Soldaten

airplanes, 4.1, 4.3

     burning alive in crash of, 4.1, 4.2

     crash landing of, 5.1

     engines of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

     machine-gun equipped, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

     shooting down of, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

     technology and

     see also bombers

alcohol, 4.1, 5.1

Alsen (Scharnhorst survivor)

Alstertor, MS

Aly, Götz

Amberger (W/T operator)

American POW camps, 1.1, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

     see also Fort Hunt

American POWs, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1

ammunition, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 8.1, 11.1

Anders, Günther, 1.1, 4.1

Andersch, Alfred

Angermüller (Luftwaffe crewman)

Angrick, Andrej

Annacker, Colonel

annihilation, war of, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2

     asphyxiation in, 3.1, 4.1

     brutalization hypothesis and

     criticism of means used in, 4.1, 4.2

     cross-section of German populace in

     dispositions and

     feelings and

     as frame of reference, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

     groundwork for

     outrage and

     respectability and

     rumors of, 4.1, 4.2

     voluntary killers and

     see also Holocaust; mass murder, mass executions

anti-Semitism, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 9.1

     business boycott and

     deportation and

     in Poland, 3.1, 8.1

     of Rothkirch

     violence and, 3.1, 3.2

     see also Holocaust

anxiety, social

Ar 196

Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge), 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1

Arendt, Hannah

Arielle

army, British, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1

army, German, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2

     see also Wehrmacht

army, Japanese

Army, U.S., 3.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, app.1

Army Field Command 748

Army Group Africa

Army Group Center, 7.1, 8.1

Army Group North

Arnim, Hans-Jürgen von, 8.1, 9.1

Arp, Major

Artillery Regiment 272, German

Aryan race, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1

assassinations, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2

assistance, failure to offer

assumptive world

Asylums (Goffman)

Atlantic, Battle of, prl.1, 1.1, 7.1

Atlantic bunkers

Atlantic Ocean, 8.1, 9.1

Atlantis, MS

attitudes, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2

     sexual violence and

     see also faith in victory

Aue (German POW)

Auerstädt

Aulock, Andreas von

Aulock, Hans von

Auschwitz, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Austria, Austrians, 4.1, 8.1

authority figures, in Good Samaritan experiment

autotelic violence, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 8.1

Avranches

awards, see medals and awards

B-17 Flying Fortress

Babi Yar, 3.1, 3.2

Babruysk

Baby Blitz

Bach (German POW)

Bacherer, Oberst

Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem

Backhaus, Private

Badoglio, Pietro

Bad Vöslau

Baeumer (Luftwaffe crew member)

Baie de la Seine

Balkans, 1.1, 7.1

Baltic Sea

Banak

bands, Russian military

bargaining

Barletta

barracks, cleaning of, 3.1, 5.1

Bartels (German POW)

Barthel, Captain

Bartz (German navy man)

basal orientation

Bassenge, Gerhard

Bässler (German army paratrooper)

Bassus, First Sergeant von, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2

Bateson, Gregory

Batistico, General

Batson, C. Daniel

Bavarians

B.D.U. (Befelshaber der U-Boote; Commander in Chief U-boats)

beatings, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Beaugency

Beck, Major

Becker, Rudolf, 7.1, 7.2

Belgium, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1

Benden, Hauptsturmführer von

Bender (German POW)

Bentz, First Lieutenant

Benzinger, Theo, 8.1, 8.2

Beradt, Charlotte

Berezina River

Bergen-Belsen

Berlin, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1

     Soviet advance on

Bernhardt, Michael

Bialetzki, Alfons, 2.1

bicycles

Bieber (German stool pigeon)

Birke, navy Private

Biscay, Bay of, 5.1

Bismarck

Bittrich, Wilhelm

Bizerta

Blaas (German POW)

blaming, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Blaschke (German POW)

blitz girls (Blitzmädel)

Blitzkrieg (1939–42), 7.1, 7.2

Blobel, Paul

Blohm and Voss (BV) 222

Blomberg, Werner von, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2

Blunt, Major

Bobryusk

Bocage

Bock (German POW)

bodies, 9.1, 11.1

     dissolved by acid

     exhumation and burning of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

Bohle, Private

Bohrdt, Hans, 8.1, 8.2

Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1, 12.1

bombers, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1

     U.S., 3.1, 8.1

bombs, bombing, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2

     accuracy of

     fragmentation

     of German cities, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

     night, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1

     of Tokyo

bones, grinding up

bonfires

bonuses

     for capos

     for firing squads

Borbonus, Lieutenant

Bordeaux, 5.1, 5.2

Bormann, Martin, 7.1, 7.2

Born, Hauptsturmführer

Bornhard (German POW)

Böselager, Oberstleutnant Freiherr von

Bourke, Joanna

boycott, of Jewish business

Brauchitsch, Walter von, 3.1, 7.1

Bräutigan, Sergeant

bravery, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

     Italians and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

     Japanese and

     medals and, 2.1, 9.1

     Waffen SS and, 9.1, 9.2

Breitlich, Franz, 4.1, 9.1

Breitscheid, Sergeant

Bremen

Brest

Bristol

Britain, Battle of, 6.1, 7.1

British Bomber Command

British National Archives

British POW camps, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2

     see also Trent Park

British POWs, 9.1, 11.1

Broich, Friedrich von, 4.1, 7.1

Brosicke, 3.1, 3.2

brothels

Browning, Christopher, 4.1, 4.2

Bruhn, Johannes, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Brune (German POW), 3.1, 4.1

Bruns, Walter

brutality, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1

     in German war with Soviets, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

     of Latvians

     sex and

     Soviet, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1

     of Waffen SS, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

     Wehrmacht view of

brutalization hypothesis, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.1

Buchenwald

Bücher (Luftwaffe lance corporal)

Budde (Luftwaffe crew member)

Bülowius, Karl

Bunge, navy Lieutenant