Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II (48 page)

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

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