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

Moskva-Volga Canal, Moscow 419–20 , 423 , 433

Moskvin, Nikolai 190–91 , 192 , 239–40 , 242

Mozhaisk Line, Moscow 326 , 352 , 354 , 355 , 356

Muggeridge, Malcolm 25 , 26 , 31 , 32

Munich Agreement (1938) 48–9 , 52–4 , 55

Mussolini, Benito 92 , 96 , 109 , 111 , 136–7 , 436 , 504

Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party) (NSDAP) 52 , 134 , 308 ; Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) (1938) and 50–51 ; ‘Night of the Long Knives’ (1934) and 50 , 58 ; origins and rise of 18–24 ; SA (Brownshirts) 21 , 50 , 89 ; SD (intelligence organization) 78 , 79 ; SS and see SS

Nebe, SS-Gruppenführer Arthur 264 , 270 , 363 , 368 , 369 , 370

New York Times 13–14 , 30 , 31 , 35 , 37

Nicholas II, Czar 5 , 38

Nicolson, Harold 47 , 162 , 229–30

‘Night of the Long Knives’ (1934) 50 , 51 , 58

NKGB (military intelligence arm of Soviet secret service) 122 , 124 , 468

NKVD (Soviet secret service) 12 n , 40 , 40 n , 41 , 41 n , 42 , 44 , 50 , 82 , 83 , 100 , 128 , 142 , 151 , 193 , 222 , 288 , 291 , 293 n , 320 , 329 , 330 , 332 , 341 , 344 , 391 , 393–4 , 450 , 500 , 501

North Africa 110 , 120 , 171 , 248 , 437 , 441 , 469 , 503 ; Allied second front in 491–3 , 503 , 504

Norway 87 , 88 , 116 , 297

Nuremberg trials 46 n , 73 , 107 n

Nye, Lieutenant General Sir Archibald 444 , 471

OGPU (Soviet national secret police agency) 27 , 40 , 40 n , 42

oil 57 , 87 , 102 , 119 , 136 , 152 , 214 , 256 , 381 , 388 , 391 , 432 , 494 , 496

Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) 263 , 264–6 , 268–9 , 282 , 365

Ortenberg, Daniel 287 , 393

Oryol, Soviet Union 193 , 194 , 286 , 287 , 289 , 293 , 312–13 , 314 , 316 , 476 , 496 , 499

Ōshima, General Hiroshi 489–90

Ostland (Baltic States and western Belorussia) 363 , 366 , 375

Overlord, Operation (6 June 1944 – D-Day) xli , 490 n , 506 , 507

‘Pacific First’ strategy 490 , 491 , 492–3

Pact of Steel (1940) 136–7

Palestine 161 , 376 , 376 n

Panfilov, Major General Ivan 411–12 , 412 n

Paris Peace Conference (1919) see Versailles Treaty

partisans xliii , 77 , 170 , 325 , 355 , 364 , 365 , 368 , 402 , 413 , 418 , 500

Patton, General George 490 n , 503 , 504

Paulus, General Friedrich 161–2 , 161 n , 497–8 , 498 n

Pavlov, Colonel General Dmitry: arrest and execution 178–9 , 236 , 292 , 321 , 410 ; Barbarossa launch and 139 , 140 , 141 , 144 , 147 , 153–4 , 155 , 156 , 165 , 174–6 , 178–9 , 320

Pearl Harbor (1941), Japanese attack on 227 n , 436–8 , 444 , 445 , 489 , 490

Petrov, Major General Mikhail 287–8 , 314–15 , 316 , 318

‘phony war’ (1939–40) 75–6 , 87

Poland: Agreement of Mutual Assistance, signs with Britain 75 ; Barbarossa launch, German forces muster for within 113 , 119 , 124 , 135 , 144 , 201 ; German atrocities committed in xlv , xlvi , 77–82 , 83 , 167–8 , 263 , 267–9 , 362 , 365 , 371–5 , 374 n , 502 ; German forces retreat from Soviet Union into 499 ; Granatowa Policja (Blue Police) 268 ; Operation White (German invasion of) (1939) 56–7 , 59 , 60 , 63 , 65 , 68–9 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74–83 , 85 , 134 , 167–8 , 214 , 381 ; post-war borders 464 , 506 , 508 ; Russians invade (1939) 76 , 81–3 ; Soviet atrocities in 81–3 ; vigilante groups collaborate with Nazis in 267–9 ; Versailles Treaty and 7

Popov, General 182 , 235

Potapov, Major General Mikhail 166 , 170 , 424 n

Potsdam Conference (1945) 508

Pravda 39 , 56 , 178 , 222 , 330 , 331 , 338 , 414

Pripet Marshes, Belorussia 182 , 264

prisoners of war: deaths, numbers of 501 ; German 77 , 165–6 , 170 , 248–9 , 275 , 280 , 284 n , 367 , 434 , 460 , 471 , 501 ; Jewish see Jews ; Polish 81–2 , 371 , 372 , 374 ; Soviet xliv–xlv , 108 , 164–5 , 166–70 , 179–80 , 197 , 199–204 , 242–5 , 279–80 , 281 , 281 n , 294 , 324 , 346 , 352 , 359 , 365 , 371 , 374–5 , 374 n , 416 , 424 n , 447 , 500

Prüller, Wilhelm 135 , 198–9 , 200 , 208 , 246 , 310 , 348 , 418

Radek, Karl 11 , 12 , 12 n , 41–2

RAF (Royal Air Force) 87 , 96 , 97 , 185 , 445 , 495

Rapallo treaty (1922) xlvi , 3–4 , 8–9 , 11 , 13 , 14–15 , 14 n , 15 , 17 , 57 , 70

Rasputitsa (when roads become impassable at the onset of Russian autumn rains) 347 , 349 , 359 , 360

Rathenau, Walther 3 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 57

Red Army: atrocities committed by 81–2 , 164–6 , 170 , 200–201 , 275 , 501 ; atrocities suffered xliv–xlv , 108 , 164 , 166–70 , 179–80 , 197 , 199–203 , 242–5 , 276 , 365 , 370 , 374–5 ; casualty numbers, Barbarossa 179 , 183 , 281 , 310 , 319 , 326 , 357 , 408 , 450–53 , 462 , 484 , 499–500 ; censors 397 , 450 ; Communist Party apparatchiks/political commissars within 103 , 105 , 106 , 167 , 169 , 170 , 190 , 192 , 236–7 , 239–40 , 242 , 247 , 270 , 275 , 288 , 293 , 314 , 317 , 354 , 409 , 412 , 471 ; desertions/surrenders, attitude towards within 193 , 195 , 240–42 , 291 , 292–3 , 352 , 354 ; Directive No. 2 and 145 ; Directive No. 3 and 156 ; fighting ability/strength of resistance 109 , 163–4 , 179 , 187 , 190–92 , 209 , 212 , 213 , 247 , 251 , 254–5 , 280 , 318–19 , 322–3 , 324 , 325 , 352 , 354 , 357 , 360 , 406–7 , 412–15 , 418–19 , 485 , 487 , 497 , 498 ; international opinion of, low 159 , 162 , 163 , 187 , 217 , 219 , 301 , 485 ; Katyusha rockets, use of 353 ; Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) (Red Army newspaper) 235–6 , 330 , 392 , 458 , 459 ; launch of Barbarossa and 103–5 , 134–42 , 144 ; letters from dead soldiers 450–53 ; morale 43 , 163 , 174 , 186 , 190 , 193 , 272 , 275 , 311 , 359 , 393 , 429 , 456 ; Order No. 270 and 240–42 , 292 , 293–4 , 352 ; Order No. 428 and 412–14 , 482 ; planning and preparedness for Barbarossa xlii , 93 , 95–6 , 100 , 101–6 , 118–30 , 137 , 138 , 139 , 139 n , 140 , 143 ; prisoners of war see prisoners of war ; Siberian troop reinforcements 392 , 406–7 , 408 , 409 , 418–19 , 431 , 446 , 458 ; size of forces 104 , 137 , 260 , 278 , 311 , 408–9 , 484 ; suicide statistics 105–6 ; supplies of weapons and ammunition 192–4 , 297–8 , 357 , 446 , 484–5 ; tanks see tanks ; ‘war games’ in preparation for German invasion 103 , 104 ; Winter War (1939–40) and 83–6 , 87 , 90 , 93 , 106 , 109 , 114 , 187 , 290 , 353 n , 410 , 435 , 485 ; women fighters 413 ; see also individual battle and operation name

Red Army units: Armies/Army Groups : 3rd Army 179 , 315 , 409 ; 4th Army 172 , 179 ; 5th Army 166 , 279 , 280 , 409 , 424 ; 6th Army 240–41 ; 10th Army 155 , 174 , 175 , 179 , 321 , 475 ; 12th Army 240–41 ; 13th Army 179 , 314 , 315 , 318 , 409 ; 16th Army 326 , 409 , 410–11 , 416–17 , 423 , 425 , 471 , 480 ; 19th Army 321 , 326 ; 20th Army 326 ; 22nd Army 409 ; 24th Army 317 ; 28th Army 240 ; 29th Army 409 ; 30th Army 318 , 409 ; 31st Army 409 ; 32nd Army 326 ; 33rd Army 409 ; 43rd Army 409 ; 50th Army 287 , 311 , 313–15 , 318 , 406 , 409 , 425 , 429 , 431 , 475 ; Army Group West 320–21 ; Reserve Army 235 , 271 , 272 , 279 n ; Western Army Group 321 , 355 , 356 , 409 , 429 ; Blocking Detachments xliv , 293–4 , 294 n ; Brigades : 32nd Rifle Brigade 352 ; Corps : 15th Rifle Corps 192 ; Divisions : 6th People’s Militia Division 223 ; 8th People’s Volunteer Division 195 ; 32nd Rifle Division 354 ; 44th Division 85–6 ; 78th Siberian Rifle Division 418–19 , 424 ; 103rd Red Army Aviation Fighter Division 237 ; 239th Rifle Division 406–7 ; 258th Rifle Division 429 ; 316th Rifle Division 411–12 ; volunteer divisions 152–3 , 156–7 , 194–7 , 223 , 317–18 , 328 , 413 ; Regiments : 395th Rifle Regiment 293–4 ; Stavka (Soviet High Command) xliv , 43 , 84 , 103 , 145 , 182 , 237 , 246 , 278 , 310 , 312 , 315 , 316 , 320 , 321 , 326 , 409 , 412 , 425 , 429 , 434 , 462 , 465 , 497 , 499