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     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

A N
OTE
A
BOUT
THE
A
UTHORS

Sönke Neitzel
is currently Chair of International History at the London School of Economics. He has previously taught modern history at the Universities of Glasgow, Saarbrücken, Bern, and Mainz.

Harald Welzer
is a professor of Transformation Design at the University of Flensburg, teaches social psychology at the University of Sankt Gallen, and is head of the foundation Futurzwei.

A N
OTE
A
BOUT
THE
T
RANSLATOR

Jefferson Chase
is the translator of more than a dozen books from German to English, including works by Thomas Mann, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, and Götz Aly. He also works as a writer and journalist in Berlin.

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