Ian Kershaw - Hitler. 1936-1945 - Nemesis

Weber, Christian 575–6

‘Weekend Crisis’ (20–22 May 1938) 99–100

Wehrmacht: and the Anschlué 75, 78; anti-Polish feeling 190; the assassination attempt (1944) 699; begins the spring offensive (8 May 1942) 514; Blomberg tells of H’s wishes (1938) 50; ‘Case Green’ 88; ‘Case White’ 179; conflict with the SS 465; conscription reintroduced (1935) xxxvii, 38, 83, 87; demand for raw materials 45; directive of 21

October 1938 163, 175; discredited and disbanded xviii; and the Einsatzgruppen 241, 461, 465; expenditure 161–2; field-marshals’ declaration of loyalty to H 628; and the German-Russian non-aggression pact 205; H addresses top military leaders (23 May 1939) 190–3; H praises 432, 740; H takes over 56–8; Haider’s ambition 452;

High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; OKW) 94, 101, 102, 287, 289, 290, 357, 381, 398, 415, 417, 419, 422, 435, 514, 534, 568, 578, 591, 618, 638, 639, 649, 672, 681, 741, 742, 747, 799, 826, 834, 835; Operations Staff 600, 601, 669; H’s ‘Basic Order’ 290–1; H’s dominance 60, 97, 284; H’s proclamation of 11

March 1945 783; H’s three addresses (1939) 167–8; H’s war directive (18 December 1940) 335; incapable of blocking the Red Army’s advance (1945) 757; incompetent economic planning 502; intelligence 582; interests of 63; and Jewish skilled workers 486; lack of plans for the war 284; the last report (9 May 1945) 836; leadership weak and divided 94, 209; loss of men (1944) 717, 723; magnitude of task in ‘Barbarossa’ 411; manpower needs 563; meeting to discuss the Polish situation (22 August 1939) 207–9, 225; preparations for ‘Case X’ 43; pushed back along the southern front (October 1943) 602; reform 644–5, 708; reinforcements cut off 643; reports of desertions 703–4; and the Security Police 467; the soldierly duty of its highest leaders 102; the Stalingrad crisis 548; Operations Staff 362, 366, 396, 408, 410, 591, 837; treatment of Jews 246

Weichs, Field-Marshall Freiherr Maximilian von 248, 527, 529, 534, 537, 544

Weidling, General Helmuth 808, 809, 813, 815, 825, 826, 827, 832

Weimar Republic 657; collapse of xlii; euthanasia rejected 254; H attacks xli; and industrialists xxxviii; miseries and divisions of xl; outrages against the Jews xliii; unemployment and economic failure 28

Weié, Lieutenant-Colonel Rudolf 825

Weizsäcker, Ernst von 90, 91, 99, 105, 111, 116, 118, 119, 121, 170, 190, 195–6, 199, 212, 225, 226, 228, 262, 264, 266–9, 306, 329

Welczek, Johannes von 109

Wels 302

Weltanschauung 129

Wenck, General Walther 759, 802, 805, 806, 809–10, 811, 813–16, 820, 825, 826

Wenner-Gren, Axel 226

Werewolf ‘Führer Headquarters’, near Vinnitsa, Ukraine 527, 531, 572, 578, 587; crisis in relations with military leaders 531–3

Werwolf 790–91

Wesel 760

‘Weser Exercise’ (‘Weserübung’) 287–9

West Africa 329

West Prussia 242, 243, 245, 247

Westphalia 429, 430, 791

Westphalia, Peace of (1648) 41, 267

Westphalia-South 436

White Rose opposition-group 552, 663

White Russia 394, 463

Wiedemann, Fritz 32, 53, 88, 98, 105, 187

Wilhelm Gustloff (ship) 37

Wilhelm II, Kaiser 10, 202, 540

Wilhelmshaven 178, 504

Wilson, Sir Horace no, 116, 117–18, 121, 223

Winkelmann, SS-Obergruppenführer Otto 735

‘Winter Aid’ campaign 38, 55, 431, 535, 601

Winter Olympics (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1936) 5

Wittenberg 810

Witzleben, Field-Marshal Erwin von 270, 676, 677, 690, 692

Wochensprüche (Weekly Maxims) 474

Wohltat, Helmut 226

Wolf, Hugo 500

Wolf, Johanna 798, 800

Wolff, Karl 149, 834

Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze) ‘Führer

Headquarters’, near Rastenburg 395–8, 400, 407, 420, 437, 440, 441, 449, 455, 499, 524, 543, 578, 587, 591, 595, 600, 650, 651, 690; Antonescu talks 723; assassination attempt (20 July 1944) 651, 655–8, 671–5, 676; buoyant mood (1941) 433; communications centre 677; the daily routine 500; the deportation issue 479; and filmed executions 693; Guderian favours a retreat in Russia 454; H addresses Party leaders on the consequences of the assassination attempt 706–7; H broadcasts from 619–20; H leaves for good 741; H rarely leaves 420; H resists pressure to leave 738; H speaks on Jews 461, 487–90; headquarters moved to Werewolf, near Vinnitsa 527; H’s speech to Gauleiter 605–6; an important meeting (16 July 1941) 405–6; map room 527; security 623, 694; the Stalingrad crisis 548–9; talks with Ciano and Cavalero 546

Wriezen 782

Wuppertal-Barmen 587

Würzburg 761

Yalta Agreement 761, 778

Yorck von Wartenburg, Peter Graf 665, 666, 683, 690, 692

Yugoslav army 366

Yugoslavia: capitulation of 366; Friendship Treaty with Russia 365; German plans to attack 36z, 363; loss of Austrian territory to 73; military coup (1941) 360, 36z, 368; minerals 194; and the Tripartite Pact 360, 361–2

Zagreb 366

Zamosc district, Lublin 589

Zander, SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm 825

Zaporozhye 599, 602, 660

Zeitschel, SS-Sturmbannführer Carltheo 475

Zeitzier, Major-General Kurt 533, 534, 537, 543, 544, 548, 578–9, 580, 616, 617, 632, 646, 649–50, 665, 694

Zhukov, Marshal Georgi 394, 756, 759, 793, 809, 831, 836

Ziegenberg see Adlerhorst (Eagle’s Eyrie) Zionism, Eichmann’s Zionist contacts 134

Zitomir 394

Zoppot 236

Zossen 769, 793

Zuckmayer, Carl 85

Zwickau 514

Zyklon-B 483

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