Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz (Ethnic German Self-Protection) 231, 242–3

Volkssturm (people’s militia) 713, 714–15, 766, 800, 808, 811, 821

Volkswagen (‘People’s Car’) 400

Volkswagen factory, Fallersleben 197

Volkswehr (People’s Defence) 714

Vormann, Nikolaus von 215, 226–7

Voronezh 526, 528

Voé, Vice-Admiral 813, 815

Vyshinsky, Andrei 689

W

Waffen-SS 47, 381, 516, 583, 596–7, 758, 787

Wagner, Adolf 40, 138, 374, 425, 630

Wagner, General Eduard 243, 409, 433, 435, 687, 690

Wagner, Frau Josef 436

Wagner, Gerhard 42, 256

Wagner, Ganleiter Josef 436

Wagner, Richard 13, 15, 16, 198, 455, 500, 513, 634

Wagner, Ganleiter Robert 323

Wagner, Winifried 198, 821

Wagner family 33, 34, 198

Waldau, General Otto Hoffmann von 309

Walter, Bruno 512, 513

Wannsee, Berlin 671, 793

Wannsee Conference (1942) 148, 491–3

War Economy (Wehrwirtschaft) 225

War Economy Decree (4 December 1939) 274

Warburg 132

Warlimont, Major-General Walter 289, 307, 356, 359, 396, 592.

Warm Springs, Georgia 791

Warsaw 59, 166, 236, 240, 264, 295, 583, 589, 647, 725–6, 756, 757, 769, 837; Uprising 724–5, 735

Warthegau 239, 250–2, 316, 318, 319, 320, 428, 471, 475, 479, 480, 484, 485, 490, 758, 759, 769, 838

Weber, Christian 575–6

‘Weekend Crisis’ (20–22 May 1938) 99–100

Wehrmacht: and the Anschlué 75, 78; anti-Polish feeling 190; the assassination attempt (1944) 699; begins the spring offensive (8 May 1942) 514; Blomberg tells of H’s wishes (1938) 50; ‘Case Green’ 88; ‘Case White’ 179; conflict with the SS 465; conscription reintroduced (1935) xxxvii, 38, 83, 87; demand for raw materials 45; directive of 21

October 1938 163, 175; discredited and disbanded xviii; and the Einsatzgruppen 241, 461, 465; expenditure 161–2; field-marshals’ declaration of loyalty to H 628; and the German-Russian non-aggression pact 205; H addresses top military leaders (23 May 1939) 190–3; H praises 432, 740; H takes over 56–8; Haider’s ambition 452;

High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; OKW) 94, 101, 102, 287, 289, 290, 357, 381, 398, 415, 417, 419, 422, 435, 514, 534, 568, 578, 591, 618, 638, 639, 649, 672, 681, 741, 742, 747, 799, 826, 834, 835; Operations Staff 600, 601, 669; H’s ‘Basic Order’ 290–1; H’s dominance 60, 97, 284; H’s proclamation of 11

March 1945 783; H’s three addresses (1939) 167–8; H’s war directive (18 December 1940) 335; incapable of blocking the Red Army’s advance (1945) 757; incompetent economic planning 502; intelligence 582; interests of 63; and Jewish skilled workers 486; lack of plans for the war 284; the last report (9 May 1945) 836; leadership weak and divided 94, 209; loss of men (1944) 717, 723; magnitude of task in ‘Barbarossa’ 411; manpower needs 563; meeting to discuss the Polish situation (22 August 1939) 207–9, 225; preparations for ‘Case X’ 43; pushed back along the southern front (October 1943) 602; reform 644–5, 708; reinforcements cut off 643; reports of desertions 703–4; and the Security Police 467; the soldierly duty of its highest leaders 102; the Stalingrad crisis 548; Operations Staff 362, 366, 396, 408, 410, 591, 837; treatment of Jews 246

Weichs, Field-Marshall Freiherr Maximilian von 248, 527, 529, 534, 537, 544

Weidling, General Helmuth 808, 809, 813, 815, 825, 826, 827, 832

Weimar Republic 657; collapse of xlii; euthanasia rejected 254; H attacks xli; and industrialists xxxviii; miseries and divisions of xl; outrages against the Jews xliii; unemployment and economic failure 28

Weié, Lieutenant-Colonel Rudolf 825

Weizsäcker, Ernst von 90, 91, 99, 105, 111, 116, 118, 119, 121, 170, 190, 195–6, 199, 212, 225, 226, 228, 262, 264, 266–9, 306, 329

Welczek, Johannes von 109

Wels 302

Weltanschauung 129

Wenck, General Walther 759, 802, 805, 806, 809–10, 811, 813–16, 820, 825, 826

Wenner-Gren, Axel 226

Werewolf ‘Führer Headquarters’, near Vinnitsa, Ukraine 527, 531, 572, 578, 587; crisis in relations with military leaders 531–3

Werwolf 790–91

Wesel 760

‘Weser Exercise’ (‘Weserübung’) 287–9

West Africa 329

West Prussia 242, 243, 245, 247

Westphalia 429, 430, 791

Westphalia, Peace of (1648) 41, 267

Westphalia-South 436

White Rose opposition-group 552, 663

White Russia 394, 463

Wiedemann, Fritz 32, 53, 88, 98, 105, 187

Wilhelm Gustloff (ship) 37

Wilhelm II, Kaiser 10, 202, 540

Wilhelmshaven 178, 504

Wilson, Sir Horace no, 116, 117–18, 121, 223

Winkelmann, SS-Obergruppenführer Otto 735

‘Winter Aid’ campaign 38, 55, 431, 535, 601

Winter Olympics (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1936) 5

Wittenberg 810

Witzleben, Field-Marshal Erwin von 270, 676, 677, 690, 692

Wochensprüche (Weekly Maxims) 474

Wohltat, Helmut 226

Wolf, Hugo 500

Wolf, Johanna 798, 800

Wolff, Karl 149, 834

Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze) ‘Führer