Stephen Harding - The Last Battle

as resister, sister of de Gaulle, 59–62

at Schloss Itter, 146, 148

postwar life and death, 168–169

Cailliau, Michel, 60

Campinchi, Caesar, 28

Caous, Pierre, 30–31

Capitulation of France/armistice (June 1940), 28–30, 32, 38, 54–55

Case Red, 44

Case Yellow, 43, 80

Castle Itter. See Schloss Itter

Central Council of Trade Unions of Soviet Russia, 38

CGT. See Confédération Générale du Travail

Chamberlain, Neville, 27

Château Chazeron, Riom, 29, 35–36

Clemenceau, Georges, 56

Clemenceau, Michel

background, 55–57

asks Schrader to ensure prisoners’ safety, 108–109

fires on enemy, 148–151

reports on retreating Germans, 107

postwar life and death, 168

Clow, Kelso G., 118–119, 121, 123

Cohen, David de Léon, 54

Communists, 26, 38, 73, 166

Company B, 753rd Tank Battalion. See 753rd Tank Battalion

Company B of 23rd Tank Battalion

led by Lee into Austria, 118–119

combat action, 116–119, 165

in Kufstein, led by Lee, 1–2, 112–113

Concentration camps

extended into Austria, 10

female inmates serve at Schloss Itter, 64

See also under specific camp names

Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), 36, 38–40, 49, 166

Coyle, Marvin J., 123–124, 140–141, 159

Croix de feu/PSF

Borotra’s former membership, 63

led by de La Rocque, 45, 58, 168

Čučković, Zvonimir “Zvonko”

introduced, 16–17

steals short-wave radio for prisoners, 64

tormented by Wimmer, 93–94

finds Allies in Innsbruck, 103–107

brings Kramers to Schloss Itter, 142–143

thanked by liberated VIPs, 161

repatriated to Yugoslavia after liberation, 164

postwar life and death, 169

Czechoslovakia

annexed to Germany by Munich Agreement, 19, 27

Bohemia and Moravia, 80

recaptured by Red Army, 67

Schloss Eisenberg, 56–57, 59

See also Sudetenland annexation

Dachau concentration camp

conditions for Granger, 52–53

Čučković’s experience, 16

earliest years, 18–19

Granger’s internment, 52–53

liberated by American units, 111–112

as parent facility for Schloss Itter, 12–13

Weiter commits suicide, 95–96

Daladier, Édouard

as guest at Schloss Itter (1932), 9

background in French politics, 25–30

signs Munich Agreement (1938), 26–27

antagonism toward Reynaud, 28, 162–163, 166

in Buchenwald, 31–32

reports on worsening conditions, 92, 94

disdain for Lee, 123

defies Lee’s orders, 139, 146

nearly struck by enemy fire, 139

end of battle, 159–160

after liberation, 164

postwar life and death, 165–166

Daladier, Jean, 164, 165

Dalton, Hugh, 39

Dante, 6

De Forsanz, Marie-Renée-Joséphine, 54, 55

De Gaulle, Charles, 60–62, 164, 167

De Gaulle, Henri, 60

De La Rocque, François

background, 57

with Britain’s intelligence service, 57, 59

leads Croix de feu/PSF, 45, 58–59

hatred toward Jouhaux, 63

fires on enemy, 148–150, 151

after liberation, put on trial for collaboration, 164

postwar life and death, 168

De Lattre de Tassigny, Jean, 69, 163–164

De Portes, Hélène, 44, 50

Dernis, Colette Reynaud, 44, 50

Devers, Jacob L., 69

Dietrich (Gangl’s deputy), 110–111, 124, 128–129, 151

Divine Comedy (Dante), 6

Division Group North (Böhaimb), 72

Drück Battle Group, 72

École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr. See Saint-Cyr military academy

Ehrenhäftlinge. See Honor prisoners

Eicke, Theodor, 18–21

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 69

Elliot, William E.

arrives at Schloss Itter, 160

as sergeant on Boche Buster , 123, 152–153

England

as attempted exile for French resisters, 39, 47–48

Free French base, 60

Évaux-les-Bains, 39–40, 49

Fiedler, Franz, 14

Foch, Ferdinand, 54

Forster Battle Group, 72, 89, 104, 111

Franco-German armistice (June 1940), 28–29, 44, 47, 54–55

Free French, 60–61, 68

Free French First Army, 68

French 1st Army or French First Army, 69, 163

French National Economic Council, 166

French North Africa

Germany ousted by Allied forces, 31, 68

with Noguès as commander in chief, 28

Operation Torch Allied invasion, 31, 55

resistance cells, 52

Reynaud pressured to surrender, 44

Weygand commands Vichy forces, 55

Fresnes Prison, 51, 59, 61

Frundsberg Division, 99

Gaboriaud, Léo-Abel, 35–36

Gamelin, Maurice

background, 27–28

in Vichy’s custody, 29–31, 35–36

hostilities with Weygand, Daladier, 35–36, 63

reprimands Wimmer for beating Čučković, 93

at Schloss Itter, 25, 148–150

postwar life and death, 166

Gangl, Josef “Sepp”

background, 77–79

as respected Wehrmacht officer, 80–81, 83–86

joins/leads Wörgl resistance cell, 1–2, 86–90, 109–110

accompanies Lee for rescue recon, 121–122

adds Germans to Lee’s rescue force, 124

defends Schloss Itter, 128–130, 132–133, 137–139

killed by sniper’s bullet, 150, 164

postwar honors and interment, 169

German Alliance for Combating the Dangers of Tobacco, 12

Germany invades unoccupied France (1942), 31, 55

Germany surrenders (May 7, 1945), 164–165

Gestapo

arrests Borotra, 48

arrests Clemenceau, 56–57

and Austrian resisters, 10, 74

execute anti-Nazis in Tyrol, 87

executes deserters, 102

reprisals against Austrian civilians, 76

Giehl Battle Group

Gangl’s roles on staff, 87–90

stops fighting, surrenders to Allies, 102

uses hit-and-run tactics, 72–73

Gill, Joe W., 154–157, 159–161

Giraud, Henri, 53

Goff, Glenn A., 154, 156

Granger, Marcel

background as resister, 52

at Dachau, 52–53

postwar, 167

Granger, Pierre, 53

Granger, Renée Giraud, 53

Great Depression, 9, 26, 78

Gris (Kramers’s sergeant), 120, 142–143, 153

Grüner, Franz, 9, 11, 12, 13

Guards (SS-TV) of Schloss Itter, 17, 23, 42, 64–65, 92–93, 107

Hagleitner, Rupert

arrives at Schloss Itter, 160

as key figure in Wörgl resistance cell, 76–77, 87–88, 110

protects Wörgl citizens, 90

with Lee at Schloss Itter, 122–123

at Neue Post Inn, 145

Himmler, Heinrich

changes Schloss Itter to prison, 11–13

detains Daladier, Blum, Gamelin, 31

ignores Wehrmacht complaints about atrocities, 19

orders executions of men showing white flags, 90

rounds up extended Giraud family, 53

Hitler, Adolf

assassination attempted, 100

brutalizes New Germany, 18

opposed to tobacco use, 12

orders Riom Trial halted, 30–31

orders Weygand’s arrest, 55

rises to power, 9

threatens Czech Sudetenland, 26–27

suicide, 2, 111, 119

Hitler Youth

movement/Hitlerjugend, 71, 85, 97, 155

Höckel (Gangl’s lieutenant )

as key figure in Wörgl resistance cell, 110–111

bolsters Lee’s troops, 124

defends Schloss Itter, 128–129, 143, 151

Holbrook, Wallace S., 123

Holy Roman Empire, 6–7

Honor prisoners

introduced, 40–42

conditions at Schloss Itter, 63–64

Wimmer’s ground rules, false pledge, 40–42, 94

relations fractured by differing politics, 27, 62–63, 162

plan Čučković’s search for Allies, 103–104

directed to cellars by Lee, 127–129