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    Sons and Soldiers

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      Index

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      Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.

      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

      landing in Europe alone, 172–175

      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

     


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