Dietrich, SS Colonel-General Sepp 132, 133, 140, 155–6, 170, 252–3, 284
Dinant 160
disease 125, 184
typhus, in concentration camps 329, 330
von Dohnanyi, Hans 328
Donitz, Grand-Admiral Karl 39, 94, 169, 264–5, 271, 306–7
character 352–3, 354, 376, 399–400
on defence of Berlin 339
Hitler and 204, 205, 300, 306, 307, 338, 350–51, 352–4, 399–400; as his named successor 346;
as Navy C-in-C 39, 48, 169, 204, 264, 265, 306, 308, 395
in Plon (April 1945) 338, 339, 342, 346
post-war interrogation 204–5, 354
his situation reports 264–5
Donitz, Grand-Admiral Karl, as Reich President (April–May 1945) 350–55, 366, 399
his cabinet 358–62, 377–8; choices available for 375–7
peace negotiations 351, 354–5, 362, 366–7, 387; for partial capitulation 351, 362, 376; von Ribbentrop on 361–2
suitability as President 352–4
Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp 233, 330, 333
Dorpmuller, Julius (Transport Minister under Donitz) 360, 377
Dorsch, Xaver 64–5, 83
Dortmund 227, 228, 297
Allied bombing 235
Drauz, Richard 326
Dresden
Allied bombing (February 1945) 235, 243; casualties 235, 236–40; Nazi propaganda based on 238–9
population levels 237; Jews 237; refugees 237, 238–9
Dufner, Lieutenant Julius 66, 314–15
Duisburg 228, 297
Dulles, Allen W. 285, 363
Duren 254
Dusseldorf 142, 143, 227, 254
East Brandenburg 167, 181–2
East Frisia 366–7
East Prussia 22, 34, 37, 39, 99
evacuation of civilians 176–80, 183, 202; deaths during 180; numbers of 179, 180
Koch as Gauleiter
Red Army, fear of 98–100, 108
in Red Army offensive (Summer 1944) 24, 28, 45, 91, 93, 95
Red Army invasion (October 1944–on) 17, 108, 110–22, 167, 168–9, 173–4, 176–83, 195, 196–200, 202–3, 250–51
eastern front
economic collapse 134, 135–7, 138–40, 164, 172, 352
Speer on 244, 258, 287–8, 289
Eifel 66
Eigruber, August (Gauleiter of Oberdonau) 316–17
Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 58, 156, 284, 359, 361
German peace negotiations with 368, 369, 370–71, 375, 376, 387
Kesselring and 369
Montgomery and 388
as Supreme Commander 378
Eismann, Colonel Hans-Georg 308, 309
Elbe river 237, 268–9, 270, 297, 300, 303, 339, 368, 373
Elser, Georg 328
Emmendingen 152
Emsland concentration camp 329
entertainment 6, 75. 76. 276
Erfurt 297
Essen 143, 297
Allied bombing 235
Krupp works 139, 150, 235
Estonia 94, 95
Eutin 341
evacuation
of concentration camp inmates
of military personnel 66–7, 68, 177; from eastern front 372–5
evacuation, of civilians 22, 42, 62–5, 68, 84, 88, 99, 108, 110, 111–12, 115, 117, 148–9, 152, 176–80, 181–4, 186, 188, 189–90, 193, 197, 199, 205, 213–14, 215, 250, 251, 275, 277, 287, 316–17, 342
from Berlin 340–41, 345
compulsory, ordered by Hitler (March 1945) 289–90, 316; difficulties of 316
German Army’s attitude to refugees 201–2
by German Navy 179, 265, 367, 368, 372
numbers of 99, 179, 180, 182, 183, 184, 205
of women 177, 178–9, 180, 182, 183, 345
execution
of American prisoners of war 156
of American-appointed German officials 279
of civilians, for defeatism 318, 322, 326–7, 390–91; of women 325–6
in concentration camps 328, 329, 332–3; numbers of 332, 333, 335; German public reaction to 333, 334– 6
for cowardice 322–3
of deserters/disaffected troops 69, 120, 155, 203, 204, 216–17, 219, 220, 243, 262, 263, 320, 360–61, 390, 391
of dissenters 52, 224–5, 328; numbers of 225
of foreign workers, by Gestapo 227–8, 328
of Germans, by Red Army 181
of Nazi functionaries, in Bromberg 316–17
of prisoners in state penitentiaries 328
for treason, in final phase 341, 343, 344, 345; numbers of 328, 329
Falaise 55, 56, 60, 67, 69
Federated Steelworks 141
Fegelein, Hermann (brother-in-law of Eva Braun) 37, 345–6
Fernau, Walter 327
Fiebig, Richard 137
Final Solution
