The Last Battle (43 page)

Maurin, Louis,
34

Maximilian I, king of Bavaria,
7

Mayr, Alois

leads resistance cell in Wörgl,
76–77
,
110
,
145

and resister Sepp Gangl,
85–89

asked by Lee to call in U.S. reinforcements,
139

sends Waltl, Wegscheider, Linsen to Schloss Itter,
145–146

Mayr, Eugen,
8–9

Mayr-Hagleitner resistance organization,
87–90
,
122–124

McAuliffe, Anthony C.,
106
,
142
,
161–162

McHaley, Herbert G.

bow machine gunner in Lee’s rescue force,
123
,
125

defends Schloss Itter,
130
,
132
,
136
,
151

postwar death,
171

Meloy, Guy S.,
142

Mendès-France, Pierre,
28

Menter, Sophie,
7–8
,
14

M4 Sherman tanks,
1
,
112
,
115–117
,
120
,
140
,
153–154

Milice, Vichy paramilitary,
52

Morocco,
28–29
,
52

Mountain-warfare units (gebirgstruppen),
15
,
70–71
,
124

Müller, Frau (Mabire’s cover name),
51

Munich Agreement of 1938,
19
,
26–27

National Movement of Prisoners of War and Deportees,
60

Nazi Germany armed forces.
See
Waffen-SS troops
;
Wehrmacht

Neue Post Inn,
76
,
89
,
110

Noguès, Charles-Auguste,
28–29

Normandy, Allied invasion of western Europe,
2
,
84–85
,
99

North Africa.
See
French North Africa

Norwich University, Vermont,
113–114

Number prisoners

introduced,
64

tormented by Wimmer,
93

shelter in Schloss Itter cellar,
128

liberated,
161
,
163

go to displaced-persons camp,
164

postwar,
169

Oberbayern troops,
18–19

O5 organization,
74
,
88

103rd Infantry Division

in Innsbruck,
106

Meloy orders Kramers returned to Innsbruck,
142

led by McAuliffe,
162–163

142nd Infantry Regiment

moves to Kufstein to relieve Lee,
119
,
123

advances to, arrives in, Wörgl,
129–130
,
140
,
153–154

encounters Waffen-SS fire,
155

led by Borotra to Schloss Itter,
157–159

at Schloss Itter,
161
,
163–164

postwar follow up,
171

Operation Barbarossa,
81

Operation Dragoon,
68

Operation Torch,
31

Organization Todt,
88

OSS.
See
U.S. Office of Strategic Services

Ostmark province of Germany,
8
,
12

Otto, Stefan

introduced,
17

as Wimmer’s deputy,
22
,
41–42
,
62

postwar,
170

Paape, Kurt,
86

Panzer-grenadier divisions,
20
,
71
,
118
,
144–145

Paris antiparliamentarist riots (1934),
26

Parti Social Français (PSF),
45
,
46
,
47
,
58–59

Partisans

Austrian,
141
,
153

Russian,
98

Serbian,
98–99

Patch, Alexander M.

advances into Tyrol,
68–70

dines with liberated French VIPs,
163

Saarbrücken battle,
85

12th Armored Division assigned,
117

Patton, George S.,
69

Pétain, Philippe

as head of Vichy government,
29
,
32

opposed by Clemenceau,
56

tries former government members,
44

postwar trial,
168

Petrukovich, Alex

as 142nd infantryman,
125

defends Schloss Itter,
130
,
132
,
136

aftermath of battle,
164

postwar death,
171

Petz (supervisor of prison conversion),
13–17

Phoney War,
79

Pilgrim II of Puchein, archbishop of Salzburg,
6

Pister, Hermann,
31–32

Pius VI, pope,
6–7
,
13

POEN-O5,
74
,
88

Pohl, Oswald,
12

Poland

atrocities committed by Totenkopfstandarten,
19

invaded by Germany (1939),
27
,
79

Majdanek concentration camp,
20–21

Pollock, Arthur

in Lee’s rescue group,
125

defends Schloss Itter gatehouse,
130
,
136
,
143

under attack from Waffen-SS,
147–151

aftermath of battle,
164

postwar life,
171

Popper, David,
8

POW camps/cages,
20
,
21
,
60
,
155
,
164
,
169
,
170

Prison pour hommes d’Etat
(Léon-Jouhaux),
166
,
169

Provisional Austrian National Committee (POEN),
74

PSF.
See
Croix de feu/PSF
;
Parti Social Français

Radical Socialist Party,
26

Rapoto III of Ortenburg,
6

Ravensbrück concentration camp,
51

Red Army,
20
,
67–68

Regensburg diocese of Tyrol region,
5–6

Reichswehr,
78–79
.
See also
Wehrmacht

Reinhard, Clifford J.,
154–159

Réseau Klan (Klan Network),
59

Resistance (Austrian)

forms after Anschluss,
10
,
73

centers in Tyrol,
10
,
74–75

gathers intelligence for OSS,
74

with Austrian-born military personnel,
74–77
,
87–88

initially avoids guerilla warfare,
73

in Wörgl, led by Mayr,
76–77
,
86–90

Gangl joins, leads,
1–2
,
109–112

given responsibility for Wörgl by Allies,
122

Resistance (French)

activities prior to Allied invasion,
84

of CGT,
38–40
,
49

activities increase as Allied invasion approaches,
84

de la Rocque gathers intelligence for Britain,
57
,
59

of Cailliaus (Michel, Alfred, Marie-Agnès),
60–62
,
168

Granger’s cell,
52

guerilla warfare,
73

Reynaud, Paul

background,
27
,
43–44

in Vichy’s custody,
29

at Sachsenhausen,
45
,
48

antagonism toward Weygand,
53–54
,
63

hostilities with Daladier,
28
,
63
,
162
,
163
,
167

Schloss Itter radio,
64

reports on Weiter’s suicide,
96

observes retreating Germans,
107

defies Lee’s orders,
146
,
148

fires on enemy,
148–151

postwar life and death,
166–167

Rhinehotel Dreesen, Bonn,
61

Riom Trial,
29–31
,
35–36

Roman Catholicism,
5–7
,
10
,
16
,
46
,
54
,
60
,
113

Royal Norfolk Regiment (British army 2nd Battalion),
20

Rushford, William T.

as Lee’s driver Technician Fourth Grade,
123

drives, shoots from,
Besotten Jenny
,
125–127
,
130–132
,
137
,
139

under attack from Waffen-SS,
147–148

postwar death,
171

Russia.
See
Red Army
;
Soviet Union

Saarbrücken, defense of,
85

Sachsenhausen concentration camp,
45
,
48
,
50

Saint-Cyr military academy,
33
,
54
,
57

Saturday Evening Post
magazine,
172

Scheffold, Hans,
89

Schirwoski Battle Group,
72

Schloss Eisenberg in Czechoslovakia,
56–57
,
59

Schloss Garlitz,
55

Schloss Itter

background,
5–13

as Dachau satellite, converted to VIP prison,
11–17

with Wimmer as commandant,
22–23
,
40–42
,
92–96

enmity among prisoners,
62–63

conditions worsen as German military deteriorates,
91

guards and Wimmer flee,
107

becomes Lynch’s command post,
164–165

Schloss Itter battle

defenses organized by Lee,
127–133

German corporal defects to Waffen-SS,
143–144

under attack from Waffen-SS,
146–152
,
158–160

gatehouse defense,
136–137

Great Hall defense,
132–139

Gangl killed by sniper,
150

ammunition runs low,
151–152
,
157

relief arrives,
160

aftermath,
163–165

Schrader, Annaliese Patales,
98–100
,
128
,
146
,
148

Schrader, Kurt-Siegfried

background,
96–97

as Waffen-SS,
98–99

becomes anti-Nazi, friends with Krobot,
100–101

leads Giehl to surrender to Allies,
102

ensures VIP prisoners’ safety,
108–109
,
122

as Lee’s lieutenant at Schloss Itter,
128–130

defends Great Hall, Schloss Itter,
138–139
,
152