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     aid from,
11.1
,
15.1
     communist propaganda against,
7.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
14.1
,
17.1
,
17.2
     and exiled dissidents,
3.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
     and Soviet Union:
see
Cold War
;
Soviet communist ideology
     U.S. army:
see
American army
     U.S. embassy,
5.1
,
12.1
,
18.1
USSR:
see
Soviet Union
Vas, Zoltán,
4.1
,
15.1
Vienna,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
Vilnius (
also
Wilno),
1.1
,
5.1
,
12.1
Vitányi, Iván,
7.1
,
16.1
,
18.1
Voice of America,
17.1
,
17.2
Volhynia,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
Volksdeutsche
(Eastern Europeans with German origins),
5.1
,
6.1
,
10.1
Volkspolizei:
see
German People’s Police
Voroshilov, Marshal Kliment,
4.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
Wajda, Andrzej,
5.1
,
14.1
,
15.1
Wandel, Paul,
9.1
,
13.1
Warsaw
     culture and history of,
13.1
,
13.2
,
14.1
,
16.1
     end of Second World War,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
7.1
,
10.1
,
16.1
,
17.1
     
and Jews
     liberation and reconstruction of,
2.1
,
10.1
     mass education in,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
16.1
     Palace of Culture and Science,
13.1
,
14.1
,
15.1
     political and cultural opponents,
17.1
,
17.2
,
17.3
,
18.1
     political elections,
9.1
,
9.2
     
prisons in
Warsaw, Battle of (1920, “The Miracle on the Vistula”),
2.1
,
6.1
Warsaw ghetto,
8.1
,
14.1
Warsaw Life
:
see
Zycie Warszawy
Warsaw Pact,
18.1
,
18.2
Warsaw Uprising (August–October 1944),
1.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
11.1
Washington,
1.1
,
1.2
,
6.1
;
see also
United States
Weekly Post, The
:
see
Wochenpost
Wehrmacht (German armed forces, 1935–45),
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
12.1
Weimar (city),
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
13.1
,
14.1
Weimar Republic (
also
Weimar Germany, 1919–33),
8.1
,
9.1
,
14.1
“Werewolves” (Nazi youth battalions),
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
West Berlin Radio (Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor, RIAS),
4.1
,
8.1
,
17.1
,
18.1
,
18.2
West Germany
     involvement in public events,
13.1
,
13.2
     
rearmament of
     
see also
East Germany
;
Germany
Western allies (
also
Allies)
     entering Eastern Europe,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
9.1
     ethnic conflict and deportations,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
     in Germany,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
7.1
,
11.1
,
14.1
,
17.1
     relations with Soviet Union,
5.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
     and Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
9.1
     
see also
American army
; British army
Wilno:
see
Vilnius
Wittenberg,
5.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
11.2
Wochenpost
(
The Weekly Post
, East German newspaper),
16.1
Wolf, Markus,
3.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
World Festivals of Youth and Students (in Eastern Europe),
13.1
,
18.1
Wrocław (
or
Breslau),
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
Wyszyński, Cardinal Stefan,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
16.1
,
17.1
Yalta Conference (February 1945),
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
     Poland’s fate,
4.1
,
5.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
Yugoslavia (
also
Balkans),
1.1
,
2.1
,
6.1
     and “East European bloc”,
9.1
,
11.1
,
15.1
     
labor camps in
     political elections in,
9.1
,
9.2
     war casualties and deportations,
1.1
,
1.2
,
6.1
,
12.1
     
war reparations
Zaisser, Wilhelm,
4.1
,
15.1
,
18.1
“Zionism” (
also
“left-deviationism”),
7.1
,
8.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
Zycie Warszawy
(
Warsaw Life
, Home Army’s newspaper),
8.1
,
16.1
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ANNE APPLEBAUM
is a columnist for
The Washington Post
and
Slate
. Her previous book,
Gulag
, won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for three other major prizes. Her essays appear in
The New York Review of Books
,
Slate
, and
The London Spectator
. She lives in Washington DC and Poland with her husband, Radek Sikorski, who is a Polish politician, and their two children.

ZERO HOUR

1.
The Red Army in western Poland, 142 kilometers from Berlin, March 1945

2.
The Reichstag, April 1945

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