miracle weapons 15, 18, 20, 60, 66, 73, 122, 126, 134, 153, 155, 190, 212, 213, 245, 256, 260, 282, 291, 312; atomic 312; jet-fighters 139, 269, 299; V1 missiles 20, 62, 210, 269; V2 rockets 24, 153, 269
production/supply 23, 24–5, 64, 69, 76–9, 81–3, 132, 134–5, 137–8, 140, 206, 212, 257, 396; Allied bombing, effect on 79, 80, 134, 135, 140, 244; deficiencies in 80–81, 244, 297, 305, 308, 311;
Speer as Armaments Minister 11, 23, 24, 25–6, 35, 43–4, 53, 77, 78–83, 134, 140–42, 170, 287–8, 291, 396
Army Group A (subsequently Army Group Centre) (in the east) 168, 170, 196–7, 203
Red Army capture of 375
renamed Army Group Centre (January 1945) 203–4, 219, 259, 348, 372, 375
Schorner as C-in-C 203, 252, 301, 353, 368, 369–71; post-capitulation 373–5
Army Group B (in the west) 59, 132, 139, 140, 319
Model as C-in-C 132–3, 135, 151, 156, 157, 160, 161, 253–4, 263, 297, 303–5, 314; his dissolution of (April 1945) 314
Army Group C (Italy) 285
surrender (May 1945) 363, 364, 366
Army Group E (Croatia) 368, 369
Army Group G (in the west) 59, 140, 141, 297, 311
Hausser as C-in-C 253–4, 363; dismissal (April 1945) 299
Schulz as C-in-C 299, 305, 316; capitulation (May 1945) 368
Army Group H (in the west) 253, 263, 297, 299
Army Group Centre (subsequently Army Group North) 110, 111
Red Army offensive against (Summer 1944) 17, 24, 27, 28, 32, 33, 46, 49, 75, 92–3, 94, 96, 102; casualty figures 93
regrouped 168, 170, 196–200
renamed Army Group North (January 1945) 203–4, 250–51
Army Group North (subsequently Army Group Courland) 50, 92, 94–5, 96, 100
renamed Army Group Courland (January 1945) 204, 256
Army Group North Ukraine (formerly Army Group South) 92, 93, 94
Army Group North-West 366
Army Group Ostmark (renamed Army Group South, April 1945) 368, 369, 372, 373
Army Group South Ukraine 92, 93–4
destruction of 94
Army Group Upper Rhine 164, 204, 210
Army Group Vistula 219, 223, 247, 366
Heinrici as C-in-C 270, 301, 337–8, 340
Himmler as C-in-C 204, 211, 250, 263, 270, 283–4, 353
Arnhem 58, 388
atomic weapons 312
atrocities
Augsburg 278, 342
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 123, 172, 231–2, 329
Australia, German prisoners of war in 306
Austria 253
Allied invasion (1945) 300, 316
Nazi party in 317–18
surrender 368, 369
Vienna 213, 252; Red Army in 301
Avranches 55–6, 68
Axmann, Arthur 310
Backe, Herbert (Minister for Agriculture under Donitz) 359, 377
Bad Windsheim 325–6
Baer, SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Richard 232
Bagramyan, Marshal Ivan 168
Balck, General Hermann 33–4, 58–9, 253
Balkans 93–4, 95, 121
Baltic area 94–5, 96, 108, 178, 183
Memel (fortified port) 105, 107, 108, 110, 151, 188
Red Army invasion (1945) 174, 250
U-boat harbours 94
Bastogne 156, 159, 160
Bavaria 255, 342–3, 368
Freedom Action of Bavaria 343–4
Upper 189
Bayreuth 297
Wachtler as Gauleiter 317, 322–3
BBC 276
Bedell Smith, General Walter 363
Act of Military Surrender (7 May 1945), present at signing of 371
Behrens, Manja (mistress of Martin Bormann) 21
Belgium 56, 59, 136
Antwerp 56, 58, 130, 132, 153, 156, 160, 388
Eupen-Malmedy German enclave 62
von Below, Nicolaus 166
Belz·ec extermination camp 214
Berchtesgaden 213, 336, 381
Goring in 342, 353
Lammers in 340–41
OKW in (April 1945) 339, 342
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 233, 329, 330, 332, 333
British Army’s unopposed liberation of 329
numbers killed 329–30
Berger, Obergruppenfuhrer
Gottlob 87
Berghof, Obersalzberg 21
von Berlepsch, Obersturmfuhrer Freiherr 240
Berlin 6, 159, 223
Allied bombing 22, 190–91, 236, 239, 242, 277, 282–3, 294, 309; casualties 191
communications breakdown with 295, 316, 317
defence/siege of 226, 243, 265, 288, 293–4, 301–2, 307, 308, 336–42, 395–6; Donitz on 339; troop numbers involved in 308–9
Doberitz troop-training ground 154
evacuation 340–41, 345
fall of (May 1945) 346, 349
food supplies 190, 191, 274, 288, 294, 318
foreign workers 226
