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Authors: William L. Shirer
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Aachen,
291
fn
.,
1088
,
1089–90
,
1092
“AB Action,”
662–63
Abbeville,
718
,
727
,
728
,
731
,
738
,
741
,
746
,
759
Abwehr (Intelligence Bureau),
see under
OKW
Abyssinia,
see
Ethiopia
Adam, Gen. Wilhelm,
370
,
378
,
387
Addis Ababa,
297
Adlerangriffe (“Operation Eagle”),
774–75
Adlon Hotel,
444
,
595
,
597
,
616
,
648
,
807
,
1110
Adolf Hitler Schools,
255
A.E.G., (Allgemeine Elektrizitaetgesellschaft),
145
Africa,
82
,
305
,
804
,
805
;
see also
North Africa
Afrika Korps,
911
-13,
919–25
,
1078
Aga Khan,
751
fn
.
Ahnenerbe (Institute for Research into Heredity),
980
,
982
Air Force, German,
see
Luftwaffe
Aisne river,
737
Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord,
730
fn
.
Albania,
469
,
813
,
816
,
818
,
820
,
821
,
825
,
1006
Alexander I, Czar of Russia,
542
,
1015
Alexander, Gen. Sir Harold,
919
,
1033
,
1107
Algiers,
923
Allianz insurance company,
144
,
206
Allied air operations,
1001
,
1038
,
1040
,
1092
,
1093
, 1099; bombing of Germany,
778–80
,
807–9
,
954
,
1008–9
,
1013
,
1027
,
1031
,
1032
,
1037
,
1096–1100
,
1108
,
1110
Allied commandos,
955
Allied Supreme War Council,
675
fn
.,
696
,
717
Allies, Nazi hopes for dissension among,
1011
,
1033
,
1042
,
1087
,
1091–92
,
1098
Alsace-Lorraine,
58
,
286
,
436
,
641
,
742
Altmark
(Ger. auxiliary ship),
679
,
680
Alvensleben, Werner von,
182
Amau, Vice-Minister,
884
Amen, Col. John Harlan,
532
fn
.,
959
America First Committee,
827
fn
.,
871
Amery, Leopold,
611
Angell, Norman,
784
Anglo–German naval agreement (1935),
287–89
,
419
,
467
,
471
,
489
fn
.
Anglo–Polish treaty (1939),
550
,
551
,
556–57
,
564
,
570
Annunziata, Collar of the,
483
Anti-Comintern Pact,
299
,
353
,
439
,
455
,
459
,
465
,
476
,
506
,
523
,
539–40
,
887
anti-Hitler conspiracy,
372–82
,
404–8
,
411–14
,
422–26
,
517
,
530
,
558–60
,
591
,
596
,
647–56
,
658–59
,
670
,
692–94
,
715
,
719
,
754
fn
.,
846
fn
.,
848
fn
.,
903–8
,
1002
,
1012–82
anti-Semitism, 23–27, 35, 40
fn
., 41, 45, 48,
91
,
106
,
149
,
236
,
238
,
251
, 372;
see also
Jews
Antwerp,
717
,
718
,
724
,
725
,
761
,
772
,
1086
,
1090
,
1099
Arabia,
810
Arabian Sea,
805
Archangel, U.S.S.R.,
811
,
870
fn
.
Arco-Valley, Count Anton, 33
Ardennes Forest,
718
,
723
,
933
,
1090–96
,
1108
armistice: of 1918,
see under
World War I; of 1940,
see
Franco–German armistice; Franco–Italian armistice
Army, German (and Reichswehr),
63–66
,
89
,
93
,
119
,
143
,
160
,
185
,
201
,
211
,
236
,
259
,
260
,
263
,
267
,
293
,
301
,
305
,
328
,
458
,
1104–5
U
NDER THE
R
EPUBLIC
: political activities,
3
, 31–35, 38, 45, 46,
53–55
,
63
,
64
,
137–38
,
150–52
,
159–62
,
174–75
,
179
,
182–83
,
188
, 219; policy on armistice and Versailles terms, 31–32,
53
,
58–60
,
62
,
63
,
65
,
281
,
284
, 285; attitude toward Republic, 31–34,
53
,
58–61
,
64–65
,
138–42
,
186–87
; suppresses leftists, 33–34,
54–55
,
65
, 165; relations with Nazis (to 1934), 45, 46,
70–73
,
77
,
138–42
,
146
,
159–61
,
182–83
,
185–88
,
196–98
,
204–7
,
214–16
,
220
,
225–27
,
229
H
ITLER
E
RA
: subordination to Hitler,
226–27
,
229
,
318
,
320
,
324
,
355–56
,
658–59
,
754
fn
.,
840
,
866–67
; expansion and reorganization by Hitler,
253–55
,
281
,
284–85
,
299
,
307
,
318–19
,
489
, 865; generals’ opposition to Hitler,
309
,
310
,
354
,
366–71
,
488
,
517–18
,
643–46
,
830–31
,
834
,
856–58
,
915
,
917–19
,
926–27
, 1091; Blomberg-Fritsch affair,
311–21
,
354–56
; generals’ plot,
317
,
372
,
374
,
378–82
,
393
,
405
,
414
,
424–26
,
517–18
,
558–60
,
647–51
,
658–59
,
693–94
,
903–7
,
1014–15
,
1018–19
,
1020–22
,
1026–36
,
1041–82
I
NVASION
P
LANS AND
C
AMPAIGNS
: Austria,
335
, 336; Balkans,
816–17
, 820; Britain,
747
,
758–67
,
774
, 781; Czechoslovakia,
363
,
366–71
,
377–82
,
387
,
393
,
402
,
410
,
428
, 445; Danzig and Memel,
456
,
468
, 498; Mediterranean area,
913–14
; North Africa,
827
,
911–13
; Norway and Denmark,
673
,
681–82
,
698–701
,
707
,
709–11
; Poland,
460
,
462–63
,
496–98
,
506
,
517–18
,
530
,
534
,
549
,
556–60
,
569
,
589–91
,
599
,
625
,
626
,
629
,
633
,
660–61
, 944; Russia,
796–800
,
810
,
812
,
822
,
829–32
,
834
,
844–46
,
853
,
855–70
,
879
,
891
,
909
,
915–19
,
922
,
925–34
,
1014–15
; Western Europe,
487
,
506
,
590
,
618
,
633
,
635
,
643–46
,
652
,
656
,
658–59
,
693–94
,
713
,
715–38
,
728–29
,
731–36
,
741
S
ETBACKS AND
D
EFEAT
: retreat in Africa,
919–21
; Italy,
996
,
999–1001
; Russian front,
1006–7
,
1041
,
1043
,
1085
,
1096–98
, 1103; in west,
1036–42
,
1085–86
,
1088–96
,
1099
,
1100–2
; total mobilization, 1087; desertions,
1088
,
1100–1
; rout and surrender,
1105–7
,
1112–13
,
1120–22
,
1125
,
1126
,
1130
,
1138
,
1139
W
AR
C
RIMES AND
V
IOLATIONS OF
G
ENEVA
C
ONVENTION
,
939
,
945
,
947
,
952
,
957–59
,
976
,
1029
,
1090
fn
.,
1095
fn
.,
1100
Army, German, units:
A
RMY
G
ROUPS:
A (western front),
718
,
726
,
732
,
733
,
762–63
B (in Alps),
999
B (eastern front),
916
B (western front, 1940),
733
,
762
B (western front, 1944–45),
1031
,
1038
,
1040
,
1074–75
,
1105
C,
646
Center,
853
,
856–57
,
859
,
862
,
863
,
865
,
903
fn
.,
905
,
947
,
1014
,
1018–19
,
1041
,
1046
,
1085