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

Jones, Gareth 30–31 , 31 n , 32

Junkers 15 , 286 ; Ju 87 (Stuka dive-bombers) 143 , 148 , 154 , 164–5 , 193 ; Ju 88 237 , 237 n , 285

Kalinin, Soviet Union 82 , 327 n , 356 , 409 , 452 , 459 , 460 , 482

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine 268–9 , 284 , 363 , 367

Katyn massacre (1940) 82

Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania 266 , 362–3 , 366 , 499

Kearny (US destroyer) 386–7

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm 77 , 89 , 204 , 211 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 477

Kennedy, Major General Sir John 110 , 162–3 , 377–8 , 380

Kershaw, Ian 22 , 54 n , 170 , 269

Kesselring, General Albert 211 , 314 , 474

KGB (Soviet secret service) 40 n , 41 n

Khrushchev, Nikita 86 , 86 n , 122 , 192 n , 332 n , 410 n

Kiev, Ukraine 28 , 138 , 144 , 151 , 182 , 183 , 209 , 210 , 240–41 , 259 , 285 , 404 ; Babi Yar Massacre 281–4 , 363 ; battle of/fall of 276 , 278–81 , 286 , 289 , 308 , 311 , 329 , 404 , 424 n , 499 ; Zhukov suggests Stalin allow to fall 234–5 , 271

King, Admiral 490 , 491 , 492

Kirponos, General Mikhail 182 , 183 , 279 , 281 , 289

Klemperer, Victor 51 , 74

Klin, Soviet Union 408 , 416 , 417 , 418 , 423 , 446 , 460 , 471

Kluge, Field Marshal Günther von 360 ; Army Group Centre withdrawal from Moscow and 495 , 496 ; Guderian dismissal and 475–6 , 478–9 ; Hitler’s ‘Stand Fast’ order and 475 , 478 , 483 , 484 ; Hoepner and 480 ; Kursk battle and 499 ; Moscow attack and 407 , 414 , 419–20 , 428 , 431 , 433 , 434 , 446 ; replaces Bock 474 ; 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler, role in 481 n

Knappe, Siegfried 180–82 , 199–200

Knoke, Pilot Officer Heinz 148 , 149

Komsomol (The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) 177 , 195 , 196 , 334

Konev, Colonel General Ivan 311 , 312 , 319 , 320–21 , 409

Krasnaya Polyana, Soviet Union 4 , 23 , 425 , 447 , 448

Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) (Red Army newspaper) 235–6 , 330 , 392 , 458 , 459

Krause, Erich 323–4 , 342

Krauze, Irina 271 , 328 , 330 , 333 , 341 , 345

Kravchenko, Victor 74 , 152 , 328 , 328 n , 329–30 , 334

Kriegsmarine (German Navy) 75 , 89–90 , 110

Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) (criminal police) 78 , 264 , 370

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) (1938) 50–51 , 54

kulaks 26–32 , 37 , 44 , 52 , 82 , 288 , 500

Labas, Raisa 329 , 339

Lake Ladoga, Soviet Union 292 , 332 n , 357 , 358 , 359

Lange, SS-Hauptsturmführer Herbert 371 , 372 , 420

Latvia 62 , 73 , 83 , 182 , 284 n

League of Nations 5–6 , 16 , 34 , 46 , 58 , 85 , 229 , 387

Lebensraum (living space) 19 , 22 , 24 , 46 , 54 , 55 , 77 , 81 , 90 , 99 , 107 , 135 , 207–8 , 254 , 263 , 449 , 487 , 502

Leeb, General Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von 101 , 134 , 143 , 182 , 211 , 252 , 291 , 404 , 455 , 481

Lemelsen, General Joachim 168–9 , 170 , 171 , 248

Lend Lease programme, US 219 n , 386 , 494 , 505

Leningrad 36 , 83 , 85 , 143 , 160 , 403 , 409 , 451 , 454 ; German forces advance on 182 , 209 , 210–11 , 214 , 235 , 250 , 252 , 256 , 289–92 , 316 ; Hitler’s decision to level 205 , 291–2 ; siege of 289–92 , 308 , 311 , 320 , 332 n , 337–8 , 338 n , 384 , 396 , 439 , 455 , 500 ; Zhukov’s role in defence of 290–91 , 311 , 320 ; see also Stalingrad

Lenin, Vladimir 9 , 11 , 12 n , 35 , 38 , 39–40 , 176 , 220 , 235 , 335 , 395 , 452

Libya 110 , 158 , 377 , 440 , 441 , 445 , 491 , 503

Lithuania 7 , 62 , 73 , 83 , 182 , 266 , 267 , 362 , 363 , 365

Litvinov, Maxim 35–7 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 160 , 300 , 303 , 303 n

Lloyd George, David xlvi , 4 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 13 , 14 , 17 , 30

Locarno, Treaty of (1925) 16 , 17–18 , 33 , 47

Low Countries, German invasion of (1940) 87 , 88 , 134 , 205 , 237

Lubyanka (NKVD headquarters in central Moscow) 41 , 41 n , 42 , 82 , 373

Luftwaffe 49 , 104 , 105 n , 112 , 113 n , 116 , 128 , 174 , 191 , 193–4 , 205 , 237–8 , 248 , 273 , 285 , 286 , 291 , 479–80 , 392 , 495 ; Atlantic battle and 305 , 504 ; Barbarossa launch and 141–2 , 144 , 148–9 , 148 n , 154 , 164–5 ; Polish campaign and 75 ; Moscow battle/Operation Typhoon (1941) and 211 , 220–21 , 314 , 315 , 329 , 334 , 338–9 , 353 , 393 , 418 ; Luftflotte 2 211 ; Stalingrad battle and 498

MacArthur, General Douglas 33–4

Maginot Line 76 , 76 n , 87 , 264

Maisky, Ivan: Chamberlain and 45 , 59 , 60 , 62 ; Churchill and 120–21 , 161 , 189 , 297 , 298 , 299 , 384–5 , 493 ; Cripps and 115 , 118 ; Eden and 160 , 296 , 384 , 385 , 438 , 464 , 465 , 471 ; Eden’s visit to Moscow and 438 , 464 , 465 , 471 ; Hopkins and 218 ; Lloyd George and 30 ; Stalin’s push for second front and 296–7 , 298 , 299 , 378 , 384–5

Majdanek concentration camp, Poland 373 , 375

Malaya 388 , 389 , 440 , 445

Malenkov, Georgy 176 , 177 , 344

Manchester Guardian 9 , 25 , 30

Manchuria 35 , 387 , 390 , 391

Mannerheim, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Emil 84 , 439–40 ; Mannerheim Line 84

Market Garden, Operation (1944) 506–7

Marshall, General George 440–41 n , 490 , 490 n , 491 , 492 , 505

Marx, Karl 38 , 39

Mason-MacFarlane, General Noel 162–3 , 184 , 218 , 382

Mekhlis, Lev 85–6 , 144 , 234 , 244 , 292 , 293

Meretskov, General Kirill 103–4 , 292

Merridale, Catherine: Ivan’s War 106 , 241 , 329

Middle East 110 , 120 , 158–9 , 161–2 , 188 , 216–17 , 219 n , 377 , 378 , 379 , 380 , 383 , 437 , 440 , 441 , 445 , 469 , 491 , 494 , 503 n , 504 , 504 n ; see also individual battle, area and nation name

Mikoyan, Anastas 140 , 176 , 192 , 192 n , 339 , 343 , 394

Minsk, Belorussia 139 , 140 , 144 , 147 , 148 , 153–4 , 155 , 164–5 , 172 , 174 , 175 , 179 , 199 , 209 , 236 , 265–6 , 308 , 363–6 , 368–9 , 370 , 499

Mogilev, Belorussia 175 , 370

Molotov cocktails 353 , 353 n

Molotov–Ribbentrop Line 77

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939) xlvi , 65–7 , 69–72 , 73–5 , 76 , 77 , 83 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 96 , 97 , 102 , 114 , 121–2 , 143 , 150–51 , 186 , 298 , 381 , 464 , 499 , 509

Molotov, Vyacheslav xlvii ; Anglo-Soviet ‘Agreement for Joint Action’ and 185–6 ; Anniversary of the October Revolution celebration (1941) and 394 ; Barbarossa launch and 100 , 102 , 138 , 139 , 144 , 145 , 150–51 , 152 , 176 ; Berlin visit (1940) 89–90 , 92 , 93–7 , 94 n , 97 n ; British offers of alliance with Moscow and 60–61 , 62–3 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 71–2 ; Cripps and 115 , 117 , 121 , 184 , 185–6 ; Eden visit to Moscow and 463 , 468 ; creation of GKO and 176–7 ; government evacuation from Moscow and 335 , 343 , 344 ; Great Famine and 27 , 28 ; Great Purge and 44 ; Harriman-Beaverbrook mission and 300 ; Mason-MacFarlane and 184 ; Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and see Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact ; Paris Peace Conference (1946) and 332 n ; People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, replaces Litvinov as 60–61 ; Rapallo non-aggression treaty, reaffirmation of and 70 ; Roosevelt, meets 492 ; ‘Stone Arse’ 60 , 93 , 96 , 303 , 468

Montgomery, General Bernard 162 n , 502 , 503 n , 504 , 506–7

Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) 85

Moscow, Soviet Union 100 , 209 ; curfew in xliv , 344 , 393 ; defence industries and economic assets, destruction of 332 , 462 ; defences xliv , 138 , 194 , 195–7 , 220–21 , 223–4 , 310 , 311 , 332 , 413 ; evacuation of 334–9 , 343–5 , 393 , 462 ; food shortages within 462 ; governent evacuation plans 334–9 , 343–5 ; ‘Great Panic’, day of (Thursday, 16 October, 1941) 327–45 , 393 , 461 ; Hitler decision to level 205 , 207 ; Hitler’s dithering over attack on 208–15 , 249–60 , 276 , 281 , 301 ; industrial plants dismantled and transported to safety 321–2 , 342–3 , 462 ; Luftwaffe bombing of 211 , 220–21 , 314 , 315 , 334 , 338–9 , 393 , 418 ; Moscow Defence Zone plans 332 ; Muscovites sense that threat to has been lifted 461–2 ; Operation Typhoon (Battle of Moscow) 307 , 308–434 ; resistance groups, plans for creation of 330–301 ; ‘state of siege’, Stalin orders to be placed under a xliv , 344–5 , 356 , 393 , 461 ; volunteers units in 152–3 , 156–7 , 194–7 , 223 , 317–18 , 328 , 413 ; Wehrmacht inability to reach 435