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Hahner (raider crew member)

Hahnfeld, Private

Halder, Franz

Hamburg

Hamburg Institute for Social Research,
1.1
,
3.1

Hammacher (navy W/T operator)

Hanelt, Helmut,
4.1
,
9.1

Hansel (Luftwaffe airman)

Harnisch, Private First Class

Harrer (German POW),
3.1
,
3.2

Hartdegen, Alexander,
8.1
,
9.1

Hartelt, Helmut

Hartigs, Hans,
6.1
,
7.1
,
9.1

Harting, Hans

Härtling (bomber pilot)

Hastings

Hauck, Colonel

Hausser, Paul

Hayashi, Hirofumi

Heil (German POW)

Heilmann, Ludwig

Heim, Ferdinand

Heimann, Major

Heimer (Luftwaffe officer)

Heine, Heinrich

Heinkel He 111,
3.1
,
3.2

Heinkel He 177,
6.1
,
6.2

Heinrich XLII, Prince

Heinrici, Gotthard

Held (German POW)

helicopters, in Iraq War,
11.1
,
11.2

Helldorf, Wolf von

Hemingway, Ernest

Hennecke, Walter

Henz, First Lieutenant

Herbert, Lieutenant

Hermann, Hajo

Hermann Göring Division

Herms (German POW)

heroic death, ideal of

heroic warrior, Nazi

Herz, First Lieutenant

Hesse, Colonel

Heuer (POW)

Heydrich, Reinhard

Heydte, August von der,
4.1
,
8.1

Heyking, Lieutenant General von,
9.1

hierarchy,
1.1
,
4.1
,
7.1
,
9.1

     
duties and

Hilay

Hilberg, Raul,
1.1
,
2.1

Himmler, Heinrich,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
8.1

     Posen speech of,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

     Waffen SS and,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5

Hindenburg, Paul von

hindsight bias

Hirst, Private First Class

history,
1.1
,
5.1

     frames of reference and,
1.1
,
1.2

     
liquification of

     
social duties and

     
violence and

Hitler, Adolf,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
4.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
,
9.1

     anti-Jewish policies of,
1.1
,
3.1
,
7.1

     assassination attempts against,
8.1
,
8.2

     
beautiful hands of

     
becomes chancellor

     
concerns about defeat and

     
as failure

     faith in,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
9.1
,
10.1

     
German subconscious and

     hypnotic quality of,
7.1
,
7.2

     identification with,
2.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

     ideology of,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7

     
Kommissarbefehl
and

     love letters written to,
4.1
,
7.1

     medals and,
2.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

     military and,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
9.1
,
9.2

     miracle weapons and,
6.1
,
6.2
,
9.1

     
as no longer himself

Hitler Youth,
2.1
,
4.1
,
8.1

“Hitler Youth” Division,
3.1
,
4.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7

Hoepner, Erich

Hoerkens, Alexander,
8.1
,
8.2

Hohlstein, Lieutenant

Höhn (German POW)

Holocaust,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
12.1

     
dispositions and

     
knowledge of

     
number of POW stories centered on

     
rumors about

Hölscher (German soldier),
3.1
,
4.1
,
8.1

Holzapfel (German POW)

home leave

Honnet, Private

honor,
4.1
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
12.1

     death with,
8.1
,
8.2

Hoppe, Oberst

horror,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
5.1

horses, killing of,
3.1
,
3.2

hospitals,
4.1
,
5.1

Höss, Rudolf,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

hostages, taking of

houses,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
6.1

     air attacks on,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

     burning down of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
9.1

     sex and,
5.1
,
5.2

Howard, Leslie,
3.1
,
3.2

Hubbuch, Klaus,
app.1

humane behavior,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2

humiliation, rituals of

Hungarians

hunting,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

Hurb, Lieutenant

Huttel, Fritz,
3.1
,
9.1

Hutu

Hützen (German POW)

HX 229

Hythe

ideological warriors,
1.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
10.1

ideologies,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
12.1

     
annihilation

     
coherent pictures of the world and

     military values and,
2.1
,
8.1

     racist,
3.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

     
spectrum of opinion in

     
Waffen SS and

IG Farben

imagination, flights of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Imperial Labor Service (
Reichsarbeitsdienst
)

Indian Ocean

inequality,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
8.1
,
8.2

inferiority,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
7.1
,
10.1

inhumanity with impunity

innovation,
2.1
,
2.2

     
see also
technology

intelligence service, British,
prl.1
,
3.1

international laws,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

     Soviet fighting and,
3.1
,
3.2

interpretation,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1

     paradigms and,
1.1
,
1.2
,
10.1

     of perception,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4

     
roles and

     
success and

     
Waffen SS and

interrogations, naked women at

Iraq War,
4.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
12.1

Iron Cross,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
3.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

     success and,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

Italian POWs,
prl.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
app.1
,
app.2

Italy, Italians,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
12.1

     Allies in,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

     
at El Alamein

     Germans captured in,
7.1
,
7.2

     German views on,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

     
sexual violence in

     success and,
9.1
,
9.2

     war crimes in,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
9.1

Jagdflieger

Jäger, Herbert

Jäger (likely stool pigeon)

Janowitz, Morris,
1.1
,
12.1

Japan, Japanese,
1.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.3
,
12.1

     
brutality of

     kamikazes of,
8.1
,
8.2

     
success and

Japanese POWs,
9.1
,
app.1

Jena

Jenisch, Hans,
7.1
,
8.1

Jeschonnek, Wolf

jewelry,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Jewish question,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

Jews,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
9.1
,
10.1

     asphyxiation of,
3.1
,
4.1

     
deported from Vienna

     extermination of,
3.1
,
8.1

     gassing of,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

     ghettos of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
8.1

     
humane behavior toward

     influence of,
4.1
,
4.2

     
as objective problem

     
in POW camps

     
Red Army and

     rescue of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

     
see also
anti-Semitism
;
Holocaust
;
women, Jewish

Jonga, Sergeant

Jösting, Erwin,
4.1
,
4.2

“Journey Through the Harz” (Heine)

Ju 88 bombers,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

Jünger, Ernst,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1

Junkers 188

Juno 222

K98 rifle

Kafka, Franz

Kahrad, Werner

Kammberger (POW)

Kammeyer (bomber pilot)

Kammeyer (navy mechanic and POW)

Kassel, First Sergeant

Kassel (British stool pigeon)

Katyn

Kaunas

Kehrle, Eberhard

Keil, Hermann

Keitel, Wilhelm,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1

Kershaw, Ian,
7.1
,
7.2

Kesselring, Albert

Kessler, Colonel

Kessler, Ulrich,
5.1

Kharkiv

Kiev,
5.1
,
5.2
,
8.1

kill, killing

     adventure and,
3.1
,
4.1

     
aesthetics of destruction and

     
autotelic violence and

     avoidance of word,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

     as fun,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

     gunning people down,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
4.1
,
4.2

     of horses,
3.1
,
3.2

     
of hostages

     sinking ships and,
1.1
,
3.1

     
situation and

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