The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
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Postage stamps, 303
Potsdam, 372, 413, 436, 450n
Potsdam Bridge, 503
Potsdamer Platz, 49, 165, 373, 420
Potsdamerstrasse, 422
Prague, 257, 273, 353
Pravda (newspaper), 429
Prenzlau, 104, 402
Presnell, First Sergeant William G., 285
Preysing, Bishop Count Konrad von, 460
Prieros, 37-39, 493
Prisoner-of-war (POW) camps
captured by Americans, 313
evacuation of Stalag 357, 190, 294-96, 389-90, 410-12, 507-9
planned airborne drops on, 125, 282
Prisoners of war, German
of Russians, 429-30
in West, 291, 326
Prisoners of war, Russian, 335, 349, 480-81
Probst, Margareta, 489
Promeist, Margarete, 422, 450, 488
Pukhov, General Nikolai Pavlovich, 354, 356
Thirteenth Army of, 354, 356, 357
Putlitzstrasse, 490
Q
Quebec Conference, 146, 160-61
R
Radusch, Hildegard, 37-39, 60, 493
Raeder, Grand Admiral Erich, 405
R.A.F., 56
attacks POW column, 410-11 See also Air raids on Berlin
“Rag-Tag Circus” (83rd Infantry Division), 128-29, 134, 285, 288, 290-91, 319-20, 322, 325, 330
“Railsplitters” (84th Infantry Division), 128, 134, 289, 292, 317
Rankin, see Operation Eclipse
Rankine, Paul Scott, 496
Rape, see Sexual attack
Rastenburg, 55
attempted assassination of Hitler at, 45-47
Ration allowance, 38, 409-10
Ravené, Liese-Lotte, 35
Red Army, see Russian Army
“Red Ball Highway,” 197
Red Star (newspaper), 28n, 429, 493n
Redoubt, see National Redoubt
Refior, Colonel Hans, 66, 106, 218-20, 229-30, 377, 381, 384, 405
Refugees, 44, 385, 394, 443-44
atrocity stories of, 27-30
from Berlin, 510-11
Regensburg, 203, 216
Reich, Das (magazine), 66
Reichhelm, Colonel Günther, 111, 298, 366, 443
Reichskanzlei, 56, 302, 340, 341, 382
described, 14, 258-59 See also Führerbunker
Reichsstrasse 96, 69-70, 368
Reichstag building, 15, 115, 302, 382, 418, 502
planting of Soviet flag on, 186, 449, 503
Reims, SHAEF in, 197-98
Reinickendorf, 41, 486
Reitsch, Flight Captain Hanna, 482-83
Remagen bridgehead, 17, 86-87, 130, 207, 314, 334-35
Reschke, Christa, 263, 491
Reschke, Rudolf, 166, 263, 491
Reymann, Major General Hellmuth, 106, 376-84
assumes command of Berlin, 65-66
demolition plans of, 334-35, 378-80
Goebbels and, 217-20, 377-78, 400
replaced as commander of Berlin, 428
Vistula Army Group and, 229, 334, 384, 400, 413
Rheinmetall-Borsig factory, 372
Rheinsberg, 466
Rhine, Anglo-American crossing of, 17, 86-87, 116, 126, 129-30, 140, 207
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 370, 398, 403, 417
Richter, Charlotte, 453, 473
Ridgway, Major General Matthew B., 122
Riedel, Gustav, 63, 170
Ring defenses, see Fortifications of Berlin Robinson, Lieutenant William D., 472
Rock, Major Julius, 329
Rokossovskii, Marshal Konstantin, 21, 185, 194, 245, 248n
Second Belorussian Front of, 247, 255, 353, 395, 402, 415, 438
Römling, Horst, 358
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 66, 111, 128, 141
suicide of, 507
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 164n
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 101, 154n, 158n, 182, 280
capture of Berlin and, 140, 145-48, 163
death of, 317-19
de Gaulle and, 145-46
his attitude toward Russia and Stalin, 143n, 162, 164, 355n
illness of, 160-61, 231, 235
objects to occupation plans, 141, 145-50, 154-57
Rose, Captain Ben L., 133, 291, 293, 318
Rosenberg, Mrs. Anna, 164
Rosenthal, Hans, 42, 462
Rosetz, Günther, 452
Rosse, Harry, 23
Rosslau, 297
Roter Ausweis, 408
Royal Palace, 418
Rozanov, Lieutenant Vladimir Pavlovich, 346
Rudow, 448
Ruhleben, 50, 372
Rühling, Inge, 33
Rühmann, Heinz, 32
Ruhr Valley, 129, 131-32, 215, 217, 249, 282, 326
Rumania, 142, 162
Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von, 66, 70, 368
Russian Air Force, 165-68, 350-51, 353-54, 368
Russian Army, 17, 60
January offensive of, 82-85
backwardness of troops of, 493-94
Communist Party membership and, 347n
described, 457-58
divisional strength in, 251
first troops in Berlin, 457-65
meeting of Anglo-American forces and, 187-88, 208-9, 215-16, 293, 471-72
plans attack on Berlin, 21-22, 193-94, 243, 247-52, 254-56, 302-3
requests bombing of Zossen, 79n See also Oder front; Sexual attack
Russian Army units
FRONTS (ARMY GROUPS)
First Belorussian (Zhukov), 21, 247, 250, 254, 345-51, 360-62, 367-68, 393-94, 396, 449
First Ukrainian (Koniev), 247, 255-56, 353-57, 368, 391-93, 396, 412, 434, 449, 472
Second Belorussian (Rokossovskii), 247, 255, 395, 402, 438
ARMIES
First Guards Tank, 193, 360, 361, 367-68, 390-91, 428
Second Guards, 302
Third Guards Tank, 357, 392, 412, 432-33
Third Shock, 361
Fourth Guards Tank, 357, 412
Fifth Guards, 357
Fifth Shock, 302
Eighth Guards, 193, 302, 346-50, 360, 390, 429
Thirteenth, 354, 356, 357
Twenty-eighth, 255
Thirty-first, 255
Sixty-fifth, 245
CORPS, 79th, 335
DIVISIONS
6th Guards Rifle, 356
44th Rifle, 245
49th Rifle, 335
79th Guards Rifle, 502
171st Rifle, 186
BRIGADE, 65th Guards Tank, 368
Russian Army women, 303, 346
Russian occupation zone, 100, 116, 144, 297n
accepted by Russia, 153-54
Roosevelt’s proposal for, 148
size of, 154
Russian prisoners of war, 335, 349, 480-81
Russian State Defense Committee, 247-48
Russian volunteers in German Army, 222, 265
Russian workers in Berlin, 48-50
Rybalko, Colonel General Pavel Semenovich, 412
Third Guards Tank Army of, 357, 392, 412, 432-33
S
S-Bahn, 382
Sabotage by foreign workers, 51
Saenger, Erna, 29, 59, 166, 454-55
Saenger, Konrad, 166, 454-55
St. Agnes, 456
St. Hildegard’s Hospital, 488
Salzburg, 329
Samsonov, Lieutenant Konstantin Yakovlevich, 186
San Francisco, 495
Sandau, 288
Sauerbruch, Dr. Ferdinand, 31, 53
Sauerbruch, Dr. Margot, 31
Schedle, Captain Franz, 502
Scheffler, Dr. Wolfgang, 40n
Schelle, Heinrich, 36, 453
Schering chemical plant, 50, 409, 494
Schirach, Baroness Baidur von, 359-60, 469
Schliemann, Heinrich, 167
Schneidemühl, 268
Schneider, Otto, 430
Schnetzer, Max, 418
Schommer, Captain Francis C., 134, 291
Schönebeck, 306-10
Schöneberg, 18, 30, 359, 457-59, 478
Schönewalde, 351
Schöneweide, 447
Schönholz, 414
Schörner, Field Marshal Ferdinand, 76
army group of, 87, 257, 270, 353, 385, 416, 438
Schroeder, Helena, 457
Schröter, Georg, 407
Schultz, Private Arthur “Dutch,” 282
Schultze, Erna, 53-54
Schultze, Hanna, 166, 372-73
Schultze, Robert, 166, 372-73, 450
Schulz, Mrs., 491
Schulz, Aribert, 480-81, 511
Schuster, Hermann, 430
Schwäbisch Gmünd, 507
Schwägermann, Günther, 501
Schwartz, Anna, 169
Schwartz, Heinrich, 168-69, 171, 408, 484, 512
Schwarz, Margarete, 35, 405
Schwarze Grund Park, 459
Schwedt, 265, 475
Schwerin von Krosigk, Count, 318
Scorched-earth policy, 172-73, 332-35, 408
Searchlights, Zhukov’s, 254, 303, 345-48, 354, 361
Seelow Heights, 208n, 247, 346, 350, 360-61, 364, 368, 390-91, 393, 396
described, 352
Seven Years’ War, 319
Sexual attack, 484-93
fear of, 26-31, 371, 406, 456, 471
fear proven false at first, 459-60, 464-65
official Russian attitude to, 493n
SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters), 122, 125-26
in Reims, 197-98 See also Anglo-American forces; Eisenhower
Shalin, General Mikhail, 360
Sharpe, Lieutenant Colonel Granville A., 320
Shearer, Captain John L., 281
Shell House, 54
Shtemenko, General S. M., 248-50
Sieges Allee, 262
Siemens plant, 372
Simpson, Lieutenant General William H., 178, 283-84, 292, 304, 315, 320, 388
Ninth Army of, 126, 129, 131, 132, 135, 139-40, 204, 216-17, 232, 233, 238, 241-42, 282-94, 304-17, 319-25, 326, 329, 330-32, 388
ordered not to go to Berlin, 331-32
Skagerrak Square, 262
Slave laborers, 48-51
Sloan, Colonel George B., 322
Slogans on walls, 369, 370, 422
Smith, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell, 199, 200, 206, 214, 292
Smolensk, 75, 300
Sokolovskii, Colonel General Vasili, 177, 186, 248n, 505, 506n
Solimann, Otto, 405
Sorge, Jutta, 46, 61
Soviet War News, 28n
Spandau, 20, 58, 372, 445, 473-74, 481, 511
Zhukov’s plans for, 22
Speer, Albert, 339, 403
opposes demolition in Berlin, 378-79
opposes Hitler’s scorched-earth policy, 172-73, 332-35
plans assassination of Hitler, 176, 333
plans evacuation of Philharmonic, 173-75, 373-75, 387
visits Heinrici, 332-35
Spittelmarkt, 480
Spree, 382, 391-93, 481, 501
Spremberg, 357
SS (Schutzstaffel), 32, 39, 290, 404, 452, 479n
arrests Goering, 468-69
atrocities by, 28, 34, 440-42, 480-81
blows up tunnel under Spree, 481
fanaticism of, 53
as guardians of Führerbunker, 258, 259
last-ditch resistance by, 289-91, 307, 500
offered by Himmler for Oder front, 271
punishes deserters, 437, 480
Staaken, 20
Stadthagen, 291
Stahl, Heinrich, 41
Stalags, see Prisoner-of-war (POW) camps
Stalin, Josef, 21, 27, 28n, 80, 102, 149, 150, 182, 194
attack on Berlin and, 243, 249-52, 254-56, 278, 335-36, 391-94, 449
described, 248
Elsenhower’s message to, 215-16, 231-36, 240, 243
fears unilateral surrender, 355n
informed of Himmler’s peace feelers, 470
1941 territorial demands of, 142-43
on Red Army atrocities, 493n
replies to Eisenhower, 251-52, 253
Roosevelt’s attitude to, 162
violates Yalta agreements, 162, 164, 235
“Stalin Organs” (Katushkas), 345, 348-49, 479
Stalingrad, 132, 141, 193, 300, 333
Starr, Captain James W., 307-8
State, Department of, and plans for occupation of Germany, 149, 151-52, 155
Staub, Private First Class Paul, 188
Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus Graf von, 46
Stavka, 249
Steglitz, 434
Steiner, SS General, 108, 395
Hitler orders attack by, 422, 426-27, 449, 466, 473-74
Stella, Ursula, 483
Sternfeld, Agnes, 43
Sternfeld, Annemarie, 43
Sternfeld, Leo, 43-44, 461-62
Stettin, 87, 146, 148, 223, 426, 475
Stewart, Lieutenant Colonel Carleton E., 324
Stewart, Private First Class Carroll R., 294
Strang, Sir William, 149, 153, 154, 158
Strausberg, 407
Strehla, 471
Stresemann, Gustav, 46
Strong, Major General Kenneth W. D., 214
Stumpfegger, Dr. Ludwig, 495
Subway, 408-9
Suicide, 429-30, 471, 483, 487-88, 491
attempted, 479n, 486
of the Goebbels family, 495, 501
of the Hitlers, 497-98, 500
by other Nazis, 34, 407, 489, 502, 503
plans for, 31-33, 423
Supreme Headquarters, see SHAEF
Surrender, 398
of Berlin, 109, 502-3
Goebbels’ negotiations for, 498-500
Himmler’s negotiations for, 94, 404, 469-70, 496
Hitler’s refusal to negotiate, 417
Russian fears of unilateral, 235, 354-55
unconditional, 103-4
Suvorov, Field Marshal Aleksandr, 247
Svishchev, Sergeant Nikolai Alexandrovich, 346, 348
Sweden, 137, 234, 238, 367
Swedish Red Cross, 404, 469
Switzerland, 212
Symphony, see Philharmonic Orchestra
T
Tallett, Private Joe, 282
Tangermünde, 288, 312-13, 317
Taschner, Gerhard, 171, 173-74, 374, 387
Taylor, Major General Maxwell D., 124, 125, 282
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur, 215, 232
Tegel, 372, 479
Teheran Conference, 141, 149, 150, 182
Telegraph office, 450
Telephones
Exchange 500, 79, 433
Schöneberg exchange, 359, 409, 458
Telpuchovskii, Major General Boris S., 504-5
Teltow, 434
Tempelhof, 35, 44, 262, 303, 372, 407, 434, 461-62, 499
Tempelhof Airport, 121, 125, 450, 479
Tengelmann’s grocery store, 452-53
Teupitz, 449
Teutoberger Wald, 289
Thamm, Private Willi, 480
Thorwald, Juergen, 227n
Tiergarten, 14-15, 115, 378, 418
Todt Labor Organization, 405
Tokyo, 450
Torgau, 471
Trampe, 415
Trans-Ocean, 510
Treuenbrietzen, 445
Triebel, 356, 357
Trotha, Major General Thilo von, 106, 427-28, 475
Troy, treasures of, 167
Troyanoskii, Lieutenant Colonel Pavel, 348, 393-94, 493n
Truman, Harry S, on Himmler’s peace feelers, 469-70
Truman Bridge, 320, 322
Tündern, 291
U
UFA film studios, 493-94
Uhland, Johann Ludwig, 259
Uhlandstrasse, 480
Ulap exhibition hall, 441
Unconditional surrender, 103-4
Undergroun
d groups
Communist, 37, 39, 47, 430-32
Wiberg, 23, 136-38, 366-67, 400-1, 492
Ungnad, Vera, 450, 489-91
United States Army, 17
artillery-spotting planes of, 126-27, 190, 310-12 See also Anglo-American forces; Eisenhower; War Department
United States Army Air Force, 134
in advance to Elbe, 325
last raid on Berlin, 420
Troop Carrier Command, 326
bombs Zossen, 79n
United States Army units
ARMY GROUPS
Sixth, 130 237, 283, 329
Twelfth, 129-32, 204, 207, 212-13, 232, 233, 282-83
ARMIES
First, 129-30, 131, 204, 207, 282, 326, 472
United States, ARMIES (continued)
Third, 116, 130, 131, 207, 282, 283n, 297, 326, 327
Seventh, 125, 130, 213
Ninth, 126, 129, 131, 132, 135, 139-40, 204, 216-17, 232, 233, 238, 241-42, 282-94, 304-17, 319-25, 326, 329, 330-32, 388
Fifteenth, 129, 282
CORPS
13th, 304
18th Airborne, 122
19th, 293, 304, 322
DIVISIONS
1st Infantry, 128
2nd Armored, 128, 132-34, 284-85, 288, 289, 291-93, 304-9, 314-17, 319, 322-25, 330, 388
4th Infantry, 128
5th Armored, 127, 128, 133, 135, 288, 310-14, 317
17th Airborne, 129
29th Infantry, 128
30th Infantry, 133, 285, 289-91, 322, 329, 332, 388, 446
69th Infantry, 128, 470, 472
82nd Airborne, 119-24, 281, 282
83rd Infantry, 128-29, 134, 285, 288, 290-91, 319-20, 322, 325, 330
84th Infantry, 128, 134, 289, 292, 317
101st Airborne, 121, 124-25
102nd Infantry, 289
REGIMENTS
67th Armored, 134, 304, 306, 316
117th Infantry, 292
120th Infantry, 332
333rd Infantry, 318
505th Parachute, 282
BATTALIONS
82nd Reconnaissance, 132-33, 134, 289, 305-6
92nd Field Artillery, 133
OTHER UNITS 113th Mechanized Cavalry
Group, 133, 291
United States occupation zone, 100, 144-50
Roosevelt’s objection to plans for, 141, 145-50, 155-61
Unter den Linden, 13, 15, 418, 502
V
Van Hoeven, Pia 36, 59, 454, 459
Victory Column, 15, 378
“Victory Division” (5th Armored Division), 127, 128, 133, 135, 288, 310-14, 317
Vienna, 242, 363
siege of (1683), 66
Vlasov, Lieutenant General Andrei A., 222, 265
Volk, Sergeant Helmut, 479-80
Völkischer Beobachter, 38, 400
last issue of, 450
Volkssturm, see Home Guard units
Voltaire’s Candide, 360
Von, names with, see last element of name
Vosges, 130