William Craig - Enemy at the Gates

Latashanka, 104, 171

Lazur Chemical Plant, 36, 104, 120, 121, 175

Leipzig, 199

Lelyushenko, Gen., 265

Lenin, V. J., 22

Leningrad, 18, 20, 29, 34, 70-72

Leyser, Gen. Ernst, 191, 343

Libya, 15

lice, 171, 188, 287, 304, 309, 312, 349, 364, 371

Likovitsa, 398

Linden, Maj. Joseph, 46, 155, 242, 303, 405

List, Field Marshal Sigmund Wilhelm, 8, 78

Little Saturn offensive, 228, 301

livestock, 32, 116, 186, 189, 190, 318;

kept as pets, 49, 51, 318. See also horses

Loebbecke, Lt. Eberhard von, 193-194, 405

London, Jack, 35

Lopatin, Gen. A. I., 81, 82-83

Lubeck, 402

“Lucy” (Rudolph Rossler), 23, 24, 158, 228, 402, 422

Ludwig, Col. Gunter, 375-376

Luftwaffe, 33, 91, 183, 238; airfields, 47; drops by, 65, 222; losses at Stalingrad, 302-303, 339, 434; officers, xiii, 61, 148, 154, 206, 229, 347; Paulus and, 131-132, 148-149, 154, 163, 222, 229-230, 237, 254, 350-351; plea for intervention rejected by, 349. See also airlift; air raids

Lugansk, 3

Lutschinski, 221

Lyudnikov, Col. Ivan Ilyich, 150, 157, 159-160, 162, 186, 284, 400

Maginot Line, 215

Magnitogorsk, 121

Maikop, 78

Malaya Ivanovka, 77

Malaya Rossoshka, 54

Malenkov, Georgi, x, 68

Malinovsky, Gen. Rodion Yakolevich, 336-337, 400

Malygin, Maj., 168-169

Mamaev Hill, xii, 36, 37-38, 60, 68, 128, 133, 168, 169, 175, 325, 368; battle for, 93, 94, 101, 104, 109, 111, 120, 123, 137, 396; command post on, 86-87, 88; German positions on, 125, 227, 348, 378-379

Manchuria, 70, 217

Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von, 215, 400; as head of Army Group Don, 211-214, 228, 229, 230, 231, 242, 245-246, 290, 329-330, 347; Hitler and, 20, 246, 250-251, 272-273, 274, 298, 310, 320, 362, 400; Paulus and, 233, 242, 248-250, 277-279, 298, 300; resignation offered, 320; retreat ordered by, 346. See also German Army (Army Group Don); Operation Thunderclap manufacturing, 36-37

marines, Russian, 68, 101, 102, 123

Marinovka, 286, 334

Marsan, Lt. Veniero, 15

Martini (Italian prisoner), 327

Medevitskaya Street, 58

medical care: German, 6, 50, 131, 229, 313, 317, 325, 349, 365; Russian, 84, 110

medical supplies, 198, 229, 282, 370

Mediterranean Sea, 153

Medvedev, Viktor, 145

Meshkov, 263, 275

Messerschmidt aircraft, 346

Metzger, Lt. Emil, 7-8, 116-117, 167, 203, 228, 289-290, 347, 387, 389, 393-395, 400, 405

Metzger, Kaethe, 7-8, 116, 228, 289-290, 347, 389, 393-395, 400

Metzler, Pvt. Josef, 114, 208, 352, 405

Meunch, Capt. Gerhard, 46, 76, 89, 92-93, 113, 167, 243, 286-287, 324, 354-355, 400-401, 405

Mexico, 22

mice, 304; equipment damaged by, 159; used as food by troops, 238

Mikosch, Col., 195

Milch, Gen. Erhard, 347

military decorations, 353, 397-398. See also German Cross; Hero of the Soviet Union; Infantry Assault Badge; Iron Cross; Order of Lenin; Order of the Red Star; Ritter Creuz

militia, workers’, 56-57, 63; organized for defense of Stalingrad, 90; replaced by regulars, 112

Millerovo, 263

minefields, deactivation of, 242

Mishkova River, 213, 232, 234, 237, 241, 243, 247, 250, 255, 257, 258, 273, 274, 275, 279, 290, 294, 300

Moabit Prison, 399

Modina, Anastasia, 66-67, 97

Mogilev, 42

Mokraya Mechetka River, 37, 56, 63, 68, 69

Mongols, 28-29, 115

Montgomery, Gen. Bernard, 153

morale, problems of: German, 112, 167, 185, 226, 297, 311-313, 340, 356; Russian, 42, 48, 71-72, 82

Moro airstrip, 302

Morocco, Allied landings in, 153

Morosovsk, 274

Morosovskaya, 67, 216, 274, 291

mortars: German, 6-7, 73, 80, 102, 105, 127, 203, 242; Russian, 120, 370-371

Moscow, xv, 18, 22, 29, 48n, 70, 149, 183; defense of, 71, 103

Moslems, 78

Mues, Capt., 172-173

Müller (Chief of Staff, 14th Corps), 369

Munich, 152, 153, 401

Mussolini, Benito, 14, 15, 305

mutiny, 244, 366, 369-370

Mutius, Lt., 221

nail factory, defense of, 100, 102

Napoleon Bonaparte, ix-x

Narvik, 295

Nazi party, 9, 153, 374, 401; fund-raising drive, 244; German opponents of, 402, 403

Nazi-Soviet pact, 23

nebelwerfers (German mortars), 6-7, 203

Neidhardt, Capt. Boris von, 372, 377

Neist, Heinz, 139-140, 208, 238-239, 359, 380-381, 405

Neiwig, Cpl., 387-388

Nekrassov, Lt. Viktor, 55-56

Nerozia, Pyotr, 56-57, 59

Neustadt, 339

New Year’s Eve, battlefield celebration of, 307-308

New York Times, 336

NKVD, 43, 67, 82, 90, 105, 117, 307, 399; prison, 66, 365-366, 369, 374, 375, 380; in street fighting, 91, 92

Normandy, occupation of, 13

North Africa, Allied invasion of, 48n, 154, 182, 232, 296

Novocherkassk, 212, 214, 228, 245, 248, 250, 273, 294, 310, 329, 339

Novosibirsk, 397

Odessa, 34

Oettl, Lt. Hans, 49-50, 51, 112, 203, 209, 308-309, 318, 383-384, 401, 405

oil fields, and German strategy, 18, 85, 118, 119

Operation Blue (German), 4, 8, 12, 18, 78, 422; details known to Stalin, 24

Operation Thunderclap (German), 246, 247, 253, 255, 257, 260, 267, 270, 271, 274, 277-278, 290, 400

Operation Torch (Allied), 48n

Operation Uranus (Soviet), 117, 162, 171, 172, 176, 183-184, 186-187

Operation Winter Storm (German), 228, 231, 233, 246, 247, 254, 255, 260, 268, 270

Oranki Prison, 363, 390

Order of Lenin, 145

Order of the Red Star, 169

Orlovka, 130, 131, 286

Ostarhild, Lt. Karl, 147, 148, 149, 150, 405

Ostrov, 39, 40

Pamir Mountains, 389

Panzer Army, First, see Hoth, Hermann; also entry under German Army

Parker, Ralph, 336

partisans, Russian; 106, 164

Paulus, Alexander von, 9, 401

Paulus, Elena Constance Rosetti-Solescu von, 9-10, 230, 247, 401

Paulus, Ernst von, xi, 9, 18, 20, 401, 405

Paulus, Gen. Friedrich von, x, xi, 12, 73, 74, 114, 336, 366, 396, 400-401, 402; actions as commander of Sixth Army, 9-13, 41, 52, 78, 172, 175, 182, 190, 330, 331; disaster foreshadowed, 65, 147-148, 175; failure to link with Fourth Panzer Army, 75, 76; and Halder, 111; and High Command, 210-211; and Hitler, 85, 192-193, 203, 204, 208, 246, 271-272, 274, 308, 340, 374, 376-377; and mutinous generals, 369-370; orders given and rescinded, 269, 270; pleas for assistance, 111-112, 132, 294; proclamation to troops, 198; retreat recommended by, 191-192, 197, 200, 211; tactics, 62, 130, 150-151; treatment of by Russians, 388; ultimatum received by, 325. See also Luftwaffe; Manstein; Sixth Army

Pavlov, Sgt. Jacob, 119-120, 137, 146, 401

Pavlovsk, 346

Pearl Harbor, bombing of, ix

Pelikan, Sgt. Wolf, 180, 182, 405

Pensenskaya Street, 35, 91, 119

Permskaya Street, 58

Peschanka, 309, 334

Peschanyy, 188

Peskatovka Depot, 165

Peskovatka, 210

pet animals, 59-60, 79; kept by soldiers, 49, 51, 112, 116, 166, 221, 282, 318, 360; used as food, 309, 318

Petrakov Col., 91, 94

Petrov, Sgt. Alexei, 104-106, 171-172, 187, 241, 321, 401, 405

Pfeiffer, Gen., 339, 366, 367, 371, 379

Pfliiger, Sgt. Albert, 208-209, 223-224, 279, 287, 309-310, 332-333, 334, 360-361, 372-374, 380, 401, 405

Piave River, 15

Pickert, Gen. Wolfgang, 196-197, 337-338, 339

Pigalev, Dmitri M., 35, 53

Pitomnik Airfield, 217, 222, 227, 229, 237, 317, 255, 333, 303, 337, 304, 338, 308, 339, 310, 340, 311, 345, 350; overrun by Russians, 346

Poland, 118; invasion of, 4, 7, 9, 210

politrook (Communist party agitators), 125, 172, 324, 393

Poltava, 18

Porsche auto factory, Stuttgart, 167, 227

Poskrebyshev (secretary to Stalin), 302