Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany (38 page)

Broadcasting House
169

The Daily Dozen
75

Forces Programme
84

news bulletins
169–70

reports on concentration camps
69

Teaching Soldiers to Read
124

Bedell Smith, Major-General Walter
233
,
245–6

Beer Hall Putsch
20–1
,
37

Beerbohm, Hans-Heinrich
190

Behrens, Manja
113

von Below, Nicolaus
70
,
133–4
,
141
,
185
,
289

Benn, Tony
192–3

Berchtesgaden
97
,
269–70

Bergen-Belsen
67
,
68–9
,
101
,
166–8
,
169
,
200
,
231

Berghof, Obersalzberg
54
,
97

Berlin
see also
Reichstag

citizens surrender
162

food shortages
82
,
223
,
269

Hitler plans for relief
175–6

Hitler Youth defences
158

Olympic Stadium
181

Pichelsdorf Bridge
158
,
178
,
195

plans for Berlin relief
175–6

Russian advance
26
,
32
,
43
,
44
,
72
,
95
,
100
,
280

Tiergarten
44
,
51
,
176

Wenck attempts to create escape route
113
,
176

Wilhelmstrasse
104

Berlin, Irving
15

Bernadotte, Count Folke
24
,
59
,
60
,
150

Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands
226
,
227
,
233

Birkenau
234

Bletchley Park
149–50
,
158
,
160
,
169

Bloemraad, H.
170

Blondi (dog)
111–12
,
151–2

Blum, Léon
40
,
255

Boldt, Gerhard

after the war
290

discusses Hitler’s marriage
75–6

escape options
95

escaping through Berlin
159
,
176
,
178
,
181
,
185
,
195
,
271
,
274

leaves bunker
133

plan to contact Wenck
103–4
,
112
,
125

sleeping arrangements
75–6

Bond, James
143
,
231
,
294

Boniface Reports
261

von Bonin, Colonel Bogislav
120–1

Bormann, Gerda
113
,
292

Bormann, Martin

appearance
56–7

attempts to escape
291–2

background
291

contacts Russians
273

death
292

discusses action after Hitler’s death
260

drafts Göring’s dismissal order
44

drinking
112–13
,
199

farewell meeting with Hitler
248

Hitler informs him of planned death
232

informs Dönitz of succession
266

murder of Kadow
58

nickname
57
,
291

possibly seen by David Niven
221

removes Hitler and Braun’s bodes
252–3

secretarial role
57–8
,
191
,
291

sex life
113

wakes on Monday
214

witnesses Hitler’s final testament
70

witnesses Hitler’s marriage
54
,
56

writes diary entry
73

Borsum, Lisa
216

Bowlly, Al
15–16
,
28

Bracker, Milton
99

Brandenburg Gate
44
,
51

Braun, Eva

appearance
31

begs for life of brother-in-law
33

body discovered
314

bunker room
32

chooses final clothes
232
,
238

discusses death
140–1

drinks with staff
59
,
62
,
191

earlier suicide attempt
54

final letters
45
,
294–5
,
308

gives fur coat to Traudl Junge
225

goes to Reich Chancellery garden
201

last meeting with staff
248–9

lunch with Hitler
140

marries Hitler
26
,
31
,
42
,
52–3
,
54
,
55–6
,
58–9
,
62

meets Hitler
53–4

nickname for Hitler
54

opinion of Bormann
57

sleeping arrangements
72

suicide
194
,
252

Braun, Gretl
33
,
248
,
294–5

von Braun, Wernher
208
,
209–10

Braunau-am-Inn
276

Bremen
142–3
,
229–31

British Army Film and Photo Unit
99
,
100
,
168

Britten, Benjamin
168

Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Alan
264–5

Brooklyn Navy Yard
161

Brown, Richard
149

Buchenwald
47
,
207
,
220
,
276

Buckner, General Simon Bolivar
201–2

Burgdorf, General Wilhelm

background
63

death
292
,
303

discusses action after Hitler’s death
260

drinking
112–13
,
199

witnesses Hitler’s final testament
70

burials

Fegelein, Hermann
32

Hitler, Adolf
265–6

Burma
128–9
,
144
,
150–1
,
283–5

Burma Defence Army
284

Burney, Captain C.A.G.
276

Busse, General
176
,
313

Cadogan, Sir Alexander
315

Capa, Robert
171

Chamberlain, Neville
149

Channel Islands occupation
212–14

chemical weapons
231

Chequers
176
,
182
,
224

chewing gum
159

Chicago Herald-American
105
,
198–9

Cho, General Isamu
126
,
152

Christian, Gerda

decides to break out
279

escapes from bunker
292–3

escaping through Berlin
302

farewell meeting with Hitler
248

Hitler gives her cyanide
141

last meal with Hitler
237

sleeping in Führerbunker
38
,
199

Christianity in Japan
34

Chuikov, General
302–3

Churchill, Winston

after the war
293

announces end of London bombings
50–1

arrival in Downing Street on Monday
260–1

character
177–8

film watching
176–7

health
183

hears of German surrender in Italy
177
,
182

learns of Hitler’s death
287–8

opinion of Stalin
63

relationship with Montgomery
173

sends Poland cable
146–7

sets himself on fire
224–5

telegrams to Truman
65
,
261

visits Reich Chancellery
315

War Cabinet meetings
264–5

work habits
225

Yalta Conference
65–7

clothing

from Auschwitz
138

plunder
139

wedding dresses
31
,
52–3

Cold War
270

Colville, Sir Jock
147
,
183

concentration camps
see also
Auschwitz;

Bergen-Belsen; Birkenau; Buchenwald;
Dachau; Mauthausen; Ravensbrück;
Sachsenhausen

experiments on prisoners
189
,
231

food after liberation
211

Confessing Church
40
,
180

Cooke, Alistair
106–7
,
122

Coward, Noël
274–5

Cox, Major Geoffrey

after the war
293

opinion on German soldiers
101–2
,
145

Padua
64–5
,
73–4
,
80
,
100–1
,
123
,
130

Trieste orders
161

Venice
154–5
,
236
,
254
,
259–60
,
270

Cramer, Annmarie
217–18

Cramer, Ernst
217
,
218

Crimea
65–6

Cunningham, Sir Andrew
264

cutlery
69

cyanide
140–1
,
151–2
,
194
,
252

Czechoslovakia
60
,
169
,
215
,
228–9
,
261

D-Day
27

Dachau

Allied liberation
98
,
120
,
128
,
134–6
,
147–9
,
210–11
,
250

crematorium
243

hospital
223–4

railway wagons
131–2
,
203

Schenck’s experiments
189

signposts
203

Daily Express
209
,
262
,
278

Daily Mail
230

Daily Telegraph
206–7

Dalzel-Job, Lieutenant Commander Patrick
141–3
,
163
,
165
,
171
,
293–4

Damaschke, Willi
214

dancing
171–2

Danish prisoners
216

Davies, Joseph E.
256–7

de Guingand, Major-General Sir Francis
90
,
226
,
233
,
238
,
245

de Jong, Arie
91

Deedes, Major Bill
269

Dempster, Captain Edward
179
,
182
Denmark
216

diary sources
27
,
93
,
149
,
229

Dietrich, Captain Willi
162
,
163
,
179

Dimbleby, Richard
69

Ditzen, Elisabeth
241

dogs
111–12
,
151–2

Dönitz, Admiral Karl

after the war
294

appointed by Hitler as successor
36
,
87
,
266

informs Himmler of succession
271–2
,
285

meets with Himmler
244

ordered to act against traitors
191

ordered to arrest Himmler
74

orders retreat from Czechoslovakia
169

sends instructions to rescue couriers
272–3

U-boat design
281

Dr Koester’s Anti-Gas Pills
110–11

Dresden
90–1
,
138

von Dufving, Colonel
268

Dutch resistance
88
,
92

Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich
see
Stalin, Joseph

Dzhugashvili, Yakov (Stalin’s son)
42

Earle, Major Peter
173

East Prussia evacuation
218

eavesdropping
100

Eden, Anthony
66
,
105

Eichorn, Rabbi David
134

Eichstätt
76

Eisenhower, General Dwight D.
79
,
89
,
220
,
261
,
274

Eisenhower, John
219–21

Elphinstone, John
42

Etkind, Michael
288

eugenics
22

executions

Fegelein, Hermann
32
,
35

Scholl, Sophie
36

von Falkenhausen, General Alexander
61–2

Farrell, General Edelmiro
282

Fegelein, Gretl
see
Braun, Gretl

Fegelein, Hermann
32–3
,
35
,
248

Fisher, Private Manny
166

Flegel, Sister Erna
189
,
295
,
311

Fleming, Ian
142
,
143
,
231
,
294

food airdrops
89–92
,
226

food shortages
82
,
89
,
97
,
159
,
223

Fortheimer, Adolf
22

Frank, Anne
69
,
247

Frank, Karl Hermann
158
,
160
,
169
,
215
,
228

Frank, Otto
247

fraternisation
139–40

Freyberg, General
74

von Friedeburg, Admiral
174

Friedlander, Richard
46
,
47

Friedmann, Sarah
211