Tedder, Air-Marshal Arthur W. 836 television
Thiele, Major-General Fritz 675
Thierack, Otto Georg 507, 508, 692, 800, 823
Third Reich: administration chaos 569; the Anschlue a defining moment 64, 83; the Berlin Olympics 9; and the Blomberg scandal 52; Concordat with the Vatican (1933) 40; cut in two 809; destruction of xl; economic and political power of xvii; expansion 311; the governance of 504; growing British alienation 24; H authorizes mass- murder 252; H incapable of reforming 573; Hoepner wins law suit 507; and H’s fiftieth birthday 184; legislation (1941) 420–21; loss of eastern provinces xvii; mode of execution for civilian capital offences 693; readiness to strike down opposition 556; sectional interests 93; war fever 300
Thirty Years War 41
Thomas, General Georg 225, 344, 345–6, 353
Thorn 242
‘Three-Man Collective’ 312–13
Thuringia 15, 402, 765, 778
Thuringian Forest 539
Thyssen 132
Tilsit 176
Timoshenko, Marshal Semyon 394, 433, 528
Tiso, Father Jozef 169, 581
Titian 183
Tobruk 347, 523
Todt, Dr Fritz 98, 106, 334, 434, 441, 502–4, 526
Tojo, General 443
Tokyo 58
Topf, J.A. and Sons 483
‘Torch’ landings 542
Torgau 809
Torgler, Ernst 349
Tornow, Sergeant Fritz 825
‘total war’ 566, 643, 644, 699, 713, 729; and deployment of female labour 563; Goebbels and 561, 562, 563
Toulon 722
tourism xl
trade unions, suppression of xxxviii, xlii
Transylvania 723
Treblinka extermination camp 484, 493, 520, 603
Tresckow, Major-General Henning von 358, 359, 653, 658, 659, 660, 661, 662, 663, 666–70,721
Tripartite Pact (1940) 326, 328, 332, 360, 444
Tripolitania 348
Trondheim 288
Troost, Paul Ludwig 37
Trott zu Solz, Adam von 225, 663, 665
‘Trustees of Labour’ (
Tscherniakowski, General Ivan 738
Tubingen 139
Tunis 328, 539, 546, 554, 581, 584–5, 586
Tunisia 542
Turkey 194, 365, 603, 617, 645, 719, 723, 732
Tyrol 292, 836
U-boats: building of 284, 719; hopes for continuation of the U-boat war 800; H’s high expectations 448, 585, 618; losses 585, 717; ordered to sink American ships 445; successes in the Atlantic 416, 523, 554
Udet, General Ernst 372, 420
Uebelhoer, Friedrich 484
Uiberreither, Siegfried 698
Ukraine 172, 177, 238, 384, 401, 406, 408, 411, 413, 414, 415, 468, 491, 507, 521, 562, 565, 590, 603, 630; Jews 668; nationalists 158, 165
Ulex, General Wilhelm 247, 248
Ulm 733
‘Ultra’ code-breaker 379, 585
unemployment: in Britain and America 402–3; reduction in xl, 185, 434
United States: air-raids on German fuel plants 635; American Jewry 321, 477; and the Ardennes offensive 743, 744; armaments 502, 516–17; the atomic bomb 731; Congress 442; economic power 285; economy 402–3; enters the war after the Pearl Harbor attack (1941) 364, 442; first commitment of ground-troops to the war in Europe 539; Germany declares war (11 December 1941) 444–6, 486–7, 490; grant of fifty destroyers to Britain 310; isolationism 285; Jewish refugees in 146; a menacing presence in the wings 752; mighty resources 457; Normandy landings 640–41; and the race for Norway 288; relations with Japan 442–3; US soldiers greeted in Germany 788
University of Leipzig Children’s Clinic 259
Unruh, General Walter von 567
Upper Bavaria 701
Upper Franconia 181, 200
Upper Silesia 235, 238, 772, 784, 785
Urals 400, 403, 405, 448, 462, 591
Urbsys, Joseph 176
Ustasha Movement 366
Utah Beach 640
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V2 rocket 622, 645, 731, 736, 746
Valencia 43
Vatican 604; and the Badoglio plot 596;
Concordat with the Reich (1933) 40
Veesenmaeyer, Edmund 628, 734, 735
Veldenstein, near Nuremberg 371
Venezuela 134
Verdun 540
Vereinigte Stahlwerke 19
Versailles Treaty (1919) xxxv–ix, 29, 38, 158, 163, 188, 224, 238, 265, 275, 668, 754
Viaz’ma 433
Vichy government 299, 328, 541
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy 98, 216, 586, 595–6
Victoria, Queen 123
Viebahn, General Max von 78
Vienna 45, 58, 75, 80, 160, 198, 590; H’s sense of personal degradation xvi; H’s threat 61, 70; H’s triumph in 80–2; Jewish community 84–6, 131, 133, 318, 485; Jodl transferred to 159; lingering remnants of the German coup (1944) 683; and Linz 365; Nazi Party 81; population 65; Red Army advances on (April 1945) 791; ‘Reich Theatre
