Roger Moorhouse - The Devils' Alliance - Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

Stalin and Hitler’s mutual antipathy, 3–6

Stalin’s confusion over Nazism and capitalism, 13

Isolationism, American, 283

Italy, 122, 199

Japan, 23–24, 26, 35, 122, 213, 230–231

Jews

deportation of Viennese Jews, 242–243

deportation to the Soviet Gulag, 53

Hitler’s political and economic preparation for war, 167

Judeo-Bolshevism, 37, 124, 273–275

Polish ghettos, 49

racial reorganization in Poland, 46–49

repatriation of, 54–55, 69

“resettlement” of Jews from Romania and Germany, 243–244

Soviet advance into Poland, 37–38

Soviet film industry portrayal of, 119

start of the pogroms, 273

Judenfrei (Jew free territories), 242

Judeo-Bolshevism, 37, 124, 273–275

Kandelaki, David, 165

Katyn massacres, 44, 46, 49

Kazakhstan, 50–51, 249

Kent, Tyler, 151–152

Khalkhin Gol, Battle of, 23–24, 219

Khrushchev, Nikita

Baltic states annexation, 87

Hess’s flight to Britain, 238

Jewish deportation, 54

Lützow construction, 186

Nazi-Soviet secret police connections, 58

on Finnish cooperation, 69

Soviet attack on Finland, 76

Soviets’ anti-German sentiments, 120

Stalin’s breakdown, 267

Kiichiro, Hiranuma, 122

Klemperer, Victor, 127, 276

Komet (cruiser), 59–60

Kormoran (cruiser), 60

Kravchenko, Victor, 118–119

Krebs, Hans, 231

Kreve-Mickevicius, Vincas, 14, 86

Krupp von Bohlen, Gustav, 185–186

Kuhn, Fritz, 123

Kulik, Grigory, 222–223, 265–266

Kuusinen, Otto, 72

Kuznetzov, Nikolai, 240, 258

Latvia, 25, 28, 264, 274–275. See also Baltic states

League of Nations, 12, 75

Leitukis Garage Massacre, Lithuania, 272–273

Lend-Lease Act (1941), 151, 283

Levi, Primo, 182

Lithuania, 28, 67–68, 83, 244–246, 271–273, 275. See also Baltic states

Lithuanian Strip, 187–188

Low Countries, German advance on, 82, 146, 177–178

Ludendorff, Erich von, 224

Luftwaffe, 33, 39, 145–146, 166, 218, 230, 233–234, 236, 260

Luther, Martin, 18

Lützow (German cruiser), 161–163, 176, 186, 190, 240, 263–264

Lützow, Ludwig von, 161

Maginot Line, 82–83, 226

Maisky, Ivan, 142, 156, 285–286, 288–289

Manganese resources, 185

Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil, 188

Martin, Kingsley, 109–110

Mason, John, 152

Mass Observation, 147

Matsuoka, Yosuke, 196, 230–231

Matuszynski, Janusz, 46

Mayenburg, Ruth von, 117

Mein Kampf (Hitler), 4–5, 37, 112

Mekhlis, Lev, 89

Meretskov, Kirill, 219, 222–223

Merkulov, Vsevolod, 251, 270

Merkys, Antanas, 84, 92

Metallist (merchant ship), 65

Mikoyan, Anastas, 180, 184–185, 221–222, 267

Military equipment

Commercial Agreement terms, 175–176

German cessation of supplies to the Soviets, 240–241

German invasion of the Soviet Union, 261–264

German preparations for attack on the USSR, 224–226

Lützow , 161–163, 176, 186, 190, 240, 263–264

Soviet military incompetence, 222

Soviet tank industry, 180

Military forces

Finnish resistance to Soviet aggression, 70–79

German buildup on the Soviet western frontier, 239–240

justification for war against the USSR, 233–234

Red Air Force, 144, 260, 263

Red Navy, 190–191

Soviet preparation for German attack, 221–222

Sovietization of the Baltic states, 65–66, 80–81, 92–94

Stalin’s view of German military, 224–225

state of Soviet military in 1940, 217–221

See also Luftwaffe; Red Army; Wehrmacht

Mitchison, Naomi, 107

Mitford, Unity, 123

Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, 90–91

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Anglo-Soviet trade talks, 144–145

annexation of Bessarabia, 89–90

British overtures to, 153

Finnish resistance to Soviet aggression, 70

German invasion of Poland, 35

history and character of, 16–18

Hitler’s war directive, 212

intervention in Baltic states’ internal affairs, 83–84

Nazi-Soviet Commercial Agreement, 186–187

pact as attack on capitalist countries, 14–15

pact negotiations, 28–29

post-pact negotiations, 193–209

response to German aggression, 258–259

Soviet attack on Finland, 79

Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic states, 67–68, 86

Soviet pressure for “protection” of Latvia, 67

Soviet-Estonian political crisis, 64–65

Soviets’ response to Operation Barbarossa, 277–278

Western attempt to block the pact, 22–23

Molotov cocktail, 72–73

Molotov Line, 225–226, 261

Mongolian frontier, 35

Moravia, 10

Moscow, Treaty of (1939), 79

Mosley, Oswald, 123, 152–153

Mother Courage (Brecht), 114

Motti (Finnish military tactic), 73–74, 78

Music, 130

Mussolini, Benito, 20, 122, 218

Nationalism, Soviet, 19

Naval forces, 59–60, 190

Nazi Party, 109–110

Nazism, Judeo-Bolshevism and, 37, 124

Neumann, Heinz, 57

Neutrality

British communists’ stance on the war, 100–104

fiction of Soviet neutrality, 33, 60–62, 139

Germany’s overtures to Britain, 237–238

Soviet view of small states, 83

United States, 148–150

Nicolson, Harold, 133, 279, 282

NKVD

Allied POWs, 58

blaming pogroms on, 274–275

blocking desertion from the front, 266

ethnic and social cleansing in Poland, 44, 49–54

impending German attack on the USSR, 221–222

increasing Nazi-Soviet friction, 190

intervention in the military, 266–267

persecuting Germans in the USSR, 56–57

purges in the Baltic states and Bessarabia, 80, 84–85, 92–94, 244–245, 270–273

targeting German communist dissenters, 116–117

Northern Bukovina, 89–91, 93, 95, 188–189, 204–205

Norway, German invasion of, 107–108

Oil fields, British attack on Soviet, 142–147

Oil resources, 142–143, 181, 184–185

Orwell, George, 105

Orzel (submarine), 64, 66

Oshima, Hiroshi, 122

Oumansky, Konstantin, 88, 150

Paasikivi, Juho, 69–70

Päts, Konstantin, 65, 92

Pearl Harbor, 283

People’s parliaments, 86–87

Petropavlosk. See Lützow

Philby, Kim, 238

Phony War, 82, 143

Pieck, Wilhelm, 115

Pike, Operation, 145–147

Planned economies, 91

Poland

Allied POWs, 57–58

Anglo-Polish Agreement, 135–136, 139–140

Boundary and Friendship Treaty, 40–41

British cartoon depiction, 138

British Communists’ reaction to German invasion, 100–101

British concerns over German threat, 135–136

British guarantee of protection, 11–12

Communists’ international response to Germany’s invasion, 106–107

deportation of Viennese Jews, 242–243

disillusionment with communism, 55–57

disposition under the pact, 28

ethnic and social cleansing, 49–54

German and Soviet occupation policies, 43–46

German atrocities, 41–42

German invasion, 10–11, 31–34

Hitler’s increasing population problems, 242

illusion of democracy, 42–43

Jewish ghettos, 49

negotiating the terms of the pact, 25

NKVD purging counterrevolutionaries, 271–272

pogroms, 275

Polish labor in Germany, 47–48

racial reorganization, 46–47

reestablishing Anglo-Soviet relations, 284–289

Ribbentrop’s negotiation attempt, 9–10