The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
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Vote for Hitler (1932), 52
Voznesenskii, Nikolai A., 248
W
Wahrenholz, 318
Walbeck., 44
Waldsieversdorf, 398
War Department Civil Affairs Division, 151–52, 156-57, 158-59
Warm Springs, Georgia, 231, 317
Washburn, Lieutenant Colonel Israel B., 311
Wassermann, Elfriede, 421-22, 481
Wassermann, Erich, 421, 481
Weber, Brigitte, 36, 511
Wedding, 478
Weichs, Field Marshal Maximilian Freiherr von, 83
Weidling, General Karl, 109, 365, 396-98, 478, 496
execution ordered, 428, 447-48
56th Panzer Corps of, 364-65, 396, 415, 428, 434, 447-49, 478, 481, 483, 502
named Commandant of Berlin, 449
surrenders Berlin, 502-3
Weimar, 296-97
Weissensee, 13, 358, 372, 382, 429, 430, 478
Weltlinger, Margarete, 40-42, 263, 358, 462-64
Weltlinger, Siegmund, 40-42, 262-63, 358, 462-64
Wenck, Irmgard, 275
Wenck, Sigried, 275
Wenck, General Walther, 108, 274-76, 296-99, 315, 325, 365-66
links up with Busse, 510
ordered to attack eastwards, 441-45
Twelfth Army of, 275-76, 277, 296-99, 323-25, 365-66, 436, 439, 443-45, 449, 466, 467, 472, 510
Wendt, Walter, 62, 170
Werben, 288
Werewolves, 210
Weser River, 288
Westerhüsen, 314
Westermann, Dr. Gerhart von, 173-76, 373-75, 387
White, Major General Isaac D., 132, 133, 180, 181, 284, 292, 304, 315
2nd Armored Division of, 128, 132-33, 134, 284-85, 288, 289, 291, 292-93, 304-9, 314-17, 319, 322-25, 330, 388
Whiteley, Major General John F. M., 239n, 241
Wiberg, Carl Johann, 22-23, 59, 136-38, 366-67, 400-1, 492
Wienecke, Colonel Robert H., 119
Wilhelmstrasse, 502
artillery fire on, 418
bomb damage in, 14, 258
Williamson, Lieutenant Colonel Ellis W., 133
Wilmersdorf, 22, 31, 136, 165, 304, 418, 455, 459, 461, 473, 478, 487, 492
bomb damage in, 18
Wilson, Flight Sergeant Geoffrey K., 410
Wilson, Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland, 234, 237
Winant, John G., 149-53, 157-59, 182
Winckler, Barbara, 166
Winckler, Charlotte, 165
Winckler, Ekkehart, 165
Winocour, Jack, 496
Winterfeldtstrasse, 359, 457
Wittenberge, 116, 297, 298
Wittingen, 318
Wöhlermann, Colonel Hans Oscar, 110, 397, 398
Wolf, Johanna, 56, 404
Working Security Committee, 151, 156
Wriezen, 265
Wulle-Wahlberg, Hans, 420
Y
Yalta Conference, 101-3, 161-62
agreements violated by Stalin, 162, 164, 235
Younger, Flight Sergeant Calton, 410
Yushchuk, Major General Ivan, 186, 368, 391
Z
Zarzycki, Bruno, 39, 60, 430-32
Zehlendorf, 17, 18, 434, 478, 484-85
Zerbst, 330
Zhukov, Marshal Georgi K., 38, 177, 185, 194, 248n, 345, 449, 500
background of, 244-45
called to Moscow, 243-51
criticism of, 360-61
in Oder offensive, 347, 350-51, 360-62, 391, 393-94, 412, 472-73
plans attack on Berlin, 21-22, 250-51, 254, 302-3, 352
reprimanded by Stalin, 393-94
Ziegler, SS Major General Jürgen, 397
Zones of occupation, see Occupation of Germany
Zoo, 62-63, 511-12
air raids on, 14, 169
closes, 408
described, 168-71
shelled, 484
Zoo Bunker (Zoo towers), 167-68, 377, 382, 466, 483-84, 514
Zossen, 70, 368
bombing of, 79n
described, 77-79
Heinrici at, 77-90
Russian capture of, 432-34
Russian drive on, 393, 407, 412-13
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CORNELIUS RYAN was born in 1920 in Dublin, Ireland, where he was raised. He became one of the preeminent war correspondents of his time, flying fourteen bombing missions with the Eighth and Ninth U.S. Air Forces and covering the D-Day landings and the advance of General Patton’s Third Army across France and Germany. After the end of hostilities in Europe, he covered the Pacific war. In addition to his classic works The Longest Day, The Last Battle, and A Bridge Too Far, he is the author of numerous other books that have appeared throughout the world in nineteen languages. Awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1973, Mr. Ryan was hailed at that time by Malcolm Muggeridge as “perhaps the most brilliant reporter now alive.” He died in 1976.