Antony Beevor - Berlin - The Downfall 1945

Kielce, 17, 18

Kienitz, 69, 70

Kinzel, Lt. Gen. Eberhardt, 158, 179, 400

Kissel, Gen. Hans, 40

Klochkov, Capt., 226

Knef, Hildegard, 1, 311

Knesebeck, Lt. Col. von dem, 22

Koblenz, 140

Koch, Dr Edgar, 374–7

Koch, Gauleiter Erich, 27, 50, 64, 68, 75, 187

Köhler, Gen. Carl-Erik, 284

Kolberg, 116, 124

Koller, Gen. Karl, 267, 275, 289

Komsomol, Central Committee and rape of Soviet women, 108–9, 365

Konev, Marshal Ivan, 16, 17, 41, 44, 45

in Silesia, 60, 125–6, 129–30, 132

and Berlin operation, 146–7, 165, 206, 229, 230, 234, 238, 239, 244, 255–6, 265, 271, 295, 296, 297, 305, 329, 330, 333, 362, 401

Königsberg, 24, 25, 28, 37, 50, 75, 86, 87, 88, 91, 93, 149, 174

fall of, 187–8, 235

Königsplatz, 355, 356

Königswusterhausen, 261

Kopelev, Lev, 28, 30, 35

Köpenick, 269, 297

Köslin, 125

Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya, 212–13

Kraków, 44, 60, 112

Krampnitz, 266, 276

Krasnaya Zvezda ( Red Star ), 25, 194, 196–8

Krasovsky, Gen. S. A., 230

Krebs, Gen. Hans, 91, 150, 152

appointed Chief of General Staff, 153

and Bormann’s circle, 154

and Oder front, 188, 225

and Hitler, 250

and threat to Zossen, 265–6

and battle for Berlin, 268, 275, 277, 286, 299, 304, 322, 337, 340, 350, 351, 359, 362, 364

and surrender, 367, 368, 369, 370

and suicide, 382, 387

Kriegsmarine, 120–21, 149, 343, 402

Sprengboote , 159

scratch troops, 159–60, 298, 322

SHIPS

Admiral Hipper , 51

Admiral Scheer , 88

Leipzig , 120

Lützow , 88

Prinz Eugen , 117, 120

Schlesien , 120

Krüger, Elsa, 278

Krukenberg, SS-Brigfh. Gustav, 116, 291–3, 299, 301, 303, 304, 322, 352, 370

and blowing up S-Bahn tunnel, 370–72, 382, 383, 384

Kryukov, Gen. Vladimir, 116, 427–8

Kummersdorf, 333, 362, 377

Kunz, Dr Helmuth, 361, 380, 381, 391

Kurchatov, Prof. Igor, 138, 325

Kurfürstendamm, 339, 345

Küstrin, 69, 70, 132, 142, 149, 152, 185, 206, 207, 219, 220

Kuznetsov, Gen. V. I., 384

Lammerding, SS-Brigfh., 54, 131

Landsberg, 273

Lange, Franz, 386, 387

Lange, Lt. Col. Heiner, 238

Lauban, 126

Lauenburg, 117, 122, 247

Lasch, Gen. Otto, 87

Lattre de Tassigny, Gen. Jean de, 192, 404

Laue, Dr Max v., 325

League of German Officers (BDO), 69, 198

Leba, 125

Leipzig, 146, 191, 203

Lelyushenko, Gen. D. D., 17, 62, 126, 229, 232, 245, 256, 265, 298

Lend-Lease, 66

Leningrad, 117

Lichtenberg, 416

Lichtenrade, 271

Lichterfelde, 416

Linge, Heinz, 359

Lódź, 44, 64

Loewe, Lothar, 2

Lohbeck, Col., 179

Lorenz, Heinz, 299, 341–2

Lötzen, 50

Löwenstein de Witt, Hans Oskar Baron, 294–5

Lübben, 147, 232, 296

Lübeck, 137, 141, 292, 294, 400

‘Lublin government’, 20, 81

Luchinsky, Gen. A. A., 298, 318, 333

Luckenwalde, 256, 306

Luftwaffe, 131, 249–50, 430

and attacks on Oder bridges, 133, 159, 237–8

paratroopers, 159

scratch troops, 159–60, 323

and Oder battle, 237–8, 243

and Elbe front, 263

and battle for Berlin, 266, 267, 287, 342

1st Flak Division, 178–9

9th Parachute Division, 159, 223, 236, 243, 246–7, 286, 385, 388

25th Parachute Regiment, 92, 117

27th Parachute Regiment, 218, 223, 237

Leonidas squadron, 238

Luttwitz, Gen. Smilo Freiherr v., 22

Lvov, 100

Magdeburg, 190, 196, 202, 431

Magnuszew bridgehead, 17

Mahlsdorf, 269

MaiziAre, Col. Ulrich de, 89, 153, 203, 243, 276, 277

Makhnev, Col. Gen., 324, 325

Malchow, 265

Malenkov, G. M., 108, 137, 325

Malinin, Gen. M. S., 230

Manhattan Project, xxxiv, 78, 138, 324

Mannheim, 195

Manteuffel, Gen. Hasso v., 5, 160, 248, 304, 337, 338, 400

Manzialy, Constanze, 278, 358, 382, 388

Marienburg, 49, 115, 117

Mariendorf, 296

Marshall, Gen. George C., 78, 79, 80, 142, 195, 364

Masur, Norbert, 250

Matrosov, Aleksandr, 166

Memel, 121

Merezhko, Capt. Anatoly, 216

Meseritz line, 63, 66, 68

Meshik, Gen. P. Ya., 44–5, 61, 308

Misch, Rochus, 359, 360

Moabit, 347

Mobilization of German civilians, 106–7, 185

Model, Field Marshal, 142–3, 156, 190, 200, 201, 283

Mohnke, SS-Bdefh., 287, 322, 357, 366, 370, 379, 382, 383, 388, 389

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 77, 137, 143

Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard, 84, 140, 141, 146, 195

and looting, 193

and surrender, 400–401

Morell, Dr Theodor, 252, 275, 277, 359

Müller, SS-Gpfh. Heinrich, 22, 342

Müllrose, 270

Mummert, Maj. Gen. Werner, 339

Müncheberg, 228, 243, 246, 254, 256, 259

Munich, 350, 402

Murphy, Robert, 84–5, 409

Mussolini, Benito, 98, 357

National Committee for a Free Germany, 36, 69, 181, 197, 363

National Redoubt, see Alpine Fortress

National Socialist Party, 131, 134

and Freikorps Adolf Hitler , 134–5, 160

and obsession with 1918, 174–5, 428

and Werwolf , 175

and defence of Berlin, 178–9, 356

and departure of senior officials, 251, 252, 261

and legacy, 430

Nauen, 274, 290, 384

Nehring, Gen. Walther, 45, 62

Neisse, German Army executions in, 127

Nemmersdorf, 28, 118

‘Nero Order’, 155–8, 202

Neuhardenberg, 222, 223, 242, 243, 244

Neukölln, 282, 297, 303, 312–13, 323, 352

Neustrelitz, 291, 293

Neustroev, Capt., 349, 354, 365, 372

NKVD, 16, 20, 421–2

rear area troops, 29, 30, 36, 38, 45, 61, 82, 97, 98–100, 102–6, 113, 199, 207, 260, 273, 308, 415, 419–20

postal censorship, 34

at Yalta, 78

prisoners, 166, 185, 422

and Soviet prisoners of war, 167–8, 402

and Red Army discipline, 168, 184, 273

and deserters, 184

arrest of Polish political leaders, 195

and arrests for contacts with foreigners, 307

commanders, 308–9, 420

and Operation Borodino, 324–5

and chemical weapons, 377

NKVD DIVISIONS

57th Rifle Division, 96–7

NKVD REGIMENTS

105th Frontier Guards, 308

127th Frontier Guards, 102

157th Frontier Guards, 308

217th Frontier Guards, 107

333rd Frontier Guards, 308

108th Special Communications Company, 165

Novikov, Marshal A. A., 298

Oderbruch (Oder flood plain), 70, 71, 72, 132, 161, 207, 216, 225–6, 232, 236, 248

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 142

Ohlau bridgehead, 61, 125, 129

OKH HQ Zossen, 7, 12, 13, 89, 151

bombing raid on, 150–51, 152, 153, 200

and Red Army offensive, 225, 240, 241, 243, 265–7

OKW HQ, 241, 304

Oldershausen, Libussa von, 118–19, 123

Operation Barbarossa, 91, 98, 138, 147, 301, 304

Operation Borodino, xxxiv, 138, 324–6, 406

Operation North Wind, 8

Operation Plunder, 192

Operation Seraglio, 276–7

Operation Sonnenwende , 90–91, 125, 200

Oppeln, 60, 62, 112, 127, 129

Oranienburg, 194, 269, 274, 292

Osnabruck, 195

Oster, Maj. Gen. Hans, 181

Ostermayr, Herta, 252, 254, 278

Pachur, Capt., 293

Papen, Franz v., 364

Patton, Gen. George S. Jnr, 141, 146, 152, 191, 325–6, 364

Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich, 68, 69

Pehrsson, SS-Hauptstfh., 302, 323

Perkhorovich, Lt. Gen. F. I., 373, 375, 376