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Busse, Theodor (General), 460, 466

Bustard Hunt, Operation (Trappenjagd), xvii, 243, 529n5

Carpathian Mountains, 140, 387–88, 392, 396, 434–36

Caspian Sea, 55, 233, 272

casualties, German. See German army: casualties

casualties, Soviet. See Red Army: casualties

Catholic Church, 136–38

Caucasus

in German planning, 53, 59, 130, 132, 162–64, 182, 190, 231–32, 234, 239, 241, 313, 316, 336, 342

oil in, 53, 59, 83–84, 89, 91, 126, 129, 132, 145, 165, 182, 235, 238, 277, 280, 326

operations in, 245, 261–62, 268, 270–72, 274–79, 281–84, 291, 296, 301, 306, 322, 324

and Soviet planning, 84, 200, 269, 304, 315

Chamberlain, Neville, 10

Chelmno, 178, 219–20, 226, 253

Cernovicy (Chernovtsy), 395

Cherkassy, 141, 389–95, 398

Cherniakhovsky, Ivan Danilovich (General), 444

Chernigov, 365, 368–69

Chernobyl, 369, 371, 378, 381

Chir River, 307, 314

Chotin, 395

Chuikov, Vasilii Ivanovich (General), 288, 293–94, 296, 298, 301, 304

Churchill, Winston, 32–34, 37–38, 46, 79–80, 110, 131, 157, 174, 197, 328, 458

Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 32, 166, 190

Citadel, Operation (Zitadelle)

consequence of, 357

delays, 340–42

doubts about, 339–42

losses, 352–53

operations, 344–53

plans for, 338–39, 341, 343

strength of opposing forces, 343–44 See also Kursk, Battle of

Clausewitz, Carl von, 82–83

climate. See weather

coal, 28, 150, 169, 226, 229, 297, 322, 366, 475, 492–93

collaborators (with Germans), 97

Cologne, 144

colonies, 17, 46, 48, 170, 259

colonization, 7, 92–93, 173, 241, 254–57, 476–79

Commissar Order (6 June 1941), xv, 68–69, 94, 480–81, 519n57

Communist Party (Soviet), 94, 156–57

Compiegne, 2

concentration camps

Auschwitz, 178–79, 181, 220, 223, 226, 254, 257–58, 260, 317, 362

Dachau, 260

death marches, 454–55

destruction through labor, 94–95, 180, 223, 260–61, 334, 481

euthanasia in, 139

forced labor in, 93–94, 221–22, 259–61, 332, 334–36, 364, 428, 481, 486

Mauthausen, 260

Mittelbau-Dora, 335, 426

Oranienburg, 260

Ravensbrück, 260

Sachsenhausen, 260 See also extermination camps; forced labor

continental bloc, 44–48, 51

Corps (German)

Second SS Panzer, 323, 347–51, 396, 398, 402, 541n69, 542n80

Third Panzer, 251, 275, 282, 355–56, 390

Fourth SS Panzer, 444

Fifth, 275

Eighth Air, 242

Eleventh, 285, 317

Thirteenth, 388

Fourteenth Armored, 298

Fourteenth Panzer, 285–87, 289, 309

Twentieth, 209

Twenty-fourth, 142

Twenty-fourth Motorized, 154

Twenty-fourth Panzer, 211, 285, 351, 355–56

Twenty-ninth, 370

Thirtieth, 246

Thirty-fifth, 414

Thirty-ninth Motorized, 147

Fortieth Panzer, 275

Forty-first Panzer, 414

Forty-third, 208

Forty-fourth, 275

Forty-seventh Motorized, 154

Forty-seventh Panzer, 389–90

Forty-eighth, 294

Forty-eighth Panzer, 288, 291, 306–8, 280

Fifty-first, 288, 294, 298, 301, 312

Fifty-second, 275, 293

Fifty-third, 413

Fifty-fourth, 246

Fifty-sixth Panzer, 408

Fifty-seventh Panzer, 275, 314

Grossdeutschland Panzer, 444–45

Corps (Italian)

Alpine, 277

Corps (Rumanian)

Sixth, 288

Corps (Soviet)

Third Tank, 419

Twenty-first Tank, 251

Twenty-third Tank, 251

Twenty-sixth Tank, 310

Twenty-ninth Tank, 349

Cotentin peninsula, 419–20

Cottbus, 464

Courland, 433–34, 446

Crete, 71

Crimea, 91, 105, 132, 163–64, 210, 241–47, 253, 255, 379, 387, 398

Czechoslovakia, 12, 14, 468–69

Czestochowa, 443

Dachau, 260. See also concentration camps

Daimler-Benz, 260

Dakar, 46

Dannecker, Theodor, 65

Danube River, 438

Danzig, 405, 429–30

Das Reich. See Divisions (German)

Das Reich (journal), 234, 424

D-Day. See Normandy

death penalty, soldiers, 331, 464

Debrecen, 437

Demyansk, 146, 213–14, 311

Desna River, 142, 154, 365

destroyers for bases, 40, 45

diet. See food supplies

Dietrich, Josef “Sepp” (SS-General), 438

Dietrich, Otto, 156, 296

Divisions (German)

Brandenburg, 444

Das Reich (2nd SS), 191, 268, 324, 348, 350, 355, 438

Grossdeutschland, 266, 268, 277, 324, 355, 388, 444, 541n69, 542n83

Hermann Goering Panzer, 419, 444

Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (First SS), 268, 324, 348–51, 395

Luftwaffe field, 306, 369, 384

Panzergrenadier (motorized infantry), 355, 367, 384

Totenkopf (Third SS), 324, 355, 438

Viking (Fifth SS), xvii, 269, 351, 355, 389, 419, 438

Second Panzer, 191

Third Panzer, 142, 355

Fourth Panzer, 142, 155, 160, 208

Fifth Panzer, 191, 346, 353, 415–17

Sixth Panzer, 160, 192, 202, 306, 356, 398

Seventh Panzer, 191, 202, 355, 395, 444

Eighth Panzer, 353

Ninth SS Panzer, 393, 398

Tenth Motorized, 142

Tenth Panzer, 191

Tenth Panzergrenadier, 355

Tenth SS Panzer, 398

Eleventh Panzer, 191, 390

Twelfth Panzer, 146–47, 346, 409, 415–16

Thirteenth Panzer, 269, 282, 390

Fourteenth Panzer, 298, 306, 308, 390

Sixteenth Motorized, 277

Sixteenth Panzer, 286, 308, 390, 443

Seventeenth Panzer, 315, 351, 390, 443

Eighteenth Motorized, 146–47

Eighteenth Panzer, 117

Nineteenth Panzer, 419, 445

Twentieth Motorized, 146–47

Twentieth Panzer, 409, 413, 414

Twenty-second Panzer, 242, 244, 277, 292, 306, 308

Twenty-third Panzer, 263, 282, 314–15, 351

Twenty-fourth Panzer, 266, 289, 308, 390

Twenty-fifth Panzer, 379–80, 445

Twenty-ninth Motorized Infantry, 309

Thirty-ninth Infantry, 357

Fiftieth Infantry, 247

Sixty-second Infantry, 100

Sixty-eighth Infantry, 395

134th Infantry, 414

168th Infantry, 356

253rd Infantry, 375

221st Security, 203

454th Security, 250

Divisions (Hungarian)

108th Light Infantry, 250

Divisions (Rumanian)

First Armored, 306

Divisions (Soviet)

Thirteenth Guards Rifle, 294, 303

Dnieper, Battle of, 369

Dnieper bend, 379, 387–88

Dnieper line, 114, 117, 120, 143

Dnieper River, 52, 56–57, 81–82, 86, 88–90, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 140–41, 143, 149–50, 154, 365, 368–74, 377, 379, 381, 387–92, 405, 414–15

Dniester River, 52, 395, 435

Dnepropetrovsk, 141, 163, 370, 379

Doenitz, Karl (Admiral), 418

Doerr, Hans (General), 293

Don-Chir bridgehead, 314

Donets Basin (industrial area), 126, 141, 145, 163, 165, 270, 273, 322, 324, 338–39, 351, 366–67, 369

Donets River, 248–49, 251, 267, 347, 353, 370

Don River, 162, 163–65, 185, 232, 261, 264–65, 267–69, 271–72, 275, 283–86, 288–89, 292, 296, 303–4, 306–10, 312, 314–17, 319, 321–22, 324, 405

Dora (artillery piece), 245

Dora camp. See concentration camps; Mittelbau-Dora

Dresden, 461, 465, 469

Drohobycz, 96

Dubno, 89

Dunkirk, 244, 328, 401, 406, 484

Durchgangstrasse 4 , 481

Dvina-Dnieper line, 56–57, 81–82

Dvina River, 52, 88, 90, 417

Dzerzhinsky tractor works, 290, 295

Eagle’s Nest, 10

East Prussia, 88, 94, 104, 311, 419, 428–31, 442, 444–47, 449–50

East Prussian operation, 430, 442, 444, 446–47

Edelweiss, Operation, xv, 272, 276

Edward, Duke of Windsor, 38

Egypt, 233