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Weichs, General Maximilian

Weill, Kurt

Weimar Republic

far right

violence of early years

Party leaders evade legal responsibility

army generals hope for downfall

unpolitical army claim

‘White Rose’ youth movement and

party-political animosities

crises of

Weinrich, Karl

Weiss, Wilhelm

Weissensee

Weizs̈cker, Ernst von

Welfare organization, National Socialist

‘Werewolf’ (Hitler’s field HQ)

‘Werewolf’ (partisan movement)

Werner, Kurt

West Germany (German Federal Republic)

West Prussia

West Wall

Westerbork transit camp

Wewelsburg

Weygand, Maxime

White Dream, The
(film)

‘White Rose’ resistance movement

Widmann, Albert

Wieloncza

Wienken, Heinrich

Wiesbaden

Wiesenthal, Simon

Wilhelm Gustloff
(cruise liner)

Wilhelm Gustloff Foundation

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands

Willrich, Wolfgang

Wilm, Ernst

‘Window’ (anti-radar device)

Windsor, Duke and Duchess of

winter clothes for troops campaign

‘Winter War’ 1940 (Soviet Union/Finland)

Wirth, Christian

Wise Woman, The
(
Die Kluge
; Orff)

Wisliceny, Dieter

Witebsk

Witten

Witzleben, General Erwin von

Ẅhler, Otto

Wolff-Metternich, Count Franz

Wolff-M̈nckeberg, Mathilde

wolframite

‘Wolf’s Lair’

Wolfsburg

Woman in the Moon, The
(film)

women

League of German Girls

‘civilizing mission’ of German women in occupied Poland

Nazi women’s organizations

rape

 

in Ravensbr̈ck concentration camp

included in massacres of Jews east

in ghettos

in extermination camps

in Auschwitz

foreign workers

in workforce

propaganda on women’s roles

and evacuation schemes

prison population

killing of Gypsy women

wartime married life

sexual morality

in higher education

medical experimentation on

in resistance movements

declining morale on home front

conscription

‘wonder-weapons’ ;
see also
;

‘Word of the Week’ (poster)

working classes

enrolled as members of ‘master race’

victims of bombing raids

evacuees

and resistance movements

Woyrsch, Udo von

Wren, Sir Christopher

Wronki prison

Wuppertal

Wurm, Theophil, Bishop of Ẅrttemberg

Ẅrttemberg

Ẅrzburg

Ẅrzburg University

 

x-rays

 

Yalta

Yasnaya Polyana

Yiddish

Yorck von Wartenburg, Peter

York

Yugoslavia

German invasion

partition

collapse of postwar state

atrocities against Jews

partisans

copper mines

resistance

withdrawal of German forces

see also
Croats, Croatia; Serbs, Serbia

 

Zakopane

Zamboni, Guelfo

Zamość

Zawada

Zeitzler, Kurt

Zempelburg

Zervas, Napoleon

Zhukov, Georgi

zinc

Zion, The Protocols of the Elders of

Zionists

Zlocz’w

Zurich

Zweig, Stefan

Zyklon-B (poison gas)

I. The German Army enters Lódz in September 1939 to an ecstatic welcome from ethnic Germans, while the city’s Polish inhabitants look silently on.

2. Redrawing the racial map of Europe: ethnic Germans from Lithuania cross the border with Germany at Eydtkau in East Prussia in February 1941, entering the Reich under a banner bidding them ‘Welcome to Greater Germany’.

3. Polish Jews are assembled for road-sweeping duties by German troops, September 1939.

4. German air force troops round up a group of terrified Jews in the diarist Zygmunt Klukowski’s home town of Szczebrzeszyn.

5. This still from I Accuse (1941), directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, shows the concert pianist Hanna Heyt, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis, asking her friend Dr Lang for advice; his opposition to assisted suicide is used as a foil for the film’s justification of the killing of the incurably ill.

6. An assassination attempt that failed: the destruction caused in a Munich beer-cellar on the evening of 8 November 1939 by a bomb planted by the lone left-winger Georg Elser. Hitler left the hall shortly before the bomb went off.

7. Rudolf Hess visits the Krupp armaments factory on I May 1940, flanked by Robert Ley (left) and Alfred Krupp (right).

8. ‘The biggest traffic jam in history’: German armour squeezes through the narrow gorges of the Ardennes on its way to France on 11 May 1940.

9. Hitler, with Albert Speer (left) and Arno Breker (right), at the Trocadéro in Paris during a brief private visit to the conquered city on 28 June 1940.

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