Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying (79 page)

     success and,
9.1
,
9.2

     
surveillance protocols and

     technology and,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

     
as total institution

     
as voluntary killers

     Waffen SS as viewed by,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

     Waffen SS compared with,
9.1
,
9.2

     war crimes and,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
3.7
,
4.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Weichsel River

Weighardt, Armin

Weimar Republic,
2.1
,
12.1

     
changes of government in

     
political violence in

     Third Reich compared with,
2.1
,
2.2

Welles, Orson

Wells, H. G.

Welzer, Harald

Werra, Franz von

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany),
2.1
,
9.1
,
12.1

West Wall

Weszling, Heinz

Wette, Wolfram

Whitley

Wilck, Gerhard,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

Wildermuth, Eberhard,
4.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

Wildt, Michael

Wiljotti (German POW)

Willie (bomber pilot)

willing executioners

Wilton Park,
9.1
,
app.1

Winkle, Ralph

Winkler (Luftwaffe crewman)

Witt, Hermann

wives,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1

Woelcky, Otto,
9.1
,
9.2

Wöffen, Antonius,
7.1
,
7.2

Wohlgezogen, Sergeant

Wolf (German POW)

women,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

     
as forced laborers

     French,
5.1
,
5.2
,
9.1

     Hitler’s love letters from,
4.1
,
7.1

     Italian,
3.1
,
3.2

     
Jews’ alleged butchering of

     outrage and,
4.1
,
4.2

     
in Red Army

     Russian,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

     
Ukrainian

     war crimes against,
3.1
,
3.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
11.1

     
see also
rape
;
wives

women, German

     
blitz girls (
Blitzmädel
)

     
hitting on

     rape of,
5.1
,
5.2

women, Jewish,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
8.1
,
8.2

     
in France

     
rescue of

     sex and,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
5.1

     shooting of,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
5.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

work, workers,
2.1
,
4.1

     commercial vs. war,
1.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
12.1

     
unskilled

     vacations for,
2.1
,
8.1

     
war as

working class,
2.1
,
2.2

world views

World War I,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
app.1

     
disillusionment and

     
German courage in

     medals and,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
9.1
,
9.2

     POWs in,
3.1
,
11.1

     
start of

     
technology and

World War II

     
Allied victory in

     bombing in,
see
bombs, bombing

     
brutality in

     end of,
1.1
,
2.1
,
5.1

     German attack on Soviet Union in,
1.1
,
3.1

     
German preparations for

     
interpretive paradigms in

     medals and,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1

     
military virtues in

     other wars compared with,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
6.1
,
11.1

     Polish campaign in,
2.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
6.1

     
prospects for German victory in

     start of,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
7.1

     as total war,
3.1
,
3.2

     
unpopular types of warfare in

     
see also
specific topics

wounding, wounded,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

     
in Iraq War

Wunsch (German POW)

Zagovec, Rafael

Zastrau, Willi,
6.1
,
7.1

Zimmermann, Lieutenant

Zink, Lieutenant

Zotlöterer (German POW)

“Z” section