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     technological,
6.1
,
6.2

surveillance protocols

survival,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

swastika symbol

Sweden

Switzerland

Swoboda, Fritz,
4.1
,
9.1

synagogues

syphilis,
5.1
,
5.2

Taganrog

tank crews

tanks,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2

targets

     civilian,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1
,
11.1

     Luftwaffe,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Taumberger (German POW)

technology,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
11.1
,
12.1

     
faster, further, bigger

     
German army and

     
Luftwaffe and

     
miracle weapons and

Templin (German POW)

Templin (place)

Tenning, Lieutenant

terror,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

terrorists, enemy as,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Thameshaven

“theater groups”

theology students, Good Samaritan experiment and

“The Reich” Division,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5

Thermopylae, Battle of,
2.1
,
9.1

Thimm, Anton

third-order frames of reference,
1.1
,
1.2

Third Reich,
1.1
,
12.1

     
defeat of

     frame of reference and,
2.1
,
4.1

     
as participatory dictatorship

     POW camps in,
3.1
,
3.2

     Weimar Republic compared with,
2.1
,
2.2

3rd Tank Division, German

Thoma, Wilhelm von,
3.1
,
6.1
,
8.1

Thomas, William I.

Thomsen, Rolf

Thöne, Lieutenant

362nd Infantry Division, German

373rd Paratroopers Battalion

Tiesenhausen, Hans Dietrich von

Tinkes (German POW)

Tobruk

Tokyo,
4.1
,
6.1

tommy guns,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
6.1

torpedoes,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
8.1
,
9.1

total group,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1

total institutions,
1.1
,
1.2

total war,
3.1
,
3.2

toughness,
3.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
12.1

Toulon

Toulouse

trains,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1

     air attacks on,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

     
gassing in

trams,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Trent Park,
1.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
app.1
,
app.2
,
app.3
,
app.4

     importance of decorations and,
9.1
,
9.2

Tschenstochau

Tulle

Tunisia,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

Tutsi

253rd Infantry Division, German

266th Infantry Division, German

299th Infantry Division, German

typhus

U-26

U-32,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1

U-55,
3.1
,
9.1

U-99

U-110

U-111

U-224

U-331

U-473

U-625,
8.1
,
8.2

U-boats,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5

     
commanders of

     crews of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
8.1

     faith in victory and,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

     
Italian

     medals and,
2.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

     
miracle weapons and

     ships sunk by,
3.1
,
3.2

Ukraine,
4.1
,
4.2
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

Ukrainian women

Ulrich (German POW)

Uman

uniforms,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

United States,
4.1
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
8.1
,
9.1

     
CBS Radio in

     
German views of

     Jews and,
4.1
,
4.2
,
8.1
,
8.2

     POW camps of,
see
American POW camps
;
Fort Hunt

     
POWs executed by

     surveillance protocols and,
app.1
,
app.2

     technology and,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1

     
Tokyo bombed by

     in Vietnam War,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
12.1

Urbich (German POW)

V1 missile

V2 missile,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1

vacations,
2.1
,
8.1

Vaerst, Gustav von

venereal diseases,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Verbeek, First Lieutenant

Vercors region

Versailles, Treaty of,
2.1
,
7.1

veterans, German

Vetter, Martin,
7.1
,
7.2

Victoria Cross

video games

Viebig, Hasso,
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

Vienna,
4.1
,
4.2

Vietcong,
3.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Vietnam War,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
5.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
12.1

“Viking” Division

villages, razing of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
9.1

Vilnius

Vinnitsa,
4.1

violence,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
12.1

     abstinence from,
1.1
,
3.1

     attraction of,
3.1
,
3.2

     autotelic,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
8.1

     brutalization hypothesis and,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
9.1

     
coulds vs. shoulds of

     
dispositions and

     
dynamic of

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

     
in historical perspective

     
military regulatory attempts and

     
nonmoral, nonnormative view of

     
perceptions of

     
secondary adaptations and

     sexual,
see
rape
;
sex, sexual behavior

     
social, continuing

     
suffering of

     
survival and

     
in Vietnam War

     
war crimes and

     
wartime limits on

     
in Weimar Republic

     
World War I and

     
see also
annihilation, war of
;
kill, killing
;
rape
;
shooting

visibility

Voigt, Sergeant

Volchanka

Volk
,
2.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
10.1

Völker, Karl

Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans from outside Germany)

von Bastian (German POW),
4.1
,
8.1

voyeurism,
4.1
,
4.2

Vyasma

Vyasma-Briansk, battle of

Waffen SS,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
11.1
,
app.1

     
bravery, fanaticism and

     crimes and,
9.1
,
9.2

     
rivalries and

     success and,
9.1
,
9.2

Wahler, Lieutenant

Waldeck (German POW),
7.1
,
7.2

Wallek (German POW)

Wallus (German POW)

war crimes,
3.1
,
11.1

     
defined

     frames of reference and,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
11.1

     
at the front

     legalistic justification for,
3.1
,
3.2

     outrage and,
4.1
,
4.2

     in POW camps,
3.1
,
3.2
,
11.1

     against POWs,
3.1
,
11.1

     
qualitative and quantitative dimensions of

     
refusal to participate in

     
trials for

     Waffen SS and,
9.1
,
9.2

     
see also
Holocaust

War Department, U.S.

War Merit Cross

War Ministry, British

War of the Worlds, The
(Wells)

wars,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
3.1
,
3.2

     
cult of

     customs of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

     frame of reference and,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
10.1
,
12.1

     
the group and

     
as jobs

     
total institutions and

     
see also
specific wars

Warsaw,
4.1
,
5.1

Wasserstein, Bernard

weapons,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1
,
8.1

     miracle,
6.1
,
9.1

     
see also
guns
;
machine guns

Weber

Weber (German POW)

Weber (Luftwaffe lance corporal)

wedding rings

Wedekind, Karl

Wedekind (German POW)

Wehner (low-level officer)

Wehrmacht,
prl.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

     brutality as viewed by,
4.1
,
9.1

     
camaraderie in

     
career opportunities in

     
dispositions in

     elite units of,
9.1
,
9.2

     faith in victory of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
9.1

     fighting to the last bullet in,
8.1
,
8.2

     
formation of

     
frame of reference and

     
Jewish rescue attempts of

     medals and,
2.1
,
9.1

     military values in,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6

     
opportunities for

     
rivalries and

     
Russian soldiers in

     sexual behavior in,
5.1
,
5.2

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