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Croatia, 230

Czechoslovakia, 10–11, 168

Daladier, Édouard, 31

Danubian Commission, 214–216

Defence Regulation 18B (Britain), 152

Dekanozov, Vladimir, 85–86, 198, 200, 221, 255

Delgado, Castro, 117

Deportation, 46–47, 49–54, 242–249

Dimitrov, Georgi, 80, 231–232, 258

Doumenc, Joseph, 20–22

Draft communiqué, 27–29

Drax, Reginald Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-, 20–24

Dridzo-Lozovsky, Solomon, 118

Dubnow, Simon, 275

Dutt, Rajani Palme, 100–104, 107, 282

Economic cooperation, Nazi-Soviet

Barbarossa campaign and, 262–263

Border and Commercial Agreement, 227–229

Commercial Agreement, 174–175

German demands for Soviet materials, 173–174

historical context, 163–165

Hitler’s strategic plans for war, 166–169

increasing Nazi-Soviet friction, 190

post-pact negotiations, 204–205

Soviet access to German technology, 168–172, 175–177, 179–180

Stalin’s attempts to appease Hitler, 240

trade imbalance, 183–184

Eden, Anthony, 257, 279, 286–289

Einsatzgruppen , 34, 41, 48, 272

Eisenstein, Sergei, 119

Elections: illusion of democracy in occupied countries, 42–43

Espionage, 151–152, 236–238

Estonia

disposition under the pact, 25, 28

pro-British feeling, 83–84

purging Soviet collaborators, 275

strained Soviet-Estonian relations during the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 63–65

See also Baltic states

Ethnic cleansing, 242–243

Executions, 42, 44–46, 48–49, 57

Expansionism, German

failure of “collective security,” 12–13

Hitler’s anti-Soviet rhetoric, 4–5

Hitler’s global ambitions, 205, 208–214

Hitler’s preparation for war with the USSR, 229

invasion of Czechoslovakia, 9–11

pact negotiation, 25–27

post-pact negotiations, 198–202

Expansionism, Soviet

attack on Finland, 69–79

ideological focus of, 15

negotiating the terms of the pact, 25–27

Polish-Soviet War, 21

Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic states, 84–89

Extraordinary Pacification Action (AB Aktion), 42, 58–59

Fascism

British fascists’ lack of support for Hitler, 123

in occupied Poland, 43–45

Stalin’s anti-Nazi rhetoric, 3–6

Stalin’s foreign policy shift, 12–13

See also Germany

Feige, Otto, 186

Film industry, 119, 129

Finland

American view of Soviet invasion, 149–150

British ambivalence over Nazi-Soviet rapprochement, 140–141

Nazi-Soviet post-pact negotiations over spheres of influence, 205

pact negotiations, 25, 28

Soviet invasion, 69–79, 84–85, 107, 141

Tripartite Pact negotiations, 213

Food supplies, 7, 173–174, 177, 182–183, 240

France

appeal for American help, 150–151

attempt to block Nazi-Soviet rapprochement, 20–24

Battle of Borodino, 257

Boundary and Friendship Treaty, 41

German advance into, 82, 84–85, 146, 177–178

German invasion of Poland, 31–32

Hitler’s deportation of “undesirables” to, 242

nonintervention policy, 12–13

oil resources, 181

targeting Soviet resources to crush Germany, 142–144

Frank, Hans, 22, 47

French Communist Party, 110–112

Gallacher, Willie, 103–104, 282

Generalgouvernement, 41

German Communist Party (KPD), 112–117, 277

German Cup Final, 276

German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact, 232

German-Soviet Economic Agreement, 23

Germany

Allied POWs, 58

attack on Scandinavia, France, and the Low Countries, 82, 146

attacking Soviet oil industry, 142–146

attitude towards the Soviet-Finniah Winter War, 76–78

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

Britain’s attempts to reset Anglo-Soviet relations, 157

Britain’s declaration of war, 136–140

British concerns over Nazi-Soviet rapprochement, 139–142

British Nazi sympathizers, 151

Comintern’s initial stance on the war, 104–106

Commercial Agreement, 174–175

domestic distrust of the Soviet Union, 87–88

domestic opposition to the pact, 123–130

domestic response to Operation Barbarossa, 275–277

economic and political gleanings from the pact, 81–82

food supplies, 182–183

hardening of American opinion towards, 149–151

Hess’s flight to Britain, 236–239

history of economic cooperation with the USSR, 163–165

instigating pogroms in Eastern Europe, 275–276

invasion of Poland, 31–34

oil resources, 181, 185

policies in occupied Poland, 42–46

Polish labor in Germany, 47–48

position on Bessarabia’s annexation, 89

post-pact negotiations, 193–209

racial reorganization in Poland, 46–47

raw material imports, 165–166, 180–181

Soviet military analysis of, 219–220

Soviet-Estonian political rift, 65

Soviets’ access to technology, 161–163, 171–172, 176–177, 179–180

technological advances, 168–169

transfer of battleships to the Soviet Union, 161–163

war on the USSR, 216, 221, 224, 255–267, 275–279, 283–289

See also Economic cooperation, Nazi-Soviet; Hitler, Adolf; Ribbentrop, Joachim von

Gernhardt, Leopold, 276

Gestapo, 58, 96, 115–116, 277

Ghettos, 49, 55

Gisevius, Hans, 127

Goebbels, Joseph, 20, 76, 88, 96–97, 124, 129, 184, 195, 203–204, 230–231, 237, 256

Golikov, Filipp, 220, 232, 239

Gollancz, Victor, 107–109

Göring, Hermann, 11–12, 18, 166, 170–171, 241

Greenland, American occupation of, 283

Guderian, Heinz, 38, 128, 262

Guernica, Spain, 145–146

Gulag, 44–46, 53, 56–57, 94, 278

Gusev, Dmitri, 171

Guzevicius, Alexander, 243

Halifax, Edward Wood, Viscount, 135, 139, 141–142, 156, 187

Hassell, Ulrich von, 76–77, 128

Häyhä, Simo, 74–75

Herwarth, Johnnie von, 2, 22–23

Hess, Rudolf, 236–239

Hilferding, Rudolf, 114

Hilger, Gustav, 7, 29, 174–175, 183–184, 194, 201

Himmler, Gudrun, 276

Hindenburg, Paul von, 224

Hitler, Adolf

anti-Soviet rhetoric, 3–6

attack on the Soviet Union, 256

British cartoon depiction, 138

British guarantee of protection of Poland against, 11–12

deterioration of Nazi-Soviet economic cooperation, 240–242

division of Europe with Stalin, 95–96

domestic resistance to the pact, 121–130

Germans as Heim ins Reich , 68

impression of Stalin, 32

invasion of Prague, 10–11

justification for war against the USSR, 232–234

negotiating the terms of the pact, 25–26

political and economic strategic plan for war, 166–169

post-pact negotiations, 200–204

preparing to attack the Soviet Union, 210–216, 251

reaction to Soviet occupation of Bessarabia, 96

Soviet attack on Finland, 75

Western attempts to block the pact, 24

See also Germany

Hobsbawm, Eric, 106

Hoffman, Heinrich, 1–2, 6–7, 29, 32

Honecker, Erich, 113

Honey trap, 186

“How to Win the War” (Pollitt), 100–104

Hungary, 122, 229

Hyde, Douglas, 107

Ideology

British fifth-column Soviet support, 152–153

Commercial Agreement, 186–187

communist-fascist cleavage over the Pact, 100–121

decline in Anglo-Soviet relations, 158–159

German communists’ reaction to Operation Barbarossa, 277

Hitler’s justification for war against the USSR, 233–234

Nazi-Soviet similarities, 19–20

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