CI Corps, 225, 229, 236, 246, 248, 259, 263, 267

  DIVISIONS

  Grossdeutschland, 11, 121

  168th Inf., 129

  169th Inf., 62

  303rd Döberitz Inf., 73, 163, 209

  359th Inf., 126

  Ulrich von Hutten, 202, 329

  Friedrich Ludwig Fahn, 260

  Theodor Körner, 328

  Scharnhorst, 263, 264, 286, 328, 329, 395, 398, 403

  7th Pz., 243

  16th Pz., 17

  19th Pz., 18

  20th Pz., 127

  21St Pz., 232, 330

  25th Pz., 18

  Kurmark Pz., 235, 246, 330, 362, 377–8

  Müncheberg Pz., 286, 303, 319, 339, 340, 384

  18th Pzgren., 257, 286, 296, 384

  20th Pzgren., 206, 286, 296

  391st Security, 208

  REGIMENTS

  Grossdeutschland Gd Regt, 72, 208, 226, 263

  Kurmark Pz., 71

  Potsdam, 161–2, 236

  11th Training Bde, 223

  German Communist Party (KPD), 181, 321, 346, 372, 417–18

  Gestapo and SD (Sicherheitsdienst), 42, 56, 154, 155, 283, 386

  headquarters Prinz-Albrechtstrasse, 22, 74, 340, 351, 379–80, 382, 386–7

  Bundschuh resistance groups, 174

  and Kriminalpolizei, 176

  and deserters, 260

  Hitler’s bodyguards, 341

  Giesebrechtstrasse, 345, 346

  Goebbels, Reichsminister Joseph, xxxiv, 1, 4, 5, 28

  and Volkssturm, 39

  as Gauleiter and Reich Commissar for Defence, 57, 58, 133, 245, 261, 268

  as Minister of Propaganda, 70, 100, 133, 135, 175, 180, 224, 229, 250, 253, 261, 291, 339, 340

  and Cossacks, 73–4

  and Dresden, 83

  and Lauban, 126–7

  and Berlin, 139, 177, 245, 347

  and Kamarilla rivalries, 154, 289

  and death of Roosevelt, 204

  in Führer bunker, 276, 288, 343, 359, 361, 362, 364

  and surrender, 368, 370, 379

  and suicide, 380, 381, 390

  Goebbels, Magda, 276, 278, 289–90, 343, 359, 361, 380, 381, 390

  Goebbels children, 278, 279, 344, 357, 361, 380–81, 398

  Gordov, Gen. V. N., 245, 330–31

  Goring, Reichsmarschall Hermann, 8, 12, 42, 43, 90, 154, 201, 236, 356

  and destruction of Karinhall, 249–50

  and Hitler, 251, 289, 350

  Görlitz, 126, 244

  Goya hospital ship, sinking of, 188

  Greim, Col. Gen. Robert Ritter v., 322, 342

  Greiser, Gauleiter Arthur, 63, 64, 68, 158

  Grishin, Maj., 373–6

  Grossdeutscher Rundfunk, 282, 384, 385, 416–17, 418

  Grossman, Vasily, 14, 23, 32, 44, 64, 65, 66, 67, 86, 105, 108, 116, 273

  and Berlin, 295, 301, 321, 393, 394, 407, 413

  and Black Book, 425

  Groves, Maj. Gen. Leslie, 138

  Grunewald, 322, 324

  Guben, 208

  Guderian, Col. Gen. Heinz, 6, 7, 8, 12–13, 18, 19, 43, 50, 58, 60

  rows with Hitler, 89–90, 149–52, 275

  and resignation of Himmler, 131–2

  and National Socialist Party, 134–5

  and Himmler on peace negotiations, 150

  sacking of, 152–3

  Gulag

  transfer of prisoners to Red Army, 165–6

  transfer of Poles to army, 199

  Günsche, Otto, 262, 358, 359, 389

  Gusakovsky, Col. I. I., 18, 21, 43, 69

  H

  Haase, Prof. Werner, 391

  Hahn, Dr Otto, 325

  Halbe, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 337, 378

  Haider, Col. Gen. Franz, 177

  Hamburg, 141, 247, 364, 381, 384

  Hanke, Gauleiter Karl, 92, 93, 125, 343

  Hanover, 191

  Harpe, Col. Gen. Josef, 12, 21, 61, 249–51

  Harriman, Averell, 101, 145, 194, 211

  Hase, Col. Gen. Paul v., 346

  Hassleben (Army Group Vistula HQ), 130, 131, 132, 158, 159, 160, 338

  Heerstrasse, 353, 356

  Heiligenbeil Kessel, 50, 88, 93

  Heilstätten, 224, 272, 298, 328

  Heinrici, Col. Gen. Gotthardt, 132, 158, 180, 183, 188, 207

  and Oder battle, 218–19, 223, 225, 228, 241, 256

  and defence of Berlin, 245, 248, 267, 268, 291, 337, 338

  Heisenberg, Prof. Werner, 325

  Hela, port of, 121

  Hermannplatz, 262, 282, 302

  Heydrich, SS-Obergpfh. Reinhard, 346

  Hildebrandt, Gauleiter, 159

  Himmler, Ernst, 384, 385

  Himmler, Heinrich, 6, 7, 42

  and death marches, 38

  and Volkssturm, 39

  and Army Group Vistula, 52, 53–4, 68, 88–9, 90, 130, 131–2

  and peace negotiations, 150, 175, 250, 275, 290, 292, 293–4, 341, 342, 350, 368

  and SS divisions in Hungary, 151, 293

  and rivalries, 154, 155, 289, 361

  and orders for total warfare, 174, 240

  and Vlasov, 182

  and Hitler, 250–51, 293

  and battle for Berlin, 275, 341

  in north Germany, 361

  Hitler, Adolf, xxxiii, xxxiv, 225

  and Ardennes offensive, 5, 6, 7, 8

  and Vistula offensive, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 22

  and loss of Warsaw, 21, 22

  and East Prussia, 26, 50

  and Volkssturm, 39

  and refugees, 52

  and German Army, 54, 58, 89, 91, 116, 135, 142, 149, 151

  withdrawal from public view, 58

  last broadcast, 67

  and defence of Berlin, 74, 177

  and Eva Braun, 75, 253–4, 278, 289, 342–3

  and bombing of Dresden, 83

  and SS divisions in Hungary, 151

  and self-identification with German people, 153, 276

  and ‘Nero Order’, 155–8, 202

  and Wehrmachthelferinnenkorps, 181

  and Oder front, 188, 189, 241

  and death of Roosevelt, 204

  and birthday, 249–52

  and decision to stay in Berlin, 251, 275, 288–9

  and battle of Berlin, 266, 267, 268

  and Frederick the Great, 268, 275

  and Ninth and Twelfth Armies, 285, 288, 295, 330, 331

  and Speer, 288, 290

  and fantasies of rescue, 295, 304, 322, 331, 340, 350

  and breakout plans, 320

  and last days in Reich Chancellery, 322, 341, 357

  remains of, 399, 400, 431

  Hitler Youth, and Panzerjagd units, 74

  and defence of Berlin, 180, 189, 265, 270, 272, 275–6, 281, 301, 316, 340, 346, 356, 384

  ‘Hitler Youth Division’, 180–81

  and Oder battle, 235, 245, 247, 257, 338

  ‘Hiwis’, 112–14, 367, 396–7

  Hodges, Lt. Gen. Courtney H., 141, 191

  Hohenlychen, 131–2, 292, 338

  Hohenschönhausen, 265

  Hohenzollerndamm, HQ of Berlin Defence Area, 224, 261, 301, 320

  Holste, Lt. Gen., 379

  Hölz, Maj. Gen. Artur, 179

  Hossbach, Gen. Friedrich, 50

  Humboldt-Dachroeden, Col. Hubertus Freiherr v., 21, 22, 201, 285, 397

  Humboldthain flak tower, 287, 323

  I

  Irwin, Virginia, 305–7

  J

  Japan, war against, 78, 82, 139, 211

  Jews and other concentration camp prisoners, persecution and murder of, 38, 49

  Warsaw ghetto, 23

  death marches, 38, 155

  discovery of Auschwitz, 45–6

  Lódź ghetto, 63–4

  Stutthof, 94–5, 122

  Lauenburg, 117

  Nikolayev and Odessa, 169

  forced to rework US incendiary bombs, 174

  Belsen, 191

  massacres in Leipzig area, 191–2

  Eisenhower’s reactions and caring for prisoners, 203

  Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, 274, 290

  Schulstrasse transit camp, 294–5

  in Berlin, 346–7, 393, 419

  Ravensbrück, 363

  and view of Wermacht generals, 429

  Jodl, Col. Gen. Alfred, 7, 13, 83, 152, 201, 250, 275, 276, 288, 295, 331, 338, 341, 350, 402

  Juhlin-Dannfel, Maj. C. H., 132, 148, 149, 173, 181

  July Plot (20 July 1944), 7, 8, 58, 153, 154, 198, 320, 346, 386

  executions, 57, 74, 75, 181

  Jung, Prof. Dr Gerhard, 374–7, 406

  Junge, Gertrud (Traudl), 252, 278, 343, 344, 358, 359, 361, 382, 388

  Jüterbog, 92, 200, 238, 256

  K

  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, Dahlem, 139, 210, 232, 324–5

  Kaltenbrunner, SS-Gpfh. Dr Ernst, 22, 42, 75, 160, 194, 250, 251, 346

  Kardorff, Ursula v., 2, 74, 205, 250, 410, 411, 414, 415

  Karlshorst, 179, 269–70, 404, 405, 428

  Karlsruhe, 192

  Karpov, Gen. V. V., 61

  Kassel, 195

  Katowice, 22, 60

  Katukov, Col. Gen. M. I., 64, 116, 118, 121, 222, 223, 229, 235, 255, 265, 296, 297

  Katyn massacre, 99

  Kazakov, Col. Gen. V. I., 216–17, 262, 280

  Kee, Robert, 41

  Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 6, 7, 12, 52, 83, 90, 127, 152, 250, 275, 276, 284–5, 288, 295, 337, 338, 357, 403, 404, 405

  Kempka, Erich, 358

  Khrulev, Col. Gen. A. V., 324

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 428

  Kiel, 361, 364

  Kielce, 17, 18

  Kienitz, 69, 70

  Kinzel, Lt. Gen. Eberhardt, 158, 179, 400

  Kissel, Gen. Hans, 40

  Klochkov, Capt., 226

  Knef, Hildegard, 1, 311

  Knesebeck, Lt. Col. von dem, 22

  Koblenz, 140

  Koch, Dr Edgar, 374–7

  Koch, Gauleiter Erich, 27, 50, 64, 68, 75, 187

  Köhler, Gen. Carl-Erik, 284

  Kolberg, 116, 124

  Koller, Gen. Karl, 267, 275, 289

  Komsomol, Central Committee and rape of Soviet women, 108–9, 365

  Konev, Marshal Ivan, 16, 17, 41, 44, 45

  in Silesia, 60, 125–6, 129–30, 132

  and Berlin operation, 146–7, 165, 206, 229, 230, 234, 238, 239, 244, 255–6, 265, 271, 295, 296, 297, 305, 329, 330, 333, 362, 401

  Königsberg, 24, 25, 28, 37, 50, 75, 86, 87, 88, 91, 93, 149, 174

  fall of, 187–8, 235

  Königsplatz, 355, 356

  Königswusterhausen, 261

  Kopelev, Lev, 28, 30, 35

  Köpenick, 269, 297

  Köslin, 125

  Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya, 212–13

  Kraków, 44, 60, 112

  Krampnitz, 266, 276

  Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), 25, 194, 196–8

  Krasovsky, Gen. S. A., 230

  Krebs, Gen. Hans, 91, 150, 152

  appointed Chief of General Staff, 153

  and Bormann’s circle, 154

  and Oder front, 188, 225

  and Hitler, 250

  and threat to Zossen, 265–6

  and battle for Berlin, 268, 275, 277, 286, 299, 304, 322, 337, 340, 350, 351, 359, 362, 364

  and surrender, 367, 368, 369, 370

  and suicide, 382, 387

  Kriegsmarine, 120–21, 149, 343, 402

  Sprengboote, 159

  scratch troops, 159–60, 298, 322

  SHIPS

  Admiral Hipper, 51

  Admiral Scheer, 88

  Leipzig, 120

  Lützow, 88

  Prinz Eugen, 117, 120

  Schlesien, 120

  Krüger, Elsa, 278

  Krukenberg, SS-Brigfh. Gustav, 116, 291–3, 299, 301, 303, 304, 322, 352, 370

  and blowing up S-Bahn tunnel, 370–72, 382, 383, 384

  Kryukov, Gen. Vladimir, 116, 427–8

  Kummersdorf, 333, 362, 377

  Kunz, Dr Helmuth, 361, 380, 381, 391

  Kurchatov, Prof. Igor, 138, 325

  Kurfürstendamm, 339, 345

  Küstrin, 69, 70, 132, 142, 149, 152, 185, 206, 207, 219, 220

  Kuznetsov, Gen. V. I., 384

  L

  Lammerding, SS-Brigfh., 54, 131

  Landsberg, 273

  Lange, Franz, 386, 387

  Lange, Lt. Col. Heiner, 238

  Lauban, 126

  Lauenburg, 117, 122, 247

  Lasch, Gen. Otto, 87

  Lattre de Tassigny, Gen. Jean de, 192, 404

  Laue, Dr Max v., 325

  League of German Officers (BDO), 69, 198

  Leba, 125

  Leipzig, 146, 191, 203

  Lelyushenko, Gen. D. D., 17, 62, 126, 229, 232, 245, 256, 265, 298

  Lend-Lease, 66

  Leningrad, 117

  Lichtenberg, 416

  Lichtenrade, 271

  Lichterfelde, 416

  Linge, Heinz, 359

  Lódź, 44, 64

  Loewe, Lothar, 2

  Lohbeck, Col., 179

  Lorenz, Heinz, 299, 341–2

  Lötzen, 50

  Löwenstein de Witt, Hans Oskar Baron, 294–5

  Lübben, 147, 232, 296

  Lübeck, 137, 141, 292, 294, 400

  ‘Lublin government’, 20, 81

  Luchinsky, Gen. A. A., 298, 318, 333

  Luckenwalde, 256, 306

  Luftwaffe, 131, 249–50, 430

  and attacks on Oder bridges, 133, 159, 237–8

  paratroopers, 159

  scratch troops, 159–60, 323

  and Oder battle, 237–8, 243

  and Elbe front, 263

  and battle for Berlin, 266, 267, 287, 342

  1st Flak Division, 178–9

  9th Parachute Division, 159, 223, 236, 243, 246–7, 286, 385, 388

  25th Parachute Regiment, 92, 117

  27th Parachute Regiment, 218, 223, 237

  Leonidas squadron, 238

  Luttwitz, Gen. Smilo Freiherr v., 22

  Lvov, 100

  M

  Magdeburg, 190, 196, 202, 431

  Magnuszew bridgehead, 17

  Mahlsdorf, 269

  MaiziAre, Col. Ulrich de, 89, 153, 203, 243, 276, 277

  Makhnev, Col. Gen., 324, 325

  Malchow, 265

  Malenkov, G. M., 108, 137, 325

  Malinin, Gen. M. S., 230

  Manhattan Project, xxxiv, 78, 138, 324

  Mannheim, 195

  Manteuffel, Gen. Hasso v., 5, 160, 248, 304, 337, 338, 400

  Manzialy, Constanze, 278, 358, 382, 388

  Marienburg, 49, 115, 117

  Mariendorf, 296

  Marshall, Gen. George C., 78, 79, 80, 142, 195, 364

  Masur, Norbert, 250

  Matrosov, Aleksandr, 166

  Memel, 121

  Merezhko, Capt. Anatoly, 216

  Meseritz line, 63, 66, 68

  Meshik, Gen. P. Ya., 44–5, 61, 308

  Misch, Rochus, 359, 360

  Moabit, 347

  Mobilization of German civilians, 106–7, 185

  Model, Field Marshal, 142–3, 156, 190, 200, 201, 283

  Mohnke, SS-Bdefh., 287, 322, 357, 366, 370, 379, 382, 383, 388, 389

  Molotov, Vyacheslav, 77, 137, 143

  Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard, 84, 140, 141, 146, 195

  and looting, 193

  and surrender, 400–401

  Morell, Dr Theodor, 252, 275, 277, 359

  Müller, SS-Gpfh. Heinrich, 22, 342

  Müllrose, 270

  Mummert, Maj. Gen. Werner, 339

  Müncheberg, 228, 243, 246, 254, 256, 259

  Munich, 350, 402

  Murphy, Robert, 84–5, 409

  Mussolini, Benito, 98, 357

  N

  National Committee for a Free Germany, 36, 69, 181, 197, 363

  National Redoubt, see Alpine Fortress

  National Socialist Party, 131, 134

  and Freikorps Adolf Hitler, 134–5, 160

  and obsession with 1918, 174–5, 428

  and Werwolf, 175

  and defence of Berlin, 178–9, 356

  and departure of senior officials, 251, 252, 261

  and legacy, 430

  Nauen, 274, 290, 384

  Nehring, Gen. Walther, 45, 62

  Neisse, German Army executions in, 127

  Nemmersdorf, 28, 118

  ‘Nero Order’, 155–8, 202

  Neuhardenberg, 222, 223, 242, 243, 244

  Neukölln, 282, 297, 303, 312–13, 323, 352

  Neustrelitz, 291, 293

  Neustroev, Capt., 349, 354, 365, 372

  NKVD, 16, 20, 421–2

  rear area troops, 29, 30, 36, 38, 45, 61, 82, 97, 98–100, 102–6, 113, 199, 207, 260, 273, 308, 415, 419–20

  postal censorship, 34

  at Yalta, 78

  prisoners, 166, 185, 422

  and Soviet prisoners of war, 167–8, 402

  and Red Army discipline, 168, 184, 273

  and deserters, 184

  arrest of Polish political leaders, 195

  and arrests for contacts with foreigners, 307

  commanders, 308–9, 420

  and Operation Borodino, 324–5

  and chemical weapons, 377

  NKVD DIVISIONS

  57th Rifle Division, 96–7

  NKVD REGIMENTS

  105th Frontier Guards, 308

  127th Frontier Guards, 102

  157th Frontier Guards, 308

  217th Frontier Guards, 107

  333rd Frontier Guards, 308

  108th Special Communications Company, 165

  Novikov, Marshal A. A., 298

  O

  Oderbruch (Oder flood plain), 70, 71, 72, 132, 161, 207, 216, 225–6, 232, 236, 248

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 142

  Ohlau bridgehead, 61, 125, 129

  OKH HQ Zossen, 7, 12, 13, 89, 151

  bombing raid on, 150–51, 152, 153, 200

  and Red Army offensive, 225, 240, 241, 243, 265–7

  OKW HQ, 241, 304

  Oldershausen, Libussa von, 118–19, 123

  Operation Barbarossa, 91, 98, 138, 147, 301, 304

  Operation Borodino, xxxiv, 138, 324–6, 406

  Operation North Wind, 8

  Operation Plunder, 192

  Operation Seraglio, 276–7

  Operation Sonnenwende, 90–91, 125, 200

  Oppeln, 60, 62, 112, 127, 129

  Oranienburg, 194, 269, 274, 292

  Osnabruck, 195

  Oster, Maj. Gen. Hans, 181

  Ostermayr, Herta, 252, 254, 278

  P

  Pachur, Capt., 293

  Papen, Franz v., 364

  Patton, Gen. George S. Jnr, 141, 146, 152, 191, 325–6, 364

  Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich, 68, 69

  Pehrsson, SS-Hauptstfh., 302, 323

  Perkhorovich, Lt. Gen. F. I., 373, 375, 376

  Petersohn, Gerda, 282, 312–13

  Pichelsdorf bridge, 356

  Pieck, Wilhelm, 417

  Pillau, 37, 50, 88, 93