See also Auschwitz; Bagration; Final Solution; forced labor; ghettos; Vistula-Oder operation; Warsaw
Poltava, 249, 265
Pomerania, 446, 448–49
Ponyri, 345
Posen, 171, 255, 335, 361, 442, 446
Praga (Warsaw), 418
Prague, 175, 468–69
Pripet, 410
Pripet Marshes, 52, 56, 89, 106, 123, 125–26, 129, 140–41, 378, 382, 388, 392, 405, 407
prisoners of war (German), 68, 98, 470, 510n40
prisoners of war (Soviet), 99, 104, 166–68, 170, 172, 174, 198, 215, 220, 222, 260, 317, 332, 478, 480–81, 519n54, 519n57
Prokhorovka, 347–50
Proletarskaya, 275
propaganda, German. See Bolshevism: in Nazi propaganda; Germany; Goebbels; Jews
propaganda, Soviet, 273–75, 322, 450
Protectorate (Bohemia and Moravia), 175
Prussia. See East Prussia; West Prussia
Prut River, 52, 395
Psel River, 347, 351
Pskov, 386
Pskov, Lake, 384
public opinion (German), 135
Pulawy, 444–45
purges (Red Army), 44, 78–79
Pushkin, 385
Putsch, Beer Hall, 14, 179, 299, 307
quartermaster-general, 66, 128, 156, 168, 170–71, 183, 189, 477
Race and Resettlement Main Office, 522n78
racial policy (German). See Bolshevism: “Jewish”; colonization; Commissar Order; Einsatzgruppen; Final Solution; forced labor; Generalplan Ost; German army; Germany; hunger policy
Radom, 443
Radomsyl, 380
Raeder, Erich (Admiral), 33, 42–43, 45–46, 50
RAF Bomber Command. See Britain: Bomber Command
railroads, 52, 57, 88, 119, 133, 150, 156, 192, 199, 237, 288, 366, 370, 373, 379, 412, 430, 442, 451, 471. See also Ostbahn; Reichsbahn
rape, 431, 449–52
rasputitsa, xvi, 158, 161, 212, 214, 217, 324–25, 339, 382
Rastenburg (East Prussia), 104, 228, 430
Ratzel, Friedrich, 6
Rauff, Walter, 177
Ravensbrück, 260. See also concentration camps
raw materials, xxii–xxiii, 11–13, 26, 28, 39–42, 46–47, 49, 55, 58, 60–61, 63, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 133, 165–66, 169, 223, 226–30, 234, 273, 338, 362, 427, 451, 474–75, 481, 484, 487
rearmament (German), xxiii, 10–13, 473, 475
Red Air Force, 90, 153, 161, 344, 352, 410, 413
Red Army
advance into East Prussia, 430–31
atrocities against Germans, 430–31, 440, 449–52
and Bagration, 405–20
and Barbarossa, 52–53, 56, 78, 80–81, 85–86, 88–89, 112–14, 120–21, 126, 130, 133, 140–41
and Berlin offensive, 459–69, 551n13,
and Blau, 234, 253, 264–69, 273–75
casualties, xxi–xxii, 88–89, 114, 125, 166–67, 214, 239, 247, 251, 269, 304–5, 320, 322, 337, 352, 354, 356–57, 369, 380, 382, 384, 386, 392, 398, 416–17, 420, 430, 433, 436, 447, 468–69, 471, 509n21, 516n16, 530n20, 539n30, 543n90
in Caucasus, 272–73, 276–78, 281–83
and Crimea, 241–47
deep battle, concept of, 79, 210, 249, 303–4, 341
German assessment of, 26, 36, 44, 52–53, 79, 81, 85, 112, 114, 120–22, 148, 237–38, 262–63, 275, 305, 337, 402, 406
and Kharkov, 248–52, 323–24, 353, 355–56
and Kiev pocket, 141–45
and Kursk, 341–53
logistics, 122, 186, 252, 421–22, 471
and Moscow: counterattack at, 199–204, 207–14
defense of, 152–63, 182–85, 186–92
prisoners of war (see prisoners of war [Soviet])
replacements, 145, 210, 373, 377
and Stalingrad, 269, 283–99, 303–10, 315–16, 319–22
and summer offensive (1943), 353–57
tanks: fear of Soviet models, 114–15, 155, 188, 204, 207, 310
losses of, 88–90, 125, 214, 252, 305, 319–20, 149, 245, 252, 305, 349–52, 354, 356–57, 369, 371, 389, 392, 399, 414, 416–17, 420–21, 430, 433, 447, 468, 509n21, 543n94
numbers of, 78, 81, 114, 200, 230, 272, 283, 304, 319, 343, 348, 353, 355, 369, 381, 384, 386–87, 409, 419, 421, 435, 442, 461, 468, 535n78
superiority of, 114–15, 155, 159, 204, 207 (see also tank production [Soviet])
troop strength, 78, 114, 117, 125, 151–52, 153, 183–84, 199–200, 207, 212, 307, 367, 369, 381, 384, 400, 409–10, 421, 435, 442, 460–61, 524n2, 547n75
use of blocking units, 143, 273
trucks, 370, 386, 421
and winter offensive (1943–1944), 365, 369–73, 377–95, 402
and winter offensive (1944–1945), 432–38
Vistula-Oder offensive (January 1945), 441–49
and Warsaw Uprising, 419–20, See also Armies; Corps; Divisions; Fronts
Red October Steel Works. See Krasny Oktyabr
refugees, 16, 287, 427, 430, 445, 449, 452, 456, 465, 467
regiments (German)
Panzer Regiment Bäke, 390, 392
Police Regiment South, 103
Reich Air Ministry, 426–27
Reich Chancellery, 8, 31, 72, 137, 329, 467
Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of the German People (RKFDV), 93, 254, 256
Reichel, Joachim (Major), 263
Reichenau, Walter (Field Marshal), 27, 97–98, 102, 141, 164–65
Reich Labor Service (RAD), 376
Reich Ministry for Armaments and Munitions, 228–29
Reich Ministry for Food, 224, 477, 505n60
Reichsbahn, 120, 150, 170, 220. See also railroads
Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), xvi, 24, 65, 168, 177, 480, 485
Criminal Technical Institute, 177
Reichskommissariat Ostland, 180
Reichstag, 32–34, 64, 109, 178, 196, 218, 224, 439, 467, 476
Reinhardt, Hans (General), 88, 161, 413, 446–47
Rendulic, Lothar (General), 447
reparations, 12, 47
Replacement Army (German). See Armies (German): Replacement
Reserve Police Battalions, 70
resettlement, 20–21, 65, 83, 92–93, 106, 108, 139, 177, 181, 254, 257–59, 476
Rhine River, 455, 457–58
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 9, 24, 36, 45, 48–49, 195, 299, 363
Richthofen, Wolfram von (General), 242–44, 250, 287, 294–95, 299, 311–13, 315
Riga, 88, 176, 178, 220, 433
Ring, Operation, xvi, 319
roads, 54, 56–57, 89, 118–19, 142, 150, 154, 161, 203, 208–9, 219, 245, 255, 261, 282, 310, 382–83. See also Rollbahn
rockets (German), 335, 431
rockets (Soviet), 309. See also Katyusha rocket launchers
Rohland, Walter, 189–90
Röhm Purge (1934), 69
Rokossovsky, Konstantin (Marshal), 345, 444, 447, 449
Roland, Operation, 351
Rollbahn, xvi, 158, 382, 414
Rommel, Erwin (Field Marshal), 247, 281, 299, 307, 400, 402, 469
Romny, 143–44
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 15, 32, 39–40, 45, 64, 107, 110, 157, 174, 194, 196–97, 458, 474–75
Roques, Franz von (General), 98
Rosenberg, Alfred, 62, 105, 173, 174, 180, 219, 256
Roslavl, 210–12
Rostock, 461
Rostov, 164–65, 200, 267, 269–72, 283, 292, 303–4, 306, 315, 322
Rotkopf ammunition, 207
Rotmistrov, Pavel (General), 348–50
Rovno, 89
Rozan bridgehead, 444
rubber, 58, 63, 119, 169, 486
Ruhr, 137, 230, 330–31, 337, 458
Rumania
changes sides in war, 436
fighting in, 89, 141, 395, 405, 435
forces fighting in the Soviet Union: assessment of, 306–7, 309, 314, 367, 434–36
in Barbarossa, 89, 141
in Blau, 236, 276
in the Crimea, 242, 245, 278