Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Gustav 26

Kuban 529, 600

Kube, Wilhelm 406–7, 486

Kubis, Jan 519

Kubizek, August 30, 198, 306

Küchler, Colonel-General Georg von 359–60

Kunz, Helmut Gustav 833

Kurhessen 138

Kursk 526, 579, 592, 596

Küstrin 759, 788, 793

Kvaternik, Marshal Sladko 470, 471

L

labour see under employment

Lagarde, Paul de 320

Lake Balaton 758, 788

Lake Ladoga 531

Lambach 197

Lammers, Hans Heinrich 32, 186, 187, 219, 236, 245, 256, 259, 312, 313, 314, 405, 427, 428, 567, 568, 570, 574, 708, 709, 711, 715, 807; in the Committee of Three 568, 570, 574; loses access to H 716; and the Prussian Finance Ministry 575

Landkreise (local government districts) 574

Landsberg am Lech fortress, H interned in 31, 377

Lange, Herbert 484

Lange, SS-Sturmbannführer Dr Otto 485, 492

Langenheim, Adolf 14, 15

Lansbury, George 29

Lanz, General Hubert 660

Las Palmas 14

Latin America 146

Lattre de Tassigny, Jean de 836

Latvia 194, 393, 757; Latvian Jews 485

Laval, Pierre 328–31, 541, 542, 582

Leader cult see Führer cult

League of Nations 201; German withdrawal (1933) 87

Lebensboden (basis of life) 448

Lebensraum see ‘living-space’

Leeb, Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von 266, 270, 345, 393–4, 408, 455, 659

Left: internally in disarray xv; repression of xxxviii, xxxix, xl

Léger, Alexis 121

Legion Condor 17, 70

Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler 32, 33, 78, 787

Leipa, Czechoslovakia 171

Leipzig 761

Leipziger Gewandhaus 512

Leitgen, Alfred 372

Lemberg 380

Lenbach, Franz von 183

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich xvii

Leningrad 345, 346, 393–4, 400, 408, 410, 413, 416, 419, 439, 477, 480–81, 499, 531, 534

Leonding, near Linz 80

Leopold, Captain Josef 72–3

Leopold III, King of Belgium 295

Leuna 761

Leuthen, Battle of (1757) 811

Ley, Robert 313, 350, 374, 563, 569, 571, 573, 699, 774, 836

Libya 347, 523, 539, 546

Lidice 519

Liebmann, General Curt 59, 209

Liège 290

Lindemann, General Georg 650

Lindloff, Ewald 830–31

Linge, Heinz 674, 727, 777, 797, 798, 816, 828, 829, 830, 833

Linz 78–81, 161, 197, 198, 302, 365, 512, 709, 821, 834; model of 777–8

Lipski, Ambassador Jozef 177, 221

List, Field-Marshal Wilhelm 366, 529–33

Liszt, Franz 398

Lithuania 43, 175, 176, 238, 351, 393, 463–4, 714

Litvinov, Maxim 195

living standards xl, 9, 48, 272, 274

‘living-space’ (Lebensraum) xliv, 21, 37, 47–8, 49, 88, 98, 100, 101, 172, 185, 188, 191, 233, 238, 275, 305, 336, 337, 343, 378, 403, 406, 514, 582; see also eastern expansion; expansionism

Lloyd George, David (later 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor) 29, 383

Lob, Lieutenant-Colonel Fritz 11

Locarno Treaty (1925) xxxvi, 4, 188

Lodz 319; German Jews deported to 482, 484; ghetto 249, 319–20, 479; renamed Litzmannstadt 482; Soviet troops take 758

Lohse, Hinrich 406, 486, 492, 838

London 58, 607, 622; the Blitz 309; East End 309; flying-bombs 641, 642; H order a major air-attack 638; Polish Government-in-Exile 725

Londonderry, Lord 12, 13

Lorenz, Heinz 678–9, 797, 816, 825

Lorraine 315

Los Angeles: Olympic Games (1932) 6

Loßberg, Lieutenant-Colonel Bernhard von 307, 408

Lower Bavaria 763

Lower Rhine 760

Lübeck 509, 818

Lublin 319, 321, 484, 493, 494, 520, 589, 725

Lubljanka prison 551

Ludwigshafen 760, 761

Luftwaffe 277, 278, 289, 293, 396, 452, 509, 747, 799, 801, 802; airlift to 6th Army 544, 545, 548, 549; armaments programme 284; attacks London’s East End 309; Baku oilfields 537; in ‘Barbarossa’ 409; the Blitz 309; bomb-proof bunkers 633–4; bomber shortage 535; and the bombing of Cologne 524; and ‘Citadel’ 592; creation of xxxviii, 38; death blow to 745–6; Dunkirk 295, 296; failure of 535, 570, 572, 587, 620, 629, 696, 717, 738, 825–6; fighter production 732; forces against Timoshenko 433; fuel shortages 717, 732, 739; and Göring 57, 413; Göring assures H of imminent improvements 535; H’s preoccupation with deficiencies of 543, 729; H’s threat 786; and I G Farben 18; ‘Kirschkern’ Programme 622; Me262 production 621, 635, 739; and Memel 176; and the Normandy landings 641; Operation Barbarossa 384, 409; preferential treatment 46; and a proposed invasion of Britain 301; reform 645; Udet scapegoated for failures 420

Lüneburg 836

Lutze, SA-Chief Viktor 584

Luxembourg 295, 315

Luzk, eastern Poland 463

M

McAuliffe, Brigadier-General Anthony 744

McLean, Donald 370

‘Madagascar solution’ 134–5, 320, 321–4, 324, 349–52, 383, 470, 521

Madeira xl

Magdeburg 761

Magdeburg-Anhalt 138

Maginot Line 265, 297

Magnuszev bridgehead 756

Maidanek 520

Main river 788

Mainz 761

Maisel, General Ernst 733

Malta 367, 514, 524

Manchester Guardian 124, 829

Mannerheim, Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf von 524,724

Mannesmann 132

Mansfeld, Erich 830

Manstein, Lieutenant-General Erich von 103, 290, 291, 452, 466, 514, 523, 524, 526, 531, 544–5, 549, 578–81, 592, 597, 599, 600, 603, 607, 616–19, 629, 630, 666

Manteuffel, General Hasso von 741, 744

Manziarly, Constanze 801, 804, 827

Mao Zedong xvii

Marburg 139

March, Werner 5

Mareks, General Erich 408

‘Marcks Plan’ 408

Margarethe I 626

Margarethe II 626

Margival (Führer Headquarters) 642

Markt Schellenberg 766

Marne river 722

Marseilles 722

Marx Brothers 371