Hitler, Donitz, and the Baltic Sea (64 page)

Kurgolowo Peninsula,
8
,
59

Kurl. Aa Position.
See
Aa Position

Kursk,
2
,
12
,
150

Ladoga Canal,
184

Ladoga, Lake.
See
Lake Lagoda

Lake Ilmen,
4
,
5

Lake Ladoga,
1
,
2
,
4
,
9
,
10

Lake Peipus,
1
,
6
,
15
,
27
,
28

Lake Vänern,
158

Lake Wirz,
48

Latvia,
xviii
,
62
,
77
.
See also
Courland

     
Dönitz on,
72

     
Gehlen on,
138

     
German isolation on,
81
,
88

     
German offensives in,
29
,
70

     
German troop supplies,
99
,
100

     
Hitler strategy,
xxi
,
145
,
149
,
215
,
216
,
223

     
Rendulic in,
89

     
Schörner in,
47
,
50
,
93
,
103
,
134

     
Soviet offensives in,
7
,
34
,
37
,
50
,
84
,
133
,
137

     
Soviet withdrawl from,
87
,
104
,
134

     
Stalin on,
87
,
141

     
Vietinghoff in,
89

Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter von,
xiv
,
1
,
2

Leipzig
(German cruiser),
77

Leningrad Front,
4
,
7
,
26
,
28
,
48
,
50
,
51

Libau,
27
,
34
,
37
,
51
,
52
,
53–55
,
56–57
,
60–61
,
62
,
67–68
,
71
,
77
,
81–84
,
86
,
89
,
100
,
101
,
105
,
108
,
117
,
143
,
146
,
159
,
160
,
187
,
201

Leo Line,
68

Lielupe River.
See
Aa River

Lindemann, Georg,
xiv
,
3
,
7
,
13
,
19
,
21
,
24–25
,
28
,
39
,
44

Lithuania,
xviii

     
Dönitz and,
72
,
185

     
German navy and,
77

     
Soviet offensives in,
7
,
34
,
107

Luftwaffe,
2

     
defeat of,
167

     
Dönitz and,
76
,
105

     
Hitler and,
46
,
80
,
105
,
148
,
185
,
188

     
OKH and,
101

     
Schörner and,
99

     
Skl and,
35
,
43
,
55
,
102
,
117
,
178

     
and Soviet fleet,
8
,
15
,
183
,
185

Luga,
4
,
5–6
,
7
,
13

Luga River,
4
,
6

Luga Position,
13

Lützow (German battleship),
32
,
68
,
118

Lyngen Position,
189
,
190

Mannerheim, Carl Gustav,
xiv
,
18
,
19
,
30–31
,
42
,
146

Manstein, Erich von,
9

Manteuffel, Hasso von,
xiv
,
127

“Map Exercise Königsberg,” code name,
47

Masurian Lakes,
110

Maxim Gorkii
(Soviet cruiser),
8

Meisel, Wilhelm,
xiv
,
11
,
19–20
,
33
,
34
,
38
,
42
,
58
,
71
,
72
,
77
,
123
,
164
,
185
,
189–90
,
192
,
197
,
203

Memel,
xxi
,
68
,
74
,
81
,
104
,
125
,
142

     
Army Group North and,
54
,
60

     
Bonin and,
54

     
defense of,
107–9
,
111
,
117
,
128
,
134
,
142
,
150

     
Dönitz and,
35
,
53
,
117
,
118
,
220

     
Gollnick and,
108–9

     
Guderian and,
61
,
108–9
,
116

     
Hitler strategy,
108
,
111
,
117
,
118–19
,
134

     
OKH and,
108
,
116
,
117

     
OKW and,
117

     
Reinhardt and,
109
,
111
,
116
,
117

     
Schörner and,
54–55
,
61
,
137

     
Skl and,
117–18

     
Soviet offensives at,
51
,
68
,
76
,
77
,
101
,
108
,
116
,
117
,
148
,
215
,
217
,
220

     
XXVIII Corps,
111
,
112

Memel River,
52
,
61

Merker, Otto,
xiv
,
172–73

“miracle weapons,” Germany’s,
xviii
,
182
,
193
,
207
,
213–14

Mitau,
27
,
28
,
29
,
48
,
49
,
50
,
51
,
52
,
62
,
96

Mitau-Ost Position,
48
,
49
,
50

Model, Walter,
xv
,
6–7
,
14–16
,
17
,
20–21
,
25
,
26
,
33
,
36
,
39
,
44
,
57
,
63
,
65
,
89
,
94
,
198
,
221

MOK Ostee ([German] Naval High Command, Baltic),
11
,
13
,
14

Moon island,
49
,
65–66
,
67
,
72
,
74
,
78
,
80

Moon Sound,
65
,
66
,
72
,
76

Müller, Friedrich-Wilhelm,
xv
,
111

Mussolini, Benito,
2
,
156

Nargön Island,
8
,
19
,
20

Narva.
See also
“Aster”

     
Assmann on,
36

     
Dönitz at,
13–14
,
15–17
,
21
,
64
,
74
,
76
,
184
,
216
,
220

     
Friessner at,
26
,
28
,
40

     
German defense of,
7
,
18
,
19
,
28

     
German withdrawal from,
10
,
11
,
28
,
40
,
50
,
76
,
216

     
Goebbels on,
18

     
Hitler strategy at,
6
,
13–14
,
18
,
19
,
21
,
24
,
25
,
39–41
,
45
,
62
,
215
,
218

     
Model at,
14–15
,
16–17
,
20–21

     
Schörner at,
29–30
,
48

     
Soviet offensives at,
5–6
,
7
,
13–15
,
26
,
30
,
44
,
50
,
184

     
Stalin on,
7

     
Stavka’s plan for,
48

     
Zeitzler on,
39

Narva Bay,
14
,
15
,
19

Narva Isthmus,
7
,
24
,
26
,
28
,
31
,
35
,
40
,
48

Narva River,
6
,
14
,
19
.
See also
Panther Position

Narva, Army Detachment.
See
Army Detachment Narva

National Socialism,
xx
,
220
.
See also
Nazi Party

     
Dönitz on,
210

     
German Navy and,
222

     
Guidarian on,
219

     
Hitler and,
217
,
221
,
223

     
Hitler on,
200
,
214

     
Raeder and,
222

National Socialist Guidance Officers,
95
,
96

National Socialist Leadership Officers Corps,
90
,
93

Natzmer, Oldwig von,
xv
,
28
,
40
,
47–48
,
50
,
54
,
57
,
62
,
67–68
,
69
,
72
,
74
,
93–94
,
99
,
152

Naval Staff, German.
See
Skl

Nazi Party, Nazi ideology,
28
,
37
,
93
,
106
,
118
,
192
,
193
,
194
,
195
,
197
,
200
,
214
,
220
,
221
,
222
.
See also
National Socialism

Ninth Army,
24
,
114
,
139

Ninth Escort Division,
38
,
74
,
77
,
100

Ninth Panzer Army,
128

NKFD (National Committee for a Free Germany),
88
,
96

Normandy, invasion of,
15
,
23
,
33
,
58
,
147
,
177
,
188
,
207
,
213

North Africa,
2
,
156
,
164
,
188
,
204

October Revolution
(Soviet battleship),
88

Oehrn, Victor,
xv
,
73

Oelfken, Heinrich,
xv
,
173

OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres German Army High Command),
5
,
40
,
152