refuses to pull back, 438
C
Cairo Conference, 141, 150
Canadian army units
ARMY, First, 129, 135, 326
Canadian army units (continued)
DIVISION, 2nd, 128
Canisius, St., Church, 487
Capitulation, see Surrender
Carl, Gerda, 53, 419-20
Carl, Captain Gotthard, 53, 419-20
Carlyle, Thomas, 319
Carnes, Lieutenant Colonel Norman D., 134, 318
Casablanca Conference, 101
Case C., see Operation Eclipse
Caspary wine shop, 453
Catholic Sisters, 25-26, 59, 370-71, 455-56, 464-65, 486, 491-92
Celle, 326
Chancellery, see Reichskanzlei
Charité Hospital, 31, 53, 442
Charlottenburg, 33, 35, 36, 50, 373, 405, 409, 422, 481, 494
Charlottenburger Chausée, 15
Chequers, 232
Chevalier, Maurice, 50-51
Chiang Kai-shek, 150
Children
of Berlin, 219, 422
in German fighting forces, 113, 289; see also Hitler Youth
Christian, Major General Eckhardt, 434
Chuikov, Colonel General Vasili Ivanovich, 185, 193, 248n, 347, 350, 360
Eighth Guards Army of, 302, 346-50, 360, 390, 429
in surrender negotiations, 109, 499-500, 503
Churchill, Winston, 101, 143n, 149, 156, 182
Anglo-American drive on Berlin and, 139-40, 165, 207, 236, 239-40, 242, 252-53, 278-80
and Eisenhower’s message to Stalin, 232, 234-36, 253
Himmler’s peace feelers and, 469-70
Montgomery and, 205n
occupation zones and, 150, 154n, 159-61
on Stalin’s violation of Yalta agreements, 164
visits Rhine, 140
Citadel, 382
Russians enter, 481-82
Civil Affairs Division of War Department, 151-52, 156-57, 158-59
Clark-Kerr, Sir Archibald, 231
“Clausewitz” signal, 399
Clovis I, King of the Franks, 197
Cmuda, Hannelore von, 488
Cole, Sergeant Major Eric V., 281
Combined Chiefs of Staff, 146, 150, 151, 160, 199, 206, 232, 233, 239-41, 278-79
Malta meeting of, 139, 207
Communists, German, 15, 37-39, 47, 60, 430-32, 478, 493
Concentration camps, 28, 41, 44-45, 326-29
Cooley, Staff Sergeant Clyde W., 289, 308
Cords, Captain Helmuth, 45-46, 61
Corridors to Berlin proposed, 152, 158-59
COSSAC, 142; see also Morgan
Cottbus, 357, 391-92
Courland army, 85, 227, 403
Crabill, Colonel Edwin “Buckshot,” 319-20
Crerar, Lieutenant General Henry D., 129, 179
Cunegundes, Mother Superior, 25, 59, 370-71, 455, 464-65, 491-92
Cyanide capsules, 32, 423, 495, 498, 504
D
Dahlem, 17-18, 166, 277, 458-59
Dahlem, Haus, 25-26, 59, 370-71, 455-56, 464-65, 491-92
Dahlem Press Club, 370
Dahlwitz, 358
Davey, Lieutenant Robert, 135
Davison, Captain Wilfred, 281
Deane, Major General John R., 79n, 231, 233, 239, 240, 243, 335-36
Deans, Warrant Officer James “Dixie,” 190, 294-96, 389-90, 410-12, 507-9
De Gaulle, Brigadier General Charles, Roosevelt and, 145-46
Delaunay, Jacques, 262, 372
Dempsey, Lieutenant General Sir Miles, 179
Second Army of, 44, 126, 129, 135, 326
Denmark, 234, 330, 446
“Desert Rats” (7th Armored Division), 128, 134, 135, 280-81
Dessau, 297, 298
De Tassigny, General Jean de Lattre, 130
Dethleffsen, General Erich, 413, 416-17, 427, 438, 466, 467, 468
Detmold, 290
Deutsche Union Bank, 138
Deutschlandsender, 168
Devenney, Captain John J., 288
Devers, Lieutenant General Jacob, 180, 202
Sixth Army Group of, 130, 237, 283, 329
Diburtz, Georg, 374, 387
Diekermann, Ruth, 262
Dieppe, 128
Disney, Colonel Paul A., 180, 181, 304, 305, 309, 316-17
Dittmar, Eberhard, 446
Dittmar, Lieutenant General Kurt, 446
Djilas, Milovan, 246, 493n
Döberitz, 434, 448
Doenitz, Grand Admiral Karl, 27n, 339, 403, 435
as commander in north, 404
at Führerbunker conference with Heinrici, 260, 261, 265, 268, 271, 272
named President of Germany, 496-97, 500
Domäne Dahlem dairy, 17-18, 57, 458-59
Dominican nuns, 486
Dorn (driver), 296
Dresden, 65, 336, 466
Eisenhower’s plans to advance on, 202, 203, 215, 217, 232, 237, 249, 283
Dufving, Lieutenant Colonel Theodor von, 109, 398, 466, 499-501, 503
Duke of York, H.M.S., 143n
DUKWs, 314, 316, 317, 319, 323
Dunkirk, 128
Durand-Wever, Dr. Anne-Marie, 30-31
Düsseldorf, 147
Dustmann, Dr. Karl, 405
Dutch Intelligence Service, 119
Dutch volunteers in German Army, 222
E
EAC (European Advisory Commission), 144, 149-54, 157-59
Eagle’s Nest, 125, 210
East-West Axis, 15, 502
landing strip on, 378-79, 482-83
Eberhard, Elisabeth, 460
Eberhard, Robert, 170
Eberswalde, 395, 414-15, 423, 505
Echtmann, Fritz, 505, 506
Eclipse, see Operation Eclipse
Eden, Anthony, 142, 143, 150, 496
Ehrenburg, Ilya, hate manifesto of, 27
Eisenach, 116, 144
Eisenhower, General of the Army Dwight D., 126, 135, 139, 140, 160, 165, 177, 235n
arrives in London, 153
Berlin drive and, 198-202, 206-9, 217, 236, 238, 278-80, 292, 321, 330, 331
broad-front strategy of, 202-3
as chain-smoker, 198
at concentration camp, 328-29
criticisms of, 204
decides to strike across central Germany, 215-17
Marshall and, 199, 214-15, 216
message to Stalin by, 215-16, 231-36, 240, 243
as nonpolitical soldier, 199-200
opposed by Montgomery, 202-6, 232, 233-34, 240-41
Reims headquarters of, 197-98
Stalin’s reply to, 251-52, 253
Eismann, Colonel Hans Georg, 92-93, 221-25, 228, 229, 258-61, 264-65, 267, 268, 274, 277, 301, 334, 351, 428, 475
Elbe
American attempt to seize bridges of, 306-9, 312-13
American bridging of, 314-17, 319-20
Americans and Russians meet on, 187-88, 470-72
Americans forbidden to drive east of, 331-32, 365-66, 388
Anglo-American drive for, 135-36, 140, 165, 199, 217, 242, 280-94, 304-5, 329-30
Twelfth German Army on, 277, 297-98, 323-25
as zonal boundary, 116
Elbenau, 317
Elections (1932), 52
Elizabeth, Czarina of Russia, 319
Erfurt, 215, 217
Erickson, Professor John, 248n, 506n
Erkner, 372, 505
Espionage, see Intelligence agents
Estonia, 142
Eumenes II, King, 167
Evacuation of Berlin, 217-20, 404-7
Evers, Gertrud, 408
Exchange 500, 79, 433
F
Factories, 16, 372, 494
foreign workers in, 48-51
ordered destroyed, 409
Falingbostel, 294, 295, 389
Farrand, Colonel, Edward Gilbert, 288-89
Faupel, Lieutenant General Wilhelm, 32<
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Fegelein, SS Gruppenführer Hermann, 496
Feiler, Hertha, 32
Feis, Herbert, 159n
Feldheim, Private Willy, 112, 385-86, 399
Fesler (guard), 50
Finland, 142
Finnell, Captain John, 317
Finow, 505
Finsterwald, 393
Fire companies, 450, 479-80
Food, 38, 409-10, 450-53
Foreign Affairs Ministry building, 302
Foreign laborers, 48-51
Foreign Ministers Conference (Moscow), 143
Fortifications of Berlin, 65-66, 375, 376, 380-84, 478-79
ring system described, 380-82
Russians enter Citadel, 481-82
Russians enter second ring, 457
Francies, Lieutenant Merritt Duane, 126-27, 190, 310-12
Frankfurt-on-Main, 116, 139, 238
Frankfurt-on-Oder, 87, 89, 265-69, 276-77, 364, 438
Franklin, William F., 159n
Franseckystrasse, 442
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, 212n
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 319
Free French Forces, 145
French Embassy building (Berlin), 378
French First Army, 130
French occupation zone, 162
Frey Bridge, 480
Friedenau, 19, 369
Friedrichshain, 167, 382, 481
Friedrichstrasse Station, 418, 501, 502
Führer, see Hitler
Führerbunker, 341, 483
described, 259-60, 424-25, 448
disintegration in, 467, 494
escape from, 500-2
Eva Braun arrives at, 359
Goebbels moves to, 437
Russians enter, 503-4
Speer’s plan to gas, 333
SS guards at, 258, 259
suicides in, 497-98, 501-2
Funerals, 24, 452
Fürstenberg, 476
G
G Tower, see Zoo Bunker (Zoo towers)
Gareis, General Martin, 299
Gatow Airfield, 121, 125, 479
Gavin, Major General James M., 119-24, 179, 281
Gehlen, Major General Reinhard, 85, 104, 107, 227, 335
General-Barby-Strasse, 488
German air force, see Luftwaffe
German armed forces
armored units transferred south, 257, 260, 270, 272-73, 353
desertions in, 437, 480
divisional strength in, 131
Hitler’s errors as commander of, 84-85, 89, 130-31, 256-57, 273
1939 clash in Poland with Russian Army, 209
push Americans back across Elbe, 323-25
smashed on Western Front, 130-31, 282-92 See also Oder front; OKH; OKW
German Armed Forces High Command, see OKW
German armed-forces units
ARMY GROUPS
B (Model), 131, 282, 396
Center (Schörner), 87, 257, 270, 353, 385, 416, 438
Vistula, 70, 76, 82-84, 87-94, 220-24, 265-74, 299-300, 335, 342, 351-53, 385, 394-99, 413-16, 427-28, 437-39, 472-73, 476-77
ARMIES
First Panzer, 70, 76
Third Panzer, 87, 222, 265-66, 299, 352, 353, 394-96, 402, 415, 423, 438, 472-73, 476-77
Fourth, 73-74, 75, 416
Sixth, 300
Seventh, 375
Ninth, 88-89, 93-94, 222, 224-26, 265-66, 342, 351-53, 362-65, 384, 395, 396-98, 400, 404, 414-16, 423, 434, 436, 438-39, 444, 447, 449, 472-73, 509-10
Eleventh, 277
Twelfth, 275-76, 277, 296-99, 323-25, 365-66, 436, 439, 443-45, 449, 466, 467, 472, 510
GROUP, Steiner, 395, 423, 426-27, 449, 466, 472-74
CORPS
3rd SS, 395
11th SS, 365
46th Panzer, 299
56th Panzer (Weidling), 364-65, 396-98, 415, 428, 434, 447-49, 478, 481, 482, 502
101st, 365
Great Germany, 400
DIVISIONS
2nd Parachute, 301
3rd Navy, 474
4th SS Police, 414
5th Panzer, 474
7th Panzer, 395
9th Parachute, 267, 269, 300, 365, 397
18th Panzer Grenadier, 396-97
20th Panzer Grenadier, 94, 365
25th Panzer Grenadier, 93-94, 352, 474
Clausewitz, 298
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, 298
Frundsberg, 403
Müncheberg Panzer, 365
Nederland, 222
Nordland, 222, 396-97
Potsdam, 298, 299, 315
Scharnhorst, 298, 299, 315
Theodor Körner, 298
Ulrich von Hutten, 298, 299, 315
German Army High Command, see OKH
German Navy, 53-54, 223, 271, 272, 474
German prisoners of war
of Russians, 429-30
in West, 291, 326
German women in armed forces, 289-90
Germendorf, 474
Gerow, Lieutenant General Leonard, 129
Gestapo, 32, 38, 39, 41, 43
Getman, General Andreya Levrentevich, 194, 361
Gillem, Major General Alvan C., Jr., 304
Gneisenau, Field Marshal Graf von, 66, 269, 373
Gobelin tapestries, 168
Goebbels, Dr. Joseph, 28n, 64, 171, 174, 210, 230, 338, 403, 479n, 496, 498
appointed Reichschancellor, 497
attempts to surrender Berlin, 498-500
in defense of Berlin, 377-78, 399-400, 405
moves to Chancellery, 437
propaganda of, 29-30, 371, 373, 430, 459
Goebbels, Dr. Joseph (continued)
refuses to order evacuation of Berlin, 217-20
Roosevelt’s death and, 319
suicide of, 495, 501, 503-4, 505
Goebbels, Magda, 339, 437, 467, 497, 515
children of, 339, 495, 501, 504, 505
suicide of, 495, 501, 503-4
Goering, Emmy, 469
Goering, Reichsmarschall Hermann, 75, 103n, 170, 214, 338, 404, 405
arrested by SS, 468-69
evacuates Karinhall, 401-3
at Führerbunker conference with Heinrici, 267-72
Heinrici and, 269, 300-1, 397
as Hitler’s deputy, 435, 436, 468-69
Golbach, Major General Walter, 479n
Golbov, Captain Sergei Ivai.ovich, 33-34, 302-3, 345-46, 349, 350, 429-30
Gotha, 328-29
Götterdämmerung, Die, 175, 212, 375, 386-87
Grawitz, Professor Ernst, 406-7
Graziani, Marshal Rudolfo, 376
Great Fatherland War of the Soviet Union 1941-45, The, 355n
Greim, Field Marshal Robert Ritter von, 482-83
Gresse, 389, 410
Groza, Petru, 162
Gruban-Souchay restaurant, 36, 453-54
Grünewald (Berlin), 479, 480
Grünewalde, 317, 324
Guderian, Colonel General Heinz, 76-78, 94, 107, 222, 275
discusses battle plans with Heinrici, 81-90
goes to Bavaria, 229-30
relieved as Chief of OKH, 225-29
Guingand, Major General Sir Francis de, 103, 203, 206
Gumbach, Corporal “Charlie,” 390, 411-12, 507-9
Günsche, SS Colonel Otto, 259, 496-98, 502
Gusev, Fedor T., 149, 153, 154n, 158, 159, 183
H
Hadley, Lieutenant Arthur T., 134
Hagedorn, Captain Walter, 483, 514
Hagemann, Lieutenant General Wolf, 111, 510
Haller, Annemarie, see Hückel
Halt, Karl Ritter von, 479
Hambert, Philippe, 405
Hamburg, 145, 155, 202, 329, 426
Hamelin, 291-92
Handy, Major General Thomas T., 149, 163
Hanover, 202, 283
captured, 292, 295
Happich, Father Bernhard, 25-26, 371, 455-56, 492
Harriman, W. Averell, 164, 183, 231, 335
&nb
sp; Harz Mountains, 100, 277, 296, 297
Haus Dahlem, 25-26, 59, 370-71, 455-56, 464-65, 491-92
Haushofer, Albrecht, 440, 442n
Haymaker, Sergeant Leonard, 313
Heck, Lutz, 62, 170, 408, 484
Heckscher, Sergeant Edmund, 479
Heger, Robert, 171, 387
Heinrici, Colonel General Gotthard, 105
attempts to build up Oder front, 222-24
background of, 71-76
called to Führerbunker, 257-61, 264-74
called to Zossen, 70-71, 76-90
command of Berlin and, 220-21, 230, 413-14
dismissed, 476-77, 506-7
Eclipse maps and, 104, 363-64
Goering and, 269, 300-1, 397
insists on Bieler’s reinstatement, 276-77
orders retreat, 475-76
Russian offensive and, 299-300, 335, 342, 351-53, 384-85, 413-16, 437-39, 472-76
Speer’s visit to, 332-35
Steiner attack and, 423, 427, 473, 474
takes over from Himmler, 91-95
withdrawal tactic of, 73-74, 299, 342, 351, 360-61
Heinroth, Dr. Katherina, 63, 170
“Hell on Wheels” (2nd Armored Division), 128, 132-34, 284-85, 288, 289, 291-93, 304-9, 314-17, 319, 322-25, 330, 388
Hellriegel, Private Hermann, 479
Henneberg, Professor Georg, 409, 494
Hennell, Sergeant Major Charles, 281
Hermannplatz, 417, 451
Heusermann, Käthe Reiss, 54-56, 64, 405-7, 505-6
Hewel, Walter, 417
Higgins, Brigadier General Gerald J., 124, 125
Hildesheim, 283-84, 292
Hildring, Major General John H., 159n
Himmler, Reichsführer SS Heinrich, 32, 214, 338, 403, 407, 435
as army group commander, 82-84
at Führerbunker conference with Heinrici, 260, 265, 268, 271
Heinrici takes over from, 91-95
peace negotiations of, 94, 404, 469-70, 496
Hindenburg, Paul von, 52
Hindenburgstrasse, 453
Hinds, Brigadier General Sidney R., 314, 316-17, 322-23, 325, 331-32
Hitler, Adolf, 78, 97, 103n, 125, 214, 230, 337, 386, 428
appoints Himmler army group commander, 82
appoints Von Greim head of Luftwaffe, 482-83
attempted assassination of (1944), 45-47, 259, 264
Berlin’s attitude to, 52, 372
birthday of, 303, 401-2, 403-4, 409
body of, 341, 498, 504-5
Hitler, Adolf (continued)
decides to stay in Berlin, 404-5, 434-37
dental work on, 55-56, 505-6
on evacuation of Berlin, 218-19
on future of National Socialism, 497
Heinrici and, 74-76, 82, 264-74, 276-77
his whereabouts a secret, 23, 56, 136, 400-1, 435, 446
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