Index
Aachen: 409
Adlerhorst: 414, 418, 422
Aegean Sea: 371, 372
Air attacks
Allied: 119, 212, 312, 372, 389, 411-12, 413, 439, 461, 489
German: 9-10, 133, 135, 212, 343, 353, 389
Soviet: 135, 141, 231, 267, 269, 289, 321, 323, 324, 332, 342, 394, 429, 435, 488
Air doctrine, German: 212-13
Air doctrine, Soviet: 26
Air Force, German: 9-10, 61, 133, 144, 212-13, 293. See also Air attacks, German; Air units, German; Goering, Reichsmarschall Hermann; Luftwaffe.
Air Force, Soviet: 29, 140, 146-47, 191. See also Air attacks, Soviet.
Air reconnaissance, German: 128, 261, 264, 325, 337, 350, 356, 443
Air strength, German: 9, 18, 59, 61, 92-93, 133, 135-36, 311-12, 319, 321, 411, 424
Air strength, Soviet: 29, 32, 50, 52, 135-36, 140, 146-47, 296, 321, 350, 373, 418, 424, 470
Air supply, German. See Logistics, German, supply operations by air.
Air supply, Soviet. See Logistics, Soviet, supply operations by air.
Air support, German: 61, 92, 93-94, 133, 135, 212, 213, 300, 319, 343
Air support, Soviet: 141, 146-47, 191, 241, 321, 342, 467-69
Air units, German
air force field divisions: 20, 48-49, 62, 100, 115, 248
2d: 199, 200
10th: 251, 253
First Air Force: 10, 197
Second Air Force: 10, 18
Fourth Air Force: 10, 18, 61, 69, 77, 92-93, 135, 319, 353
Fifth Air Force: 10
Sixth Air Force: 135, 319, 321
Aircraft, German: 281, 284, 411
HE- 111's: 61
JU-52's: 59, 61, 234, 282, 283, 372
Stukas: 135, 263, 300, 343
Aircraft, Soviet: 29, 85
Aircraft production
German: 133, 311-12, 411, 412
Soviet: 26, 27, 29
Akhtyrka: 151, 152, 156, 157
Aksay River: 63, 64, 71
Åland Islands: 268, 391
Albania: 365, 371, 375, 382, 411
Allenstein: 430
Allied forces: 25, 109, 137, 143, 256, 300, 339, 348, 349, 365, 367, 373-74, 388, 395, 396-97, 409, 420, 456-57, 463, 469, 484. See also Air attacks, Allied; Armies, U.S.; Army Group 21, British; Eisenhower, General of the Army Dwight D.; Great Britain; Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.; United States.
and Ardennes offensive: 385, 410, 414, 418-19, 439
and drive to Berlin: 409, 411-12, 439, 467, 470, 471, 473, 489, 492, 495, 496, 497, 498, 503
at Elbe: 472, 473, 482, 492
and second front: 119, 121, 129, 163, 182, 210, 216-17, 223, 265, 272-73, 280, 293, 309-12
and surrender of Germans: 495-99
Allmendinger, General der Infanterie Karl: 293, 294, 295
Alps: 456, 481
Alsace offensive, German: 419
Alta: 401
Alte Oder: 474
Ammunition shortages, German. See Logistics, German, shortages, ammunition.
Ammunition shortages, Soviet. See Logistics, Soviet, shortages, ammunition.
Anklam: 491, 492
Antipartisan operations, German: 105, 113-15, 131, 202-03, 308-09. See also Partisan operations.
Antitank weapons, German: 53, 120, 144-45, 300, 301, 303, 472
Antitank weapons, Soviet: 129, 147, 452
Antonescu, Marshal Ion: 122, 157, 164, 179, 244, 284, 287, 290, 291, 294, 348, 349, 349n, 350, 351, 352, 359
Anzio landings: 256, 272
Apatin: 381, 382
Apostolovo: 240, 242, 243, 244, 282
Arad: 358, 360, 361, 373
Arkhangelskoye: 244
Arctic, operations in: 396-403
Arctic Ocean: 10
Arctic Ocean Highway: 268, 399-400
Ardennes offensive: 385, 410, 414, 418-19, 439
Armeeabteilungen
definition: 68n
Fretter-Pico 68, 74, 75, 84, 86. See also Armeegruppen, Fretter-Pico.
Hollidt: 71, 74, 75, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 137. See also Armies, German, Sixth.
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Kempf: 90. See also Armeeabteilungen, Lanz.
Operation HABICHT: 127
Operation ZITADELLE: 133-37
renamed Eighth Army: 153
summer campaign, 1943: 149-53, 156
winter campaign, 1942-43: 91-96
Lanz: 86, 89, 90, 91
Narva: 265, 328, 403, 404, 405, 406
Samland: 445. See also Armies, German, Third Panzer.
Serbia: 375-77. See also Southeastern Theater Command.
Steiner: 477
Armeegruppen
Dumitrescu: 346, 351
Fretter-Pico: 359, 362n, 379, 383. See also Armies, German, Sixth.
Heinrici: 416, 427, 459. See also Armies, German, First Panzer.
Hoth: 60, 60n
Woehler: 346, 350-52, 362, 362n, 364, 381. See also Armies, German, Eighth.
Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army): 340, 344
Armies, Bulgarian
First: 375
Second: 382
Armies, German. See also Armeeabteilungen.
Army of East Prussia: 470, 496, 498
Army of Norway: 9, 10, 209, 401
First Panzer: 17
arrest of Schoerner: 498
in Carpathians: 359, 362, 416
in Caucasus: 71, 72, 75
counteroffensive, spring 1943: 85, 86, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94-95
in Dnepr line: 175-77, 180, 181-82, 186, 188-89
encirclement, March 1944: 275-76, 278-83, 286, 288-89
summer campaign, 1943: 127, 137, 138, 144, 160-62, 164-66, 168, 169
summer campaign, 1944: 332-33, 337, 339
winter campaign, 1943-44: 220, 222, 223, 224, 225-26, 227-38, 244, 275-76
Second: 17, 18
defense of Danzig-West Prussia: 416, 426, 428-30, 431, 438, 444, 459, 460, 469, 470
in Dnepr bridgehead: 191-96, 411
summer campaign, 1943: 152, 158-60, 164, 165, 166, 167, 170
summer campaign, 1944: 315, 319, 320, 322, 325, 326, 328, 333, 336, 337, 341
winter campaign, 1942-43: 81, 84, 90, 97, 115, 117, 126
Second Panzer: 98, 115, 117, 124, 126
in Hungary: 382, 437, 450, 454, 456
summer campaign, 1943: 137, 138-39, 140, 141, 152
in Yugoslavia: 367, 371, 375-76, 377-78, 382
Third Panzer: 47, 98, 141, 160, 170. See also Armeeabteilungen, Samland.
antipartisan operations: 113-15, 308-09
defense of East Prussia: 416, 419, 420, 431, 445, 446
Nevel gap: 199, 202, 204, 205-07, 481
in Oder line: 446, 448, 459-60, 471, 477, 479, 483, 484, 485-87, 495-96
summer campaign, 1944: 314, 315, 319-21, 323, 324, 326-29, 333-35, 337, 338, 340, 342-43, 388, 403, 405
surrender: 496
Fourth: 47, 98, 116, 206, 308, 485, 491
defense of East Prussia: 416, 419, 429-32, 438, 445, 461, 470
summer campaign, 1943: 141, 159, 164, 167, 170
summer campaign, 1944: 315, 318, 319, 320, 321, 323, 324, 325, 326, 328, 339, 341
Fourth Panzer
counteroffensive, spring 1943: 90, 92, 93-97
in Dnepr line: 184-88, 189
on Oder and Neisse: 440-42, 443, 471, 474, 475, 476, 477
Operation ZITADELLE: 126, 127, 129, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 138
relief of Stalingrad: 49, 52, 53, 54, 54n, 56, 58, 59-65
summer campaign, 1942: 17, 18, 19, 39, 41, 44
summer campaign, 1943: 149-54, 156-57, 160, 164, 165, 166-67, 168, 169
from Vistula to Oder: 416, 417, 418, 425
winter campaign, 1942-43: 66, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 84, 86, 88-90
winter campaign, 1943-44: 218-23, 244-47, 273, 275-76, 278, 280, 282, 286, 288
Sixth. See also Armeeabteilungen, Hollidt; Armeegruppen, Fretter-Pico.
defeat on Dnestr: 348, 350, 351, 353-55, 356
encirclement at Stalingrad: 50, 52-55, 57, 58, 60-65, 69-71, 75-80
in Hungary: 353-55, 356, 359, 379, 456
Operation BLAU: 17, 19, 22, 39-46
spring campaign, 1944: 277-78, 282-84, 286, 289-93
summer campaign, 1943: 138, 160-62, 165, 171, 175
winter campaign, 1943-44: 226, 238-44, 274
in WOTAN position: 175, 177-79, 183-84, 188
Sixth SS Panzer: 419, 422, 427, 437, 445, 445n,
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450-55, 456
Eighth
Armeeabteilung Kempf renamed Eighth Army: 153
defeat on Dnestr: 348, 355-56
defense of Kharkov: 154-57
in Dnepr line: 166, 168, 169, 184, 188-89
in Hungary: 362, 362n, 454, 455
spring campaign, 1944: 275, 276, 277-78, 279, 281, 283-85, 289, 290
winter campaign, 1943-44: 222, 223, 226-38, 241, 244, 275
Ninth: 81, 116
defense of Oder line: 444, 445n, 447, 463, 464, 471, 472, 475, 476, 477
in Dnepr bridgehead: 192, 195, 196
encircled, April 1945: 478-80, 481-82, 483-86, 488, 492
Operation ZITADELLE: 128-29, 131, 132, 133-36, 138-41
in Rzhev salient: 48, 100, 105-07, 117
summer campaign, 1943: 152, 158-60, 164, 167
summer campaign, 1944: 315, 316, 319, 320-25, 337-38, 344, 345
surrender: 496
from Vistula to Oder: 416, 417, 418, 421, 423-24, 426
Eleventh: 17, 18, 56, 100, 101
Eleventh SS Panzer: 446, 447
Twelfth: 479, 479n, 480, 481, 483, 484-86, 491, 492, 493
activated: 479, 479n
surrender: 496
Fifteenth: 312
Sixteenth: 101, 184, 211
defense of Riga: 406, 407
Nevel gap: 200, 203, 204, 207
to PANTHER position: 248, 256, 257, 259, 264-65
summer campaign, 1944: 327, 328, 329, 333, 336
Seventeenth
behind Oder: 442, 459, 466
in Caucasus: 26, 72
in the Crimea: 179-81, 186, 188, 238, 240, 291-95
defense of Upper Silesia: 339, 341, 416, 417, 422, 424-25, 427
in GOTENKOPF: 118
Eighteenth: 101, 199, 203, 204, 205
retreat in Baltic States: 404, 405-06
retreat from Leningrad: 221, 248, 250-64
summer campaign, 1944: 328, 336, 342
Nineteenth: 457
Twentieth Mountain: 19, 102, 197, 299, 412
retreat from Finland: 389-403
situation, fall 1943: 208-11
situation, winter 1944: 267-71
Twenty-first: 485, 491, 495-96
Armies, Hungarian
First: 289, 360, 362, 364, 416
Second: 39, 66, 81, 289, 355-56, 359, 360, 362n, 382, 383
Third: 360, 362, 362n, 364, 380, 452, 453
Armies, Italian
First: 119
Eighth: 39, 49, 63, 66, 68
Armies, Polish. See Polish Home Army.
Armies, Rumanian
First: 356, 362
Third: 9, 44, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 56, 59, 62, 66, 71, 290, 346, 351
Fourth: 9, 54, 54n, 55, 56, 60, 60n, 290, 291, 346
Fourth: 356
Armies, Soviet
First. See Armies, Soviet, First Guards.
First Guards: 41, 50, 68, 84, 91, 92, 94, 96, 218, 220, 276, 279
First Guards Tank: 39, 40
attack into Pomerania and West Prussia: 442, 457, 459, 460
Berlin operation: 469, 471, 474, 478
summer offensive, 1943: 151, 152
summer offensive, 1944: 332-33, 337, 339, 341
winter offensive, 1943-44: 218, 224-26, 228, 279, 281
First Polish: 330, 345
First Tank. See Armies, Soviet, First Guards Tank.
Independent Coastal Army: 293
Second Guards: 71, 73, 160, 329, 333
Second Guards Tank
advance to Oder: 438, 442, 457, 459
advance to Warsaw: 337, 339, 341
Berlin operation: 471, 474, 475, 476, 478, 481
Second Shock: 111, 251, 253, 403, 405
Second Tank. See Armies, Soviet, Second Guards Tank.
Third: 318, 475, 476, 480
Third Guards: 68, 177, 332, 421
Third Guards Tank
attack across Dnepr: 184, 187, 220
attack across Neisse: 469, 471, 473, 478
attack across Oder: 441-42, 443, 457
spring offensive, 1944: 276, 279
summer offensive, 1943: 139, 164, 171
summer offensive, 1944: 332, 337, 341
Vistula-Oder operation: 421, 425, 427
winter offensive, 1942-43: 82, 92, 96
Third Shock: 108, 199, 202, 203, 204, 459, 474
Third Tank. See Armies, Soviet, Third Guards Tank.
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Fourth Guards: 226, 228, 277, 382, 383, 385, 435, 453, 454, 455
Fourth Guards Tank: 50n, 70, 139
attack across Neisse: 467, 471, 475, 476, 479, 480, 481
attack across Oder: 457, 459
operations in Upper Silesia: 465-67
spring offensive, 1944: 279, 280, 281
summer offensive, 1944: 332, 337, 342
Vistula-Oder operation: 421, 442
Fourth Shock: 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 326, 403, 407
Fourth Tank. See Armies, Soviet, Fourth Guards Tank.
Fifth: 151, 318, 343
Fifth Guards: 137, 154, 181, 469, 482
Fifth Guards Tank: 277
defense of Kursk: 137
operations in East Prussia: 429, 430, 431
Stalingrad operation: 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 54n, 63, 68, 75
summer offensive, 1943: 151, 181
summer offensive, 1944: 318, 319, 325, 333, 388, 403, 407
Fifth Shock: 63, 68, 73, 92, 160, 474
Fifth Tank. See Armies, Soviet, Fifth Guards Tank.
Sixth: 50, 68, 91, 92, 94, 204
Sixth Guards: 149, 151, 318, 319, 320, 326, 403
Sixth Guards Tank
operations in Hungary: 359, 360, 361, 362, 364, 371, 383, 384, 435, 437, 453, 454, 455
spring offensive, 1944: 279
summer offensive, 1944: 350, 355, 356
winter offensive, 1943-44: 228
Sixth Tank. See Armies, Soviet, Sixth Guards Tank.
Seventh: 302, 387
Seventh Guards: 350, 355, 379, 380, 381, 383, 435
Eighth Guards: 177, 183, 242, 277, 282, 289, 332, 474, 478, 493
Ninth Guards: 452, 453, 454, 455
Tenth Guards: 159
Eleventh: 139
Eleventh Guards: 146, 204, 205, 206, 318, 343
Thirteenth: 159, 220, 246, 276, 278, 332, 341, 421, 478, 479, 480
Fourteenth: 102, 399, 400
Nineteenth: 393
Twentieth: 106
Twenty-first: 41, 50, 52, 53, 76n, 78, 159, 296, 298, 465
Twenty-second: 106
Twenty-third: 298, 302
Twenty-fourth: 50, 52, 76n
Twenty-sixth: 393, 454
Twenty-seventh: 350, 355, 359, 362, 381, 442, 454, 455
Twenty-eighth: 179, 318, 319, 478
Thirty-first: 106, 318
Thirty-second: 387, 388
Thirty-third: 318, 333, 343
Thirty-seventh: 350
Thirty-eighth: 185, 279, 332, 421
Thirty-ninth: 106, 206, 318, 407, 408-09
Fortieth: 81, 220, 224, 355, 381
Forty-first: 106
Forty-second: 251, 253, 255
Forty-third: 206, 318, 403, 406, 407, 408
Forty-sixth: 183, 242, 282, 289, 351, 352, 359, 361, 373, 374, 375, 378-86, 456
Forty-seventh: 337, 344, 421, 474, 478
Forty-eighth: 318
Forty-ninth: 318
Fiftieth: 318
Fifty-first: 50, 52, 53, 54, 60, 71, 73, 179, 329, 403, 407
Fifty-second: 164, 350, 421
Fifty-third: 350, 355, 361, 373, 381
Fifty-seventh: 50, 52, 53, 54, 76, 151, 153, 154, 350, 373, 376-77, 378, 382
Fifty-ninth: 302, 465
Sixtieth: 159, 185, 187, 189, 220, 246, 332, 465
Sixty-second: 37, 40, 41, 43, 50, 76n, 78
Sixty-third: 41, 50, 52
Sixty-fourth: 37, 41, 50, 76n
Sixty-fifth: 50, 52, 53, 76n, 318
Sixty-sixth: 50, 76n
Sixty-seventh: 111
Seventieth: 337
Armies, U.S.
First: 482
Ninth: 473, 495-96
Armor, German use of: 50, 120, 216, 228, 362, 384, 385, 397-98, 452. See also Armor strength, German; Tanks, German.
Armor, Soviet use of: 26, 30, 50, 52, 75, 146-47, 149, 166, 321, 362, 393, 399, 474-75. See also Armor strength, Soviet; Tanks, Soviet.
Armor strength, German: 50, 52, 76, 76n, 127, 129, 131, 136, 144, 145, 151, 162, 197, 332, 350, 384, 385, 417, 471-72
Armor strength, Soviet: 29, 50, 52, 75, 76, 76n, 127, 144, 145, 151, 162, 197, 296, 332, 350, 417, 470, 471-72
Army, British Eighth: 119
Army Group, 21, British: 483, 495
Army Groups, German
A. See also Army Groups, German, Center; Army Groups, German, South Ukraine.
armies and dispositions, January 1945: 414, 416
casualties: 412n
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in Caucasus: 63, 64, 66, 71, 72-75
in GOTENKOPF: 85, 92, 118, 124, 143, 157, 164, 165, 171
Operation BLAU, 1942: 3-4, 17, 18-19, 22, 39
renamed Army Group Center, 26 January 1945: 426
renamed Army Group South Ukraine, 5 April 1944: 286
on south flank, 1943: 143, 152, 154, 157, 166, 177, 179, 180, 181, 183, 218, 238
strength: 34n, 417
winter campaign, 1945: 416-18, 419, 421-22, 423, 424, 425, 429
B
leaves Eastern Front: 90
Operation BLAU, 1942: 3, 17, 18-19, 22, 39, 66
Stalingrad: 47, 48, 49, 52, 53, 59
strength: 34n
winter campaign, 1942-43: 66, 68, 72, 73, 81, 82, 86, 87
C: 411
Center: 90, 91, 144, 151-52, 154, 223, 296, 301. See also Army Groups, German, A; Army Groups, German, North.
under Busch, condition of: 316
casualties: 325, 412n
defense of Dnepr bridgehead: 189-96
defense of East Prussia: 414, 416, 417, 418, 419, 421, 424, 425, 426, 428-33
defense of Oder-Neisse line: 439, 442, 443, 456, 465-66, 469, 476, 477, 483
defense of Rzhev salient: 105-08
deployment, January 1945: 414, 416
intelligence estimates, fall 1942: 47-49
Nevel gap: 197-207
1941 campaign: 9, 10, 11-13, 14, 31, 32
Operation BUEFFEL: 115-17, 124
Operation ZITADELLE: 124, 128, 131, 133, 136, 139-42
partisan and antipartisan operations: 103, 104, 308-09
renamed Army Group North, 26 January 1945: 431
Soviet summer offensive, 1944: 313-28, 337, 338, 339n, 341, 342, 343, 345, 346, 408
strength: 34, 34n, 314, 319, 328, 412n
summer campaign, 1942: 17, 22, 98-100
summer campaign, 1943: 157-73
surrender: 496, 498, 499
Courland: 426, 438, 459, 460, 469-70, 485, 496, 498. See also Army Groups, German, North.
D: 5
Don. See also Army Groups, German, South.
activated, 20 November 1942: 56
renamed Army Group South, 14 February 1943: 90
Stalingrad relief operations: 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 68, 71, 72, 73, 79
winter campaign, 1942-43: 73, 74, 75, 81-87, 90, 91
E: 365, 369-70, 371, 373, 374-75, 377, 382, 411
F: 364, 365, 371, 377, 378, 381, 382, 405
North: 124, 131, 144, 154, 157, 162, 209, 210, 221, 267, 268, 416, 422. See also Army Groups, German, Center; Army Groups, German, Courland.
defense of East Prussia: 430, 438, 459, 460, 461, 469-70
Nevel gap: 197-207
1941 campaign: 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 31, 99
renamed Army Group Courland, 26 January 1945: 426
retreat to Courland: 403-09
retreat from Leningrad: 248-66, 273
Soviet partisans: 103, 104, 113
strength: 34, 34n, 412n
summer campaign, 1942: 17, 22, 98, 100-102
summer campaign, 1944: 324-25, 326, 327, 328, 329, 333-35, 336, 337, 338, 341, 342, 343, 348, 387-88
winter campaign, 1943: 109-13, 117
North Ukraine: 286, 291, 313, 314, 315, 316, 319, 320, 324, 329-33, 336-37, 341, 342, 348, 355. See also Army Groups, German, South.
Oberrhein: 425
Ostmark: 499
South: 17, 33, 212, 248, 265, 291, 422, 423, 498. See also Army Groups, German, North Ukraine; Army Groups, German, South Ukraine.
Army Group Don renamed South, 13 February 1943: 90
Army Group South Ukraine renamed South, 23 September 1944: 360, 371, 412
battle at Debrecen: 360-62
in Dnepr line, fall 1943: 175-77, 179, 180, 181-89, 191, 216
encirclement of Budapest: 378-86
1941 campaign: 9, 11-12, 14, 31, 88
Operation FRUEHLINGSERWACHEN: 450-54
Operation ZITADELLE: 118, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 133-38, 139
recapture of Kharkov, spring 1943: 94-105
renamed Army Group North Ukraine, 5 April 1944: 286
retreat from Hungary: 454-56, 466, 469
retreat to Tisza River: 364
siege of Budapest: 410, 414, 422, 427, 433-37, 439, 448-49
spring campaign, 1944: 273-85, 286, 288
strength: 412n
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summer campaign, 1943: 138, 143-44, 149-57, 158, 159-66, 168-73
winter campaign, 1942-43: 90-94
winter campaign, 1943-44: 218-47
South Ukraine: 286, 290, 293, 319, 346-52, 353-60. See also Army Groups, German, A; Army Groups, German, South.
Vistula
activated: 425-26
defense of Berlin: 472-88, 491-92
defense of Pomerania and West Prussia: 431, 438, 442, 443-44, 456-61, 464
Stargard offensive: 443-48, 456
surrender: 495-96
Arnhem bridges: 395
Arnswalde: 444, 447
Arrow-Cross Party: 358, 363, 448
Artillery, German use of: 101, 156-57, 162, 178, 233-34, 251, 321, 469
Artillery, Soviet use of: 32, 46, 146, 149, 156, 160, 177, 178, 184, 185, 236, 298, 321, 421
Artillery strength, German: 9, 350, 416-17, 471-72
Artillery strength, Soviet: 146, 296, 350, 416-17, 470, 471-72
ASTER plan: 404, 405, 406
Astrakhan: 133
Athens: 372, 377
Athens-Salonika-Belgrade railroad: 369, 370
Atrocities: 113-15, 344n, 420, 425, 489-90
Attentat: 335
Auce: 404
Aunus (Svir) Front: 102, 302
Aurith: 444
Austria: 439, 455
Autinkylä: 268
Aydar River: 84
Bacau: 353
Bach-Zelewski, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Erich von dem: 203, 204, 344, 363, 464
Bad Doberan: 495
Bad Nauheim: 410
Bagramyan, General Armii Ivan K.: 318, 328, 338, 339, 403-04, 405, 406-07, 432, 445
Baja: 381-82, 452
Bakony Forest: 453, 454
Balaton, Lake: 382, 383, 385, 435, 436, 437, 449, 450, 452, 453, 454, 455
Balck, General der Panzertruppen Hermann: 385, 435, 436, 454
Baldone: 405
Balkan Air Force (Allied): 372, 377, 382
Balkans: 313, 339, 358, 367-78
Baku: 18
Balaklava: 294
Balta: 284, 285
Balti: 285
Baltic coast: 47, 313, 326, 387, 419, 457, 495
Baltic Fleet, Soviet: 268
"Baltic Gap": 329, 333-35
Baltic Sea: 10, 111, 268, 339, 502-03
Baltic States: 24, 336, 482, 500. See also Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania.
Banat: 371
Baranovichi: 318, 319, 325, 326, 327
Baranow: 339, 341, 342, 416, 418, 419, 421
BARBAROSSA, plans and early operations: 7-13
Barlad: 351, 353
Barladul River: 353
Barvenkovo: 94, 96
Basic Order 13: 131
Basic Order 22: 214
Basic Order for the Preparations to Defend the Reich Capital: 462
Batina: 382
Battalion, Finnish 27th Jaeger: 390
Bauska: 403, 404, 405
Bautzen: 475, 476, 479, 483, 486
Bauxite mines: 383
Beaulieu, Generalleutnant Chales de: 342
Beeskow: 480
Beketovka: 53
Bela Palanka: 375
Belaya Tserkov': 222, 223
Belgian volunteer forces: 231
Belgorod: 89, 97, 133, 135, 137, 149, 151
Belgrade: 370, 371, 372, 374, 375-76, 377, 378
Belokalitvenskaya: 66, 73, 74
Belomorsk: 102
Belorussia: 296, 304, 314, 316
Bely: 98, 106, 107
Belyaekva: 289
Belynichi: 323
Belzig: 483, 484
Berchtesgaden: 122, 244, 280, 289, 293
Berdichev: 218, 219, 220, 224
Beresina River: 196, 304, 314, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325
Beresino: 323, 324
Beria, Lavrenti P.: 29
Berislav: 178
Berlin: 419, 422, 445, 469, 473, 503. See also Allied forces, and drive to Berlin.
defense of: 472, 488-89
encirclement: 474-83
preparations for defense: 461-64
relief operations: 484, 485, 493
Russians enter: 488
Soviet advance toward: 427-28, 439-40, 442, 456, 467, 470-71
Berlin Defense Area: 462
Berlin-Stettin autobahn: 477
Bernadotte, Count Folke: 490
Bernau: 476
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Berzarin, General Polkovnik N. Z.: 490
Beskide Mountains: 359, 360, 362-63
Bessarabia: 9, 24, 284
Bialystok: 11, 327, 328, 336
BIBER plan: 314
Bicske: 385, 452
Bicycles: 412, 440
Bielsk: 429
Billefiord: 401
BIRKE: 268-69, 299, 391, 396, 401
Bischofsburg: 432
Black Sea: 9, 72, 313
BLAU, 1942: 3-4, 15-80
BLAU, 1943-44: 248-66
Blitzkrieg: 93-94, 145
Blocking Force (Sperrverband) Bucovina: 288, 291
"Bluecher" program: 413
Bober River: 442
Bobovnya: 325
Bobruysk: 318, 319, 321, 322, 325
Bock, Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von: 9, 14, 17, 18
Boerzsenyi Mountains: 383, 384
Bohnsdorf: 481
Bol'shaya Lepatikha: 239, 241, 242, 243
Bolva River: 158
Bombing. See Air attacks, Allied; Air attacks, German; Air attacks, Soviet.
Bor: 375
Borisov: 304, 308, 309, 318, 325
Bor-Komorowski, General Tadeusz: 340, 344, 345
Bormann, Martin: 119-20, 484n, 490, 492, 493
Bosnia: 365
Bothnia, Gulf of: 270, 396
Brandenburg: 471, 484, 492
Bratislava: 448, 455, 463
Brauchitsch, Generalfeldmarschall Walter von: 5, 7, 11, 12, 15, 31, 56, 87
Braun, Eva: 492
Braunsberg-Wormditt line: 438
Breslau: 424, 425, 442, 469, 470
Brest-Litovsk: 69, 313, 320, 326, 328, 330, 333, 336, 337
Bridges: 48, 57, 172, 177, 184, 225, 238-39, 279, 285, 289-90, 323, 324, 325, 344, 377, 380, 382, 395, 436, 443, 452. See also River crossings.
Brieg-Ohlau bridgehead: 442
Brigades, Finnish
Cavalry: 388
3d: 298-99
21st: 388
Brigades, German
Dirlewanger: 344, 344n
Kaminski: 344, 344n
SS Brigade Norland: 186
303d Self-Propelled Assault Gun: 300, 301
Brigade, Soviet, 12th Naval: 399
Brno: 449, 456, 463, 465
Brody: 246, 277, 286, 288, 331-32
Bromberg: 429
Bryansk: 31, 97
Bryansk Forest: 104, 344n
Bryansk-Roslavl' railroad: 167
Bublitz: 457, 459
Buchach: 282
Bucharest: 353, 355
Buda: 448
Budapest: 358, 359, 360, 361, 363, 410-11, 420, 448, 453, 454, 461
encirclement: 378-86
relief operations: 414, 433-37, 439
siege of: 433-37, 448-49
Budenny, Marshal Semen M.: 30, 35-36
BUEFFEL: 115-17, 124, 126, 141, 249
Bug Liman: 282
Bug River: 181, 223, 226, 243, 273, 274, 277, 278, 282, 283, 285, 286, 289, 332, 336
Buhle, General der Infanterie Walter: 335
Bukrin: 170, 184
Bulgaria: 208, 272, 355, 358, 365, 367, 368-69, 370, 373, 504
Bulgarian Army: 369-70, 373, 378. See also Armies, Bulgarian.
Bunzlau: 442, 473
Burgdorf, Generaloberst Wilhelm: 494
Busch, Generalfeldmarschall Ernst: 192-93, 195, 203, 205-06, 314, 315-16, 321, 323-24, 345
Busse, General der Infanterie Theodor: 423, 463. 464, 476, 480, 481, 488
Buzau: 354
Buzaul Valley: 355, 356
Buzuluk River: 240, 241, 242
C-2 rocket: 120-21
Cairo: 349
Carpathian Mountains: 246, 274, 281, 287, 289, 291, 313-14, 337, 346, 351, 352, 353-56, 410, 419, 422
Castling maneuver: 91, 220-21, 453
Casualties
Finnish: 302-03, 388
German: 79, 138, 213, 214, 325, 412, 412n, 500, 500n
Rumanian: 293
Soviet: 23, 79, 213-14, 309, 457, 500, 500n
Caucasus: 3, 4, 15-19, 33, 39, 74
Caucasus Mountains: 72
Cavalry, Soviet: 90, 193-94, 246. See also Horses.
Cavalry-Mechanized Groups, Soviet: 318n. See also Groups, Soviet, Cavalry-Mechanized.
Baranov: 337
First Guards: 453, 456, 466
Gorshkov: 350, 351, 355, 362, 378-79
Oslikovskiy: 318, 318n
Pliyev: 318, 359, 361, 362, 364, 379, 437, 453
Cease-fire, Soviet-Finnish: 390
Cegled: 380
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Četnicks: 367
Chapr Lake: 399
Checiny: 421
Chelm: 332
Cherkassy: 169, 188, 189
Cherkassy pocket: 224, 226-38, 226n, 274, 279, 289, 345
Chernigov: 154, 170
Chernobyl: 170, 191, 193
Chernovtsy: 287, 288, 289
Chernyakovskiy, General Polkovnik I. D.: 318, 325, 339, 343, 419, 431, 445
Chevallerie, Generalleutnant Kurt von der: 98, 100, 108
Chief of the Naval Staff, Soviet: 30
Chief of Staff, Soviet Army: 30
Chmielnik: 421
Chir River: 37-38, 39, 52, 54, 55, 57, 59, 61, 62, 63, 66, 68
Chir Station: 54, 55
Choinice: 444
Chortkov: 279-80, 282
Chudovo: 253
Chuguyev: 127, 153, 154
Chuikov: 46, 493
Churchill, Winston S.: 119, 267, 269, 272, 372, 420, 502
Civil defense, German: 340
Civilians
German: 425, 432, 500
Norwegian: 401
Russian
evacuated by Germans: 88, 116, 141, 164, 168, 172, 244, 249
Soviet use of, as troops: 172, 189
used by Germans for labor: 84, 141, 168
CLAUSEWITZ: 462
Climate. See Weather.
Cluj: 355-56, 359-60, 362
Coal fields: 12, 87-88, 144, 425
Collaborator forces, German: 123, 369-70, 413, 413n
Command Staff B, German: 477, 481, 493
Command structure, German: 3, 5-6, 10, 76-77, 163-64, 286
Command structure, Soviet: 25-27, 29-31, 36. See also Stavka of the Supreme Command.
Commands, Soviet
Northwest: 30
Southwest: 30, 31
West: 30
Commissar of Defense: 29, 30
Commissar system, Soviet: 26-27, 29, 36
Committee of Three: 119-20
Communist Party, Soviet: 29, 103, 304, 307, 309
Conscription, German: 213
Constanta: 293
Corfu: 370, 373
Corinth, Isthmus of: 373
Corps, Finnish
III: 298, 299
IV: 296
Corps, German
I Cavalry: 435
I SS Panzer: 427, 439, 448, 450, 452, 453
II: 101-02, 405
II SS Panzer: 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 280, 282, 288, 427, 439, 450, 452
III: 152
III Panzer: 135, 137, 222, 223, 224-26, 228, 231-33, 259, 262, 275, 276, 289
III SS Panzer: 404, 405, 477
IV: 54, 261
IV Panzer: 78
IV SS Panzer: 386, 410, 433-37, 452, 453
VII: 79, 187, 222, 223, 224-26, 228, 283, 287
VIII: 48, 265, 287
IX SS Mountain: 385, 433, 437
X: 265, 406
XI: 78, 79, 156, 226, 228-38
XIII: 159, 160, 164, 187, 189, 219, 222, 246-47, 288, 332-33
XIV Panzer: 39, 41, 53, 57, 78
XVII: 59, 63
XVIII Mountain: 102, 268, 269, 393, 395, 396-97, 401
XIX Mountain: 102, 238, 268, 396, 397-400, 401
XX: 484, 491
XXI Mountain: 382
XXIII: 135
XXIV Panzer: 39, 137, 138, 187, 222, 421, 423, 424, 425, 427
XXVII: 243
XXVIII: 408
XXIX: 162
XXX: 241-43
XXXVI Mountain: 102, 136, 268, 269, 270, 271, 393, 395, 396, 401
XXXVII Panzer: 135
XXXX Panzer: 184, 185, 424
XXXXI Panzer: 135, 480, 484, 485, 492
XXXXII: 222, 223, 224, 225, 227-38, 279
XXXXIII: 197
XXXXVI Panzer: 135, 222, 224-26, 279
XXXXVII Panzer: 226, 228, 231, 284, 285
XXXXVIII Panzer
at Kiev: 186-87, 189
Operation BLAU: 39, 50
spring campaign, 1944: 276
at Stalingrad: 54, 61, 62, 63
on Vistula: 421
winter campaign, 1943-44: 220, 221, 222, 224, 247
in ZITADELLE: 135, 137
L: 251, 255
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LI: 58, 58n, 78, 79
LIV: 259
LVI Panzer: 313-14, 315, 466, 477, 480, 481
LVII Panzer: 61, 62, 63-65, 69
LIX: 98, 186, 189, 219, 221, 222, 223-24, 244, 247, 275, 276
Grossdeutschland Panzer: 422, 424, 425, 427, 429, 442
Provisional Corps Raus: 135
SS Panzer: 86, 89-90, 91, 97. See also Corps, German, II SS Panzer.
Corps, Hungarian
VI: 289
VII: 81, 289
Corps, Italian, Alpini: 81
Corps, Rumanian
III: 351, 352
VI: 53, 54, 55, 60, 61, 71
VII: 53, 54, 54n, 60, 61, 71, 72
Corps, Soviet
I Guards Mechanized: 165, 166, 177
II Guards Mechanized: 162
III Cavalry: 79
III Guards Tank: 74, 340-41, 459
IV Guards Cavalry: 57, 278
IV Guards Mechanized: 161, 278
IV Tank: 57
VI Stalin: 106
VIII Cavalry: 79
XXIII Tank: 165, 166, 177
XXVI Tank: 57
XXXIII Tank: 282
LXXVII: 374
XCIX Rifle: 399
CXXVI Light Rifle: 399-400
CXXVII Light Rifle: 400
CXXXI Rifle: 399, 400
Corps, Soviet, mechanized: 50n
Corps Detachments, German: 234n
B: 23, 235
C: 246
Cosel: 425
Cossacks: 203
Cottbus: 477, 479, 480
Counterinsurgency. See Antipartisan operations, German.
Courland: 407, 407n, 409, 410, 414-16, 427, 438-39, 457, 464
Bay of: 430
Fourth Battle of: 438
Fifth Battle of: 463-64
Sixth Battle of: 470
Crete: 365, 367
Crimea: 12, 32, 179-81, 186, 188, 220, 221, 238, 240, 241, 244, 275-76, 285, 286-87, 291-95, 345
Croatia: 122, 365, 371
Csepel Island: 381, 383
Curzon Line: 341
Czechoslovakia: 416, 427, 463, 465, 471, 504
Czestochowa: 423, 424
Danzig: 416, 425, 440, 444, 459, 460, 461
Danzig, Bay of: 460, 469
Danube River: 291, 351, 352-53, 354, 364, 370, 371, 372, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 381, 382, 383, 385-86, 433, 435, 436, 437, 449, 450, 452, 453, 454, 455
Dardanelles: 358
De Beaulieu, Generalleutnant Chales. See Beaulieu, Generalleutnant Chales de.
Deblin: 337
Debrecen: 359, 360, 361-62, 364, 380
Deception, Soviet: 240-41, 314-15, 316, 401
Decorations, German, military: 286, 388, 436, 449
Decorations, Soviet, military: 170, 171, 264
Degrelle, Léon: 231
Demidov: 98, 170
Demolition, German: 88, 140-41, 380, 399
Demolition, by Soviet partisans: 141, 308
Demyansk: 32, 98, 101, 102, 111-13, 115
Denmark: 5
Derkul River: 68, 84
Deserters, Soviet: 41, 131, 131n
Desna River: 117, 154, 158, 160, 164, 165-66, 167, 168, 170
Deutsch Eylau: 430
Deutsch-Krone: 426, 444, 444n
Dietl, Generaloberst Eduard: 211, 267, 271, 298, 299, 302, 389
Dietrich, SS-Oberstgruppenfuehrer Josef (Sepp): 445n
Dirlewanger, SS-Standartenfuehrer Oscar: 344n
Divisions, Finnish
Armored: 298
3d: 395
11th: 395
14th: 388, 391
Divisions, German
Adolf Hitler (SS): 73, 85, 86, 89, 139, 186, 225, 273, 276, 279, 280
Charlemagne (SS): 488
Clausewitz: 491
Das Reich (SS): 73, 85, 86, 89, 90, 92, 94, 152, 156
Doeberitz: 444
Feldherrnhalle Panzer Grenadier: 259, 262
Fuehrer Grenadier: 452, 469
Frundsberg. See Divisions, German, 10th SS Panzer.
Galicia (SS): 332
Gross-Berlin: 444
Grossdeutschland: 73, 89, 136, 152, 156, 341, 342
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Handschar (SS): 378
Hermann Goering Parachute Panzer: 328, 333, 337, 340, 341-42
Hohenstaufen. See Divisions, German, 9th SS Panzer.
Kurmark: 444
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (SS): 182
Panzer Grenadier Nordland (SS): 406, 488
Panzer Grenadier Wiking (SS): 64, 71, 72, 74, 94, 137, 152, 231, 234, 235, 279, 340, 386
Scharnhorst: 491
Theodor Koerner: 491
Totenkopf (SS): 92, 94, 152, 156, 183, 184, 284, 337, 386
1st Flak: 461, 462
1st Infantry: 250
1st Mountain: 288, 310, 374, 375, 376
1st SS Panzer. See Divisions, German, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (SS).
1st Panzer: 186
2d Mountain: 397, 399-400
2d Parachute: 186
3d Mountain: 68, 354
3d Naval: 478, 483, 484
3d Panzer: 86, 152
4th Panzer: 74, 186
4th SS Police: 477, 478
5th Flak: 354
5th Jaeger: 477, 478, 487
6th Mountain: 94, 397, 399-401
6th Panzer: 49, 61, 149
7th Air Force Field: 62, 87
7th Mountain: 401
7th Panzer: 62, 71, 72, 74, 152, 156, 187, 247, 276, 279, 280, 483, 486, 487
7th SS: 73
8th Panzer: 166, 167, 247
9th Panzer: 241-43
9th SS Panzer: 280, 288
10th SS Panzer: 280, 469
11th Panzer: 61, 71, 72, 74, 84, 86, 183
12th Panzer: 258, 259, 261, 263, 266, 322
13th Panzer: 161, 162, 179
14th Panzer: 57, 181-82, 183
16th Motorized Infantry: 55, 63, 72, 75
16th Panzer: 57, 195-96, 225
17th Panzer: 62-63, 94, 225, 226
18th Artillery: 225
19th Panzer: 340, 341-42
22d Panzer: 49, 61
23d Panzer: 61, 137, 241
24th Infantry: 261
24th Panzer: 181-83, 184, 186, 228, 229-31, 241, 243
25th Panzer: 182, 185, 187, 209, 455, 469
25th Panzer Grenadier: 477, 478, 483, 484, 486, 487
29th Motorized Infantry: 49, 54
30 Januar: 444
57th Infantry: 156, 234
58th Infantry: 258, 259, 261, 262
61st Infantry: 253
68th Infantry, 279, 280
72d Infantry: 234, 236
73d Infantry: 344
75th Infantry: 279
88th Infantry: 234
100th Jaeger: 280
112th Infantry: 234
122d Infantry: 300, 301, 302, 387, 389-90
131st Infantry: 279
163d Infantry: 399
167th Infantry: 149
169th Infantry: 401
210th Infantry: 396
214th Infantry: 265, 273
304th Infantry: 74
332d Infantry: 149
336th Infantry: 62
340th Infantry: 247
367th Infantry: 280
389th Infantry: 234
416th Infantry: 268
454th Security: 246
551st Grenadier: 407
Divisions, Italian
Celere: 68
Sforzesca: 68
Divisions, Rumanian
Armored: 351
1st Armored: 49, 50, 61
10th: 291
Divisions, Spanish: 19n-20n
250th, "Blue": 144, 208, 248
Divisions, Soviet rifle: 50n
Divisionsgruppe van der Hoop: 397-99
Dnepr Bend: 181, 183, 188, 222, 223, 238, 243, 275, 283
Dnepr River: 9, 11, 31, 94, 97, 144, 149, 152, 154, 159, 165-66, 168, 170-73, 181, 218, 226, 243, 244, 273, 279, 318, 319, 321, 323
description: 174, 238-39
Dnepr line operations: 174-96
Dnepropetrovsk: 66, 87, 91, 92, 94, 127, 169, 171, 183
Dnepropetrovsk-Stalino rail line: 87, 91
Dnestr River: 246, 274, 279, 280, 281, 284, 285, 289, 290, 346, 351, 352
Doctrine. See also Strategy, German; Strategy, Soviet.
German military: 500
German staff: 362
Soviet military: 25-28
Doenitz, Grossadmiral Karl: 109, 259, 327, 394,
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460, 472, 477, 482, 483, 485, 490, 492, 493-94, 496-98
Don River: 15-17, 39, 40, 47-49, 53-57, 59, 61-64, 66, 70, 72-75, 83, 86
Don River bend: 18, 23, 37-38 39, 40-41
Don-Chir bridgehead: 39, 59, 61, 63, 64
Donets Basin: 31, 32, 33, 34, 87, 97, 137, 138, 144, 162, 165, 220
Donets River: 33, 66, 68, 71, 73, 74-75, 81, 82-84, 89, 90, 96, 97, 118, 126-27, 135, 143-44, 154, 164, 172
Donji Miholjac: 450
Double envelopment, Soviet concept of: 145-46, 147, 148. See also Encirclement operations, German; Encirclement operations, Soviet.
Drava River: 364, 382-83, 449, 450, 454, 455, 456
Dresden: 440, 442, 467, 471
Drina River: 377, 382
Dubno: 246, 247, 276, 278
Dubossary: 290, 291, 346
Dudchino River: 244
Dukla Pass: 362, 363
Dumitrescu, Col. Gen. Petre: 346
Dunaföldvar: 437
Dunapentele: 436
Dust, effect on operations: 178
Dvina position: 404
Dvina River: 11, 31, 159, 206, 318, 321, 327, 328, 335, 342
Dvinsk: 249, 264, 324, 326, 327, 328
Dzhurzhentsy: 233, 234, 235, 236, 437
East Karelia: 299, 302, 387, 388
East Prussia: 24, 316, 338, 339, 340, 343, 409, 416, 419, 425, 428-33, 438, 440, 445, 457n, 460, 503
East Wall: 121, 122, 153-54, 173, 174, 249, 265. See also PANTHER position; WOTAN position.
Eberswalde: 477, 480
Edelsheim, General der Panzertruppen Maximilian Freiherr von: 496
Eisenhower, General of the Army, Dwight D.: 467, 469, 496-97
Elbe line: 483, 484
Elbe River: 419, 443, 467, 471, 473, 482, 492, 493, 495-96, 498, 503
Elbing: 430, 431, 438
Elista: 75
Emden: 483
Encirclement operations, German: 11-12, 13, 31, 33, 40, 94, 97, 106-07, 115, 226-27, 361-62, 364
Encirclement operations, Soviet: 14, 50, 53-61, 62-63, 69-71, 75-80, 81, 82-85, 108-09, 226-28, 240, 253-54, 261, 275-76, 278-83, 286, 288-89, 321, 322-23, 332, 354, 378-86, 442, 474-82, 483-86, 488, 492. See also Double envelopment, Soviet concept of.
Enckell, Carl: 269
Engineer troops, German: 225
Envelopment. See Double envelopment, Soviet concept of; Encirclement operations, German; Encirclement operations, Soviet.
Ercsi: 383, 435
Erfurt: 467
Erzgebirge: 473
Estonia: 262, 404
Estonian forces: 262, 263
Esztergom: 384, 385, 386, 433, 453-54
Eszterhaza: 414
Fastov: 185, 187, 220
Fehrbellin: 471
Feldjaeger (courier) battalions: 214-15
Ferch: 483
Finland: 13, 19n, 24, 109, 111, 121, 126, 208-11, 248, 339, 500. See also Finnish Army; Mannerheim, Marshal Carl; Ryti, Risto.
armistice: 387-91
German aid to: 300-301, 302-03
rejection of Soviet peace terms: 267-71
Soviet Karelian offensive: 296-303
and withdrawal of German forces: 390-403
Finland, Gulf of; 100-101, 154, 197, 262, 298, 404
Finnish Army: 6, 9, 10, 19n, 101, 102, 109, 208, 296-303 387, 388, 390, 393. See also Brigades, Finnish; Corps, Finnish; Divisions, Finnish.
Finnish Lapland Command: 395
Finnmark, Norwegian: 401
Finow Canal: 471, 477
Focsani: 353, 354
Foraging, by Soviet troops: 147-48
Forst: 457, 471, 474
Fortifications: 75-76, 133-35, 139, 249, 416, 428, 430, 462. See also East Wall; HAGEN position; LITHUANIA position; PANTHER position; PRINZ EUGEN position; ROLLBAHN position; SCHUTZWALL position; WOTAN position.
"Fortified places": 277, 278, 279, 288, 316, 322, 323, 330-32, 333
France, Southern, secondary offensive in: 388
Franco, Generalissimo Francisco: 208, 265
Frankfurt: 428, 444, 463, 464, 471, 476, 478, 479
Freikorps: 464
Fretter-Pico, General der Artillerie Maximilian: 68, 359, 379-80, 383
Friedeburg, Generaladmiral Hans-Georg von: 495, 496
Friedland: 431-32
Friessner, General der Infanterie Johannes: 326, 329, 333, 348, 349, 350, 351, 339-60, 362, 369
commands Armeeabteilung Narva: 264-65
commands Army Group North: 326
directs retreat to Hungary: 355-58
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estimate of Army Group South Ukraine condition, July 1944: 348
and Hitler's estimate of British and Soviet intentions: 358n
interview with Antonescu: 351
orders attack on Bucharest: 353
orders retreat to Tisza: 364
plans attack toward Budapest: 383-85
relieved of Army Group South command: 385
trades command with Schoerner: 336
Frische Nehrung: 432, 460
Frisches Haff: 461
Fronts, Soviet: 28, 30, 147
Belorussian: 191, 196, 223. See also Fronts, Soviet, First Belorussian.
Bryansk: 33, 85, 136, 151, 158, 191, 202. See also Fronts, Soviet, Second Baltic.
Central: 97, 133, 158, 159, 167, 168, 169-70, 191. See also Fronts, Soviet, Don.
Don: 49, 50, 62, 73, 76, 76n, 79-80, 420. See also Fronts, Soviet, Central.
Kalinin. See also Fronts, Soviet, First Baltic.
Nevel gap: 197-99, 200-202
offensive at Rzhev: 106-07
renamed First Baltic Front: 202
summer offensive, 1943: 141, 160, 170
winter offensive, 1941-42: 32
Karelian: 270, 296, 302
Leningrad
advance to Narva River: 257, 259, 264-65
Leningrad Military District: 29
liberation of Leningrad: 250
offensive against Finland: 296-99, 302, 387
operations in Baltic States: 403, 407, 408
siege of Leningrad: 111-12, 157, 197
South: 33, 73, 85, 138, 175. See also Fronts, Soviet, Fourth Ukrainian; Military Districts, Soviet, Odessa.
Southeast: 40, 43. See also Fronts, Soviet, Stalingrad.
Southwest: 32, 33, 37. See also Fronts, Soviet, Stalingrad; Fronts, Soviet, Third Ukrainian.
disbanded, July 1942: 37
Kharkov offensive, 1942: 33
Kievan Special Military District: 28, 29
operations at Stalingrad: 50, 68, 73
reactivated, November 1942: 49
renamed Third Ukrainian Front: 175
summer offensive, 1943: 138, 151, 160, 164, 166, 174-75
winter offensive, 1942-43: 85, 86, 96, 97
Stalingrad: 37, 40, 43, 50, 60, 62, 71, 73. See also Fronts, Soviet, Don; Fronts, Soviet, South.
Steppe: 135, 151, 152, 171, 175. See also Fronts, Soviet, Second Ukrainian.
Transcaucasus: 85
Volkhov: 111, 157, 198
liberation of Leningrad: 250, 251-53, 257, 259, 264
Voronezh: 68. See also Fronts, Soviet, First Ukrainian.
defense of Kursk: 133
summer offensive, 1943: 151, 164, 168, 171, 175
winter offensive, 1942-43: 81, 85, 96, 97
West: 206
attack at Rzhev: 106, 107
1941 operations: 29, 31, 32
Orel salient: 136, 141
replaced, May 1944: 319
summer offensive, 1943: 159, 168, 170
First Baltic. See also Fronts, Soviet, Kalinin.
abolished: 445
activated: 202
attack on East Prussia: 432, 445
attack toward Riga: 403, 404, 405-06, 407
employment of partisans: 308
summer offensive, 1944, build-up: 314
summer offensive, 1944, operations: 319, 326, 329
summer offensive, 1944, plans: 318
First Belorussian: 464, 473. See also Fronts, Soviet, Belorussian.
attack into Pomerania: 444, 448, 457, 459
Berlin offensive, operations: 474, 475, 476, 478, 480, 481
Berlin offensive, plans: 470-71
strength, April 1945: 471-72
strength, January 1945: 417
summer offensive, 1944, build-up: 314-15
summer offensive, 1944, operations: 320, 324, 326, 330, 332, 333
summer offensive, 1944, plans: 318
Vistula-Oder offensive, operations: 421, 423, 425, 428, 440, 442, 444
Vistula-Oder offensive, plans: 416
First Ukrainian: 191, 473. See also Fronts, Soviet, Voronezh.
attack toward Moravska Ostrava: 457-59, 465-66
attack to Neisse: 440-44, 448
Berlin offensive, operations: 474-76, 480-83
Berlin offensive, plans: 467, 471
recapture of Kiev: 184, 186
spring offensive, 1944: 278
strength, January 1945: 417
summer offensive, 1944: 330, 343-44
Vistula-Oder offensive, operations: 421-25
Vistula-Oder offensive, plans: 416, 419-20
Voronezh Front renamed: 175
winter offensive, 1944: 219, 227, 275
Second Baltic
attack on PANTHER position: 264, 265
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Bryansk Front renamed: 202
operation in Baltic States: 403, 404, 406-07
summer offensive, 1944: 328, 342, 343
Second Belorussian: 275
Berlin offensive: 467, 470, 471, 475, 476, 479, 482-83, 484, 491-92 495
drive to Baltic, 1945: 429-30, 440, 444-45, 457, 459, 460
strength, April 1945: 471-72
strength, January 1945: 417
summer offensive, 1944, build-up: 314-15
summer offensive, 1944, operations: 316-18, 320, 326
Second Ukrainian. See also Fronts, Soviet, Steppe.
attack toward Krivoi Rog: 181-83
bridgeheads at Cherkassy: 188, 189
at Korsun' Shevchenkovskiy: 226-27
operations in Hungary: 360, 362, 373, 374, 381, 383
spring offensive, 1944: 276, 277-80, 283-85
Steppe Front renamed: 175
summer offensive, 1944: 350, 353-56
Vienna offensive: 437, 449, 452, 454, 455
Third Baltic: 328, 342, 343, 403, 404, 406, 407
Third Belorussian. See also Groups, Soviet, Samland.
activated: 319
operations in East Prussia: 419, 420, 428-30, 440, 445, 461
strength, January 1945: 417
summer offensive, 1944, build-up: 314-15
summer offensive, 1944, operations: 319-20, 324, 326, 340, 343, 407
summer offensive, 1944, plans: 318
Third Ukrainian: 183, 240, 241. See also Fronts, Soviet, Southwest.
enters Bulgaria: 358, 371, 373
in Hungary: 381, 383, 436, 437, 452
operations in Yugoslavia: 373, 374, 381
Southwest Front renamed:175
spring offensive, 1944: 276, 277, 284
summer offensive, 1944: 350, 351
Vienna offensive: 454, 455, 456
Fourth Ukrainian: 240, 275, 456. See also Fronts, Soviet, South.
advance to Dnepr: 177-79, 241
attack toward Moravska Ostrava: 465-66
in Beskides: 359, 360, 362-63, 378
Crimean operation: 291-95
South Front renamed: 175
summer offensive, 1944: 342
Vistula-Oder offensive: 419, 421, 427
FRUEHLINGSERWACHEN, Operation: 450-52
FRUEHLINGSFEST, Operation: 309
Fuehrer Directives: 21, 340. See also Operations Orders.
21: 7
46: 105
50: 210, 211, 268-69
51: 216-17, 272, 273, 280, 312
Fuehrer headquarters: 3, 10, 55, 87, 96, 163, 168. See also Hitler, Adolf.
Fuehrer Order 10: 199-200
Fuehrer Order 11: 277, 279
Fuerstenwalde: 476, 478
Galatz: 354
Gasoline shortages, German. See Logistics, German, shortages, gasoline.
Gasoline shortages, Soviet. See Logistics, Soviet, shortages, gasoline.
Gayvoron: 283-84
Gdynia: 427, 444, 459, 460-61
Geilenberg program: 412
General Staff, German Army: 21, 56
General Staff, Soviet Army: 30
Geneva Convention: 113
Genschmar: 444
Gerstenberg, General der Flieger Alfred: 352-53
Gestapo: 363
Giganten: 284
Gilgenburg: 429
Gille, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Herbert: 436
Giurgiu: 370
Glogau: 425, 426, 440, 442, 469-70
Gneisenau battle groups: 427
GNEISENAU line: 291-93
"Gneisenau" program: 413
Gniloy Tikich River: 232, 233, 235, 237
Goebbels, Joseph: 15, 123, 130, 413, 460, 463, 490, 492, 493-94
Goering, Reichsmarschall Hermann: 9, 15, 20, 58, 124, 212, 259, 329, 477, 484
Goerlitz: 442, 444, 457, 469, 471, 473, 474, 477
Goldap-Schillfelde area: 428
Golikov, General Leytenant F. I.: 85
Golodayevka: 138, 160
Golubinskaya: 57
Gomel: 154, 170, 191-92, 193, 195
Gor'kiy: 133
Gorodnitsa: 222
Gorodok: 204, 205, 206
GOTENKOPF: 82, 84, 85, 118, 124, 154, 157, 164, 165, 171
Gothic Line: 410-11
Govorov, General Polkovnik L. A.: 251, 253, 259, 261, 263, 264, 298, 300, 403
Great Britain: 9-10, 352, 377. See also Allied forces.
Greece: 365, 367, 371-72, 373, 374-75, 377, 411
Greim, Generaloberst Robert Ritter von: 484, 490
Grocka: 377
Grodno: 328, 336
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Grottkau: 465
Groups, Soviet. See also Fronts, Soviet.
Cavalry-Mechanized
Baranow: 337
First Guards: 453, 456, 466
Gorshov: 350, 351, 355, 362, 378-79
Oslikovskiy: 318, 318n
Pliyev: 318, 359, 361, 362, 364, 379, 437, 453
Popov: 86, 91, 94, 96, 147
Samland: 445
Grozny: 19
Grudziadz: 444-45
Gruppe von der Chevallerie: 98, 100, 107, 113
Guben: 457-59, 463
Guben-Crossen area: 445n
Guderian, Generaloberst Heinz: 339n, 405
appointed acting Chief of Staff, OKH: 335
attitude on Nazism: 335
and Budapest: 384-85, 435, 437
criticism of General Staff: 311
and defense of Berlin: 463, 464
dismissal: 14, 464
and Himmler: 410, 446, 464
and Hungary: 358, 359, 363
as Inspector General for Armor: 120, 129-30, 216, 311
in 1941 offensive: 12
report to Hitler, 9 January 1945: 418
and retreat to Austria: 454
role in 20 July 1944 events: 335
and Stargard offensive: 445-48
and summer campaign, 1944: 342, 343, 349
tour of Eastern Front, January 1945: 414, 418, 435
visit to Adlerhorst, 24 December 1944: 410
and winter campaign, 1945: 418, 422, 425, 429, 432
Guertelstrasse: 456
Guestebiese: 444
Gumbinnen: 409, 416, 430
Gumrak: 57, 76, 77-78
Györ: 439, 453
HABICHT: 126-28
Hackzell, Minister President Antii: 390
HAGEN position: 139, 140, 141-42, 152, 158
Halder, Generaloberst Franz: 3-4, 5, 7, 10-11, 12, 17, 21, 23, 31, 56, 102
Hamburg: 483, 492, 495
Hammerfest: 401
Hanko: 268, 270, 387
Hansen, General der Kavallerie Erik: 348, 349, 352, 353
Harpe, Generaloberst Joseph: 422
Harriman, W. Averell: 420
Harz Mountains: 479n
Hatvan: 381, 383
Hausser, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Paul: 90, 97
Havel River: 479-80, 484, 487, 488, 491, 493
Havelberg: 488, 493
HE-111's: 61
Hedgehogs: 41, 57
Heerespersonalamt: 21
Heiligenbeil: 445, 461
Heilsberg triangle: 430, 432, 445
Heim, Generalleutnant Ferdinand: 54n
HEINRICH: 203, 204
Heinrici, Generaloberst Gotthard
commands Army Group Vistula: 464
and defense of Berlin: 472, 473, 475, 476, 477, 479, 480, 484-87
dismissal: 487, 487n, 491
and encirclement of Ninth Army: 480-81, 484
requests to be relieved: 476, 478
Hel Peninsula: 460, 461
Heldengedenktag address: 15
Helsinki: 267, 387
Hercegovina: 365
Hero of the Soviet Union. See Decorations, Soviet.
High Tatra: 427
Hilfswillige: 20
Hill 239.0: 233, 234, 235, 236
Hilpert, Generaloberst Karl: 475
Himmler, Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich: 259, 278, 344n, 410, 448, 485
and antipartisan operations: 105
attempt to get an armistice: 490
command methods: 426, 444n
commands Army Group Vistula: 425
and defense of Berlin: 463
and defense of Pomerania-West Prussia: 425-26, 439, 444, 459
and Guderian: 446-47, 464
Hitler's assessment of: 425
retirement from command: 464
and Stargard offensive: 446-48
and Warsaw uprising: 344n
Hitler, Adolf
and abolition of the General Staff: 21
antipartisan measures: 105, 113-15
and Antonescu: 179, 244, 294, 349
assassination attempt, 20 July 1944: 335
assessment: 502
and BARBAROSSA: 12-13
and BARBAROSSA plan: 6-9
and the Cherkassy pocket: 228, 229, 232
command methods: 5, 10-11, 14-15, 223
commands Army Group A: 4
and the Crimea: 179-81, 244, 293-95
decision to remain in Berlin: 490
and defense of Berlin: 461, 462, 463, 464, 469-70, 472-74, 475, 476, 477-80, 482, 483, 492
and defense of Dnepr line: 175, 177, 183, 186, 189, 192, 194, 195
and defense of East Prussia: 429, 430, 432, 438
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and defense of Koenigsberg: 470
and defense of Pomerania and West Prussia: 457, 459, 460
and Demyansk pocket: 101-02, 112-13
determination to invade Russia: 24, 25
East Wall decision: 123, 153-54
estimate of Soviet strength, 24 December 1944: 410
fanatical resistance doctrine: 14, 22, 78, 160
the generals' declaration of loyalty: 311
and Horthy: 287, 363
influence on psychological warfare: 148
interview with Guderian, 9 January 1945: 418
last days of: 482-84, 490, 492-93
leadership principles: 130, 214, 215-16, 438, 464
and manpower procurement: 119-20, 213, 214, 413
and miracle of House of Brandenburg: 414, 504
and naval affairs: 109, 268, 405
and Nevel gap: 199-200, 201, 203-05, 207
and new weapons: 74, 120, 130
and Normandy invasion: 312
occupation policy: 105, 123-24
official functions: 3, 3n, 5
and Operation BUEFFEL: 115-17
and Operation MARGARETHE: 287-88
and operations in Hungary: 356, 359, 360, 364, 380, 439, 450, 452, 454, 455, 456
personality: 56, 73, 85, 87, 91-92, 130, 186, 217, 221, 223, 258, 260-61, 490
plans attack on Leningrad: 101
plans for HABICHT and PANTHER: 127-28
plans for 1942 offensive: 4, 17
plans for ZITADELLE: 124-26, 128-30, 131-32
proposals that he relinquish command: 87, 91, 163
and recapture of Kharkov: 91-92
relations with allies: 121-22
relations with Finland: 109, 210-11, 268, 269-70, 299, 389, 390
relations with generals: 3-4, 5, 21, 87-88, 154, 163-64, 199-200, 207, 212-13, 221, 256-57, 286, 311, 329, 345, 464
responsibility for German defeat: 502
and retreat to Courland: 403, 404-05, 406, 407, 409
and retreat from Greece: 369, 372, 375
and retreat from Leningrad: 250, 253, 254-55, 257, 260, 266
and retreat from Vistula to Oder: 422, 423, 425, 438
scorched-earth policy: 171, 463, 472
and siege of Budapest: 381, 384, 385, 435, 436, 437, 439, 448-49
speeches: 15, 44, 214, 256-57, 311, 414
and spring campaign, 1944: 278, 280, 283, 285, 288
and Stalingrad: 48, 54, 56, 57, 58-59, 61, 62-63, 65, 69, 70-71, 76-77, 78
and Stargard operation: 445-47
as a strategist: 119, 124-26, 143, 163, 165, 173, 179-80, 209, 211, 216-17, 223, 310, 312, 339, 358, 410, 411, 414, 439, 462-63, 502
suicide: 492
and summer campaign, 1943: 153, 154, 156, 160, 162, 164, 165, 168, 169, 171, 314, 321, 326, 327, 328, 329, 333, 339, 341, 349, 352, 354
and summer offensive, 1942: 18-29, 39, 44, 46
and surrender of Italy: 139
tactical conceptions: 15, 22, 87, 177, 206, 216, 221, 223, 256, 258, 422, 445, 462
testaments, personal and political: 492, 493
and Twentieth Mountain Army: 210-11, 268-69
view of British-Soviet rivalry: 358, 372
and war production: 119, 120, 411
and Warsaw uprising: 344n
and winter campaign, 1941-42: 13-15
and winter campaign, 1942-43: 72, 73, 74, 82, 85-90, 91-92
and winter campaign, 1943-44: 220-21, 223, 228, 232, 238, 243-44 254-55, 257, 260, 266
and world opinion: 44, 92, 128, 132-33, 195
ZITADELLE canceled: 139-40
Hitler Youth: 481
Hiwis (Russian auxiliaries): 412
Hoeppner, Generaloberst Erich: 14
Hollidt, General der Infanterie Karl: 71, 72-73, 74, 75, 160-61, 162, 164, 240, 241, 242-43, 277, 282, 283, 285
Holste: 492
Home guard. See Volkssturm.
Horses: 9, 9n, 172, 229, 279. See also Cavalry, Soviet; Panje wagons.
Horthy, Admiral Miklos: 122, 287, 357-58, 363
Hospitals: 168, 234
Hossbach, General der Infanterie Friedrich: 431, 432
Hoth, Generaloberst Hermann
assessment: 212
and battle at Kiev: 185-88
comments on Rumanian troops: 44, 53
Hitler's opinion of: 212
and recapture of Kharkov: 92, 94, 96-97
relief: 212
and retreat to Dnepr: 152, 157, 167, 168, 169
and Stalingrad encirclement: 53, 54, 60, 70, 72, 74
and summer offensive, 1942: 39, 41
and ZITADELLE: 137
Hron River: 384, 435, 437, 445, 448-49, 454
Hube, Generaloberst Hans: 188-89, 226, 280-82, 289
HUBERTUS line: 418
Hungarian forces: 17, 19n, 48, 87, 144, 167, 170, 287, 289, 359, 360, 454-55. See also Armies,
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Hungarian; Corps, Hungarian.
Hungary
attempt at an armistice: 363-64
attitude toward the war: 122, 208, 357-58, 360, 367
German military intervention in: 287
plan for German occupation of: 208, 272-73, 287-88
and treaty of Vienna: 352
Husi: 351, 353, 354
Iasi: 291, 346, 350, 351, 352
Ilmen, Lake: 101, 248, 253, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264
Ilomantsi: 388
Imredy, Bela: 287
Infantry, Soviet, evaluation of: 147
Ingul River: 243, 278, 283
Ingulets River: 244, 273, 278, 283
Intelligence, Finnish: 296
Intelligence, German: 28, 34, 36, 47, 48, 49, 105, 143-44, 160, 213-14, 250, 256, 264, 313, 314, 315, 319, 416, 418, 420, 422, 439-40, 442-43, 457-59, 473
Intelligence, Soviet: 4, 32-33, 76, 161, 200, 264, 307, 308, 419
Ipa River: 196, 223-24
Ipolysag: 383-84
Iron Gate: 355, 356, 371, 372, 374
Iron mines: 144, 238, 329
Isthmus Front: 102
Italian forces: 17, 19n, 48, 68, 87. See also Armies, Italian; Corps, Italian; Divisions, Italian.
Italy: 121-22, 139-40, 152, 195, 208, 210, 365, 388, 411, 460, 467
Ivalo: 210, 268, 269, 396, 397, 401
Izvestia: 267
Izyum: 33, 87, 96, 127, 138, 143, 160, 162
Jaeger Stab: 312
Jaenecke, General der Pioniere Erwin: 180-81, 291-95
Jaroslaw: 337
Jashkul: 54
Jelgava: 338, 404
Jeschonnek, Generaloberst Hans: 129, 212-13
Jodl, Generaloberst Alfred: 12, 91, 126, 212, 270, 339
assessment: 487
chief of Armed Forces Operations Staff: 3
functions: 4, 5, 21
influence on strategic planning: 5, 21, 163, 288, 310, 479
in last days of the war: 479, 480, 481, 483-87, 491, 492
negotiates surrender: 496-97
and Operation ZITADELLE: 132
relationship with Hitler: 4, 57, 479, 481, 483, 485
visit to Finland: 210-11
Jordan, General der Infanterie Hans: 316, 321, 324
JU-52's: 59, 61, 234, 282, 372
Jueterbog: 476
Kagul: 354
Kaiser Wilhelm (Kiel) Canal: 483
Kalach: 40, 50n, 52, 54, 55-56, 57, 62
Kalinin: 13
Kalinkovichi: 193-94
Kalitva River: 68
Kalmius River: 162, 164, 165
Kamenets-Podol'skiy: 279, 280
Kamenka River: 220, 222, 223, 241, 243, 285
Kamensk: 66, 71, 86
Kaminski, Mieczyslaw: 344n
Kampfgruppe: 156, 191, 247, 293
Kampfgruppe Ruebel: 400, 401
Kandalaksha: 102, 268
Kanev: 169, 222, 226
Kaposvar: 382, 437
Karachev: 159
Karelia, Isthmus of: 102, 109, 296-303, 387, 388
Karesuando: 268-69, 401
Karpovka: 57
Kaskama Lake: 400
Katyushas. See Rocket projectors, Soviet.
Kaunas: 327, 328, 333, 336-37, 338-39, 340, 342
Kazatin: 218, 219, 220, 222
Kecskemet: 364, 378, 379, 452
Keitel, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm: 3-4, 5, 12, 21, 119, 267, 270, 272, 349-50, 387-88, 475, 479, 480, 493, 496
assessment: 481
and defense of Berlin: 461
last days of war: 484, 485-86, 487, 491, 492
"Kessel (pocket) psychosis": 453
Kemi: 395
Kemiyarvi: 268
Kempf, General der Panzertruppen Werner: 90, 130, 152-53
Kerch': 186
Kerch' Peninsula: 32, 154, 179, 291, 292
Kerch' Strait: 83
Kernfestung: 378
Kesselring, Generalfeldmarschall Albert: 469, 472
Kesten'ga: 102
Khalkuta: 54
Kharkov: 31, 32, 33, 85, 86, 87, 89-90, 92, 124, 126-27, 128, 135, 143-44
Germans retake: 94-97
Russians retake: 149-57
Kherson: 178, 179, 182, 273
Khersonyes, Cape: 294
Khil'ki: 234, 235
Kholm: 98, 101, 248
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Khotin: 280-81
Khrushchev, General Leytenant Nikita S.: 23, 40
Kiel Canal: 483
Kielce: 419, 421, 422
Kienitz: 444
Kiev: 92, 97, 154, 167, 168, 169, 174, 189, 216, 218, 229
in BARBAROSSA plan: 7, 9
liberation of: 184-86, 188, 193
Killinger, Manfred Freiherr von: 348, 352-53
Kinzel, Generalleutnant Eberhard: 257, 260, 459
Kirkenes: 396, 397-99, 400, 401-03
Kirov: 116, 167
Kirovograd: 223, 226-27, 244, 277, 284
Kithira: 373-74
Klaypeda: 407
Kleist, Generalfeldmarschall Ewald von: 82, 93, 165, 166, 177, 231, 243, 283, 284, 291
appointed to command Army Group A: 71
commands Eighth Army: 285
and the Crimea: 179-81
dismissed by Hitler: 286, 288
and retreat to Bug: 243-44
and retreat to GOTENKOPF: 85
Kletskaya: 50, 52
Klintsy: 159
Klisura: 371, 377
Kluge, Generalfeldmarschall Guenther von: 100, 116, 130, 137, 152, 158-60, 191-92
commands Army Group Center, 1941: 98
conducts retreat to PANTHER position: 167-70
conferences on ZITADELLE: 129, 137
confrontation with Hitler, 3 September 1943: 163
declares stand-and-fight order futile: 160
on decline of troop quality: 215
injured and replaced: 192
on occupation policy: 123-24
proposes withdrawal, winter 1943: 117
protests retreat from Orel salient: 139-41
Kobyl'shchina: 196
Koch, Erich: 340
Koenigsberg: 256, 403, 419, 428, 430-31, 432, 438, 445, 460, 461, 470
Koenigswusterhausen: 477, 478
Koeslin: 459
Kolberg: 459, 460
Kolberg: 459, 460
Koller, Generaloberst Karl: 476
Kollontay, Madame Alexandra M.: 268
Kolomyya: 287
Kolosyoki: 102
Kolosyoki Nickel Works: 399, 399n
Komarno: 386, 433, 435, 436, 439, 454, 455
Komarovka: 236, 237
Komrat: 351
Konev, Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Ivan S.: 227, 244, 275
assessment: 227, 502
and attack toward Moravska Ostrava: 465-66
and attack to Neisse: 440, 442, 443-44
and defense of Kursk: 135
and liberation of Kharkov: 151
mission in Berlin offensive: 471
operations in Berlin offensive: 474, 476, 479
opinion on attack across Oder: 439
and spring offensive, 1941: 277, 280, 283-84
stops on Neisse: 448
and summer offensive, 1944: 332, 333, 341, 342
and thrust to Krivoi Rog: 181-84
and Vistula-Oder operations: 419, 423, 425, 428
KORMORAN: 309
Korosten: 186, 187, 189, 218, 220, 221-22, 244
Korsun' Shevchenkovskiy, Battle of: 226n, 231. See also Cherkassy.
Korten, General der Flieger Guenther: 212-13
Köszeg: 454, 455
Kotelnikovo: 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 72
Kotka: 267
Kovel': 219, 246, 247, 273, 275, 277, 278, 313, 318, 319, 330-32
Kragujevac: 375
Krakow: 341, 414, 419, 421, 422, 423, 424
Kraljevo: 375, 377, 378, 382
Kraslava: 327
Krasnaya River: 86, 127
Krasnoarmeyskoye: 91, 94
Krasnograd: 94, 96
Krasnogvardeysk: 255, 256
Krasnoye Selo: 253
Krebs, General der Infanterie Hans
appointed acting Chief of Staff, OKH: 464
character: 464-65
and defense of Berlin: 473, 476, 477, 478, 480, 483, 488
negotiations with Russians: 493
suicide: 494
Kremenchug: 97, 169, 171, 181
Kremenskaya: 41
Kremmen: 492
Krisenfestigkeit: 215
Krivoi Rog: 144, 181-84, 188, 189, 216, 221, 238-40, 242, 244, 273
Kromy: 140
Krosigk, Graf Lutz Schwerin von: 497
Krukenberg, SS-Brigadefuehrer Gustav: 488
Krystynopol: 332
Kuban: 118, 143. See also GOTENKOPF.
Kuberle River: 74
Kuechler, Generalfeldmarschall Georg von: 101
and Demyansk pocket: 112-13
and Hitler: 250, 257, 261
and Nevel gap: 199, 200, 203-05, 207, 211
relieved: 2, 57
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and retreat from Leningrad: 221, 249, 250, 251, 253-57
Kuestrin: 425, 428, 444, 445n, 463, 464, 471, 473
KUGELBLITZ: 115
Kulm: 426
Kumsky: 64
Kuparsaari: 298
Kupyansk: 86, 127
Kurische Nehrung: 430
Kursk: 17, 18, 85, 97, 113, 117, 124, 126, 128, 133-35, 137, 158-59. See also ZITADELLE.
Kutersel'ka: 299
Kutno: 419
Kuty: 346
Kuznetsov, General Leytenant V. I.: 68n
Ladoga, Lake: 9, 101, 102, 111, 112, 157, 248, 253, 298, 299, 302
Lakatos, Col. Gen. Geza: 357-58, 363
Lakselv: 396, 401
Lammers, Hans: 120
Lan road: 399
Landsberg: 445n
Lanz, General der Gebirgstruppen Hubert: 86, 89-90
Larisa: 377
Lascar, General Mihail: 54, 54n
Lasch, General der Infanterie Otto: 470
Latvia: 249, 262, 407n. See also Courland.
Lauenburg: 492
Lavansaari Island: 262
League of German Officers: 149, 311, 339, 345
Leeb, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm von: 9, 14
Lehnin Forest: 491
Leipzig: 467
Lend-lease, to USSR: 146, 241, 275, 501
Leningrad: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15, 23, 31, 32, 33, 101, 102, 109, 111-12, 118, 124-26, 197, 203, 210, 248-49, 250, 418
Lepel: 304, 308
Leubus: 442
Lida: 326, 327
Lieb, Generalleutnant Theobald: 233, 236-37
Liebenwalde: 491-92
Lieberose: 480
Liegnitz: 442, 457
Liepaja: 328
Lindemann, Generaloberst Georg: 250-53, 256, 257, 258, 259, 261, 266, 326
Linz: 467
Lisichansk: 84, 86
Liski: 81
List, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm: 3-4, 17
Lisyanka: 232-37
Lithuania: 249, 262
LITHUANIA position: 326-27, 329, 333
Litsa River: 102, 397, 399
Livny: 84
Lobanok, Col. Vladimir: 308, 309
Lodeynoye Pole: 302
Lodz: 419, 424
Loehr, Generaloberst Alexander: 365, 371, 373-74, 375, 377, 497
Loetzen: 430, 431
Loewenberg: 473
Logistics, German. See also Air strength, German; Armor strength, German; Artillery strength, German; Railroads; Roads; individual items by name.
matériel strength: 9, 17-18, 32, 50-52, 76n, 144-45, 178, 251, 315, 350, 417, 471-72
shortages
ammunition: 17, 39, 46, 62, 76, 76n, 78, 156-57, 189, 193, 229, 241, 380, 433, 435, 445, 446, 449, 459, 472, 473, 481, 492, 498
clothing: 14, 15, 290
food: 62, 69, 70, 75, 78, 290, 385, 433, 448
gasoline: 19, 39, 53, 57, 64, 70-71, 76, 76n, 193, 229, 232, 321, 355, 412, 433, 437, 446, 449, 459, 472, 473, 498
motor vehicles: 199, 377, 411-12
weapons: 53, 242, 276, 277, 435
supply operations by air: 18, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 68-69, 70, 71, 73, 75, 77, 78, 87, 92-93, 103, 187, 205, 213, 231-32, 281, 433, 435, 485
supply operations, ground: 55, 64, 74, 140, 205, 210, 218-19, 228, 231, 233, 249, 343, 391, 396, 399, 400
supply operations by sea: 293, 405
supply system: 5, 214, 215
war production: 119, 120-21, 311-12, 411-12, 425, 471, 499-500
Logistics, Soviet. See also Air strength, Soviet; Armor strength, Soviet; Artillery strength, Soviet; Railroads; Roads; individual items by name.
matériel superiority: 29, 32, 34, 50-52, 76n, 144-45, 177-78, 228, 241, 298, 314-15, 350, 465, 470, 471-72, 500
shortages
ammunition: 380, 445
food: 144
gasoline: 96, 339
supply operations by air: 85, 103, 307, 308, 309
supply operations, ground: 46, 111, 115, 166, 205, 242, 303, 341, 362, 419-20, 445, 452
supply operations by sea: 109
supply system: 147-48, 275, 304
war production: 27, 34, 37, 111, 500
Loimola Lake: 299
Lokot: 344n
Loukhi: 102, 268
Lower Silesia: 442, 443, 444
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Loyev: 189
Lozovaya: 94, 96
Lublin: 219, 246, 313, 330, 333, 336, 337, 341, 421
Luchesa River: 106, 107, 318
Ludwigslust: 495
Luebeck: 483, 492, 495
Luettwitz, General der Panzertruppen Smilo Freiherr von: 423
Lufthansa: 388
Luftwaffe: 135-36, 424. See also Air Force, German.
Luga: 256, 257, 259, 260, 261
Luga River: 249, 256, 257, 259, 260, 267
Luleå: 268
Luleå-Narvik railroad: 396
Luostari: 399, 400
Lutezh: 184, 185
Lutsk: 246, 247, 276, 278, 313
Lutto: 401
Lutto Valley: 401
L'vov: 219, 246, 280, 288, 313, 330, 332-33, 336, 337
L'vov-Odessa railroad: 273
Lyngen Fiord: 396
Lyngen position: 396, 401
Lysogory River: 421
Maaselkä Front: 102, 299, 302
Macedonia: 365, 370, 371, 373, 373, 378
Machine guns, Soviet: 147
Mackensen, Generaloberst Eberhard von: 86, 92, 94, 96, 165, 175, 177, 181-84, 188
Madona: 403, 406
Magdeburg: 473, 479
Magnuszew: 339, 341, 342, 416, 418, 419, 420, 421
Maikop: 19, 82
Malin: 189
Malinovskiy, General Armii Rodion I.: 85, 240, 241
and advance to Vienna: 455
and Budapest encirclement: 380, 383, 384
and operations in Hungary: 359, 360, 361-62, 364, 379, 437, 453
and spring offensive, 1944: 275, 277, 282, 290
and summer offensive, 1943: 166
and summer offensive, 1944: 350, 354, 355
Mamai Hill: 42-43, 78
Manganese mines: 238, 358
Manich Canal: 75, 84
Mannerheim, Marshal Carl: 9
and German embargo, April 1944: 270
and German withdrawal: 394
loss of confidence in Germans: 210-11, 267
as President of Finland: 387-88, 390
reaction to Stalingrad: 109
refusal to stage offensive: 27,
and Soviet 1944 offensive: 298-99, 300-301, 303
on Soviet performance in 1939 war: 26
Manpower, German: 19-21, 213-16, 339-40, 340n, 412
control: 119-20
problems: 19-21, 213-16, 339-40, 340n, 412
Manpower, Soviet: 4, 500
Manstein, Generalfeldmarschall Fritz Erich von
assessment: 56-57, 212
commands Army Group Don: 55-56
commands Eleventh Army: 101
and defense of Dnepr line: 177, 181-82, 183, 184, 186, 187-89
dismissed: 286
and Hitler: 56, 91-92, 138, 160, 163-64, 165, 168-69, 177, 186, 212, 265, 286, 288
ideas on strategy: 163, 217
and recapture of Kharkov: 91-92, 94, 96, 97
and retreat to Dnepr: 149, 151, 152-53, 154-57, 161-64, 165, 166, 168, 169
and spring campaign, 1944: 273-77, 278, 280-81, 284, 286, 288
and Stalingrad: 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 68-69, 70-75
and winter campaign, 1942-43: 82-84, 85, 86-87
and winter campaign, 1943-44: 218-22, 223-25, 227, 228, 231-32, 233-34, 237-38, 242, 244, 246, 247
and ZITADELLE: 124, 128, 129, 133, 137-38
Manteuffel, General der Panzertruppen Hasso von: 460, 484, 487, 488n, 491, 496
MARGARETHE: 208, 287-88
Mariampol: 338, 339, 340
Marina Gorka: 322, 324, 325
Mariupol: 97
Marxism: 503-04
Maslennikov, General Armii I. I.: 403
Masurian Lakes: 419, 430, 431
Matériel. See Logistics, German; Logistics, Soviet.
Matra Mountains: 381
Mecklenburg: 485
Melitopol: 97, 154, 165, 178-79
Memel: 328, 336, 407, 408, 430
Memel River: 428
Memorial Day (Heldengedenktag) address: 15
Merefa: 90, 152
Meretskov, General Polkovnik Kirill A.: 251, 253, 259, 263, 264, 302
Merlya River: 152, 156
Metsovon Pass: 377
Mga: 157, 197
Michael, King: 352, 353
Middle East, as German objective: 3
Mihailović, Colonel Draza: 367
Mikkeli: 299, 301
Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw: 341
Milch, Generalfeldmarschall Erhard: 76-77
Military Districts, Soviet. See also Fronts, Soviet.
Baltic Special: 28, 28n
Kievan Special: 28, 28n
Leningrad: 28, 28n
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Odessa: 28, 28n
Western Special: 28, 28n
Military reforms, Soviet: 26-27, 35-36
Millerovo: 68, 73, 75
Mine fields, Soviet: 135, 447, 452
Minsk: 9, 11, 304, 309, 318, 319, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326
Mishkova River: 64, 69, 71
Miskolc: 359, 361-62, 381, 383
Mitau-East position: 404
Mitrovica: 375
Mius River: 31, 57, 86, 87-89, 90, 92, 138, 143, 162
Mlawa: 429
Model, Generalfeldmarschall Walter
assessments: 138-39, 159, 258, 265-66, 324
commands Army Group Center: 324
commands Army Group North: 257
commands Army Group South: 265
commands Western Theater: 343
and defense of Dnepr bridgehead: 193, 196
as Manstein's successor: 212, 257, 266
and retreat to PANTHER position: 266
and SCHILD UND SCHWERT theory: 258-59, 313-14, 315
and spring campaign, 1944: 273
and summer campaign, 1943: 15, 159, 160, 167
and summer campaign, 1944: 324, 326-29, 333, 336-37, 338-39, 340-42
and ZITADELLE: 129, 136, 141
Modlin: 416, 420, 422, 423
Mogilev: 318, 320, 322, 323
Mogilev-Podol'skiy: 279, 280, 281, 284, 285
Mohacs: 364, 382
Moldau River: 498
Moldavia: 347
Molochnaya River: 166
Molodechno: 309, 318, 325, 326
Molotov, Vyacheslav M.: 24, 269
Montenegro: 365
Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.: 492, 495, 496
Mor: 453
Morale
German: 13, 91, 118, 119, 167, 174, 200, 237-38, 342-43, 345, 413, 438, 448, 453, 454, 455, 479n
Hungarian: 363-64
Rumanian: 59n, 290-91, 348, 350, 351
Soviet: 24, 32, 33, 41, 104, 113
Morava River: 376, 456
Moravian basin: 466
Moravian Gate: 463
Moravska Ostrava: 442, 459, 463, 465, 466
Morozovsk: 69, 70, 71, 73, 74
Moscow: 4, 7, 9, 12-13, 14, 15, 31, 32-34, 37, 98, 113, 115, 269, 311, 461
Moscow Conference, October 1944: 372
Moscow Line: 298, 302
Mosh River: 96-97
Mostar: 377
Motor vehicles. See Logistics, German; Logistics, Soviet.
Mud: 140, 205, 225, 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233, 235, 240, 241-42, 256, 265, 273, 275, 281, 447
Mueggel Lake: 478
Mueller, General der Infanterie Friedrich: 432
Muencheberg: 475, 476
Muhu: 407
Munich conference, 1943: 129
Muonio: 396, 401
Muresul line: 362
Muresul River: 355, 356-57, 358, 359
Murmansk: 9, 102, 109
Murmansk (Kirov) Railroad: 9, 13, 18, 101, 102
Muskau: 471, 474
Mussolini, Benito: 121-22, 139
Nagybajom: 455
Nagykanizsa: 382, 412, 439, 450, 455
Nalibocka Forest: 318, 326
Namslau: 424, 425
Narew River: 341, 416, 418, 428
Narva: 257, 262-65, 268, 387, 403, 405
Narva River: 154, 209, 249, 262-63
Narvik: 396
National Free Germany Committee: 149
National Socialist Leadership Conference: 256-57
National Socialist leadership discussions: 335
Nauen: 481
Navy, German: 10, 109, 293, 294-95, 327, 391, 394, 404-5, 460
Navy, Soviet: 13, 118, 262, 268
Nazi-Soviet pact: 24, 25
Nehrung: 461
Neisse River: 443, 444, 448, 457, 465, 466, 467, 471, 474
Neman River: 325, 326, 327, 328, 333, 338, 409, 428
Neu Roofen: 480, 483, 492
Neubrandenburg: 484, 487, 491, 492
Neusiedler Lake: 455
Neustrelitz: 471, 487, 991
Neva River: 111
Nevayazha River: 339
Nevel: 154, 189, 197-98, 199-200, 201-02, 203, 205, 264, 277
Nevel gap: 197-207, 210, 211, 248, 249, 253
Nezhin: 167, 168
Nickel: 102, 210, 329, 391, 396, 400. See also Kolosyoki Nickel Works.
Nida River: 421
Nikolaev: 181, 182, 282, 289
NIKOLAUS: 195-96
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Nikopol: 178, 179, 183, 184, 186, 188-89, 221, 238-40, 242, 244
Nis: 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 377
Nizhne Chirskaya: 57
NKVD: 29, 103
NKVD O.O.: 307
Nogay Steppe: 178, 184, 186
NORDLICHT: 395-403
Normandy landings: 312
North Africa: 53, 61, 109, 119, 121, 129, 130, 272, 503
Northern Defense Area: 399
Northern Theater: 6
Norway: 5, 6, 126, 209, 396, 410
Novaya Kalitva: 66, 68, 81
Novgorod: 251, 253, 254, 259
Novgorod-Severskiy: 165
Novo Odessa: 282, 289
Novocherkassk: 77, 86
Novograd Volynskiy: 244
Novo-Moskovsk: 91, 94
Novorossisk: 118
Novosokol'niki: 108, 198-99, 201, 204-05, 207, 259
Novy Bug: 278, 282
Nowo Miasto: 429
Nyiregyhaza: 364, 380
Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH). See also Hitler, Adolf.
assessment of Manstein: 56
Chiefs of Staff: 3, 4, 21, 87, 163, 335, 464, 481
command functions terminated: 481
in command structure: 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 21, 163, 481
communications measures in last months of war: 423n
and defense of Berlin: 461
Eastern Intelligence Branch estimates: 4, 47, 48, 49, 105-06, 143-44, 213-14, 313, 315, 457
headquarters at Rastenburg: 10
headquarters at Vinnitsa: 3
headquarters at Zossen: 410
Hitler becomes Commander in Chief, OKH: 13
involvement in 20 July 1944 plot: 335
OKW-OKH rivalry: 5, 21-22, 132, 163, 182, 217, 280, 288, 310
Operations Branch: 30-31, 112-13, 168, 182, 186, 328, 337, 351, 360, 423
Operations Branch leaves Berlin: 477
Organizational Branch: 20, 105
responsibility for Eastern Front: 6, 12, 21-22, 74, 105, 163, 247, 422, 423
and Vlasov movement: 123
Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine (OKM): 10, 268, 293
Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL): 9
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW): 13, 109, 209, 449
Armed Forces Operations Staff: 3, 5, 21, 131-32, 272, 477
and Balkans: 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 375
Chief, OKW: 3, 5
command responsibilities: 6, 21, 481
created: 5
and defense of Berlin: 461, 481, 485-86, 492
and Finland: 209, 210, 267, 268, 298, 302, 387, 395-96
functions: 5, 21, 163
as Hitler's personal staff: 3, 5, 10, 12, 163
and Hungary: 208, 287, 353
last days of war: 492, 498
leaves Berlin: 480
and manpower procurement: 215-17
OKW-OKH rivalry: 5, 21-22, 132, 163, 182, 217, 280, 288, 310
and surrender: 498
and Vlasov movement: 123
Oder-Neisse line: 442, 462, 463, 471
Oder River: 416, 418, 419, 420, 421, 423, 425, 426, 428, 438, 439, 442, 444, 447, 459, 460, 461, 465, 469, 471, 474, 476, 479, 480, 482-83, 503
Odessa: 285, 289-90
Oil, production of: 312, 412
Oil fields: 3, 4, 17, 18, 19, 37, 82, 179, 259, 312, 329, 353, 354-55, 382, 412, 439, 450, 454-55, 456
Oitoz Pass: 355, 356
OKH. See Oberkommando des Heeres.
OKL. See Oberkommando der Luftwaffe.
OKM. See Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine.
OKW. See Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.
Olomouc: 456, 465
Olonets, Isthmus of: 302
Olympus, Mount: 370
Onega, Lake: 102
Opava: 466, 467
Operations Orders: 21-22. See also Fuehrer Directives.
1: 22, 58n
2: 72, 73
3: 86
4: 91
5: 124-26, 132
6: 128
8: 323
Oppeln: 424, 442, 465
Oradea: 360, 361, 362
Oranienbaum: 100-101, 221, 480, 483, 484, 485, 488, 492
Oranienbaum pocket: 197
Orel: 32, 49, 98, 117, 128, 135, 137, 139, 140, 141, 144, 146, 148, 151, 152
Orel-Kursk railroad: 135
Orel River: 94
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Orsha: 154, 207, 311, 318, 319, 320, 323
Ortelsburg: 430
Oskol River: 127
Oslikovskiy, General Leytenant N. S.: 318n
Osobyi Otdel: 307
Ostrov: 249, 327, 328
Osttruppen: 203
Otsekin: 165
Oulu: 102, 394, 395
Paasikivi, Dr. Juho K.: 267-68, 269, 270
Paernu: 405
Pancevo: 375
Panevezhis: 333, 337, 338
Panje wagons: 241, 275, 280, 281
Pan'shirskiy: 52
PANTHER: 127-28
PANTHER position
and Army Group Center: 165, 167-68, 169, 170, 171, 189, 195, 197
and Army Group North: 209, 210, 211, 221, 249, 255, 239, 260, 262-63
construction in Army Group North zone: 249
decision to build: 154
name abolished: 258
Panzer armies. See under Armies, German.
Panzer groups: 9. See also under Armies, German.
Panzerfaust: 300, 301
Panzerjaeger: 440
Panzerschreck: 300, 301
Papa: 453, 454
Parchim: 495
Partisan operations. See also Antipartisan operations, German.
German: 246
Soviet: 30, 103-05, 113-15, 141, 195, 198, 199, 202-03, 246, 261, 264, 303-09, 315-16
Yugoslav: 367, 372, 375, 377, 382
Patrai: 373
Paulus, Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich: 180, 449
assessment: 56-57
on breakout from Stalingrad: 70
Hitler's comment on: 79
at Stalingrad: 53, 57-58, 58n, 72, 73, 76, 77-78
and summer offensive, 1942: 39, 43-45
surrender: 79
Pavelic, Dr. Ante: 122, 365
Pavlograd: 91, 94, 165, 166
Peace terms, Soviet-Finnish: 269-70
Pechenga: 210, 267, 268, 269, 270, 390, 391, 396, 399, 400
Pechenga Bay: 399
Pecs: 382
Peipus, Lake: 209, 249, 260, 261, 262, 263, 335, 343, 403, 404, 405
Perekop, Isthmus of: 178, 179, 180, 186, 291
Pereyaslav: 171
Personnel Office, German Army: 21
Pervomaysk: 277
Pest: 435, 436
Petrov, General Polkovnik Ivan Y.: 342
Petrovskoye: 96
Petrozavodsk: 302
Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Karl von: 385, 436, 449
Photoreconnaissance, German: 48
Pilica River: 422, 423, 424
Pilis Mountains: 435
Pil'kallen: 429
Pillau: 432, 460
Pitomnik: 76
Ploen: 485, 493
Ploesti: 353, 354-55
"Pocket psychosis": 453
Poland: 421, 439
Polish Committee of National Liberation: 341
Polish government-in-exile: 341
Polish Home Army: 340, 344
Polotsk: 204, 206, 304, 308, 314, 318, 319, 324, 326
Poltava: 93, 97, 151, 154, 156, 157
Pomerania: 428, 438, 440, 442, 445, 456, 459
Ponomarenko, General Leytenant Pantileimon K.: 303-04
Popov, General Leytenant Markian M.: 86, 136, 139, 202
Porkala: 390
Poros Lake: 302
Posen: 423-24
Potemkinskaya: 72
Potsdam: 479, 481, 482, 483, 491, 496
Potsdam Conference: 390n
Poznan: 424, 425, 426, 427, 443
Praga: 340, 344
Prague: 465, 469
Predeal Pass: 355, 356, 359
Pregel River: 419, 429, 430
Prenzlau: 444n, 483, 484, 485, 486
Prilep: 371
Primkenau: 442
Prinz Eugen: 343
PRINZ EUGEN position: 332
Pripyat Marshes: 6, 9, 191, 193, 195, 223, 244, 273, 275, 313, 318
Pripyat River: 170, 171, 184, 191, 319
Prisoners of war
German: 329, 449
Russian: 11, 18, 20, 31, 40, 105, 122, 123, 131, 138, 203, 269
Production. See Logistics, German; Logistics, Soviet.
Prolyetarskaya: 75
Pronya River: 171
Propaganda
German: 122-24, 131, 132, 148-49, 459, 460, 503
Soviet: 172, 308, 420
Propaganda Ministry, German: 459
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Propoysk: 195
Proskurov: 219, 273, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280
Prut River: 274, 285, 287, 291, 319, 323, 346, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354
Przemysl: 337
Psel River: 137, 164, 167
Pskov: 154, 199, 249, 261, 262, 264, 265, 335, 387
Pskov Lake: 154, 249, 261, 262, 264, 335, 342
Psychological warfare. See Propaganda, German; Propaganda, Soviet.
Ptich': 319
Puck: 460
Pudasyarvi: 395
Pulawy: 337, 341, 419, 420, 421
Pushkin: 255-56
Pustoshka: 204, 264, 265
Pyatikhatka: 181
Queiss River: 442
Raab River: 454, 455
Radio teams, German: 423n
Radom: 341, 419
Radomsko: 419, 422, 423
Radomyshl': 189
Raeder, Grossadmiral Erich: 10, 109
Railroad Station No. 1, Stalingrad: 42, 78
Railroads: 6, 9, 13, 18, 66, 72, 101, 102, 167, 178, 218-19, 220, 240, 246, 273, 280, 284, 290, 308, 362, 369, 370, 396, 411, 420, 439, 443, 446
Ramsay, Dr. Henrik: 109, 121, 301
Randow Swamp: 483
Raseynyay: 407
Rasputitsy: 6
Rastenburg: 10, 87, 410
Rathenow: 492
Ratibor: 455, 466
RATWEEK: 372
Raus, General der Panzertruppen Erhard: 220, 222, 343, 460
Rava Russkaya: 332
Razdelnaya: 289
Reetz: 459
Refugees: 424-25
Regensburg: 467
REGENSCHAUER: 309
Regiment, German, 194th Grenadier: 79
Reichs Chancellory: 422, 462, 493
Reichstag: 15, 488, 492
Reichsstrasse 50: 396, 397, 400, 401
Reims: 496
Reinefarth, SS-Gruppenfuehrer Heinz: 344, 464, 465
Reinhardt, Generaloberst Hans: 115, 345
commands Army Group Center: 343
commands Third Panzer Army: 113
and defense of East Prussia: 428-32
and defense of Vitebsk: 206
relieved: 432
and summer campaign, 1944: 323-24, 333, 340, 343, 405
Reitsch, Hanna: 484, 490
Rendulic, Generaloberst Lothar
assessment: 432-33
commands Army Group North (Courland): 422, 460, 463
commands Army Group North (East Prussia): 432, 438
commands Army Group South (Ostmark): 455, 497
commands Twentieth Mountain Army: 389, 390, 393, 394-95, 399-401
Reparations, Finnish: 267, 270, 390-91, 390n
Replacement Army (German): 105, 427, 449
Retchitsa: 193, 195
Reuter, General Leytenant M. A.: 85
Reval: 394
Reymann, Generalleutnant Hellmuth: 462, 472, 477
Rhine River: 438, 456, 467
Ribbentrop, Joachim von: 121, 122, 300-301, 389
Richthofen, Generaloberst Wolfram von: 61, 69, 93
Riga: 249, 264, 324, 327, 328, 329, 336, 339, 342, 343, 388, 403-04, 405, 406, 407, 408
Riga, Gulf of: 199, 339, 405, 408
Ristikent: 401
River crossings: 66, 84, 97, 169, 170-1, 127, 181, 184-85, 225, 235, 236-37, 259, 279, 281, 283-84, 285, 290, 337, 341, 345, 353, 376, 425. See also Bridges; individual rivers by name.
Roads, Russian: 6, 140, 240, 244
Rocket projectors, Soviet: 27, 34
Rockets, German: 120-21, 300
Rogatchev: 315, 318, 319
Rokossovskiy, Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Konstantin K.
and Berlin: 471, 485
and defense of Kursk: 133, 135, 136
and operations in Dnepr line: 191, 193, 195
and Stalingrad: 43, 76
and summer offensive, 1943: 159, 164, 165, 170, 191
and summer offensive, 1944: 318, 321, 325, 330, 337, 338, 344
and winter offensive, 1945: 419, 424, 440, 445, 448, 459, 460
ROLLBAHN position: 253-56
Romintener Heide: 409, 429
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 267, 269, 272, 469, 474, 502
Roslavl': 141, 158
Ross River: 224, 231, 233
Rossono Rayon: 202, 304
Rossosh'-Millerovo railroad: 72
Rostock: 493
Rostov: 18, 19, 31, 39, 47, 48, 66, 73, 74, 77, 81, 82, 85, 86, 168
Rovaniemi: 268, 394, 395, 396
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Rovno: 223, 224, 244, 246, 247, 277
Rozan: 344, 416, 419, 429
Rudel, Maj. Hans: 343
Ruebel, Generalleutnant Karl: 400
Ruhr: 467
Rumania: 313
attitude toward the war: 122, 208, 348-50, 367
German military intervention in: 208, 272
relations with Hungary: 17, 357
surrender: 352-53, 369, 389
and Treaty of Vienna: 352
Rumanian Army: 353. See also Armies, Rumanian; Corps, Rumanian; Divisions, Rumanian.
Rumanian forces
assessment: 59n
and the Crimea: 179, 293, 294
Hoth's opinion of: 44
morale: 59n, 290-91, 348, 350, 351
for Operation BARBAROSSA: 9
for Operation BLAU: 17, 19n, 39
in Stalingrad: 69, 106
strength on Eastern Front, summer 1943: 144
Rundstedt, Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von: 9, 14, 311
Russian Army of Liberation: 123, 413, 413n
Russian National Committee: 123
Russian people, German policy toward: 122-24. See also Antipartisan operations, German.
Rybatchiy Peninsula: 102, 399
Rylsk: 133
Ryti, Risto: 109, 209, 210-11, 301, 387, 388
Ryti-Ribbentrop agreement: 387, 388, 389
Rzhev: 14, 98, 106-07, 116
Saaremaa: 407-08
Sabac: 377
Sagan: 442
Sahy: 383-84
St. Poelten: 456
Sairala: 387
Sajo River: 381
Sal River: 73, 74
Salla: 102, 394
Salmi: 302
Salonika: 365, 370, 371, 377
Salsk: 72, 74
Samara River: 91, 92, 94
Samland: 446, 461
Samland Group: 445
Samland Peninsula: 430, 432, 445
Samro Lake: 259-60, 261
San River: 333, 336, 337, 339, 341
Sandomierz: 343
Sapun Heights: 294
Sarajevo: 377
Saratov: 133
Sarviz Canal: 437, 452, 453
Saucken, General der Panzertruppen Dietrich von: 460
Sava River: 372, 376, 377, 378
S-Bahn defense ring: 462, 481, 488
Schienenwolf (rail wolf): 328-29
SCHILD UND SCHWERT: 315
Schild and Schwert theory: 258-59, 261, 313-14
Schippenbeil: 432
Schirwindt: 409
Schloss Klessheim: 121-22, 287
Schlossberg: 340
Schluesselburg: 101, 111
Schmidt, Generalmajor Arthur: 64-65
Schmidt, General der Panzertruppen Rudolf: 115
Schmundt, Generalmajor Rudolf: 21, 211, 265, 311, 345
Schneidemuehl: 444
Schoerner, Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand
command methods: 342-43, 346, 423, 427
Commander in Chief, Army: 493
commands Army Group A (Center): 422
commands Army Group A (South Ukraine): 286
commands Army Group North: 336
and the Crimea: 291-93
and defense of Baltic States: 404-05, 408
and defense of Berlin: 473, 474, 475, 476, 479, 483, 485, 486, 490
and defense of Oder line: 423, 425, 427-28, 440, 442
escape and arrest of: 498
personality: 238
and surrender: 497, 498
visit to Finland: 387-88
and winter campaign, 1944: 238-40, 242-43, 244
Schultz, General der Infanterie Friedrich Wilhelm: 465-66
Schulz, Generalmajor Friedrich:, 64
SCHUTZWALL position: 401
Schwedt: 438, 442, 470, 471, 476
Schwerin: 495
Schwerpunktbildung: 145
Schwielow Lake: 491, 492
Scorched-earth policy, German: 164, 171-72, 401, 463, 472
Scorched-earth policy, Soviet: 30
Scutari: 377
SDB position: 158, 159, 160
Second front. See Allied forces, and second front.
Security divisions, German: 85n
Seelow: 474, 475
Seelow Heights: 473, 474
Segewold position: 404, 406
Self-Government Area Lokot: 344n
Senno: 304, 308, 318, 320-21
Serafimovich: 39, 41, 48, 55
Serbia: 365, 367, 372, 374
Seret River: 281, 282
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Serock: 344, 416, 419, 429
Sevastopol: 18, 291-95
Sevsk: 159
Seydlitz-Kurzbach, General der Artillerie Walter von: 58, 58n, 59, 149, 310-11, 339
Seym River: 158
SHAEF. See Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force.
Shaulyay: 329, 336, 338, 341, 342, 343, 406, 407
Shepetovka: 219, 222, 223, 224, 246, 247, 273, 275, 276
Shimsk: 264
Sholokhovo: 242
Shortages. See Logistics, German; Logistics, Soviet.
Shpola: 228
Sibiu: 355, 356
Sicily: 137
Siedlce: 336, 337, 339
Sieradz: 425
SILBERSTREIF: 130-31, 148
Silesia: 456. See also Lower Silesia; Upper Silesia.
Simferopol: 291, 293
Sinel'nikovo: 91, 165, 166
Sio Canal: 452
Siret River: 346, 350, 353, 354
Sivash River: 186, 291
Ski troops, Soviet: 263
Skibotten: 268, 396, 401
Skoplje: 370, 371, 373, 377, 378, 382
Skorzeny, SS Col. Otto: 363, 456, 464
Slavyansk: 86, 94, 96
Slovakia: 122, 208, 313, 359
Slovakian forces: 19n
Slovenia: 365
Sluch River: 224
Slutsk': 256, 318, 319, 323, 324, 325
Smersh: 307
Smith, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell: 498
Smolensk: 9, 31, 47, 98, 158, 159, 167, 168, 170
Smolensk Manifesto: 123, 148
Soerve Peninsula: 408
Sofiya: 373
Sokolovskiy, General Polkovnik Vasili D.: 136, 139, 471, 474-75, 347-8, 493
SONNENWENDE: 445-48
Sopot: 460
Sopron: 453
Southeastern Theater: 355, 365-78, 412n, 437, 498
Southeastern Theater Command: 287
Sovetskiy: 57
Soviet-Finnish War. See Winter War, 1939-40.
Soviet-Japanese operations: 26
Sozh River: 171, 191-92
Spandau: 481
Spanish Civil War: 26
Spanish forces: 19n, 208, 248. See also Divisions, Spanish; Spanish Legion.
Spanish Legion: 248, 265
Spas-Demensk: 141
Speer, Dr. Albert: 119, 120, 129, 133, 396, 463, 472
Sponheimer, General der Infanterie Otto: 259, 262, 264, 265
Spree River: 475-76, 480
SS (Schutzstaffel) forces: 262, 288, 439, 450, 453, 454, 464, 481, 492
Stalin, Joseph V.: 23, 25-26, 29, 68, 122, 163, 380, 474
announcement on summer offensive, 1943: 151
becomes Commander in Chief of Soviet Armed Forces: 30
and Berlin offensive: 439-40, 463, 467, 473
co-ordination with Allied forces: 467-69
and Finnish armistice: 390
and German surrender: 493
orders taking of Pskov: 264
and origins of the war: 24-25
powers: 24, 29, 30
and Soviet strategy: 502
speech of 3 July 1941: 53n
and start of winter offensive, 1945: 420
at Tehran Conference: 267, 269
and the Warsaw uprising: 341
Stalin Line: 28
Stalingrad: 135, 145, 153, 228, 277, 290, 293, 385, 449
German advance on: 37, 46
German airlift for: 58, 59, 61, 75
German forces: 69, 76
German intelligence predictions: 47-49
last days: 78-90
losses at: 79
significance of: 80, 180, 238, 345-46, 454, 503
Soviet forces: 50
Soviet tactics: 52
strategic value of: 37
total forces committed: 37
weather: 70, 72, 76
Stalino: 87, 93, 162
Stallupoenen: 429
Stanislav: 288, 330, 332, 333
Staraya Oskol: 133
Staraya Russa: 248, 259, 264
Stargard: 438, 445-48, 456, 457, 459
Staritza: 257
Staro Constantinov: 276
State Defense Committee, Soviet: 29, 30, 314
State Department, U.S.: 121, 267
Stavka of the Supreme Command: 175, 271
and Berlin: 475
created: 30
and defense of Kursk: 139
and Dnepr line: 184, 191, 196
field command through representatives: 36
and Nevel gap: 199, 206, 207
and operations against East Prussia: 409, 445
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and operations in Hungary: 359, 361-62, 381, 449, 450, 452, 454
and Orel salient: 141
plans for a final offensive: 419-20
and Rzhev salient: 106
and Stalingrad: 39, 43, 50
and summer offensive, 1943: 144, 151, 157, 158, 164, 167, 170
and summer offensive, 1944: 311, 313, 314, 315, 316, 326, 329, 344-45
and Vistula-Oder operation: 423, 440, 442, 456
and winter offensive, 1941-42: 32-33
and winter offensive, 1942-43: 66, 76, 85, 97
and winter offensive, 1943-44: 225-26, 227, 275
Stavka (Staff) of the High Command of the Soviet Armed Forces: 29
Steiermark: 426
Steinau: 440
Steiner, SS-Oberstgruppenfuehrer Felix: 447, 448, 477-78, 479, 480, 483, 484, 485, 486, 491
Stemmermann, General der Artillerie Wilhelm: 232-36
Stettin: 440, 460, 476, 479, 483, 485
Stettner Ritter von Grabenhofen, Generalleutnant Walter: 376-77, 378
Stockholm: 268, 269
Stolbtsy: 325
Strategic objectives, German. See War aims, German.
Strategy, Allied: 372
Strategy, German: 4, 6-7, 119, 121-22, 163, 216-17, 220-21, 272-73, 309-11, 312, 367-68, 411, 450, 500, 501. See also Fuehrer Directives; Hitler, Adolf, as a strategist; Operations Orders.
Strategy, Soviet: 23-24, 25, 30-31, 32, 34, 145-46, 296, 316-18, 419, 444, 470-71, 472-73, 502, 504. See also Stavka of the Supreme Command.
Strecker, General der Infanterie Karl: 79
Strimon River: 371
Student, Generaloberst Kurt: 491, 495
STURMBOCK positron: 401
Strunga line: 291
Strypa River: 282
Stukas: 135, 263, 300, 343
Styr River: 247
Submachine guns, Soviet: 147
Submarines, German: 111, 268, 396
Submarines, Soviet: 408
Sudeten Mountains: 442, 459, 465, 473
Sukhinichi: 47, 49, 98, 100, 139
Sumy: 156, 157
Suo Lake: 302
Suomussalmi: 393, 394
Supply. See Logistics, German; Logistics, Soviet.
Supreme Command, Soviet: 135. See also Stavka of the Supreme Command.
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force: 420, 496-97
Surazh Rayon: 115
Suursaari: 268, 394, 403
Svatovo: 127
Svir front: 299, 302
Svir River: 102, 302
Sweden: 111, 119, 126, 209, 349, 389, 391, 395-96, 397, 403
Swinemuende: 484, 485
Syem River: 160
Szalasi, Ferenc: 363, 385
Szeged: 360
Szekesfehervar: 383, 384, 433, 435, 436, 437, 439, 453
Szekler Strip: 352, 358
Szolnok: 364, 380
Szombathely: 454, 455
Sztojay, Field Marshal Doeme: 287, 357
Tactics, German: 9, 15, 28, 93, 94, 119, 133, 139, 145, 181, 186-87, 193, 199, 206, 216, 243, 258, 277, 280-81, 287, 316, 320-21, 364, 445, 484. See also Encirclement operations, German; Hitler, Adolf, tactical conceptions.
Tactics, Soviet: 32, 33, 36, 48, 52-53, 54, 111, 145-46, 147-48, 149-51, 157, 160, 196, 199, 200, 227, 240, 241, 242, 275, 298, 321, 388. See also Encirclement operations, Soviet.
Taganrog: 162
Taganrog, Gulf of: 143
Taipali: 298
Tallinn: 405
Taman: 81, 82, 92. See also GOTENKOPF.
Taman Peninsula: 72, 81, 82, 92, 171
Tana Fiord: 401
Tank armies, Soviet, assessment of: 501-02
Tank production, German: 21, 120, 129, 411
Tank production, Soviet: 27, 29, 34, 129
Tank strength, See Armor strength.
Tanks, British: 146
Tanks, German: 9, 136, 216, 228, 242, 296, 301, 303, 313. See also Armor, German use of; Armor strength, German.
Ferdinands: 130, 137
Mark IV: 129
Panther: 120
Panzer II: 89
Panzer III: 50, 52
Panzer IV: 120
Tiger: 20-21, 69, 72, 74-75, 120, 129, 203, 233, 263, 383
Tanks, Soviet: 228, 241. See also Armor, Soviet use of; Armor strength, Soviet.
KV: 27, 29
T34 (Stalin): 27, 29, 34, 120, 146, 393
Tanks, U.S.: 146
TANNE OST: 268, 391, 394
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TANNE WEST: 268, 391
Targu Neamt: 291, 354
Targul Frumos: 346, 350, 351
Tarnet: 400
Tartu: 403, 405
Tatar Pass: 288
Tatsinskaya: 69, 70, 71, 77
Taunus Mountains: 410
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W.: 420
Tehran Conference: 267, 269, 272, 296, 367
Telecommunications system, German: 64
Templin: 487
Ternopol: 219, 221, 246, 247, 273, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 286, 288, 313
Thorn (Torun): 426-27
Thrace: 365, 369
Through Road IV: 240
Tiergarten: 463, 483
Tiflis: 18
Tikhvin: 14, 31, 32
Tilsit: 341, 342, 407, 408-09
Tim River: 84
Timisoara: 371, 373, 374
Timoshenko, Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Seman K.: 29, 30, 350, 362, 449
Tippelskirch, General der Infanterie Kurt von: 321, 323, 485, 491, 496
Tiraspol: 285, 286, 289, 346, 350-51, 352
Tiso, Msgr. Joseph: 122
Tisza River: 359, 360, 362, 364, 375, 377, 378, 379, 380
Tito (Josip Broz): 367, 372, 374
Titovka River: 399
Tiulenev, General Armii I. V.: 85
Tolbukhin, General Polkovnik F. I.: 160, 166, 177-78, 350-51, 354, 359, 374, 378, 381-83, 384, 437, 452, 453, 455
Tolva Lake: 299
Torchin: 332
Torgau: 482
Tornio: 393, 395
Toropets: 47, 48, 98, 100, 101, 104, 107, 113, 115, 198, 202
Torun: 427
Training, Soviet: 26-27
TRAJAN position: 351
Transnistria: 284
Transylvania: 352, 352n, 357
Transylvanian Alps: 354, 355, 360
Trench warfare: 248
Troop strength, German: 7-9, 17, 19, 19n, 31-32, 34, 34n, 44-45, 50-52, 69, 102, 144-45, 151-52, 162, 174, 177, 188, 191, 197, 213-14, 234, 251, 258, 293, 311-12, 315, 328, 332, 333, 369-70, 399, 412-13, 412n, 416-17, 421, 457n, 471-72
Troop strength, Soviet: 28-29, 31-32, 34, 50-52, 50n, 76, 144-45, 151-52, 162, 177-78, 188, 191, 197, 214, 251, 270, 300, 311, 314-15, 328, 332, 333, 350-51 416-17, 416n, 421, 457, 470, 471-72
Trucks, American-built: 241, 275
Trucks, German: 229, 241-42, 359, 411-12
Tsimla River: 37-38, 39
Tsymlyanskaya: 39, 72, 73
Tukums: 343, 403-04
Tukums-Riga corridor: 403-04, 405, 406
Tula: 13, 33
Tuloksa: 302
Tunisia: 119, 129, 130
Turkey: 154, 156, 220, 221, 293, 339, 339n, 348, 367, 368, 370
Turnu Rosu Pass: 355, 356, 359
Turnu Severin: 355, 356, 371, 373, 374, 375
Uda River: 90
Udalevka: 195
Uecker River: 485
Ukhta: 267, 268
Ukmerge: 328
Ukraine: 12, 104, 144, 164, 172-73, 503
Ukrainians, "booty": 279, 281
Uksu River: 299, 302
U-line: 299, 302
Ulla River: 321
Uman: 222, 225, 234, 273, 277
Unconventional warfare. See Partisan operations.
United States. See also Allied forces.
lend-lease assistance to USSR: 501
and Rumania: 352
and Warsaw uprising: 344-45
Unruh, General der Infanterie Walter von: 20, 215
Upper Silesia: 339, 416, 419, 421, 423, 424, 425, 427, 438, 440, 465, 467
U.S. Department of State: 121, 267
Ushach River: 304
Ushachi Partisan Republic: 308-09
Ustagi Movement: 365
Uzhgorod: 359, 362
V-2 rockets: 120
Vac: 383
Valga: 403, 406
Vali River: 436, 437
Valmiera: 403, 406
Valpovo: 450
Valuyki: 129
Vammelsuu: 298
Varanger Peninsula: 401
Varazdin: 456
Varpalota: 453
Vasilevskiy, General Polkovnik Aleksander M.: 36, 40, 50, 68, 68n, 84-85, 135, 157, 240, 316-18, 403, 404, 406, 445, 470, 501-02
Vatra Dornei: 358
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Vatutin, General Leytenant N. F.: 50, 68, 68n, 71, 85, 87, 133, 135, 136, 151, 154, 156, 184-85, 187, 193, 218, 222, 224, 226
Velencze Lake: 383, 384, 385, 435, 436, 450, 452
Velika Plana: 376
Velikaya River: 328
Velikiye Luki: 98, 100, 101, 107-09, 113, 198, 202
Velizh: 98, 116
Vertes Mountains: 433, 450, 453
Vertyachiy: 52
Veszprem: 453
Vetka: 192
Vidlitsa: 302
Vienna: 416, 437, 439, 448, 449, 450-56, 469
Vienna, Treaty of: 287, 352
Vietinghoff genannt Scheel, Generaloberst Heinrich-Gottfried von: 438-39, 460, 464
Viliya River: 318
Vilkavishkis: 340, 341, 342, 343
Vil'nyus: 326, 327
Vinnitsa: 3, 162, 218, 221, 225, 229, 277, 279
Visegrad: 377, 382
Vistula delta: 432, 461
Vistula River: 316, 333, 336, 337, 339, 341, 416, 419, 421, 422, 424, 425-27, 428, 429, 430, 438, 467, 503
Vitebsk: 115, 154, 189, 205, 206, 207, 250, 264, 304, 311, 318, 319-20, 321
Vitebsk Corridor: 115
Vlasov, General Andrei: 122-24, 413, 413n
Vltava River: 498
Volchansk: 127
Volga River: 18, 37, 44, 46, 70
Volgograd: 37. See also Stalingrad.
Volkhov River: 101, 221, 248
Volksdeutsche units: 200
Volkssturm: 413, 426, 432, 462, 481
Vormann, General der Panzertruppen Nikolaus von: 324
Voronezh: 17, 18, 39, 66, 81, 84
Voronov, General Polkovnik Nikolai N.: 76, 141, 157-58
Voroponovo Station: 78
Voroshilov, Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Klimenti I.: 30, 35-36
Voroshilovgrad: 66, 73, 81, 84, 86
Vorskla River: 157, 164, 167
Vortsjaerv: 403, 404, 405, 406
Voyskovoye: 183
Voznesensk: 284
Vukovar: 375, 378
Vulcan Pass: 355, 356
Vuoksi River: 298, 299, 300, 301, 303
Vuosalmi: 302, 303
Vyaz'ma: 31
Vyborg: 298, 299, 300, 301
Vyborg Bay: 302
Vyborg-Vuoksi line: 298, 299, 300
Waffen-SS: 144, 213, 312, 498
Wagons. See Panje wagons.
War aims, German: 3, 4, 15, 123, 500
War games, German: 418
War Ministry, German: 5
War production, German. See Logistics, German; Logistics, Soviet.
Warsaw: 313, 336, 337, 338, 344, 388, 419, 421, 422, 503
captured by Soviets: 423
uprising: 340-41, 344, 344n
Wartenburg: 432
Warthe River: 425, 455
Weapons, German, new types of: 20-21, 74, 120-21, 130, 413, 414. See also Antitank weapons, German; Rockets, German.
Weapons, Soviet, new types of: 27, 129, 147. See also Antitank weapons, Soviet; Rocket projectors, Soviet.
Weather: 6, 13, 14, 31, 37, 46, 48, 53, 62, 69-70, 72, 84, 93, 96, 107, 135, 136, 139, 140, 189, 199, 205, 218, 224, 225, 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233, 238, 240, 247, 265, 273, 275, 281, 282, 289, 374, 383, 384, 403, 420, 424, 427, 429, 435, 440, 445, 430-51, 452
Wehrkreis III: 461-62
Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab (WFSt): 3, 5
Wehrmachtsgefolge: 369
Wehrmachtsloch: 223
Weichs, Generalfeldmarschall Maximilian von: 18, 49, 58, 81, 87, 89, 365, 367, 368-70, 371-78, 381-82, 425
Weidling, General der Artillerie Helmuth: 480, 481, 483, 490, 492, 494
Weiss, General der Infanterie Walter: 167, 191, 193-95, 196, 314, 444, 460
Wenck, General der Panzertruppen Walter: 446-47, 446n, 459, 464, 479, 480, 481, 488, 490, 491, 492, 496
Wenden position: 404, 406
Werneuchen: 477, 478
WERWOLF: 3
Wesermuende: 483
West Prussia: 438, 440, 444
Western Powers. See Allied forces.
Western Theater Command: 439
Wiener Neustadt: 455
Wieprz River: 337
Wilhelmshaven: 19, 483
Winter, General der Gebirgstruppen August: 477, 493
Winter Relief, 1942: 44
Winter War, 1939-40: 24, 26, 109, 298, 388
WINTERGEWITTER: 61-65, 68
Wismar: 495
Wittenberg: 471, 484
Wittenberge: 495
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Woehler, General der Infanterie Otto: 153, 156-57, 168, 227, 228, 233, 284-85, 291, 384-85, 435, 436, 439, 448, 449, 453, 454, 455
WOLFSSCHANZE: 10
Wolomin: 399, 340
WOTAN position: 153-54, 165, 166, 169, 171, 178, 189, 472
Wrangel, General Peter Nikolayevich: 48
Wriezen: 474, 475
Yalta Conference: 421, 439
Yampol': 273, 279, 285
Yanis Lake: 302
Yaroslavl': 133
Yasnogorodka: 184, 185
Yel'nya: 141, 158, 159, 164
Yeremenko, General Polkovnik Andrei I.: 23, 40, 170, 197, 200-201, 204, 206, 207, 403, 406
Yesman': 159
Youth divisions: 491
Yugoslavia: 365-67, 369, 372, 377, 411
Zagreb: 382
Zakharov, General Armii Matvei V.: 318, 323
Zalaegerszeg: 454
Zalivskiy: 63
Zaporozhye: 66, 91, 92, 93, 127, 154, 165, 171, 174-77
Zaritsa River: 78
Zbruch River: 281
Zehden: 428
Zehdenick: 487, 491-92
Zeitzler, Generaloberst Kurt
appointed Chief of Staff, OKH: 4, 21
assessment: 5
attempts to resign: 329
and the Crimea: 179, 181, 291, 293, 294
and defense of Dnepr line: 186, 193-94
dismissed: 335
and Guderian: 311
and Operation ZITADELLE: 129-30
rivalry with OKW: 21, 310
and spring campaign, 1944: 278, 285, 288
and Stalingrad: 58, 63, 73-74
and summer campaign, 1943: 153, 157
and summer campaign, 1944: 313, 315, 323, 329
and winter campaign, 1942-43: 81, 91, 112, 116
and winter campaign, 1943-44: 221, 244, 250-51, 253, 254-56, 257, 262, 266
Zhitomir: 186-88, 189, 218, 220, 222
Zhlobin: 314, 319
Zhmerinka: 218-19, 224, 225, 244, 279
Zhukov, Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Georgi K.
assessment: 501-02
and Berlin: 439-40, 448, 460, 463, 470, 471, 473, 475
and defense of Kursk: 135
and defense of Moscow: 31
and spring offensive, 1944: 275, 276, 278, 280, 281, 287
and Stalingrad: 50, 68-69, 69n
and summer campaign, 1942: 36
and summer offensive, 1943: 157
and summer offensive, 1944: 315, 316
and Vistula-Oder offensive: 419, 423, 428, 444
and winter offensive, 1941-42: 31-32
and winter offensive, 1942-43: 85
and winter offensive, 1943-44: 226-27, 228
Zhukovka: 167
Zistersdorf: 456
ZITADELLE: 124-42, 143, 148, 209, 212, 313, 450 503
Zittau: 473
Zmiyev: 154, 157
Zossen: 410, 422, 476, 477
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