Berlin: The Downfall 1945

Lammerding, SS-Brigfh., 54, 131

Landsberg, 273

Lange, Franz, 386, 387

Lange, Lt. Col. Heiner, 238

Lauban, 126

Lauenburg, 117, 122, 247

Lasch, Gen. Otto, 87

Lattre de Tassigny, Gen. Jean de, 192, 404

Laue, Dr Max v., 325

League of German Officers (BDO), 69, 198

Leba, 125

Leipzig, 146, 191, 203

Lelyushenko, Gen. D. D., 17, 62, 126, 229, 232, 245, 256, 265, 298

Lend-Lease, 66

Leningrad, 117

Lichtenberg, 416

Lichtenrade, 271

Lichterfelde, 416

Linge, Heinz, 359

Lodz, 44, 64

Loewe, Lothar, 2

Lohbeck, Col., 179

Lorenz, Heinz, 299, 341–2

Lotzen, 50

Lowenstein de Witt, Hans Oskar Baron, 294–5

Lubben, 147, 232, 296

Lubeck, 137, 141, 292, 294, 400

‘Lublin government’, 20, 81

Luchinsky, Gen. A. A., 298, 318, 333

Luckenwalde, 256, 306

Luftwaffe, 131, 249–50, 430

and attacks on Oder bridges, 133, 159, 237–8

paratroopers, 159

scratch troops, 159–60, 323

and Oder battle, 237–8, 243

and Elbe front, 263

and battle for Berlin, 266, 267, 287, 342

1st Flak Division, 178–9

9th Parachute Division, 159, 223, 236, 243, 246–7, 286, 385, 388

25th Parachute Regiment, 92, 117

27th Parachute Regiment, 218, 223, 237

Leonidas squadron, 238

Luttwitz, Gen. Smilo Freiherr v., 22

Lvov, 100

M

Magdeburg, 190, 196, 202, 431

Magnuszew bridgehead, 17

Mahlsdorf, 269

MaiziAre, Col. Ulrich de, 89, 153, 203, 243, 276, 277

Makhnev, Col. Gen., 324, 325

Malchow, 265

Malenkov, G. M., 108, 137, 325

Malinin, Gen. M. S., 230

Manhattan Project, xxxiv, 78, 138, 324

Mannheim, 195

Manteuffel, Gen. Hasso v., 5, 160, 248, 304, 337, 338, 400

Manzialy, Constanze, 278, 358, 382, 388

Marienburg, 49, 115, 117

Mariendorf, 296

Marshall, Gen. George C., 78, 79, 80, 142, 195, 364

Masur, Norbert, 250

Matrosov, Aleksandr, 166

Memel, 121

Merezhko, Capt. Anatoly, 216

Meseritz line, 63, 66, 68

Meshik, Gen. P. Ya., 44–5, 61, 308

Misch, Rochus, 359, 360

Moabit, 347

Mobilization of German civilians, 106–7, 185

Model, Field Marshal, 142–3, 156, 190, 200, 201, 283

Mohnke, SS-Bdefh., 287, 322, 357, 366, 370, 379, 382, 383, 388, 389

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 77, 137, 143

Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard, 84, 140, 141, 146, 195

and looting, 193

and surrender, 400–401

Morell, Dr Theodor, 252, 275, 277, 359

Muller, SS-Gpfh. Heinrich, 22, 342

Mullrose, 270

Mummert, Maj. Gen. Werner, 339

Muncheberg, 228, 243, 246, 254, 256, 259

Munich, 350, 402

Murphy, Robert, 84–5, 409

Mussolini, Benito, 98, 357

N

National Committee for a Free Germany, 36, 69, 181, 197, 363

National Redoubt, see Alpine Fortress

National Socialist Party, 131, 134

and Freikorps Adolf Hitler, 134–5, 160

and obsession with 1918, 174–5, 428

and Werwolf, 175

and defence of Berlin, 178–9, 356

and departure of senior officials, 251, 252, 261

and legacy, 430

Nauen, 274, 290, 384

Nehring, Gen. Walther, 45, 62

Neisse, German Army executions in, 127

Nemmersdorf, 28, 118

‘Nero Order’, 155–8, 202

Neuhardenberg, 222, 223, 242, 243, 244