Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

1st Belorussian Front 756

1st Panzer Army 629, 632

1st Ukrainian Front 756

1st US Army 737, 760

2nd Army 450, 454, 658

2nd Belorussian Front 756

2nd Panzer Army 454

3rd Belorussian Front 756

3rd Panzer Army 442, 647

3rd US Army 744, 788

3rd White Russian Front 738

4th Army 450, 758

4th Army (Romanian) 543

4th Panzer Army 442, 544, 545, 617, 793

5th Panzer Army 741, 744

6th Army 465, 530, 531, 537, 543, 544, 545, 547–54, 772

6th Panzer Army 747, 757, 787

6th SS Panzer Army 741, 743–4

7th Airborne Division 170–1

7th Army 638

7th Army (French) 542

8th Army 78

8th Army (British) 523, 535, 538, 540, 600

8th Army (Italian) 546

9th Army 531, 580, 647, 788, 793, 802, 805, 808, 809, 813, 814, 815, 826

10th Panzer Division 668

11th Army 514, 531

12th Army 366, 805, 809

17th Army 465

18th Army 359, 408

48th Panzer Corps 543

56th Panzer Corps 808

57th Panzer Corps 545

101st Airborne Division 744

A

Aachen 703, 737, 742

A4 rocket 622, 645

Aalborg aerodrome 288

Abetz, Otto 322, 475, 541

Abruzzi 602

Absberg, Franconia 426

Abwehr (military intelligence) 90, 157, 217, 262, 268, 269, 270, 271, 655, 659, 661, 667, 676

Abyssinian crisis 4, 23, 24, 25, 65

Adam, General Wilhelm 98, 103, 106, 107

Adlerhorst (Eagle’s Eyrie) (‘Fuhrer Headquarters’), Ziegenberg 742, 756, 768

Adlon Hotel, Berlin 170

Admiral Scheer (cruiser) 43

Africa 405, 423

Afrika Korps 540, 546, 586

agriculture 162, 186, 187

Air Ministry, Berlin 7

‘Aktion Reinhard’ 484, 603

‘Alarich’ plans 594

Albania: annexation of 193; Italian military setbacks 364

Albrecht, NSKK-Oberfuhrer Alwin-Broder 797

Albritton, David 7

Alexandria 524

Algiers 539

Almeria, shelling of (1937) 43–4

Alsace 315, 323, 744, 747

Alsace-Lorraine 664

Altmark 287

Alvensleben, Ludolf von 231, 242–3

Amann, Max 299

Amerika (H’s special armoured train) 294, 365

Amsterdam 590

Andalusia 15

Anglo-German Society 378

Anschlu? xviii, 44, 45, 64–86, 147, 224; and Austrian plebiscites 65; a defining moment in the Third Reich 64, 83; Einsatzgruppen (task forces) 241, 246; legal framework 78–9, 80; provides the impetus to radicalization 64; a watershed for H 83, 92, 94

anti-clericalism 39–40

Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) 27, 158, 420

antisemitism: in the armed forces 147, 360; and Bolshevism 389; Der ewige Jude 249; first wave (1933) 131, 148; Goebbels plans to rid Berlin of Jews 133–4, 135; and pogroms 137; second wave (1935) 131, 148; suppressed during the Berlin Olympics 5, 9; third wave of antisemitic violence (1938) 131–6; widespread in Germany xliii; see also Hitler, Adolf: antisemitism; Jews

Antonescu, Marshal 332, 383–4, 581, 582, 584, 626, 723

Antwerp 722, 731, 737, 741

Anzio 625

apartheid 251

Appenines 601, 638, 719

Arabia 189

Ardennes 290, 291, 295, 731; the offensive 685, 732, 737, 738, 740, 741–7, 756, 757, 760, 777, 779

aristocracy: Junker xviii; support of H’s regime xv

Army Group A 290, 291, 296, 529–33, 544, 545,630

Army Group ? (later Army Group Centre) 291, 358, 529, 530, 534, 537, 544, 660, 792

Army Group Centre (previously Army Group B) 358, 394, 407–15, 418, 419, 435, 436, 437, 442, 450, 451, 453, 466–7, 531, 596, 617, 646, 649, 658, 659, 661, 667, 670, 721, 758, 802, 815, 835

Army Group Command 2 98

Army Group Don 544

Army Group North 408, 411, 412, 413, 435, 451, 455, 617, 650

Army Group North Ukraine 630, 649

Army Group South 346, 407, 410, 412, 413, 435, 441, 444, 451, 524, 529, 599, 616, 617, 618

Army Group South Ukraine 630, 723

Army Group Vistula 758, 759, 779, 782, 787, 802, 818

Army High Command headquarters, Zossen 262, 268, 270, 271, 278

Arnhem 723, 726