Berlin: The Downfall 1945

Gehlen, Maj. Gen. Reinhard, 6, 7, 26

Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 83, 286

German Army, see also Waffen SS

ARMY GROUPS

Centre, 11, 92, 241, 244

North, 19, 152

‘A’, 21

‘B’, 190, 200, 201

Vistula, 52, 54, 68, 88, 91, 130, 132, 150, 153, 159–60, 188, 189, 207, 228, 242–3, 256, 267, 291, 320, 337

ARMIES

Second, 26, 49, 50, 88, 90, 115, 119, 402

Fourth, 50, 88

Ninth, 22, 54, 88, 151, 160;

on Oder front, 162, 188, 267;

and defence of Berlin, 179;

and Oder battle, 219, 221, 223, 225, 243, 246;

and withdrawal to south-west, 256, 260, 270, 276;

and breakout to Twelfth Army, 298, 328, 329, 337, 362, 377–9, 395–8;

and Hitler’s fantasies, 304

Twelfth, 201, 202, 263, 276, 284, 291, 298, 304, 328, 329, 353, 377–9, 395–8

Seventeenth, 60, 61, 126

Twenty-First, 400

First Panzer, 132

Third Panzer, 50, 88, 160, 243, 337–8, 400

Fourth Panzer, 125, 208, 239, 241, 329

Fifth Panzer, 5

CORPS

Grossdeutschland, 18, 26, 45, 119, 126

V Corps, 329

XX Corps, 284, 328

XIV Panzer, 126

XLI Panzer, 379

LVI Panzer, 225, 237, 246, 259, 264, 286, 386

CI Corps, 225, 229, 236, 246, 248, 259, 263, 267

DIVISIONS

Grossdeutschland, 11, 121

168th Inf., 129

169th Inf., 62

303rd Doberitz Inf., 73, 163, 209

359th Inf., 126

Ulrich von Hutten, 202, 329

Friedrich Ludwig Fahn, 260

Theodor Korner, 328

Scharnhorst, 263, 264, 286, 328, 329, 395, 398, 403

7th Pz., 243

16th Pz., 17

19th Pz., 18

20th Pz., 127

21St Pz., 232, 330

25th Pz., 18

Kurmark Pz., 235, 246, 330, 362, 377–8

Muncheberg Pz., 286, 303, 319, 339, 340, 384

18th Pzgren., 257, 286, 296, 384

20th Pzgren., 206, 286, 296

391st Security, 208

REGIMENTS

Grossdeutschland Gd Regt, 72, 208, 226, 263

Kurmark Pz., 71

Potsdam, 161–2, 236

11th Training Bde, 223

German Communist Party (KPD), 181, 321, 346, 372, 417–18

Gestapo and SD (Sicherheitsdienst), 42, 56, 154, 155, 283, 386

headquarters Prinz-Albrechtstrasse, 22, 74, 340, 351, 379–80, 382, 386–7

Bundschuh resistance groups, 174

and Kriminalpolizei, 176

and deserters, 260

Hitler’s bodyguards, 341

Giesebrechtstrasse, 345, 346

Goebbels, Reichsminister Joseph, xxxiv, 1, 4, 5, 28

and Volkssturm, 39

as Gauleiter and Reich Commissar for Defence, 57, 58, 133, 245, 261, 268

as Minister of Propaganda, 70, 100, 133, 135, 175, 180, 224, 229, 250, 253, 261, 291, 339, 340

and Cossacks, 73–4

and Dresden, 83

and Lauban, 126–7

and Berlin, 139, 177, 245, 347

and Kamarilla rivalries, 154, 289

and death of Roosevelt, 204

in Fuhrer bunker, 276, 288, 343, 359, 361, 362, 364

and surrender, 368, 370, 379

and suicide, 380, 381, 390

Goebbels, Magda, 276, 278, 289–90, 343, 359, 361, 380, 381, 390

Goebbels children, 278, 279, 344, 357, 361, 380–81, 398

Gordov, Gen. V. N., 245, 330–31

Goring, Reichsmarschall Hermann, 8, 12, 42, 43, 90, 154, 201, 236, 356

and destruction of Karinhall, 249–50

and Hitler, 251, 289, 350

Gorlitz, 126, 244

Goya hospital ship, sinking of, 188

Greim, Col. Gen. Robert Ritter v., 322, 342

Greiser, Gauleiter Arthur, 63, 64, 68, 158

Grishin, Maj., 373–6

Grossdeutscher Rundfunk, 282, 384, 385, 416–17, 418

Grossman, Vasily, 14, 23, 32, 44, 64, 65, 66, 67, 86, 105, 108, 116, 273

and Berlin, 295, 301, 321, 393, 394, 407, 413

and Black Book, 425

Groves, Maj. Gen. Leslie, 138

Grunewald, 322, 324