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by Giles MacDonogh


  Clemenceau, Michel

  Clift, Montgomery

  Cold War: Stalin disfavours; beginnings; develops

  collective guilt

  Cologne: destruction; Adenauer in; slowness in recovery

  Cominform: established

  Communist Party of Germany (KPD): refounded; and Berlin elections (1946); renamed SED

  concentration camps: reused by Allies; Jews in; categories of inmates; liberated; killing methods; inmates ordered to be killed; in Austria; Czech; in Silesia; in Russian zone; German disbelief in; tours; trials of administrators; see also individual camps

  Concordia Bureau

  Conference of Foreign Ministers (CFM): Moscow (December 1946); decided at Potsdam; first meeting (London, 1945); London (January 1947); Moscow (March 1947); London (November 1947); London (February 1948); London (July 1948)

  Coningham, Air Marshal Sir Arthur

  Conrad, Josef

  Control Commission Germany (CCG)

  Control Council see Allied Control Council

  Co-operative of American Remittances to Europe (CARE)

  Cossacks: fight against Red Army; repatriated to Russia under Yalta Agreement

  Council of Europe: formed

  Council of Relief Agencies Licensed to Operate in Germany (CRALOG)

  Couve de Murville, Maurice

  Cranborne, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount (later 5th Marquess of Salisbury)

  crime: and black market; theft

  Croats

  Croy, Princess Agathe

  Cullis, M. F.

  Cultural Alliance see Kulturbund zur demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands

  Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess

  Cuxhaven

  Czechoslovakia: territorial claims; settlement and minorities problem; formed (1919); Germans occupy (1939); Sudetenländers (German minority) in; communists take over (1948); liberated (1945); purge (1945); revenge and atrocities against Germans; rapes in; concentration camps; American zone; suicides; torture in; expulsion of Germans and minorities; People’s Courts; German POWs in; post-war government; under Soviet influence; effects of peace settlement on; see also Prague

  Dachau concentration camp

  Dahrendorf, Gustav

  Dahrendorf, Ralf, Baron

  Dalade, Colonel

  Daladier, Edouard

  Dalton, Hugh

  Danzig (Gdansk)

  Darré, Walter

  ‘death marches’

  De Gasperi, Alcide

  de Lancie, John

  Deleuze, Major

  Dempsey, General Sir Miles

  denazification

  Devers, General Jacob

  Dibelius, Otto

  Dick, Professor Walter

  Dickens, A. G.

  Diels, Rudolf

  Dietrich, Landrat (of Ruppin)

  Dietrich, Otto

  Dietrich, General Sepp

  Diewald (Austrian lawyer)

  Dimitrov, Georgy displaced persons (DPs): in central Europe; looting and killing by; rapes by; in black market

  Ditzen, Rudolf (Hans Fallada)

  Ditzen, Suse

  Dix, Otto

  Dix, Rudolf

  Dixon, Specialist Sergeant Shirley

  Djilas, Milovan

  Dmowski, Roman

  Dobbek, Dr

  Döblin, Alfred; Berlin-Alexanderplatz

  ‘Doktora’ (of Königsberg)

  Dollfuss, Engelbert

  Dombrowski (Polish policeman)

  domobranci (Slovenian home guard)

  Dönhoff, Marion, Gräfin

  Dönitz, Admiral Karl

  Donnedieu de Vabres, Henri

  Donovan, William

  Dortmund

  Dos Passos, John: on US Military Government HQ in Frankfurt; on co-operation between Western zones; on Vienna; on Fragebogen and denazification; and US hatred of Germans; on DPs’ lawlessness; on Rhine Meadow camps; reports Nuremberg trials; interviews Clay

  Douda (Czech police director)

  Douglas, Marshal of the RAF Sir Sholto

  Draht, Andreas

  Drambusch (forester)

  Draper, General William

  Dratvin, General M. I.

  Dresden

  Dresden Gallery

  Drobner, Bolesław

  drugs

  Dubensky, William

  Dubois, Lieutenant Herbert

  Duermayer, Heinz

  Dunbaugh, Captain Frank M.

  Dunn, Thomas

  Duppau, Czechoslovakia

  Düsseldorf

  Dyck, Dr van

  Dymshitz, Colonel Alexander

  Dyszkant, Dr

  East Germany see German Democratic Republic

  East Prussia: Soviet offensive and destruction in; German population; religious faith; refugees from; starvation in; Stalin’s view on at Potsdam; Germans driven from; Russians appropriate part; see also Prussia

  Ebensee, Austria

  Eberle, Henrik and Matthias Uhl (eds): Das Buch Hitler (The Hitler Book)

  Ebert, Friedrich

  Eclipse, Operation

  Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon): and transfer of Germans from East Prussia; disdain for Austria; recognises Austrian claim to independence; and Nuremberg trials; at Potsdam Conference; supports Italian claim to South Tyrol

  Edler, Franz

  Ehrenburg, Ilya

  Eichmann, Adolf

  Eigruber, August Gauleiter

  Einsiedel, Horst von

  Eisenerz Trial (1946)

  Eisenhower, General Dwight D.: declares war ended; orders Dönitz’s arrest; visits concentration camp; in Frankfurt-am-Main; reputation; and anti-frat order; and US pillaging; and Göring’s capture; and agreement on Berlin; and territorial allocations at Potsdam; Truman visits in Frankfurt; threatens to scrap Control Council; federal officials quit under

  Eisler, Hans

  Emery, Major

  Engelbert, Otto

  Epenstein, Hermann von

  Erdmannsdorff, Otto von

  Erhard, Ludwig

  Erhardt, John

  Erlach, Albert von

  Ermland

  Erzgebirge, the

  Esser, Hans

  Esser, Heinz

  Eulenburg, Siegfried

  European Advisory Commission (EAC)

  European Union (earlier Common Market)

  Falkenburger, Paul

  Falkenhausen, General Alexander von

  Fallada, Hans see Ditzen, Rudolf

  Fandrich (judge)

  Farmer, Captain Walter

  Faulhaber, Cardinal Michael

  Fechner, Max

  Fediunsky, General I. I.

  Fegelein, Hermann

  Fegelein, Waldemar

  Fehrer, Franz

  Feitenhansl, Karl

  Felix, Leo (‘Felix Field’)

  Feuchtwanger, Lion

  Février, Jacques

  Fichte, Paul

  Fiedler, Ludwig

  Field Security Service (FSS; British)

  Fierlinger, Zdenek

  Figl, Leopold

  Filippov, Captain films see cinema

  Final Solution; see also Jews

  Fischer, Ernst; The Rebirth of My Country

  Fischhorn Castle, near Zell-am-See

  Fitsch, Eduard

  Fläschner, Hans

  Flensburg

  Flick Group

  Flieder, Paul

  Flory, General L. D. (Les)

  Flossenbürg concentration camp

  Foord, Brigadier E. J.

  Forrestal, James

  Forst, Willy

  Forster, Albert

  Foster, Norman, Baron

  Fragebogen

  France: revenge acts against Germany; goals for defeated Germany; seeks recognition as great power; claims to Rhine and Ruhr; demands for zone of occupation in Germany; employs German forced labour; granted sector in Berlin; and Austrian settlement; repossesses country after liberation; advance to Austria; forces in occupation
of Rhineland; advance on Baden; undisciplined behaviour; arrival in Berlin; administration in Berlin; sympathy towards Germans; creates Rhineland-Palatinate; plans for Rhineland; favours united Europe; opposes German unity; atrocities against Germans; policy on Germany; jurisdiction over German territory; acquires Saar; demands coal from Germany; in Austria; removes Austrian industrial plant; administration in Vienna; Austrian view of; cultural activities in Vienna; on German guilt; and denazification; and German POWs; not invited to Potsdam; and Polish settlement; treaty with Soviet France - continued Russia (1945); friction with Soviet Russia; approves of German territorial concessions in east; rights to Saar; opposes Truman Doctrine; and Soviet claims to Ruhr; forms Trizonia with USA and Britain; non-participation in Berlin airlift; attitude to and relations with Adenauer; post-war arrests and trials; effect of peace settlement on

  Frank, Benno

  Frank, Hans

  Frank, Karl-Hermann

  Frankfurt-am-Main; Städel Gallery

  Franz, Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein

  Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia: body moved and reinterred

  Frederick Leopold, Prince of Prussia

  Frederick William I, King of Prussia: body moved and reinterred

  Free Austrian (World) Movement (FAM; FAWM)

  Free Democratic Party (FDP)

  Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ): formed

  Freisler, Roland

  Freiwaldau (Jeseník), Czechoslovakia

  French zone (ZOF; Germany): refugees in; co-operation with British and American zones; numbers of French in; exports to France; industrial plant transferred to France; treatment of Germans in; German youth admiration for French; culture in; food shortages in; supposed market for babies; black market in; and Berlin airlift

  Freud, Anton

  Freudenstadt

  Freudenthal, Czechoslovakia

  Freund, Hans

  Frey, Hans

  Freyberg, General Sir Bernard

  Freytag, Gustav Frick, Wilhelm

  Friede, Dieter Friedeburg, Admiral Hans von

  Friedrich, Ruth Andreas: in Brandenburg; welcomes end of Reich; on life in occupied Berlin; sees Americans in Steglitz; and denazification and Fragebogen; and disposal of dead; at killing of Borchard; on influx of Königsberger; and death of Bersarin; and cultural events; on German GI brides; on French influence on German youth; on theft of wood from grave; and Russian occupation of Chancellery; on returning German POWs; on Nuremberg trials; and Truman’s visit to Berlin; welcomes Potsdam Agreement; in severe winter (1946-7); on resurgence of Nazism in Hamburg; on Berlin blockade; and Berlin airlift; flees to West; Schauplatz Berlin

  Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Prince

  Frings, Cardinal Joseph, Archbishop of Cologne

  Fritsch, General Werner von

  Fritzsche, Hans

  Froning, Karl

  Fuernberg, Friedl

  Fugger von Glött, Prince

  Funk, Walter

  Fürstenstein, Silesia

  Furtwängler, Wilhelm

  Fyfe, Sir David Maxwell

  Galen, Clemens August, Graf von, Bishop of Münster

  Gamelin, General Maurice Gustave

  Ganeval, General Jean

  Gangl, Major

  gangs: in central Europe

  Gans, Major Hiram

  Garibaldi, Sante

  Gasperi, Alcide De see De Gasperi, Alcide

  Gaulle, Charles de: proposes indefinite occupation of Rhineland; and changes to Germany; claims German labour for France; orders Lattre de Tassigny to cross Rhine; and French independence; advocates co-operation with Germany; Soviet hostility to; favours Germany as confederation; Hopkins negotiates with; Roosevelt disdains; on Potsdam agreement to create central agencies in zones; supports European union

  GDR see German Democratic Republic

  Gebauer, Alfred

  Geneva Convention; and Nuremberg trials

  George, Heinrich

  German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany): lawyers in; founded; Russians introduce new currency

  German Federal Republic (FDR; West Germany): beginnings; created; Russians oppose; administrative structure and constitution; adopts basic law; elections (August 1949)

  Germans: minorities in non-German states; ordered to visit concentration camps; suicides after defeat; Czech atrocities against; expelled from central and eastern Europe; resettlement; in Poland; abducted to develop industry in Russia; work for Allies; expelled from Austria; property assets and restitution; disbelieve atrocity stories about Nazis

  Germany: wartime casualties; and Atlantic Charter; divided between Allies; proposed division into small states; Allies demand unconditional surrender; destruction of towns and cities; evacuates prisons; industrial plant removed; forms interim government under Dönitz; surrenders (8 May 1945); communists in; Allied fraternising forbidden; policy in Czechoslovakia; internal deportations; Soviet administrative structure in; wine plundered; industrial survival; US policy on; currency reformed and stabilised; French changing policy on; Allied disputes over industrial activity; literary revival; Jews in; and collective guilt; starvation policy in; food riots and demonstrations; plague of wild boars; prisoners of war; military organisation and command; tries Nazi war criminals; lawyers absolved of Nazi crimes; dissolved as independent nation; discussed at Potsdam Conference; divided at Potsdam Conference; boundaries; severe winter (1946-7); Transitional Law passed (1947); split into East and West; economic recovery; proposed rearmament; effects of war and peace settlement on

  Gernrode, Saxony

  Gerö, Dr Joseph

  Gertner, Wolfgang

  Gessner, Adrienne

  Gibson-Watt, Andrew

  Gilbert, Felix

  Gimborski, Cesaro

  Gladow, Werner

  Glasenbach, Austria

  Glaser, Kurt

  Glatz, Silesia

  Gleiwitz, Silesia

  Glum, Friedrich

  Goebbels, Joseph: hopes for Western Allies to attack Russians; predicts rape by Red Army; on killing of Oppenhof; and behaviour of occupying Russians; body found; suicide; propaganda films; Rhineland origins; and Furtwängler; Attlee believes in Soviet hands; on ‘iron curtain’

  Goebbels, Magda

  Goedde, Petra: GIs and Germans

  Gofman, K.

  Gollancz, Sir Victor; The Ethics of Starvation; In Darkest Germany

  Gomułka, Władisław

  Gorbatov, Colonel-General Boris

  Gordow, General

  Göring, Edda

  Göring, Emmy

  Göring, Hermann: four-year economic plan; and satire; protects Karajan; property houses Jewish DPs; art collection; capture and trial at Nuremberg; attitude to colleagues; suicide; and Winifred Wagner; on dissolution of Allied coalition

  Görlitz

  Gotthelft, Ille

  Gottschee

  Gouliga, Captain Alexander

  Graf, Willi

  Grass, Günter: xiii, 249; Im Krebsgang; The Tin Drum

  Graz

  Great Escape (Stalag Luft III, Silesia)

  Greece: population transfer with Turks; communists in; in US sphere of influence

  Greene, Graham

  Greene, Hugh Carleton

  Gregor, Carl

  Greifenberg

  Greisser, Arthur

  Grese, Irma

  Griehsel, Max

  Griessmann, Erika

  Grillparzer, Franz

  Grimm, Dr Carl

  Grimm, Eduard

  Grinberg, Zalman

  Grisebach, August

  Grisebach, Hanna

  Gros, Professor (of France)

  Grosz, George

  Grotewohl, Otto

  Group

  Gruber, Karl

  Gruenther, General Alfred

  Grünberg, Lower Silesia

  Gründgens, Gustaf

  Grüssau monastery, Silesia

  Grynspann, Herschel

  Günsche, Otto

/>   Günter, Prince von Schönburg-Waldenburg

  Günther, Marianne

  Gusen concentration camp

  Gutmann, Rudolf

  Guyot (French torturer)

  Habe, Hans (Janos)

  Habermas, Jürgen

  Habsburg, Karl Ludwig von

  Habsburg, Otto von

  Habsburg, Robert von

  Hackmüller (Baldur von Schirach’s secretary)

  Haffner, Sebastian

  Hague Conventions

  Hahn, Otto

  Halder, General Franz

  Halem, Nikolaus von

  Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood t Earl of

  Hamburg: destruction; British in; accommodation shortage

  Hamelin

  Hammerstein-Equord, Baron

  Hammerstein-Equord, Colonel-General Kurt von

  Hanke, Gauleiter Karl

  Hanover; liberated and occupied

  Harcourt, Robert d’

  Hardenberg, Graf Carl-Hans von

  Hardman, Rev. Leslie

  Harriman, Averell

  Harris, Air Marshal Sir Arthur

  Hartheim concentration camp

  Harwood, Ronald: Taking Sides

  Hassell, Ulrich von

  Haubach, Theodor

  Hauptmann, Gerhart

  Hausenstern, Wilhelm

  Häussermann, Ernst

  Hautmann, Rudolf

  ‘Haw Haw, Lord’ see Joyce, William

  Hawelka, Josefine and Leopold

  Hedy, Sister

  Heidelberg

  Heiden, Konrad

  Heilig, Bruno: Men Crucified

  Heimpel, Professor

  Heine, Heinrich

  Heinrich, Theodore (‘Ted’)

  Heisenberg, Werner

  Heligoland

  Henderson, Sir Nevile

  Henderson, (Sir) Nicholas Hengher, Sofie

  Henlein, Konrad

  Henry V (film)

  Hentig, Hartwig von

  Hentschel, Volker: Ludwig Erhard

  Herbert, General Sir Otway

  Herbruck, Franconia

  Hermann-Göring-Werke, Linz

  Hermann-Neisse, Max

  Hermes, Andreas

  Hermine of Reuss, Princess (Kaiser’s second wife)

  Hernnstadt, Rudolf

 

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