The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (245 page)
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Authors: William L. Shirer
Bosch, Dr. Karl,
190
Bosporus, Strait of,
804
,
807–10
Bottai, Giuseppe,
996
Boy Scouts,
784
Bradley, Gen. Omar N.,
1076
,
1106
fn
.
Brandenburg,
93
,
166
,
1035
,
1061
,
1109
,
1110
Brandenburg Gate,
5
Brandt, Col. Heinz,
1020–21
,
1051
,
1052
,
1054
Brandt, Lt. Gen. Rudolf,
980
Bratislava,
440–41
Brauchitsch, Charlotte von,
319
,
371
fn
.
Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von,
214
,
321
,
542
,
710
,
816
,
824
,
1062
; named Army C. in C,
319
; and Czechosl. invasion plans,
365
,
367
,
368–69
,
370–71
,
378
,
379
; and anti-Hitler plot,
375
,
407–8
,
559–60
,
647–51
,
658–59
,
670
,
693–94
,
1080
; and Poland invasion plans,
462–63
,
484
,
496–97
,
515
fn
.,
516
,
517
,
531
,
557
,
591
,
625
,
627
; and western offensive,
633
,
640
,
643–44
,
647
,
715
,
718
; and S.S. brutality in Poland,
660
; and Weseruebung,
681
; Dunkirk and stop order,
726–27
,
731–34
,
736
; at Compiègne,
742
,
743
; made field marshal,
755
fn
.; and Britain invasion plans,
763
,
764
,
767
,
768
,
782
; Russian campaign,
797
,
810
,
822
,
831
,
840
,
846
,
856–57
,
858
,
859
; illness and “resignation,”
648
,
861
fn
.,
864
,
866
,
903
fn
.
Bräuer, Dr. Curt,
678
fn
.,
698
,
702–6
,
709
Braun, Eva,
483
fn
.,
1110–11
,
1120
,
1122–23
,
1127
,
1128
,
1133
,
1134
Braun, Gretl,
1121
Bräutigam, Dr. Otto,
940–41
Breda,
722
Bredow, Countess Hanna von,
1025
Bredow, Gen. Kurt von,
222
,
224
,
225
,
320
Bremen
, S. S.,
768
Bremerhaven,
1141
Brenner Pass,
280
,
337
,
508
,
552–53
,
689
,
690–91
,
774
,
815
Breslau,
211
Brest,
914
Brest Litovsk,
57
,
542
,
626
,
628
,
852
fn
.,
948
Britain,
95
,
97
,
256
,
306
,
450
,
957
,
965
; collective action with France and Italy,
280
,
284–85
,
288
,
289
,
296
,
297
,
307
; appeasement policy: on German rearmament,
282–85
,
287–89
(
see also
Anglo–German naval agreement); on Rhineland remilitarization,
290–95
; on Italo-Ethiopian war,
289–90
,
297
; on Span, civil war,
299
; on Anschluss,
324
,
327
,
330
,
344–46
,
353
; on Czechoslovakia,
354
,
360–427
passim
,
443
,
450–54
,
544
(
see also
Munich Conference and Pact); joint policy with France,
283
,
284
,
287
,
290
,
293–94
,
299
,
307
,
330
,
384
,
389
,
396
,
398
,
454
,
461
,
465
,
469
,
501–4
,
605–17
; Hitler’s contempt for,
300
,
306
,
436
,
518
,
529
; Hitler considers and plans war against,
298
,
304
,
307
,
366
,
368
,
420
,
467
,
484–87
,
498
,
501
,
508
fn
.,
516
,
520
,
531
,
566–67
,
590
,
600
,
620–22
; pact with Italy on Mediterranean,
301
; policy toward U.S. S.R.,
353
,
361
,
404
,
460
,
466
,
478–81
,
489–92
,
494–96
,
501–6
,
513–16
,
521
,
523
,
525
,
526
,
533–43
,
550
fn
.; presses Czechs to appease Hitler,
360
,
376–77
,
388–90
,
399
,
402
,
411
,
417–18
,
420–21
; protests Nazi moves against Czechs,
364–65
,
452–53
; contacts with anti-Hitler Germans,
373
,
380–82
,
405
,
424
,
558
,
648–50
,
692–94
,
1017–19
,
1024
,
1026
,
1042
; pledge of aid to Poland,
460
,
464–66
,
469
,
472
,
478
,
481
,
495
,
506
,
509–10
,
514–18
,
521
,
526
,
533–43
,
545–54
,
556–58
,
561
,
564
,
569–89
,
591–93
,
596
,
600–17
,
634
; pledges aid to Greece, Rumania,
469
,
495
; mobilization, war preparations,
545
,
562
,
595
; and 1939 “peace negotiations,”
569–89
,
601–4
; ultimatum and declaration of war,
605–20
; at war,
633
,
666
,
689
,
698
,
782
,
807
,
827
,
854
fn
.,
904
,
995
,
1036
,
1087
,
1099
,
1105
; ship losses,
635–38
,
646
,
669
,
711
,
737
,
775
,
901
fn
. (
see also
Atlantic, Battle of the; British Navy); German peace offers to,
639–42
,
734–35
,
746–57
,
785
,
790
,
835–38
,
1012
,
1138–39
; German attitude and strategy toward in war,
658
,
669
,
760
,
763
,
768
,
770–71
,
798
,
804
,
805
,
809
,
846
,
849–50
,
853
,
871–74
,
915
,
954
,
1124
; joint strategy with France,
635
,
643
,
744–45
; expeditionary force to Finland,
675
,
682
fn
., involvement in Norway,
676–77
,
679
,
682
fn
.,
694–96
; invasion of,
752
,
753
,
756
,
758–85
,
797
,
813
,
816
,
820
,
873
,
879
,
1039
; air operations against (Battle of Britain),
756
,
763
,
765
,
769
,
774–82
,
809
,
827
,
850
,
1009
,
1040
,
1098
; German occupation plans for,
782–85
,
791
; Vichy war against,
815
,
817
,
923
; Japanese war against,
872
,
873
,
877
fn
.,
886–88
,
892
,
894
,
895
,
1007
; alliance with Russia,
838
,
847–48
,
1011
,
1033
,
1098
; in Mediterranean,
812–13
,
816–18
; U.S. aid to,
877
,
880–83
,
898
,
900
,
901
British Admiralty,
695–96
,
702
,
731
,
735
,
892
British Air Force (R.A.F.),
402
,
635
,
701
,
752
,
827
,
914
,
920
,
991
,
1019
,
1040
; in Battle of France,
724
,
731
,
736–38
,
740
fn
.; in Battle of Britain,
759–61
,
763
,
764
,
766
,
767
,
770
,
772–81
; bombing of Germany,
778
,
779
,
807–8
,
934
,
1008–9
,
1010
,
1068
,
1100
,
1110
,
1115
,
1117
British Army,
424
,
510
,
533
,
618
,
672
,
682
fn
.,
708
,
716
,
954–55
,
1089
,
1105
; in France and Belgium,
542
,
634
,
635
,
717
,
718
,
720
,
723
,
724
,
727
,
728
,
730
,
731
,
736–38
; Norway expedition,
696
,
707
,
708
; defense against invasion,
763
fn
.,
764
,
767
; in N. Africa,
818
fn
.,
819
,
827
,
911–12
,
919
,
920
; in Greece,
823
,
826
,
827
; Normandy landings,
1033
,
1038
; in Germany,
1088
,
1090
,
1102
,
1105
,
1107
,
1141
British Empire,
288
,
306
,
548–49
,
569
,
575
,
734–35
,
738
,
747
,
749
,
752
,
754
,
757
,
804
,
806
,
808
,
815
,
828
,
829
,
836
,
910
British Intelligence,
363
,
652–55
,
787
,
789
,
1026
British Navy,
401
,
402
,
487
,
554
,
646
,
669–70
,
679
,
701–2
,
707
,
723
,
731
,
737
,
738
,
817
,
873
,
922
; blockade of Germany,
687–88
,
701
,
914
; ship losses,
711
,
737
,
901
fn
.; defense against invasion,
759
,
761
,
763
,
764
,
766
,
767
,
770
British White Paper,
283
Broadcasting House (Rundfunkhaus),
564
,
595
,
755
,
1064
Brockdorff, Countess Erika von,
1043
fn
.
Brockdorff-Ahlefeld, Gen. Count Erich von,
375
,
413
Brockdorff-Rantzau, Count Ulrich von,
494
Brown House, Munich,
121
Brownshirts,
see
S.A.
Bruckman, Hugo,
145
Bruening, Heinrich,
56
fn
.,
137
,
138
,
151–55
,
157–64
,
172
,
174
,
190
,
195
,
199
,
216
,
372