German Army, xv, 18, 243-244; Army Group A, 8, 19, 78, 79, 85, 203, 212, 214, 291, 310, 400; Army Group B, 8, 18, 19, 75, 111-112, 137, 191, 198-199, 201, 212; Army
Group Don, 211, 228, 249, 250, 253, 266, 272, 274, 300, 320, 330, 338, 339, 346, 355-356, 384, 387
ARMIES: First Panzer, 8, 78, 310; Fourth Panzer, 8, 18, 19-21, 26, 41-42, 47, 79, 83, 132, 149, 190, 197, 370; Sixth,
CORPS: Eighth, 13, 370; Eleventh, 211, 370, 373-374; Fourteenth, 365, 369, 370; Seventeenth, 78, 310; Forty-eighth Panzer, 158-159, 172, 175, 183, 186, 188, 200-201, 399; Fifty-first, 354, 370; Fifty-seventh Armored, 251, 254, 274
DIVISIONS: Third, 343; Third Motorized, 50, 63, 73, 308, 334, 365; Sixth Panzer, 213-214, 229, 231, 236, 237, 241, 247, 250, 252, 253, 255, 257, 258, 260, 266, 274, 275, 278; Ninth Flak, 132, 337; Fourteenth Panzer, 102, 132, 210, 224; Sixteenth Armored, 294; Sixteenth Motorized, 114, 214, 228; Sixteenth Panzer, 13, 47, 49-52, 62, 73, 172, 173, 186, 193, 218, 292, 307; Seventeenth Panzer, 214, 228, 250; Twenty-second, 159, 188; Twenty-third Panzer, 214, 229, 243; Twenty-fourth Panzer, 190, 219, 308; Twenty-ninth Motorized, 75, 79, 132, 190, 219-220, 308, 334, 343, 365; Forty-fourth, 151, 218, 224, 343; Sixtieth Motorized, 50, 63, 73, 130-131, 219, 227, 294, 308, 343; Seventy-first, 46, 87, 92, 100, 107, 110, 220, 366, 367; Seventy-sixth, 114, 218, 334, 335, 343; Seventy-ninth, 220; Ninetyfourth, 116, 133, 204-205, 317; One Hundredth, 140, 220; One Hundred Thirteenth Infantry, 219, 225, 334, 343; One Hundred Ninetyfourth Infantry, 89; Two Hundred Eighty-ninth Infantry, 134; Two Hundred Ninety-fifth, 13, 87, 93, 100; Two Hundred Ninety-seventh, 220, 223, 279, 308, 309, 334, 343, 367; Three Hundred Fifth, 138, 220, 221, 284, 334; Three Hundred Thirty-sixth, 154-155, 163; Three Hundred Seventy-first, 220, 308; Three Hundred Seventy-sixth, 147, 334; Three Hundred Eighty-fourth, 219, 334, 343; Three Hundred Eighty-ninth, 220; Grossdeutschland Panzer, 20.
German Cross, 339
German Democratic Republic,
German High Command (OKW), 4, 9, 12, 14, 75, 158, 192, 209, 211, 216, 229, 245, 274, 388, 400; Russian spies within, 24, 402
German Propaganda Company, 195
Germany: Third Reich, xvi, 152, 373, 396; Weimar Republic, 212.
Gestapo,
Gibraltar, 153
Giebeler, Wilhelm, 154, 162-163, 405
Gilmore, Eddy, 336
Ginderling, Capt., 92
Giordano (Italian prisoner), 327
Goebbels, Joseph, 100, 161, 295-296, 361, 367, 384-385
Goering, Hermann, 132, 193, 199, 206, 304, 373-374
Gogol Street, 58
Goldstein, Mikhail, 307-308, 398
Golikov, Gen. F. I., 81
Golodny Island, 37, 67
Golubinka, German command center at, 49, 51, 99-100, 111, 113, 137, 148, 175, 181, 184, 186, 190
Gordov, Gen. A. V., 32, 34, 48, 117
Gorishny Col. V. A., 123, 150
Gorki Theater, 35, 110, 368, 375
Gorodische, 304
Gorokhov, Col. Semyon, 67-68
Goslar, 399
grain elevator, 142; battle for, 101-102
“Green Hats,” 43, 83
Grozny, 78, 85
guerrilla fighters, 143-145.
Gurewicz, Lt. Hersch, 42-45, 142-143, 171, 187, 222-223, 386-387, 398, 405
Gumrak Airfield, 115, 190, 197, 203, 308, 334, 346, 347; command post at, 198, 200, 234, 246, 293, 299, 325, 330; hospital at, 323, 333, 349; radio transmitter at, 346; teleprinter at, 248, 249, 300
Gurov, Kuzma, 135, 176
Gurtiev, Col. L. N., 135, 136, 150
Haifa, xiii
Halder, Gen. Franz, 17-18, 19, 20-21, 79, 271, 398-399; fired by Hitler, 111
Halle, Cpl. Werner, 79-80
Hamburg, xiii, 12, 402
hand-to-hand fighting, 92, 150
Hannover, 404
Harriman, W. Averell, 48n, 405, 422
Hartmann, Gen. von, 366-367
Hauswald, Lina, 339
He-111 aircraft, 221-222, 229, 299
Heim, Lt. Gen. Ferdinand, 158, 183, 185, 186, 188, 190, 200, 399
Heitz, Gen. Walther, 13, 350, 371
Hemingway, Ernest, 15
Hero of the Soviet Union, decoration as, 94, 386, 400, 401, 402, 404
Heusinger, Gen. Adolf, 207, 232, 344, 403, 405
Hilfsfreiwilliger
Russian Army
Himmler, Heinrich, 11
Hindenburg, Chancellor Paul Von, 13
Hitler, Adolf: aides to, 100, 206-207, 232, 299, 303, 304, 344, 345, 400; at anniversary of Third Reich, 153- 154; at apogee of power, 82; attitude of commanders toward, 9, 245, 371; attitude of troops toward, 209, 225, 244, 312, 340, 341-342, 361; blunders in strategy, 19-20, 271-272; “Christmas Drive,” 244; destructive alliance with apolitical generals, 377; display of charm and self-control, 344-345; displays of temper, 78-79, 205, 423; fascination with enemy plans, 153; military conferences, 17-18, 78-79, 85, 232-233; military decisions, 8-9, 15, 19-20, 24, 78, 162, 183, 192-193, 199, 205-206, 207-208, 215, 217, 245, 246, 255, 333; military units shifted, 228; myth of invincibility, xvi, 4, 10; New Year’s message, 308; plans to overthrow, 17, 399, 402; reaction to surrender of Sixth Army, 381-382; refusal to permit retreat from Stalingrad, 246, 280; refusal to permit surrender, 330, 362; response to messengers from Sixth Army, 344-345, 356-357; retreat of First Panzer Army authorized, 310; reverses at Stalingrad acknowledged, 227; self-isolation, 79, 110-111, 118-119, 153; Stalingrad battle as contest of ego with Stalin, 157; tendency to underrate enemy, 18, 19, 21, 154, 182; thesis of racial supremacy, 10.
Holland, Capt., 64
horses, in Germany Sixth Army, 6, 116, 166, 201, 251, 273, 360; slaughtered for food, 221, 253, 299, 350
Horvath, Pvt. Michael, 388
Hoth, Gen. Hermann, 74, 75, 132, 320; advance of First Panzer Army on Stalingrad, 42; attempted pincer movement, 47-48, 76; drive to Volga, 79; forces split, 192, 196; regroupment attempted, 197; relief force to resupply Sixth Army, 246, 247, 252-253, 260, 268, 277, 290, 293, 294; withdrawal of armored division from, 291, 310
House of Specialists, capture of, 91
house-to-house fighting, 154-157, 225-227, 316-317, 361, 364; anticipated by Soviet command, 33
Hube, Gen. Hans, 13, 47, 63, 65, 67, 73, 329-330, 354, 382