The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (244 page)

“Beast of Belsen,”
see
Kramer, Josef

Bechstein, Carl,
145

Bechstein, Helene, 46

Beck, Col. Józef,
377
,
421
,
455–57
,
459–61
,
463–65
,
466
fn
.,
467
,
469
,
475
,
476
,
536–37
,
543
fn
.,
574–75
,
580
,
586–87
,
605
fn
.

Beck, Gen. Ludwig,
142
,
281
,
285
fn
.,
313
,
335
,
355
,
373
, 918; opposes Hitler’s military plans,
293
,
309
,
316–17
,
365–71
, 488; resigns as Gen. Staff Chief,
370–71
,
374
,
424–25
; in anti-Hitler conspiracy,
374
,
375
,
380
fn
.,
382
,
422–26
,
517
,
559
,
649–50
,
670
,
846
fn
.,
848
fn
.,
904
,
907
,
908
,
1014–18
,
1030
,
1032–33
,
1035
,
1036
,
1042–43
; named head of First Army, 387; July 1944 bomb plot,
1045–48
,
1054
,
1058–61
,
1065
,
1067–68
,
1073
, 1075; death,
1067–68

Becker, Dr.,
960

Beer Hall Putsch,
4
, 10, 13,
67–80
,
112
fn
.,
118
,
139
,
146
,
221
,
223
,
280
,
312
, 701; anniversary celebrations,
77
,
121
,
653
,
882
,
922
,
925
,
1010

Beethoven, Ludwig von, 17,
97
,
242
,
326
,
933
,
970

Beigbeder y Atienza, Col. Juan,
786

Belgian Army,
718
,
724
,
727–31

Belgian government in exile,
729

Belgium,
58
,
294
,
302
,
307
,
470
,
516
,
531
,
533
,
561
,
590
,
616
,
633
,
645
,
841
, 1074; German plans for invasion of,
486
,
487
,
519
fn
.,
644–47
,
649–52
,
656
,
658
,
665
,
669
,
671–72
,
694
,
710
,
711
,
714–20
,
739
, 793; invasion and battle of,
713
,
720
,
723
,
728–31
,
737
,
738
,
954
,
1090
; King surrenders,
729–31
; German occupation,
734
,
759
,
906
,
943
,
956–57
,
1009
,
1031
, 1047; liberation,
1085
,
1086
,
1099

Belgrade,
823–26
,
971

Bell, Dr. George,
1017–18
,
1024

Below, Col. Nicolaus von,
1130
,
1131
fn
.

Belsec,
272
,
967
,
968

Belsen,
981

Beneš, Eduard,
346
,
358–60
,
363–65
,
381
fn
.,
383
,
390
,
391
,
393
,
397
,
402
,
414
fn
.,
420
,
421
,
441
,
443–45
,
448
,
456
,
464
,
784

Benghazi,
819
,
921
,
922

Berchtesgaden (and the Obersalzberg),
9
, 51,
112
,
129
,
130
,
167
,
169
,
284
,
309
,
311
,
324
,
360
,
361
,
363
,
364
,
365
,
368
,
475
,
494
,
521
,
523
,
525
,
925
,
1027
,
1028
,
1038
,
1041
,
1105–7
,
1116
,
1118
, 1127; Berghof, 51,
131
fn
.,
325
,
326
fn
.,
752
,
834
,
838
,
1107
, 1111; Berghof diplomatic conferences,
232
,
298
,
302
,
325–30
,
331
,
333
,
334
,
338
,
340
,
344
,
349
,
384–87
,
391
,
406
,
426
,
455
,
457
,
499
,
507
,
509–10
,
513
,
546
,
548
,
551
,
562
,
800
,
821–23
; Berghof military meetings,
369–70
,
378
,
496
,
515–18
,
528
,
559
,
660
,
752
,
764
,
797–98
,
819
,
845
,
880
, 1041; plot to eliminate Hitler at,
1033
,
1045
,
1046
fn
.; Wachenfeld (villa),
85
,
131
,
133
,

Berchtold, Joseph,
121

Berg, Paul,
709
fn
.

Bergen,
681
,
695
,
696
,
701
,
707
,
721

Berger, Gottlob,
1114–15

Berggrav, Bishop Eivind,
709
fn
.

Berghof,
see under
Berchtesgaden

Berlin: Allies advance on,
1088–89
,
1097
,
1103
,
1105
,
1107
, 1108; Battle of,
1073
,
1106
,
1112
,
1117–21
,
1127
,
1128
,
1130
,
1132
,
1135–37
; bombed by Allies,
778
,
779
,
780
,
807
,
807–9
, 1110; govt, of,
275
; life in, during 1920s,
118
; Mussolini visit,
301
; peace rumor riot,
643
fn
.; people’s apathy to war,
396–97
,
399
,
413
,
593
,
595
,
597
,
599
,
615–16
,
670
; revolutionary agitation (1918),
52
,
54–55
; S. A. violence in,
147
,
166

Berlin, University of,
98
,
99
,
110
,
124
,
241
,
250
,
251
,
783

Berliner Arbeiterzeitung
,
123

Berliner Boersenzeitung
,
143
,
698
fn
.

Berliner Tageblatt
,
124
,
245

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,
242

Berlin State Opera,
242
,
284
,
346

Bernadotte, Count Folke,
1114
,
1116–17
,
1122

Berne,
648–49
,
1018

Bernstorff, Count Albrecht von,
374
,
1025
,
1073

Bessarabia,
541
,
544
,
794
,
795
,
800
,
806

Best, Capt. S. Payne,
653–55
,
692

Best, Dr. Werner,
271

Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von,
713

Bialystok,
853

Bible, banning of,
240

Biddle, A. J. Drexel,
688

Bieberback, Ludwig,
251

Birmingham, England,
453–54
,
783

Bismarck, Otto, Prince von,
90
,
94–98
,
155
,
174
,
175
,
186
,
197
,
200
,
657
,
1025
,
1113

Bismarck, Otto Christian, Prince von,
851

Bismarck
(Ger. battleship),
667
,
668

Bismarck Youth,
154

Black Front,
148

“Black Reichswehr,”
65
,
150

Black Sea,
549
,
666
,
805
,
811
,
823
,
846
,
847
,
853
,
859
,
909

“Black Wednesday,”
404–8
,
410

Blackshirts,
see
S. S.

Bláha, Dr. Frank,
984

Blaskowitz, Gen. Johannes,
1101

Blomberg, Erna Gruhn,
311–14

Blomberg, Gen. Werner von,
151
,
183
,
184
,
207–8
,
210
,
211
,
214
,
215
,
219
,
220
,
225
,
235
,
285
fn
.,
290–93
,
297
,
303–5
,
308
,
310–20
,
323
,
332
,
357
,
374
,
488

Blood Purge,
215–19
,
268
,
269
,
271
,
280
,
392
fn
.,
1056–57
;
see
also
Roehm, Ernst

“Bloody Week” in Berlin,
55

Bluecher
(Ger. heavy cruiser),
702–3

Blum, Léon,
344
,
352
,
1074

Blumentritt, Gen. Guenther,
488
,
734
,
761
,
852
fn
.,
855
,
859
,
860
,
863
,
864
,
868
,
1038
,
1041
fn
.,
1075
,
1076
,
1082
,
1090

Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von,
625
,
626
,
733
,
755
fn
.,
762
,
853
,
856
,
859
,
862–65
,
869
,
903
fn
.,
905
,
914

Bodelschwing, Pastor Friedrich von,
237

Bodenschatz, Gen. Karl,
999
,
1054
fn
.

Boehm, Adm. Hermann,
529
fn
.

Boehm-Tettelbach, Lt. Col. Hans,
381

Boer War,
957

Boeselager, Col. Frh. von,
1019
,
1072

Boetticher, Gen. Friedrich von,
684
,
749
fn
.

Bogorodsk,
862

Boguchar,
928

Bohemia,
359
,
362
,
382
,
402
,
428
,
429
,
438
,
440
,
443
,
444
,
448
,
449
,
451
,
460
,
598
,
657
,
686
,
991
,
1032
,
1129

Bohemia, Kingdom of,
358

Bologna,
1107

Bonham Carter, Lady,
784

Bonhoeffer, Pastor Dietrich,
374
,
1017
,
1024
,
1072
,
1073

Bonhoeffer, Klaus,
1073

Bonn government,
950
fn
.,
965
fn
.

Bonnet, Georges,
389
,
390
,
408
,
413–14
,
437
,
460
,
536–37
,
543
fn
.,
604–5
,
607–10
,
612
,
616–17
,
642–43

Bono, Marshal Emilio de,
1005
fn
.

Bonte, Rear Adm. Fritz,
701
,
707

book burning,
241

Boothby, Robert,
478
fn
.

Bordeaux,
738
,
744–45

Borisov,
905

Bormann, Martin,
148–49
,
240
,
275
,
406
fn
.,
838
,
938
,
939
,
941
,
1062
,
1104
,
1112
,
1116
,
1117–18
,
1120–21
,
1123
,
1126
,
1127
,
1128
,
1129
,
1130
,
1132
,
1133
,
1134
,
1135
,
1136
,
1137

Borovsk,
869