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Index
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A
Abel, Leonard, 240
Adler, Anya, 100–101, 223, 376
Allen, Terry, 134
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 123
Andes (British liner), 206
Angress, Ernst, 57
arrested, 128–129
attempted escape, 64, 65–69
death, 373–374
Hitler jokes, 58
in Holland, 70–71, 122, 125–126
seriousness of situation in Nazi Germany, 61–62
Angress, Fritz, 57, 61
escape plan, 64–65
in Holland, 122, 123–124, 125–126
life after World War II, 373, 374
Angress, Hans, 57, 61
escape plan, 64–66
in Holland, 122, 123, 125–126
life after World War II, 373, 374
Angress, Henny, 57, 59
escape plan, 64–66
Hitler jokes, 58
in Holland, 122, 123, 125–126
last letter to Werner, 128–129
life after World War II, 372–373, 374
parting with Werner, 63
Angress, Werner, 64
childhood before Hitler, 57–58
childhood in Nazi Germany, 58–62
emigration, 62–63, 66–70, 71
in Holland, 122–124
at Hyde Farmlands, 124–127
life after World War II, 375–376
voyage to America, 124
Angress, Werner, in Army, 162, 232
in alien detachment, 129–130
assignment in Europe, 160–167
Battle of the Bulge and, 277–286
Breen and, 200–202
at Camp Blanding, 129
at Camp Ritchie, 135–141, 142–143, 145–148
captured by Germans, 176–178, 193–199
citizenship, 141
D-Day, 167–171
dog tags, 177, 178
at Fort Meade, 127–129
in Holland, 245–247, 248–250
interrogation technique, 282–286
jump training, 162–163, 165–166
leave in England, 231–232
letters to Curt Bondy, 234–235, 248, 249
medal, 231–232
at POW camp in England, 233
prisoners captured by, 199–200
promotions, 284
with reequipped 82nd Airborne, 233–234
search for family, 371–374, 374
at Wöbbelin concentration camp, 339–344
Applegate, Rex, 140
Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), 228–229, 271, 291
Arnhem, Holland, 235–236, 238, 247, 248
Arzt, Johanna, 43–44. See also Lewy, Johanna
Auerbach Orphanage. See Baruch Auerbach Orphanage for Jewish Girls and Boys
Auschwitz death camp, 340, 370, 373, 374, 376, 377
B
Banfill, Charles Y., 133
Barnes, John G., 128, 129, 202
Baruch Auerbach Orphanage for Jewish Girls and Boys, 37, 38, 39–40, 43, 45, 214
baseball, stories told by Herr Tittel, 19
Bastogne, Belgium, 261–263, 266–267, 278–279, 318–319
Battle of the Bulge, 268, 271–286, 287, 296–297, 315–317, 318–321
Belgium
Bastogne, 261–263, 266–267, 278–279, 318–319
German occupation of, 125
Nijmegen bridge operation, 235–237
Waal bridge operation, 238–239
Bernhard (cousin of Martin Selling), 2, 364
Bishop, Jesse E., 310
Boizenburg concentration camp, 355, 356, 358, 360
Bondy, Curt, 62–63, 65, 122–123, 124, 126, 127, 130
Bradley, Omar, 159
Breen, John, 162–163, 200–202
Brombert, Jacob, 98–99, 100, 101, 103, 105–107, 108, 109
Brombert, Nora, 99–100, 149
Brombert, Vera, 98–99, 100, 101, 109
Brombert, Victor
childhood before Hitler, 98, 99–100
childhood in Nazi Germany, 99
life after World War II, 376
life in America, 109–111
life in France, 100–104
taking of Saint-Lô and, 218––220
voyage to America, 107–108
Wolf and, 103–104, 104–105, 224
Brombert, Victor, in Army, 255, 259
basic training, 149–150
in Bastogne, 261
at Camp Ritchie, 150–151
with 82nd Reconnaissance Battalion in France, 218–221
in England, 151–154
escape from Belgium, 266–267
hailed as hero in France, 251–252
mistaken for German by MPs, 264–265
in Normandy, 178–184
Paris, 221–226
in Paris officially, 252–254
promotions, 150–151, 157
return voyage to Europe, 149, 151
with 28th Infantry Division to interrogate of German POWs, 254, 255–261
Bruns, Curt, 276, 305, 307–310, 346–351, 351
Buber-Neumann, Margarete, 356–359
Buchenwald concentration camp
described, 326, 328, 330
Guy Stern at, 331–334
liberation of, 327–331
location, 325
Nazi evacuation of, 326
number of survivors, 328n
Stephan Lewy at, 327–331
Burke, Malcolm C., 22, 23
C
“cages” for POWs
in Europe, 189–190, 202, 209, 287–288
German POWs from North Africa, 158
sites in France for, 159–160
Camp Barkeley, Kansas, 154–155
Camp Ritchie
Werner Angress at, 135–141, 142–143, 145–148
assignments for graduates, 134
background as intelligence training camp, 131–132
Victor Brombert at, 150–151
graduates, 147–148, 152
importance of, 133
Martin Selling at, 121–122
soldiers at, xi, 135–136, 139
Guy Stern at, 155–157
training, xi, 134, 136
See also Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) courses
Cavender, Charles, 269–270, 272, 273–275
Chamberlain, Neville, 89, 115
Château Chabannes, France, 78–81, 79, 377
Chevrier, Félix, 78, 81
Chochenbaum, Armand, 79
Cohn, Herbert, 137, 138–139
Cologne, Germany, 56
“Commissar Krukov,” 293–296
concentration camps
Auschwitz, 340, 370, 373, 374, 376, 377
Boizenburg, 355–356
Buchenwald, 325–334, 330
Dachau, 4, 5–9, 10, 51–54, 326
German civilian reactions to, 329–333, 342, 344
Landsberg, 304
Majdanek, 370
Neuengamme system, 355–366
Oranienburg, 42
Ravensbrück women’s, 356, 357, 358
Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, 190–191
Stutthof, 363, 379
Treblinka, 370–371
Wöbbelin, 338–344, 340, 341, 343, 355–356, 379
Cota, Norman “Dutch,” 257, 263, 266
Cross of Lorraine, 251–252
Cysner, Josef, 15
Czechoslovakia, 3, 70, 88, 115, 326
D
D-Day
82nd Airborne jump, 169–175
Eisenhower’s message, 168–169
wait for, 160, 164–165, 166
Dachau concentration camp
conditions in, 5, 6–7, 51–52
consequences for escapes, 7, 8–9
crematories at, 51
deaths after Kristallnacht roundups, 51
early prisoners, 4
establishment of, 4
as hierarchy of violence, 7, 8, 9
liberated, 326
physical plant, 5
release of prisoners, 51, 52–54
Saturday afternoon inspections, 7–8
Martin Selling in, 5–10, 51–52
Martin Selling released from, 52–54
treatment of prisoners, 5–6, 7–9
Dachau Death Train, 326n
Darré, Walther, 62
death camps, 340, 370–371, 373, 374
Descheneaux, George, 274, 275
Dietrich, Marlene, 299–302, 300
Dingfelder, Ernst, 6, 10, 52
dog tags, 155, 177, 178, 230–231
Drexel, Fred P., 346–347
E
Ebeling, Gerhard, 24, 368
Ehrlich, Manfred. See Howard, Fred
Ehrlich, Paula, 301
82nd Airborne Division, 235–240
D-Day, 169–171
in England, 233–235
nickname, 230
Nijmegen bridge operation, 235, 237–239
overview of, 161
surrender of von Tippelskirch, 334–338
Wöbbelin concentration camp and, 339
Eisenhower, Dwight, 159, 234, 342, 352
D-Day message, 168–169
enemy aliens, xi, 115, 116–117, 119, 129–130
England
enemy aliens in, 115, 116–117
false sense of security, 115–116
Ritchie Boys in, 151–154, 158–160, 159, 206–207, 229, 231–233
D-Day wait, 160, 164–165, 166
war declared on Germany, 73
F
Falaise Pocket, 221, 311
Faubus, Orval, 314–315
“find common interests” interrogation technique, 157, 293
First Army, 158–159, 287, 290–291
“form of bribery” interrogation technique, 157, 293
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 154
France
civilians in Normandy, 174–175, 176, 180–181
collaboration with Germans, 222–223, 252
false sense of security, 72
occupied, 76–78
Resistance, 181, 222
U.S. Army landing in, 172–175
war with Germany, 73–77, 103–106
France, unoccupied
deportation of refugees, 106
spirit of people of Chabannes, 78, 80
Vichy (Pétain) government, 80–81
French Forces of the Interior (FFI), 222
“From the Bulge to the Rhine: Diary of an Austrian Anti-Nazi” (Stern and Laun), 297
Frucht, Karl, 310
G
Galanis, Bill, 304
Gavin, James, “Jumpin’ Jim”
characteristics, 371
D-Day injury, 236
D-Day orders given by, 166
as leader, 163–164, 234, 245, 335
surrender of von Tippelskirch to, 335–337
Waal bridge, 238–239
Wöbbelin concentration camp and, 341, 342
German Jewish Children’s Aid, 22
German Order of Battle (Military Intelligence Division of the War Department), 137–138, 156, 180
Germany. See Jews in Germany; Nazi Germany
Gerson, Leo, 68
Gitta (aunt of Martin Selling), 2, 362–363
Goebbels, Joseph
newsreel about birthday, 67
residence, 62
response to murder by Grynszpan, 44–45
Goering, Hermann, 62
Goodman, Benny, 88
Gottschalk, Herbert, 327
Gross Breesen, Poland, 63, 65
Grow, Robert, 218, 318, 351
Grynszpan, Herschel, 44
H
Hadley, Master Sergeant, 333
Halm, Günther, 192–193
Haupt, Heinrich, 30, 32–33
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), 34, 83
Hennis, Heinrich, 16–17
Herzig, Walter, 79
Hesse, Heinrich, 28–29
Hildesheim, Germany, 13–14, 92, 366–367, 367
Hitler, Adolf
election under, 29–30
response to murder by Grynszpan, 44–45
Hitler Youth, 16–17, 33, 47, 59
Hodges, Courtney, 287, 346
Hoffman, (German sergeant), 305
Hoffman, Werner, 277
Holland
82nd Airborne Division, 235–242, 243, 244–245, 248, 249–250
German occupation of, 125
Horrocks, Brian, 238
Howard, Fred, 292, 365
life after World War II, 380–381
partnership with Guy, 291–296, 298–302, 303–304
Hürtgen Forest crossing, 256
Hyde Farmlands, Virginia, 124–127
I
Ignatz (cousin of Martin Selling), 2, 363, 364, 365
Immigration Act (U.S., 1924), ix–x, 33–34
Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) courses, 144, 146
Close Combat, 140
Documents, 139–140
field maneuvers, 140–141, 142–143, 155–156
final exam, 143, 145–147
French, 150
German Army Organization, 139
graduates in North Africa, 134
interrogation techniques, 156–157
languages spoken, 135
Order of Battle, 136–139, 156, 205, 214, 229
Terrain and Aerial Intelligence, 140
Irwin, Virginia, 188–190
J
Jacobs, Kurt
background, 271
execution of, 277, 305–306, 308–310, 346–350
under fire, 272–273
grave of, 382, 382
surrender, 276–277
Jasen, Kurt, 185–186
“Jewish Southern Loop,” 70
Jews in Germany. See also specific individuals
actions, boycotts, and violence against, ix, 1–2, 3, 16, 29, 32–33, 40, 45–46, 47, 59–60, 91
definition of, 31, 53
emigration, 18–19, 20, 22–23, 48–50, 54, 55–57, 62–63, 64–68
expulsion of Polish-born, 44
in Hildesheim, 13–14
imprisonment, 3–4