Джонатан Димблби - Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War [calibre]

‘Europe First’ doctrine 437 , 469 , 490–91

Evans, Richard J. 370 , 481

‘Final Solution’ xlv–xlvi , 263 , 270 , 366–75 , 501–3 ; see also Jews

Finland 73 , 96 , 100 , 235 , 256 , 383–5 , 438 , 439–40 , 464 , 466 , 467 ; Winter War (1939–40) 83–6 , 87 , 90 , 93 , 106 , 109 , 114 , 187 , 290 , 353 n , 410 , 435 , 485

First World War (1939–45) xliii , xlvi , 4 , 5 , 6 , 10 , 11 , 11 n , 12 , 14 , 19 , 21 , 22 , 33 , 36 , 43 , 72 , 74 , 134 , 182 , 190 , 195 , 206 , 267 , 379 , 421 n , 477 , 481 , 509

Foreign Office, UK 12 , 15 , 16 , 32 , 54 , 55 , 59 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 69 n , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 114 , 115–16 , 117 , 119 , 120 , 125 , 299 , 305 , 336 , 379 , 385

France 61 , 62 , 64 , 66 , 68 , 70 , 72 , 86–7 , 91 n , 129 , 187 n , 189–90 , 256 , 297 , 470 ; Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied (1944) (Overlord) xli , 490 n , 493 , 495 , 506 , 507 ; German invasion of (1940) 15 , 87 , 88 , 98 , 115 , 134 , 136 , 205 , 237 ; Locarno Treaty (1925) and 16 , 17 ; Maginot Line 76 , 76 n , 87 ; Munich Agreement (1938) and 48 , 49 , 56 ; Versailles Treaty (1919) and 6–8 , 10 , 13 , 33

Frank, Hans 76–7 , 268

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (‘Barbarossa’) 100 , 100 n

Frisch, Franz 272 , 401

Fuchs, Karl 135–6 , 203 , 322 , 324

gas chambers xlvi , 366 , 373–5 , 501

gas vans 369–71 , 372 , 373 , 375

Geneva Conventions xliii , 77 , 199 , 242–3

Genoa Conference (1922) 3–4 , 9–10 , 12–14 , 16 , 33

George VI, King 53 , 378

Germany: armed forces see Wehrmacht ; Barbarossa Operation and see Barbarossa, Operation and individual area, battle, commander and unit name ; Berlin treaty (1926) 17 , 57 ; Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918) 11 , 11 n , 12 ; British naval blockade of 102 , 205–6 ; Communist Party in 11 , 21 ; Genoa Conference and 9–10 , 12–14 , 16 ; Great Depression and 18 , 20–21 ; Hitler, rise of within xlvi , 19–24 , 25 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 44 , 46 , 47–8 , 49 , 50 , 52 , 54 ; Kristallnacht (1938) 50–51 ; Locarno, Treaty of (1925) and 16 , 17–18 , 47 ; Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and see Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact ; Munich Agreement (1938) and 52–4 , 55 ; Night of the Long Knives (1934) 50 ; Pact of Steel (1940) and 136–7 ; Rapallo treaty (1922) and xlvi , 3–4 , 8–9 , 11 , 13 , 14 , 14 n , 17 , 57 , 70 ; Reichswehr (German Defence Force) 7 , 15 , 20 ; Reinsurance Treaty (1887) 11 ; Second Reich 4 ; Soviet Union, commercial agreements with 56 , 57 , 70 , 89–90 , 102–3 ; Soviet Union, tension with over Black Sea 90–94 , 91 n , 95 ; Spartacist uprising (1919) 11–12 ; Tripartite Pact (1940) 92–3 , 92 n , 94–5 , 387 ; Versailles Treaty (1919) and xlvi , 4–5 , 6–8 , 11 , 12 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 , 24 ; Weimar Republic 6–7 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 20 , 34 , 57

Gestapo 23 , 49 , 50 , 78 , 101 , 269

Gibraltar 98 , 161

GKO ( Gosudarstvennyj Komitet Oborony ) (Soviet State Defence Committee) 177 , 177 n , 194–5 , 332

Goebbels, Joseph 34 , 52 , 89 , 124 , 126–7 , 134 , 142 , 255 , 258 , 310 , 316 , 360 , 362 , 365 , 416 , 420 , 473 , 477 , 479 , 480 , 481 , 502

Goering, Hermann 22–3 , 49 , 50 , 64 , 95 , 97 , 204 , 479–80

Golikov, General Filipp 93 , 100 , 101 , 121 , 128

Gomel, Soviet Union 193 , 236–8

Granatowa Policja (Blue Police) 268

Great Depression 18 , 20–21 , 26 , 32–3 , 36

Greece xlvi , 92 , 93 , 98 , 109–13 , 111 n , 112–13 n , 120 , 158 , 297 , 359

Grossman, Vasily 235–8 , 236 n , 286–8 , 289 , 294 , 312–13 , 315 , 316 , 364–5 , 453 , 459–60 ; The People Immortal 294 , 317

GRU (Soviet foreign military intelligence agency) 92 , 93 , 100 , 102 , 121 , 128

Guderian, General Heinz xlii , 168 , 211 , 212 ; Achtung! Panzer! 237 ; aggressive attitude and personal courage on the battlefield 171–2 , 173 , 248 ; Białystok-Minsk pocket and 179 ; Bock and 170 , 211 , 276 , 277–8 , 316 , 357–9 , 405 , 407–8 , 427 , 429 , 430 , 432 , 433 , 478 ; Bryansk pocket and 312 , 314 , 316 , 318 , 319 ; casualty rate, on German 319 ; Commissar Order and 170 ; deserters, attitude towards 248 ; exhaustion of troops, reflects on 351 , 406–7 , 408 , 430 ; Gomel, capture of 238 ; Halder and 257–60 , 276 , 277 ; Hitler dismisses and orders to Officers Reserve 478–9 , 480 , 481 , 483 ; Hitler meets over delay in Moscow attack 258–60 , 276 ; Hitler meets over request to withdraw forces 476–8 ; Kiev, advance on 276–8 , 279 , 287 ; launch of Barbarossa/battle for Brest-Litovsk fortress and 76 , 133–4 , 139 , 146 , 147 , 164 , 171–2 , 174 , 174–5 , 179 , 499 ; Minsk, takes 174–5 ; Moscow attack (Operation Typhoon) and 250 , 253–4 , 257–60 , 271 , 276 , 281 , 293 , 309–10 , 311 , 312 , 313 , 314 , 316 , 318 , 319 , 349 , 350 , 351 , 401 , 404 , 405–7 , 408 , 425–7 , 428–9 , 430–31 , 432–3 , 434 ; Moscow, Hitler delays attack on 250 , 253–4 , 257–60 , 271 , 276 , 281 ; Oryol, reaches 313 , 314 ; Polish campaign and 76 ; Rapallo Treaty and 14–15 ; Roslavl, capture of 237 , 248 , 253 ; Smolensk pocket and 182 , 209 , 212 ; Soviet counter-attack on retreating forces and 446 , 457 , 475–8 ; T-34 and 350 ; Tula gateway and 357–8 , 359 , 401 , 405–7 , 408 , 425–7 , 428–9 , 430–31 , 432–3 , 458 ; weather, on impact of Russian winter 253 , 277–8 , 348 , 349 , 401 , 405 , 408 , 432 ; at Yasnaya Polyana 425–6 , 448–9 ; Yelnya bridgehead and 271

Gulag 28 n , 36 , 40 , 43 , 50 , 83 , 288

Haape, Heinrich 181 , 415 , 443–4 , 449 , 458 , 482 , 483–4

Halifax, Lord 54 , 59 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 66 , 67 , 69 , 75 , 115 , 117 , 118 , 118 n , 120

Halder, General Franz 358 , 408 , 421 , 422 ; Barbarossa launch and 164 , 172 , 173–4 , 183 , 209–10 , 211–12 , 214 ; Barbarossa planning and 97–8 , 99 , 100 , 108 ; Bock and 249 , 250 , 271–2 , 358 , 408 , 421 , 428 , 435 , 454 ; Brauchitsch and 474 ; ‘dash toward Moscow’, Hitler’s decision to put on hold and 210 , 211–12 , 214 , 250 , 251–2 , 253 , 254 , 256–7 , 258 , 259–60 , 276 ; generals at the front and Army High Command, attempts to mediate bitter disputation between xliii , 173–4 , 211–12 , 253 , 256–7 , 258–60 , 271–2 , 277 , 427 , 428 , 454 ; animosity between Guderian and 259–60 , 276–7 , 478 ; Guderian meeting with Hitler over delay in Moscow attack and 259–60 , 276 , 478 ; Hitler’s decision to level Moscow and Leningrad and 205 ; Hitler’s unrealistic operational ambitions and 403–4 , 454 , 456 , 483 ; Red Army resistance, on 209–10 , 486 ; Typhoon Operation/Moscow attack and 309 , 313 , 316 , 358 , 403 , 404 , 408 , 421 , 427 ; Polish campaign and 77 ; retreat of German forces from Moscow and 435 , 446 , 454 , 456 , 478 , 483 ; shortages of men and winter clothing, on 249 , 271 , 421 , 422 ; Soviet resistance, on unexpected strength of 209–10 , 486 ; war diary xliii , 210 , 253 , 257 , 435 , 483 ; United States, on possible conflict with 435 ; Yelnya bridgehead and 271–2

Harriman, Averell 219 , 219 n , 295 , 296 , 299–307 , 303 n , 330 , 386 , 394 , 436 , 507

Harvey, Oliver 64 , 299 , 385 , 443–4 , 463–4 , 466 , 467 , 468 , 469 , 471

Heinrici, General Gotthard 167–8 , 209 , 212 , 213 , 247 , 346–7 , 348 , 351 , 401–2 , 405–6 , 426–7 , 430–32 , 449 , 482–3 , 486–7

Hess, Rudolf 20 , 95 , 97 , 124–5 , 204

Heusinger, Lieutenant General Adolf 358 , 479 , 479 n , 483

Heydrich, Reinhard xlv , 78–9 , 263 , 264 , 268 , 281 , 362 , 363 , 365 , 366–7 , 375 , 501–2

Himmler, Heinrich 79 , 89 , 202–3 ; appearance 78 ; Einsatzgruppen xlv , 263 , 368 , 375 ; Final Solution and 366–7 , 368–9 , 370 , 371 , 375 , 501 , 502 ; Gestapo and 23 ; Heydrich and 78 ; Jewish children, orders murder of 363 ; Jews, orders murder of all 263–4 ; mass deportation of Jews from Nazi heartlands and 362 , 366 , 375 ; ‘Night of the Long Knives’ and 49–50 ; Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) and 263 , 264 , 265 ; Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) (Reich Main Security Office) and 373 ; tour of killing grounds in newly occupied Soviet territories 265 , 368–9 ; Ukrainische Hilfspolizei (Ukrainian Auxiliary Police) and 268