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as sport

     
voluntary

     
war crimes and

     willingness in,
prl.1
,
1.1

     
as work

     
see also
annihilation, war of
;
mass murder, mass executions
;
shooting

Kirchheim, Heinrich

Kittel, Heinrich,
3.1
,
4.1

Klein, First Lieutenant

Kleist, Heinrich von

Kluge, Gunther von

Kneipp, Franz,
3.1
,
3.2

Knight’s Cross,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1
,
3.2

     success and,
9.1
,
9.2

Knobel (bomber pilot),
6.1
,
6.2

knowledge

     
of brutality

     
history and

     
of Holocaust

     
about planes

     
reflected in narratives

Kochon (Luftwaffe crewman),
3.1
,
3.2

Kocka, Jürgen

Köhn, Walter,
8.1
,
8.2

Kokoschka (German POW)

Költerhoof, Private

Kommissarbefehl

Kopp (raider crew member)

Korean War,
11.1
,
12.1

Korfes, Walther

Kornatzki, Hans-Günther von

Korosten

Korps Knobelsdorf

Korte, Paul

Kostelezky, First Lieutenant

Köstlin, Heinrich-Hans

Kotenbar, Sergeant

Krämer (SS Untersturmführer)

Kratz, Sergeant,
3.1
,
7.1

Krause, Fritz

Kretschmer, Otto

Krug, Hans,
8.1
,
9.1

Krüger, Heinz,
7.1
,
9.1

Krumm (Kumm?), Standartenführer

Kruse (German POW)

Kuch (German POW)

Kuhle, Arnold,
7.1
,
7.2

Kunz, Sergeant

Kürsteiner (German POW)

Kurt (German POW)

Küster, Lance Corporal

Kutno

labor

     division of,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
12.1

     forced,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
11.1

     shortage of,
2.1
,
3.1

     
see also
work, workers

labor camps, capos in

Landig, Lieutenant

Lange, Heinrich,
8.1
,
8.2

Langer (SS man)

Langfeld (German POW)

Last Man, The
(Bohrdt),
8.1
,
8.2

Latimer House,
5.1
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
app.1

Latvia, Latvians,
3.1
,
4.1

Lauterjung

leaders, leadership

     military,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1

     political,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

leaks,
4.1
,
4.2

Legacy Project

Lehmann, navy Private

Lehn (German POW)

“Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler”,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Leichtfuss, Lieutenant

Lelewel (German POW)

Lemberg

Leonardi, Priamo

Leonidas,
2.1
,
9.1

Leska (low-level officer)

Lesser (Luftwaffe airman)

Leutgeb, Private

Ley, Julius,
7.1
,
7.2

Libya,
6.1
,
8.1

Liepaja

Linderman, Gerald

Lingner, Hans,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Linz

Liseux-Bayeux

Lithuania, Lithuanians,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

London,
4.1
,
6.1
,
7.1

     bombing of,
3.1
,
7.1

     
V1 missiles fired on

Longerich, Peter

Longues-sur-Mer

Lorch, Private First Class

Lorek (bomber pilot)

Lorraine

Lowestoft

Lublin

Luckow

Ludwig, Sergeant

Luftflotte 4

Lufthansa pilots

Luftwaffe,
prl.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
9.1
,
app.1
,
app.2

     
adventure stories of

     casualties of,
3.1
,
4.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

     
elite units in

     faith in victory and,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.3

     
feelings and

     
fun and

     
gunning people down and

     hunting of,
3.1
,
3.2

     medals and,
2.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

     military values and,
8.1
,
8.2

     navy compared with,
3.1
,
3.2
,
8.1

     nighttime sorties of,
4.1
,
4.2

     
soldiers compared with

     
spectrum of opinion in

     targets of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

     technology and,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

     
Waffen SS as viewed by

Luftwaffe Bomber Wing 2

Luftwaffe Bomber Wing 10

Luftwaffe Bomber Wing 76

Luftwaffe Bomber Wing 100

Luftwaffe Fighter Wing 26,
3.1
,
6.1
,
9.1

Luftwaffe Fighter Wing 27,
7.1
,
7.2

Luga

Lütjens, Günther

Lvov,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Machfeld, Hauptmann

machine guns,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1
,
9.1

     in planes,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
6.1

Mäckle, Sergeant

Magdeburg

Maillé

Maletzki, Private First Class

Manstein, Erich von

marriage

Mars

Marsala

Martinek, Lieutenant General

Maschel, Johann

massacres,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
11.1
,
12.1

mass murder, mass executions,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
5.1
,
10.1
,
11.1

     
burning alive

     
dispositions and

     
division of labor and

     of Jews,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
5.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
11.1
,
11.2

     outrage and,
4.1
,
4.2

     
rejection of

     
situations and

     
social duties and

     of Soviet POWs,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

     as spectacle,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

     
voluntary killers and

     by Waffen SS,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

     
see also
kill, killing

Matthaüs, Jürgen

Mauchenheim, Gustav von

Mayer, Kurt

Mayer, Leonhard

Me 110

Me 163 rocket interceptor

Me 262 jet fighter

Me 264

medals and awards,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
8.1

     photographic evidence of importance of,
9.1
,
9.2

     
success and

Mediterranean,
3.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
app.1
,
app.2

Menny, Erwin,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1

mentalities,
1.1
,
1.2

merchant marines, death of

merchant ships

     sinking of,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
4.1

meritocracy

Mertins (Luftwaffe crewman)

Meschefs spa

Messe, Giovanni

Messerschmitt 109,
3.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2

Metz,
8.1
,
8.2

Meyer, Franz

Meyer, Kurt,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

Meyer, Lieutenant,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Meyer (German POW),
4.1
,
4.2

Meyne, Colonel,
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

MG 42

Milch, Erhard,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Milgram, Stanley,
1.1
,
1.2

military

     
formal duties in

     
frame of reference and

     as total institution,
1.1
,
1.2

military officers, German

     
evaluations of

     
ideal of heroic death and

     
medals for

military values,
2.1
,
8.1
,
12.1

     
cowardice, desertion and

     death with honor and,
8.1
,
8.2

     fighting to the last bullet and,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2

mines,
3.1
,
7.1
,
9.1

Minnieur, Horst,
3.1
,
5.1
,
7.1

Minsk

mirror-image accusations

Mischke, Midshipman

missiles,
6.1
,
7.1
,
8.1

Mitropa

modern society, abstinence from violence in,
1.1
,
3.1

Möller (German POW)

Mommsen, Hans

money, paper

monuments, war

morale,
4.1
,
4.2
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
,
8.2

     miracle weapons and,
6.1
,
6.2

morality, morals,
1.1
,
1.2
,
8.1

     
brutality and

     and execution of Jews,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

     
Kommissarbefehl
and

     Nazi,
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4

     
respectability and

Moscow

motivation,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1
,
9.1

motorcyclists

Mühlhäuser, Regina,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Müller, Oberjäger

Müller, Private First Class,
3.1
,
3.2

Müller, Rudolf

Müller (German POW)

Müller-Rienzburg, Wilfried von,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
,
7.1

Munich,
4.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

music, Russian,
1.1
,
1.2

Muslims, orthodox

Müss, Sergeant

Mussolini, Benito,
8.1
,
9.1

Mustangs

Mutual Assistance Association of Former Members of the Waffen SS (HIAG)

My Lai massacre

Nake, Albin

Napoleonic Wars,
3.1
,
8.1

narratives

     
expert vs. inquisitive audience in

     
important concerns and knowledge reflected in

     
jumping around in

     
observer’s perspective and

     
relationships vs. content and

     
retelling of

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