Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Operation Barbarossa 335, 339, 343, 344, 348, 353, 360, 361, 363, 367–8, 371, 377, 380, 382, 462, 463, 466, 468, 469, 525, 566, 646; aim of 384; Barbarossa-Decree (13 May 1941) 357; and Bolshevism 387, 388, 389; ‘Commissar Order’ 357–9; Directive No.21 (‘Barbarossa Directive’) 335, 408; Directive No.34 410; escalating problems 419; German military leaders’ confidence 369; H provides the driving force 368–9; H’s intervention in military matters 407, 417, 419, 499; H’s letter to Mussolini 387–8; H’s proclamation 386, 387; initial reactions of the German people 422; initial territorial gains 398, 400; the invasion begins (22 June 1941) 393; and the invasion of Yugoslavia 365; the long front 579; operational plan fails 407, 417; partisan war 395, 405; postponed 362–3; Soviet captives 394–5; Soviet counter-attack begins (5 December 1941) 442; ‘special announcements’ 398; spiralling barbarization 395; ‘Study’ 413; ‘Supplement to Directive No.33’ 409, 410; Supplement to Directive No.34 411; toll on the German army and Luftwaffe 309; transport statistics 393; winter provisions for the troops 435, 439

Operation Blue 514–15, 523, 524, 526–8; Directive No.41 (5 April 1942) 528, 529

Operation Braunschweig 528; Directive No.45 (23 July 1942) 528–9

Operation Citadel 591, 592, 647; plans for 579–80; postponed 580, 587

Operation Cobra 718

Operation Dragoon 722

Operation Felix 348

Operation Gomorrha 597

Operation Magic Fire (Unternehmen Feuerzauber) 16

Operation Marita 361, 364–5

Operation Market Garden 723

Operation Mercury 367

Operation North Wind 744, 745

Operation Overlord 641

Operation Panzerfaust (‘Bazooka’) 735

Operation Sealion 302–3, 310

Operation Thunderclap 545

Operation Typhoon 415, 431, 433, 436

Operation Valkyrie 668–9, 671, 675, 676, 690

Operation Watch on the Rhine 741

Opfer der Vergangenheit (Victims of the Past) (film) 257

Oppeln, Upper Silesia 759, 788

Oppenheim 760

Oran, French Algeria 327, 539

Oranienburg 793

Ordnungspolizei (regular police) 468

Orel 592, 596, 597

Organisation Todt (OT) 623, 634, 675, 678, 679, 742, 808

Orgaz y Yoldi, General 14

Orsha 647

Oscarsborg, straits of 288

Oshima, Ambassador Hiroshi 27, 383, 398, 443, 445, 449, 470, 729, 730, 732, 743

Oslo 288

Oster, Colonel Hans 157, 225, 262, 268, 270, 659, 667, 690

Osteria Bavaria restaurant, Munich 143, 512

Ostland (Eastern Region) 406, 486, 491, 520

‘Ostmark’, Goebbels in 506

Ostrogoth Gau (Ostgotengau) 440

Ostrov, Poland 394, 690

Ott, General Eugen 443

Oven, Wilfried von 678

Owens, Jesse 6, 7

P

Pacific Ocean 728

Paderborn 172

Palestine 189, 530; Britain refuses entry for Jewish refugees 146; as a Jewish state 134, 321, 350

Pan-German League/pan-Germanism 65, 67

Panzer Corps ‘Grodeutschland’ 768–9

Panzer Group 4 359

Panzer Group West 641

Papen, Franz von 68, 226, 428, 732–3; Ambassador to Austria 66; and the Anschlué 76, 82, 83; Austrian Nazi plans to murder 69; on H 71–2; meets Schuschnigg 70; plans to topple Schuschnigg 45, 67, 69

‘paper war’ 566

Paris: H visits 299–300; H’s orders 722; liberated 722; lingering remnants of the German coup (1944) 683; Stülpnagel backs the insurrectionists (1944) 678

Party of National Concentration (Nationale Sammlungspartei) 819

Pas de Calais 641

Pasewalk military hospital 754

Patton, General George S. 720, 744, 788

Paul, Prince, of Yugoslavia 360

Paulus, Field-Marshal Friedrich 497, 530, 533, 537, 543, 544, 545, 548–51

Pavelic, Ante 581

pax americana xviii

Payne Best, Captain S. 271

Pearl Harbor (1941) 364, 442, 444, 445, 446, 448, 486–7, 490

Peenemünde 622

Peloponnese 361

Pension Moritz (later the Platterhof), Obersalzberg 636

People’s Court (Volksgerichtshof) 507, 508, 552, 688–9, 721, 733; show trials 691–2

Perkowski, Tadeusz 202

Persian Gulf 276, 514

Petacci, Clara 826

Pétain, Marshal 297, 299, 328–32, 525, 542

Peter II, King of Yugoslavia 360

Petersberg Hotel, Bad Godesberg 113, 114

Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island), Havel 7

Pfeffer von Salomon, Franz 436

Philip of Hesse, Prince 76, 78, 600

Phipps, Sir Eric 25, 46

‘Phoney War’ (autumn and winter 1939–40) 274–5

physically handicapped 258–9

Picasso, Pablo, Guernica 24–5

Pillau 762

Pilsudski, Marshal 237

Pintsch, Karl-Heinz 371, 372

Pirow, Oswald 151

Pissia river 238

Platterhof hotel, Obersalzberg 636

Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration 709

Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort (Reichsbevollmächtigter für den totalen Kriegseinsatz) 708–12, 713

Ploesti oilfields 332, 343, 635

Plön 820, 832

Plötzensee Prison, Berlin 693