Stalingrad

Melnikov, General, 422f, 425

Milch, Field Marshal Erhard, 345;

and ‘Special Staff’, 359, 368–9, 370, 383, 396, 398, 403

Millerovo, 78, 295

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 5, 9f, 37f, 234, 417

Morozovsk, 64, 78, 114, 179

Moscow, 5–6, 9, 72;

advance on, 32f, 34, 36;

state of siege, 38

Myshkova, river, 295, 299, 301, 309, 311, 314, 320

NKGB see NKVD (security police) NKVD, 19, 22, 28, 36–7, 157, 419;

propaganda and POW Department, 86, 180, 182, 279, 286, 307–8,319, 322, 350, 378, 400, 412–13;

Volga crossing and 71st Special Service Coy, 190–91

NKVD troops, 38, 79, 88, 106, 110, 167;

10th NKVD Rifle Div., 75, 109, 128, 131–3, 159–60, 174, 385

NKVD Special Detachments (later SMERSH) xiii, 79, 86, 168–9, 172–3, 199–200, 213

SMERSH, 26, 80, 186, 288

Frontier Troops, 18, 25, 41

National Committee for Free Germany, 422f, 425f

Niemeyer, Lieutenant-Colonel, 227, 366

Nizhne-Chirskaya, 177–8, 254, 263, 267–9, 293, 295

Novocherkassk, 274, 294, 301,316, 341

Operation Barbarossa, 3–6, 8ff, 12–14, 16, 18, 20, 33, 53f, 68, 75, 77

Operation Blue, 63, 64, 69–74, 77–8;

rewritten, 80, 124 Operation Fridericus, 65, 70–71

Operation Northern Light, 63

Operation Ring, 321f, 353–62

Operation Saturn, 292–3, 299;

‘Little Saturn’, 299, 310, 398

Operation Thunderclap, 296, 299, 309

Operation Torch, 214, 229f

Operation Typhoon, 33, 40

Operation Uranus, 130–31, 179;

planning and preparation, 220–23, 225–8, 230, 232–5;

execution, 236–63;

effect, 281, 292, 398

Operation Winter Storm, 296–300, 309

opolchentsy (militia), 28, 35

Order No. 227, 84–5, 97, 144

Order No. 270, 84, 169, 172

Orel, 34, 72

Organisation Todt, 255, 340

Oster, General Achim, 431

Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich, 17, 33, 35, 40, 51–54;

takes over Sixth Army, 61, 65, 67;

and Stalingrad, 103, 113, 119, 129f, 140, 145–6, 183, 191, 210, 216, 218;

and Uranus, 228, 245, 247, 251, 253;

and encirclement, 227, 267–9, 271–2, 275–7, 299, 302, 308–9, 314f, 317ff, 320, 324n, 342–3;

and last resistance, 360, 366, 370, 377, 380, 381–2;

and Schmidt’s influence, 379, 382f, 388n, 422;

after surrender, 387f, 389–91, 396f, 400, 403;

and fate of sons, 427;

imprisonment, 422, 427f, 431

Paulus, Elena, 53, 314, 427f

Pavlov, General D. G., 21, 25

Pavlov, Sergeant Jakob, 198

Perelazovsky, 232, 242, 252, 267

Peskovatka, 247, 258–9

Pickert, General Wolfgang, 267–8

Pieck, Wilhelm, 407

Pitomnik airfield, 281, 304, 334f, 338, 340, 343, 346, 357ff, 360, 361–2, 363f

Pfeffer, General, 62, 65, 381,382, 426

Plievier, Theodor, 377

Political department see Commissars Poltava, 2, 52f, 69, 74

Rastenburg, Wolfsschanze HQ, 44, 63, 79, 129, 267, 270, 272, 297, 316, 343–7, 391,393

Rattenhuber, Hans, 80

Raus, General Erhard, 296f, 301–2

Red Army: Armies: 1st Guards, 118;

2nd Guards, 293, 298f, 309;

3rd Guards, 300f;

1st Shock, 41–2;

2nd Shock, 44;

5th Tank Army, 227f, 230, 241, 245, 252, 296;

4th Army, 19;

6th Army, 67, 300;

16th Army, 41;

21st Army, 203, 252, 325, 355, 357, 359, 377;

24th Army, 118, 243, 323;

28th Army, 147;

51st Army, 85, 147f, 169, 172, 211, 223, 243, 248, 298;

57th Army, 67, 147f, 211f, 223, 243, 248, 278, 298, 310, 321, 359;

62nd Army, 90f, 96, 114, 118, 125–6, 128–9, 136, 144, 147, 154, 157, 190, 192, 196, 201, 212, 216, 243, 247, 264, 302–3, 359, 377, 394, 431;

64th Army, 90f, 114f, 118, 125, 147, 169, 186, 197, 202f, 211,223, 248f, 355, 359;

65th Army, 251, 257,353,355,357,359, 370;

66th Army, 243, 355

Corps: 3rd Guards Cavalry, 241, 251, 253f;

4th Cavalry, 227, 232, 248, 297;

8th Cavalry, 241, 252;

1st Tank, 246, 252;

4th Tank, 227, 241, 244, 246, 251, 253, 256;

13th Tank, 298, 356;

16th Tank, 259;

24th Tank, 300–301;

26th Tank, 246, 252, 255f;

4th Mechanized, 227, 248, 250, 254, 256, 298;

13th Mechanized, 227, 248, 250

Divisions: 13th Guards Rifle, 131–2, 133–5, 138, 140–41, 150, 163, 171, 198, 204, 215, 377;