Berlin: The Downfall 1945

Lodz ghetto, 63–4

Stutthof, 94–5, 122

Lauenburg, 117

Nikolayev and Odessa, 169

forced to rework US incendiary bombs, 174

Belsen, 191

massacres in Leipzig area, 191–2

Eisenhower’s reactions and caring for prisoners, 203

Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, 274, 290

Schulstrasse transit camp, 294–5

in Berlin, 346–7, 393, 419

Ravensbruck, 363

and view of Wermacht generals, 429

Jodl, Col. Gen. Alfred, 7, 13, 83, 152, 201, 250, 275, 276, 288, 295, 331, 338, 341, 350, 402

Juhlin-Dannfel, Maj. C. H., 132, 148, 149, 173, 181

July Plot (20 July 1944), 7, 8, 58, 153, 154, 198, 320, 346, 386

executions, 57, 74, 75, 181

Jung, Prof. Dr Gerhard, 374–7, 406

Junge, Gertrud (Traudl), 252, 278, 343, 344, 358, 359, 361, 382, 388

Juterbog, 92, 200, 238, 256

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Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, Dahlem, 139, 210, 232, 324–5

Kaltenbrunner, SS-Gpfh. Dr Ernst, 22, 42, 75, 160, 194, 250, 251, 346

Kardorff, Ursula v., 2, 74, 205, 250, 410, 411, 414, 415

Karlshorst, 179, 269–70, 404, 405, 428

Karlsruhe, 192

Karpov, Gen. V. V., 61

Kassel, 195

Katowice, 22, 60

Katukov, Col. Gen. M. I., 64, 116, 118, 121, 222, 223, 229, 235, 255, 265, 296, 297

Katyn massacre, 99

Kazakov, Col. Gen. V. I., 216–17, 262, 280

Kee, Robert, 41

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 6, 7, 12, 52, 83, 90, 127, 152, 250, 275, 276, 284–5, 288, 295, 337, 338, 357, 403, 404, 405

Kempka, Erich, 358

Khrulev, Col. Gen. A. V., 324

Khrushchev, Nikita, 428

Kiel, 361, 364

Kielce, 17, 18

Kienitz, 69, 70

Kinzel, Lt. Gen. Eberhardt, 158, 179, 400

Kissel, Gen. Hans, 40

Klochkov, Capt., 226

Knef, Hildegard, 1, 311

Knesebeck, Lt. Col. von dem, 22

Koblenz, 140

Koch, Dr Edgar, 374–7

Koch, Gauleiter Erich, 27, 50, 64, 68, 75, 187

Kohler, Gen. Carl-Erik, 284

Kolberg, 116, 124

Koller, Gen. Karl, 267, 275, 289

Komsomol, Central Committee and rape of Soviet women, 108–9, 365

Konev, Marshal Ivan, 16, 17, 41, 44, 45

in Silesia, 60, 125–6, 129–30, 132

and Berlin operation, 146–7, 165, 206, 229, 230, 234, 238, 239, 244, 255–6, 265, 271, 295, 296, 297, 305, 329, 330, 333, 362, 401

Konigsberg, 24, 25, 28, 37, 50, 75, 86, 87, 88, 91, 93, 149, 174

fall of, 187–8, 235

Konigsplatz, 355, 356

Konigswusterhausen, 261

Kopelev, Lev, 28, 30, 35

Kopenick, 269, 297

Koslin, 125

Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya, 212–13

Krakow, 44, 60, 112

Krampnitz, 266, 276

Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), 25, 194, 196–8

Krasovsky, Gen. S. A., 230

Krebs, Gen. Hans, 91, 150, 152

appointed Chief of General Staff, 153

and Bormann’s circle, 154

and Oder front, 188, 225

and Hitler, 250

and threat to Zossen, 265–6

and battle for Berlin, 268, 275, 277, 286, 299, 304, 322, 337, 340, 350, 351, 359, 362, 364

and surrender, 367, 368, 369, 370

and suicide, 382, 387

Kriegsmarine, 120–21, 149, 343, 402

Sprengboote, 159

scratch troops, 159–60, 298, 322

SHIPS

Admiral Hipper, 51

Admiral Scheer, 88

Leipzig, 120

Lutzow, 88

Prinz Eugen, 117, 120

Schlesien, 120

Kruger, Elsa, 278

Krukenberg, SS-Brigfh. Gustav, 116, 291–3, 299, 301, 303, 304, 322, 352, 370

and blowing up S-Bahn tunnel, 370–72, 382, 383, 384

Kryukov, Gen. Vladimir, 116, 427–8

Kummersdorf, 333, 362, 377

Kunz, Dr Helmuth, 361, 380, 381, 391

Kurchatov, Prof. Igor, 138, 325

Kurfurstendamm, 339, 345

Kustrin, 69, 70, 132, 142, 149, 152, 185, 206, 207, 219, 220

Kuznetsov, Gen. V. I., 384

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