and tank production (see Germany: tank production)
and United States (see United States: Hitler’s calculations)
and total war economy (see Germany: total war)
tours World War I battlefields, 2–3
and Treaty of Versailles, 2, 4, 10, 12, 18, 57, 194, 439, 473, 476, 482, 484
view of Soviet Union, xxi–xxii, 3, 11, 35, 40–44, 49–50, 55–56, 59–60, 62, 65, 69–70, 72, 82–83, 170, 181–82, 235, 268, 473, 475–76, 478, 484, 487 (see also Bolshevism; Lebensraum)
Volksgemeinschaft conception, xvii, 13, 17, 92, 136, 224, 328, 363, 376, 424–25, 428, 439, 449, 453, 483, 486–87
war as essence of human activity, 91
and winter campaign, 1941–1942 (see German army)
and winter campaign, 1942–1943 (see German army)
and winter campaign, 1943–1944 (see German army)
and women in workforce (see Germany: labor)
and World War I (see World War I)
Hitler Youth, 376, 461, 467
Hiwis (Hilfswillige; Russian auxiliaries), xv, 321
Hoepner, Erich (General), 69, 88, 97, 128, 154, 209
Hoeppner, Rolf-Heinz, 255
Hofmann, Otto, 522n78
Holland, 86
horses, 26, 54, 57, 78, 83, 119, 158–59, 161–62, 164, 172, 216, 224, 237, 249, 252, 277, 297, 317–19, 343, 369, 383, 391, 394, 410, 421
Horthy, Admiral Miklos, 362, 437
Hossbach, Friedrich (General), 446–47
Hoth, Herman (General), 98
and Blau, 284, 286, 288
commander, Fourth Panzer Army, 264–65, 276, 292, 323–24, 339, 346, 355
commander, Seventeenth Army, 161
and Stalingrad, 288–89, 291–92, 294, 314–16
and Third Panzer Group, 86, 122–23, 125–26, 154
Hube, Hans (General), 286–87, 319, 394–96, 398
Hungarian army, 236, 250, 266, 289, 436–37
Hungary, 234, 392, 405, 436, 440–42, 460
deportation of Jews, 223, 362
fighting in, 392, 405, 436–38, 440–42, 444, 448, 456, 460, 550n51
forces fighting in the Soviet Union, 539n30
German occupation, 362, 437–38, 456, 550n51
Jewish labor sent to Germany, 364, 426
hunger policy, 61–63, 76, 113, 166–67, 170–72, 224–25, 317, 477–78, 485, 505n60
Iassy, 434–35
I. G. Farben, 260
Ilmen, Lake, 128
India, 48–49, 81, 91, 233
Indian Ocean, 46
inflation, 12, 427
Ingermanland, 255
intelligence (German), 54, 131, 200, 207, 211, 340, 348, 362, 396, 406, 410, 421, 442, 480
intelligence (Soviet), 80, 154, 201, 341, 343, 349, 419, 447
Iran. See Persia
Iraq, 271
Italian army, 39, 43, 46, 71, 236, 284, 289, 292, 315–16, 341
Italy, xxii, 38, 45–49, 58, 234, 337, 341, 350–51, 354, 368, 399, 469–70
Ivanov, 182
Izyum, 164, 244, 247–53, 267, 370
Jägerstab (fighter staff), 426–27. See also aircraft industry (German); Reich Air Ministry
Jakovlevo, 347
Japan, xxii
Anti-Comintern Pact, 45
attack on Pearl Harbor, 179, 193, 194–96, 197, 484
Hitler places hopes in, 42–43, 51, 71, 91, 193, 194–96, 197, 217, 233, 235
Hitler’s attitude toward, 34, 217
Hitler seeks an anti-Soviet alliance with, 72
jeeps, 286, 421
Jeschonnek, Hans (General), 311, 331, 340
“Jewish conspiracy,” xxiii, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15–17, 20, 32, 40, 105, 107, 110, 328, 335, 403, 439, 453, 455, 475–76, 486
“Jewish question,” xxi, 5, 15–16, 20, 22–23, 35, 60, 64–66, 92, 94, 98, 108, 111, 173, 174, 178, 180–81, 220, 360, 362, 487
Jews
and Aktion Reinhard, 361
atrocities against, in the Baltic states, 94–96, 98, 176, 178, 220
blamed for world wars (see Bolshevism; Hitler; World War I)
confiscation of property (“Aryanization”), 175, 483
death camps (see extermination camps; Final Solution)
deportation of (see Final Solution; Germany)
destruction of synagogues, 15, 94–95
and Einsatzgruppen killings (see Einsatzgruppen; Final Solution)
emigration, 13–14, 20, 23–24, 93, 108, 178, 181, 479
evolution of Final Solution (see Final Solution)
expulsion, 13, 20, 64, 93, 108, 178, 181
extermination of (see Final Solution)
food rations, 171–72
forced labor (see forced labor)
ghettos, 21–22, 64–65, 94, 100, 174–77, 218, 220, 223 257, 318, 361–62, 477
Hitler’s prophesies against (see Hitler)
in Hungary, 362, 364, 426
Madagascar Plan, 13, 24, 65, 92, 108, 479
Nazi demonization of (see Bolshevism; ewige Jude, Der; Germany; Goebbels; Hitler)
“Night of Broken Glass” (see Kristallnacht)
and Operation Harvest Festival, 361–62
Ostjuden (eastern Jews), 20, 22, 176
reservations in Poland, 21, 139, 477, 479
territorial solution, 16, 24, 65, 67, 479, 485
See also Einsatzgruppen; extermination camps; Final Solution; ghettos; Hitler
Jodl, Alfred (General), 33, 39, 42, 45, 48, 51, 66, 128, 133, 156, 193, 199, 216, 275–76, 279–80, 312, 342, 375, 399–400, 402, 524n105
Ju-52 transport planes, 284, 311, 390, 538n25
Jupiter, Operation, 304
Kalach, 285–86, 288, 306–10, 314
Kalinin, 156, 161, 204, 211
Kalmyk Steppe, 275, 277
Kaluga, 156
Kamenets-Podolsky, 395, 411
Kammler, Hans, 335, 426
Kampfgruppe (battle group), xvi, 191, 378, 393
Kamyshin, 282
Karelia, 146, 407, 412
Karpovka, 306, 314
Katyn Forest, 360
Katyusha rocket launchers, 293, 309
Kaufman, Theodore, 107–8, 512n56
Kaufmann, Karl, 174
Kaunas, 94–95, 98, 176, 418
Kazakhstan, 115
Keitel, Wilhelm (Field Marshal), 27, 31, 39, 42, 48, 59, 68, 101, 105, 235, 268, 280, 329, 376, 397
Kempf, Werner (General), 356
Kerch, 242, 244–45, 247
Kerch peninsula, 241–42, 244–45
Kerch strait, 244, 268, 272, 278
Kesselring, Albert (Field Marshal), 280
Kharkov, 126, 145, 163–64, 172, 244–45, 247–53, 261–62, 317, 323–24, 338–39, 353, 355–56, 379, 388, 478
Khersones, 247
Kholm, 154, 213
Khrushchev, Nikita S., 145, 251, 348
Kiev, 52, 89, 102, 104, 122, 126, 128–29, 140–41, 143–46, 148, 153, 154, 155, 172, 174, 317, 369, 371–72, 378–80, 389, 478
Kiev pocket, 145–46, 148, 163, 174, 516n16
Kishinev, 434–35
Kleist, Ewald von (General), 164–65, 248, 250–53, 266–67, 275–76, 278, 282, 397
Klemperer, Victor, 218, 455
Kletskaya (bridgehead), 307–8
Klin, 186, 191, 201, 204
Kluge, Günther von (Field Marshal), 86, 161, 162, 184, 187, 192
and Citadel, 342, 344, 346
and Guderian, 207–8
and Hitler, 208–9, 340, 350–51, 367–68, 381, 384
and retreat to Dnieper, 368–69, 381
and Soviet counteroffensive, December 1941, 207–9
Koch, Erich, 225
Koch, Robert, 105
Konev, Ivan (Marshal), 214, 348, 391, 394, 418, 442–45, 447–49, 461–65, 469
Königsberg, 385, 430, 444, 446
Konstantinovka, 267, 370
Korosten, 378, 380, 387
Korsun, 389, 391, 393–95, 398