Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

troops take 758

Lohse, Hinrich 406, 486, 492, 838

London 58, 607, 622; the Blitz 309; East End 309; flying-bombs 641, 642; H order a major air-attack 638; Polish Government-in-Exile 725

Londonderry, Lord 12, 13

Lorenz, Heinz 678–9, 797, 816, 825

Lorraine 315

Los Angeles: Olympic Games (1932) 6

Lo?berg, Lieutenant-Colonel Bernhard von 307, 408

Lower Bavaria 763

Lower Rhine 760

Lubeck 509, 818

Lublin 319, 321, 484, 493, 494, 520, 589, 725

Lubljanka prison 551

Ludwigshafen 760, 761

Luftwaffe 277, 278, 289, 293, 396, 452, 509, 747, 799, 801, 802; airlift to 6th Army 544, 545, 548, 549; armaments programme 284; attacks London’s East End 309; Baku oilfields 537; in ‘Barbarossa’ 409; the Blitz 309; bomb-proof bunkers 633–4; bomber shortage 535; and the bombing of Cologne 524; and ‘Citadel’ 592; creation of xxxviii, 38; death blow to 745–6; Dunkirk 295, 296; failure of 535, 570, 572, 587, 620, 629, 696, 717, 738, 825–6; fighter production 732; forces against Timoshenko 433; fuel shortages 717, 732, 739; and Goring 57, 413; Goring assures H of imminent improvements 535; H’s preoccupation with deficiencies of 543, 729; H’s threat 786; and I G Farben 18; ‘Kirschkern’ Programme 622; Me262 production 621, 635, 739; and Memel 176; and the Normandy landings 641; Operation Barbarossa 384, 409; preferential treatment 46; and a proposed invasion of Britain 301; reform 645; Udet scapegoated for failures 420

Luneburg 836

Lutze, SA-Chief Viktor 584

Luxembourg 295, 315

Luzk, eastern Poland 463

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McAuliffe, Brigadier-General Anthony 744

McLean, Donald 370

‘Madagascar solution’ 134–5, 320, 321–4, 324, 349–52, 383, 470, 521

Madeira xl

Magdeburg 761

Magdeburg-Anhalt 138

Maginot Line 265, 297

Magnuszev bridgehead 756

Maidanek 520

Main river 788

Mainz 761

Maisel, General Ernst 733

Malta 367, 514, 524

Manchester Guardian 124, 829

Mannerheim, Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf von 524,724

Mannesmann 132

Mansfeld, Erich 830

Manstein, Lieutenant-General Erich von 103, 290, 291, 452, 466, 514, 523, 524, 526, 531, 544–5, 549, 578– 81, 592, 597, 599, 600, 603, 607, 616–19, 629, 630, 666

Manteuffel, General Hasso von 741, 744

Manziarly, Constanze 801, 804, 827

Mao Zedong xvii

Marburg 139

March, Werner 5

Mareks, General Erich 408

‘Marcks Plan’ 408

Margarethe I 626

Margarethe II 626

Margival (Fuhrer Headquarters) 642

Markt Schellenberg 766

Marne river 722

Marseilles 722

Marx Brothers 371

Marxism 130; H’s use of the term xli–xlii

Marzahn 801

Maschmann, Melita 9, 142

Mastny, Dr Voytech 170

Masurian woods 395

Matsuoka, Yosuke 363–4, 444

Mauthausen concentration camp 604, 735, 768

Mayen 764

Mayer, Dr Joseph 259

Maykop 438, 497, 514, 529, 530, 536

Mediterranean 49, 50, 533, 539, 591; defence of 586; German supply difficulties 543; ‘an Italian sea’ 25; successful Allied landing 592–3

Meichner, Colonel Joachim 669

Meiser, Bishop Hans 28

Meissner, Otto 170, 218, 800

Memel district, Czechoslovakia 163, 166, 175–6

mentally ill patients 252–7, 259, 261, 317, 424, 427–8, 430, 484

mentally retarded children 257

Meran, South Tyrol 633

Mers-el-Kebir 301

Mertz von Quirnheim, Colonel Albrecht Ritter 676, 681, 682, 683, 689

Mesopotamia 537

Messerschmitt, Professor Willi 621, 635

Metz 642, 721

Meuse river 295, 744

Meyer, Gauleiter Alfred 483

Michael, King of Romania 723

Middle East 523, 537, 591

Mierendorff, Carlo 666

Miklas, President Wilhelm 77, 78, 80–1

Milan 26

Milch, Field-Marshal Erhard 75, 548, 621, 634, 635

Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich (Ministerrat fur die Reichsverteidigung) 219, 312, 541, 568, 570, 573, 709

Minsk 394, 398, 399, 466, 483, 486, 647, 661

Mischlinge (part-Jews) 148, 474, 486, 492

Mitford, Diana (later Mosley) 13