Hitler's Last Days (2 page)

Courtney Hodges:
Lieutenant general, commander of U.S. First Army

Harry Kinnard:
Lieutenant colonel, U.S. 101st Airborne Division operations officer

Oscar Koch:
Colonel, U.S. Third Army intelligence chief (G-2)

George Marshall:
General, chief of staff of the U.S. Army

Anthony McAuliffe:
Brigadier general, acting commander of U.S. 101st Airborne Division

Troy Middleton:
Lieutenant general, commander of U.S. Eighth Corps, Third Army

John Mims:
Sergeant, General Patton's driver

Ned Moore:
Lieutenant colonel, General McAuliffe's chief of staff

Beatrice Patton:
George Patton's wife

George S. Patton:
General, commander of U.S. Third Army

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
President of the United States of America

BRITAIN

Winston Churchill:
Prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Bernard Montgomery:
British field marshal, commander of Twenty-First Army Group, which included British and Canadian forces

Kenneth Strong:
British major general, General Eisenhower's intelligence chief (G-2)

RUSSIA

Joseph Stalin:
Premier of the Soviet Union

GERMANY

Martin Bormann:
Head of Nazi Party Chancellery

Eva Braun:
Hitler's mistress, then wife

Joseph Goebbels:
Reich minister of propaganda

Heinrich Himmler:
Reichsf
ü
hrer of the SS

Adolf Hitler:
F
ü
hrer of Germany and leader of the Nazi Party

Traudl Junge:
one of Hitler's secretaries

Wilhelm Keitel:
Field marshal, Hitler's commander of the armed forces

Heinrich Lüttwitz:
General, commander of German panzer troops surrounding Bastogne

Theodor Morell:
Hitler's personal doctor

Joachim Peiper:
German SS commander, First SS Panzer Division

Erwin Rommel:
German field marshal

Christa Schroeder:
one of Hitler's secretaries

Otto Skorzeny:
German SS officer

Albert Speer:
Hitler's minister of armaments

Gerd von Rundstedt:
German field marshal, western front

Walther Wenck:
General, German Twelfth Army

PART ONE

THE WOLF'S LAIR