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Bogdanov, Gen. S. I., 17, 64, 222, 223, 235, 255, 315, 404

Boldt, Capt. Gerhard, 265, 299, 351

Boiling, Maj. Gen. Alexander, 191

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 181

Bonin, Col. Bogislaw v., 21, 22

Bormann, Reichsleiter Martin, 19, 22

and Volkssturm, 39

and Himmler, 42, 293

and diary, 75, 191, 251, 341, 350

and ambitions, 154, 343, 361–2

and Eva Braun, 155

and concealing Nazi loot, 155

and Gauleiters, 157, 209, 340

and raising troops, 160

in Führer bunker, 251, 252, 276, 278, 288, 289, 341, 343, 359, 361–2, 364, 369, 379

and attempted escape, 381–2, 383

Bradley, Gen. Omar N., 141, 202, 203–4, 305, 401

Brandt, Dr Karl, 252–3

Bräuer, Gen. Bruno, 236–7, 243

Braun, Eva, 19, 47, 59, 75

and return to Berlin, 155, 252

and Hitler, 253–4, 278, 289, 341, 342–3, 350, 357, 358, 359

and Speer, 288, 290

Braun, Ilse, 48

Braun, Margarete, see Fegelein, Gretl

Bremen, 203

Breslau, 48, 61, 62, 91, 92–3, 230

surrounded, 125–6

siege of, 343

Brezhnev, Leonid, 428

British Army, 192–3

21st Army Group, 140–41, 144

Second Army, 191, 203, 247, 251, 400

1st Airborne Div., 194

Britz, 287, 297, 302

Bromberg, 64, 68

Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Alan, 80, 82, 84, 138, 139, 141–2

Budapest, fighting for, 8

fall of, 82–3

Budyonny, Marshal S. M., 427

Bulganin, Lt. Gen. Nikolai A., 100

Bull, Maj. Gen. Harold, 98, 107

Bunyachenko, Maj. Gen. S. K., 183

Burgdorf, Gen. Wilhelm, 7, 152, 154, 225, 262, 266, 268, 275, 344, 351, 359, 362, 382, 387

Busse, Gen. Theodor, 88, 132, 135, 151, 152, 160

and Oder battle, 183, 228, 237, 242, 243, 263

and withdrawal to Spreewald, 256, 270

and joining Twelfth Army, 285, 329, 330, 331, 337, 362, 378

Cairncross, John, 138

Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm, 181

Casablanca conference, 194

Celle, 191

Charité hospital, 9, 224–5, 382

Charlottenbrücke (Spandau), 384, 385

Charlottenburg, 340, 341, 356, 358, 416

Chemical weapons, 171–2, 376–7

Chernyakhovsky, Col. Gen. Ivan D., 17, 24–5, 26, 27, 33, 49

Christen, Lt. Col. v., 22

Christian, Gerda, 278, 343, 358, 359, 382, 388

Chuikov, Col. Gen. Vasily I., 44, 64, 65, 70, 71, 88, 91, 149, 150, 206, 321

and Oder battle, 216–17, 220, 222, 227, 229, 242

and Berlin fighting, 317–18, 319, 353

and German surrender, 367–8, 386, 392

Churchill, Winston S., 5, 19, 20

and Poland, 69, 77, 80–82, 143

and Yalta, 77–82, 145

and Eisenhower, 84, 141–2, 143, 195

and Berlin, 138, 195

and Dulles, 142

and post-war fears, 143, 364, 400

and surrender negotiations, 194, 341, 400

Clark Kerr, Sir Archibald, 145, 196

Clay, Maj. Gen. Lucius, 309

Combined Chiefs of Staff, 143

Cottbus, 239, 245

Courland encirclement (Army Group North), 12, 89, 152, 180, 241, 402

Courts martial, summary ( Standgericht ), 130–31, 176

Crimean conference, see Yalta

Dahlem, 232, 324, 326, 384

Danzig, 37, 49, 50, 88, 93, 94

Anatomical Medical Institute, 94–5

defence of, 117, 120–22, 145

Deane, Maj. Gen. John R., 140, 145, 210, 211

Dekanozov, Vladimir, 304

Demmlhuber, SS-Obergpfh., 89

Dempsey, Lt. Gen. Sir Miles, 191

Dessau, 191, 196, 201, 263

Dethleffsen, Maj. Gen., 304

Devers, Gen. Jacob L., 192

Dietrich, SS-Oberstgpfh. Sepp, 5, 90

Djugashvili, Yakov, 136

Dneper flotilla, 297

Döberitz, 201, 267

Doberke, SS-Oberstmbannfh., 294

Dohnanyi, Hans v., 181

Dönitz, Grand Admiral Karl, 50, 83, 154, 159, 188, 201, 250–51, 288, 289, 298, 341, 343, 361, 368, 369, 381, 402

Dresden, bombing of, 83, 146, 192, 211, 244, 325

Dufving, Col. Theodor v., 364, 367, 386

Dulles, Allen, 142, 194, 195

Eberswalde, 246, 267

Edelsheim, Gen. Maximilian Freiherr v., 395, 396

Eden, Anthony, 77

Ehrenburg, Ilya, 25, 28, 36, 169, 194, 195–6, 425

Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf v., 36, 197

Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight, 78

and Rhine crossing, 83–4

and British, 84, 139–40, 141–2, 143

and Soviet Union, 139–40, 141, 143, 145, 147, 194, 210–11, 306, 400

and SCAF-252, 141, 143, 145

and Berlin, 141, 142–4, 191, 195, 202–3, 204, 304

and German surrender, 294, 305, 400

and Zhukov, 425–6

Eismann, Col. Hans Georg, 53, 54, 89, 150, 159, 160, 242

Elbing, 26, 28, 50, 115, 116, 117, 119

Elser, Johann Georg, 181

Elsholz, 377, 378

Erkner, 265

Fedyuninsky, Gen. 1.1., 117

Fegelein, Gretl (Margarete Braun), 19, 59, 75, 253, 290, 341

Fegelein, SS-Gpfh. Hermann, 59, 60, 75, 154–5, 253, 290, 293, 341

Feldgendarmerie, 123, 132, 163, 234–5, 247, 258, 264, 281, 339

Fenet, Henri, 291, 292, 302, 303, 352, 379, 382

Ferch, 353

Ferchland, 396

Förster, Gauleiter Albert, 94, 120

Frankfurt am Main, 152

Frankfurt an der Oder, 27, 70, 71, 150, 183, 228

garrison of, 260, 270, 329

Frederick the Great, 204, 208, 390

Free Germany (Freies Deutschland), see National Committee for a Free Germany

Freisler, Roland, 74–5

Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East), 6

French First Army, 192, 251, 402

Freytag v. Loringhoven, Maj. Bernd

Freiherr, 12, 42, 58, 59, 151, 152, 153, 277, 278, 299, 350

Friedeburg, Admiral Hans Georg v., 400, 403, 404, 405

Friedrichshain flak tower, 287, 323

Friedrichstrasse, 380

station, 3, 48–9, 382

Fuchs, Dr Klaus, xxxiv, 138

Fuchs, Maj. Gen., 238

Fürstenwalde, 330

Gall, Capt. Vladimir S., 214, 373–6

Gatow, 323

Gdynia (Gotenhafen), 50, 88, 117

defence of, 120–21, 145

Gehlen, Maj. Gen. Reinhard, 6, 7, 26

Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 83, 286

German Army, see also Waffen SS

ARMY GROUPS

Centre, 11, 92, 241, 244

North, 19, 152

‘A’, 21

‘B’, 190, 200, 201

Vistula, 52, 54, 68, 88, 91, 130, 132, 150, 153, 159–60, 188, 189, 207, 228, 242–3, 256, 267, 291, 320, 337

ARMIES

Second, 26, 49, 50, 88, 90, 115, 119, 402

Fourth, 50, 88

Ninth, 22, 54, 88, 151, 160;

on Oder front, 162, 188, 267;

and defence of Berlin, 179;

and Oder battle, 219, 221, 223, 225, 243, 246;

and withdrawal to south-west, 256, 260, 270, 276;

and breakout to Twelfth Army, 298, 328, 329, 337, 362, 377–9, 395–8;

and Hitler’s fantasies, 304

Twelfth, 201, 202, 263, 276, 284, 291, 298, 304, 328, 329, 353, 377–9, 395–8

Seventeenth, 60, 61, 126

Twenty-First, 400

First Panzer, 132

Third Panzer, 50, 88, 160, 243, 337–8, 400

Fourth Panzer, 125, 208, 239, 241, 329

Fifth Panzer, 5

CORPS

Grossdeutschland , 18, 26, 45, 119, 126

V Corps, 329

XX Corps, 284, 328

XIV Panzer, 126

XLI Panzer, 379

LVI Panzer, 225, 237, 246, 259, 264, 286, 386

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