Soldaten

massacres, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 12.1

mass murder, mass executions, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1

     burning alive

     dispositions and

     division of labor and

     of Jews, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 11.2

     outrage and, 4.1, 4.2

     rejection of

     situations and

     social duties and

     of Soviet POWs, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

     as spectacle, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

     voluntary killers and

     by Waffen SS, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

     see also kill, killing

Matthaüs, Jürgen

Mauchenheim, Gustav von

Mayer, Kurt

Mayer, Leonhard

Me 110

Me 163 rocket interceptor

Me 262 jet fighter

Me 264

medals and awards, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1

     photographic evidence of importance of, 9.1, 9.2

     success and

Mediterranean, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, app.1, app.2

Menny, Erwin, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

mentalities, 1.1, 1.2

merchant marines, death of

merchant ships

     sinking of, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1

meritocracy

Mertins (Luftwaffe crewman)

Meschefs spa

Messe, Giovanni

Messerschmitt 109, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2

Metz, 8.1, 8.2

Meyer, Franz

Meyer, Kurt, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

Meyer, Lieutenant, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Meyer (German POW), 4.1, 4.2

Meyne, Colonel, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1

MG 42

Milch, Erhard, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2

Milgram, Stanley, 1.1, 1.2

military

     formal duties in

     frame of reference and

     as total institution, 1.1, 1.2

military officers, German

     evaluations of

     ideal of heroic death and

     medals for

military values, 2.1, 8.1, 12.1

     cowardice, desertion and

     death with honor and, 8.1, 8.2

     fighting to the last bullet and, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2

mines, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1

Minnieur, Horst, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1

Minsk

mirror-image accusations

Mischke, Midshipman

missiles, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1

Mitropa

modern society, abstinence from violence in, 1.1, 3.1

Möller (German POW)

Mommsen, Hans

money, paper

monuments, war

morale, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2

     miracle weapons and, 6.1, 6.2

morality, morals, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1

     brutality and

     and execution of Jews, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

     Kommissarbefehl and

     Nazi, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

     respectability and

Moscow

motivation, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 9.1

motorcyclists

Mühlhäuser, Regina, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

Müller, Oberjäger

Müller, Private First Class, 3.1, 3.2

Müller, Rudolf

Müller (German POW)

Müller-Rienzburg, Wilfried von, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1

Munich, 4.1, 8.1, 9.1

music, Russian, 1.1, 1.2

Muslims, orthodox

Müss, Sergeant

Mussolini, Benito, 8.1, 9.1

Mustangs

Mutual Assistance Association of Former Members of the Waffen SS (HIAG)

My Lai massacre

Nake, Albin

Napoleonic Wars, 3.1, 8.1

narratives

     expert vs. inquisitive audience in

     important concerns and knowledge reflected in

     jumping around in

     observer’s perspective and

     relationships vs. content and

     retelling of

     switch from outrage to cheerfulness in

National Archives (Washington, D.C.)

National Socialism, see Nazism, Nazis

National Socialist Leading Officers

navy, British, 8.1, 8.2

navy, German, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, app.1

     death with honor in, 8.1, 8.2

     faith in victory and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

     Luftwaffe compared with, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

     medals and, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

     military values in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

     ships sunk by

     Special Commando 40 of

     technology and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1

     see also U-boats

navy, Japanese

Navy, U.S.

Nazism, Nazis, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1

     alteration of normative standards and

     anti-Semitism vs.

     army of, see Waffen SS

     contradictory responses to

     depoliticization of soldiers and

     in election of 1936

     elites and

     faith in victory and

     foreign policy “triumphs” of

     founding of

     global domination of

     Hitler distinguished from

     ideology and, 8.1, 8.2

     military and

     respectability and

     as short-term phenomena, 1.1, 2.1

     social integration and

     see also Third Reich

Neher, Georg

Neitzel, Sönke (author)

Neuffer, Georg, 3.1, 4.1

newspapers, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2

New York, N.Y.

Nikolajev

9th Infantry Division, U.S.

Nitsch, Staff Sergeant

Niwiem (German POW)

Noor-Eldeen, Namir

normality, 1.1, 2.1

Normandy, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1

     Allied landings in, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2

     Germans captured in, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1

     Waffen SS in, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

North Atlantic

North Sea

Norway, Norwegians, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Norwich

Nuremberg, MS

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 3.1, 9.1

obedience, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2

objective conditions

Ocker, Lieutenant Colonel

Oder River

Odessa

Oehlmann, Lieutenant

“111”, see Heinkel He 111

1.GD (Mountain Division), German

158th Reserve Division, German

Operation Barbarossa

Oradour, massacre of

Orel

Organisation Todt, 9.1, 9.2

orientation, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1

     military and, 2.1, 2.2, 11.1

     social duties and

Orsogna

Ouistreham, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2

“Our Zugführer” Division

outrage

     about sexual behavior

Overmans, Rüdiger

Palmer, Bruce

Panzergrenadierregiment 29

parachutes, parachuting, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1

paradigms, interpretive, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1

“parallel societies”

Paris, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

partisans

     enemy as, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4

     execution of, 4.1, 10.1

     female soldiers compared with

     Holocaust and

     sex and

passenger ships, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

path dependencies, 2.1, 4.1, 7.1, 11.1

Paul, Gerhard

Paulus, Friedrich

Penguin, MS, 3.1, 4.1

perceived expectations

perception, 1.1, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1