Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Wochenspruche (Weekly Maxims) 474

Wohltat, Helmut 226

Wolf, Hugo 500

Wolf, Johanna 798, 800

Wolff, Karl 149, 834

Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze) ‘Fuhrer

Headquarters’, near Rastenburg 395–8, 400, 407, 420, 437, 440, 441, 449, 455, 499, 524, 543, 578, 587, 591, 595, 600, 650, 651, 690; Antonescu talks 723; assassination attempt (20 July 1944) 651, 655–8, 671–5, 676; buoyant mood (1941) 433; communications centre 677; the daily routine 500; the deportation issue 479; and filmed executions 693; Guderian favours a retreat in Russia 454; H addresses Party leaders on the consequences of the assassination attempt 706–7; H broadcasts from 619–20; H leaves for good 741; H rarely leaves 420; H resists pressure to leave 738; H speaks on Jews 461, 487–90; headquarters moved to Werewolf, near Vinnitsa 527; H’s speech to Gauleiter 605–6; an important meeting (16 July 1941) 405–6; map room 527; security 623, 694; the Stalingrad crisis 548–9; talks with Ciano and Cavalero 546

Wriezen 782

Wuppertal-Barmen 587

Wurzburg 761

Yalta Agreement 761, 778

Yorck von Wartenburg, Peter Graf 665, 666, 683, 690, 692

Yugoslav army 366

Yugoslavia: capitulation of 366; Friendship Treaty with Russia 365; German plans to attack 36z, 363; loss of Austrian territory to 73; military coup (1941) 360, 36z, 368; minerals 194; and the Tripartite Pact 360, 361–2

Z

Zagreb 366

Zamosc district, Lublin 589

Zander, SS-Standartenfuhrer Wilhelm 825

Zaporozhye 599, 602, 660

Zeitschel, SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Carltheo 475

Zeitzier, Major-General Kurt 533, 534, 537, 543, 544, 548, 578–9, 580, 616, 617, 632, 646, 649–50, 665, 694

Zhukov, Marshal Georgi 394, 756, 759, 793, 809, 831, 836

Ziegenberg see Adlerhorst (Eagle’s Eyrie) Zionism, Eichmann’s Zionist contacts 134

Zitomir 394

Zoppot 236

Zossen 769, 793

Zuckmayer, Carl 85

Zwickau 514

Zyklon-B 483

Praise

‘Ian Kershaw has long been recognized as the world expert on Adolf Hitler’s role in the Third Reich… this book is not likely to be bettered in the foreseeable future’.

Brendan Simms, The Times Higher Education Supplement

‘Masterly… As readable and gripping as the first, it explains — the personality of Hitler more convincingly than anything else I’ve read and at the same time sets out in brilliant detail what happened to Germany as a whole during the Second World War’.

Miriam Gross, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year

‘Rich in material, balanced, perceptive, humane and very well written — altogether a magnificent achievement’.

David Blackbourn, London Review of Books

‘There is not a better and more complete biography of Hitler and his epoch — and it’s hard to imagine that it could soon be superseded’.

Alexander Gallus, Rheinischer Merkur

‘Monumental… This massive, extensively researched, extraordinarily balanced, and remarkably judicious study is likely to remain the definitive biography for a long time to come’.

Omer Bartov, New Republic

‘This second volume of Ian Kershaw’s magnum opus is even more fascinating than its predecessor, Hubris’.

Antony Beevor, Independent, Books of the Year

‘It is a masterly work; comprehensive, balanced, authoritative, and above all readable. If there is one book that explains Hitler’s success in securing and maintaining power, and in consequence the causes of the Second World War, this is it’.

Sir Michael Howard, The Times Literary Supplement, International Books of the Year

‘A masterpiece which… leaves all previous Hitler biographies in the shade’.

Enrico Syring, Das Parlament

‘Compared to the many others that came earlier, even the important and illuminating works by Alan Bullock and Joachim Fest, Kershaw’s large-scale study is more probing, more judicious, more authoritative in its rich detail and yet more commanding in its mastery of the horrific narrative’.

Milton J. Rosenberg, Chicago Tribune

‘Enthralling and terrifying… this is classic narrative history at its best, written with verve and passion’.

David Marquand, New Statesman, Books of the Year

‘An impressive, detailed, and sobering story’.