frontier, closed at end of war
sanctuary in
Tangiers
Tenth Mountain Division (American)
Third Army (Allied)
Thirty-sixth Texas Division (American)
Thyssen, Fritz
Tito, Josip
Traunstein
Travemünde
Treblinka
Trieste
Triumph of the Will (film)
Trotsky, Leon
Truman, Harry
becomes president
first days in office
two-front war
typhus
Tyrol
U-Bahn tunnels
Ukraine
Union Jack, not flown over Belsen
United Nations
charter for, drawing up of
flaws of structure of
membership in
San Francisco conference
United States
rocket scientists captured by
See also American army
Unterbernbach
Upcott, Bob
Ustinov, Peter
Valtellina
van Heemstra, Baron Aernoud, and family
van Pels, Peter
Vatican
Velp
Venice
Versailles peace conference of 1919
Vichy French government
Vietinghoff, Gen. Heinrich von
Vikings
Villabassa
Villa Belmonte, near Como
Villani, Romilda
daughters of
Vishnevsky, Vsevolod
Volkenrath, Elisabeth
Völkischer Beobachter (propaganda newspaper)
Volkssturm
von, most names in. See next element of name, e.g. “Greim, Robert von”
Vonnegut, Kurt
later life
Waal river
Waffen-SS
Wagner, Walter
Walsh, Lt. Bill
Waren
Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City
weapons, new (atom bomb)
Wehrmacht
conference at Neuroofen
contest with SS
delays surrender
deserters from
headquarters at Bolzano
Weidling, Gen. Helmuth
Welles, Orson
Weltzin, Günther
Wenck, Gen. Walther
Wenner, Eugen
Werewolf
Westerbork, holding camp at
Wheeler, Capt. Charles
white flag
White House correspondents
Whitelaw, Willie
later life
White Rose group
Wicker, Heinrich
Wieland, Magda
Wiesenthal, Simon
later life
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, asylum in Holland given to, after World War I
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands
exile in England during World War II
Will, Georg
Will, Liesel
Wilson, Woodrow
Windhorst, soldier
Winocour, Jack
Wismar
Wojtyla, Karol (later Pope John Paul II)
Wolff, Gen. Karl
women
concentration camps for
German civilian, raping of, by Russian troops
Italian Fascist wives and mistresses
Nazi wives and mistresses, well-fed
of Russian army, looking for loot and memorabilia
Woods, Sgt. John (hangman)
World War I
Holland’s stance in
Jews serving with distinction in
reported atrocities in
terms imposed on Germany after
World War II
British entry into, over Poland
continuation, of by Germany, to ward off Bolshevism
Germany urged by Gen. Rundstedt to make peace
necessity for Allies, to combat evil of fascism
separate peace refused by Allies
Spanish neutrality in
two-front war, Hitler’s realization about
war games before, predicting German defeat
Wulff, Wilhelm
Xavier, Prince of Luxembourg
Yohannon, Francis
Ypenburg
Yugoslavia
Yugoslav partisans
Zhukov, Marshal
Ziereis, Franz
ALSO BY NICHOLAS BEST
The Greatest Day in History: How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Came to an End
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NICHOLAS BEST grew up in Kenya and was educated there, in England, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served in the Grenadier Guards and worked as a journalist in London. He was the Financial Times fiction critic for ten years and is the author of The Greatest Day in History, a narrative on the end of World War I. For more information, visit www.nicholasbest.co.uk.
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Five days that shocked the world : eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II / Nicholas Best. — 1st ed.
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-312-61492-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4299-4135-8 (e-book)
1. World War, 1939–1945—Europe—End. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Social aspects—Europe. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Personal narratives. 4. Europe—History—1945—Anecdotes. 5. Europe—Social conditions—20th century—Anecdotes. I. Title.
D755.7.B475 2012
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2011033144
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