 279, 344, 357, 361, 380–81, 398
Gordov, Gen. V. N., 245, 330–31
Goring, Reichsmarschall Hermann, 8, 12, 42, 43, 90, 154, 201, 236, 356
and destruction of Karinhall, 249–50
and Hitler, 251, 289, 350
Görlitz, 126, 244
Goya hospital ship, sinking of, 188
Greim, Col. Gen. Robert Ritter v., 322, 342
Greiser, Gauleiter Arthur, 63, 64, 68, 158
Grishin, Maj., 373–6
Grossdeutscher Rundfunk, 282, 384, 385, 416–17, 418
Grossman, Vasily, 14, 23, 32, 44, 64, 65, 66, 67, 86, 105, 108, 116, 273
and Berlin, 295, 301, 321, 393, 394, 407, 413
and Black Book, 425
Groves, Maj. Gen. Leslie, 138
Grunewald, 322, 324
Guben, 208
Guderian, Col. Gen. Heinz, 6, 7, 8, 12–13, 18, 19, 43, 50, 58, 60
rows with Hitler, 89–90, 149–52, 275
and resignation of Himmler, 131–2
and National Socialist Party, 134–5
and Himmler on peace negotiations, 150
sacking of, 152–3
Gulag
transfer of prisoners to Red Army, 165–6
transfer of Poles to army, 199
Günsche, Otto, 262, 358, 359, 389
Gusakovsky, Col. I. I., 18, 21, 43, 69
Haase, Prof. Werner, 391
Hahn, Dr Otto, 325
Halbe, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 337, 378
Haider, Col. Gen. Franz, 177
Hamburg, 141, 247, 364, 381, 384
Hanke, Gauleiter Karl, 92, 93, 125, 343
Hanover, 191
Harpe, Col. Gen. Josef, 12, 21, 61, 249–51
Harriman, Averell, 101, 145, 194, 211
Hase, Col. Gen. Paul v., 346
Hassleben (Army Group Vistula HQ), 130, 131, 132, 158, 159, 160, 338
Heerstrasse, 353, 356
Heiligenbeil Kessel, 50, 88, 93
Heilstätten, 224, 272, 298, 328
Heinrici, Col. Gen. Gotthardt, 132, 158, 180, 183, 188, 207
and Oder battle, 218–19, 223, 225, 228, 241, 256
and defence of Berlin, 245, 248, 267, 268, 291, 337, 338
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Hela, port of, 121
Hermannplatz, 262, 282, 302
Heydrich, SS-Obergpfh. Reinhard, 346
Hildebrandt, Gauleiter, 159
Himmler, Ernst, 384, 385
Himmler, Heinrich, 6, 7, 42
and death marches, 38
and Volkssturm, 39
and Army Group Vistula, 52, 53–4, 68, 88–9, 90, 130, 131–2
and peace negotiations, 150, 175, 250, 275, 290, 292, 293–4, 341, 342, 350, 368
and SS divisions in Hungary, 151, 293
and rivalries, 154, 155, 289, 361
and orders for total warfare, 174, 240
and Vlasov, 182
and Hitler, 250–51, 293
and battle for Berlin, 275, 341
in north Germany, 361
Hitler, Adolf, xxxiii, xxxiv, 225
and Ardennes offensive, 5, 6, 7, 8
and Vistula offensive, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 22
and loss of Warsaw, 21, 22
and East Prussia, 26, 50
and Volkssturm, 39
and refugees, 52
and German Army, 54, 58, 89, 91, 116, 135, 142, 149, 151
withdrawal from public view, 58
last broadcast, 67
and defence of Berlin, 74, 177
and Eva Braun, 75, 253–4, 278, 289, 342–3
and bombing of Dresden, 83
and SS divisions in Hungary, 151
and self-identification with German people, 153, 276
and ‘Nero Order’, 155–8, 202
and Wehrmachthelferinnenkorps, 181
and Oder front, 188, 189, 241
and death of Roosevelt, 204
and birthday, 249–52
and decision to stay in Berlin, 251, 275, 288–9
and battle of Berlin, 266, 267, 268
and Frederick the Great, 268, 275
and Ninth and Twelfth Armies, 285, 288, 295, 330, 331
and Speer, 288, 290
and fantasies of rescue, 295, 304, 322, 331, 340, 350
and breakout plans, 320
and last days in Reich Chancellery, 322, 341, 357
remains of, 399, 400, 431
Hitler Youth, and Panzerjagd units, 74
and defence of Berlin, 180, 189, 265, 270, 272, 275–6, 281, 301, 316, 340, 346, 356, 384
‘Hitler Youth Division’, 180–81
and Oder battle, 235, 245, 247, 257, 338
‘Hiwis’, 112–14, 367, 396–7
Hodges, Lt. Gen. Courtney H., 141, 191
Hohenlychen, 131–2, 292, 338
Hohenschönhausen, 265
Hohenzollerndamm, HQ of Berlin Defence Area, 224, 261, 301, 320
Holste, Lt. Gen., 379
Hölz, Maj. Gen. Artur, 179
Hossbach, Gen. Friedrich, 50
Humboldt-Dachroeden, Col. Hubertus Freiherr v., 21, 22, 201, 285, 397
Humboldthain flak tower, 287, 323
Irwin, Virginia, 305–7
Japan, war against, 78, 82, 139, 211