Kotelnikovo, 314
Kovel, 382, 392–93, 405–6, 408, 410–12, 418, 422
Kozlov, D. T. (General), 243
Krakow, 445
Krassnaya Polyana, 191
Krasnodar, 275, 277–78
Krasnoe Selo, 385
Krasnograd, 249
Krasny Oktyabr (Red October) metallurgical works, 290, 295
Krebs, Hans (General), 460, 465–66
Kremenchug, 141, 143
Kremenskaya, 285
Kremlin, 191
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass, November 1938), 15, 21
Krivaya River, 307
Kronstadt, 79
Krosigk, Graf Lutz Schwerin von, 59
Krueger, Friedrich (Higher SS and Police Leader), 257
Kuban, 272, 274–75, 277–78
Kube, Wilhelm, 176
Küchler, Georg von (Field Marshal), 69, 382, 384–86
Kuporosnye, 291
Kursk, 156, 187, 203, 264, 323
Battle of, 338–48, 350–53, 357, 366, 438, 441, 469, 541n69, 542n80, 542n83, 542n86, 543n94 See also Citadel, Operation
Küstrin, 446, 460
Kutuzov, Operation, 353
Kvaternik, Sladko (Marshal), 108
Ladoga, Lake, 146, 162
Lammers, Hans, 105, 329
Latvia, 32, 176, 367, 417. See also Courland
Laval, Pierre, 47
Lazur chemical works, 290, 295, 301
Lebensraum (living space), xvi, xxi–xxii, 4, 6–8, 10–12, 16–20, 22, 23, 25, 28–29, 35, 39–42, 44, 52, 55, 60, 63, 65, 70–71, 73, 75, 82, 91, 94, 104, 139, 197, 233, 235–36, 241, 316–17, 322, 376, 420, 439, 475, 480, 482, 484, 487, 499n9
Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter von (Field Marshal), 88, 97–98, 146–47
Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler. See Divisions (German)
Leipzig, 70
Lend-Lease, 40, 64, 182, 194, 216, 230, 238, 286, 305, 324, 343, 367, 370, 386, 394, 421, 471
Leningrad, 56, 59, 79, 88, 91, 113, 120, 126, 128–29, 132, 142, 144, 146–47, 151, 152, 153, 156, 172, 174, 210, 213–14, 255, 268, 276, 303, 336, 382, 384–86, 478
“lightning war.” See blitzkrieg
Lindemann, Georg (General), 432
Lisichansk, 267
Lisjanka, 391
List, Wilhelm (Field Marshal), 261, 269, 276–80, 288
Lithuania, 20, 32, 86, 94–96, 176, 257
Little Saturn, Operation, 315
Litvinov, Maxim, 79
Liutezh, 378–79
living space. See Lebensraum
living standards (Germany), 7, 296, 336, 424, 451
living standards (USSR), 451
Livny, 203, 208
Lloyd George, David, 38
Lodz, 22, 175–76, 178, 220, 442, 445–46
logistics, German. See German army: logistics
logistics, Soviet. See Red Army: logistics
Lokhvitsa, 144
London, 10, 33, 156, 268, 400
losses, German. See German army: casualties
losses, Soviet. See Red Army: casualties
Loyev, 381
Lublin, 21, 23, 89, 177, 218, 220, 257, 361, 418, 477
Ludendorff, Erich (General), 359, 447, 455
Luftflotte, xvi
1, 382
2, 184
6, 410, 441
Luftwaffe
armaments production, 37, 90, 226, 229, 329–30, 363–64, 401–2, 426 (see also Germany)
and Bagration, 409–10
and Barbarossa, 56, 85, 127, 154, 164, 169, 188, 213
and Blau, 244, 251–52, 285–86
bombing of Baku oil fields, 282–83
and Citadel, 344, 352
and Crimea (1942), 242–44, 246
failure of, 243–44, 331, 366
field divisions, 306, 369, 384
fighter production (see Germany)
and French campaign, 54
fuel shortages (see Germany)
and Goering, 132, 243–44, 312, 318
and Hitler, 37
and invasion of Britain, 33, 38
losses, 169, 352, 357, 399
numbers, 78, 85, 343, 355, 369, 378, 382, 394, 410, 441, 452, 461
and Stalingrad, 287, 306, 310–14, 318, 320–21, 538n25
and winter campaign (1943–1944), 366, 391, 393 See also Fliegerkorps; Luftflotte
Lutze, Viktor, 361
Lvov, 89, 392–93, 398, 418, 420
Mackensen, Eberhard von (General), 252
Madagascar Plan, 13, 24, 65, 92, 108, 479
Maginot Line, 54
Magnuszew, 418–19, 442, 444–45
Maidanek, 258, 450. See also extermination camps
Maikop, 83, 164, 182, 235, 268, 271–72, 275–78, 534n71
malnutrition, 94, 166, 167–68. See also hunger policy
Mamayev Kurgan, 290, 294–95
Mann, Thomas, 3
Manstein, Erich von (Field Marshal)
anti-Semitism of, 98
Army Group Don, 309, 312, 316, 322
“back-hand blow” strategy, 338, 417
Barbarossa, 88, 128,
Cherkassy pocket, 389–92
Citadel, 339–40, 342, 350–51
Crimea, 164, 241–47
defensive battles in Ukraine (1943–1944), 323–25, 338–40, 346–47, 350–51, 355–56, 367–68, 378–80, 387–97, 403
dismissal of, 397
and Donets, 322, 338, 367–68
Eleventh Army, 163, 241, 247, 268, 276
and Hitler, 312, 323, 340, 342, 350–51, 356, 367–68, 379, 388, 395–97
Kharkov, 323–24, 338–39, 356
relief attack on Stalingrad, 312–16
retreat to Dnieper, 368, 371, 378
and “Sickle-cut,” 27, 54, 56, 323
Manteuffel, Hasso von (General), 465
Manych River, 275
Marcks, Erich (General), 52
Marina Gorka, 415
Marne, Battle of, 183, 190, 192
Mars, Operation, xvi, 304
Mauthausen, 260. See also concentration camps
Mediterranean Sea, xxiv, 39, 43, 45, 184, 307, 311, 341–42, 350–51, 484, 486
Mediterranean strategy, 45–51, 71, 233, 487
Medyn, 210–11
Mekhlis, L. Z., 243
Melitopol, 365, 379
Mers-el-Kebir, 33
Meyer, Konrad, 93, 253, 255–56
Michael I (king of Rumania), 436
Middle East, 39, 46, 117, 233, 272, 279, 336, 400
Mikhailov, 203
Milch, Erhard (Field Marshal), 222, 229, 319
Millerovo, 261, 267, 269
Minsk, 86–88, 97, 100, 111, 122, 127, 130, 140, 158, 167, 176, 220, 381–82, 408, 414–18
Mississippi River, 93
Mittelbau-Dora, 426. See also concentration camps
Mius River, 163, 165, 322, 353, 370
Model, Walther (Field Marshal), 455
Army Group B, 458
Army Group Center, 415, 417–19
Army Group North, 386
Army Group North Ukraine, 408, 410
Army Group South, 397–98
Bagration, 408, 410, 415, 417–19, 432
Citadel, 339–40, 344–47, 353–55
and Hitler, 344, 354, 386, 397, 408, 417, 432
Ninth Army, 211, 339, 344, 355
Orel salient, 345–46, 353–54
retreat to Panther position, 386
and sabotage of Hitler’s “Nero Order,” 455–56
Mogilev, 123, 178, 219, 409, 412, 415
Molodechno, 417
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 48–50, 80, 268
Monowitz, 260
Montoire, 47
morale (German), xxiii, 89, 109, 121, 136, 152, 155, 159–60, 164, 166–67, 182, 188–90, 192–93, 202, 224, 230, 248, 262, 283, 293, 295–97, 319, 328, 330–31, 359, 363, 376–77, 428, 452
morale (Soviet), 273, 322
Moltke, Helmuth James von, 167
Morocco, 46, 178
Morozovsk, 267
Mortain, 420
Moscow. See Barbarossa; Red Army: Moscow; Stalin: counterattack at Moscow; Stalin: defense of Moscow; Typhoon
Moscow-Volga canal, 182, 184, 191, 201
Moskva (Moscow) River, 182
Mozdok, 282
Mozhaisk, 153, 161