Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany (40 page)

kamikaze pilots
33–4

Kästner, Erich
85

Keitel, General Wilhelm
302

Kempka, Erich
52
,
235
,
253
,
303–4

Kennedy, John F.
105–6
,
198–9
,
309

Kersten, Felix
24
,
216–17

Koch, Hans Henrick
215–16

Kola Inlet
162
,
163

Koller, Karl
43

Königsberg
180
,
186
,
188
,
197
,
221–2
,
279–80
,
285

Koplin, Private Kenneth
99

Kotzebue, Albert
77

Kovchenko, Ivan
280

Kramer, Josef
68

Kramers, Major
222

Krebs, General Hans

agrees to allow soldiers to attempt breakout
228

background
62–3

contact with army headquarters
103

contacts Russians
273
,
279
,
302–3

discusses action after Hitler’s death
260

drinking
112–13
,
199

informs Weidling of sentence
228

plan to contact Wenck
112
,
124–5

sleeping arrangements
75
,
76

suicide
303

witnesses Hitler’s final testament
70

Kuhlmann, Staff Lieutenant Franz
156–7

Kupfer-Koberwitz, Edgar
205–6

Lago di Braies hotel
204–5
,
255–6

Landsberg prison
21

Lapham, Eric
78

‘laughter traps’
164

Leckwitz
77

Lehmann, Armin
25
,
27
,
82
,
104

von Lehndorff, Dr Hans Graf

after the war
304

capture
180

Christianity
180

delivers twins
285

eats sugar
186

latrines
188

observes Erika Frölich
186–7
,
221–2

patient deaths
197
,
279–80

Leidig, Commander Franz
256

Lickorish, Captain Adrian
300–1

Linden, General Henning
148–9

Lindloff, Ewald
258
,
265–6
,
304

Linge, Heinz

after the war
304

clears Hitler’s study
258

congratulates Eva on marriage
59

dictates final testament
59

farewell meeting with Hitler
248
,
249–50

final closing of study door
251

loyalty to Hitler
49

opinion on Walther Wagner
42

ordered to burn Hitler bodies
49–50
,
52
,
249

removes Hitler and Braun’s bodes
252–3

as valet
108–9
,
110–11
,
175
,
199–200

lipstick
168

Lofer, Austria
85
,
102–3

Lomas, Donald
284

London

arrival of German POWs
217

sleeping in Underground
50–1

snow
188

St Paul’s cathedral
200

looting
80–1
,
139
,
142
,
241

Lord Haw-Haw
see
Joyce, William

Lorenz, Heinz
87
,
119–20
,
158
,
190
,
272–3
,
299
,
300

von Loringhoven, Bernd Freytag

after the war
290–1

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

Luftwaffe

von Greim appointed Commander
42–3

ordered to mobilise
45
,
58

malnutrition in The Netherlands
89
,
247

Manchester Guardian
106
,
107

Manhattan Project
258

Mann, Erika
155–6

Manziarly, Constanze
235
,
237
,
248
,
273
,
279
,
305

Margerison, Major Neil
123–4

Markovna, Nina
137–9
,
159
,
171–2
,
305

Markt Schellenberg
25

Marshall, General George
257
,
261

Martin, Sergeant John
133

Masur, Norbert
24–5
,
217

Maurice, Emil
109–10
,
305

Mauthausen
266–7

McNamara, Joseph
34

Mein Kampf
16
,
17
,
18–19
,
21
,
240

Menuhin, Yehudi
168

Menzies, Sir Stewart
260–1

Michel, Ernst
233–5

Mickey Mouse
177

Milan
63–4
,
98–9
,
115
,
132
,
144

Milburn, Alan
92–3
,
207

Milburn, Clara
92–3
,
207

Millichamp, Ivy
50–1

Ministry for Information, British
168

Ministry of the Interior
194–5
,
196
,
197

Misch, Rochus

after the war
306

appearance
44–5

asked for radio updates
187

desire to escape
44–5

establishing contact with Russians
271
,
273

in Führerbunker
35

Goebbels children rhyme
119

order to radio Jodl
175–6

receives reply from Jodl
191

sees Heinrich Müller
241–2

sleeps
182

waiting for Gestapo
258–9

Mittelstädt, Herbert
288

Mohnke, General Wilhelm
197–8
,
228
,
260
,
279
,
296
,
302
,
306

Molotov, Vyacheslav
107–8
,
282
,
283

Monte Cassino
100

Montgomery, General Sir Bernard
172–4
,
306

Monuments Men
81

Moorehead, Alan
80
,
127
,
278

Moosburg
see
Stalag VII-A Moosham Castle
153–4
,
196

Morell, Theodor
111

Morgan, Lieutenant General
144–5

moustaches
109

Müller, Heinrich
242
,
306–7

Munich

air raid
84

Allied advance
73
,
97–8
,
240
,
243–4

Beer Hall Putsch
20–1
,
37

Eva Braun’s house
54

Hitler’s first public speech
19

Hitler’s love
240

Hoffman photographic studio
53

Musser, Arland
136

Mussolini, Benito
20
,
63–4
,
98–9
,
144
,
169–70
,
175
,
200–1

NASA
210

Nassua, Bahamas
239

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP)
see
Nazis

Naumann, Werner
150

Nazis
see also
SS

Allied discussion of war criminal trails
242

Hitler becomes leader
19–20

at Landsberg prison
21

newspaper
243

The Netherlands
89–92
,
226–7
,
233
,
238
,
244–5
,
246–7

Neustroev, Captain Stepan
195
,
260

New York Times
282

newspaper reports

America on Monday morning
236

Chicago Herald-American
105
,
198–9

Daily Mail
230

Daily Telegraph
207

Manchester Guardian
107

Observer
83

press conferences
202

The Times
200–1

nicknames
54
,
57
,
161
,
291

Nicolson, Harold
170

Niemoller, Pastor Martin
40
,
180

Niven, Lieutenant Colonel David
219
,
221

Norwegian prisoners
216

Nuremberg
98

Nuremberg trials
234–5
,
294
,
296
,
299
,
302

Obersalzberg
45
,
54

Observer
83

Oflag VII-B
92–3

Okinawa
33–4
,
125–6
,
152
,
201–2

O’Leary, Pat
see
Guerisse, Albert

Olivier, Laurence
168

Operation Hannibal
218

Operation Manna
90–2
,
226
,
244–5
,
246
,
247

Operation Merlin
123
,
130

Operation Suicide
51–2

Orwell, George
82–4
,
209

Ostarbeiter
137–8

Ostertag, Liesl
72
,
232
,
238
,
307

Padborg, Denmark
215–16

Padua
64
,
73–4
,
80
,
100

Patton, General George
79
,
127
,
136–7

Paul, Albine
25
,
269

Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich
42

Payne-Best, Captain Sigismund

after the war
307

announces freedom to
Prominente
120–1

appearance
39

contacts German army commander
61
,
67

imprisonment
39–40
,
41

Lago di Braies hotel
204–5
,
255–6

language problems
121

memoirs
203

teeth
39
,
121

tells SS to surrender
118

Peck, John
224–5

Perón, Colonel Juan
282

Perry, Lieutenant Geoffrey
300–1

Petacci, Clara
64
,
98–9
,
144
,
170

petrol
52
,
235
,
253

pets
111–12
,
214

‘Phoney War’
15

Pichelsdorf Bridge
158
,
178
,
195

Pius XII
99

Poland

Churchill’s concerns
146–7

invasion
23

Yalta Conference agreement
66

Popovichenko, Akim
80

Porter, Flight Sergeant Bill
90

Potthas, Hedwig
60

Prague
158
,
160
,
215
,
228–9
,
261

prisoners of war (POWs)

enforced marches
76
,
97
,
288

German
101–2

oil refinery construction
96

prison conditions
127

Scandinavian
216

treatment by Japanese
130

Prominente
prisoners

Hitler orders execution
41–2

at Lago di Braies hotel
204
,
255–6

at Villabassa
40
,
61
,
67
,
117–18
,
120–1

Propaganda Ministry

broadcasts John Amery
116–17

Goebbels appointed Minister
22

newspaper
243

Quandt, Harald Günther
46–7
,
307

‘Racial Hygiene’ laws
22

Radio Hamburg
263

Radloff, First Lieutenant Fritz
265

Rangoon
128–30
,
144
,
150–1
,
156
,
185–6
,
283–5

rape
88
,
130
,
165
,
180
,
268
,
269
,
270

Raubal, Geli
109–10

Rauch, Colonel
85

Ravensbrück
210
,
215
,
216

Rechlin airfield
58
,
62

Reich Broadcasting Company
116
,
261–2

Reich Chancellery

alcohol consumption
113

design
24
,
32

hospital
32
,
160
,
188–9

sex parties
113
,
196

Reichenhall
130–1

Reichstag
194–5
,
196
,
198
,
214
,
224
,
238
,
260
,
265
,
268
,
273
,
280