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  refuses to pull back, 438

  C

  Cairo Conference, 141, 150

  Canadian army units

  ARMY, First, 129, 135, 326

  Canadian army units (continued)

  DIVISION, 2nd, 128

  Canisius, St., Church, 487

  Capitulation, see Surrender

  Carl, Gerda, 53, 419-20

  Carl, Captain Gotthard, 53, 419-20

  Carlyle, Thomas, 319

  Carnes, Lieutenant Colonel Norman D., 134, 318

  Casablanca Conference, 101

  Case C., see Operation Eclipse

  Caspary wine shop, 453

  Catholic Sisters, 25-26, 59, 370-71, 455-56, 464-65, 486, 491-92

  Celle, 326

  Chancellery, see Reichskanzlei

  Charité Hospital, 31, 53, 442

  Charlottenburg, 33, 35, 36, 50, 373, 405, 409, 422, 481, 494

  Charlottenburger Chausée, 15

  Chequers, 232

  Chevalier, Maurice, 50-51

  Chiang Kai-shek, 150

  Children

  of Berlin, 219, 422

  in German fighting forces, 113, 289; see also Hitler Youth

  Christian, Major General Eckhardt, 434

  Chuikov, Colonel General Vasili Ivanovich, 185, 193, 248n, 347, 350, 360

  Eighth Guards Army of, 302, 346-50, 360, 390, 429

  in surrender negotiations, 109, 499-500, 503

  Churchill, Winston, 101, 143n, 149, 156, 182

  Anglo-American drive on Berlin and, 139-40, 165, 207, 236, 239-40, 242, 252-53, 278-80

  and Eisenhower’s message to Stalin, 232, 234-36, 253

  Himmler’s peace feelers and, 469-70

  Montgomery and, 205n

  occupation zones and, 150, 154n, 159-61

  on Stalin’s violation of Yalta agreements, 164

  visits Rhine, 140

  Citadel, 382

  Russians enter, 481-82

  Civil Affairs Division of War Department, 151-52, 156-57, 158-59

  Clark-Kerr, Sir Archibald, 231

  “Clausewitz” signal, 399

  Clovis I, King of the Franks, 197

  Cmuda, Hannelore von, 488

  Cole, Sergeant Major Eric V., 281

  Combined Chiefs of Staff, 146, 150, 151, 160, 199, 206, 232, 233, 239-41, 278-79

  Malta meeting of, 139, 207

  Communists, German, 15, 37-39, 47, 60, 430-32, 478, 493

  Concentration camps, 28, 41, 44-45, 326-29

  Cooley, Staff Sergeant Clyde W., 289, 308

  Cords, Captain Helmuth, 45-46, 61

  Corridors to Berlin proposed, 152, 158-59

  COSSAC, 142; see also Morgan

  Cottbus, 357, 391-92

  Courland army, 85, 227, 403

  Crabill, Colonel Edwin “Buckshot,” 319-20

  Crerar, Lieutenant General Henry D., 129, 179

  Cunegundes, Mother Superior, 25, 59, 370-71, 455, 464-65, 491-92

  Cyanide capsules, 32, 423, 495, 498, 504

  D

  Dahlem, 17-18, 166, 277, 458-59

  Dahlem, Haus, 25-26, 59, 370-71, 455-56, 464-65, 491-92

  Dahlem Press Club, 370

  Dahlwitz, 358

  Davey, Lieutenant Robert, 135

  Davison, Captain Wilfred, 281

  Deane, Major General John R., 79n, 231, 233, 239, 240, 243, 335-36

  Deans, Warrant Officer James “Dixie,” 190, 294-96, 389-90, 410-12, 507-9

  De Gaulle, Brigadier General Charles, Roosevelt and, 145-46

  Delaunay, Jacques, 262, 372

  Dempsey, Lieutenant General Sir Miles, 179

  Second Army of, 44, 126, 129, 135, 326

  Denmark, 234, 330, 446

  “Desert Rats” (7th Armored Division), 128, 134, 135, 280-81

  Dessau, 297, 298

  De Tassigny, General Jean de Lattre, 130

  Dethleffsen, General Erich, 413, 416-17, 427, 438, 466, 467, 468

  Detmold, 290

  Deutsche Union Bank, 138

  Deutschlandsender, 168

  Devenney, Captain John J., 288

  Devers, Lieutenant General Jacob, 180, 202

  Sixth Army Group of, 130, 237, 283, 329

  Diburtz, Georg, 374, 387

  Diekermann, Ruth, 262

  Dieppe, 128

  Disney, Colonel Paul A., 180, 181, 304, 305, 309, 316-17

  Dittmar, Eberhard, 446

  Dittmar, Lieutenant General Kurt, 446

  Djilas, Milovan, 246, 493n

  Döberitz, 434, 448

  Doenitz, Grand Admiral Karl, 27n, 339, 403, 435

  as commander in north, 404

  at Führerbunker conference with Heinrici, 260, 261, 265, 268, 271, 272

  named President of Germany, 496-97, 500

  Domäne Dahlem dairy, 17-18, 57, 458-59

  Dominican nuns, 486

  Dorn (driver), 296

  Dresden, 65, 336, 466

  Eisenhower’s plans to advance on, 202, 203, 215, 217, 232, 237, 249, 283

  Dufving, Lieutenant Colonel Theodor von, 109, 398, 466, 499-501, 503

  Duke of York, H.M.S., 143n

  DUKWs, 314, 316, 317, 319, 323

  Dunkirk, 128

  Durand-Wever, Dr. Anne-Marie, 30-31

  Düsseldorf, 147

  Dustmann, Dr. Karl, 405

  Dutch Intelligence Service, 119

  Dutch volunteers in German Army, 222

  E

  EAC (European Advisory Commission), 144, 149-54, 157-59

  Eagle’s Nest, 125, 210

  East-West Axis, 15, 502

  landing strip on, 378-79, 482-83

  Eberhard, Elisabeth, 460

  Eberhard, Robert, 170

  Eberswalde, 395, 414-15, 423, 505

  Echtmann, Fritz, 505, 506

  Eclipse, see Operation Eclipse

  Eden, Anthony, 142, 143, 150, 496

  Ehrenburg, Ilya, hate manifesto of, 27

  Eisenach, 116, 144

  Eisenhower, General of the Army Dwight D., 126, 135, 139, 140, 160, 165, 177, 235n

  arrives in London, 153

  Berlin drive and, 198-202, 206-9, 217, 236, 238, 278-80, 292, 321, 330, 331

  broad-front strategy of, 202-3

  as chain-smoker, 198

  at concentration camp, 328-29

  criticisms of, 204

  decides to strike across central Germany, 215-17

  Marshall and, 199, 214-15, 216

  message to Stalin by, 215-16, 231-36, 240, 243

  as nonpolitical soldier, 199-200

  opposed by Montgomery, 202-6, 232, 233-34, 240-41

  Reims headquarters of, 197-98

  Stalin’s reply to, 251-52, 253

  Eismann, Colonel Hans Georg, 92-93, 221-25, 228, 229, 258-61, 264-65, 267, 268, 274, 277, 301, 334, 351, 428, 475

  Elbe

  American attempt to seize bridges of, 306-9, 312-13

  American bridging of, 314-17, 319-20

  Americans and Russians meet on, 187-88, 470-72

  Americans forbidden to drive east of, 331-32, 365-66, 388

  Anglo-American drive for, 135-36, 140, 165, 199, 217, 242, 280-94, 304-5, 329-30

  Twelfth German Army on, 277, 297-98, 323-25

  as zonal boundary, 116

  Elbenau, 317

  Elections (1932), 52

  Elizabeth, Czarina of Russia, 319

  Erfurt, 215, 217

  Erickson, Professor John, 248n, 506n

  Erkner, 372, 505

  Espionage, see Intelligence agents

  Estonia, 142

  Eumenes II, King, 167

  Evacuation of Berlin, 217-20, 404-7

  Evers, Gertrud, 408

  Exchange 500, 79, 433

  F

  Factories, 16, 372, 494

  foreign workers in, 48-51

  ordered destroyed, 409

  Falingbostel, 294, 295, 389

  Farrand, Colonel, Edward Gilbert, 288-89

  Faupel, Lieutenant General Wilhelm, 32<
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  Fegelein, SS Gruppenführer Hermann, 496

  Feiler, Hertha, 32

  Feis, Herbert, 159n

  Feldheim, Private Willy, 112, 385-86, 399

  Fesler (guard), 50

  Finland, 142

  Finnell, Captain John, 317

  Finow, 505

  Finsterwald, 393

  Fire companies, 450, 479-80

  Food, 38, 409-10, 450-53

  Foreign Affairs Ministry building, 302

  Foreign laborers, 48-51

  Foreign Ministers Conference (Moscow), 143

  Fortifications of Berlin, 65-66, 375, 376, 380-84, 478-79

  ring system described, 380-82

  Russians enter Citadel, 481-82

  Russians enter second ring, 457

  Francies, Lieutenant Merritt Duane, 126-27, 190, 310-12

  Frankfurt-on-Main, 116, 139, 238

  Frankfurt-on-Oder, 87, 89, 265-69, 276-77, 364, 438

  Franklin, William F., 159n

  Franseckystrasse, 442

  Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, 212n

  Frederick II, King of Prussia, 319

  Free French Forces, 145

  French Embassy building (Berlin), 378

  French First Army, 130

  French occupation zone, 162

  Frey Bridge, 480

  Friedenau, 19, 369

  Friedrichshain, 167, 382, 481

  Friedrichstrasse Station, 418, 501, 502

  Führer, see Hitler

  Führerbunker, 341, 483

  described, 259-60, 424-25, 448

  disintegration in, 467, 494

  escape from, 500-2

  Eva Braun arrives at, 359

  Goebbels moves to, 437

  Russians enter, 503-4

  Speer’s plan to gas, 333

  SS guards at, 258, 259

  suicides in, 497-98, 501-2

  Funerals, 24, 452

  Fürstenberg, 476

  G

  G Tower, see Zoo Bunker (Zoo towers)

  Gareis, General Martin, 299

  Gatow Airfield, 121, 125, 479

  Gavin, Major General James M., 119-24, 179, 281

  Gehlen, Major General Reinhard, 85, 104, 107, 227, 335

  General-Barby-Strasse, 488

  German air force, see Luftwaffe

  German armed forces

  armored units transferred south, 257, 260, 270, 272-73, 353

  desertions in, 437, 480

  divisional strength in, 131

  Hitler’s errors as commander of, 84-85, 89, 130-31, 256-57, 273

  1939 clash in Poland with Russian Army, 209

  push Americans back across Elbe, 323-25

  smashed on Western Front, 130-31, 282-92 See also Oder front; OKH; OKW

  German Armed Forces High Command, see OKW

  German armed-forces units

  ARMY GROUPS

  B (Model), 131, 282, 396

  Center (Schörner), 87, 257, 270, 353, 385, 416, 438

  Vistula, 70, 76, 82-84, 87-94, 220-24, 265-74, 299-300, 335, 342, 351-53, 385, 394-99, 413-16, 427-28, 437-39, 472-73, 476-77

  ARMIES

  First Panzer, 70, 76

  Third Panzer, 87, 222, 265-66, 299, 352, 353, 394-96, 402, 415, 423, 438, 472-73, 476-77

  Fourth, 73-74, 75, 416

  Sixth, 300

  Seventh, 375

  Ninth, 88-89, 93-94, 222, 224-26, 265-66, 342, 351-53, 362-65, 384, 395, 396-98, 400, 404, 414-16, 423, 434, 436, 438-39, 444, 447, 449, 472-73, 509-10

  Eleventh, 277

  Twelfth, 275-76, 277, 296-99, 323-25, 365-66, 436, 439, 443-45, 449, 466, 467, 472, 510

  GROUP, Steiner, 395, 423, 426-27, 449, 466, 472-74

  CORPS

  3rd SS, 395

  11th SS, 365

  46th Panzer, 299

  56th Panzer (Weidling), 364-65, 396-98, 415, 428, 434, 447-49, 478, 481, 482, 502

  101st, 365

  Great Germany, 400

  DIVISIONS

  2nd Parachute, 301

  3rd Navy, 474

  4th SS Police, 414

  5th Panzer, 474

  7th Panzer, 395

  9th Parachute, 267, 269, 300, 365, 397

  18th Panzer Grenadier, 396-97

  20th Panzer Grenadier, 94, 365

  25th Panzer Grenadier, 93-94, 352, 474

  Clausewitz, 298

  Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, 298

  Frundsberg, 403

  Müncheberg Panzer, 365

  Nederland, 222

  Nordland, 222, 396-97

  Potsdam, 298, 299, 315

  Scharnhorst, 298, 299, 315

  Theodor Körner, 298

  Ulrich von Hutten, 298, 299, 315

  German Army High Command, see OKH

  German Navy, 53-54, 223, 271, 272, 474

  German prisoners of war

  of Russians, 429-30

  in West, 291, 326

  German women in armed forces, 289-90

  Germendorf, 474

  Gerow, Lieutenant General Leonard, 129

  Gestapo, 32, 38, 39, 41, 43

  Getman, General Andreya Levrentevich, 194, 361

  Gillem, Major General Alvan C., Jr., 304

  Gneisenau, Field Marshal Graf von, 66, 269, 373

  Gobelin tapestries, 168

  Goebbels, Dr. Joseph, 28n, 64, 171, 174, 210, 230, 338, 403, 479n, 496, 498

  appointed Reichschancellor, 497

  attempts to surrender Berlin, 498-500

  in defense of Berlin, 377-78, 399-400, 405

  moves to Chancellery, 437

  propaganda of, 29-30, 371, 373, 430, 459

  Goebbels, Dr. Joseph (continued)

  refuses to order evacuation of Berlin, 217-20

  Roosevelt’s death and, 319

  suicide of, 495, 501, 503-4, 505

  Goebbels, Magda, 339, 437, 467, 497, 515

  children of, 339, 495, 501, 504, 505

  suicide of, 495, 501, 503-4

  Goering, Emmy, 469

  Goering, Reichsmarschall Hermann, 75, 103n, 170, 214, 338, 404, 405

  arrested by SS, 468-69

  evacuates Karinhall, 401-3

  at Führerbunker conference with Heinrici, 267-72

  Heinrici and, 269, 300-1, 397

  as Hitler’s deputy, 435, 436, 468-69

  Golbach, Major General Walter, 479n

  Golbov, Captain Sergei Ivai.ovich, 33-34, 302-3, 345-46, 349, 350, 429-30

  Gotha, 328-29

  Götterdämmerung, Die, 175, 212, 375, 386-87

  Grawitz, Professor Ernst, 406-7

  Graziani, Marshal Rudolfo, 376

  Great Fatherland War of the Soviet Union 1941-45, The, 355n

  Greim, Field Marshal Robert Ritter von, 482-83

  Gresse, 389, 410

  Groza, Petru, 162

  Gruban-Souchay restaurant, 36, 453-54

  Grünewald (Berlin), 479, 480

  Grünewalde, 317, 324

  Guderian, Colonel General Heinz, 76-78, 94, 107, 222, 275

  discusses battle plans with Heinrici, 81-90

  goes to Bavaria, 229-30

  relieved as Chief of OKH, 225-29

  Guingand, Major General Sir Francis de, 103, 203, 206

  Gumbach, Corporal “Charlie,” 390, 411-12, 507-9

  Günsche, SS Colonel Otto, 259, 496-98, 502

  Gusev, Fedor T., 149, 153, 154n, 158, 159, 183

  H

  Hadley, Lieutenant Arthur T., 134

  Hagedorn, Captain Walter, 483, 514

  Hagemann, Lieutenant General Wolf, 111, 510

  Haller, Annemarie, see Hückel

  Halt, Karl Ritter von, 479

  Hambert, Philippe, 405

  Hamburg, 145, 155, 202, 329, 426

  Hamelin, 291-92

  Handy, Major General Thomas T., 149, 163

  Hanover, 202, 283

  captured, 292, 295

  Happich, Father Bernhard, 25-26, 371, 455-56, 492

  Harriman, W. Averell, 164, 183, 231, 335

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sp; Harz Mountains, 100, 277, 296, 297

  Haus Dahlem, 25-26, 59, 370-71, 455-56, 464-65, 491-92

  Haushofer, Albrecht, 440, 442n

  Haymaker, Sergeant Leonard, 313

  Heck, Lutz, 62, 170, 408, 484

  Heckscher, Sergeant Edmund, 479

  Heger, Robert, 171, 387

  Heinrici, Colonel General Gotthard, 105

  attempts to build up Oder front, 222-24

  background of, 71-76

  called to Führerbunker, 257-61, 264-74

  called to Zossen, 70-71, 76-90

  command of Berlin and, 220-21, 230, 413-14

  dismissed, 476-77, 506-7

  Eclipse maps and, 104, 363-64

  Goering and, 269, 300-1, 397

  insists on Bieler’s reinstatement, 276-77

  orders retreat, 475-76

  Russian offensive and, 299-300, 335, 342, 351-53, 384-85, 413-16, 437-39, 472-76

  Speer’s visit to, 332-35

  Steiner attack and, 423, 427, 473, 474

  takes over from Himmler, 91-95

  withdrawal tactic of, 73-74, 299, 342, 351, 360-61

  Heinroth, Dr. Katherina, 63, 170

  “Hell on Wheels” (2nd Armored Division), 128, 132-34, 284-85, 288, 289, 291-93, 304-9, 314-17, 319, 322-25, 330, 388

  Hellriegel, Private Hermann, 479

  Henneberg, Professor Georg, 409, 494

  Hennell, Sergeant Major Charles, 281

  Hermannplatz, 417, 451

  Heusermann, Käthe Reiss, 54-56, 64, 405-7, 505-6

  Hewel, Walter, 417

  Higgins, Brigadier General Gerald J., 124, 125

  Hildesheim, 283-84, 292

  Hildring, Major General John H., 159n

  Himmler, Reichsführer SS Heinrich, 32, 214, 338, 403, 407, 435

  as army group commander, 82-84

  at Führerbunker conference with Heinrici, 260, 265, 268, 271

  Heinrici takes over from, 91-95

  peace negotiations of, 94, 404, 469-70, 496

  Hindenburg, Paul von, 52

  Hindenburgstrasse, 453

  Hinds, Brigadier General Sidney R., 314, 316-17, 322-23, 325, 331-32

  Hitler, Adolf, 78, 97, 103n, 125, 214, 230, 337, 386, 428

  appoints Himmler army group commander, 82

  appoints Von Greim head of Luftwaffe, 482-83

  attempted assassination of (1944), 45-47, 259, 264

  Berlin’s attitude to, 52, 372

  birthday of, 303, 401-2, 403-4, 409

  body of, 341, 498, 504-5

  Hitler, Adolf (continued)

  decides to stay in Berlin, 404-5, 434-37

  dental work on, 55-56, 505-6

  on evacuation of Berlin, 218-19

  on future of National Socialism, 497

  Heinrici and, 74-76, 82, 264-74, 276-77

  his whereabouts a secret, 23, 56, 136, 400-1, 435, 446