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and Pravda reply to Ehrenburg, 197–8, 207

Alexander, Field Marshal Sir Harold, 193

Alexanderplatz, 340, 348, 393

Allenstein, 26, 28, 29, 30

Alpine Fortress (National Redoubt), 141, 146, 192, 195–6

Anhalter Bahnhof, 280, 296, 319, 339, 340, 367, 371

Antonov, Gen. A. I., 79, 101, 137, 140, 145, 146, 147, 211, 232–3, 305, 400

Antwerp, 5

Appel, Reinhard, 181, 270

Ardenne, Prof. Baron v., 325

Ardennes offensive, 5–6, 7, 8, 83, 84, 91, 142, 192

Armia Krajowa, 20, 99, 100, 199

Atrocity propaganda, xxxiv, 3–4, 19, 25, 166–7, 169–70

Red Army ‘revenge scores’, 170, 176, 199, 244

Auguste-Viktoria hospital, 224–5

Axmann, Reichsjugendfuhrer Artur, 180–81, 245, 340, 382, 383

B

Baklanov, Gen. Gleb V., 305

‘Baltic balcony’, see Pomeranian campaign

Barby, 202, 329

Barenfanger, Maj. Gen. Erich, 384

Baruth, 256, 265, 331, 332, 333, 337

Bastogne, 6

Baumbach, Col., 159

Baumgart, Eberhard, 72, 73, 182

Baur, Hans, 388

Beelitz, 224, 272, 286, 298, 328, 329, 337, 377, 378

Below, Col. Nicolaus v., 8, 188, 254, 262

Bendlerstrasse and ‘Bendlerblock’, 320, 353, 358, 364, 367

Berchtesgaden, 275, 276, 278, 288–9, 290

Berghof, see Berchtesgaden

Beria, Lavrenty, xxxiv, 15, 20, 68, 69, 368, 391, 400

and East Prussia, 29, 36, 419

and atomic bomb, 138, 324–5

and Poles, 199, 420

and NKVD control in Germany, 307–9, 420

and Red Army commanders, 309, 423, 425, 426

Berlin, Gen. Wilhelm, 229

Berlin Philharmonic, 188–9

Bernadotte, Count Folke, 150, 250, 275, 292–3, 341, 342

Bernau, 248, 259, 263

Berzarin, Col. Gen. Nikolai, 64, 69, 149, 150, 220, 226, 236, 256, 389, 400

as commandant of Berlin, 321, 392, 393, 409, 416, 419

Bewilogua, Dr Ludwig, 325

Blumentritt, Gen. Gunther, 3, 39, 429

Bogdanov, Gen. S. I., 17, 64, 222, 223, 235, 255, 315, 404

Boldt, Capt. Gerhard, 265, 299, 351

Boiling, Maj. Gen. Alexander, 191

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 181

Bonin, Col. Bogislaw v., 21, 22

Bormann, Reichsleiter Martin, 19, 22

and Volkssturm, 39

and Himmler, 42, 293

and diary, 75, 191, 251, 341, 350

and ambitions, 154, 343, 361–2

and Eva Braun, 155

and concealing Nazi loot, 155

and Gauleiters, 157, 209, 340

and raising troops, 160

in Fuhrer bunker, 251, 252, 276, 278, 288, 289, 341, 343, 359, 361–2, 364, 369, 379

and attempted escape, 381–2, 383

Bradley, Gen. Omar N., 141, 202, 203–4, 305, 401

Brandt, Dr Karl, 252–3

Brauer, Gen. Bruno, 236–7, 243

Braun, Eva, 19, 47, 59, 75

and return to Berlin, 155, 252

and Hitler, 253–4, 278, 289, 341, 342–3, 350, 357, 358, 359

and Speer, 288, 290

Braun, Ilse, 48

Braun, Margarete, see Fegelein, Gretl

Bremen, 203

Breslau, 48, 61, 62, 91, 92–3, 230

surrounded, 125–6

siege of, 343

Brezhnev, Leonid, 428

British Army, 192–3

21st Army Group, 140–41, 144

Second Army, 191, 203, 247, 251, 400

1st Airborne Div., 194

Britz, 287, 297, 302

Bromberg, 64, 68

Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Alan, 80, 82, 84, 138, 139, 141–2

Budapest, fighting for, 8

fall of, 82–3

Budyonny, Marshal S. M., 427

Bulganin, Lt. Gen. Nikolai A., 100

Bull, Maj. Gen. Harold, 98, 107

Bunyachenko, Maj. Gen. S. K., 183

Burgdorf, Gen. Wilhelm, 7, 152, 154, 225, 262, 266, 268, 275, 344, 351, 359, 362, 382, 387

Busse, Gen. Theodor, 88, 132, 135, 151, 152, 160

and Oder battle, 183, 228, 237, 242, 243, 263

and withdrawal to Spreewald, 256, 270

and joining Twelfth Army, 285, 329, 330, 331, 337, 362, 378

C

Cairncross, John, 138

Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm, 181

Casablanca conference, 194

Celle, 191

Charite hospital, 9, 224–5, 382