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The Third Reich at War

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by Richard J. Evans


  Kehrl, Hans

  Keitel, Wilhelm

  Kelsterbach

  Kempf, Werner

  Kerrl, Hans

  Kesselring, Albert

  Kharkov

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  Kiel

  Kielce

  Kiev

  Kirchner, Hadwig

  Kirkpatrick, Ivone

  Kishinev

  Kitchener, Herbert

  Klagenfurt

  Klammer

  Kleist, Ewald von

  Klemperer, Eva

  Klemperer, Victor

  diaries

  life in ‘Jews’ House’

  imprisoned for failure to observe blackout regulations

  on extermination of Jews

  treatment by ordinary Germans

  and bombing of Dresden

  postwar life

  LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii)

  Klepper, Hanni

  Klepper, Jochen

  Klepper, Renate

  Klooga

  Kluge, Günther von

  Klukowski, Taduesz

  Klukowski, Zygmunt

  hospital superintendent

  on German invasion of Poland

  on mass executions

  and Germanization programmes

  on disintegration of Polish society

  on German army’s treatment of Jews

  on living conditions in Warsaw ghetto

  on preparations for Operation Barbarossa

  on Soviet prisoners of war

  and transportation of Jews to extermination camps

  and Polish resistance

  postwar life

  Knappertsbusch, Hans

  Knochen, Helmut

  Knorr and Hirth (publishers)

  Koch, Erich

  Koch, Karl Otto

  Koch, Traute

  Koegel, Max

  Köhler, Annemarie

  Kolberg

  Konev, Ivan

  Königsberg

  Konitz (Chojnice)

  Koppenberg, Heinrich

  Koretz, Rabbi Zwi

  Korherr, Richard

  Kos

  Kosovo

  Kosten (Kos’cian)

  Kosygin, Andrej

  Kovner, Abba

  Kovno (Kaunas)

  Kraljevo

  Kramer, Josef

  Krauch, Carl

  Krebs, Hans

  Krefeld

  Kreisau Circle

  Kreyssig, Lothar

  Krone

  Krüger Friedrich Wilhelm

  Krüger, Hans

  Krupp (arms company)

  Kube, Wilhelm

  Kubisˇ, Jan

  Küchler, Georg von

  Kuhn, Richard

  Kulm

  Kun, Father (Hungarian priest)

  Kunz, Helmut

  Kursk

  Battle of (1943)

  Küstrin

  Kutno

  Battle of (1939)

  Jewish ghetto

  Kutuzov, Mikhail

  labour

  slave labour

  shortages

  deployment of foreign workers

  women in workforce

  use of concentration camp prisoners

  ‘total war’ labour saving measures

  foreign workers abscond abour camps

  Nazi

  Vichy French

  Soviet

  Dutch

  Labour Front

  Labour Ministry, Reich

  Labour Party (British)

  Labour Service, Reich

  Lackmann, Father Heinrich

  Ladoga, Lake

  Lammers, Hans-Heinrich

  dressing down of Hans Frank

  and ‘euthanasia action’ programme

  and Hitler’s plans for occupied Soviet Union

  in ‘Committee of Three’

  rejects Churches’ complaints about racial policies

  and decline in educational standards

  Landau, Felix

  Lang, Fritz

  Lange, Herbert anguage

  of the Third Reich

  German

  knowledge of foreign languages

  Latin

  Latvia

  Lauenburg

  Lauer, Anton

  Lauraḧtte

  Laval, Pierre

  awyers

  ead

  Leader Gives the Jews a Camp, The (film)

  Leader’s Chancellery

  ‘League: Community for Socialist Living’

  League of German Girls

  League of Nations

  Leander, Zarah

  Lebensraum (’living-space’)

  Leber, Julius

  Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter von

  Legion of the Archangel Michael

  Leh’r, Franz

  Leipzig

  Lemberg (Lvov)

  Lemgo

  Lenard, Philipp

  ‘lend-lease’

  Leningrad (St Petersburg)

  Leopold, King of the Belgians

  Leuschner, Wilhelm

  Levi, Primo

  Ley, Inge

  Ley, Robert

  Lezacky

  ibraries

  Libya

  Lidice

  Liebehenschel, Arthur

  Liebermann, Max

  Liepus, Rudolf

  ‘lightning war’ (Blitzkrieg)

  ‘Lili Marleen’ (song)

  Lille

  Linden, Herbert

  Linge, Heinz

  Linz

  List, Wilhelm

  iterature

  Literature, Reich Chamber of

  Lithuania

  Litvinov, Maxim

  ‘living-space’ (Lebensraum)

  Lloyd George, David

  Loborgrad concentration camp

  Lo’dz’ (Litzmannstadt)

  bombardment of

  refugees flee

  police immigration centre

  Jewish population

  ghetto

  transportation of Jews and Gypsies to

  Logenähs

  Lohse, Hinrich

  London

  bombing raids on

  Hess imprisoned in Tower of London

  public protest at Jewish genocide

  flying bomb and rocket attacks on

  St Paul’s Cathedral

  Lorraine

  Louvain

  Lower Silesia

  LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii; language of the Third Reich)

  Lübeck

  Lublin

  in General Government

  Poles expelled from

  Jewish community

  plans to create Jewish reservation

  Jewish deportations to

  T-4 unit specialists visit

  extermination of Jews

  Klukowski moves to

  Luck

  Ludendorff, General Erich

  Lüdenscheid

  Ludwigsburg

  Ludwigshafen

  Luminal (sedative)

  Lüneburg

  Luther, Martin (diplomat)

  Luther, Martin (leader of Reformation)

  Lutherans

  Lützow (battleship)

  Luxembourg

  Lvov (Lemberg)

  Lynn, Vera

  Lyon

  Macedonia

  Maˇek, Vladko

  Mach, Alexander

  Madagascar

  Magdeburg

  Maggiore, Lake

  Maginot Line

  Magnitogorsk

  Mahler, Gustav

  Maillol, Aristide

  Majdanek

  labour camp

  concentration camp

  malaria

  Malaya

  Malkinia

  Malme’dy

  Malta

  Manchuria

  manganese

  Manhattan Project

  Mann, Thomas

  Mannerheim, Marshal Carl

  Mannerheim Line

  Manstein,
Erich von

  and invasion of France

  ‘sickle-cut’

  and invasion of Soviet Union

  Crimean campaign

  and Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43)

  retreat from Caucasus

  Battle of Kursk (1943)

  sacked

  imprisonment and death

  Manston

  Maquis see France, resistance

  Marat, Jean-Paul

  Marburg

  Marienthal Institution

  marriage

  mixed

  wartime married life

  Martini, Erich

  Marxism

  Marzabotto

  Maschmann, Melita

  ‘master race’

  Mastersingers of Nuremberg, The (Wagner)

  Maurras, Charles

  Mauthausen concentration camp

  Max Planck Society

  May, Karl

  Maykop

  Mecklenburg

  medicine, medical experimentation see also doctors

  Mediterranean Sea

  Meier-Welcker, Hans

  Memel

  Mengele, Josef

  Mennecke, Friedrich

  mentally handicapped

  emptying of asylums

  plans to eliminate ‘degenerates’

  sterilization programmes

  ‘euthanasia action’ programme

  killing centres

  murdered in occupied east

  in concentration camps

  Merano

  Merry Widow, The (L’har)

  Mers-el-K’bir

  Mertz von Quirnheim, Albrecht

  Messerschmitt (fighter-planes)

  methanol

  Meuse, river

  Mewe (Gniew)

  Meyer, Konrad

  Mezger, Edmund

  Michel, Hans

  microcephaly

  Middle East

  midwives

  Mierendorff, Carlo

  Mihailovi’, Dragoljub

  Milan

  Milch, Erhard

  Milice fran¸aise

  Military Medical Academy

  Military SS (Waffen-SS)

  Minden

  mineral water

  Minsk

  missiles

  Mitchell, Margaret

  Mittersill castle

  ‘mixed marriages’

  ‘mixed-race’

  Jews

  Gypsies

  Mlawa

  Mniszek

  Model, Walter

  Battle of Kursk (1943)

  and retreat from Soviet Union

  Commander-in-Chief in the west

  murderous action in final weeks

  and Speer’s plans to preserve infrastructure

  suicide

  Mogilev

  M̈hne, river

  Molière

  M̈llhausen, Eitel

  Molotov, Vyacheslav

  ‘Molotov cocktails’

  Molter, Alfred

  Molter, Inge

  Moltke, Helmuth von

  Monowitz

  Montenegro

  Montgomery, Bernard

  morale

  optimism for short war

  euphoria at conquest of France

  SS Security Service reports on

  following defeat at Stalingrad

  in Britain

  and bombing of German cities

  and defection of Italy

  morale-boosting meetings and lectures

  deterioration in last months of war

  Moravia see Bohemia and Moravia (Reich Protectorate)

  More, Sir Thomas

  Morell, Theo

  Morgen, Konrad

  Morocco

  morphine

  Moscow

  German forces push towards

  Hitler plans to raze

  Battle of (1941-42)

  German prisoners paraded

  Moscow-Volga canal

  Moskvin, Nikolai

  Mosley, Sir Oswald

  motorways

  M̈hlmann, Kajetan

  Mulde, river

  Mülheim

  Müller, Heinrich

  multiple sclerosis

  Münch, Hans

  Müngersdorf

  Munich

  awareness of euthanasia programme

  assassination attempt on Hitler (November 1939)

  beer-hall putsch (1923)

  Munich - cont.

  Hitler’s annual address to Party Regional Leaders

  Antonescu visits

  deportation of Jews from

  foreign workers’ camps

  bombing of

  revolutions (1919)

  Allied forces advance on

  Munich Agreement (1938)

  Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

  Munich University

  M̈nster

  M̈nster University

  museums

  music

  banning of Polish composers

  chamber music recitals

  opera

  composed in concentration camps

  in ghettos

  popular music

  jazz and swing

  Bayreuth festivals

  orchestras

  popular German composers during Reich

  in postwar Germany

  Music, Reich Chamber of

  Mussolini, Benito

  ambitions for a new Roman Empire

  invasion of Greece

  North African debacle

  relations with Hitler

  and German invasion of Soviet Union

  and Allied invasion of Italy

  arrest and imprisonment

  rescue

  puppet regime at Salò

  draining of Pontine marshes

  meeting with Hitler after July 1944 bomb plot

  executed

  mustard gas

  Mutschmann, Martin

  My Life for Ireland (film)

  Mystici Corporis (Papal Encyclical)

  Naples

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Narva, river

  Narvik

  ‘National Committee “Free Germany”

  National Democratic Party

  ‘national pests’ (Volksschädlinge)

  National Political Educational Institutions (’Napolas’)

  National Socialism (Nazism: National Socialist German Workers’ Party)

  Nazi ideology and German army

  Racial-Political Office

  pre-war anti-Jewish propaganda

  Party Chancellery

  Hitler’s annual speech to Regional

  Leaders

  reports on Task Forces’ massacres

  Supreme Court

  Nazi ideology blames Jews for all ills

  Head Office for Technology

  Party apparatus in state of collapse

  popular disillusionment with

  Party programme anniversary addresses

  and the growing domestic power vacuum

  Press Office

  morale-boosting meetings

  ‘Word of the Week’

  total collapse of Party

  National Socialist Courier

  National Socialist German Students’ League

  National Socialist Lawyers’ League

  National Socialist People’s Welfare

  organization

  National Socialist Teachers’ League

  Natzweiler concentration camp

  Naumann, Werner

  navy, German

  building programmes

  in First World War

  invasion of Norway

  Swedish shipyards build warships for

  and planned invasion of Britain

  major losses

  and medical experimentation

  and Allied Normandy landings

  suicides of admirals

  Naval Intelligence School

  see also submarines, U-boats

  Nazi Party see Na
tional Socialism

  Nebe, Arthur

  Nedi’, Milan

  Ne’mirovsky, Irène

  Nemmersdorf

  neo-Nazi movements

  ‘Nero order’ (March 1945)

  nerve gases

  Netherlands see Holland

  Neuengamme concentration camp

  Neufeld, Michael

  Neuhaus, Albert

  Neumann, Franz

  Neurath, Konstantin von

  Neustadt in Westpreussen (Wejherowo)

  ‘New Order’

  New York

  newspapers, magazines

  newsreels

  nickel

  Nicodim, Patriarch

  Niemöller, Martin

  Nienburg

  ‘Night of Broken Glass’ see pogrom of November 1938

  Ninth Army

  Nisko

  NKVD see Soviet secret police

  Nobel Prizes

  Nola

  Noma (disease)

  Nord (French department)

  Nordhausen

  N̈rdlingen

  Normandy landings (1944)

  North Africa

  French colonial territories

  Italian colonial territories

  Rommel’s successes in

  Jewish population

  USA enters war in

  Rommel’s defeat in

  North Sea

  Norway

  German invasion

  Quisling’s pro-German movement

  King and government in exile

  deportation of Jews from

  and the ‘New Order’

  rationing

  prisoners

  administration during occupation

  air bases

  Military SS recruitment

  heavy water factory

  Norwich

  Noske, Gustav

  novels

  nuclear bombs

  Nuremberg

  Nuremberg Laws (1935)

  Nuremberg Party Rally (1929)

  Nuremberg trials

  nurses

  nutrition

  Oberg, Carl-Albrecht

  Oberhausen

  Obersalzberg see Berghof

  Obluze

  ‘occupation costs’

  Oder, river

  Odessa

  Ohlendorf, Otto

  Ohnesorge, Wilhelm

  Ohrdruf

  oil

  Middle Eastern

  Romanian

  Hungarian

  Soviet

  Caucasus

  shortages

  sequestered from occupied countries

  Caspian Sea

  Olbrich, Friedrich

  Oldenburg

  Omaha Beach

  opera

  Oppenhoff, Franz

  Oradour-sur-Glane

  Oran

  Oranienstein

  Order Castles

  Ordzhonikide

  Orff, Carl

  Origo, Iris

  Orscha

  Orthodox Church

  Ortner, Franz

  Oslo

  Oster, Hans

  Ostrava

  Oswiecim see Auschwitz

  Otter, Göran von

  Pacific war

  Paderborn

  Palatinate

  Palermo

  Palestine

  Palmie’, Gisbert

  Palmnicken

  Panther (tank)

  Papen, Franz von

  Paraguay

  Paris

  refugees flee

  Germans enter

  Hitler’s sight-seeing trip

  attacks on synagogues

  deportation of Jews

  Paris Opera

 

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