Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Belgian Congo 434

Belgium 267, 291, 295, 405, 518, 722, 731, 741, 745; neutrality 194, 277, 295

Belgrade 365

Bell, Bishop George 663

Belorussia 406–7

Below, Frau 33, 651

Below, Captain Nicolaus von 30, 32, 33, 70, 77, 118, 137–8, 149, 165, 235, 294, 295, 310, 345, 452, 535, 543, 548, 553, 554, 581, 616, 621, 637, 674–5, 718, 738, 739, 747, 784–5, 792, 807, 813, 815, 817, 823, 825

Belzec extermination camp 483, 484, 493, 494, 520, 603

Benes, President Eduard 108, 109, 111, 115, 117, 170

Berchtesgaden, Bavarian Alps 12, 13, 18, 34, 72, 74, 81, 110, 111, 114, 135, 197, 199, 200, 201, 207, 211, 213, 565, 569, 623, 642, 781, 799, 801, 803, 805, 810

Berdicev 394

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle 768

Berger, SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob 520

Berger, Hans 141

Berger, Dr Heinrich 674

Berghof, Obersalzberg 29, 33, 34, 70, 72, 73, 100, 103, 105, 109, 110, 111, 151, 166, 188, 195, 198, 199, 202, 204, 205, 206, 210, 212, 214, 225, 301, 302, 307, 335, 346, 369, 372, 373, 375, 376, 381, 397, 512, 514, 542, 565, 581, 582, 590, 593, 611, 623, 624, 628, 630–34, 637, 639, 643, 644, 650, 651, 670, 738, 766, 781, 805, 808, 809

Berlin 305, 379, 397, 420, 804, 822; the Bendlerblock 681, 683, 689; bombing raids on 309, 366, 620, 761, 769, 775; cenotaph 37; the Citadel (Festung) 813, 815, 825, 826, 827; the first week of the war 239–40; H returns after his triumph in Czechoslovakia 172; H’s welcome after the French armistice 300; H’s welcome after Munich 124; International Car Exhibition 37; Luna Park 8; Lustgarten 5, 37, 519; military court 59; Olympic Games (1936) 5–9, 379; open to attack (1945) 759–60, 770; the rebuilding of 35, 36, 38–9, 709; Red Army attacks 793, 794, 799, 800, 801, 808–9, 812, 813, 827; refugees 763, 806; Remer put in charge of security 680; ‘Soviet Paradise’ exhibition (May 1942) 519; Sportpalast 116, 117, 118, 309, 348, 431, 432, 459, 494, 505, 517, 526, 535, 536, 538, 561, 562, 601, 619; State Opera house 632; State Theatre 240; synagogues destroyed 140; Technical University 38; Tempelhof aerodrome 45, 809; treatment of Jews 133–4, 135, 351, 472–3, 481, 482, 485, 488, 519, 583; Weidling made responsible for Berlin’s defence 808; ‘Winter Aid’ campaign 38, 535, 601; the Zeughaus 662; zoo 801

Berlin Congress (1878) 123, 183

Berlin Defence District (Wehrkreis III) 690

Berlin Philharmonia 632

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 513

Berlin-Charlottenburg, Tiergartenstraße 4 260

Bernadotte, Count Folke 817, 818, 819

Bernburg asylum 261

Bernhardt, Johannes 14, 15

Bessarabia 332, 351, 384

Best, Werner 603

Bialystok 380, 398, 399, 407

Bielefeld 472

Binding, Professor Karl 254

Birkenau 768

Birmingham 174

birth-rates 48

Bismarck (battleship) 178, 381

Bismarck, Prince Otto von xlii, 183, 188, 283, 505, 665

Bitterfeld 514

Black Forest 764

‘Black Order’ 252

Black Sea region 413, 434, 529, 630

‘Blackshirts’ see British Union of Fascists

Blaschke, Dr Johann 831

Blaskowitz, Colonel-General Johannes 247, 248

Bleichröder (bank) 132

Blomberg, Fräulein Margarethe (née Gruhn) 52–3

Blomberg, Werner von 10, 11, 16, 19, 21, 43, 46, 47, 49, 50; the Blomberg scandal 51–60, 64, 69, 83, 86, 94, 147, 167, 224, 358, 668

Blondi (H’s dog) 564, 602, 611, 776, 777, 825

‘Blood and Soil’ (Blut und Boden) 374

‘Blood Law’ 256

Blücher (cruiser) 288

Blücher, Gebbard Leberecht von, Prince of Wahlstadt 713

Blum, Léon 17

Blumentritt, General Guenther 456

Blutrache (blood-vengeance) 691

Bobruisk 647

Bochum 587

Bock, Field-Mashal Fedor von 78, 269, 270, 334, 345, 359, 394, 408, 415, 419, 435, 438, 450–51, 454, 515, 524, 526–7, 529, 658, 659

Bodenschatz, General Karl Heinrich 376, 396

Boehm, Admiral-General 207

Boeselager, Lieutenant-Colonel Georg Freiherr von 661

Bohemia 46, 164, 165, 166, 172, 479; Kings of 171

Bohle, Gauleiter Ernst Wilhelm 15, 376

Boldt, Gerhard 825

Bolshevism 18, 20, 38, 82, 159, 160, 205, 310, 378, 416, 433, 479, 525, 609, 615, 703, 818, 819, 832, 835, 840, 841; anti-Bolshevism tactic 25; and ‘Barbarossa’ 387, 388, 389; and the Catholic bishops xxxix; and Czechoslovakia’s strategic position 97; fear of xlv; Heé’s mission 379; H’s crusade against 335, 384, 406, 505, 555–6, 636–7; and H’s foreign policy 12; and H’s ‘world-view’ 21; and Italy 25; and Jews 17, 19, 39, 42, 127, 153, 325, 339, 343, 350, 353, 354, 359, 382, 399, 431, 461, 463, 465, 466, 620, 740, 749, 752, 781, 792; and a showdown with the Soviet Union 305; and the Spanish Civil War 14–15; Stalin and 285, 292

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 663, 667

Bonn 760

Bonnet, Georges 206

Bor-Komorowski, General Tadeusz 724–5

Border Police School, Pretzsch 382

Börgermoor internment camp, Emsland 55

Boris, King of Bulgaria 366, 581

Bormann, Albert 32

Bormann, Gerda 789