Hitler, Donitz, and the Baltic Sea (63 page)

     
Stalin strategy in,
86
,
87

     
Third Belorussian Front in,
26
,
51
,
109–10
,
113

     
Third Panzer Army in,
110–13

     
XXVIII Corps in,
111–13

     
Vasilevskii strategy in,
114

     
Wellenbrecher
doctrine in,
136
,
139

     
Zeitzler strategy in,
39

East Wall,
2
,
12
,
59

Eastern Front,
ix
,
xxii
,
12
,
19
,
20
,
32
,
44
,
85
,
213

     
Assmann and,
12

     
Dönitz and,
208

     
Gehlen and,
138

     
Guderian and,
48
,
54
,
60
,
61
,
149
,
188

     
Hitler strategy,
55
,
104
,
106
,
121
,
123
,
132
,
139–40
,
145
,
150–51
,
167

     
Kuchler and
1
,
2

     
Meisel and,
38

     
OKH and,
54
,
55
,
218

     
OKW and,
121

     
Soviet offensives on,
23
,
87
,
138
,
149

Eighteenth Army,
3
,
5–7
,
9
,
14
,
82
,
84
,
91

Eleventh Army,
9–10

Eleventh SS Panzer Army,
114–15
,
124

English Channel,
2
,
15
,
33
,
177
,
188

Enigma code machine,
176

Estland-West Position,
48
,
49
,
50

Fifth Courland Battle,
82
,
89
,
104

Fifth Guards Tank Army,
28
,
133

Fifth Panzer Division,
114

First Air Force,
29

First Baltic Front,
25
,
28
,
51
,
113

First Belorussian Front,
110
,
115
,
136

First Courland Battle,
82
,
84
,
87
,
95
,
137

First Panzer Army,
149

First Task Force,
35

First Ukranian Front,
110
,
136

Foertsch, Friedrich,
xiii
,
47

Foreign Armies East,
135
,
136
,
138

Forshell, Anders,
xiii
,
159

Fourth Army,
109
,
110–14
,
115
,
119–22
,
128
,
135
,
151

Fourth Courland Battle,
82
,
87
,
104

Fourth Panzer Army,
128

Friedeburg, Hans-Georg von,
xiii
,
201

Friessner, Hans,
xiii
,
25–26
,
28
,
29
,
33
,
34–35
,
36
,
39–40
,
44
,
202

Fuchs, Werner,
xiii
,
174
,
195

Fürungsgruppe (OKH Command),
49
.
See also
OKH

Gdansk.
See
Danzig

Gdynia,
xxi
,
32
,
98
,
113
,
115
,
116
,120,
122–27
,
129
,
135
,
141
,
184
,
185

Gehlen, Reinhard,
xiii
,
133
,
135
,
137–39
,
141

German Army High Command.
See
OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres)

Gersdorff, Curt-Ulrich von,
xiii
,
61
,
69
,
72

Gneisenau (German cruiser),
188

Godt, Eberhard,
xiii
,
34
,
190
,
191
,
200
,
201

Goebbels, Joseph,
18
,
28
,
36–37
,
45
,
89
,
93–94
,
97
,
104
,
125
,
136
,
148
,
155
,
178
,
179
,
195
,
203
,
211
,
212
,
214
,
219
,
221

Gollnick, Hans,
xiv
,
107–8

Göring, Herman,
xiv
,
39
,
129
,
132
,
133
,
177
,
195
,
197–98
,
200
,
205

Gotenkopf Position,
150

Gothic Line,
23

Govorov, L. A.,
7

Grasser, Army Detachment.
See
Army Detachment Grasser

Grasser, Anton,
xiv
.
See also
Army Detachment Grasser

Group Sponheimer,
6

Group Strachwitz,
29–30

Guderian, Heinz,
xiv
,
xx
,
27–28
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
40
,
50
,
55
,
63
,
67
,
68
,
69
,
73
,
80
,
85
,
99
,
100
,
115
,
116–23
,
126
,
132
,
133
,
142
,
144–45
,
151
,
152
,
182
,
185
,
190
,
195
,
208
,
216
,
219–21

     
and Army Group A,
128
,
139

     
and Army Group Center,
128
,
139

     
Army Group North,
47
,
57
,
60
,
61–62
,
121

     
and Eastern Front,
48
,
54
,
60
,
61
,
149
,
188

     
and East Prussia,
59
,
60–62
,
116–17
,
128
,
137–41

     
and Memel,
61
,
108–9
,
116

     
and Skl,
123

     
and West Prussia,
123

Halder, Franz,
xiv
,
155

Heidkämper, Otto,
xiv
,
111

Heinrici, Gotthard,
xiv
,
127

Hela Peninsula,
116
,
123
,
125
,
126
,
127
,
135
,
215

Herwig, Holger,
xxi

Hessler, Günter,
xiv
,
191
,
201

Heusinger, Adolf,
xiv
,
13
,
34
,
35
,
36
,
39
,
58–59
,
140

Hilpert, Carl,
xiv
,
69
,
71–72
,
88–89
,
90
,
99
,
104–5
,
106
,
132
,
201
,
212

Himmler, Heinrich,
37
,
114–15
,
123–25
,
127
,
129
,
194
,
195
,
197
,
198
,
200
,
211
,
214
,
221

Hogland island,
8
,
18
,
41–44
,
45
,
46
,
58
,
59
,
62
,
64
,
75
,
79
,
161
,
184
,
216

Holland,
10
,
15
,
148
,
175
,
185
,
191
,
204
,
208

Hossbach, Friedrich,
xiv
,
111

Hungary,
24
,
60
,
94
,
213

Hungary,
109
,
115
,
123
,
146
,
151
,
206

intelligence

     
Allied,
180

     
German,
15
,
24
,
86
,
88
,
101
,
108
,
110
,
117
,
133
,
137–38
,
155
,
184
,
188

     
Soviet,
115

     
Swedish,
156–57
,
161

Irben Straits,
56
,
57
,
65
,
67
,
69–71
,
77
,
78
,
160

Italy,
22

     
Allies in,
23
,
28–29
,
140

     
Dönitz on,
196

     
German losses in,
30
,
45
,
147

     
Speer on,
151

     
Vietinghoff and,
85
,
89
,
106

Jodl, Alfred,
xiv
,
11
,
33
,
38
,
118
,
121
,
127–28
,
129
,
148
,
156
,
157
,
165
,
191
,
195
,
211
,
213

Juhlin-Dannfelt, Curt,
xiv
,
155

Karelian Isthmus,
4
,
18
,
30
,
31

Keitel, Wilhelm,
xiv
,
19
,
31
,
33
,
48
,
59
,
80
,
121
,
123
,
129
,
162
,
165
,
195
,
200
,
203

Kinzel, Eberhard,
xiv
,
3
,
6
,
28
,
34
,
59

Kolgampia Peninsula,
59

Kollontai, Alexandra,
18

Königsberg,
47
,
110
,
111–14
,
112
,
118–22
,
125
,
136
,
140

Kovno,
25
,
26
,
29

Kraus, Herbert,
xxi
,
220

Kronstadt Bay,
9
,
14
,
16
,
75
,
102
,
182
,
183
,
184
,
187

Kronstadt Island,
4
,
8

Kuban Peninsula,
12
,
140
,
141
,
149–50
,
187
,
216

Küchler, Georg von,
xiv
,
1–6
,
7
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
20
,
28
,
202

Kummetz, Oskar,
xiv
,
19
,
32–33
,
37
,
38
,
46
,
55
,
58
,
59
,
71
,
73–74
,
75
,
76–77
,
101
,
102–3
,
117–18
,
160–61
,
162–63
,
185–86