Seventh Guards, 348
Eleventh Guards, 430
Twenty-seventh, 356
Twenty-eighth, 250
Twenty-ninth, 211
Thirty-third, 211
Thirty-eighth, 250, 395
Fortieth, 388
Forty-seventh, 445
Sixty-second, 285, 291, 293–94
Sixty-fourth, 291
armor strength (German). See German army: tanks
armor strength (Soviet). See Red Army: tanks
Army Detachment Kempf, 346–48, 355
army (German). See German army
army (Soviet). See Red Army
Army Groups (German)
A, 27, 261, 266, 271–72, 275–77, 280, 283–84, 303–4, 315–16, 319, 322, 378–79, 388, 396–97, 441–42, 444–45
B, 261, 271–72, 275–76, 284, 289, 303, 306, 308–9, 312, 458
Center, 53, 86–87, 89, 97, 113, 117, 120, 123–26, 128–29, 131–33, 141–42, 146–47, 149, 151–52, 155, 160–61, 172, 183–86, 192, 200, 202–4, 206–7, 209–11, 214–16, 218–19, 236, 304–5, 324, 339, 344, 346, 350–51, 354, 365, 368, 372–73, 378, 381–83, 387, 405–13, 415–18, 420, 432–34, 437, 441–42, 444, 446, 465, 468, 524n2
Courland, 446
Don, 309, 312, 315–16, 321–22
North, 53, 88, 97, 113, 120, 126, 128, 146–47, 156, 205, 211, 213, 216, 236, 365, 382–85, 387, 405–6, 408–9, 415, 417–18, 430–33, 446
North Ukraine, 408–9, 412–13
South, 53, 89, 117, 120, 123, 125, 129, 141, 143, 163–65, 184–85, 203, 216, 226, 233, 236, 243, 249, 261, 265–66, 323, 339, 345, 347, 350–51, 355–56, 365, 371–73, 378, 380, 384, 387, 390, 392, 394, 398, 405, 431, 436, 454
South Ukraine, 432, 434, 436
Vistula, 446, 448, 461
Army Groups (Soviet). See Fronts
Army High Command. See Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)
Aryanization, 483
Asia, 17, 22, 45, 64, 68, 70, 97, 186, 255, 375, 453, 477
Astrakhan, 55, 271, 275, 277
Atlantic, Battle of the, xxiv, 46, 194, 196, 233, 268, 339, 432, 434, 470, 486
Atlantic Charter, 109–10, 131
atomic bomb, 232, 485
Auftragstaktik (mission oriented tactics), 102, 229, 352
Auschwitz, 177–78, 181, 220, 223, 226, 254, 257–58, 260, 317, 362. See also concentration camps; extermination camps
Austria, 12, 14, 106, 436–37, 447, 478
Avranches, 419
Azov, Sea of, 323, 365, 370
Babi Yar, 102–3
Backe, Herbert, 60–62, 171, 224–26, 505n57, 505n60
Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem (SS-Obergruppenführer), 333
Bagration, Operation, xv, 405–10, 420–23, 442
Bakhmut River, 165
Baku, 106, 271–72, 279, 282
Balaton, Lake, 436–37
Balck, Hermann (General), 380
Balkans, 32, 36–38, 43, 46, 48–50, 71, 84, 204, 336–37, 341, 362, 406, 408
Baltic Sea, 55, 77, 113, 128, 146, 365, 382, 385, 406, 418, 432–33, 440, 461
Baltic solution, 406–8
Baltic states, 19–20, 32, 36–38, 41–42, 49–50, 53, 56, 88–89, 93, 106, 120, 148, 172, 219, 255–56, 385, 408, 418, 429–31, 433, 448, 476, 481
Bamberg, 300
Baranovichi, 417
Barbarossa, Operation, xv, xxiv, 72–76
aim of, 50–52, 66–67, 75–76
Barbarossa Jurisdiction Decree (13 May 1941), 68–69, 480
Commissar Order, xv, 68–69, 94, 480–81, 519n57
crisis of confidence, 125–34
decision for, 35–44, 48–52
Directive No. 21 (Barbarossa Directive), 51, 66
Directive No. 33, 125–28
Directive No. 34, 128–29
economic objectives of, 40–42, 60–61, 82–83
and Einsatzgruppen, 66, 70–71, 94–96, 101–4
escalating problems, 58–60, 81–82, 87–88, 112–18
failure of, 191–93
“Guidelines for Special Areas” (Einsatzgruppen), 66
Hitler’s intervention in military matters, 125–28
invasion launched, 77–78, 86–91
and Kiev pocket, 141–46
and Leningrad, 146–47
logistic problems, 56–57, 118–20, 149–51, 158–59, 185–86, 215–16
morale of troops, 89, 109, 111–12, 121, 130, 152, 155, 159, 162–64, 182, 188–90, 192–93, 201–2
operational plan, 82–85
and operations in the Balkans, 71–72
and operations in Ukraine, 140–46, 163–65
and Operation Typhoon, 152–57, 160–63, 182–93
and partisan war, 86–87, 98, 101–2, 104, 106, 108, 111, 149, 160, 174, 180, 193, 198
planning for, 52–60
popular German reaction, 121, 135–36, 184, 229–30
Soviet counterattack (Moscow), 199–205, 210–15
and German response, 205–12, 215–17
Soviet resistance, 85–88, 111–12, 114–15, 122–25, 156–58
Stalin’s reaction, 78–81
Supplement to Directive No. 33, 126–28
Supplement to Directive No. 34, 131
as war of extermination, 66–71, 75–76, 91–111, 166–73, 217–26
See also Typhoon
Barrikady gun factory, 290, 296, 298–99
Barvenkovo, 248, 250–51
Basargino Station, 288
battle group. See Kampfgruppe
Bautzen, 469
Bavaria, 137, 468
Beck, Ludwig (General), 36
Belaja Kalitva, 317
Belaya Tserkov, 102
Belgorod, 323–24, 351, 353, 355
Belorussia (White Russia), 37–38, 86, 89, 93, 95, 102, 106, 140, 172, 176, 178, 254, 256, 333, 381, 405, 407–10, 415, 435, 486
Below, Nicolaus von (Captain), 296
Belzec, 178, 181, 220, 226, 253, 361
Berchtesgaden, 309, 395, 415,
Berdichev, 387
Berezina River, 415
Berezino, 415–16
Berezovka, 219
Berghof, xv, 18, 33, 42, 307, 396–97, 400, 417–18. See also Obersalzberg
Berlin
Allied bombing raids on, 363, 466
Battle of, 438, 441–42, 447, 449, 458–69
deportation of Jews, 14, 24, 109, 175–76, 258–59, 531n31
food situation, 136
Hitler’s triumphal return (1940), 31
Red Army atrocities in, 450
signs of war weariness in, 325
Sportpalast, 63, 155, 181, 296, 298, 326
Bessarabia, 32, 49, 434
Bialystok, 86–88, 94–95, 97
Birkenau, 177, 220, 257. See also concentration camps
black market, 136, 171, 224, 427–28
Black Sea, 77, 141, 241, 245, 271–72, 277–78, 355, 379, 387, 396–98, 435
Black Sea Fleet (Soviet), 241, 245
Blau, Operation, xv, 230–39, 241, 246, 248, 252–53, 261–67, 269–70, 291, 338
blitzkrieg, xv, xxiii, 9, 26–29, 52–55, 57, 74, 82, 87, 110, 125, 129, 160, 171, 214, 231–32, 293, 324, 346, 422, 434, 473, 476, 484, 486
Blobel, Paul, 102–3
blocking units (Red Army), 143, 273
Blomberg, Werner von (General), 11
BMW, 260
Bobruisk, 381, 408–9, 414–15
Bock, Fedor von (Field Marshal)
dismissal of (July 1942), 267
dismissal of (December 1941), 205–6
doubts about Operation Barbarossa, 51, 59, 82
Operation Barbarossa, 86–87, 111, 113, 123–25, 127, 129, 131–33, 140, 142–44, 146
Operation Blau, 243, 248–51, 253, 261, 263, 265–67, 269
Operation Typhoon, 145, 151–56, 159–62, 170, 182–85, 187–88, 191–92
protests “Jew trains,” 176
Soviet counterattack (Moscow), 199–200, 202–7
Bohemia, 437, 465, 468
Bolshaya (bridgehead), 307–8
Bolshevism
German determination to eradicate, 42, 66–68, 73, 97–98, 101, 121, 170–73, 175
“Jewish,” xxi–xxii, 5, 7–11, 26, 35, 42, 66, 68, 70, 74, 78, 94, 101, 110, 135, 360, 375, 377, 473, 480, 487