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Jodl, Alfred (General), 33, 39, 42, 45, 48, 51, 66, 128, 133, 156, 193, 199, 216, 275–76, 279–80, 312, 342, 375, 399–400, 402, 524n105

Ju-52 transport planes, 284, 311, 390, 538n25

Jupiter, Operation, 304

Kalach, 285–86, 288, 306–10, 314

Kalinin, 156, 161, 204, 211

Kalmyk Steppe, 275, 277

Kaluga, 156

Kamenets-Podolsky, 395, 411

Kammler, Hans, 335, 426

Kampfgruppe (battle group), xvi, 191, 378, 393

Kamyshin, 282

Karelia, 146, 407, 412

Karpovka, 306, 314

Katyn Forest, 360

Katyusha rocket launchers, 293, 309

Kaufman, Theodore, 107–8, 512n56

Kaufmann, Karl, 174

Kaunas, 94–95, 98, 176, 418

Kazakhstan, 115

Keitel, Wilhelm (Field Marshal), 27, 31, 39, 42, 48, 59, 68, 101, 105, 235, 268, 280, 329, 376, 397

Kempf, Werner (General), 356

Kerch, 242, 244–45, 247

Kerch peninsula, 241–42, 244–45

Kerch strait, 244, 268, 272, 278

Kesselring, Albert (Field Marshal), 280

Kharkov, 126, 145, 163–64, 172, 244–45, 247–53, 261–62, 317, 323–24, 338–39, 353, 355–56, 379, 388, 478

Khersones, 247

Kholm, 154, 213

Khrushchev, Nikita S., 145, 251, 348

Kiev, 52, 89, 102, 104, 122, 126, 128–29, 140–41, 143–46, 148, 153, 154, 155, 172, 174, 317, 369, 371–72, 378–80, 389, 478

Kiev pocket, 145–46, 148, 163, 174, 516n16

Kishinev, 434–35

Kleist, Ewald von (General), 164–65, 248, 250–53, 266–67, 275–76, 278, 282, 397

Klemperer, Victor, 218, 455

Kletskaya (bridgehead), 307–8

Klin, 186, 191, 201, 204

Kluge, Günther von (Field Marshal), 86, 161, 162, 184, 187, 192

and Citadel, 342, 344, 346

and Guderian, 207–8

and Hitler, 208–9, 340, 350–51, 367–68, 381, 384

and retreat to Dnieper, 368–69, 381

and Soviet counteroffensive, December 1941, 207–9

Koch, Erich, 225

Koch, Robert, 105

Konev, Ivan (Marshal), 214, 348, 391, 394, 418, 442–45, 447–49, 461–65, 469

Königsberg, 385, 430, 444, 446

Konstantinovka, 267, 370

Korosten, 378, 380, 387

Korsun, 389, 391, 393–95, 398

Kotelnikovo, 314

Kovel, 382, 392–93, 405–6, 408, 410–12, 418, 422

Kozlov, D. T. (General), 243

Krakow, 445

Krassnaya Polyana, 191

Krasnodar, 275, 277–78

Krasnoe Selo, 385

Krasnograd, 249

Krasny Oktyabr (Red October) metallurgical works, 290, 295

Krebs, Hans (General), 460, 465–66

Kremenchug, 141, 143

Kremenskaya, 285

Kremlin, 191

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass, November 1938), 15, 21

Krivaya River, 307

Kronstadt, 79

Krosigk, Graf Lutz Schwerin von, 59

Krueger, Friedrich (Higher SS and Police Leader), 257

Kuban, 272, 274–75, 277–78

Kube, Wilhelm, 176

Küchler, Georg von (Field Marshal), 69, 382, 384–86

Kuporosnye, 291

Kursk, 156, 187, 203, 264, 323

Battle of, 338–48, 350–53, 357, 366, 438, 441, 469, 541n69, 542n80, 542n83, 542n86, 543n94 See also Citadel, Operation

Küstrin, 446, 460

Kutuzov, Operation, 353

Kvaternik, Sladko (Marshal), 108

Ladoga, Lake, 146, 162

Lammers, Hans, 105, 329

Latvia, 32, 176, 367, 417. See also Courland

Laval, Pierre, 47

Lazur chemical works, 290, 295, 301

Lebensraum (living space), xvi, xxi–xxii, 4, 6–8, 10–12, 16–20, 22, 23, 25, 28–29, 35, 39–42, 44, 52, 55, 60, 63, 65, 70–71, 73, 75, 82, 91, 94, 104, 139, 197, 233, 235–36, 241, 316–17, 322, 376, 420, 439, 475, 480, 482, 484, 487, 499n9

Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter von (Field Marshal), 88, 97–98, 146–47

Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler. See Divisions (German)

Leipzig, 70

Lend-Lease, 40, 64, 182, 194, 216, 230, 238, 286, 305, 324, 343, 367, 370, 386, 394, 421, 471

Leningrad, 56, 59, 79, 88, 91, 113, 120, 126, 128–29, 132, 142, 144, 146–47, 151, 152, 153, 156, 172, 174, 210, 213–14, 255, 268, 276, 303, 336, 382, 384–86, 478

“lightning war.” See blitzkrieg

Lindemann, Georg (General), 432

Lisichansk, 267

Lisjanka, 391

List, Wilhelm (Field Marshal), 261, 269, 276–80, 288

Lithuania, 20, 32, 86, 94–96, 176, 257

Little Saturn, Operation, 315

Litvinov, Maxim, 79

Liutezh, 378–79

living space. See Lebensraum

living standards (Germany), 7, 296, 336, 424, 451

living standards (USSR), 451

Livny, 203, 208

Lloyd George, David, 38

Lodz, 22, 175–76, 178, 220, 442, 445–46

logistics, German. See German army: logistics

logistics, Soviet. See Red Army: logistics

Lokhvitsa, 144

London, 10, 33, 156, 268, 400

losses, German. See German army: casualties

losses, Soviet. See Red Army: casualties

Loyev, 381

Lublin, 21, 23, 89, 177, 218, 220, 257, 361, 418, 477

Ludendorff, Erich (General), 359, 447, 455

Luftflotte, xvi

1, 382

2, 184

6, 410, 441

Luftwaffe

armaments production, 37, 90, 226, 229, 329–30, 363–64, 401–2, 426 ( see also Germany)

and Bagration, 409–10

and Barbarossa, 56, 85, 127, 154, 164, 169, 188, 213

and Blau, 244, 251–52, 285–86

bombing of Baku oil fields, 282–83

and Citadel, 344, 352

and Crimea (1942), 242–44, 246

failure of, 243–44, 331, 366

field divisions, 306, 369, 384

fighter production ( see Germany)

and French campaign, 54

fuel shortages ( see Germany)

and Goering, 132, 243–44, 312, 318

and Hitler, 37

and invasion of Britain, 33, 38

losses, 169, 352, 357, 399

numbers, 78, 85, 343, 355, 369, 378, 382, 394, 410, 441, 452, 461

and Stalingrad, 287, 306, 310–14, 318, 320–21, 538n25

and winter campaign (1943–1944), 366, 391, 393 See also Fliegerkorps; Luftflotte

Lutze, Viktor, 361

Lvov, 89, 392–93, 398, 418, 420

Mackensen, Eberhard von (General), 252

Madagascar Plan, 13, 24, 65, 92, 108, 479

Maginot Line, 54

Magnuszew, 418–19, 442, 444–45

Maidanek, 258, 450. See also extermination camps

Maikop, 83, 164, 182, 235, 268, 271–72, 275–78, 534n71

malnutrition, 94, 166, 167–68. See also hunger policy

Mamayev Kurgan, 290, 294–95

Mann, Thomas, 3

Manstein, Erich von (Field Marshal)

anti-Semitism of, 98

Army Group Don, 309, 312, 316, 322

“back-hand blow” strategy, 338, 417

Barbarossa, 88, 128,

Cherkassy pocket, 389–92

Citadel, 339–40, 342, 350–51

Crimea, 164, 241–47

defensive battles in Ukraine (1943–1944), 323–25, 338–40, 346–47, 350–51, 355–56, 367–68, 378–80, 387–97, 403

dismissal of, 397

and Donets, 322, 338, 367–68

Eleventh Army, 163, 241, 247, 268, 276

and Hitler, 312, 323, 340, 342, 350–51, 356, 367–68, 379, 388, 395–97

Kharkov, 323–24, 338–39, 356

relief attack on Stalingrad, 312–16

retreat to Dnieper, 368, 371, 378

and “Sickle-cut,” 27, 54, 56, 323

Manteuffel, Hasso von (General), 465

Manych River, 275

Marcks, Erich (General), 52

Marina Gorka, 415

Marne, Battle of, 183, 190, 192

Mars, Operation, xvi, 304

Mauthausen, 260. See also concentration camps

Mediterranean Sea, xxiv, 39, 43, 45, 184, 307, 311, 341–42, 350–51, 484, 486

Mediterranean strategy, 45–51, 71, 233, 487

Medyn, 210–11

Mekhlis, L. Z., 243

Melitopol, 365, 379

Mers-el-Kebir, 33

Meyer, Konrad, 93, 253, 255–56

Michael I (king of Rumania), 436

Middle East, 39, 46, 117, 233, 272, 279, 336, 400