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Czechoslovakia 43, 133, 163; armament plants 89; arsenal 165; and Austrian refugees 85; British reaction to the invasion 173–4; ‘Case Green’ 88, 101, 106, 109; central Europe’s last, betrayed, democracy 71; Communism in 88; Czechs’ alleged oppression of Sudeten Germans 91, 96–7, 107, 111, 114; deportation of Jews 488; Einsatzgruppen 241, 246; eliminating Czech resistance 487–8; ethnic minorities 88; founded (1918) 88; generals discuss a potential invasion 102–3; German army enters (1939) 171, 225; the German Protectorate 172; Η aims to destroy 87–8, 92, 93, 100, 116, 136, 158, 163–4; Hácha signs agreement 171; Hácha’s meeting with H 170–1; H’s ultimatum 116–17, 119; industrial base 88, 161, 164; industries 164–5; the Karlsbad demands 106, 108, 109; Keitel’s plan for military action 97, 101; mobilization (May 1938) 99, 111, 115, 190; mobilization plans against 51, 115, 120; name changed to Czecho-Slovakia 164; a potentially hostile neighbour xlv; proposed German expansion 49–50, 61; raw materials 89, 164; Slovakian demand for independence 168–9; strategic position 97, 165; Sudetenland 136, 157, 160, 161, 164, 172–3, 241, 251, 664; crisis (1938) 44, 46, 61, 86, 87, 91, 95, 105, 109, 110, 116, 118, 121, 123, 124, 132, 147, 158, 179, 190, 200, 205, 218, 262, 655; treaties with France and Soviet Union 95; weakened by the incorporation of Austria 84; the ‘Weekend Crisis’ 99–100

D

D-Day 641, 723

Dachau concentration camp 141, 274, 768

DAF see Deutsche Arbeitsfront

Dahlem 7

Dahlems, Birger 215, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222–3, 226, 379

Daily Telegraph 84

Dakar 329, 331

Daladier, Edouard 112, 121, 122, 175, 216

Danish navy 288

Dannecker, Theo 322, 352

Danube region 777

Danube river 79, 169, 434, 723, 757, 787

Danzig (Gdansk) 67, 165, 166, 172, 177, 178, 179, 181, 190, 200–3, 216, 219–22, 225, 236, 238, 247, 788; Customs Office 201

Danzig Question 158, 177

Danzig-West Prussia 239, 250, 316, 837

Daranowski, Gerda 235, 396–7

Darían, Admiral Jean François 542

Darmstadt 788

Darré, Richard Walther 10, 162, 187, 374

Davos 136

Delp, Pater Alfred 666

democracy: attack on xlii; central Europe’s last, betrayed, democracy 71

Denmark 287, 288, 405, 603–4, 834

Dessau 137

Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF; German Labour Front) xl, 836

Deutsche Bank 132

Deutsche Volksliste (German Ethnic List) 251

Deutsches Jungvolk 765

Deutschkron, Inge 474–5

Deutschland (pocket-battleship) 43, 49, 176

‘Deutschland, Deutschland über alles’ (German national anthem) 561

Dienststelle Ribbentrop 26

Dieppe 536, 660

Dietrich, Otto 32, 78, 170, 294, 373, 396, 623, 678

Dietrich, SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp 32, 743, 757, 787, 803, 817

Dirlewanger Brigade 725

Dirschau 222

Disraeli, Benjamin 123

Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire 370

Djibouti 328

Dnieper river 346, 410, 413, 434, 597, 599, 602, 603, 616, 617, 618, 629

Dniester river 463, 630

Dobbin 826

Dohnanyi, Hans von 262, 268, 659, 667

Dollfué, Engelbert 65, 66

Dollmann, General Friedrich 638

Don river 416, 526, 529, 530, 538, 546

Donald, Major Graham 370

Donets Basin 410, 413, 415, 578, 600

Dönitz, Grand-Admiral Karl 585, 631, 650, 684, 719, 757, 774, 779, 792, 798, 800, 804, 808, 813, 815, 817, 820, 823, 825, 832, 834, 835, 837

Dorpmüller, Julius 800

Dorsch, Xaver 634

Dortmund 587, 761

Dresden 511, 761, 764–5, 779; Jews in 766

Dresdner Bank 132

Duisburg 535, 587, 792

Dulles, Allen 834

Dünaburg 398

Dunkirk 295–7, 321

Düsseldorf 142, 535, 587, 760, 840

Dutch East Indies 326

E

Eagle’s Nest (Adlerborst), Kehlstein 198, 202, 203, 638

East Prussia 158, 239, 261, 334, 414, 420, 432, 437, 483, 501, 527, 546, 565, 595, 614, 650, 651, 715, 719, 740, 741, 749, 756, 758, 759, 762, 763, 769, 779

‘East-West Axis’ 183, 184

eastern expansion xliv, 188, 203; see also expansionism; ‘living-space’

Eastern Question 334

‘Eastern Wall’ 403

Ebermannstadt, Upper Franconia 221

Eberswalde 793

Echtmann, Fritz 831

Economic Staff for the East: Agricultural Group 406

Ecuador 134, 320

Edelweié Pirates 704

Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon): and Bishop Bell 663; and the Heé affair 379–80; and H’s ‘peace plan’ 3–4; resignation 73

Edward VIII, King (later Duke of Windsor) 24, 302

Egypt 189, 350, 523

Eichmann, Adolf: deportations to the Nisko district 318; favours a Jewish state in Palestine 134; forces the emigration of Viennese Jews 131; hanged 837; and the ‘Madagascar solution’ 322, 324; runs the ‘Jewish Section’ of the SD 42; suggests pogroms 136; the Wannsee Conference 492, 493

Eicken, Professor Karl von 694

Eifel 741

Einsatzgruppe A 463

Einsatzgruppe Β 463, 466

Einsatzgruppe C 463, 468

Einsatzgruppen (‘task groups’): Czechoslovakia 241; Poland 241, 243, 244, 246; reports of slaughter in Russia sent to Η 520; Soviet Union 381–2, 461, 463–9, 477

Einsatzkommando 3 463, 468

Einsatzkommando 4a 468

Einsatzkommandos (‘task forces’) 382, 485

Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 722, 745, 760, 819, 835, 836

El Alamein 534, 538

Elbe river 802, 805, 809, 810

Elberfeld 587

Elbrus mountain 530

‘elections’ (29 March 1936) xxi, 3

Elisabeth, Czarina 791