Stephen Fritz - Ostkrieg

horses in, 26, 54, 57, 78, 83, 119, 158–59, 161–62, 164, 216, 237, 277, 297, 317–18, 343, 369, 383, 391, 394, 410, 421

and influence of Nazi ideology, 67–70, 96–98, 374–76, 480–82

and killing of Jews, 96–104, 510n36, 511n44

logistic problems, 26, 52–57, 59, 60–61, 83–84, 88–89, 117–20, 122–29, 133, 140–42, 145–46, 149–52, 154–55, 157–64, 169–70, 172, 174, 176, 182–83, 185–86, 188–90, 191–93, 199, 202–3, 205, 209–13, 216, 226, 231–32, 237, 239, 252–53, 261–62, 270, 272, 277–78, 282–84, 290–91, 297, 309–13, 317–18, 333, 339–40, 354, 366, 369, 393, 395, 427, 440, 514n81

and Mediterranean strategy, 39, 43–51, 233

morale, 89, 109, 111–12, 121, 130, 151–52, 155, 159, 162–64, 182, 188–90, 192–93, 201–3, 262, 283, 293, 295, 297, 299, 319–20, 359, 370–71, 376–77, 399, 452, 546–47n70

motivation of soldiers, 374–77, 480–83

motor vehicles in, 26, 149, 169, 216, 272, 383

and Operation Barbarossa ( see Barbarossa)

and Operation Blau ( see Blau)

and opposition to Hitler by senior officers, 27, 422, 428

and opposition to war by senior officers, 26–27, 39, 58–59, 82

and partisan war, 81, 86, 94, 98, 101–2, 104, 106, 108, 111, 149, 160, 174, 180, 193, 198, 212, 259, 282, 297, 317, 332–34, 340, 353–54, 374, 378, 381, 383, 385, 400, 409, 412, 415–16, 447, 479–82

plunder, 61–62, 94, 120, 172, 224–25, 310, 317, 333, 373–74, 467, 480–81

Polish campaign, 18–20

rearmament, xxiii, 10–13, 473, 475

replacements, 116–17, 126, 151–52, 160, 185, 190, 193, 202, 205, 208–9, 215, 276, 352, 367, 375, 384, 394, 426, 522n85

scorched earth policy (Russia), 369, 372–74

tanks, 27, 53, 114–16, 199, 201, 205

fear of German models, 345, 346–47, 352

losses of, 117, 141–42, 147, 149–51, 155, 160, 187, 190, 215, 237, 346, 350, 352, 356–57, 392, 408, 433, 440, 543n94

numbers of, 77, 116–18, 125, 141–42, 147, 150–52, 160, 169, 187, 190, 202, 215–16, 230, 237, 272, 283, 285–86, 289, 304, 306–8, 314–15, 319, 329–30, 340, 343, 345, 346, 348, 350, 353, 355–57, 370, 378, 380–82, 389–90, 394, 409, 413, 416, 419, 426, 435, 437, 441, 461, 542n80, 542n86

superiority of Panthers and Tigers, 345–47, 352–53, 400 ( see also Germany: tank production)

troop strength, xxiii, 37–38, 53, 77–78, 87, 114, 116–17, 121, 125–26, 151–52, 182, 187, 190–93, 209, 215–16, 236, 262, 272, 292, 295, 299, 301, 309, 340, 355, 365, 367, 370, 378, 384, 387, 394, 399–400, 404, 409, 461, 470, 524n2, 547n75

trucks, 56–57, 59, 119, 114, 149, 158–60, 185, 209, 216, 237, 271–72, 297, 310, 339, 393–94, 440

use of forced labor, 364, 369, 372–73

and Vistula-Oder campaign (1945), 440–49

and winter campaign (1941–1942) ( see Barbarossa)

and winter campaign (1942–1943), 322–25

and winter campaign (1943–1944), 368–99

See also Armies; Army Groups; Corps; Divisions; Ostheer; Wehrmacht

German navy, 34, 37–38, 57, 90, 226, 229, 330, 399, 431, 440, 470

German-Soviet peace feelers, 300, 363

Germany

agricultural policy, 40–41, 59–62, 170–72, 221, 224, 255, 258, 427, 477–78, 483, 506n64

Allied bombing of, 50, 83, 136–38, 174, 197, 330–32, 335, 339, 361–63, 366, 402, 422–23, 426–28, 436, 440, 453, 457, 466, 470, 483

anti-American propaganda, 15, 40, 64, 107–8, 110, 474

anti-Bolshevik propaganda ( see Bolshevism)

anti-Jewish actions in, 13–15, 21–22, 64, 110, 174, 218

armaments industry: aircraft production, 238, 329–31, 363–64, 402, 426–27

ammunition production, 58, 229, 236, 329–30, 440

armaments production, 37, 57–58, 90, 169, 215–17, 229–31, 260–61, 289–90, 329–31, 335, 338, 363–64, 402, 424, 426, 440, 448, 456

collapse of, 426–27, 455–58

effect of Allied bombing, 330–31

productivity, 227–30, 332

propaganda about, 230

raw materials shortages, xxii–xxiii, 11–13, 26, 28, 39–42, 49, 55, 58, 60–63, 71, 83, 133, 166, 169, 223, 226–30, 234, 338, 427, 475, 481, 484, 487

tank production, 91, 117, 151, 190, 215, 229, 236, 238, 305, 322, 328–30, 340, 367, 401, 440, 542n86

total war mobilization, 227–30, 326–30, 423–27, 456–57 ( see also Speer, Albert; tank production [German])

black market activities, 136, 171, 224, 427–28

deportation of Jews, 14, 21, 64–65, 108, 110, 173–78, 180, 219–20, 257, 259, 362, 522n78

food: rationing, 72, 135–36, 149, 220, 223, 226, 427–28

supply, xxii–xxiii, 12–13, 28, 32, 40–41, 49, 55, 58–62, 64, 69, 71–73, 92, 135–36, 149, 167, 170–71, 217, 221, 223–26, 257, 316, 366, 427–28, 475, 477–84

foreign labor in ( see forced labor)

Four-Year Plan ( see Goering)

hunger policy ( see hunger policy)

labor: compulsory, 328, 424–25

foreign ( see forced labor)

Ostarbeiter ( see forced labor)

roundups ( see forced labor)

shortages, xxiii, 58, 166, 174, 204, 215, 217, 220–24, 227–29, 257, 328, 331, 334, 363–64, 424, 426

slave ( see forced labor)

use of concentration camp prisoners ( see forced labor)

women, 166, 221–22, 328, 331–32, 424–25

Labor Service ( Reichsarbeitsdienst ; RAD), 376

morale, xxiii, 72, 109, 121, 135–37, 155, 167, 224, 230, 296–97, 325, 328–31, 359, 363, 427–29

occupation policy of, 18–25, 28, 40–42, 60–68, 91–94, 105–6, 170–74, 221–26, 332–34, 372–74, 426–27, 483, 485

popular support for Hitler, 2, 10, 31–32, 72, 135–37, 325, 428, 483–84

and total war, 326–30, 423–27, 440, 456–57

war economy, 41–42, 55, 58–61, 83, 166, 216, 220, 226–27, 232, 258–59, 261, 327, 330, 332, 423, 425, 427–29, 459, 471, 485, 488

women, rape of by Soviet soldiers, 431, 449–52

Germany Must Perish (Theodore Kaufman), 107

Gestapo, xv, 94, 137, 178, 330, 454

Geyr von Schweppenburg, Leo (General), 142, 154

ghettos, 21–22, 64–65, 94, 100, 174–76, 218, 220, 223 257, 318, 361–62, 477

Gibraltar, 45, 48, 51

Globocnik, Odilo, 257–59

Gniloy Tikich River, 391

Goebbels, Joseph, 31–33, 63

and anti-Bolshevism, 44, 99, 217, 322, 376, 431, 453

anti-Semitism of, 2, 14–15, 20–24, 36, 40, 64, 73, 99, 107–9, 174, 179, 218, 220, 360–61, 376

on Atlantic Charter, 110

and Battle of Stalingrad, 322

and bombing raids on German cities, 137, 363

and Churches, 137–38

and declaration of war on U.S., 194–95

and Der ewige Jude , 22–23, 64

and Final Solution, 109–10, 172, 174–75, 179, 218, 220, 360–62, 528n63

and food supply, 136, 170, 224, 428

and Hitler, 2, 22, 31, 33, 35–36, 44, 64, 73–74, 131, 155, 172, 175, 179, 190, 217–18, 220, 230–31, 238, 279, 296, 300, 329, 341–42, 360–62

and Madagascar Plan, 24

and peace offers to Stalin, 363, 550n51

and popular mood in Germany, 63, 72, 108–9, 135–37, 155, 230, 363, 401, 428–29, 514n79

as Propaganda Minister, 21–24, 40, 63–64, 99, 107–8, 135, 184, 230, 234, 247, 322, 327, 360, 363, 376, 401, 423–24, 428–29, 431, 440, 453, 472, 510n40

as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War, 425–26

“total war” initiatives, 230, 232, 326–29, 423–26, 456, 458

Total War speech, February 1943, 326–27

urges Hitler to address nation, 155, 296, 300

and war against the Soviet Union, 63, 72–73, 77, 79, 85, 88, 99, 105, 111, 121, 131, 155, 170, 184, 190, 217, 238, 247, 279, 296, 300, 322, 338, 341–42, 351–52, 367, 376, 397