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in Italy 303, 396; German surrender in, his reaction to 364, 366

Model and 304

post-war memoirs 303

Kiel 228

1918 naval mutiny 265

Klemperer, Victor 124–5

von Kluge, Field-Marshal Hans Gunther 46, 48–9, 55–6

Koblenz 152, 254, 255

Koch, Erich (Gauleiter of East Prussia) 22, 88, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 111, 115, 176–7, 200, 214, 245

desertion from his post (April 1945) 319

Kolberg 250

Kolberg (propaganda film) 147–8, 250, 276

Kollontay, Alexandra Michailowna (Soviet emissary in Stockholm) 282

Konev, Marshal Ivan 168, 172–3, 176, 181, 301

Konigsberg 103, 111, 169, 173, 174, 192, 199, 200, 250–51

concentration camp near 184

evacuation 177–8, 179, 203, 251

Red Army capture of 300–301, 304, 312–13

Koslin 250

Krampnitz, as OKW headquarters (April 1945) 339, 342

Krebs, General Hans 252, 306, 308

Krefeld 254

Kreipe, General Werner, Luftwaffe Chief of Staff 113, 166

Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm 141

post-war interrogation 141, 393

Krupp works, Essen 139, 150, 235

Kurhessen 319

Kustrin 251, 252, 259

Kyllburg 66

Labour Front 51, 86, 89, 240, 279

Ley as head of 21, 89

labour supply 35–8, 40, 41, 65, 75, 96, 98, 101–2, 137, 139, 142, 143, 310

in armaments production 23, 24–5, 64, 69, 76–9, 81–3

forced labour 102, 143, 226

foreign see foreign workers

labour conscription 88–9, 103, 106

slave labour from concentration camps 82, 83, 229, 331

Speer on 25–6, 37, 38, 76–9

women workers 25, 75–6, 88, 89, 101, 104

working hours 76, 83

Lammers, Hans-Heinrich (Reich Chancellery head) 25, 38, 39, 40, 42, 162

in Berchtesgaden (March 1945) 340–41

Lammerz, Karl 138

Lasch, General Otto 200–301, 312–13

Lattre de Tassigny, General Jean, German surrender, signatory to 372

Latvia 94, 95, 368–9

Lauenburg 234

leadership concept/principle (Menschenfuhrung)

(Fuhrerprinzip) 144–5, 318, 351

Hitler’s charismatic rule 13–14, 25–7, 35, 52, 144–5, 151, 166, 243, 347, 398–9, 400

see also German Army, leadership; Wehrmacht High Command

legal system 207–8, 393

courts martial 205, 211, 219–20, 252, 328; summary (flying) (Standgerichte) 224– 5, 243, 263, 326–7, 343, 360–61

Germany (post-capitulation) as a legal state 378

state penitentiaries 328, 391

see also police force

Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler 253, 284

Leiling, Lieutenant Ottoheinz 343

Leipzig 197

Leipzig, battle of (Battle of the Nations) (October 1813) 106

Ley, Robert (Labour Front head) 21, 51, 77, 86, 89, 152, 240, 279–80

Bormann and 89

character 89, 163–4, 240, 279

suicide (October 1945) 356

Liebel, Willi (Mayor of Nuremberg) 320

Liege 133

Limpert, Robert 3–5

Lindau 342

Lindemann, Colonel-General Georg, as C-in-C Norway 367

Linz, planned post-war rebuilding of 243, 244

Lithuania 93, 94

living conditions 5–6, 10, 25, 120–21, 193, 273–6, 277, 297, 320–21

in Berlin 189–91, 293, 294, 345

in concentration camps 233, 329–30; see also concentration camps

disease 125, 184

food/water supplies see food/water supplies

in labour camps 104

under Allied occupation 379–80

local militia see militia units

Lohr, Colonel-General Alexander 368, 369

London

German bombing raids 236

V2 attacks 153

looting

by German Army 212, 259, 315, 342

by liberated concentration camp inmates 330

from occupied countries 214

by Red Army 357

Lorraine 58–9, 61, 62, 66, 131, 136

Lotzen 173–4, 197, 198

4th Army retreat from 197–200, 201, 202

Lubeck 300

Ludendorff, Erich 258–9

Ludwigshafen 355

Luftwaffe 20, 60, 79, 110, 205, 301, 303

armaments for 44

aviation fuel for 135