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Admiral Hipper-class cruisers, 161–162, 172, 176, 191

Africa, disposition of, 208

Agreement of Mutual Assistance (Britain and Poland), 135–136, 139–140

Air raids, 136, 207–209, 218, 230

Air technology, 171–173, 175

Alexander Nevsky (film), 119

Allied powers

attack on Soviet oil production, 142–146

countering the Soviet attack on Finland, 75–76

German invasion of Prague, 10–11

Hitler’s growing antipathy towards, 166–167

pact as attack on capitalist countries, 14–15

POWs, 57–58

Soviet annexation of the Baltic states, 88–89

Treaty of Rapallo, 163–164

See also Britain; France; United States

American League for Peace and Democracy, 108

Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth, 251, 276–277

Anglo-Polish Agreement, 139

Annexation of lands

British stance on, 155–156

disposition of lands under the pact, 28

negotiating the terms of the pact, 25

Stalin and Hitler’s division of territories, 95–96

See also Baltic states; Finland

Anti-Comintern Pact, 27, 122, 232

Antifascism, 100, 104–105. See also Communism

Anti-Semitism, 16–17. See also Jews

Austria: deportation of Viennese Jews, 242–243

Baltic states

American view of Soviet annexation, 149

British ambivalence over Nazi-Soviet rapprochement, 140

deportations, 247

German response to the annexation of, 87–88

Soviet concerns over Western sympathies, 83–84

Soviet invasion and incorporation, 84–89, 91–92

Soviet pressure and German passivity, 65–69

Soviet promises of domestic nonintervention, 79–81

sovietization and cleansing in, 66–67, 92–95, 244–249, 270–272

Barbarossa, Operation, 216, 221, 224, 257–267, 275–277, 279, 283–289

Battleships, 161–163, 172, 176–177

Baur, Hans, 2–3, 6

Begin, Menachem, 94–95

Berezhkov, Valentin, 171, 185–186, 194, 196, 200–203, 207, 255

Beria, Lavrenti, 14, 186, 258, 266–267, 270

Beria, Sergo, 14

Berlin, Treaty of (1926), 164

Bessarabia, occupation and control of, 25, 28, 89–91, 93–94, 96, 140, 188–189, 246–249, 252, 271

Bismarck, Otto von, 129

Blitzkrieg, 82, 220, 265

Blocking units, 266

Bohemia, 10, 47

Border and Commercial Agreement (1941), 227–229

Border negotiations, 187–189, 198–199, 201, 204–206, 208–209, 225–229, 284–289. See also Annexation of lands

Boundary and Friendship Treaty, 40–41, 63, 187–188

Brecht, Bertolt, 113–114

Bremen (ocean liner), 59

Britain

ambivalence over Nazi-Soviet rapprochement, 141

Anglo-Soviet relations, 147–148, 154–159, 237–238, 283–289

appeal for American help, 150–151

attempt to block Nazi-Soviet rapprochement, 20–24

Baltic states’ relations with, 83–84, 88

Boundary and Friendship Treaty, 41

Communist Party position on the Pact, 100–107

declaration of war on Germany, 136–140, 207–209

fifth-column espionage, 151–153

German expansionism, 9

German invasion of Poland, 31–33

guaranteed protection of Poland, 11–12

Hess’s appearance in, 236–237, 239

Hitler’s lack of support within, 123

Hitler’s plan to divide, 205–206

nonintervention policy, 12–13

pact as attack on capitalist countries, 14–15

political effect of the pact, 26–27

raid on Berlin, 207–209

response to Operation Barbarossa, 278–282

Stalin and Hitler’s division of territories, 95

surprise and shock over pact, 133–136

targeting Soviet resources, 144

threat of war against the Soviet Union, 139

Britain, Battle of, 148, 198, 263

British Communist Party, 100–104, 282

Brooke, Alan, 82, 278–279

Browder, Earl, 108–109

Buber-Neumann, Margarete, 57

Bulgaria, 189, 206, 214, 229

Byelorussia, 35–36, 42–43, 262, 266

Cadogan, Alexander, 134, 237

Campinchi, César, 143

Cartoons, 137–138

Chamberlain, Neville, 10, 21, 31, 75, 100–101, 137

Channon, Henry “Chips,” 133, 137

Churchill, Winston

British declaration of war on Germany, 136–137

British Left Wing politicians, 154–155

German declaration of war on the Soviet Union, 257, 278–282

Hess’s appearance in Britain, 237

Italy’s role in the war, 218

Polish-Soviet Agreement, 288–289

raid on Berlin, 209

Soviet attack on Finland, 75

Soviet sympathies, 140

Ciano, Galeazzo, 77, 122

Collective security principle, 12–13, 16–17

Colville, Jock, 257, 289

Commercial Agreement, 169, 174–175, 183–186

Communism

disillusionment of Poles, 55–57

Germans’ resistance to the pact, 121–130

Hitler’s anti-Soviet rhetoric, 3–6, 12

ideological focus of Soviet expansionism, 15

in Soviet-occupied Poland, 43

Judeo-Bolshevism, 37, 124, 273–275

Stalin’s global goals, 231–232

See also Soviet Union

Communist International (Comintern)

Anti-Comintern Pact, 27, 122, 232

British and American ideological split over the pact, 100–109

British communists’ response to the pact, 99, 102–103

French communists’ response to the pact, 110–112

German communists’ response to the pact, 112–117

international stance on the war, 100–121

Soviet communists’ antifascist feeling over the pact, 117–121

Stalin’s global goals, 231–232

Communist Party USA, 108–109

Concentration camps, 42, 57

Cripps, Stafford, 144–145, 153–156, 158–159, 238, 286–287