Cyprus 588
Cyrenaica 121, 127, 133
Czechoslovakia: Czech servicemen in Allied forces 107;
German annexation of Sudetenland 6, 7–8;
German invasion 9, 17, 147;
Hungarian annexation of Southern Slovakia 9;
massacres in 243;
post-war 561
Czestochowa 244
D-Day landings (6 June 1944) 465, 467–8, 470–78; advance preparations for 351, 383, 393, 450–51, 461–72;
German reaction 476–8, 479–80, 533, 588, 594–5;
Gold beach 467, 476;
Juno beach 467, 476;
Omaha beach 464, 467, 473–6, 477;
Sword beach 467, 475, 476;
Utah beach 464, 467, 473, 474
Dachau concentration camp 100, 113, 237
DAF (Allied Desert Air Force) 284, 285, 289, 290, 292, 293–4, 295
Dahlem 550, 555, 608
Daily Herald 130
Daily Mail 3, 51
Daily Telegraph 464, 558
Dakar 84, 461
Daladier, Edouard 59, 605
Dalton, Hugh (later Baron Dalton) 116, 117
‘Dambuster’ raids 441
Danant 51
Daniels, Josephus 187
Dansey, Claude 155
Danube, River 540, 541
Danzig 18, 19, 21, 484, 522, 549
Darlan, Admiral Jean-François 80, 84, 197, 306, 308–9
Darnard, Joseph 81
Darwin 201
Davidson, Lieutenant-Colonel Howard C. 199
Davies, Norman 538
Dawe, Leonard 464
Dawley, Major-General Ernest 379
de Gaulle, Charles see Gaulle, Charles de
De Ruyter, RNNS 209
de Valera, Eamon 114–15
Deere, Air Commodore Alan ‘Al’ 99
Degrelle, Léon 85
‘Demolitions on Reich Territory’ order (Hitler’s; 1945) 547–8, 596
Dempsey, General (Sir) Miles 467, 502
Denmark 35, 38, 41, 44–5, 85, 574
Denmark Straits 358, 361
Desert Air Force (Allied; DAF) 284, 285, 289, 290, 292, 293, 295
‘Desert Rats’ (British 7th Armoured Division) 121, 122, 133, 134, 290, 294, 299, 305
Desert Victory (film) 283, 285
desert warfare 283–4
Deutschland (battleship) 10, 353, 358; Deutschland Pact 1–2, 3, 11
Devers, Lieutenant-General Jacob 499
Dew, Armine 248
Diadem, Operation 400, 402
Diekmann, Major Adolf 479–80
Dieppe Raid (1942) 283, 290, 318–19, 461, 587, 603
Dietl, Captain Eduard 39
Dietrich, General Josef ‘Sepp’ 505, 507, 582
Dietrich, Otto 50
‘Dig for Victory’ campaign 109
Dill, Field Marshal Sir John 88
Dimapur 269, 270, 272, 274
Dinant 507
Dingler, Colonel H. R. 339, 341, 342
disabled, extermination of 221, 224, 496
Dittmar, Lieutenant-General Kurt 317
Djebel Kouif 312
Dnieper river 152; Germans’ crossing of 168, 175;
Germans’ retreat to 425, 521, 522–3, 539;
Russians’ crossing of 528, 529, 532
Dniester river 529, 532
Dobbie, Lieutenant-General Sir William 285
Dolchstosslegende (stab-in-the-back myth) 484
Dollmann, General Friedrich 72
Don Front 334, 341
Don, River 316, 317, 333, 335
Donbaik 269
Donets Basin 152, 166, 168, 170
Donets river 175, 316, 409, 419, 421
Dönitz, Commander Karl: and Allied Normandy invasion 481; background and career 352–3;
and Enigma code 350;
and German surrender 373, 560;
relations with Hitler 513;
succeeds Raeder 355, 592;
trial 583;
and U-boat campaigns 352, 353, 358, 359, 370–71, 440, 583
Doolittle, Lieutenant-Colonel Jimmy 214
Doorman, Admiral Karel 209–10
Dorsetshire, HMS 363
Dorsetshire Regiment 273
Douai 60
Dover 96
Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh (later 1st Baron Dowding) 70, 94, 95, 97, 101
Drancy transit camp 78
Dresden 455, 458; bombing of 124, 436, 454–8
Dreyfus Affair 75
Dublin 115
Dumitrescu, General Petre 334
Dunkirk 52, 59–61, 70, 499; evacuation (1940) 60, 63, 64–8, 69, 71, 72, 77, 104, 587, 600
Dunphie, Brigadier Charles 311
Durham Brigade 296
Dutch East Indies 186, 188, 201, 210, 213, 589
Dvina, River 157
Dvinsk 494
Dyle river 53, 55, 56, 58, 76
Dyle–Breda Line 55, 58, 76
Dynamo, Operation 64
dysentery 213, 274, 382
Dzerzhinsky, Felix 320
Dzhugashvili, First Lieutenant Yakov (Stalin’s son) 161–2
E-boats (motor torpedo boats) 36, 396, 469
Eaglesham, Renfrewshire 145
Eaker, General Ira C. 381, 439, 440
East Prussia 17, 18–19, 152, 317, 480, 534, 535, 541, 549, 554
Eben Emael fortress 55
Echternach 504
Eckhart, Dietrich 146
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon): on July Plotters 484; and possible invasion of Britain 88, 91;
in Supreme War Council 71;
in War Cabinet 120, 295, 309, 370, 451, 557
Eder dam 441
Edson, Lieutenant-Colonel Merritt A. ‘Red Mike’ 259
Egypt 120, 121, 129
Eichmann, Lieutenant-Colonel Adolf 239–40, 242, 244–5, 582
Eicke, Theodor 27
Eifel forest 49
Eighteenth Army (German) 528, 541
Eighteenth Army (Russian) 175
Eighth Army Air Force (United States) 439, 440, 444, 450, 572, 604
Eighth Army (Commonwealth): Italian campaign 376, 379, 381, 384, 400, 404;
North African campaigns 132–3, 134, 135, 281, 284, 288, 290, 292, 300, 312, 313, 314
Eighth Army (French) 72
Eighth Army (German) 23, 24
Eighth Army (Italian) 333, 335, 338
Eindhoven 502
Einstein, Albert 574
Eire: Anglo-Irish Treaty (1922) 115; Irish servicemen in Allied forces 107;
Jews in 239;
naval bases 115;
neutrality 112, 114–16, 239
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.: and Allied advance into Germany 497, 498, 499–500, 503, 513, 550;
and Ardennes Offensive 504, 505–6, 509–10;
background and character 304–5, 498;
Italian campaign 376, 377–8, 384, 397–8;
and liberation of Paris 489, 490;
Normandy campaign 465–6, 466–7, 469, 470, 487;
North African campaigns 302, 304, 307, 308–9, 312;
relations with Marshall 305
El Alamein see Alamein
Elbe river 498, 550
Eleventh Army (German) 316, 318, 410, 553
Eliot, T. S. 87
Elizabeth, Queen (consort of George VI; later Queen Mother) 102, 433
Elliot, Walter 68
Elliott, Denholm 355
Elliott, Private George 185
Emergency Powers (Defence) Act (Britain; 1939) 109
Emergency Price Control Act (United States; 1942) 197
Enigma (German enciphering machine) 155, 346–51, 357, 363, 364, 367, 368, 369, 372, 581, 602, 606
Enola Gay (bomber) 575
Enterprise, USS 189, 252, 253, 254–5, 256, 258
Erickson, John 423, 530, 553, 556
Essen 442
Estonia 29, 541, 561
Ethiopia 121, 127, 261
Etoro
fu 190
Euphrates, River 131
Eureka Conference see Teheran Conference
euthanasia 221
evacuees 110–11
Evans, Dick 396
Evening News (London) 478
Exeter, HMS 37
Falaise Gap 351, 487, 488, 491, 534
Falkenhorst, General Nikolaus von 38
Fall Blau see Blue, Operation
Fall Gelb see Plan Yellow
Fall Rot see Plan Red
Fall Weiss see Plan White
Faroe Islands 44, 359
Farquhar, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Peter 297
Fasson, Lieutenant Francis 368
Fegen, Edward Fogarty 356
Felbert, Major-General Paul von 494, 495
Felsennest (Hitler’s Eifel forest HQ) 49
Ferdinand (German assault guns) 414, 420–21, 422, 526
Fergusson, Major Bernard (later Baron Ballantrae) 262, 263, 264, 265
Fermi, Enrico 574
Fifteenth Air Force (United States) 248, 381, 440
Fifteenth Army (German) 470, 471, 477, 486, 497, 498
F ifteenth Army (Japanese) 211, 267, 273, 274
Fifth Army (Chinese) 212
Fifth Army (French) 72
Fifth Army (Russian) 159, 165–6, 170
Fifth Army (United States) 377, 378–9, 380–81, 382, 383, 384, 385–6, 387, 390, 397, 400, 403–4, 488
Fifth Guards Tank Army (Russian) 421, 424
Fifth Panzer Army 487, 505, 507
films 101, 104–5, 283, 355, 373, 474
Finland: Allied support for 33, 38; armed forces 30, 31–2, 34;
and German invasion of USSR 152, 153, 171;
non-aggression treaty with USSR (1932) 30;
peace terms with USSR 528;
post-war 562;
Winter War with USSR (1939–40) 29–34, 114, 143, 154, 171, 323, 587
Finland, Gulf of 29, 528
Fires Were Started (film) 101
First Air Fleet (Japanese) 186, 190, 201, 253
First Army (British) 307, 312, 313, 314
First Army (Canadian) 468, 486, 499
First Army (French) 53, 64
First Army (German) 53
First Army (United States) 378, 467, 486, 499, 503, 506, 507, 550, 596
First Panzer Army 316–17, 319
First US Army Group (FUSAG) 463, 470
First World War see Great War
Fischfang, Operation 398
Fish (German cipher) 351, 372
Flanagan and Allen 104
Fleming, Ian 350
Fletcher, Rear-Admiral Frank ‘Jack’ 252, 256, 258
Florence 403
Flying Fortress B-17 (bomber) 185, 187, 208, 248, 439, 444, 455
Focke-Wulf 200 (Kondor; bomber) 354–5, 360
Foggia 248, 375, 381, 440, 449
Folgore Division 288, 293
Folkestone 96
Force H (British naval detachment) 363
Force Z (Allied naval detachment) 202, 203–4
Formidable, HMS 126
Formosa 207, 208, 565, 569
Forster, E. M. 90
Forstmann, Captain Walter 352
‘fortified localities’ strategy (Hitler’s) 531–2, 533, 541
Fortitude North and South, Operations 463, 595, 606
Fourteenth Air Force (United States) 268
Fourteenth Army (British) 260, 567
Fourteenth Army (Commonwealth) 269
Fourteenth Army (German) 377, 387, 394, 396
Fourteenth Army (Russian) 30
Fourth Armoured Army (German) 336
Fourth Army (Romanian) 333, 335
Fourth Panzer Army 316–17, 333, 412, 415–16, 418, 422, 592
France: air raids on 84, 370, 440, 451–3, 479, 486; Allied invasion see Anvil, Operation; Cobra, Operation; Overlord, Operation;
armed forces 55, 70, 72–3, 487–8;
British sinking of fleet at Oran (1940) 77, 92, 306;
collaborators 79, 82, 83, 84–5;
Communist Party 83, 117;
declares war on Germany 22;
Deuxième Bureau (secret service) 347, 348, 369;
fall of 44, 72–3, 75–7, 602;
forced labour in German factories 81, 84;
German invasion 48–9, 51–7, 59–64, 70, 410;
German naval bases in 358, 370;
German occupation 74, 77–84, 163;
Great War 48, 53, 54, 75, 76;
High Command 53, 54, 56, 57–8, 59, 71;
and invasion of North Africa 302, 306, 308–9, 311, 312;
Jews in 78, 81–2, 113, 221;
navy 73, 77, 92, 306, 307;
Norway campaign 43, 44;
offer of union with Britain 71;
post-war 578;
Saarland invasion (1939) 23;
scuttling of fleet at Toulon (1942) 307;
servicemen in Allied forces 487–8;
SOE operations in 116–17;
surrender 73–4; see also Free French; French Resistance; Vichy France
Franco, General Francisco 4, 112–13, 347
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) 14, 53, 57, 74, 137, 227, 581
Frank, Anne 476
Frank, Hans 77
Frankfurt 444, 498
Frankl, Viktor 237, 238
Frankland, Noble 432
Fraser, Sir Bruce (later 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape) 577
Fraser, George MacDonald 212–13, 266, 572, 576; Quartered Safe Out Here 213, 564, 566, 578
Fraser, Peter 126
Fredendall, Major-General Lloyd R. 306, 310, 311, 312
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor 146
Frederick II ‘the Great’, King of Prussia 14, 562, 586
Free French 72, 74, 81, 131, 134, 290, 389, 477, 488, 490
Free Greek Brigade 290
Freienwalde Castle 596
Freikorps (paramilitary militia) 20, 241
French Foreign Legion 43
French Indo-China 186, 190, 203, 207
French Resistance (Maquis) 79, 81, 82–3, 85, 117, 470, 471, 489; reprisals against 479–80
Freud, Sigmund 91
Freyberg, Major-General Bernard (later 1st Baron Freyberg) 125, 126–7, 290, 296, 388, 389
Friedländer, Saul 249
Fritsch, General Werner von 5, 6, 7, 410
Fritzsche, Hans 583
Fromm, General Friedrich 196, 581–2
Fry, Richard 112
Fry, Stephen 441
Fuchida, Captain Mitsuo 185–6, 191, 192, 251, 253, 254, 255
Führer conferences, verbatim reports from 511–13
Führer Directives: No.16 93, 108; No.17 94;
No.18 144–5;
No.21 145, 148, 151, 152–3, 154, 166, 601;
No.23 354, 355
Fuka 295, 297, 299, 301
Fuller, J. F. C. 343
Funk, Walther 151, 196, 548, 582
Furious, HMS 40
Furness, Lieutenant Dickie 65–6
FUSAG (First US Army Group) 463, 470
Gabčik, Josef 242–3
Gains, Private J. R. G. 579
Gajowoniczek, Franciszek 237
Galland, Colonel Adolf 95, 96, 101, 106, 445–6, 586, 600
Gallipoli Expedition (1915) 46, 211, 301, 394, 461
Gällivare 38, 39, 44
Gamelin, General Maurice 23, 55–6, 59, 76
Garby-Czerniawksi, Roman 470
García, Juan Pujol 470
Garda, Lake 405
Gargagno 405
Gari river 387
Garigliano river 385, 387
Garson, Greer 105
gas chambers 224, 226, 227, 228–32, 234, 236, 240, 495
Gatehouse, Major-General Alec 291
Gaulle, General Charles de: appearance and character 71, 488;
and German invasion of France 59, 73;
head of Free French in London 72, 81, 488;
ingratitude to British 488;
and l
iberation of Paris 488, 489–90;
rivalry with Giraud 309;
on Stalingrad 345;
in Supreme War Council 71
Gavuth 257
Gazala 133–4
GCCS (Government Code and Cypher School) see Bletchley Park
Gda–sk see Danzig
Gdynia see Gotenhafen
Gee (radio-based navigational device) 447
Geheimschreiber (cipher machine) 347, 350
Gela 376
Genda, Commander Minoru 191, 192
General Strike (Britain; 1926) 46
Generalplan-Ost 240
Geneva Convention 25, 279, 582, 585
Gensoul, Admiral Marcel 92
George VI, King 46, 102, 104, 463, 600
Georges, General Alphonse 55, 56, 57
Georgia 164
German air force see Luftwaffe
German army: effectiveness of 24–5, 54, 548, 554, 599, 603; executions for cowardice and desertion 553–4;
High Command see OKH;
Hitler’s expansion of 4;
losses 160, 175, 376, 426, 520, 532, 534, 548, 562, 603;
manpower shortages 529;
oath of loyalty to Hitler 2, 3, 9, 483;
purged following Fritsch affair 6–7, 410;
reorganization of divisions (1944) 529;
unprepared for winter crisis on Eastern Front (1941–2) 176, 177–80; see also Army Groups (German); individual field armies, divisions and regiments
German High Command see OKW
German navy see Kriegsmarine
Germany: Allied advance into 501–3, 513–14, 520, 596; Allied bombing of 35, 103, 105, 106, 429–60, 503, 533, 586, 602;
Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935) 9;
Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) 5;
anti-Semitism in 220–21, 226;
compulsory military service adopted 4;
declaration of war on United States 176, 193–7, 589–90, 598;
economy 151, 432, 441–2, 459, 562;
emigration 221, 223, 574;
failure of close Axis alliance 140, 195, 589;
German–Polish non-aggression treaty (1934) 9, 17;
labour shortage 139;
Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939) 10, 25, 26, 29, 149, 151, 539, 603;
Pact of Steel with Italy (1939) 9;
post-war 383, 562, 578;
public morale 458, 459;
Russian advance into 549–50;
surrender 521, 560, 570–71, 598;
total civilian losses 562;
Tripartite Pact (1940) 124, 193, 589–90
Germany First policy 130, 214, 302–3, 461, 564, 589, 605–6
Gerow, General Leonard 467, 475, 476, 505
Gertner, Ala 232
Gestapo 10, 83, 222, 242, 243, 348, 478, 544, 554, 557
Gibraltar 84, 149, 304, 305, 307, 351, 363, 417, 463–4, 588
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