Streicher, Julius 562, 583
‘Strength Through Joy’ (Nazi cruise line) 222
Strong, Major-General Kenneth 91, 504
Stroop, SS-General Jürgen 244
Stuart (Allied tank) 198, 285
Student, General Karl 125, 149, 587–8, 597
Studnitz, General Bogislav von 72
Stukas (Junkers Ju-87 dive-bombers) 21, 66–7, 93, 106, 323, 418, 537
Stülpnagel, General Karl von 77
Stülpnagel, General Otto von 73, 77
Stumme, General George 287, 288, 293
Sturmabteilung (SA; Brownshirts) 1, 28
Stutthof concentration camp 522
SU-85 (Russian self-propelled gun) 422
SU-100 (Russian self-propelled gun) 425
SU-152 (Russian tank) 161
Sudan 121, 261
Sudetenland 7–8, 143, 410, 483
Suez Canal 120, 121, 285–6, 376, 588
Suffolk, HMS 361–2
Sumatra 209, 213
Summa 34
Sun Tzu 463
Suomussalmi 31, 32, 33
Supercharge, Operation 296–7, 302
Supermarine Spitfire see Spitfire
Supreme War Council (Allied) 33, 70–71, 274
swastika 1, 4
Sweden: accommodation of Nazis 114, 445; iron ore 38, 112, 114, 541;
neutrality 34, 38, 85, 112, 114
Sweeney, Major Charles ‘Chuck’ 577
Swinderby, RAF 455
Switzerland 112, 113, 114, 445, 451, 453; Lucy (Soviet spy ring) 155, 417
Sword beach 467, 475, 476
synthetic oil 236, 248, 432, 445, 446, 453, 539, 574
Syria 84, 126, 127, 129, 131, 132
Szilard, Leo 574
T-34 (Russian tank) 161, 181, 422, 423, 425, 525–7, 600
Tagonrog 521
Taiwan see Formosa
Takagi, Rear-Admiral Takeo 210
Takijiro, Onishi 188
Talvela, General Paavo 33
Taman Peninsula 523
Tanaka, Rear-Admiral Razio 258
Tanimoto, Kiyoshi 575–6
tank production: German 413, 422, 425, 426, 442, 447, 525, 527–8, 594; Russian 425, 426, 525, 526–7, 600
tank warfare 54, 62, 76, 161, 181–2, 388, 414–15, 418, 419, 422–3, 525–9
Tanner, Väinö 29–30
Taranto 379
Taranto, battle of (1940) 191, 193
Tarawa 260
Task Force 34 (Allied North African invasion force) 303, 305–6
Task Force 38 (United States Pacific force) 565
Task Force 81 (Allied Italian invasion force) 393–4
Tatsinskaya 339
Tatsuta Maru (liner) 190
Tavoy 211
taxation: Britain 111, 112; United States 197, 198
Taylor, Frederick 456
Taylor, Robert 104
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur 126, 451, 468, 477
Teheran 131
Teheran Conference (‘Eureka’; 1943) 382–3, 403, 545
Tel el Aqqaqir 298
Telemark 117
Teller, Edward 574
Tellermines 381
Temme, Pilot Officer Paul 67
Tenaru River, battle of (1942) 258–9
Tenth Army (German) 23, 378, 393, 400–401
Tenth Army (Italian) 120
Tenth Army (Russian) 158
Tenth Army (United States) 569, 572
Thailand 188, 201, 213
Thala 311–12
Thames, River 35, 36, 101, 106, 463
Theresianstadt concentration camp 496
Thermopylae 30, 125
Thesiger, (Sir) Wilfred 261
Thierack, Otto 581
Third Army (French) 72
Third Army (Romanian) 333, 334, 335
Third Army (Russian) 171
Third Army (United States) 468, 486, 487, 497, 498, 499, 506–7, 514
Third Communist International 5
Third Fleet (United States) 565
Third Tactical Air Force (British) 273
Thirteenth Army (Russian) 30
Thirty-second Army (Japanese) 569
Thirty-second Army (Russian) 171
Thirty-seventh Army (Russian) 170, 175
Thoma, General Wilhelm von 60, 293, 298, 299–300, 305, 492, 493–4, 526
Thomas, General Georg 196
Thomsen, Petur 470
Thorn 542
Thrace 125
Thursday, Operation 265
Tibbets, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul W. Jr. 439, 575
Tiddim 269
Tiger (German tank) 412, 418, 419, 422, 525–6, 527
Tilburg 55
Times, The 438, 559
Timor 209
Timoshenko, General Semyon 34, 154, 159
tin 213
Tinian 575, 577
Tippelkirsch, Kurt von 343
Tippelskirch, General Kurt von 522
Tirpitz (battleship) 353, 364, 365–6, 441
Tito, Marshal Josip Broz 117, 125, 383, 540, 555
Tjisalak, SS 275–6
Tobruk: bombardment of 284, 293–4; British capture of 121, 129, 301;
German capture of 134, 303, 588, 608;
sieges of 127–8, 131, 132–3, 281, 286
Todt, Fritz 138, 196, 371
Tofp & Sons (engineering contractors) 236
Tojo, General Hideki 187–8, 207, 274
Tokyo 573, 577; bombing of 214, 566, 571–2
‘Tokyo Express’ 258, 259
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal 275, 277, 280
Tolbukhin, Marshal Fedor 532, 540
Tolvajärvi 33
Torch, Operation 268, 301–8, 310–314, 461
Torgau 550
Total War 23, 110, 249, 389, 429, 460
Toulon 73, 307
Tours 71
Townsend, Group-Captain Peter 97
Transjordan 131
Transportation Plan 451, 453, 454
‘Treaty’ Army (German) 20
Treblinka extermination camp 224, 233, 244
Trenet, Charles 488
Trent Park (British Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre; CSDIC) 492–7, 585
Trento Division 289
Trevelyan, Raleigh, The Fortress 399
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, Baron Dacre of Glanton, Hitler’s Table Talk 218
Trident Conference see Washington Conferences
Trier 501
Trieste Division 296
Trincomalee 201
Tripartite Pact (Germany–Italy–Japan; 1940) 124, 193, 589–90
Tripoli 122, 123, 284, 301, 306
Tripolitania 129
Trondheim 38, 39, 40, 41–2, 44
Troubridge, Rear-Admiral Thomas 394
Truman, Harry S. 547, 575, 576, 577
Truscott, Major-General Lucian 395, 401–2, 404
Tsaritsyn see Stalingrad
Tuker, Major-General (Sir) Francis 290
Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail 33
Tula 171, 173, 176
Tulagi 257
Tulle 479
Tunis 307–8, 314
Tunisia 283, 308, 310–11, 314, 351, 606
Turenne, Henri, Vicomte de 14
Turing, Alan 348–50, 367, 372
Turkey 112, 120, 593
Türkheim concentration camp 237
Turner, Lieutenant-Colonel Victor 294
Twelfth Army (German) 56
Twentieth Air Force (United States) 573
Twenty-fifth Army (Japanese) 201
Twenty-first Army (Russian) 414
two-front wars 136–8, 141
Tyler, Lieutenant Kermit 185
Typhoon, Operation 365
U-boats: Allied bombing of U-boat pens 440; and Allied Normandy landings 372, 468;
Allied tracking of 35, 350, 365–6;
battle of the Atlantic 35–6, 37–8, 130, 346, 352, 354, 357–8, 359–60, 368, 369–72, 373–4;
losses 354, 357, 371, 372, 373;
Norwegian bases 38, 373;
production of 352, 353, 354, 358, 369, 371, 373, 541, 586, 596;
threats to Arctic convoys 365;
threats to North African supply lines 285, 305
U-Go, Operation 269–75, 568
Udet, Ernst 196
Uganda 221
Ukraine: Hitler’s invasion plans 152, 153, 590–91; Jews in 239;
and Lebensraum policy 138, 139, 163, 165;
nationalism in 163;
Russian atrocities in 162, 163, 590
Ulam, Stanisław 574
Ullersperger, Major-General Wilhelm 496
Ultra (cipher decrypts) 126, 297, 312, 346, 348, 350–51, 370, 384, 394, 417, 470, 506, 581
Umezu, General Yoshijiro 577
unconditional-surrender policy 309, 483, 560
Unit 731 (Japanese biological warfare research unit) 275
United Nations Organization 383, 546
United States of America: aid to Britain 87, 89, 112, 130, 194; aid to China 212, 268;
aid to USSR 128, 174, 176, 194, 411, 551;
Citizenship Act (1907) 107;
declares war on Japan 193;
elections (1940) 87;
(1942) 303;
Great War 193–4;
industrial production 195–6, 198–9, 214–15, 289, 373, 604;
internment of Japanese-Americans 200;
isolationism 151–2, 194;
Jewish emigration to 221, 574;
Lend-Lease scheme 87, 130, 411, 551;
Pax Americana 604;
post-war 578–9, 604;
war economy 197–9, 214–15, 604
Untermenschen 19, 27, 163, 420, 492, 547
Upkeep (bouncing) bombs 441
uranium 550, 574, 608
Uranus, Operation 334–5
Uruguay 37
US Army; losses 259–60, 376, 568–9, 604; size 214–15;
tension with Navy 564;
war crimes 555, 566–7; see also individual field armies and divisions
US Army Air Force see USAAF
US Maritime Commission 469
US Navy: advocates Pacific First policy 564; aircraft carriers 189, 215, 251–2, 252–3, 256, 258, 565;
Atlantic patrols 130, 357;
grant of destroyers to Britain 87, 130;
Italian campaign 396;
losses 192, 251, 252, 256, 258, 259, 396, 565, 572;
Pacific Fleet transferred to Pearl Harbor 187, 189;
submarines 572;
tension with Army 564; see also individual fleets and task forces
USAAF (US Army Air Force): bombing of Germany 432, 435, 439, 444–5, 447, 449, 450–51, 453, 455, 457, 459–60, 600, 604;
bombing of Japan 564–5, 566, 571–3;
co-operation with RAF 199, 439–40, 449–50;
Italian campaign 381, 392, 440;
losses 435;
and Normandy campaign 478, 486;
at Pearl Harbor 191, 192;
in Philippines 187, 208;
supplies to China 212, 268;
and Warsaw Uprising (1944) 245, 538; see also individual numbered air forces
Ushijima, Lieutenant-General Mitsuru 569, 572
USSR: Allied aid 128, 174, 176, 194, 364–5, 366, 411, 551; bombing of 105, 173, 174, 459;
conscription 156–7;
cruelties and inefficiencies of regime 163–4, 183–4, 590;
declaration of war on Japan 571, 577;
forced relocation of ethnic Germans 184;
German invasion see Barbarossa, Operation;
German occupation 522;
industrial base moved eastwards following German invasion 182–3;
Jews in 148, 222–3;
nationalism in 163–4;
Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939) 10, 25, 26, 29, 149, 151, 539, 603;
non-aggression pact with Japan (1941) 186, 382;
non-aggression treaty with Finland (1932) 30;
partisans 159–60, 599;
Russo-Japanese neutrality pact (1941) 268;
Soviet Information Buro (Sovinform) 524;
territorial gains 561–2;
Third Communist International 5;
total civilian losses 556–7;
Winter War with Finland (1939–40) 29–34, 114, 143, 154, 171, 323, 587; see also Red Army; Soviet Air Force; Soviet Navy
Utah beach 464, 467, 473, 474
V-1 flying bombs 110, 485, 498, 514–19, 595
V-2 rockets 110, 114, 485, 498, 514–19, 586, 595, 596
Valčik, Josef 242–3
Valenciennes 52
Valmontone 400, 401–2
Vandergrift, Major-General Alexander A. 257, 259
Vasilevsky, Marshal Alexandr 414, 539
Vatican 112, 388, 390–91; see also Catholic Church
Vatutin, General Nikolai 412, 414, 417, 418, 421, 529
Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford 395
VE Day (Victory in Europe Day; 8 May 1945) 520, 571, 604
Veldenstein Castle 438, 439
Venlo 348
Venomous, HMS 104
Verdun 72
Verdun, battle of (1916) 58, 80, 415
Verlaine, Paul 471
Vermork 117
Versailles Treaty (1919) 3, 4, 7, 18–19, 20, 37, 353
Viborg see Viipuri
Vichy 74
Vichy France: Anglophobia 84; anti-Jewish measures 78, 81–2;
armed forces 81, 84, 92;
autonomy of 77–8;
death sentence on de Gaulle 72;
deferrence to Germany 80–81;
establishment of 74, 77;
German invasion 306;
internment of ‘enemies of the state’ 82;
Milice (paramilitary police) 81–2;
and North African campaigns 305–6, 307, 308–9, 311
Vickers Wellington (bomber) 438
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy 376, 600
Victorious, HMS 362
Vienna 7, 16, 180, 220, 549, 562
Vietinghoff, General Heinrich von 378, 382, 402, 404, 405, 591, 597
Vietnam War 435
Viipuri 30, 34, 171
Vilnius 226
Vincennes 56
Vincennes, USS 258
Vistula river 17, 230, 534, 544
Vitebsk 161, 533
Volga Fleet 329
Volga, River 315, 317, 319, 320, 321, 325, 329, 331, 335, 599
Volga–Archangel line 151, 315
Volga Canal 175
Volga Germans 184
Volgograd see Stalingrad
Volkhov Front 528
Völkischer Beobachter (Nazi Party newspaper) 3
Volkssturm (German home guard) 554, 607
Voltaire 24
Volturno river 383, 387
Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five 455–6
Voronezh 316
Voronezh Front 334, 412, 414, 418, 420, 424–5
Voroshilov, General Klementi 154, 161, 323
Vosges 503
Vyazma 171, 173
Waffen-SS (SS combat arm) 28–9, 177, 243, 419, 420, 537, 554, 590; and battle for Berlin 553–4;
crushing of Warsaw Uprising (1944) 536, 537–8;
reprisals against French Resistance 479–80;
II SS Panzer Corps 421, 422, 424;
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich 419, 424, 479–80;
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler 64, 419, 424;
Totenkopf (Death’s Head) regiments 27, 28, 64, 419, 424, 480
Wagner, Cosima 220
Wagner, Richard 548
Wagner, Walter 559
Wajcblum, Ester 232
Wake Island 189, 191, 201
Wallenius, General Kurt 32
Wallwork, Staff Sergeant Jim 470–71
Wannsee conference (1942) 238–40
War of 1812 532
War Cabinet (British) 68–9, 122–3, 125, 207, 257, 308–9, 397, 417, 436–7, 452, 485–6, 501, 556, 557–8
War Department (Unit
ed States) 246, 305, 465
War Office (British) 51, 69, 77, 117, 132, 203, 437
War Refugee Board (United States) 247, 248
Ward, Major-General Orlando 311
Ward, USS 185
Ward Price, G. 3
Warlimont, General Walter 62, 285, 328, 371, 584, 594
Warsaw 16; bombing of 430;
German capture of 18, 19, 23–4, 26, 27, 61;
ghetto 221, 243–4, 536;
Russian takeover 538, 542, 544;
Uprising (1944) 245, 248, 489, 534, 536–9
Warspite, HMS 126
Warwickshire Yeomanry 296
Washington Conferences (1941–2) 134, 199, 214; (1943; ‘Trident’) 375, 393, 440
Wasp, USS 189, 258
Waterloo Bridge (film) 104
Watkins, WAAF Sergeant Gwen 372
Watson-Watt, Robert 94, 95
Watten 515
Wavell, Field Marshal Archibald, 1st Earl: background and career 119–20;
Crete campaign 126, 127;
Greek campaign 122, 124, 125;
North African campaigns 119, 120–21, 122, 128–9, 131, 133;
relations with Churchill 120, 128–9;
South-East Asia command 129, 205;
Generals and Generalship 552
Wehrmacht (German armed forces): Central Economic Agency 165; creation of field marshals 75;
effectiveness of 24–5, 54, 581;
and extermination of Jews 227;
fragmented nature of authority 581;
High Command see OKW;
Hitler takes personal command of 180;
Hitler’s expansion of 3–4;
training 24; see also German army; Kriegsmarine; Luftwaffe; Reichswehr
Weichs, Field Marshal Baron Maximilian von 20, 75, 316, 335, 541
Weidling, Lieutenant-General Helmuth 421
Weil, Simone 82
Weinberg, Gerhard 476–7
Welchman, Gordon 349, 350
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of 289, 297
Wellington, Vickers (bomber) 438
Wells, H. G. 90
Wells, Lance-Corporal John 67
Welsh, Air Marshal Sir William 450
Werth, Alexander 534–5
Weser river 498
Weserübung, Operation 39
West, (Dame) Rebecca 90–91
West Front (Russian) 421
West Wall see Siegfried Line
Western Desert Force (British) 121–3, 132
Westerplatte 21
Weygand, General Maxime 59, 70, 71, 73, 76, 85
Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John 2, 510
White, Major Geoffrey 273
Whitshed, HMS 66
Wiedemann, Fritz 15
Wigner, Eugene 574
Wildermuth, Colonel Eberhard 496
Wilfred, Operation 39
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 86, 90, 137, 600
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