Arnim, Colonel-General Hans-Jurgen von 581
Arrow Cross 734, 735, 736
‘aryanization’ of the economy xliii, 22, 42, 43, 131, 146
Ashton-Gwatkin, Frank 109
Asia 400, 403, 416, 423, 440, 517
Asia Minor 530
Astakhov, Georgei 196
Astrakhan 529, 536–7
Athens 366
Atlantic Gap 585
Atlantic Ocean 416, 523, 585, 717
Attila the Hun xvii
Attolico, Bernardo 120–1, 122, 214, 218–19
Augsburg 38, 369
Augsburg region 764
Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp 483, 493, 520, 604, 628, 736, 749, 767–8
Austria: agreement with Germany (July 1936) 4, 24, 25, 45,
Austrian army 75, 81
Austrian Question 45, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 96
authoritarianism xv, xl, xlvi
Avranches 718, 720
Axis: agreement formalized 98; Bulgaria commits itself to 361; formation 26, 204; H’s efforts to bind Axis partners to the cause 582, 583–4; intentions in Yugoslavia, Greece and Poland 334; Lloyd George and 383; Mussolini the junior partner 298, 347; in North Africa 534–5, 538; Spain and 327, 329, 330, 348; successes and position of 363; surrender of troops 585; and unoccupied France 514
Axmann, Artur 798, 812–13, 828
Azores 585
Baarova, Lida 145, 199
Babarin, Evengy 196
Babi-Yar 468
Bach, Johann Sebastian xlii Bach-Zelewski, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Erich von dem 466, 725, 735
Backe, Herbert 823
Bad Godesberg 112, 116, 655
Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia 575
Bad Nauheim 742
Bad Reichenhall 307
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro 593, 594, 595–6, 597, 598, 601
Baillet-Latour, Count Henri 5, 7
Bakhmut river 441
Baku 529, 530, 537
Baldwin, Stanley 4
Balkans 43, 165, 166, 194, 276, 305, 308, 334, 335, 346, 347, 360, 361, 365, 366, 368, 450, 586, 601, 719, 723, 724, 759
Baltic region 345, 346, 406, 408, 413, 463, 464, 470, 485, 617, 647
Baltic Sea 25, 163, 194, 276, 286, 288, 684, 756, 757
Baltic states 196
Bamberg 539
baptism 424–5
Barandon, Dr Paul 770
Baranov bridgehead 756
Barbarossa-Decree (13 May 1941) 357
Bardia 346
Barth, Pomerania (meeting of army high commanders, June 1938) 101–2
Bastogne 744, 747
Bath 510
Battle of Britain 309, 310
‘Battle of the Peoples’ 713
Baum, Herbert 519
Baur, Captain Hans 32, 183
Bavaria: Austrian Nazis in 75; the crucifix issue 425–6; Goebbels in 506; H in 53, 614; the hold of the Church 40; the mood in 1941 424; the peasants’ mood in 186
Bavarian Alps 792
Bavarian State Opera 512
Bayerische Ostmark (Bavarian Eastern Marches): Gau Party Rally, Regensburg(1937) 37
Bayerischer Wald 799
Bayreuth, H at 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 34, 198, 306
BDM
Beamish, Henry Hamilton 320
Beaverbrook, Lord 379–80
Beck, Field Marshal Fedor von 393
Beck, Joseph 166, 177, 217, 248
Beck, General Ludwig 4, 10, 11, 49, 50, 75, 89, 90, 94, 95, 97, 101–5, 107, 263, 268, 659, 664, 667, 676, 677, 681, 682, 683, 689
Beethoven, Ludwig van xlii, 513, 632
Belgian army 295
Belgian Congo 434
Belgium 267, 291, 295, 405, 518, 722, 731, 741, 745; neutrality 194, 277, 295
Belgrade 365
Bell, Bishop George 663
Belorussia 406–7
Below, Frau 33, 651
Below, Captain Nicolaus von 30, 32, 33, 70, 77, 118, 137–8, 149, 165, 235, 294, 295, 310, 345, 452, 535, 543, 548, 553, 554, 581, 616, 621, 637, 674–5, 718, 738, 739, 747, 784–5, 792, 807, 813, 815, 817, 823, 825
Belzec extermination camp 483, 484, 493, 494, 520, 603
Benes, President Eduard 108, 109, 111, 115, 117, 170