Breslau, 211
Brest, 914
Brest Litovsk, 57, 542, 626, 628, 852fn., 948
Brighton, 762, 767
Bristol, 763, 783
Britain, 95, 97, 256, 306, 450, 957, 965; collective action with France and Italy, 280, 284–85, 288, 289, 296, 297, 307; appeasement policy: on German rearmament, 282–85, 287–89 (see also Anglo–German naval agreement); on Rhineland remilitarization, 290–95; on Italo-Ethiopian war, 289–90, 297; on Span, civil war, 299; on Anschluss, 324, 327, 330, 344–46, 353; on Czechoslovakia, 354, 360–427 passim, 443, 450–54, 544 (see also Munich Conference and Pact); joint policy with France, 283, 284, 287, 290, 293–94, 299, 307, 330, 384, 389, 396, 398, 454, 461, 465, 469, 501–4, 605–17; Hitler’s contempt for, 300, 306, 436, 518, 529; Hitler considers and plans war against, 298, 304, 307, 366, 368, 420, 467, 484–87, 498, 501, 508fn., 516, 520, 531, 566–67, 590, 600, 620–22; pact with Italy on Mediterranean, 301; policy toward U.S. S.R., 353, 361, 404, 460, 466, 478–81, 489–92, 494–96, 501–6, 513–16, 521, 523, 525, 526, 533–43, 550fn.; presses Czechs to appease Hitler, 360, 376–77, 388–90, 399, 402, 411, 417–18, 420–21; protests Nazi moves against Czechs, 364–65, 452–53; contacts with anti-Hitler Germans, 373, 380–82, 405, 424, 558, 648–50, 692–94, 1017–19, 1024, 1026, 1042; pledge of aid to Poland, 460, 464–66, 469, 472, 478, 481, 495, 506, 509–10, 514–18, 521, 526, 533–43, 545–54, 556–58, 561, 564, 569–89, 591–93, 596, 600–17, 634; pledges aid to Greece, Rumania, 469, 495; mobilization, war preparations, 545, 562, 595; and 1939 “peace negotiations,” 569–89, 601–4; ultimatum and declaration of war, 605–20; at war, 633, 666, 689, 698, 782, 807, 827, 854fn., 904, 995, 1036, 1087, 1099, 1105; ship losses, 635–38, 646, 669, 711, 737, 775, 901fn. (see also Atlantic, Battle of the; British Navy); German peace offers to, 639–42, 734–35, 746–57, 785, 790, 835–38, 1012, 1138–39; German attitude and strategy toward in war, 658, 669, 760, 763, 768, 770–71, 798, 804, 805, 809, 846, 849–50, 853, 871–74, 915, 954, 1124; joint strategy with France, 635, 643, 744–45; expeditionary force to Finland, 675, 682fn., involvement in Norway, 676–77, 679, 682fn., 694–96; invasion of, 752, 753, 756, 758–85, 797, 813, 816, 820, 873, 879, 1039; air operations against (Battle of Britain), 756, 763, 765, 769, 774–82, 809, 827, 850, 1009, 1040, 1098; German occupation plans for, 782–85, 791; Vichy war against, 815, 817, 923; Japanese war against, 872, 873, 877fn., 886–88, 892, 894, 895, 1007; alliance with Russia, 838, 847–48, 1011, 1033, 1098; in Mediterranean, 812–13, 816–18; U.S. aid to, 877, 880–83, 898, 900, 901
British Admiralty, 695–96, 702, 731, 735, 892
British Air Force (R.A.F.), 402, 635, 701, 752, 827, 914, 920, 991, 1019, 1040; in Battle of France, 724, 731, 736–38, 740fn.; in Battle of Britain, 759–61, 763, 764, 766, 767, 770, 772–81; bombing of Germany, 778, 779, 807–8, 934, 1008–9, 1010, 1068, 1100, 1110, 1115, 1117
British Army, 424, 510, 533, 618, 672, 682fn., 708, 716, 954–55, 1089, 1105; in France and Belgium, 542, 634, 635, 717, 718, 720, 723, 724, 727, 728, 730, 731, 736–38; Norway expedition, 696, 707, 708; defense against invasion, 763fn., 764, 767; in N. Africa, 818fn., 819, 827, 911–12, 919, 920; in Greece, 823, 826, 827; Normandy landings, 1033, 1038; in Germany, 1088, 1090, 1102, 1105, 1107, 1141
British Empire, 288, 306, 548–49, 569, 575, 734–35, 738, 747, 749, 752, 754, 757, 804, 806, 808, 815, 828, 829, 836, 910
British Intelligence, 363, 652–55, 787, 789, 1026
British Navy, 401, 402, 487, 554, 646, 669–70, 679, 701–2, 707, 723, 731, 737, 738, 817, 873, 922; blockade of Germany, 687–88, 701, 914; ship losses, 711, 737, 901fn.; defense against invasion, 759, 761, 763, 764, 766, 767, 770
British White Paper, 283
Brittany, 1076, 1085
Broadcasting House (Rundfunkhaus), 564, 595, 755, 1064
Brockdorff, Countess Erika von, 1043fn.
Brockdorff-Ahlefeld, Gen. Count Erich von, 375, 413
Brockdorff-Rantzau, Count Ulrich von, 494
Brown House, Munich, 121
Brownshirts, see S.A.
Bruckman, Hugo, 145
Brueckner, Lt. Wilhelm, 66, 279
Bruening, Heinrich, 56fn., 137, 138, 151–55, 157–64, 172, 174, 190, 195, 199, 216, 372
Bruenn, Czechoslovakia, 443
Brunswick, 157
Brussels, 672, 713, 1086
Bryans, J. Lonsdale (“Mr. X”), 692–93
Bryansk, 859
Bryant, Arthur, 730fn.
Buch, Maj. Walther, 122, 221, 430–31
Buchenwald, 272, 352–53, 948, 979, 983–84
Buchrucker, Major, 65
Bucovina, 794, 795, 800
Budapest, 1090fn., 1096
Budënny, Marshal Semën, 854, 857
Buehler, Dr. Josef, 966
Buelow-Schwante, Ambassador von, 652, 713–14
Buerckel, Josef, 441
Buergerbräukeller, see Beer Hall Putsch
Bug river, 626, 630, 746
Buhle, General, 1049
Bulgaria, 800, 801fn., 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 817, 820, 823, 826, 839, 847, 1085
Bulge, Battle of the, 222fn., 954; see also Ardennes Forest
Bullitt, William C, 295, 688
Bullock, Alan, 200, 410fn., 1050fn.
Bund Deutscher Maedel, 120, 254
Bund Oberland, 70, 72, 73
Burckhardt, Dr. Carl, 424fn., 499
Burgdorf, Gen. Wilhelm, 1077–78, 1123, 1126, 1129, 1133, 1137
Burnett, Air Marshal Sir Charles, 503fn., 504fn.
Busch, Gen. Ernst, 762
Bussche, Capt. Axel von dem, 1027
Busse, General, 1109
Butcher, Capt. Harry C, 1001fn., 1004fn.
Buttlar-Brandenfels, Col. Frh. Treusch von, 922
Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 572, 583, 601, 611–12
Caen, 1037
Calais, 728, 731, 761, 770, 1038
Canada, 684fn., 754, 913
Canadian Army, 1086, 1088, 1090, 1102, 1105
Canaris, Adm. Wilhelm, 331, 374, 380fn., 405, 462, 467, 517, 518, 556, 558, 560, 596, 654, 659–61, 685fn., 1019, 1024, 1026, 1034, 1036, 1073
Canary Is., 813, 817, 879
Canned Goods,” 520, 595
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 344
Cape Verde Is., 817, 901
Cap Gris-Nez, 761
Caprivi de Caprara de Montecuccoli, Gen. Count Georg von, 175
Carinthia, 350
Carlyle, Thomas, 1108–10
Carl, Prince, of Denmark, see Haakon VII, King of Norway
Carls, Adm. Rolf, 673
Carol II, King of Rumania, 800fn.
Carpathian Mts., 1033
Carpatho-Ukraine, Republic of, 449
Carr, Edward Hallett, 481fn.
Casablanca Conference, 1033
Case Otto, 304, 335, 336, 342fn.; see also “Otto”
Case Richard, 304
Cases Green, White, Yellow, see Green; White; etc.
Caspian Sea, 909, 914
Catholic Action, 218, 223, 235
Catholic Trade Unions, 190, 202fn.
Catholic Youth League, 235, 253
Caucasia (the Caucasus), 832, 857, 859, 860, 865, 870, 909–12, 914–18, 928, 929
Caulaincourt, Marquis Armand de, 860
Cavour (It. battleship), 818fn.
Center Party, 55–56, 61, 137, 138, 157, 164, 166, 170, 173, 181, 186, 189, 190, 195, 196, 199, 201, 234
Central Security Office, see R.S.H.A.
Chagall, Marc, 244
Châlons-sur-Marne, 726
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 103–9
Chamberlain, Neville, 275, 283, 302, 382, 450, 544, 643, 649, 653, 657, 674, 679, 716, 779, 1018; condones Anschluss, 324, 332, 344–45, 353; “Munich” policy on Czechosl., 287, 354, 360, 364, 375–77, 381, 383–99, 401–27, 429, 435, 442–43, 448, 451, 453–54, 469, 531, 740, 814; policy toward U.S.S.R., 353, 476, 478–80, 489–90, 492, 495–96, 502–41, 543; opposes Hitler on Poland, 454, 460, 465, 466, 467,
517, 537, 545–47, 548fn., 549, 556–58, 562, 569, 572–73, 575, 579–80; 583, 836; warns Hitler, declares war, 608, 610–12, 615, 619; says Hitler “missed the bus,” 695; Churchill’s tribute to, 619
Chamberlain, Field Marshal Sir Neville Bowles, 104
Charles XII, King of Sweden, 812, 829
Charleville, 732
Chautemps, Camille, 344
Chelmno, 967
Cherbourg, 762, 770, 773, 1037, 1089
Chicago Daily News, 784fn.
Chicago Tribune, 894fn.
Choltitz, Gen. Dietrich von, 1085fn.
Christian X, King of Denmark, 695, 696, 698–700, 704fn.
Christian, Gen. Eckard, 1115
Christianity, 99, 102–3, 234, 239, 240
Christian Socialists, 22, 24, 350
Christiansand, 677, 702
Chuikov, Gen. Vasili I., 1135, 1137
Church and State, 234–40
Church Federation, 237
Church of England, 784
Church of Jesus Christ, 238
Church of the Old Prussian Union, 235
Churchill, Winston S., 294, 345fn., 406fn., 424, 493fn., 526, 543, 619, 634, 635, 636fn., 638, 642, 672, 731, 736fn., 737, 751fn., 755, 786, 787, 790, 804fn., 807fn., 809fn., 815fn., 8–35-38, 847fn., 874, 900, 901fn., 904, 1033fn., 1105; contact with anti-Nazis, 380, 558, 1017, 1026, 1042; criticizes Munich Pact, appeasement, 404, 420, 423, 426; for co-operation with Russia, 404, 479, 489, 795; strategy in Norway, 674, 695–96, 702, 707, 710–11; succeeds Chamberlain, 716; and French, Belgian surrender, 720, 724, 726, 729, 744; determination to fight on, 737–38, 746, 747, 749, 750–51; Hitler’s gibes at, 754, 779, 828, 1011, 1012; defense of Britain, 763fn., 768, 769, 777, 781, 782, 784, 785; appeals for U.S. aid, 828, 829; warns Stalin of Nazi attack, 843–44
Chvalkovsky, František, 437, 438, 444–47, 449fn.
Ciano, Edda, 1004–5
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 436, 469–70, 562, 755, 780, 800, 803fn., 818fn., 845, 851, 854fn., 889, 890, 893, 912, 921, 923; meetings with Hitler, 298, 509–13, 640, 690–91, 735, 740–41, 751–52, 756, 774, 815, 816, 821, 823, 910–11, 923–24, 928–29; negotiation, pacts with Britain, 301, 450; mediation in Czech crisis, 408, 414, 415fn., 421; Pact of Steel negotiation, 482–83; and Italy’s reluctance to go to war, 508–13, 551–54, 565–67, 688–91; anti-German sentiment, 512, 551–54, 640, 665, 910; mediation efforts in Polish crisis, 588, 603, 604, 607, 608, 616; French armistice terms, 741; ousted as Foreign Minister, 995; in anti-Mussolini revolt, 996, 1004–5; executed, 1005
Ciliax, Vice-Admiral, 914fn.
Cincar-Marković, Aleksander, 823
Circle of Friends of the Economy (Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft), 144–45
Circle of Friends of the Reichsfuehrer S.S., 144–45
City of Flint, S.S., 646
Civil Service Act (1937), 249
Civil Service Law (Apr. 7, 1933), 268
Clark, Gen. Mark, 1001
Clay, Gen. Lucius D., 1096fn.
Clemenceau, Georges, 57–59, 82
Cohen, Benjamin, 897fn.
Cologne, 127, 148, 178–80, 934, 1034
Colson, General, 617
Columbia Broadcasting System, 467fn.
Combat League of Middle-Class Tradespeople, 206
“Commando Order,” 955
Commerz und Privat Bank, 144
“Commissar Order,” 830-31, 834
Committee of Independent Workmen, 36
Committee of Seven (Austrian Nazis), 323
Communists in Czechoslovakia, 359, 438
Communists in Germany: in post–World War I period, 33, 34, 40, 52, 54–55, 64, 65, 126, 129; in Reichstag, 138, 144, 146, 170, 179; brawls with Nazis, 147, 165, 174, 519; and Bruening, 152, 153; in 1932–33 elections, 157, 166, 172, 176, 195; suppression of, 179, 189, 190–91, 194–96, 199–200, 231; strategy of, an aid to Hitler, 185; and Reichstag fire, 192–93, 269, 274, and anti-Hitler plot, 1043–44
Como, 1131
concentration camps, 111, 223, 231, 232, 238, 270–72, 322, 351, 352, 497–98, 509, 518, 664–65, 953, 967–74, 979–91, 993, 1003, 1035, 1057, 1073, 1142; see also Auschwitz; Buchenwald; Dachau; Mauthausen; Sachsenhausen; Treblinka
Condor Legion, 297
Compiegne, 29, 741–42, 758, 759, 821, 852, 924, 1139
Confessional Church, 236, 238, 239
Congressional Record, 748
Conspiracy against Hitler, see anti-Hitler conspiracy
Constance, Lake, 1079fn.
Conwell-Evans, Dr. Philip, 649
Cooper, Alfred Duff, see Duff Cooper, Alfred
Copenhagen, 681, 695, 697–700
Corbin, Charles, 608, 612
Corsica, 740, 924
Cossack (Br. destroyer), 679
Coulondre, Robert, 437, 443–44, 446, 451–52, 482, 540fn., 542, 543fn., 549–50, 568, 584fn., 602, 605–7, 613fn., 616–18
Council of People’s representatives, 54
Courageous (Br. carrier), 646
Coventry, 781
Coward, Noel, 784
Cracow, 626, 663
Craig, Gordon A., 162fn.
Crete. 826, 828, 923
Crimea, 857, 858, 865, 942, 1007
Cripps, Sir Stafford, 795, 843–44, 848
Croatia, 552, 824, 826fn.
“Cromwell,” 769
Croydon, 776
Csáky, Count István, 507–8
Cuno, Wilhelm, 144
Curzon line, 459fn.
Cvetković, Dragisha, 823
Cyrenaica, 818fn., 819, 827, 911fn.
Czech Broadcasting House, 383
Czech Maginot Line, 382
Czechoslovakia, 84, 282, 283, 295, 307, 336, 345–46, 353, 354, 356, 382, 399–400, 421–23, 437–54, 458, 472, 507, 544, 591, 632, 643; history, 358–59; Hitler’s war plans against, 211, 304, 306, 309, 332–33, 357–63, 365–68, 370, 375, 378–80, 382–88, 393, 399, 402, 405–7, 423, 424, 426–29, 437, 438, 714; pact with U.S.S.R., 285, 354, 362, 390, 392, 427; mobilizes against German threat, 363–64, 393–94, 401; British, French intervention, 364, 368, 376, 380–98, 402–4, 408–11, 414–27, 546 (see also Sudetenland); German occupation of, 448–54, 457, 459, 464, 466, 478, 498, 518, 519, 530, 543, 573, 579, 580, 657, 710, 938, 991–94, 1009, 1113
Czechoslovakian government in exile, 784
Czechoslovak National Bank, 439fn.
Czernin, Countess Vera (Frau von Schuschnigg), 352
Czerny, Josef, 85
D’Abernon, Lord, 112fn.
Dachau, 212, 223, 239, 271, 272, 352, 353, 655, 918fn., 968fn., 971, 975fn., 979, 981, 984–86, 988–90, 1092fn., 1095fn.
Dahlem, 238, 239, 1048
Dahlerus, Birger, 516–17, 569–74, 576–77, 583–85, 589, 592, 600, 601, 604, 614, 639–40, 686fn.
Daladier, Edouard, 360, 384, 389, 390, 396, 410, 413–21, 423, 425, 443, 535, 537, 550, 568, 609, 610fn., 611–12, 617, 643, 682fn, 740
Dallin, Alexander, 944fn.
Dalmatia, 552
Daniels, H. G., 288fn.
Danner, General von, 71
Danube river, 823, 1033, 1107
Danzig, 41, 84, 169, 209, 212, 359, 438fn., 455–65, 468, 471, 484, 488, 497–99, 508fn., 509, 510, 511fn., 546, 563, 568, 569, 572-73, 575, 577, 582, 583, 588, 589, 600, 603, 606–8, 639
Dardanelles, 804, 807–10
Darlan, Adm. Jean, 609, 740fn., 923, 925fn.
Darmstaetter und Nationalbank, 136
Darré, Walther, 148, 204, 257–58
Davies, Joseph E., 478fn., 544fn.
Dawes Plan, 112, 136, 943
Dawson, Geoffrey, 288fn.
Decamp, General, 609fn.
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