Hitler, Donitz, and the Baltic Sea (66 page)

     
and Finland,
18
,
19
,
32
,
42
,
43
,
161
,
164

     
Guderian and,
123

     
Hitler and,
35
,
122

     
and Hogland,
42–43

     
and Kummetz and,
19
,
46
,
55
,
59
,
74
,
76
,
117
,
118
,
185

     
Meisel and,
19

     
Memel,
117
,
118

     
and Norway,
21

     
and OKH,
41
,
72
,
123

     
and OKW,
9
,
12
,
41
,
117
,
123–24
,
190–91

     
Schörner and,
71
,
74

     
and Second Task Force,
74
,
117

     
shipping,
77
,
118

     
and Soviet fleet,
9
,
10
,
13
,
14
,
56
,
73
,
75
,
76
,
78
,
79
,
102
,
103
,
117
,
162
,
184

     
strategy,
9–12
,
20
,
55
,
78
,
117

     
supplies,
38
,
55
,
57
,
100
,
122

     
and Sweden,
155
,
159–65

     
and Tütters island,
56
,
59

     
and U-boat fleet,
102
,
168
,
175–77
,
181
,
185
,
190
,
191
,
201
,
207

     
Voss and,
59
,
72

     
Wagner and,
55
,
58
,
60
,
61
,
164

Sköld, Per Edvin,
xv
,
153

Speer, Albert,
xv
,
36
,
93
,
146
,
148
,
149
,
150
,
151
,
170
,
172
,
179
,
189
,
193
,
194
,
195
,
197
,
201
,
202
,
203
,
206
,
211–12
,
213
,
218
,
219

Stalin, Joseph,
107
,
115
,
140
,
145

     
Berlin,
115
,
116

     
and Churchill,
180

     
and Courland battles,
86–87
,
140–41

     
First Belorussian Front,
115

     
Hitler on,
212–13

     
Leningrad Front,
7

     
Second Belorussian Front,
23

     
and Soviet navy,
183
,
186
,
187

     
Third Belorussian Front,
51

     
at Yalta,
180

Stavka (Soviet High Command),
24
,
25
,
48
,
51
,
113
,
115

Stettin,
98
,
101
,
113
,
115
,
116
,
123
,
124–26
,
127
,
220

“Sunshine,” code name,
53

Swinemünde,
98
,
122
,
123–25
,
127–28
,
220

Sworbe Peninsula,
65
,
66
,
67–74
,
78–80
,
220

Tallinn (Reval),
8
,
10
,
27
,
49
,
66

Taman Peninsula,
150

“Tanne East,” code name,
41–43
,
56
,
64
.
See also
Hogland island

“Tanne West,” code name,
41–43
,
56
,
161
.
See also
Åland Islands

Task forces.
See
First Task Force
;
Second Task Force
;
Third Task Force

Third Air Army,
134

Third Baltic Front,
25–26
,
27
,
29
,
48
,
51
,
63

Third Belorussian Front,
26
,
31
,
109–10
,
113

Third Courland Battle,
81–82
,
84
,
85
,
87
,
98
,
133
,
137

Third Kurland Battle,
187

Third Panzer Army,
24–27
,
29
,
30
,
39
,
40
,
51–53
,
54
,
57
,
91
,
104
,
107–8
,
109–13
,
115
,
116
,
126
,
127
,
211

Third Shock Army,
133

Third Task Force,
35

Thomas, Charles,
xxi
,
220

Thörnell, Olof,
xv
,
155
,
156

“Thunder,” code name,
53

Tirpitz
(German battleship),
35
,
36
,
46
,
184
,
196

Tuckum,
28
,
29
,
30
,
47
,
63
,
83

Tuckum Position,
49
,
51
,
53

Tunisia,
2
,
204
.
See also
North Africa

Tütters island,
41
,
46
,
56
,
58–59
,
64
,
75

XXVIII Corps,
107–8
,
111
,
112–13
,
119

Twentieth Mountain Army,
17
,
34
,
41
,
42
,
70
,
89
,
146
,
189
,
190

U-boats.
See also
Walter submarine

     
Type VII–C,
171

     
Type XVII,
174
,
175

     
Type XVIII,
174–75

     
Type XXI,
xvii
,
xviii
,
122
,
170–71
,
172
,
173–74
,
175
,
176–77
,
178–79
,
180
,
181
,
182
,
185
,
191
,
192
,
201
,
205
,
207
,
216
,
217
,
220

     
Type XXIII,
170
,
172
,
173–74
,
175
,
177
,
178–79
,
180
,
181
,
185
,
191
,
192
,
217

     
U–2321
,
178

     
U–2501
,
178

     
U–2511
,
xvii
,
179

     
U–3008
,
170
,
178

     
U–350
1,
178

Upper Silesia.
See
Silesia

Uthmann, Gen. Bruno von,
xv
,
163

V-1 rocket,
xviii
,
163
,
166
,
207

V-2 rocket,
xviii
,
163
,
166
,
207

Vietinghoff, Heinrich–Gottfried von,
xv
,
85
,
88–90
,
99
,
104
,
106
,
133
,
142

Vistula River,
xxi
,
23
,
61
,
104
,
107
,
109
,
110
,
112
,
114
,
115
,
116
,
123
,
127
,
135
,
138
,
211
,
215
.
See also
Army Group Vistula

Volkhov Front,
2
,
4
,
5

Volkhov River,
184

Volksgeneinshaft
(national community),
104

Volksgrenadier
(people’s grenadier),
214

Volksstrum (German militia),
108
,
118
,
149

Volkssturm
(national character),
201
,
214

Voss, Hans–Erich,
xvi
,
12
,
40
,
42
,
43
,
55
,
59
,
60
,
68
,
70
,
72
,
187
,
202
,
204

Vyborg,
8
,
30
,
31
,
42

Vyborg Bay,
31

Wagner, Gerhard,
xvi
,
36
,
42–43
,
44
,
55
,
58
,
60
,
61
,
145
,
164–65
,
188

Walter, Hellmuth,
xvi
,
174
,
175
.
See also
Walter submarine

Walter submarine,
171
,
174
,
175
.
See also
U-boats

Wangenheim, Hubert,
xvi

Warlimont, Walter,
xvi
,
17
,
40–41
,
42
,
157

Weiss, Walter,
xvi
,
113
,
121
,
122
,
124

“Weissdorn,” code name,
34
,
37

Wellenbrecher
doctrine,
131–32
,
136
,
139
,
140
,
141
,
150
,
205
,
215

Wenck, Walter,
xvi
,
28
,
29
,
49
,
63
,
91–92
,
111
,
132

Wenden Position,
48
,
49
,
50

West Prussia,
112
,
113
,
128
,
130

     
Army in,
116
,
121

     
Dönitz strategy in,
118
,
122–23
,
125
,
126

     
German forces in,
xviii
,
xxi–xxii

     
Guderian strategy in,
123

     
Himmler strategy in,
124

     
Hitler strategy in,
107
,
125
,
126

     
Rokossovski strategy in,
126

     
Soviet offensives in,
114–16

West Wall,
33
,
96

Weygold, Konrad,
xvi

Windau,
52
,
54
,
55
,
56–57
,
60
,
62
,
83
,
89
,
100
,
105
,
146
,
160
,
201

Windau River,
82

Wolfsschanze
,
55

Yalta Conference,
180

Zeitzler, Kurt,
xvi
,
3
,
5
,
6
,
20
,
21
,
34
,
39
,
140
,
149–50
,
219