Stephen Fritz - Ostkrieg

Goering, Hermann (Reichsmarschall)

and anti-Bolshevism, 66

and anti-Jewish policy, 15, 18, 24, 66, 105, 108

colonial thinking of, 18, 105, 169, 477

declining influence of, 227–28, 397

doubts about war, 9, 31, 34, 56, 72

economic exploitation of the Soviet Union, 166, 169–72, 225–26

and Final Solution, 66, 108

and food supplies, 136, 170, 172, 223–6

Four-Year Plan, 11–12, 166, 477

and Hitler, 34, 72, 105

and hunger policy, 62, 505n60

and Luftwaffe, 132, 243–44, 312, 318

and Stalingrad, 312, 318, 320

and total war, 227–28, 328–29

Golubinsky, 309

Gomel, 123, 381–82

Gonchara, 289

Gorky, 182, 186

Görlitz, 465, 469

Gorodnitsa, 388

Gothengau, 255

GPU (Soviet Secret Police), 67, 69

Great Britain. See Britain

Greece, 47, 49, 71

Greiser, Arthur, 19, 175

Grimm, Hans, 6

Groscurth, Helmuth (Lieutenant-Colonel), 18–19, 298

Grossdeutschland. See Divisions (German)

Großraumwirtschaft (greater German economic sphere), 41, 62

Großwaltersdorf, 430

Grozny, 83, 235, 271–72, 275, 277, 279, 281–82

Grynszpan, Herschel, 14

Guderian, Heinz (General)

and Barbarossa, 86, 117, 122–23, 125–26, 132–33, 141–45, 149, 153–55, 187–88, 190, 200, 202–8

as Chief of Staff (OKH), 417, 434, 437, 442–44, 448, 454–55, 460

criticism of Hitler, 206, 443

criticism of OKH, 399, 417

dismissal, 208, 460

doubts about Citadel (Kursk), 340, 342, 346

and French campaign, 27–28

as Inspector General for Armor, 340, 367, 379, 384

“Guidelines of Economic Policy for the Economic Organization East,” 478

Gulf of Finland, 146, 386

Gumbinnen, 430–31, 446

Gumrak, 289, 320

Gzhatsk, 211

Habsburg Empire, 474, 478

Hagen position, 354–55

Hague Convention, 167

Halder, Franz (General)

and anti-Bolshevism, 37

and Barbarossa, 36–39, 42–44, 50–52, 55–59, 67, 78, 82, 84, 87, 89–90, 111–14, 121–23, 126, 131, 141–43, 146–48, 164, 171, 182

and Blau, 232–34, 248–50, 253, 265–67, 269–71, 275–76, 281, 283

concerns about arms production, 116–17

concerns about manpower situation, 114–16, 142, 151–52, 234, 236, 522n85

concerns about progress in the USSR, 125–26, 130, 133

dismissal, 280

and encirclement operations, 87, 89, 111–13, 121–22, 127, 141, 152–53, 155

and French campaign, 27

and German strategic confusion, 44–45, 233

and Hitler, 18, 27, 52, 55–56, 67, 74, 84, 87, 112–13, 121, 126–28, 131–34, 142, 152–53, 189–90, 206, 263, 267, 270–71, 275, 280, 292

and invasion of Britain, 33, 37

and Soviet counteroffensive (December 1941), 201–11

and Stalingrad, 269, 275, 283–85, 289, 292

suggests demotorization of the army, 26, 57

and Typhoon, 147–48, 152–53, 155–56, 182–87, 190–91

Hamburg

bombing of, 330, 363, 466

deportation of Jews from, 174

Hanke, Karl, 448

Harpe, Joseph (General), 445

Harvest Festival, Operation (Erntefest), 361–62

Harz Mountains, 335

Haushofer, Karl, 6

Hausser, Paul (SS-General), 324, 349

Heim, Ferdinand (General), 307–8

Heinkel, 260

Heinrici, Gotthard (General), 215, 414, 455

Hendaye, 47

Hess, Rudolf, 79, 254

Hewel, Walther, 23

Heydrich, Reinhard

and deportation of Jews, 110, 174–78

and Einsatzgruppen, 70, 94–96, 104, 219

and ethnic cleansing in Poland, 18–19

and Final Solution, 65–66, 108, 110, 174–81, 219, 225

and forced laborers, 180, 522n78

and Himmler, 74, 175–76, 178

and Hitler, 104, 174–75, 178

and Madagascar Plan, 13, 24

and Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of the German People (RKFDV), 93, 254, 256

and RSHA (Reich Security Main Office), 24, 65, 480, 485

and Security Service (SD), 13

at Wannsee Conference, 181

and Wehrmacht cooperation, 66–67, 70, 96

Himmler, Heinrich (Reichsführer-SS)

and Army Group Vistula, 446, 448–49

and colonial thinking, 62, 93, 477, 528n64

and deportation of Jews, 21, 65, 175, 176, 178, 219–20, 257, 362

and Final Solution, 66, 95, 101, 104, 106–7, 111, 175–80, 197, 218–19, 225, 257, 335–36, 361–62, 364, 485, 512n54

and forced labor, 260, 334–35, 364, 426

and Generalplan Ost, 62, 65, 93, 253–61, 477, 528n64

and Hitler, 19, 74, 104, 178–80, 197, 218, 361, 364, 397

and Madagascar Plan, 23–25

and partisan war, 104, 106, 108, 111, 180, 258–59, 332–34

population transfer programs, 19–25, 65, 92, 257–59 ( see also Generalplan Ost)

Posen speech (October 1943), 335–36

and racial policy, 19, 21, 62, 65, 225, 254–61, 506n64

“Reflections on the Treatment of Peoples of Alien Races in the East,” (May 1940), 23–24, 254–55

and Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of the German People (RKFDV), 93, 254, 256

and Speer, 333–36, 424

and SS economic empire, 65, 259–61, 334–35, 364, 426

and Volkssturm, 428–29

and Zamosc, 258–59

Hitler, Adolf

and Antonescu, 109, 435–36

armistice with France, 1–3

assassination attempt, 422, 428, 454

and Anti-Comintern Pact, 45

anti-communism of ( see Bolshevism)

and Atlantic Charter, 109–10, 131

and Bagration ( see Bagration)

and Balkans ( see Balkans)

and Barbarossa ( see Barbarossa)

and Blau ( see Blau)

and Britain, 3, 6, 8–10, 12–14, 16, 32–33, 36–38, 40, 43, 63–64, 71, 75, 91, 156, 194, 217, 268, 296, 400, 402, 433, 475

and the British blockades: 1914–1918, xxiii, 6, 8, 12, 28, 35, 41, 60, 62, 69, 91, 473, 475, 478; 1939–1945, 60, 71, 83

and the Cherkassy pocket ( see Cherkassy)

and Churchill, 32–34, 37–38, 46, 110, 131, 174, 328

and Citadel ( see Citadel)

colonial thinking of, xxii, 6–8, 17–18, 33, 45–48, 62, 92–93, 105–6, 173, 241, 254–59, 476–81

and Caucasus operations ( see Caucasus)

and the Crimea ( see Crimea)

declares war on the U.S., 193–98

and defense of Berlin ( see Berlin)

determination to invade the USSR ( see Barbarossa)

directives ( see Führer Directives; Operational Orders)

economic ideas, 6–8

and eugenics, 138

and euthanasia, 137–40, 177–78, 180, 483

and Final Solution ( see Final Solution)

and Finland ( see Finland)

and food supply ( see Germany: food supply)

and forced labor ( see forced labor)

and fortified places, 382, 393, 411, 418

and Four-Year Plan ( see Four-Year Plan)

and France ( see France)

and Franco, 46–48, 51

and German Navy ( see German navy)

and Germany’s “India,” xxii, 91, 105, 175, 196

and Greece ( see Greece)

and Halder, 18, 27, 52, 55–56, 67, 74, 84, 87, 112–13, 121, 126–28, 131–34, 142, 152–53, 189–90, 206, 263, 267, 270–71, 275, 280, 292

hopes for split in Allied coalition, 360, 424, 434, 441, 486

and Horthy, 362, 437

and Hungary ( see Hungary)

and the hunger policy ( see hunger policy)

ideology (worldview) ( see Bolshevism; Lebensraum)

and invasion of Britain, 33–35, 38–39, 43

and Italy, 38, 45–49, 58, 234, 337, 341, 350–51, 354

and Japan, 34, 42–43, 45, 51, 71–72, 91, 179, 193–97, 217, 235

and Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 179, 193–97, 484

and Jews: anti-Semitism, xxi, 4–6, 13–17, 21–22, 105, 108, 155, 178–80, 181, 196–97, 217–18, 220, 231, 254, 257, 360, 362, 476–77, 479, 485, 488