morale
mutiny among 259; viewed as impossible 272–3
Nazi Party’s unpopularity with 214, 261, 312
new divisions planned (1944)
organizational structure 250, 253
rear echelon (
refugees, treatment of 201–2
troops numbers 132, 165, 168, 170, 174, 206, 247, 250, 251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 266, 285, 301, 308–9, 310, 353; in Berlin 308–9; on eastern front 368; in Italy 364; in Norway 367
troops, quality/standard of 137–8, 247, 253, 255, 270, 301, 307, 308, 310–11
Women’s Battalions 310
German Army atrocities 98, 107, 112
German capitulation (May 1945) 6, 11–12, 14–15, 18, 348–85
Act of Military Surrender (7 May 1945) 371; Soviet version (8 May 1945) 371–2; events following 371–9
Allied demands 370–71;
Donitz’s peace negotiations 351, 354–5, 362, 366–77; for partial capitulation 351, 362, 376; von Ribbentrop on 361
Eisenhower, negotiations with 368, 369, 370–71, 375, 376
German-controlled areas at time of 366–7; map
in Italy 267, 285–6, 363, 364, 366
Montgomery, negotiations with 366–7
post-war trials 328; at Nuremberg 354
German Navy 205, 265
Donitz as C-in-C 39, 48, 169, 204, 264, 265, 306, 308, 395
evacuation of civilians by 179, 265, 367, 368, 372
von Friedeburg as C-in-C 360
morale 265, 360–61
transfers from, to Wehrmacht 206, 265, 267, 308, 353, 372
welfare provision in 265
German prisoners of war 32, 56, 70, 71, 154, 160, 196, 211, 226, 254, 255, 260–61, 267–9, 270, 306, 315, 369
in Australia 306
in Soviet hands 94, 254, 368, 369, 371; from Army Group Centre 375; deaths among 375
German Red Cross 183, 192
German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship (September 1939) 99
Germany
administration see administrative systems; Gauleiter
border provinces 72, 85, 86;
civilians
collapse of 207–25, 240–46, 247–92; maps showing
radicalization of 51–3
as a totalitarian regime 8–10, 84, 207–8
war aims/objectives 37
Germany (pre-war) 8, 13, 98, 208, 384
Germany, occupation of (1945–on) 7, 12, 71, 379–85
Allied-appointed mayors 279
as a legal state 378
reconstruction phase 377
by Soviet Union 379
Yalta Conference communique on 246
Gerngro?, Captain Rupprecht 343
Gestapo 149, 208
foreign workers, persecution/execution of 227–8, 328
Giesler, Paul (Gauleiter of Munich-Upper Bavaria) 214, 344
Glogau 204
Goebbels, Joseph (Minister of Propaganda) 11, 22, 23–4, 35, 63–4, 67, 90, 114–16, 118, 119, 159, 279, 315, 316, 358, 391
Bormann and 43, 317, 352; attempts to negotiate with Allies 352
character/personal appearance 23, 77, 146, 164, 243–4, 336, 337
his diaries 146–7, 149, 151, 160–61, 337
Dresden bombing, propaganda based on 238–9
family 243, 282; his murder of 337, 346
on Goring 243–4
Guderian and 46
Hitler and 147, 243, 244, 281–2, 336, 337, 399
negotiated peace, support for 280–82, 352
as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War 38–41, 42, 49, 52–3, 73, 75–9, 86, 95, 104, 121, 142, 146–7, 241–4, 256–7, 259, 269, 279, 280, 295, 392, 396; administrative systems under 40–41, 75–9, 146, 241–2
on von Ribbentrop 243–4, 282
Soviet Union, suggests separate peace with 95–6
Speer and 24, 25, 43, 75, 76–9, 83, 146, 244, 287–8
suicide 337, 346, 352, 355
Goebbels, Magda (wife of Joseph Goebbels) 243, 282
suicide 337, 346, 355
Goldap 110, 111, 173
Goring, Hermann 20, 90, 163, 166, 205
Berlin, escape from 336
Bormann and 340
Goebbels on 243–4
as Hitler’s designated successor 20, 339, 340, 353, 397, 399
as Luftwaffe C-in-C 20, 39, 44, 48, 150, 160, 163, 169, 205, 306, 308, 342; dismissal (April 1945) 340, 342, 353, 399
negotiated peace, support for 280–81
post-war interrogation 30, 336
under house arrest (April 1945) 340, 342
suicide (October 1946) 356
Gotenhafen (Gdynia) 183, 234, 250
Gotha 297
Gottingen 297, 349
Graser, General Fritz-Hubert 301
Great Britain
Greece 94, 121
Greifswald 324
