White Russia, 627, 628, 798, 811, 832, 962
White Sea, 798
Whitworth, Vice-Adm. W. J., 707
Widerstand (Resistance), 373
Wiechert, Ernst, 242
Wiegand, Karl von, 748
Wiessee, 217, 221, 314
Wietersheim, Gen. Gustav von, 369–70
Wildpark-Werder, 1115
“Wilfred,” 696
Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and Kaiser of Germany, 95
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 29, 31, 52, 53, 56, 58, 94, 95, 99, 103, 104, 106, 107–8, 109, 153, 197, 200, 243, 288, 406, 485–86, 499, 598, 658, 692–93, 713, 738fn., 754fn., 871, 907, 1025, 1139
Wilhelm, Prince, 907
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 561, 640, 652, 721, 723, 729
Wilhelmshaven, 467, 752
Willstaetter, Richard, 250
Wilmot, Chester, 1041fn.
Wilson, Sir Horace, 382, 391, 396, 397, 398–99, 401, 402, 407, 416–17, 418, 572, 583, 585fn.
Wilson, Hugh R., 360, 433fn.
Wilson, Woodrow, 52, 57, 898
Windau, 539
“Winds” message to Nomura, 886
Windsor, Duchess of (Mrs. Simpson), 298, 785, 787, 788, 789, 792
Windsor, Duke of (Edward VIII), 298, 596fn., 751fn., 783, 785–92
Winkelmann, Gen. H. G., 723
Winterhilfe, 264, 643, 779
Wisconsin, University of, 1043fn.
Wittelsbach monarchy, 33, 64, 67, 70
Wittenberg, 237
Witzleben, Field Marshal Erwin von, 284, 318–19, 375, 405, 407–8, 411, 412, 413, 422, 426, 530, 558–59, 670, 755fn., 906, 1030, 1035, 1036, 1048, 1054, 1058, 1064–65, 1070–71, 1075, 1079
Wlodawa, 626
Woermann, Dr. Ernst, 429, 897fn.
Wolf, Otto, 144
Wolfers, Alfred, 274
Wolfsschanze (Wolfs Lair), 849, 870, 881, 882, 919, 1000fn., 1046, 1048–49
Wolzek, 968
Woods, Sam E. 842–43
Woolff, Virginia, 784
Woolwich Arsenal, 780
World Jewish Congress, 978
World War I, 108, 282, 283, 544, 597–98, 630, 635, 637, 658, 673, 717, 727, 754fn., 760, 794, 800, 823, 897, 918, 957, 1007, 1081; Hitler’s service in, 29–30, 1124; armistice, 29, 31–32, 52, 58–59, 741–42, 1036; peace terms, see Versailles Treaty; Germany’s mistakes in, 485, 486, 546, 645
Wrench, John Evelyn, 288fn.
Wuensdorf, 1057
Wuerttemberg, 131, 1028
Yellow, Case, 682, 710, 717, 718, 719
Yorck von Wartenburg, Count Peter, 1015, 1016, 1028, 1070–71
Young, Desmond, 1079fn.
Young Plan, 136, 145, 943
Ypres, 29, 30, 730
Yugoslavia, 295, 399–400, 426–27, 469, 470, 530, 804, 808, 815, 823–24, 825, 826, 828–30, 839, 841, 842, 874, 875, 993, 1006
Zander, Wilhelm, 1129
Zaporozhe, 1001, 1007
Zech-Burkersroda, Count Julius von, 713
Zehlendorf, 715
Zeitzler, Gen. Kurt, 360–61, 915, 918, 919, 925–27, 928, 933
Zeller, Eberhard, 1046fn., 1050fn.
Zeughaus, Berlin, 1021, 1022fn.
Zhdanov, Andrei, 496, 794
Zhukov, Gen. Georgi, 864–65, 866, 869, 891, 1097, 1106, 1135fn.
Zichenau, 944
Ziegenberg, 1089, 1091, 1108
Ziegler, Adolf, 133fn., 244
Ziereis, Franz, 967fn.
Zoellner, Doctor, 238, 239
Zola, Emile, 241, 736
Zossen, 518, 560, 658, 670, 694, 1058, 1065
Z Plan, 487, 622
Zurich, 563, 1018
Zweig, Arnold, 241
Zweig, Stefan, 24, 241
Zwoelf-Uhr Blatt, 564
Zyklon B, 970, 972
Table of Contents
Foreword
Book One: The Rise of Adolf Hitler
1. Birth of the Third Reich
2. Birth of the Nazi Party
3. Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch
4. The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich
Book Two: Triumph and Consolidation
5. The Road to Power: 1925–31
6. The Last Days of the Republic: 1931–33
7. The Nazification of Germany: 1933–34
8. Life in the Third Reich: 1933–37
Book Three: The Road to War
9. The First Steps: 1934–37
10. Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht
11. Anschluss: The Rape of Austria
12. The Road to Munich
13. Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist
14. The Turn of Poland
15. The Nazi-Soviet Pact
16. The Last Days of Peace
17. The Launching of World War II
Book Four: War: Early Victories and the Turning Point
18. The Fall of Poland
19. Sitzkrieg in the West
20. The Conquest of Denmark and Norway
21. Victory in the West
22. Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain
23. Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia
24. A Turn of the Tide
25. The Turn of the United States
26. The Great Turning Point: 1942—Stalingrad and El Alamein
Book Five: Beginning of the End
27. The New Order
28. The Fall of Mussolini
29. The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler
Book Six: The Fall of the Third Reich
30. The Conquest of Germany
31. Goetterdaemmerung : The Last Days of the Third Reich
A Brief Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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