financial situation 241–2
money supply 342
Finland 62, 94, 95
fire-fighters 277
First World War (1914–18) 36, 37, 48, 67, 68, 98, 209, 213, 257, 258–9, 372–3
German surrender 6, 7, 8, 11–12
Verdun 92
Versailles Treaty (June 1919) 98, 154
Flensburg-Murwick 319, 372, 377, 378, 380
Naval Academy at, as Donitz’s command centre 358
Florian, Friedrich Karl (Gauleiter of Dusseldorf area) 142
Flossenburg concentration camp 328, 330
food/water supplies 6, 102, 125, 126, 138, 142, 143, 148, 163, 178, 193, 211, 213, 227, 257, 274, 275, 276, 287, 316–17, 341
in Berlin 190, 191, 274, 288, 294, 318
foraging for 274
in Netherlands 362, 363
post-capitulation 381
foreign workers 25, 83–4, 89, 104, 125, 134, 138, 208, 209, 225–6
in Berlin 226
as forced labour 102, 143, 226
Gestapo persecution/execution of 225–8, 328
numbers of 226, 228
Forster, Albert (Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia) 245
fortifications, construction of 66–7, 88–9, 101, 105–6, 108, 117–18, 138, 139, 143, 223
Frank, Hans 102, 214
escape from Poland 214
Frankfurt am Main 255
Frankfurt an der Oder 215, 228, 251, 308
Freiburg 152, 299, 317
Freisler, Judge Roland 49
French Army 56, 254, 299–300
looting by 325
North African troops 300
French Army atrocities 300
Freudenstadt 299, 300
Frick, Wilhelm (Minister of the Interior) 23
von Friedeburg, Admiral-General Georg (as head of German Navy under Donitz) 360, 378
German capitulation (7/8 May 1945), present at signing of 371, 372
peace negotiations: with Eisenhower 369, 370–71; with Montgomery 366–7, 369
Frisches Haff lagoon 173, 174, 178, 179, 180, 183, 251
Fromm, General Friedrich 35, 36
fuel supplies 93, 94, 131, 132, 165, 170, 252, 253
Allied bombing, effect on 79–80, 135
aviation fuel 135
Gardelegen, massacre of concentration camp prisoners at (April 1945) 333
Gauleiter (provincial/regional governors) 11, 13, 22, 25, 40, 64, 65–6, 84, 89–90, 111, 118, 125, 138, 142–4, 163, 182, 185, 216, 256, 278–9, 287, 296, 399
central control of 77, 78, 81, 83, 88
in the final phase (March/April 1945) 316–17, 318–21, 342–4, 392
Hitler and 244–5, 318, 320
local troops recruited by 85–6
power held by 392
as Reich Defence Commissars (RVKs) 22, 41–2, 43, 88, 89, 101, 102, 103, 224–5, 290–91
Speer and 290–91
suicide among (post-April 1945) 356
Gebhardt, Karl 62, 113
Gehlen, Colonel Reinhard 170
Geisler, Hermann 243, 294
Geneva Convention, Hitler considers scrapping of 259
Gerland, Karl (Gauleiter of Kurhessen) 319
German Army
armaments for
casualties
civilian population’s hostility towards 261, 262
compulsory military service/conscription 71, 100, 138
courts martial 205, 212, 219–20, 252, 263, 390–91
deserters 155, 196, 211, 212, 218–20, 243, 259–60, 262–4, 272, 297, 305, 313, 314–15, 342, numbers of 220, 390, 391; under a white flag 320;
disintegration of 68, 211, 218–20, 314–15, 367–8
on eastern front 368–71; troop numbers 368;
evacuation 66–7, 68, 177; from eastern front 372–5
execution, of deserters/disaffected troops 69, 120, 155, 203, 204, 216–17, 219, 220, 243, 262, 263, 320, 360–61, 390, 391
Guderian as Chief of General Staff 45–6, 48, 49, 85–6, 102, 106, 127, 165, 170–71, 197–200, 205, 252, 253, 256, 259, 284, 288; dismissal 251–2, 284, 305–6;
Himmler’s reorganization of 36–8
Hitler, allegiance to 32–4, 44–5, 71, 153–4; decline in 66, 212; on his death 248–9
Hitler as C-in-C 169–72, 201, 202, 395–6, 398
Hungarian troops in 93
in Italy 165, 254, 256, 266–7, 284–5; troop numbers 364
Krebs as Chief of General Staff 252, 306, 308;
leadership 11, 12, 33–4, 36–7, 44–6, 48–52, 53, 154, 169, 171, 196–206, 211–12, 218, 263–73, 296, 302–10, 340, 394–5; criticism of 64–5, 44–7, 68, 70; disaffection among 220–21; generals, number of 266; numbers killed 394; OKH 169–70, 197, 198, 199–200; surrender by 297, 300–301, 304, 368, 369, 373, 376;
looting by 212, 259, 315, 342
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