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on Red Army atrocities, 493 n

replies to Eisenhower, 251-52, 253

Roosevelt’s attitude to, 162

violates Yalta agreements, 162, 164, 235

“Stalin Organs” (Katushkas) , 345, 348-49, 479

Stalingrad, 132, 141, 193, 300, 333

Starr, Captain James W., 307-8

State, Department of, and plans for occupation of Germany, 149, 151-52, 155

Staub, Private First Class Paul, 188

Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus Graf von, 46

Stavka , 249

Steglitz, 434

Steiner, SS General, 108, 395

Hitler orders attack by, 422, 426-27, 449, 466, 473-74

Stella, Ursula, 483

Sternfeld, Agnes, 43

Sternfeld, Annemarie, 43

Sternfeld, Leo, 43-44, 461-62

Stettin, 87, 146, 148, 223, 426, 475

Stewart, Lieutenant Colonel Carleton E., 324

Stewart, Private First Class Carroll R., 294

Strang, Sir William, 149, 153, 154, 158

Strausberg, 407

Strehla, 471

Stresemann, Gustav, 46

Strong, Major General Kenneth W. D., 214

Stumpfegger, Dr. Ludwig, 495

Subway, 408-9

Suicide, 429-30, 471, 483, 487-88, 491

attempted, 479 n , 486

of the Goebbels family, 495, 501

of the Hitlers, 497-98, 500

by other Nazis, 34, 407, 489, 502, 503

plans for, 31-33, 423

Supreme Headquarters, see SHAEF

Surrender, 398

of Berlin, 109, 502-3

Goebbels’ negotiations for, 498-500

Himmler’s negotiations for, 94, 404, 469-70, 496

Hitler’s refusal to negotiate, 417

Russian fears of unilateral, 235, 354-55

unconditional, 103-4

Suvorov, Field Marshal Aleksandr, 247

Svishchev, Sergeant Nikolai Alexandrovich, 346, 348

Sweden, 137, 234, 238, 367

Swedish Red Cross, 404, 469

Switzerland, 212

Symphony, see Philharmonic Orchestra

Tallett, Private Joe, 282

Tangermünde, 288, 312-13, 317

Taschner, Gerhard, 171, 173-74, 374, 387

Taylor, Major General Maxwell D., 124, 125, 282

Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur, 215, 232

Tegel, 372, 479

Teheran Conference, 141, 149, 150, 182

Telegraph office, 450

Telephones

Exchange 500, 79, 433

Schöneberg exchange, 359, 409, 458

Telpuchovskii, Major General Boris S., 504-5

Teltow, 434

Tempelhof, 35, 44, 262, 303, 372, 407, 434, 461-62, 499

Tempelhof Airport, 121, 125, 450, 479

Tengelmann’s grocery store, 452-53

Teupitz, 449

Teutoberger Wald, 289

Thamm, Private Willi, 480

Thorwald, Juergen, 227 n

Tiergarten, 14-15, 115, 378, 418

Todt Labor Organization, 405

Tokyo, 450

Torgau, 471

Trampe, 415

Trans-Ocean, 510

Treuenbrietzen, 445

Triebel, 356, 357

Trotha, Major General Thilo von, 106, 427-28, 475

Troy, treasures of, 167

Troyanoskii, Lieutenant Colonel Pavel, 348, 393-94, 493 n

Truman, Harry S, on Himmler’s peace feelers, 469-70

Truman Bridge, 320, 322

Tündern, 291

UFA film studios, 493-94

Uhland, Johann Ludwig, 259

Uhlandstrasse, 480

Ulap exhibition hall, 441

Unconditional surrender, 103-4

Underground groups

Communist, 37, 39, 47, 430-32

Wiberg, 23, 136-38, 366-67, 400-1, 492

Ungnad, Vera, 450, 489-91

United States Army, 17

artillery-spotting planes of, 126-27, 190, 310-12 See also Anglo-American forces; Eisenhower; War Department

United States Army Air Force, 134

in advance to Elbe, 325

last raid on Berlin, 420

Troop Carrier Command, 326

bombs Zossen, 79 n

United States Army units

ARMY GROUPS

Sixth, 130 237, 283, 329

Twelfth, 129-32, 204, 207, 212-13, 232, 233, 282-83

ARMIES

First, 129-30, 131, 204, 207, 282, 326, 472

United States, ARMIES (continued)

Third, 116, 130, 131, 207, 282, 283 n , 297, 326, 327

Seventh, 125, 130, 213

Ninth, 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

Fifteenth, 129, 282

CORPS

13th, 304

18th Airborne, 122

19th, 293, 304, 322

DIVISIONS

1st Infantry, 128

2nd Armored, 128, 132-34, 284-85, 288, 289, 291-93, 304-9, 314-17, 319, 322-25, 330, 388

4th Infantry, 128

5th Armored, 127, 128, 133, 135, 288, 310-14, 317

17th Airborne, 129

29th Infantry, 128

30th Infantry, 133, 285, 289-91, 322, 329, 332, 388, 446

69th Infantry, 128, 470, 472

82nd Airborne, 119-24, 281, 282

83rd Infantry, 128-29, 134, 285, 288, 290-91, 319-20, 322, 325, 330

84th Infantry, 128, 134, 289, 292, 317

101st Airborne, 121, 124-25

102nd Infantry, 289

REGIMENTS

67th Armored, 134, 304, 306, 316

117th Infantry, 292

120th Infantry, 332

333rd Infantry, 318

505th Parachute, 282

BATTALIONS

82nd Reconnaissance, 132-33, 134, 289, 305-6

92nd Field Artillery, 133

OTHER UNITS 113th Mechanized Cavalry

Group, 133, 291

United States occupation zone, 100, 144-50

Roosevelt’s objection to plans for, 141, 145-50, 155-61

Unter den Linden, 13, 15, 418, 502

Van Hoeven, Pia 36, 59, 454, 459

Victory Column, 15, 378

“Victory Division” (5th Armored Division), 127, 128, 133, 135, 288, 310-14, 317

Vienna, 242, 363

siege of (1683), 66

Vlasov, Lieutenant General Andrei A., 222, 265

Volk, Sergeant Helmut, 479-80

Völkischer Beobachter , 38, 400

last issue of, 450

Volkssturm, see Home Guard units

Voltaire’s Candide , 360

Von, names with , see last element of name

Vosges, 130

Vote for Hitler (1932), 52

Voznesenskii, Nikolai A., 248

Wahrenholz, 318

Walbeck., 44

Waldsieversdorf, 398

War Department Civil Affairs Division, 151–52, 156-57, 158-59

Warm Springs, Georgia, 231, 317

Washburn, Lieutenant Colonel Israel B., 311

Wassermann, Elfriede, 421-22, 481

Wassermann, Erich, 421, 481

Weber, Brigitte, 36, 511

Wedding, 478

Weichs, Field Marshal Maximilian Freiherr von, 83

Weidling, General Karl, 109, 365, 396-98, 478, 496

execution ordered, 428, 447-48

56th Panzer Corps of, 364-65, 396, 415, 428, 434, 447-49, 478, 481, 483, 502

named Commandant of Berlin, 449

surrenders Berlin, 502-3

Weimar, 296-97

Weissensee, 13, 358, 372, 382, 429, 430, 478

Weltlinger, Margarete, 40-42, 263, 358, 462-64

Weltlinger, Siegmund, 40-42, 262-63, 358, 462-64

Wenck, Irmgard, 275

Wenck, Sigried, 275

Wenck, General Walther, 108, 274-76, 296-99, 315, 325, 365-66

links up with Busse, 510

ordered to attack eastwards, 441-45

Twelfth Army of, 275-76, 277, 296-99, 323-25, 365-66, 436, 439, 443-45, 449, 466, 467, 472, 510

Wendt, Walter, 62, 170

Werben, 288

Werewolves, 210

Weser River, 288

Westerhüsen, 314

Westermann, Dr. Gerhart von, 173-76, 373-75, 387

White, Major General Isaac D., 132, 133, 180, 181, 284, 292, 304, 315

2nd Armored Division of, 128, 132-33, 134, 284-85, 288, 289, 291, 292-93, 304-9, 314-17, 319, 322-25, 330, 388

Whiteley, Major General John F. M., 239 n , 241

Wiberg, Carl Johann, 22-23, 59, 136-38, 366-67, 400-1, 492

Wienecke, Colonel Robert H., 119

Wilhelmstrasse, 502

artillery fire on, 418

bomb damage in, 14, 258

Williamson, Lieutenant Colonel Ellis W., 133

Wilmersdorf, 22, 31, 136, 165, 304, 418, 455, 459, 461, 473, 478, 487, 492

bomb damage in, 18

Wilson, Flight Sergeant Geoffrey K., 410