Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Nikopol 603, 617

Nile river 524

Nisko district, south of Lublin 318

Non-Aggression Pact 189, 191

Normandy 639–41, 696, 699, 707

North Africa 328, 346, 347, 348, 439, 448, 513, 514, 535, 538–42, 546, 553, 554, 580–81, 609, 668

North Schleswig 288

North Sea 369, 375

Norway xl, 194, 286, 287–9, 293, 332, 405, 759

November 9th 1918 127, 151, 298–9, 697

November Pogrom (1938) 136–47, 148, 249

November Revolution 150

NSDAP see National Socialist German Workers’ Party

NSV see Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt

Nuremberg: air-raids on 573, 761, 764; compared with Furth 582; demolition of the main synagogue 132; Party Rallies see under National Socialist German Workers’ Party; prison 58, 377, 836

Nuremberg International Military Tribunal 574, 836, 837

Nuremberg Laws 148

Nu?dorf (Bouhler’s country house) 571

O

Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) see German Army: High Command

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) see Wehrmacht: High Command

Obersalzberg, near Berchtesgaden 107, 110, 168, 199, 207, 301, 306, 373, 556, 570, 587, 636, 637, 639, 644, 651, 799, 800, 810

Occupied Eastern Territories 478, 483

Oder front 782, 793

Oder river 160, 756, 759, 793

Odessa 630

Oertzen, Major Hans Ulrich von 690

Ohlau 759

Okamoto, General 443

OKH (Oberkommando der Heeres) see German Army: High Command

OKW (Oberkommando des Wehrmacht) see Wehrmacht: High Command

Olbricht, Major-General Friedrich 86, 659, 660, 667, 668, 671, 676, 681, 682, 682–3, 689

Oldenburg 508

Olympic Games (Berlin, 1936) 5–9, 379

Olympic Games (Los Angeles, 1932) 6

Omaha Beach 640, 641

Operation Anton 542

Operation Autumn Mist 741, 743–7

Operation Axis 599, 600

Operation Bagratian 646

Operation Barbarossa 335, 339, 343, 344, 348, 353, 360, 361, 363, 367–8, 371, 377, 380, 382, 462, 463, 466, 468, 469, 525, 566, 646; aim of 384; Barbarossa-Decree (13 May 1941) 357; and Bolshevism 387, 388, 389; ‘Commissar Order’ 357–9; Directive No.21 (‘Barbarossa Directive’) 335, 408; Directive No.34 410; escalating problems 419; German military leaders’ confidence 369; H provides the driving force 368–9; H’s intervention in military matters 407, 417, 419, 499; H’s letter to Mussolini 387–8; H’s proclamation 386, 387; initial reactions of the German people 422; initial territorial gains 398, 400; the invasion begins (22 June 1941) 393; and the invasion of Yugoslavia 365; the long front 579; operational plan fails 407, 417; partisan war 395, 405; postponed 362–3; Soviet captives 394–5; Soviet counter-attack begins (5 December 1941) 442; ‘special announcements’ 398; spiralling barbarization 395; ‘Study’ 413; ‘Supplement to Directive No.33’ 409, 410; Supplement to Directive No.34 411; toll on the German army and Luftwaffe 309; transport statistics 393; winter provisions for the troops 435, 439

Operation Blue 514–15, 523, 524, 526–8; Directive No.41 (5 April 1942) 528, 529

Operation Braunschweig 528; Directive No.45 (23 July 1942) 528–9

Operation Citadel 591, 592, 647; plans for 579–80; postponed 580, 587

Operation Cobra 718

Operation Dragoon 722

Operation Felix 348

Operation Gomorrha 597

Operation Magic Fire (Unternehmen Feuerzauber) 16

Operation Marita 361, 364–5

Operation Market Garden 723

Operation Mercury 367

Operation North Wind 744, 745

Operation Overlord 641

Operation Panzerfaust (‘Bazooka’) 735

Operation Sealion 302–3, 310

Operation Thunderclap 545

Operation Typhoon 415, 431, 433, 436

Operation Valkyrie 668–9, 671, 675, 676, 690

Operation Watch on the Rhine 741

Opfer der Vergangenheit (Victims of the Past) (film) 257

Oppeln, Upper Silesia 759, 788

Oppenheim 760

Oran, French Algeria 327, 539

Oranienburg 793

Ordnungspolizei (regular police) 468

Orel 592, 596, 597

Organisation Todt (OT) 623, 634, 675, 678, 679, 742, 808

Orgaz y Yoldi, General 14

Orsha 647

Oscarsborg, straits of 288

Oshima, Ambassador Hiroshi 27, 383, 398, 443, 445, 449, 470, 729, 730, 732, 743

Oslo 288

Oster, Colonel Hans 157, 225, 262, 268, 270, 659, 667, 690

Osteria Bavaria restaurant, Munich 143, 512

Ostland (Eastern Region) 406, 486, 491, 520

‘Ostmark’, Goebbels in 506

Ostrogoth Gau (Ostgotengau) 440

Ostrov, Poland 394, 690

Ott, General Eugen 443

Oven, Wilfried von 678

Owens, Jesse 6, 7

P

Pacific Ocean 728