William Craig - Enemy at the Gates

Gibraltar, 153

Giebeler, Wilhelm, 154, 162-163, 405

Gilmore, Eddy, 336

Ginderling, Capt., 92

Giordano (Italian prisoner), 327

Goebbels, Joseph, 100, 161, 295-296, 361, 367, 384-385

Goering, Hermann, 132, 193, 199, 206, 304, 373-374

Gogol Street, 58

Goldstein, Mikhail, 307-308, 398

Golikov, Gen. F. I., 81

Golodny Island, 37, 67

Golubinka, German command center at, 49, 51, 99-100, 111, 113, 137, 148, 175, 181, 184, 186, 190

Gordov, Gen. A. V., 32, 34, 48, 117

Gorishny Col. V. A., 123, 150

Gorki Theater, 35, 110, 368, 375

Gorodische, 304

Gorokhov, Col. Semyon, 67-68

Goslar, 399

grain elevator, 142; battle for, 101-102

“Green Hats,” 43, 83

Grozny, 78, 85

guerrilla fighters, 143-145. See also commandos; partisans

Gurewicz, Lt. Hersch, 42-45, 142-143, 171, 187, 222-223, 386-387, 398, 405

Gumrak Airfield, 115, 190, 197, 203, 308, 334, 346, 347; command post at, 198, 200, 234, 246, 293, 299, 325, 330; hospital at, 323, 333, 349; radio transmitter at, 346; teleprinter at, 248, 249, 300

Gurov, Kuzma, 135, 176

Gurtiev, Col. L. N., 135, 136, 150

Haifa, xiii

Halder, Gen. Franz, 17-18, 19, 20-21, 79, 271, 398-399; fired by Hitler, 111

Halle, Cpl. Werner, 79-80

Hamburg, xiii, 12, 402

hand-to-hand fighting, 92, 150

Hannover, 404

Harriman, W. Averell, 48n, 405, 422

Hartmann, Gen. von, 366-367

Hauswald, Lina, 339

He-111 aircraft, 221-222, 229, 299

Heim, Lt. Gen. Ferdinand, 158, 183, 185, 186, 188, 190, 200, 399

Heitz, Gen. Walther, 13, 350, 371

Hemingway, Ernest, 15

Hero of the Soviet Union, decoration as, 94, 386, 400, 401, 402, 404

Heusinger, Gen. Adolf, 207, 232, 344, 403, 405

Hilfsfreiwilliger (Hiwis), see defectors,

Russian Army

Himmler, Heinrich, 11

Hindenburg, Chancellor Paul Von, 13

Hitler, Adolf: aides to, 100, 206-207, 232, 299, 303, 304, 344, 345, 400; at anniversary of Third Reich, 153-154; at apogee of power, 82; attitude of commanders toward, 9, 245, 371; attitude of troops toward, 209, 225, 244, 312, 340, 341-342, 361; blunders in strategy, 19-20, 271-272; “Christmas Drive,” 244; destructive alliance with apolitical generals, 377; display of charm and self-control, 344-345; displays of temper, 78-79, 205, 423; fascination with enemy plans, 153; military conferences, 17-18, 78-79, 85, 232-233; military decisions, 8-9, 15, 19-20, 24, 78, 162, 183, 192-193, 199, 205-206, 207-208, 215, 217, 245, 246, 255, 333; military units shifted, 228; myth of invincibility, xvi, 4, 10; New Year’s message, 308; plans to overthrow, 17, 399, 402; reaction to surrender of Sixth Army, 381-382; refusal to permit retreat from Stalingrad, 246, 280; refusal to permit surrender, 330, 362; response to messengers from Sixth Army, 344-345, 356-357; retreat of First Panzer Army authorized, 310; reverses at Stalingrad acknowledged, 227; self-isolation, 79, 110-111, 118-119, 153; Stalingrad battle as contest of ego with Stalin, 157; tendency to underrate enemy, 18, 19, 21, 154, 182; thesis of racial supremacy, 10. See also Mainstein; Paulus

Holland, Capt., 64

horses, in Germany Sixth Army, 6, 116, 166, 201, 251, 273, 360; slaughtered for food, 221, 253, 299, 350

Horvath, Pvt. Michael, 388

Hoth, Gen. Hermann, 74, 75, 132, 320; advance of First Panzer Army on Stalingrad, 42; attempted pincer movement, 47-48, 76; drive to Volga, 79; forces split, 192, 196; regroupment attempted, 197; relief force to resupply Sixth Army, 246, 247, 252-253, 260, 268, 277, 290, 293, 294; withdrawal of armored division from, 291, 310

House of Specialists, capture of, 91

house-to-house fighting, 154-157, 225-227, 316-317, 361, 364; anticipated by Soviet command, 33

Hube, Gen. Hans, 13, 47, 63, 65, 67, 73, 329-330, 354, 382

“human-wave” tactics, 77

Humbert, Lt. Philip, 379

Hunersdorff, Col., 231, 240, 266

Hungarian Army, xiv, 8, 13, 14, 346

Hurricane aircraft, 88

ice packs, effect on battle, 151, 159, 160, 162, 168, 220, 243

Idar-Oberstein, 399

Ilyin, Col. Pyotr, 45-46, 75-76

industrial revolution, 29

infantry: German, 13, 89, 90, 138, 148, 253, 274, 322, 354; Russian, 4, 34, 77, 82. See also entries under German Army

Infantry Assault Badge, 130

intelligence, military: German, 8-9, 17, 20, 42, 114, 127, 147-148, 149, 150, 175, 182, 246, 292, 422; Russian, 74, 97, 132-133, 150-151, 158, 170-171, 422-423

Iron Cross, Knighthood of, 7, 13

Isonzo River, 15

Israel, xiii, 397, 398

Italian Army, xiv, 13, 150, 229, 232, 233, 245, 247, 275; Alpini, 14, 15, 391; Bersaglieri, 14, 262-264; Eighth, 14, 258, 259, 269, 275, 300, 304; Julia, 14; Torino, 14, 16; troops taken prisoner, 397

Ivan the Terrible, 22

Jaenecke, Gen. Erwin, 134, 354

Japan, 70, 217

Jeschonnek, Albert, 132, 154, 193, 199, 206, 217, 245

Jews, extermination of, 11-12, 15. See also anti-Semitism

Jodi, Gen. Albert, 79, 110, 232, 344

Ju-52 aircraft, 118, 216, 221, 229, 280, 355, 358

Ju-88 aircraft, 58, 60, 91

Kalach, 32, 46, 88, 175, 191, 194, 249, 254, 347; bridge at, 40, 45, 75-76, 114, 190, 192, 193, 195-196, 197-198, 202; German garrison at, 195

Kalmikoff, 262, 263, 264, 275, 328

Kalmucks, 42, 114

Kamenka, 254

Kamyshin, 104

Karinhall estate, 206

Karl Marx Gardens, 60-61

Karlsruhe, 403

Karmanov, Genn, 58, 97-98, 386

Karmanova, Katrina, 58-59, 97-98, 385-386

Karpovka, 286, 309, 338, 387

Karpovka River, 334

Karpovka Valley, 332, 333

Kasternoye, 346

Kastle, Lt. Hermann, 185, 322, 405

Kazakhs, attack on Red Army troops, 321

Kazakhstan, 3, 69, 120

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 9, 345, 381, 399

"Kessel, Der (The Cauldron),” 203, 204, 297, 212-255, 303, 306; passim, 308, 330, 292, 332, 296, 335

Khalkin Gol, 70, 217

Kharkov, 113, 164, 167, 436; German victory at, 12, 13, 68; refugees from, 34

Khoyzyanov, Lt. Andrei, 101, 102

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeeyvich, 231, 399, 400, 404, 437; orders given by, 82; rivalry with Malenkov, 68; and Stalin, 80-81; visit to battlefield, 172; and Yeremenko, 48, 54-55, 61, 83, 85

Kiev, 55, 387, 402,

Kirchner Gen., 274,

Kletskaya, 14, 147, 167, 179, 181, 184, 172, 404, 278

149, 188, 302

436 159, 201, 161, 214

Kliagin, Vova, 54, 60, 61

Kliagina, Nadia, 54, 60, 61

Kliagina, Vlasa, 54, 60-61

Klotz, Lt. Heinrich, 130-131, 319-320, 405

Kohler, Dr. Ottmar, 50-51, 63-65, 131, 227, 318-319, 370, 399, 405

Kolia (Russian child spy), 91-92

Komsomol, 66

Komsomolskaya Street, 61; battle for, 103, 109

Konings, Maj., 121, 127-130

Korfes, Gen. Otto, 366, 371, 379

Kornilov, Natasha, 98-99, 170, 317

Korshunov, Gen., 55

Kosygin, Alexei, 404

Kotelnikovo, 26, 213, 216, 229, 231;

German capture of, 21, 33; recaptured by Russians, 320

Kotluban, 388

Kovalova, Olga, 69

Krasnaya Sloboda, 99, 307

Krasnoarmeysk, 79

Krasnodar, 44

Krasnofimsk, 103

Krasnopeterskaya Street, 103, 108

Krasny Zastava factory, 59

Kreiser, Lt. Wilhelm, 140-141, 209-210, 235, 399, 405

Krinovaya prison camp, 391, 392

Krugliakov, 33

Krupennikov, Maj. Gen. I. P., 264-266

Krupennikov, Yuri, 265

Krutoy Gully, 34, 36, 119, 120

Krylov, Gen. N. I., 87, 126, 316, 379, 399-400

Kuibyshev 104, 124, 234

Kulikov, Nikolai, 128, 129-130

Kunowski, Col. von, 298

Kuperosnoye, 79, 80

Kuzmichi, 63

Kwantung Army, 70, 217

labor camps, 165

Langkeit, Oberleutnant, 353

Lascar, Gen. Mihail, 201