in Hitler’s worldview, xxi, 5, 7–11, 17, 26, 35–36, 42, 44, 66–67, 72–73, 75, 78, 91, 94, 110, 235, 360, 366, 440, 473, 478, 480, 484
in Nazi ideology, 68, 254, 478, 480, 487
in Nazi propaganda, 99, 107, 135, 137, 236, 320–22, 327, 376–77, 453, 512n56
“booty” Ukrainians, 373, 377, 384, 394, 398–99, 435
Borisov, 416
Bormann, Martin, 105, 178, 328–29, 474
Bouhler, Philipp, 138–39, 180
Brack, Viktor, 138, 180
Bradley, Omar (General), 468
Brandenburg, 446
Brandt, Karl, 139
Brauchitsch, Walter von (Field Marshal), 19, 27, 38–39, 42–43, 50, 66, 69, 75, 101, 124, 127, 131–32, 148, 164, 190, 201
dismissal of, 205–6
Braun, Eva, 467
Breker, Arno, 3
Brenner Pass, 47
Breslau, 442, 445, 447–48
Brest-Litovsk, 39, 86, 408, 418
brigades, German
First SS, 70, 106, 203
Grodeck, 244
Britain, xxii
Battle of, 33–34, 38–39, 41–43, 46–49, 484–85
Bomber Command, 330, 466
bombing campaign, 50, 72, 83, 109, 136–37, 427
and “destroyers for bases” deal, 40, 45
Dunkirk evacuation, 484
and eugenics movement, 138
and German invasion of Poland, 8, 25
and German plans for invasion of USSR, 42, 58, 75
Germany and, xxiii, 2, 6–7, 24, 28–29, 41, 44, 51–52, 60, 71, 83, 469, 475, 477, 479
Hitler and, 3, 6, 8–10, 12–14, 16, 32–33, 36–38, 40, 43, 63–64, 71, 75, 91, 156, 194, 217, 268, 296, 400, 402, 433, 475
Hitler’s “peace offer,” 25, 33–35, 37, 45, 326, 363, 484
Joint Intelligence Subcommittee, 336
and Lend-Lease, 40
and Mers-el-Kebir, 33
Soviet Union and, xxii, 144, 165, 276, 341
U.S. and, 39–40, 45, 71, 110, 194, 484
warnings to Stalin, 80
British Empire, 2, 8, 29, 34
German plans for attack on, 43, 50, 233
Japan and, 34, 42–43, 45, 51, 71–72, 194, 217, 233
Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), 446
Brusilov, 380
Bryansk, 153–55, 156, 157, 160, 211, 219, 232, 346, 348, 369
Budenny, Semen (Marshal), 145
Bucharest, 435–36
Budapest, xv, 362, 437–38
Bug River, 86, 141, 394, 397, 418, 429
Bukovina, 32, 49
Bukrin (bridgehead), 378
Busch, Ernst (Field Marshal), 381, 408, 410–15, 437
Busse, Theodor (General), 460, 466
Bustard Hunt, Operation (Trappenjagd), xvii, 243, 529n5
Carpathian Mountains, 140, 387–88, 392, 396, 434–36
Caspian Sea, 55, 233, 272
casualties, German. See German army: casualties
casualties, Soviet. See Red Army: casualties
Catholic Church, 136–38
Caucasus
in German planning, 53, 59, 130, 132, 162–64, 182, 190, 231–32, 234, 239, 241, 313, 316, 336, 342
oil in, 53, 59, 83–84, 89, 91, 126, 129, 132, 145, 165, 182, 235, 238, 277, 280, 326
operations in, 245, 261–62, 268, 270–72, 274–79, 281–84, 291, 296, 301, 306, 322, 324
and Soviet planning, 84, 200, 269, 304, 315
Chamberlain, Neville, 10
Chelmno, 178, 219–20, 226, 253
Cernovicy (Chernovtsy), 395
Cherkassy, 141, 389–95, 398
Cherniakhovsky, Ivan Danilovich (General), 444
Chernigov, 365, 368–69
Chernobyl, 369, 371, 378, 381
Chir River, 307, 314
Chotin, 395
Chuikov, Vasilii Ivanovich (General), 288, 293–94, 296, 298, 301, 304
Churchill, Winston, 32–34, 37–38, 46, 79–80, 110, 131, 157, 174, 197, 328, 458
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 32, 166, 190
Citadel, Operation (Zitadelle)
consequence of, 357
delays, 340–42
doubts about, 339–42
losses, 352–53
operations, 344–53
plans for, 338–39, 341, 343
strength of opposing forces, 343–44 See also Kursk, Battle of
Clausewitz, Carl von, 82–83
climate. See weather
coal, 28, 150, 169, 226, 229, 297, 322, 366, 475, 492–93
collaborators (with Germans), 97
Cologne, 144
colonies, 17, 46, 48, 170, 259
colonization, 7, 92–93, 173, 241, 254–57, 476–79
Commissar Order (6 June 1941), xv, 68–69, 94, 480–81, 519n57
Communist Party (Soviet), 94, 156–57
Compiegne, 2
concentration camps
Auschwitz, 178–79, 181, 220, 223, 226, 254, 257–58, 260, 317, 362
Dachau, 260
death marches, 454–55
destruction through labor, 94–95, 180, 223, 260–61, 334, 481
euthanasia in, 139
forced labor in, 93–94, 221–22, 259–61, 332, 334–36, 364, 428, 481, 486
Mauthausen, 260
Mittelbau-Dora, 335, 426
Oranienburg, 260
Ravensbrück, 260
Sachsenhausen, 260 See also extermination camps; forced labor
continental bloc, 44–48, 51
Corps (German)
Second SS Panzer, 323, 347–51, 396, 398, 402, 541n69, 542n80
Third Panzer, 251, 275, 282, 355–56, 390
Fourth SS Panzer, 444
Fifth, 275
Eighth Air, 242
Eleventh, 285, 317
Thirteenth, 388
Fourteenth Armored, 298
Fourteenth Panzer, 285–87, 289, 309
Twentieth, 209
Twenty-fourth, 142
Twenty-fourth Motorized, 154
Twenty-fourth Panzer, 211, 285, 351, 355–56
Twenty-ninth, 370
Thirtieth, 246
Thirty-fifth, 414
Thirty-ninth Motorized, 147
Fortieth Panzer, 275
Forty-first Panzer, 414
Forty-third, 208
Forty-fourth, 275
Forty-seventh Motorized, 154
Forty-seventh Panzer, 389–90
Forty-eighth, 294
Forty-eighth Panzer, 288, 291, 306–8, 280
Fifty-first, 288, 294, 298, 301, 312
Fifty-second, 275, 293
Fifty-third, 413
Fifty-fourth, 246
Fifty-sixth Panzer, 408
Fifty-seventh Panzer, 275, 314
Grossdeutschland Panzer, 444–45
Corps (Italian)
Alpine, 277
Corps (Rumanian)
Sixth, 288
Corps (Soviet)
Third Tank, 419
Twenty-first Tank, 251
Twenty-third Tank, 251
Twenty-sixth Tank, 310
Twenty-ninth Tank, 349
Cotentin peninsula, 419–20
Cottbus, 464
Courland, 433–34, 446
Crete, 71
Crimea, 91, 105, 132, 163–64, 210, 241–47, 253, 255, 379, 387, 398
Czechoslovakia, 12, 14, 468–69
Czestochowa, 443
Dachau, 260. See also concentration camps
Daimler-Benz, 260
Dakar, 46
Dannecker, Theodor, 65
Danube River, 438
Danzig, 405, 429–30
Das Reich. See Divisions (German)
Das Reich (journal), 234, 424
D-Day. See Normandy
death penalty, soldiers, 331, 464
Debrecen, 437
Demyansk, 146, 213–14, 311
Desna River, 142, 154, 365
destroyers for bases, 40, 45
diet. See food supplies
Dietrich, Josef “Sepp” (SS-General), 438
Dietrich, Otto, 156, 296
Divisions (German)
Brandenburg, 444
Das Reich (2nd SS), 191, 268, 324, 348, 350, 355, 438
Grossdeutschland, 266, 268, 277, 324, 355, 388, 444, 541n69, 542n83
Hermann Goering Panzer, 419, 444
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (First SS), 268, 324, 348–51, 395
Luftwaffe field, 306, 369, 384
Panzergrenadier (motorized infantry), 355, 367, 384