raw materials shortages, xxii–xxiii, 11–13, 26, 28, 39–42, 49, 55, 58, 60–63, 71, 83, 133, 166, 169, 223, 226–30, 234, 338, 427, 475, 481, 484, 487
tank production, 91, 117, 151, 190, 215, 229, 236, 238, 305, 322, 328–30, 340, 367, 401, 440, 542n86
total war mobilization, 227–30, 326–30, 423–27, 456–57 (see also Speer, Albert; tank production [German])
black market activities, 136, 171, 224, 427–28
deportation of Jews, 14, 21, 64–65, 108, 110, 173–78, 180, 219–20, 257, 259, 362, 522n78
food: rationing, 72, 135–36, 149, 220, 223, 226, 427–28
supply, xxii–xxiii, 12–13, 28, 32, 40–41, 49, 55, 58–62, 64, 69, 71–73, 92, 135–36, 149, 167, 170–71, 217, 221, 223–26, 257, 316, 366, 427–28, 475, 477–84
foreign labor in (see forced labor)
Four-Year Plan (see Goering)
hunger policy (see hunger policy)
labor: compulsory, 328, 424–25
foreign (see forced labor)
Ostarbeiter (see forced labor)
roundups (see forced labor)
shortages, xxiii, 58, 166, 174, 204, 215, 217, 220–24, 227–29, 257, 328, 331, 334, 363–64, 424, 426
slave (see forced labor)
use of concentration camp prisoners (see forced labor)
women, 166, 221–22, 328, 331–32, 424–25
Labor Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD), 376
morale, xxiii, 72, 109, 121, 135–37, 155, 167, 224, 230, 296–97, 325, 328–31, 359, 363, 427–29
occupation policy of, 18–25, 28, 40–42, 60–68, 91–94, 105–6, 170–74, 221–26, 332–34, 372–74, 426–27, 483, 485
popular support for Hitler, 2, 10, 31–32, 72, 135–37, 325, 428, 483–84
and total war, 326–30, 423–27, 440, 456–57
war economy, 41–42, 55, 58–61, 83, 166, 216, 220, 226–27, 232, 258–59, 261, 327, 330, 332, 423, 425, 427–29, 459, 471, 485, 488
women, rape of by Soviet soldiers, 431, 449–52
Germany Must Perish (Theodore Kaufman), 107
Gestapo, xv, 94, 137, 178, 330, 454
Geyr von Schweppenburg, Leo (General), 142, 154
ghettos, 21–22, 64–65, 94, 100, 174–76, 218, 220, 223 257, 318, 361–62, 477
Gibraltar, 45, 48, 51
Globocnik, Odilo, 257–59
Gniloy Tikich River, 391
Goebbels, Joseph, 31–33, 63
and anti-Bolshevism, 44, 99, 217, 322, 376, 431, 453
anti-Semitism of, 2, 14–15, 20–24, 36, 40, 64, 73, 99, 107–9, 174, 179, 218, 220, 360–61, 376
on Atlantic Charter, 110
and Battle of Stalingrad, 322
and bombing raids on German cities, 137, 363
and Churches, 137–38
and declaration of war on U.S., 194–95
and Der ewige Jude, 22–23, 64
and Final Solution, 109–10, 172, 174–75, 179, 218, 220, 360–62, 528n63
and food supply, 136, 170, 224, 428
and Hitler, 2, 22, 31, 33, 35–36, 44, 64, 73–74, 131, 155, 172, 175, 179, 190, 217–18, 220, 230–31, 238, 279, 296, 300, 329, 341–42, 360–62
and Madagascar Plan, 24
and peace offers to Stalin, 363, 550n51
and popular mood in Germany, 63, 72, 108–9, 135–37, 155, 230, 363, 401, 428–29, 514n79
as Propaganda Minister, 21–24, 40, 63–64, 99, 107–8, 135, 184, 230, 234, 247, 322, 327, 360, 363, 376, 401, 423–24, 428–29, 431, 440, 453, 472, 510n40
as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War, 425–26
“total war” initiatives, 230, 232, 326–29, 423–26, 456, 458
Total War speech, February 1943, 326–27
urges Hitler to address nation, 155, 296, 300
and war against the Soviet Union, 63, 72–73, 77, 79, 85, 88, 99, 105, 111, 121, 131, 155, 170, 184, 190, 217, 238, 247, 279, 296, 300, 322, 338, 341–42, 351–52, 367, 376, 397
Goering, Hermann (Reichsmarschall)
and anti-Bolshevism, 66
and anti-Jewish policy, 15, 18, 24, 66, 105, 108
colonial thinking of, 18, 105, 169, 477
declining influence of, 227–28, 397
doubts about war, 9, 31, 34, 56, 72
economic exploitation of the Soviet Union, 166, 169–72, 225–26
and Final Solution, 66, 108
and food supplies, 136, 170, 172, 223–6
Four-Year Plan, 11–12, 166, 477
and Hitler, 34, 72, 105
and hunger policy, 62, 505n60
and Luftwaffe, 132, 243–44, 312, 318
and Stalingrad, 312, 318, 320
and total war, 227–28, 328–29
Golubinsky, 309
Gomel, 123, 381–82
Gonchara, 289
Gorky, 182, 186
Görlitz, 465, 469
Gorodnitsa, 388
Gothengau, 255
GPU (Soviet Secret Police), 67, 69
Great Britain. See Britain
Greece, 47, 49, 71
Greiser, Arthur, 19, 175
Grimm, Hans, 6
Groscurth, Helmuth (Lieutenant-Colonel), 18–19, 298
Grossdeutschland. See Divisions (German)
Großraumwirtschaft (greater German economic sphere), 41, 62
Großwaltersdorf, 430
Grozny, 83, 235, 271–72, 275, 277, 279, 281–82
Grynszpan, Herschel, 14
Guderian, Heinz (General)
and Barbarossa, 86, 117, 122–23, 125–26, 132–33, 141–45, 149, 153–55, 187–88, 190, 200, 202–8
as Chief of Staff (OKH), 417, 434, 437, 442–44, 448, 454–55, 460
criticism of Hitler, 206, 443
criticism of OKH, 399, 417
dismissal, 208, 460
doubts about Citadel (Kursk), 340, 342, 346
and French campaign, 27–28
as Inspector General for Armor, 340, 367, 379, 384
“Guidelines of Economic Policy for the Economic Organization East,” 478
Gulf of Finland, 146, 386
Gumbinnen, 430–31, 446
Gumrak, 289, 320
Gzhatsk, 211
Habsburg Empire, 474, 478
Hagen position, 354–55
Hague Convention, 167
Halder, Franz (General)
and anti-Bolshevism, 37
and Barbarossa, 36–39, 42–44, 50–52, 55–59, 67, 78, 82, 84, 87, 89–90, 111–14, 121–23, 126, 131, 141–43, 146–48, 164, 171, 182
and Blau, 232–34, 248–50, 253, 265–67, 269–71, 275–76, 281, 283
concerns about arms production, 116–17
concerns about manpower situation, 114–16, 142, 151–52, 234, 236, 522n85
concerns about progress in the USSR, 125–26, 130, 133
dismissal, 280
and encirclement operations, 87, 89, 111–13, 121–22, 127, 141, 152–53, 155
and French campaign, 27
and German strategic confusion, 44–45, 233
and Hitler, 18, 27, 52, 55–56, 67, 74, 84, 87, 112–13, 121, 126–28, 131–34, 142, 152–53, 189–90, 206, 263, 267, 270–71, 275, 280, 292
and invasion of Britain, 33, 37
and Soviet counteroffensive (December 1941), 201–11
and Stalingrad, 269, 275, 283–85, 289, 292
suggests demotorization of the army, 26, 57
and Typhoon, 147–48, 152–53, 155–56, 182–87, 190–91
Hamburg
bombing of, 330, 363, 466
deportation of Jews from, 174
Hanke, Karl, 448
Harpe, Joseph (General), 445
Harvest Festival, Operation (Erntefest), 361–62
Harz Mountains, 335
Haushofer, Karl, 6
Hausser, Paul (SS-General), 324, 349
Heim, Ferdinand (General), 307–8
Heinkel, 260
Heinrici, Gotthard (General), 215, 414, 455
Hendaye, 47
Hess, Rudolf, 79, 254
Hewel, Walther, 23
Heydrich, Reinhard
and deportation of Jews, 110, 174–78
and Einsatzgruppen, 70, 94–96, 104, 219