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Reschke, Christa, 263, 491

Reschke, Rudolf, 166, 263, 491

Reymann, Major General Hellmuth, 106, 376-84

assumes command of Berlin, 65-66

demolition plans of, 334-35, 378-80

Goebbels and, 217-20, 377-78, 400

replaced as commander of Berlin, 428

Vistula Army Group and, 229, 334, 384, 400, 413

Rheinmetall-Borsig factory, 372

Rheinsberg, 466

Rhine, Anglo-American crossing of, 17, 86-87, 116, 126, 129-30, 140, 207

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 370, 398, 403, 417

Richter, Charlotte, 453, 473

Ridgway, Major General Matthew B., 122

Riedel, Gustav, 63, 170

Ring defenses, see Fortifications of Berlin Robinson, Lieutenant William D., 472

Rock, Major Julius, 329

Rokossovskii, Marshal Konstantin, 21, 185, 194, 245, 248n

Second Belorussian Front of, 247, 255, 353, 395, 402, 415, 438

Römling, Horst, 358

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 66, 111, 128, 141

suicide of, 507

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 164n

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 101, 154n, 158n, 182, 280

capture of Berlin and, 140, 145-48, 163

death of, 317-19

de Gaulle and, 145-46

his attitude toward Russia and Stalin, 143n, 162, 164, 355n

illness of, 160-61, 231, 235

objects to occupation plans, 141, 145-50, 154-57

Rose, Captain Ben L., 133, 291, 293, 318

Rosenberg, Mrs. Anna, 164

Rosenthal, Hans, 42, 462

Rosetz, Günther, 452

Rosse, Harry, 23

Rosslau, 297

Roter Ausweis, 408

Royal Palace, 418

Rozanov, Lieutenant Vladimir Pavlovich, 346

Rudow, 448

Ruhleben, 50, 372

Rühling, Inge, 33

Rühmann, Heinz, 32

Ruhr Valley, 129, 131-32, 215, 217, 249, 282, 326

Rumania, 142, 162

Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von, 66, 70, 368

Russian Air Force, 165-68, 350-51, 353-54, 368

Russian Army, 17, 60

January offensive of, 82-85

backwardness of troops of, 493-94

Communist Party membership and, 347n

described, 457-58

divisional strength in, 251

first troops in Berlin, 457-65

meeting of Anglo-American forces and, 187-88, 208-9, 215-16, 293, 471-72

plans attack on Berlin, 21-22, 193-94, 243, 247-52, 254-56, 302-3

requests bombing of Zossen, 79n See also Oder front; Sexual attack

Russian Army units

FRONTS (ARMY GROUPS)

First Belorussian (Zhukov), 21, 247, 250, 254, 345-51, 360-62, 367-68, 393-94, 396, 449

First Ukrainian (Koniev), 247, 255-56, 353-57, 368, 391-93, 396, 412, 434, 449, 472

Second Belorussian (Rokossovskii), 247, 255, 395, 402, 438

ARMIES

First Guards Tank, 193, 360, 361, 367-68, 390-91, 428

Second Guards, 302

Third Guards Tank, 357, 392, 412, 432-33

Third Shock, 361

Fourth Guards Tank, 357, 412

Fifth Guards, 357

Fifth Shock, 302

Eighth Guards, 193, 302, 346-50, 360, 390, 429

Thirteenth, 354, 356, 357

Twenty-eighth, 255

Thirty-first, 255

Sixty-fifth, 245

CORPS, 79th, 335

DIVISIONS

6th Guards Rifle, 356

44th Rifle, 245

49th Rifle, 335

79th Guards Rifle, 502

171st Rifle, 186

BRIGADE, 65th Guards Tank, 368

Russian Army women, 303, 346

Russian occupation zone, 100, 116, 144, 297 n

accepted by Russia, 153-54

Roosevelt’s proposal for, 148

size of, 154

Russian prisoners of war, 335, 349, 480-81

Russian State Defense Committee, 247-48

Russian volunteers in German Army, 222, 265

Russian workers in Berlin, 48-50

Rybalko, Colonel General Pavel Semenovich, 412

Third Guards Tank Army of, 357, 392, 412, 432-33

S-Bahn , 382

Sabotage by foreign workers, 51

Saenger, Erna, 29, 59, 166, 454-55

Saenger, Konrad, 166, 454-55

St. Agnes, 456

St. Hildegard’s Hospital, 488

Salzburg, 329

Samsonov, Lieutenant Konstantin Yakovlevich, 186

San Francisco, 495

Sandau, 288

Sauerbruch, Dr. Ferdinand, 31, 53

Sauerbruch, Dr. Margot, 31

Schedle, Captain Franz, 502

Scheffler, Dr. Wolfgang, 40n

Schelle, Heinrich, 36, 453

Schering chemical plant, 50, 409, 494

Schirach, Baroness Baidur von, 359-60, 469

Schliemann, Heinrich, 167

Schneidemühl, 268

Schneider, Otto, 430

Schnetzer, Max, 418

Schommer, Captain Francis C., 134, 291

Schönebeck, 306-10

Schöneberg, 18, 30, 359, 457-59, 478

Schönewalde, 351

Schöneweide, 447

Schönholz, 414

Schörner, Field Marshal Ferdinand, 76

army group of, 87, 257, 270, 353, 385, 416, 438

Schroeder, Helena, 457

Schröter, Georg, 407

Schultz, Private Arthur “Dutch,” 282

Schultze, Erna, 53-54

Schultze, Hanna, 166, 372-73

Schultze, Robert, 166, 372-73, 450

Schulz, Mrs., 491

Schulz, Aribert, 480-81, 511

Schuster, Hermann, 430

Schwäbisch Gmünd, 507

Schwägermann, Günther, 501

Schwartz, Anna, 169

Schwartz, Heinrich, 168-69, 171, 408, 484, 512

Schwarz, Margarete, 35, 405

Schwarze Grund Park, 459

Schwedt, 265, 475

Schwerin von Krosigk, Count, 318

Scorched-earth policy, 172-73, 332-35, 408

Searchlights, Zhukov’s, 254, 303, 345-48, 354, 361

Seelow Heights, 208 n , 247, 346, 350, 360-61, 364, 368, 390-91, 393, 396

described, 352

Seven Years’ War, 319

Sexual attack, 484-93

fear of, 26-31, 371, 406, 456, 471

fear proven false at first, 459-60, 464-65

official Russian attitude to, 493n

SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters), 122, 125-26

in Reims, 197-98 See also Anglo-American forces; Eisenhower

Shalin, General Mikhail, 360

Sharpe, Lieutenant Colonel Granville A., 320

Shearer, Captain John L., 281

Shell House, 54

Shtemenko, General S. M., 248-50

Sieges Allee, 262

Siemens plant, 372

Simpson, Lieutenant General William H., 178, 283-84, 292, 304, 315, 320, 388

Ninth Army of, 126, 129, 131, 132, 135, 139-40, 204, 216-17, 232, 233, 238, 241-42, 282-94, 304-17, 319-25, 326, 329, 330-32, 388

ordered not to go to Berlin, 331-32

Skagerrak Square, 262

Slave laborers, 48-51

Sloan, Colonel George B., 322

Slogans on walls, 369, 370, 422

Smith, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell, 199, 200, 206, 214, 292

Smolensk, 75, 300

Sokolovskii, Colonel General Vasili, 177, 186, 248n, 505, 506 n

Solimann, Otto, 405

Sorge, Jutta, 46, 61

Soviet War News , 28 n

Spandau, 20, 58, 372, 445, 473-74, 481, 511

Zhukov’s plans for, 22

Speer, Albert, 339, 403

opposes demolition in Berlin, 378-79

opposes Hitler’s scorched-earth policy, 172-73, 332-35

plans assassination of Hitler, 176, 333

plans evacuation of Philharmonic, 173-75, 373-75, 387

visits Heinrici, 332-35

Spittelmarkt, 480

Spree, 382, 391-93, 481, 501

Spremberg, 357

SS (Schutzstaffel), 32, 39, 290, 404, 452, 479 n

arrests Goering, 468-69

atrocities by, 28, 34, 440-42, 480-81

blows up tunnel under Spree, 481

fanaticism of, 53

as guardians of Führerbunker, 258, 259

last-ditch resistance by, 289-91, 307, 500

offered by Himmler for Oder front, 271

punishes deserters, 437, 480

Staaken, 20

Stadthagen, 291

Stahl, Heinrich, 41

Stalags, see Prisoner-of-war (POW) camps

Stalin, Josef, 21, 27, 28 n , 80, 102, 149, 150, 182, 194

attack on Berlin and, 243, 249-52, 254-56, 278, 335-36, 391-94, 449

described, 248

Elsenhower’s message to, 215-16, 231-36, 240, 243

fears unilateral surrender, 355 n

informed of Himmler’s peace feelers, 470

1941 territorial demands of, 142-43