Authors: Nicholas Best
hope to return to Germany, post-liberation
later life
Braun, Eva
called Frau Hitler
cremation
marriage to Hitler
in Munich as Hitler’s mistress
Munich house
plans to take own life
suicide
Braun, Gretl
Braun, Magnus von
Braun, Maj. Wernher von
later life
Braun, Margarete
Bremen
Brenner Pass
British army
advance on Hamburg
advance on Lübeck
in Germany
in Italy
British people, traitors and Nazi sympathizers among
British troops, prisoners of war
Brochnik, Juliane
Brown, Elsie
Brünnlitz
Brunstein, Esther
Buchenwald
horrors of
prisoners transferred from
Buchs
Bund Deutscher Mädchen
Bunker at the Chancellery (Berlin)
breakout from
breakout plan
deserted
suicides in
Burgdorf, General
burgomasters, ex-Nazi
burial of bodies
Bushyhead, Jack
Byelorussia
Canadian troops
Canary Islands
cannibalism
Carrington, Lord Peter
later life
Caserta
Catch-22
ceasefire
in Italy
requested by Germans in Berlin
Celle
Cernobbio
Chamberlain, Neville
Chancellery (Berlin)
busywork carried on at
escape from
last significant building in German hands
last wild party at
razed post-War, and new buildings built on site
ruined in Battle for Berlin
Russian taking of
telephone line to Chuikov’s HQ
See also
Bunker at the Chancellery
Charlemagne Legion
Charlottenburg
Chekhov, A. P.
Chicago Herald American
Christian, Gerda
Chuikov, Gen. Vasili
Churchill, Clementine
Churchill, Peter
Churchill, Winston
letter to Truman
rumors about
Citizen Kane
(movie)
Clark, Mark
Clemenceau, Georges
Cmuda, Hannelore von
collaboration
collectivization
“Colonel Valerio.”
See
Audisio, Walter
Colville, Jock
Committee of National Liberation (Italy)
Communism
threat to Europe, not apprehended by some Western statesmen
Western resistance to, German hope for
Communist Party
in Italy
operating with the Russian army
Communists, German, welcome to Soviet troops
Como
bishop of, refusal of asylum to Mussolini family
concentration camps
administration
awaiting liberation
commandants
dead prisoners
disbelief of world at what went on
elimination of prisoner witnesses
flight of guards from
guards
guards, killing of
horrors of
important prisoners (
Prominente
) in
liberated prisoners of, feeding and nursing of
liberation of
local Germans forced to witness
no remorse by German commandants and guards
tattooed numbers on prisoners
for women
Corsica
Coster, Flying Officer
Cox, Geoffrey
crematoria
Crimea
Crittenberger, Gen. Willis
Cronkite, Walter
Curtin, William
Cutting, Flight Sergeant
cyanide
Czechoslovakia
Dachau (camp)
horrors of
important prisoners of (the
Prominente
)
Nazi leaders cremated at
once a model camp
reporters’ visits to
Dachau (town)
Daily Express
Danzig
D-day
DDT
death in battle, German ideal of
de Guingand, Sir Francis
de Jong, Arie
delousing
Demandowsky, Ewald von
De Maria, Lia
Denmark
German troops in
dentist chair of Dr. Kunz
deserters, German
at end of war
execution of
de Valera, Eamon
Dial, Charles
diamonds, swallowing of
Dietrich, Marlene
Dimbleby, Richard
DiSpirito, Ralph
displaced persons
Döberitz
Dole, Lt. Robert (Bob)
later life
Dolmatovski, Yevgeni
Dongo
Dönitz, Adm. Karl
address to the German people
delays surrender
government of
made Hitler’s successor
offers surrender
sentenced to ten years
Doorn
Dresden
bombing of
Ducia, Antonio
Dufving, Col. von
Duindigt race track
Dulles, Allen
Dunkirk, Battle of
Eastern Front, atrocities on the
East Prussia
Eden, Anthony
Eichmann, Adolf
executed
Eighth Army (Allied)
Eighty-fifth Regiment (American)
Eighty-fourth Infantry Division (American)
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight
Elath, Eliahu
Elbe river
English people, living in Germany
Estonia
Europe, Soviet intentions for
Ewart, Colonel
executions
mass
extermination camps
Falkenberg, Sybil Bannister
Fascism, horrors of
Fascists, British
Fascists, German.
See
Nazism
Fascists, Italian
American sympathizers with
executions of
hunting down and killing of, after liberation
Fegelein, Hermann
Feldafing school, Munich
Final Solution
flak
Flensburg
flights
of Germans, westward
of German troops
of released prisoners
Flying Fortresses
food drops over Holland.
See
Operation Chowhound; Operation Manna
food shortages
Forty-fifth Thunderbird Division (American)
Forty-second Rainbow Division (American)
488th Squadron, U.S. Air Force
IV Corps (American)
France, Vichy government
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Franco, Francisco
Frank, Anne
Frank, Hans
hanged
Frank, Margot
Frank, Otto
later life
Franks, George
Frederick the Great
Freedom Action Bavaria
Free World
(U.N. newsletter)
Free World Forum (radio show)
French people
as slave laborers for Germany
traitors and collaborators among
Friedeburg, Adm. Hans-Georg von
Friedrich Leopold, Prince of Prussia
Fritsche, Hans
Fritz (German guard)
Führer.
See
Hitler, Adolf
Furst, Peter
Fürstenberg
Fürth
Fürtwängler, Wilhelm
Galland, Adolf
Gardner, Mrs. (in Hitler’s Munich apartment)
Garibaldi, Sante
Garrett, Cameron
gas chambers
Gävernitz, Gero
Geneva
Gentry, Jimmy
George VI, King
Georgians
German army
in Italy, retreat and surrender of
offer to surrender in the West
retreat to the west, to surrender to the Americans
surrender to Russian army
troops, outraged at concentration camp horrors
withdrawal from Scandinavia
See also
Wehrmacht
German Information Office
German navy
German people
disgrace of Nazism to
displaced, flight westward
hated by Allied troops and reporters
knowledge of crimes of Nazism
lack of remorse over crimes of Nazism
reaction to Hitler’s death
suffering of, claimed by Jodl
German troops
allowed by Hitler to escape if they ran out of ammunition
captured and killed
medals awarded to, as morale booster
prisoners of war
shooting at Allied planes
Germany
appeasement policy toward
in Czechoslovakia
defeat of, conceded by Germans
guilt of, after a thousand years (Frank)
and Spain
succession after death of Hitler
surrender of
war against Bolshevism
World War I reparations
Gerngross, Rupprecht
Gestapo
arrests of, post-liberation
headquarters in Dresden
ghettoes, liquidation of
Gibraltar
Gies, Miep
Giesler, Paul
Göbbels, Heidi
Göbbels, Helga
Göbbels, Josef
in the bunker
children of
children of, poisoning of
cremation
diary of
last testament
peace negotiations requested by
plans to take own life
propaganda of
suicide
urged by Hitler to flee
Göbbels, Magda
body of
children poisoned by
death
mental state of
Göring, Emma
Göring, Hermann
Hitler’s response to, demanding resignation
order to SS to execute him
reaction to Hitler’s death
sentenced to hang, took poison
telegram asking Hitler about succession plans
Götz, Ellen
Grace, Lt.-Col. William
Grass, Günter
later life
Greenland
Greim, Robert von
Grenadier Guards
Grese, Irma
executed
Gromyko, Andrei
guards.
See
concentration camps: guards
gulags
Günsche, Otto
Günther, Konrad
Gütermann, Anna
Gypsies
Haakon, King of Norway
Haganah
Hamburg
radio station
resistance to surrender
surrender of
Hamburger, Philip
hanging
of corpses
of “cowards” afraid to fight for Germany
of Nazis
Hardman, Leslie
Hayworth, Rita
Hearst, William Randolph
Hearst Corporation
Heller, Joseph
later life
Hempel, Eduard
Hentschel, Johannes
Hepburn, Audrey
later life
Herald Tribune
Hero of the Soviet Union
Herzog, Chaim
later life
Hess, Rudolf
flight to Scotland
held in a mental hospital in Britain
memoirs
sentenced to life
Hessler, Günther
Hibberd, Stuart
Higgins, Marguerite
Hill, Claude
Himmler, Heinrich
arrested, and committed suicide
assumed to be Hitler’s successor
attempts to join Dönitz government
betrayal of Hitler, as Hitler saw it
considered to be Hitler’s best friend
doesn’t know what to do
expelled from party
meeting with Dönitz
rejected by Dönitz
secretly proposes a separate peace with Allies
Hitler, Adolf
apartment in Munich
autographed photo of
bomb plot against
in the Bunker
chance to escape
compared unfavorably to St. Francis
corpse or remains of
cremation of
debilitated state of
declines to resign
effect on people’s lives of the death of
hunt for body of
knowledge of the death of
last day, in the Bunker
last meal in the Bunker
last political testament
learns of Himmler’s treachery
loyalty to
map strategizing of
marries Eva Braun
news of the death of, reactions to
newspaper coverage of death
oath to
official announcement of death
passivity of German people to orders of
plan to take own life
succession to
suicide
suicides following the death of
telegram to Göring demanding his resignation
uncertainty about death of
unhappiness of some at the death of
will and testament of
Hitler, Alois
Hitler, Paula (alias Paula Wolf)
later life
Hitler, William Patrick
Hitler Youth
Hofer, Franz
Holland
fighting in
food shortage in
stripped by Nazis for war machine
Holmes, Marian
horoscopes
hospitals, military
Höss, Rudolf
executed
wife and children of
Hotel Pragser-Wildsee
House of Commons
Hungary
informers (in a concentration camp), killing of
Innsbruck
internment, of surrendered German soldiers
IRA
Ireland (Eire)
iron curtain
Ischia
Italian partisans
Italy
American army in
British army in
Communist party in
contempt for, from Allied troops
end of war in
German army in
Jackson, George
Jagiellonian University
Japan
Jewish Office (of SS)
Jews
extermination of (Final Solution)
Ezra Pound’s ranting against
hiding them
prisoners, kept alive as hostages
Jews, Dutch, rounded up and sent to concentration camps
Jews, German
count of, pre-war and post-liberation
deportation of
Gestapo files on
segregation of
women raped by Russians
Jews, Hungarian
Jews, Italian
Jews, Norwegian
Jews, Polish
Jodl, General
hanged
Johnson, Mabel
journalists
Joyce, William (“Lord Haw-Haw”)
executed