Antony Beevor - Berlin - The Downfall 1945

21St Pz., 232, 330

25th Pz., 18

Kurmark Pz., 235, 246, 330, 362, 377–8

Müncheberg Pz., 286, 303, 319, 339, 340, 384

18th Pzgren., 257, 286, 296, 384

20th Pzgren., 206, 286, 296

391st Security, 208

REGIMENTS

Grossdeutschland Gd Regt, 72, 208, 226, 263

Kurmark Pz., 71

Potsdam, 161–2, 236

11th Training Bde, 223

German Communist Party (KPD), 181, 321, 346, 372, 417–18

Gestapo and SD (Sicherheitsdienst), 42, 56, 154, 155, 283, 386

headquarters Prinz-Albrechtstrasse, 22, 74, 340, 351, 379–80, 382, 386–7

Bundschuh resistance groups, 174

and Kriminalpolizei , 176

and deserters, 260

Hitler’s bodyguards, 341

Giesebrechtstrasse, 345, 346

Goebbels, Reichsminister Joseph, xxxiv, 1, 4, 5, 28

and Volkssturm, 39

as Gauleiter and Reich Commissar for Defence, 57, 58, 133, 245, 261, 268

as Minister of Propaganda, 70, 100, 133, 135, 175, 180, 224, 229, 250, 253, 261, 291, 339, 340

and Cossacks, 73–4

and Dresden, 83

and Lauban, 126–7

and Berlin, 139, 177, 245, 347

and Kamarilla rivalries, 154, 289

and death of Roosevelt, 204

in Führer bunker, 276, 288, 343, 359, 361, 362, 364

and surrender, 368, 370, 379

and suicide, 380, 381, 390

Goebbels, Magda, 276, 278, 289–90, 343, 359, 361, 380, 381, 390

Goebbels children, 278, 279, 344, 357, 361, 380–81, 398

Gordov, Gen. V. N., 245, 330–31

Goring, Reichsmarschall Hermann, 8, 12, 42, 43, 90, 154, 201, 236, 356

and destruction of Karinhall, 249–50

and Hitler, 251, 289, 350

Görlitz, 126, 244

Goya hospital ship, sinking of, 188

Greim, Col. Gen. Robert Ritter v., 322, 342

Greiser, Gauleiter Arthur, 63, 64, 68, 158

Grishin, Maj., 373–6

Grossdeutscher Rundfunk, 282, 384, 385, 416–17, 418

Grossman, Vasily, 14, 23, 32, 44, 64, 65, 66, 67, 86, 105, 108, 116, 273

and Berlin, 295, 301, 321, 393, 394, 407, 413

and Black Book, 425

Groves, Maj. Gen. Leslie, 138

Grunewald, 322, 324

Guben, 208

Guderian, Col. Gen. Heinz, 6, 7, 8, 12–13, 18, 19, 43, 50, 58, 60

rows with Hitler, 89–90, 149–52, 275

and resignation of Himmler, 131–2

and National Socialist Party, 134–5

and Himmler on peace negotiations, 150

sacking of, 152–3

Gulag

transfer of prisoners to Red Army, 165–6

transfer of Poles to army, 199

Günsche, Otto, 262, 358, 359, 389

Gusakovsky, Col. I. I., 18, 21, 43, 69

Haase, Prof. Werner, 391

Hahn, Dr Otto, 325

Halbe, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 337, 378

Haider, Col. Gen. Franz, 177

Hamburg, 141, 247, 364, 381, 384

Hanke, Gauleiter Karl, 92, 93, 125, 343

Hanover, 191

Harpe, Col. Gen. Josef, 12, 21, 61, 249–51

Harriman, Averell, 101, 145, 194, 211

Hase, Col. Gen. Paul v., 346

Hassleben (Army Group Vistula HQ), 130, 131, 132, 158, 159, 160, 338

Heerstrasse, 353, 356

Heiligenbeil Kessel , 50, 88, 93

Heilstätten, 224, 272, 298, 328

Heinrici, Col. Gen. Gotthardt, 132, 158, 180, 183, 188, 207

and Oder battle, 218–19, 223, 225, 228, 241, 256

and defence of Berlin, 245, 248, 267, 268, 291, 337, 338

Heisenberg, Prof. Werner, 325

Hela, port of, 121

Hermannplatz, 262, 282, 302

Heydrich, SS-Obergpfh. Reinhard, 346

Hildebrandt, Gauleiter, 159

Himmler, Ernst, 384, 385

Himmler, Heinrich, 6, 7, 42

and death marches, 38

and Volkssturm, 39

and Army Group Vistula, 52, 53–4, 68, 88–9, 90, 130, 131–2

and peace negotiations, 150, 175, 250, 275, 290, 292, 293–4, 341, 342, 350, 368

and SS divisions in Hungary, 151, 293

and rivalries, 154, 155, 289, 361

and orders for total warfare, 174, 240

and Vlasov, 182

and Hitler, 250–51, 293

and battle for Berlin, 275, 341

in north Germany, 361

Hitler, Adolf, xxxiii, xxxiv, 225

and Ardennes offensive, 5, 6, 7, 8

and Vistula offensive, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 22

and loss of Warsaw, 21, 22

and East Prussia, 26, 50

and Volkssturm, 39

and refugees, 52

and German Army, 54, 58, 89, 91, 116, 135, 142, 149, 151

withdrawal from public view, 58

last broadcast, 67

and defence of Berlin, 74, 177

and Eva Braun, 75, 253–4, 278, 289, 342–3

and bombing of Dresden, 83

and SS divisions in Hungary, 151

and self-identification with German people, 153, 276

and ‘Nero Order’, 155–8, 202

and Wehrmachthelferinnenkorps , 181

and Oder front, 188, 189, 241

and death of Roosevelt, 204

and birthday, 249–52

and decision to stay in Berlin, 251, 275, 288–9

and battle of Berlin, 266, 267, 268

and Frederick the Great, 268, 275

and Ninth and Twelfth Armies, 285, 288, 295, 330, 331

and Speer, 288, 290

and fantasies of rescue, 295, 304, 322, 331, 340, 350

and breakout plans, 320

and last days in Reich Chancellery, 322, 341, 357

remains of, 399, 400, 431

Hitler Youth, and Panzerjagd units, 74

and defence of Berlin, 180, 189, 265, 270, 272, 275–6, 281, 301, 316, 340, 346, 356, 384

‘Hitler Youth Division’, 180–81

and Oder battle, 235, 245, 247, 257, 338

‘Hiwis’, 112–14, 367, 396–7

Hodges, Lt. Gen. Courtney H., 141, 191

Hohenlychen, 131–2, 292, 338

Hohenschönhausen, 265

Hohenzollerndamm, HQ of Berlin Defence Area, 224, 261, 301, 320

Holste, Lt. Gen., 379

Hölz, Maj. Gen. Artur, 179

Hossbach, Gen. Friedrich, 50

Humboldt-Dachroeden, Col. Hubertus Freiherr v., 21, 22, 201, 285, 397

Humboldthain flak tower, 287, 323

Irwin, Virginia, 305–7

Japan, war against, 78, 82, 139, 211

Jews and other concentration camp prisoners, persecution and murder of, 38, 49

Warsaw ghetto, 23

death marches, 38, 155

discovery of Auschwitz, 45–6

Lódź ghetto, 63–4

Stutthof, 94–5, 122

Lauenburg, 117

Nikolayev and Odessa, 169

forced to rework US incendiary bombs, 174

Belsen, 191

massacres in Leipzig area, 191–2

Eisenhower’s reactions and caring for prisoners, 203

Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, 274, 290

Schulstrasse transit camp, 294–5

in Berlin, 346–7, 393, 419

Ravensbrück, 363

and view of Wermacht generals, 429

Jodl, Col. Gen. Alfred, 7, 13, 83, 152, 201, 250, 275, 276, 288, 295, 331, 338, 341, 350, 402

Juhlin-Dannfel, Maj. C. H., 132, 148, 149, 173, 181

July Plot (20 July 1944), 7, 8, 58, 153, 154, 198, 320, 346, 386

executions, 57, 74, 75, 181

Jung, Prof. Dr Gerhard, 374–7, 406

Junge, Gertrud (Traudl), 252, 278, 343, 344, 358, 359, 361, 382, 388

Jüterbog, 92, 200, 238, 256

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, Dahlem, 139, 210, 232, 324–5

Kaltenbrunner, SS-Gpfh. Dr Ernst, 22, 42, 75, 160, 194, 250, 251, 346

Kardorff, Ursula v., 2, 74, 205, 250, 410, 411, 414, 415

Karlshorst, 179, 269–70, 404, 405, 428

Karlsruhe, 192

Karpov, Gen. V. V., 61

Kassel, 195

Katowice, 22, 60

Katukov, Col. Gen. M. I., 64, 116, 118, 121, 222, 223, 229, 235, 255, 265, 296, 297

Katyn massacre, 99

Kazakov, Col. Gen. V. I., 216–17, 262, 280

Kee, Robert, 41

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 6, 7, 12, 52, 83, 90, 127, 152, 250, 275, 276, 284–5, 288, 295, 337, 338, 357, 403, 404, 405

Kempka, Erich, 358

Khrulev, Col. Gen. A. V., 324

Khrushchev, Nikita, 428

Kiel, 361, 364