Celle 160, 299, 349
Chelmno death camp 214
Chemnitz 297
Cherbourg 54–5, 58
Chernyakhovsky, General Ivan 168, 173
Chuikov, General Vasily 174
Churchill, Sir Winston 7, 246, 296
on unconditional surrender, Allied demand for 387
civil defence 135, 162–3
civilian population
Allied bombing, effect on 121, 124, 125, 126, 142–3, 146, 148–52, 273, 275–6, 320–21
casualties
death marches, reaction to 333, 334–6
evacuation of
execution of 52, 224–5, 328; numbers of 225; for showing a white flag 323, 326
food supplies
German Army, their hostility towards 261, 262
Hitler, allegiance to 11, 12, 13, 17–18, 20, 30–33, 51, 52, 71, 72–3, 150, 154–5, 192, 383–4; decline in 13–14, 18, 61, 65, 74, 101, 105, 122, 126–7, 150–51, 153, 154–5, 186, 191–2, 208, 212, 259, 260–61, 273–4, 291–2, 315, 317; reaction to his death 349–50, 355;
living conditions
in local militia
militarization of 392–3
morale
Nazi Party’s control of 83–4, 88, 91, 96, 98, 105–6, 142, 145–6, 162–3, 180, 206, 207–8, 392–3;
Nazi regime, support for 9, 10, 73–4, 207–8, 209, 210, 212–13, 239–40, 258–60, 261, 273–6; decline in 64–5, 68, 101, 104, 105, 107, 126–7, 150–51, 163, 190, 193–4, 195, 209, 213–14, 215–22, 258, 261, 312–13, 315; post- capitulation attitudes to 380–82;
Red Army, their fear of 11, 12, 18, 91, 98–100, 105, 107, 108, 112–14, 117–18, 119, 120–22, 164–5, 177–84, 223–4, 270, 271, 273, 313, 324, 245, 349, 355, 356–8;
Red Army’s treatment of 176–86; labour camps, deportation to 181
Soviet Union, fear/hatred of 70, 98–9, 120, 121–2, 222–3, 256, 271–2, 282, 306, 310, 349, 351, 362, 368, 372, 385;
suicide among 177, 213, 215; post-April 1945 356–8
victims, post-capitulation view of themselves as 380–84
white flags displayed by 261, 262, 278, 314, 315, 323, 324, 325, 367; execution for 323, 326
women
coal supplies 80, 135, 137–9, 140, 141, 143, 205, 235, 244, 254, 275, 285, 344
Coburg 297
Colmar 254
Cologne 59, 143, 227, 228
Allied bombing 148–9, 152, 235
armed insurrection 149, 228
fall of 254, 258, 318–19
communists/communism 70, 84, 227, 306, 317, 333, 344
concentration camps 84, 123, 125, 228–35
death marches from/evacuation of
executions in 328, 329, 332–3; numbers of 332, 333, 335; German public reaction to 333, 334–6;
German demolition of 123, 228, 232
German public reaction to 333, 334–6; post-capitulation 380
guards 328, 329, 331–2, 333, 334; from SS 228, 229, 230, 332, 333–4
Himmler’s control of 119, 228, 229, 329, 330, 331; attempts to barter Jewish inmates for cash 229–30
in the ‘last phase’ 328, 329–36
liberation of 172, 230, 329, 330; German plan to liquidate inmates prior to 229, 230, 329–30
numbers of inmates 184, 228, 231, 232, 233, 234, 329, 330, 337
numbers killed 214, 231, 232, 233–4, 332, 333, 335; death from disease 329–30
in Poland 214
slave labour from 82, 83, 229–31
Swedish attempts to negotiate prisoner release 283, 284
typhus in 329, 330
women in 228
Cottbus 324
courts martial 205, 211, 219–20, 252, 328, 390
summary (flying) (
Coventry, German bombing of 236
Croatia 368
Czechoslovakia (former)
d’Alquen, Standartenfuhrer Gunter 210
d’Alquen, SS-Haupsturmfuhrer Rolf 210
Dachau concentration camp 328, 330, 333
Dankwort, Werner (German deputy ambassador in Stockholm) 282–3
Danube river 170, 300, 301, 316–17
Danzig 96, 115, 151, 179, 234, 259
Forster as Gauleiter 245
Red Army capture of 183
refugees in 183
Dargel, Paul 111
D-Day
death marches 184–6, 229, 230–35, 296, 329, 330–36, 392
Gardelegen massacre during (April 1945) 333
deaths/executions during 184, 185–6, 230, 231–4, 332–3; numbers killed 332, 333, 335
Demmin 357–8
Denmark 299, 319, 338
German occupation 366–7
Dethleffsen, Major-General Erich, his memoirs 381–2
Devers, General Jacob 131
Dietrich, Otto 115
