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Bonhoeffer, Karl
75
Bonn, University of
75
Boor, Anton de
xviii
,
480–81
,
496–7
Boor, Hans de
xviii
,
480
Boor, Lisa de
xviii
,
374
,
407–8
,
412–13
,
416
,
467–8
,
480
,
481
,
496
,
497
,
510–12
Boor, Monika de
xviii
,
412
,
481
,
496
,
511
Boor, Wolf de
xviii
,
412
,
480
,
496
,
510–12
Bór-Komorowski, General Count Tadeusz
435
Borbet, Walter
222
Bormann, Martin
114
,
145
,
149
,
243
,
245
,
334
,
357
,
455
,
463
,
530
,
538
Bornewasser, Franz, Bishop of Trier
146
,
147
,
150
Börsen Zeitung
113
Bosnian SS Division
215
Bouhler, Philipp
82
,
84
Boveri, Margret
393
,
495
,
535
Brahms, Johannes: setting of Hölderlin’s ‘Song of Fate’
411–12
Bramberg (1941)
143
Brandenburg
72
,
83
,
477
Brandhuber, Corporal Anton
211–13
,
214
Brandt, Dr Karl
82–3
,
84
Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von
42
,
50
,
175
,
186
,
222
,
301
,
336
Braunsberg (1945)
490
,
491
,
492
Braunschweig
374
,
391
,
512
; bunker towers
376
bread
283
,
288–9
Breitenau: reformatory
62–3
Bremen
361
,
401
,
410
Breslau
373
,
460
,
487
,
488
; University
74
; defence of (1945)
523
,
538
; surrender
538–9
,
542
Brest (1944)
442–3
,
449
Brettheim: executions (1945)
531
Britain/British: First World War propaganda
119
,
224
,
259–60
; German attitudes to
5
,
16–17
,
25–7
,
29
,
33
,
34
,
49
,
92
,
119–21
,
122
; and outbreak of war
24
,
25
,
27
,
29
,
30
,
31
,
33
; and Hitler’s peace offer (1939)
48
,
49
; rationing
57
; ‘phoney war’
106
; rejects Hitler’s peace offer (1940)
108
; and agreement not to bomb civilians
108–9
; convoys attacked
110
,
122
; armaments destroyed
122
; civilian deaths
122
,
394
; civil defence
122
; and USA
221
,
236–7
,
268
,
269
,
270
; and Jews
251
; food shortages
283
; retaliation promised against
351
,
352
,
355
,
361
,
365
,
374
,
376
,
417
; and bombing of Dresden
501
; German prisoners
553
; clashes with US and Russia
558
;
see also
BBC
;
British Army
;
Churchill, Winston
;
London
;
Royal Air Force
;
Royal Navy
British Army: Dunkirk (1940)
101
,
103
; Normandy landings (1944)
427
; advances through France
427–9
,
444
; in Belgium
454
,
460
; advance restarts
479
,
482
; reaches Germany
483
,
484
,
502
,
509
,
510
,
511
,
512
,
521
; and German surrender
538
; occupation of Germany
525
; and displaced persons
549
,
550
; prisoners of war
296
,
505
,
524
Brno/Brünn: ‘death march’ (1945)
549
Bromberg/Bydgoszcz
40
,
44
,
45
,
164
brothels
126–7
Brussels (1944)
445
Bryansk (1941)
187
,
188
,
192
Buchenwald death camp
357
,
515
,
534
,
564
Büchner, Georg:
Danton’s Death
(play)
50–51
Budapest (1944)
417
,
460
; capitulates (1945)
535
,
536
Buhtz, Professor Gerhard
362
,
363
Bund, the (socialist resistance group)
264
,
265
,
515
,
563
Bzura, River (1939)
35–6
,
40
Caen (1944)
427
,
428
Calais (1940)
101
Campaign in Poland, The
(documentary film)
46
Canada: grain
278
,
279
; troops
444
,
502
,
524
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm
50
,
174
Caritas asylums
15
,
86
Carlyle, Thomas
120
Carossa, Hans
77
Carsten, Lothar
350
Catholic Church: and Nazi regime
11
,
14–15
,
29
,
77
; and outbreak of war
32–3
; in Poland
40
; and Saarland evacuees
52
; conscientious objectors
73
; and public punishments
143–4
; opposes ‘euthanasia’ programme
86
,
144–6
,
147–52
,
153
,
248
,
249
; on patriotic sacrifice
227–8
; and murder of Jews
248–50
; and Jewish converts
260
; in Netherlands
280
; in France
280–81
; and defeat at Stalingrad
332
; attitude to Allied bombing
352–4
,
360
,
386
; erosion of influence
354–5
; and evacuation programme
398
,
400
,
401
; blames women for sexual ‘disorder’
422
; attacks Allied denazification policy
559
Caucasus, the
310–11
,
317–19
,
321
,
322
; oilfields
158
,
270
,
304
,
317
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
312
Celle
246
,
478
; massacre (1945)
517
Centre Party
11
,
26
Chamberlain, Neville
25
,
49
,
108
Champagny, Comte Henri de
276
Chartres (1940)
134–5
Chelmo death camp
252
Chemnitz (1945)
521
Cherbourg (1944)
428
Cherikov (1941)
166
children: and ‘euthanasia action’
82
,
151
; evacuation of (1940)
114–17
Chinon
277
Christadelphians
73
Chuikov, Col-General Vasily
534
Churchill, Winston
80
,
108
,
111
,
121
,
236–7
,
464
,
501
,
511
,
559
cinemas
408
,
498–9
;
see also
films
;
Wochenschau
Clausewitz, Carl von
176
,
479
clothing
54
,
55
coal mines
297
,
299
,
512
,
513
coal shortages
59–60
,
240
,
270–71
Coburg (1945)
521
Cocteau, Jean
312
coffee
55
,
133
Colmar (1940)
102
,
135
Cologne
56
,
61
; Catholic Church
32
,
145
; deportation of Jews
250
; Gestapo
79
; bombing (1943)
348–9
,
350–51
,
353
,
355–9
,
360
,
362
,
376
,
378
,
386
,
470
; evacuees
398
,
405
; taken by US Army
503
; gangs
514
Communists
10
,
60
,
78
,
79
,
81
,
87
,
169
,
298
,
310
,
368
,
487
,
535
,
555
,
562–3
,
565
; Dutch
280
; in Lithuania

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