Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany (39 page)

Frölich, Erika
186–7
,
221–2
,
285

Führerbunker

construction
23–4

Hitler’s bedroom
109

Hitler’s study
50
,
69
,
258

Fulton, James
163

furniture
32

G, Lieselotte
164–5

gas chambers
234
,
266

Germany, Yalta Conference agreement
66

Gerzen, Henry
136

Gestapo
see also
Müller, Heinrich

creation
22

escaping Germany via ‘White Buses’
216

headquarters assault
73

Gies, Miep
247

Goebbels children

bodies discovered
314

breakfast
208

bunker bedroom
47

clothes
206

last bedtime
272

last meal
250
,
252

murdered
295

playing
71–2
,
118–19
,
248

singing
156

Goebbels, Harald
45
,
47
,
48

Goebbels, Joseph

appearance
56–7

asked to arrange Hitler’s marriage
26
,
42

becomes Propaganda Minister
22

body discovered
314

contacts Russians
273

decision to commit suicide
47
,
71

diaries
314

dictates final testament
70–1
,
73

discusses action after Hitler’s death
260

early opinion of Hitler
57

farewell meeting with Hitler
248
,
249
,
250

final letters
45
,
48–9
,
308

Hitler Youth farewel party
156

meets Magda
47

propaganda mythology
57

stays in Berlin
24
,
71

suicide
295

title
56

witnesses Hitler’s final testament
70

witnesses Hitler’s marriage
54
,
56

Goebbels, Magda

body discovered
314

bunker room
46

decision to commit suicide
47
,
48

early life
46–7

farewell meeting with Hitler
248
,
250
,
251

final letters
45
,
48
,
308

health
47

listens to children have breakfast
208

meets Joseph
47

puts children to bed
272

status
46

suicide
295

unofficial first lady role
46

Goebel, Robert
137

Goldner, Leo
210–11

Gonin, Lieutenant Colonel Mervin
168

Gorch Fock
190

Gordon-Creed, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey
242–3

Göring, Hermann

after the war
295–6

Beer Hall Putsch
20–1

dismissed by Hitler
26
,
36–7
,
43–4

morphine addiction
21

Nuremberg trials
234–5

von Grab, Alice
222–3

Greenbaum, Clara
68

von Greim, Robert Ritter

appointed Commander of Luftwaffe
42–3

arrives at Rechlin
58

capture
296
,
308

heads for Lübeck
62
,
67

heads for Plön Castle
72
,
74–5

injury
44
,
72

leaves Berlin
51

leaves bunker
44

ordered to mobilise Luftwaffe
45

orders mobilisation of Luftwaffe
58

suicide
296

Gretz, Hermann
271
,
272
,
273

Grossman, Vasily
82

Guderian, General Heinz
63

Guerisse, Albert (aka Pat O’Leary)
134–5

‘Guernsey Underground Barbers’
213

Günsche, Otto
235
,
248
,
251
,
253
,
258
,
279
,
296–7

Haarlem
246–7

Haase, Dr Werner
151
,
189
,
190
,
194
,
297
,
311

Halton, Matthew
276

Hancock, Walter
81

‘happiness hats’
91–2

Hargrave, Michael
67–8
,
94–5
,
165–6
,
167–8

Harrison, George L.
257–8

von Hassell, Fey
204
,
205
,
297

von Hassell, Ulrich
205

Hawks, Jane
107

Hepburn-Rushton, Audrey
88–9

Hess, Rudolf
19
,
177

Heyden, Mickey
101

Heydrich, Reinhard
215

Hibberd, Stuart
169–70

Hiedler, Johann Nepomuk
55

Higgins, Marguerite
148
,
149

Hillers, Marta
87–8

Himmler, Heinrich

after the war
298

astrology
59
,
60

attempts to negotiate
24–5
,
26
,
33
,
59–60
,
216–17

attitude on compassion
61

authorises release of Scandinavian prisoners
216–17

Beer Hall Putsch
20–1

contact with Karl Frank
158
,
169

denies negotiation attempts
150
,
244

dismissed by Hitler
37

execution ordered by Hitler
26
,
45

learns of Dönitz’s succession
271–2
,
285

meets with Dönitz
244

resident in Hohenlychen sanatorium
24

self-opinion
24

SS development
21

von Hindenberg, Field Marshal
81

Hirohito, Emperor
284

Hiroshima
122

Hitchcock, Alfred
168–9

Hitler, Adolf
see also Mein Kampf

ancestry
54–5

appearance

in 1945
25
,
189

genitals
55

moustache
109

assassination attempts
62

before WW2

1939 speech to Reichstag
23

appointed Chancellor of Germany
22

early relationship with Goebbels
57

first public speech in Munich
19

meets Eva
53–4

prisoner in Landsberg
21

takes leadership of Nazis
19–20

birthday
25

character and habits

aggression as youth
17–18

barber’s opinion
109

bedtime preparations
72

dressing ritual
108–9

film watching
177

grief on mother’s death
16
-17

love of Munich
240

manic depression
17

monologues
237–8

sex life
72

teetotalism
59

vegetarianism
235

cutlery
69

dogs
111–12
,
151–2

early life

childhood
16
-17

First World War experience
16
,
18–19

as young adult
17–18
,
240

in Führerbunker

asks for update on Berlin
197–8
,
199–200

bedroom
109

daily conference on Monday
227–8

dictates final testament
26
,
35–7

discusses future of Germany
237

goes to Reich Chancellery garden
203

hears of Mussolini’s death
175

last meal
235
,
237

last meeting with staff
248–9

marries Eva Braun
26
,
42
,
52–3
,
54
,
55–6
,
58–9
,
62

permanently moves in February
24

study
50

health

digestion
110–11

eyesight
110
,
111
,
175
,
188

hypochondria
111

Parkinson’s disease
111
,
189

nickname
54

orders and commands

action against traitors
191

agrees to allow soldiers to attempt breakout
228

appoints successors
36

discusses plan to contact Wenck
125

dismisses Göring
26
,
43–4

dismisses Himmler
37

instructs Speer to destroy infrastructure
23

orders execution of Hermann Fegelein
32–3

orders execution of Himmler
26

orders execution of
Prominente
41–2

orders execution of Weidling
228

orders Linge to burn bodies
49–50

releases staff
187
,
249–50

propaganda mythology
57

suicide

bodies buried
265–6

bodies burnt
253–4

body discovered
314

British celebrations
287

carries it out
252

discusses death
140–1

informs Bormann
232

kept secret from staff
273

makes decision
36
,
37

official announcement
287–8

plans method
194

Hitler, Alois
16

Hitler, Eva
see
Braun, Eva

Hitler, Klara
16–17
,
55

Hitler, Paula
16
,
55

Hitler Youth

conversion from Boy Scouts
241

Goebbels’ farewell party
156

Pichelsdorf Bridge
158
,
195

runners
95
,
100
,
103
,
104

HMS
Goodall
163
,
179

HMS
Loch Insh
179
,
182

Hofbeck, Hans
35

Hoffman photographic studio
53

Holland
see
The Netherlands

Holmes, Marian
177
,
224

Holste, General Rudolf
176

Hong Kong
130

Hopkins, Harry
256–7

hospitals

Bergen-Belsen
166–7

Dachau
223–4

Königsberg
180
,
197
,
221–2
,
279–80
,
285

Reich Chancellery
32
,
160
,
188–9

Reichenhall
130–1

Höss, Rudolf
58

Hudson, Wing Commander Lionel ‘Bill’
128–30
,
144
,
150–1
,
185–6
,
283–5
,
298

Humphries, Bunny
153

Ichijima, Yasuo
33–4

Indian National Army
284

Iron Curtain
271

Italy

Allied advance
64–5
,
74
,
123

German surrender
144–5
,
177

partisans
74
,
99
,
117
,
236
,
259–60

Ito, Haruo
151
,
298

Japan, Christianity
34

Japanese forces
129–30
,
150–1
see also
Okinawa

Jefferson, Flight Lieutenant Alexander
94

Jemmett, Peter
143

Jodl, General Alfred
175–6
,
191
,
288
,
298–9

Johannmeier, Willi
87
,
119–20
,
158
,
190
,
272–3
,
299–300

Johnston, Lieutenant Colonel James
166
,
167

Joyce, Margaret
262
,
263
,
301

Joyce, William
261–4
,
300–1

Junge, Traudl

after the war
301–2

awareness of Hitler’s death
253
,
258

decides to break out
279

escaping through Berlin
301–2

farewell meeting with Hitler
248
,
249

given fur coat by Eva Braun
225

Hitler gives her cyanide
141

last meal with Hitler
237

looks after Goebbels children
71–2
,
119
,
250
,
252
,
253

lunch with Hitler on Sunday
140

memoirs
36

moves typewriter fr wedding ceremony
42

need for father figure
38

sleeping in Führerbunker
38
,
199

takes Goebbels’ final testament
71–2
,
73

takes Hitler’s final testament
26
,
35–7
,
59
,
70

Kadow, Walther
58

Kallman, Chester
156

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
150