Kursk 23, 199, 201
Langsdorf, Admiral 35
Latvia 58, 59
League of Nations 47, 80
Lebensraum 100, 113, 169
Leeb, Field Marshal Wilhelm von 19, 20, 177
Lindbergh, Charles 44
List, Field Marshal 62, 187
Lithuania 58, 59
Locarno Pact 115
London 164, 165
losses 64, 129, 157, 177–8, 222
Ludendorff, Gen. Erich von 10, 75–6, 96
Luftwaffe 80, 89, 90, 124–5, 131–2, 163, 164, 169
Luxembourg 60
Maginot Line 140, 154
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von 22–3, 142, 143–5, 191–2, 198, 199, 220–1
Metaxas, Gen. Yanni 55
Model, Field Marshal Walter 200, 213
Molotov, Vyacheslav 57
Molotov–Ribbentrop treaty 58, 59
Montgomery, Field Marshal Viscount 211, 217
Moscow 178, 179, 180, 181
Mosley, Sir Oswald 40
Munich 74
Hitler’s failed putsch 10, 19, 96, 193
Munich Agreement 50, 52–3, 121
murders 40, 64, 130, 174, 175, 225
Mussolini, Benito 46–51, 59, 61, 63, 64, 121, 175, 202
Napoleon Bonaparte 7, 68, 117, 170, 178, 181
Nazi Party (National Socialist Party) 10, 27, 90, 97–8, 100, 102
Norway 60, 132, 133–4, 169
Nuremberg trials 37, 193
OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) 13, 16, 18, 112, 118–19
OKK (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine) 13, 112
OKL (Oberkommando der Luftwaffe) 13, 112
OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) 13, 14–15, 112, 121, 122, 183
Operation Autumn Mist (Battle of the Bulge) 214, 215–16, 228
Operation Bagration 222
Operation Barbarossa 16, 19, 20, 63, 64, 169, 170–81
Operation Citadel 195, 199, 200–2
Operation North Wind 217
Operation Sealion 162, 164, 165
Operation Sexton 39
Operation Weser 134
Operation Yellow 138, 139, 143
Pact of Steel 51, 63
Papen, Franz von 99
Paris 156, 157, 213
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich 188, 189, 190, 191–2
Pétain, Marshal Philippe 61, 156
Poland 39, 40, 53–4
German invasion 44, 55, 83–4, 123–8
Hitler’s invasion plans 57, 58, 59
Soviet invasion 129
propaganda 42–4, 93
Raeder, Erich 29–30, 32–3, 37, 105–6, 112, 137, 161–3
Ramsay, Admiral Sir Bertram 154
rearmament 14, 46, 80–1, 86–9, 94, 138
Reichstag 98, 104–5, 127
Reichswehr 10–11, 79, 80, 108
Reynaud, Paul 148–9, 155, 156
Rhineland, remilitarisation of 8, 13, 14, 114–17, 137
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 31, 52, 57, 58, 112
Röhm, Ernst 11, 101–3, 104, 105, 216
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin 20–1, 26, 62, 127, 150, 166–7, 197, 207–9, 211
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 228, 231, 232
Royal Air Force 129, 163, 164
Royal Navy 30, 34–5, 36, 134, 135
Rumania 56, 62, 65, 206, 208, 222
Rumanian forces 172, 177, 187, 190
Third Army 191
Fourth Army 191
SA (Sturmabteilung) 10–11, 81, 97, 100, 101–3, 104–6
Saarland 14
Schirach, Baldur von 44
Schleicher, Gen. Kurt von 99, 103, 104
Schusschnigg, Kurt von 118
SD (Sicherheitsdienst) 41, 42
Sebastopol 187
Seeckt, Gen. Hans von 81, 87–8
Sicily 64, 207
Slovakia 53–4, 59, 62, 122
1st Army Division 53
Smigly-Rydz, Field Marshal Edward 126, 128–9
Somme, Battle of 71
Soviet armed forces 175, 177–8, 180–1, 186–8, 201–2, 219, 220, 222, 232, 237
Soviet Union
German offensive 159–60, 185–202, 236
as Germany’s ally 58, 59, 125
Hitler’s attitude to 56, 169
see also Operation Barbarossa
Spanish Civil War 60, 91
Speer, Albert 185, 186, 195, 230
SS (Schutzstaffeln) 11, 12, 24, 25, 64, 102–4, 130, 174, 175
Stalin, Josef 57–8, 175, 176, 228, 231
Stalingrad 7, 64, 65, 188–9, 190–2, 193
‘Standfast Order’ 181–2, 198, 223
Stauffenberg, Col. Count Claus von 24–5, 26
Student, Gen. Kurt 145–6, 162
Sudetenland 14, 50, 121
Sweden 60, 133
tank warfare 22, 81–7, 130–1, 141–4, 180–1, 195–7, 203, 205, 219–20, 228
Tirpitz (German battleship) 34, 36
Tiso, Josef 53
Turkey 55, 76
U-boats 30–2, 35, 37, 137
Udet, Ernst 90, 93
United States 39, 40, 41, 43–4
advances against Germans 213, 229
Hitler declares war on 160, 236
United States Army
First Army 215–16
Third Army 215
10th Armoured Division 217
101st Airborne Division 217
V (Vengeance) weapons 205–6, 211
Versailles Treaty 10, 11, 29, 32, 51–2, 54, 55, 56, 79–80, 81, 114, 116
Hitler renounces 83, 97, 100, 108
Waffen-SS 11–12, 198, 199, 233
Wagner, Richard 48, 107, 225
Warsaw 93, 127, 129, 130 p15 of 15
Wehrmacht (formerly Reichswehr) 80, 87, 108
Hitler as head 10, 12, 108, 112, 113, 118, 183, 185
Weygand, Gen. Maxime 149, 154–6
Wilhem II, Kaiser 67, 72, 73, 75–6, 95, 117
Witzleben, Field Marshal Erwin von 26
Yalta 228
Yugoslavia 54–5, 63, 64, 65, 176
Zeitzler, Gen. Kurt von 18–19, 189, 190–1, 198, 199
Zhukov, Marshal Georgi 221, 228, 232–3
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