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454–5
,
460
; Army Group South
36
,
158
,
173
,
175
,
186
,
193
,
205
,
207
,
219
,
304
,
305
,
311
Armies:
1st
193
,
444
; 2nd
188
,
192
,
205
,
490
; 4th
42
,
202
,
215–16
,
433
,
490
,
491
; 6th
94
,
304
,
322–3
,
325
,
326
,
327
,
329
,
331–2
,
383
,
568
; 7th
429
,
444
; 8th
35
,
36
; 9th
202
,
432
,
433
,
436
,
485
,
529
; 10th
36
; 11th
311
,
327
; 18th
465
; 19th
444
; 1st Parachute Army
509
,
524
Panzer Armies:
2nd
190
,
194
,
198
,
204
,
205
,
215
; 4th
529
; 5th
477
; 11th
444
,
445
Panzer Groups:
1st
179
; 2nd
179
,
187
,
190
,
191
; 3rd
187
,
202
Panzer Divisions:
2nd
98
; 3rd
94
; 4th
94
,
166
,
180
,
186–7
,
190
,
191
,
192
,
194
,
195–6
,
197–8
,
199
,
200
,
202
,
208
,
209
; 6th
191
,
327
; 7th
97
; 20th
191
; 54th
36
; 116th
446
; Panzer-Lehr
426
,
427–8
,
429
Infantry Divisions:
5th
192
; 26th
23
,
31
,
34
; 30th
34
,
35
,
36
; 45th
205–6
,
211
,
212
; 56th
206
; 134th
205
,
309
; 198th
158
; 218th
106–7
; 253rd
209
; 296th
180–81
,
182
,
200–1
,
203
; 352nd
428
Army Corps:
4th
204
; 43rd
171
,
199
,
200
Panzer Corps:
19th
96
,
97–8
; 24th
190
,
194
,
196
,
199
Grossdeutschland infantry regiment
96
,
191
German Christian Movement
14
German Foreign Office
45
;
Documents on Polish Cruelty
45–6
German Labour Front
9
,
10
,
58
,
164
,
453
German Navy
269–70
;
see also
U-boats
German New Bureau
108
Germans Enter Moscow, The
(proposed documentary)
187
German Women’s Organisation
137
Germany Must Perish!
(American tract)
237
Gersdorff, Rudolf Christoph von
451
Gerstein, Kurt
252–3
,
254
Gestapo, the: arrests Niemöller (1937)
13
; and Social Democrats
10
,
11
,
37
,
81
; in Prague
60
; massacres and executions
40
,
41
,
78
,
141–2
,
143
,
144
; staff shortages
79
,
142
; arrests for listening to foreign radio
80–81
; and changes to Criminal Code
81
; Polish girlfriends
130
; forbids contact with Poles
141
,
142
; and religious matters and clergy
148
,
150
,
151
,
249
,
353
,
354
,
355
,
376
,
386
; and deportation of Jews
238
,
240
,
241–2
; investigates soap rumour
259
; arrests Jewish men married to ‘Aryans’
263
; and Jews in hiding
264
,
265
; punishes sexual ‘misconduct’
294–5
; and Ukrainian Nationalists
309
; discriminates in dealing with offences
338–9
; loses influence
374
,
379
; and defeatism
5
; and evacuation from Aachen
446
; and family liability
455
,
505
; arrests Monika de Boor
468
,
481
; further executions
513
,
514
,
531
; beaten up by gangs
514
; in postwar diplomatic corps
567
Gève, Thomas
487–8
Gieschen, Hanna: Hermann to
169
,
170
,
234
Gieschen, Hermann
168–70
,
234
Giessen
54
,
55
,
140
,
468
,
476
,
510
,
511
Gleiwitz
28
,
486
; theatre
408
Globke, Hans
248
Globocnik, Odilo
136
Gneisenau, General August von
499
Goebbels, Joseph: and 1930s agit prop theatre
12–13
; and 1938 pogrom against Jews
88
; and Munich Agreement (1938)
25
; exaggerates Polish atrocities
46
; anti-British propaganda
103
,
119–20
; and Berlin theatres
51
,
408
,
409
,
410
; and German radio
66
,
67
; welcomes troops back to Berlin
107
; his garden bombed
113
; delighted by accounts of the Blitz
121
; and Galen
145–6
; announces invasion of Russia
158
,
163
; and Soviet atrocities
164
; and siege of Leningrad
185
; dismayed by Dietrich’s premature triumphalism
187
; introduces yellow star for Jews
242
; propaganda against Jews
197
,
242–3
,
245–6
,
250
,
257
,
361
,
362
; Winter Relief campaign
225
; and defeatism
222
; worried by soldiers’ letters home
223
; and Anglo-American Atlantic Charter
237
; and Bishop Wurm
260
; and rationing scandal
300
,
301
,
302
; and defeat at Stalingrad
329
,
332
,
336
,
568
; declares ‘total war’
333–4
,
335
,
341
,
362
; and discovery of Katyn massacre
362–3
,
364
,
365
,
366
; wants SD reports vetted
351
,
359
; tours Dortmund and Essen
351
; organises civil defence
351–2
; accused of hypocrisy
358
; and Allied bombing
7
,
359
,
360
,
374
,
376
,
378
; surprised by public reaction to Dambusters’ raid
361
; promises retaliation
352
,
365
,
376–7
,
417
; and Gauleiter Kaufmann
368
; orders evacuation of Berlin
372
,
403
,
404
; and failure of anti-Semitic propaganda
378–9
; butt of jokes
407
; admired for visiting bombed-out parts of Berlin
407
; blacks out news of V-2 rocket attack on London
445
; tries to protect actors and musicians
449
,
463
; thwarted by Hitler
450
; and Hitler assassination attempt
451
,
454
; as Plenipotentiary for Total War
455–6
,
462
; speech fails to impress
464
; new slogan
464
; new propaganda offensive
470–72
; allows Wehrmacht propaganda operation
475–6
; plays down counter-offensive
476
,
477
,
479
; commissions film
499
; exaggerates Dresden deaths
500–1
; writes reassuring article
502
; propaganda in defeat
504
,
505
,
506–7
,
508
; prevented from executing prisoners of war
505
; proposes peace negotiations
507
,
522
; and Allied advances
510
,
521
; and Roosevelt’s death
528
; article for Hitler’s birthday
531
; initiates negotiations with Chuikov
534
; predicts Anglo-American/Soviet conflict
558
; suicide
546
Goedecke, Heinz
66
,
68
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
135
,
314

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