Hitler's Last Days (30 page)

Poland.
See also
Auschwitz-Birkenau

prisoners-of-war (POW)

in concentration camps

German soldiers as

SS and

racial purity, in Nazi Party

radio silence

for Operation Watch on the Rhine

on Rhine River

The Rape of Europa
(Nicholas)

Red Ball Express

Reich Chancellery

religion

Hitler and

Nazi Party and

Patton, G., and

Remagen, Germany

Rhine River.
See also
Operation Watch on the Rhine

Churchill and

crossing of

executions at

Hitler and

Luftwaffe on

map of

Montgomery and

Patton, G., and

Remagen and

road octopus.
See
Bastogne, Belgium

Rogers, Ginger

Roma (gypsies)

Rommel, Erwin

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rouff, Joachim

Russia

Auschwitz-Birkenau and

Berlin and

Hitler and

Poland and

Schroeder, Christa

Schutzstaffel
.
See
SS

scientific racism

Second SS Panzer Division (German)

Seven Years' War

Seventeenth Airborne

Shapiro, Anatoly

Siegfried Line

silver, stolen

6th Armored Division (American)

Skorzeny, Otto

Hitler and

Operation Greif and

Operation Watch on the Rhine and

Remagen and

surrender of

skull and crossbones (
Totenkopf
)

slavery.
See
forced labor

Sonderkommando

Speer, Albert

Sperr, Ingeborg

spoiling attack

SS (
Schutzstaffel
).
See also
Skorzeny, Otto

in concentration camps

First SS Panzer Division

Second SS Panzer Division

Stalin, Joseph

Berlin and

at Yalta Conference

Stalingrad

Stavka 11074

sterilization

stolen treasures

artwork

gold

silver

Strong, Kenneth

subhumans (
Untermenschen
)

swastika

tanks

in Berlin

defenses against, in Berlin

German

M4 General Sherman tank

in Operation Watch on the Rhine

in Russia

Siegfried Line and

Taunus Mountains

Third Army (American)

Thirty-Seventh Tank Battalion (American)

327th Glider Regiment (American)

Thunderbolt VII

Topography of Terror

Tornow, Fritz

torture

in concentration camps

by Gestapo

Totenkopf
(skull and crossbones)

Trianon Palace Hotel

Trier, Germany

Twelfth Army Group (German)

Twenty-First Army Group (British)

typhoid fever

typhus

unemployment, Nazi Party and

Untermenschen
(subhumans)

Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein.
See
Operation Watch on the Rhine

V-E.
See
Victory in Europe Day

vegetarianism, Hitler and

Versailles Treaty

Victory in Europe Day (V-E)

Vienna

Vietnam War

von Hindenburg, Paul

von Rundstedt, Gerd

von Wangenheim, Konrad Freiherr

Vorbunker

Waldenburg, Germany

Wehrmacht

Weidling, Helmuth

Weinberger, Ellen

Wenck, Walther

Wiesenburg Forest

W
ö
bbelin concentration camp

Wolf, Johanna

Wolf's Lair

World War I

Yalta Conference

Zhukov, Georgy K.

Zietzler, Kurt

Zyklon B

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

 

 

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Kennedy's Last Days
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The Last Days of Jesus
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CONTENTS

 

 

Title Page

Copyright notice

Epigraph

Map Legend

A Note to Readers

Key Players

PART
1
  
THE WOLF'S LAIR

Chapter One: The Wolf's Lair

Chapter Two: General Patton's Headquarters

Chapter Three: The Wolf's Lair

Chapter Four: Trianon Palace Hotel

Chapter Five: War Room, U.S. Third Army Headquarters

PART
2
  
THE LAST DESPERATE EFFORT

Chapter Six: German Front Lines

Chapter Seven: General Patton's Headquarters

Chapter Eight: The Ardennes

Chapter Nine: Twelfth Army Group Headquarters

Chapter Ten: Bastogne, Belgium

Chapter Eleven: Bastogne, Belgium

Chapter Twelve: Fondation Pescatore

Chapter Thirteen: Adlerhorst

Chapter Fourteen: Third Army Headquarters

Chapter Fifteen: Washington, D.C.

Chapter Sixteen: Auschwitz-Birkenau

PART
3
  
IN THE FÜHRERBUNKER

Chapter Seventeen: Berlin, Germany

Chapter Eighteen: Remagen, Germany

Chapter Nineteen: Trier, Germany

Chapter Twenty: Berlin, Germany

Chapter Twenty-One: Bad Hersfeld, Germany

Chapter Twenty-Two: Berlin, Germany

Chapter Twenty-Three: Waldenburg, Germany

Chapter Twenty-Four: Wiesenburg Forest

Chapter Twenty-Five: Berlin, Germany

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Führerbunker

Epilogue: The Battle of Berlin

 

Afterword

The Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party

The Symbol of the Swastika

Hitler's Stature, Health, and Diet

The Toothbrush Mustache

German Soldiers and Police: The Wehrmacht, SS, and Gestapo

Joseph Stalin and the Russian Army

The Red Ball Express

The Eagle's Nest

Inside Hitler's Bunker

Nazi Cash, Art, and Stolen Possessions

Concentration Camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau

The Nuremberg Trials

Last Will of Adolf Hitler

Time Line

The Author Recommends …

Bibliography

Sources

Index

About the Author

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