Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Führer Bunker, Berlin 788, 791, 824, 827, 830; communications 811–12, 818; described 775–6; Greim arrives 812; H and Eva Braun commit suicide 828; H’s fifty-sixth birthday 797–8; Speer unable to break free from H 806; Weidling made responsible for Berlin’s defence 808

Führer Chancellery (Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP) 257–8, 259, 260

Führer cult 94, 183, 184, 185, 188, 198, 227, 229, 556, 614, 774

‘Führer Headquarters’: the first (Pomerania, then Upper Silesia) 235–6; Wolf’s Lair, near Rastenburg see Wolf’s Lair

‘Führer Machine’ 524, 710

Führer-Informationen 710

Führerbegleitkommando 830

Funk, Walther 58, 143, 219, 312, 434, 569, 571, 573, 678, 823, 837

Fürth 582

Furtwängler, Wilhelm 13, 513

Fuschl, near Salzburg 203, 595

G

Gabcik, Josef 518–19

Galen, Clemens August Graf von 427–30

Galicia 493, 629

Galland, Adolf 732

Gargzdai, Lithuania 463–4

Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Winter Olympics (February 1936) 5

Gatow aerodrome 801, 806, 809

Gau Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) 37

Gaukönigshofen 142

Gaulle, General Charles de 329, 331, 722

Gaullist movement 328

Gay, Peter 145

Gedye, G.E.R. 84–5

Gehlen, General Reinhard 756, 757

Gelsenkirchen 514, 761

General Army Office 659

General Plan for the East (Generalplan-Ost) 462, 476

General War Office (Allgemeines Heeresamt) 668

Geneva conventions 394–5

Genghis Khan xvii, 756, 772

Genoa 595

genocide xl, 493; all-out genocidal programme 461, 462; attempts to conceal the evidence 766–7; genocidal link between war and the killing of Jews 151; H’s responsibility 487; Jews dehumanized 142; Jews excluded from German society 142; in the Russian campaign (1941) 248, 249; separate strands pulled together 492; the Wannsee Conference and 493

George, Stefan 667

Gercke, Lieutenant-General Rudolf 450

German army: anti-Polish feeling 235, 237; anti-tank gun devloped 448; and armaments factory workers 300; assassination conspiracy (1944) 86, 224, 358, 359, 651–84; Brauchitsch controls 94; Brauchitsch resigns 451–2, 453; conscription reintroduced (1935) 10; crisis of confidence 103, 450; desertions 763; display of prototype tanks 632; driven out of Libya 546; eastern front stabilized 455–6; enters Czechoslovakia (1939) 171; expansion 10; forces against Timoshenko 433; fuel shortage 530, 635, 696; General Staff 98, 102, 393, 408, 418, 438, 528, 533, 534, 544, 578, 650, 687, 688, 696, 757–8, 769, 782, 787, 826; and German dominance xliv; H takes on the supreme command 452–3; the Halt Order (August 1941) 451–5, 462, 507; High Command (Oberkommando des Heeres; OKH) 287, 357, 361, 381, 407, 408, 409, 413, 414, 417, 418, 434, 435, 439, 452, 505, 514, 528, 655, 661, 662, 671, 675, 811; H’s aim 20; legacy of the Blomberg-Fritsch affair 94; losses of weapons and vehicles 515; major changes in leadership 188; moral codex of the officer corps 59; a new panzer army 448; officer corps 86; Operations Department 396; prepares for a spring offensive in Russia (1942) 447, 448, 456, 509; relations with the SS 247, 248; retreating troops (1945) 760; robbery and plundering by (1945) 763; size of xxxvi–xxxviii, 284, 515; support of H’s regime xv; told to hold position in Russia 453–4; the toll of ‘Barbarossa’ 409; transfer of divisions to the east 305–6; view of military action against Poland 159; weak leadership 225; winter crisis in Russia 439–42, 447, 450–56, 490, 499, 516

German Communist Party see Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD)

German embassy, Stockholm 287

German Labour Front see Deutsche Arbeitsfront

German navy 58, 59, 277, 278, 289, 302; H on 509, 825; High Command 367; and iron-ore imports 286; and the naval pact with Britain 190; prepares for war with Britain 94, 100; rebuilding of 38, 47, 50; in Scandinavia 287, 289; Z-Plan 159, 191, 284

German Order of the Eagle 449, 525

German-Soviet Treaty of Friendship (23 September 1939) 238

‘Germania’, intended new Nazi capital 183

Germanization 235, 244, 250–1, 318, 476