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Mosaddeq, Mohammad,
312

Moscow, V-E Day in,
20

Motoshima Hitoshi,
175
n

Mountbatten, Louis, Lord,
111
,
115

Mount Fuji,
300

Mouvement de Libération Nationale (MLN),
310
–11

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
283

Munich,
180

Muslims, Islam,
113
,
121
–22,
155

Mussert, Anton,
218
–21,
222
–24

Mussolini, Benito,
103
,
104
,
105
,
272
,
311

Nagasaki,
271
,
296
,
298
,
309
,
327

Nanking,
193
,
194
–95

Rape of,
194
,
306

Naples '44
(Lewis),
33
–34

Napoleon I,
292
,
327

Nation,
322

National Council of the Resistance,
252

Nausée
(Sartre),
290

Nazi Concentration Camps,
279

Nazimuddin, Khwaja,
244

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
315

Netherlands,
253
,
308

Arnhem,
2
,
16
,
307

birthrate in,
53
–55

black market in,
68

France and,
220

hunger in,
53
–55

Jews in,
134
–36

liberation in,
53
,
84
,
132
,
134

Liberation Day in,
14
–15

moral panic in,
50

Nijmegen,
2
,
132
–33

Operation Manna in,
53
–54

prosecutions for collaboration in,
207

Rotterdam,
256
–57

war monuments in,
136

Netherlands Indies Civil Administration (NICA),
116
–18

Neumann, Franz,
176
–77

New Deal reformers,
175
–76,
186
,
244
,
261
–62,
272
,
296
,
299

New Jerusalem idea,
249
–53,
257

New York City,
22
,
332

V-E Day in,
19
,
21
,
22

New York Daily News,
22

New Yorker,
310
,
320
,
326

New York Herald Tribune,
21
–22

New York Times,
41
,
54
,
154
,
192
,
313
,
329
,
330
,
332

Nicolson, Harold,
245
–46,
254
–55,
271

Nicolson, Nigel,
145
,
146

Nijmegen,
2
,
132
–33

Ninth Thesis on the Philosophy of History
(Benjamin),
ix

Nishizawa Eiichi,
332

Nissan,
187
,
259
–60

Nixon, Richard,
305

Noel-Baker, Philip,
327

Norel, K.,
136

North Korea,
191

Norway,
84

Nosaka Akiyuki,
40
,
44
–45,
55

Nozaka Sanzo,
261

nuclear weapons,
see
atomic bombs

Nuremberg trials,
183
,
185
,
216
–18,
226
,
228
,
230
–37,
244
,
322
,
331

Odrodzenie,
90

Ogtrop, Father,
24

Ohlendorff, Otto,
182

Ohrdruf,
226
–27

Okamura Yasuji,
194
–95

Oleiski, J.,
163
–64

O-Machi,
196
–97

Omi,
302

O'Neill, Con,
181

Operation Barleycorn,
65

Operation Fraternization,
24

Operation Manna,
53
–54

Operation Market-Garden,
16
,
307

Oppenheimer, Robert,
313

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists,
170

Osaka,
60

Our Job in Japan,
276

Ozu
,
141

Pacific War,
34
,
67
,
175
,
297

Paget, Bernard,
324

Pagnell, Newport,
326

Palestine,
100
,
163
–68,
244

panpan
girls,
36
–38,
69

Papandreou, Georgios,
208

Papon, Maurice,
200
–201

Paraat,
134
–35

Paris,
24
,
25
,
58
,
273

V-E Day in,
19
–22

Park Chong-hee,
270

Patriote de l'Eure
,
85

Patton, George,
41
,
71
,
143
,
160
,
181
,
307

, Ante,
102
,
149

Pearl Harbor,
188
,
216
,
314
,
316

Pearson, Lester,
327

People's Courts,
203
–7,
267

Percival, Arthur,
40
,
212

Persilschein,
179

Petacci, Clara,
104

Pétain, Philippe,
103
,
137
,
171
,
198
–200,
219
,
222

trial of,
221
–22

Philippines,
111
,
188
–91,
212
,
315

Japanese invasion and occupation of,
188
–90

MacArthur and,
188
–91,
213
–18

Manila,
see
Manila

Pills, Jacques,
24

Pissarczik, Georg,
93

Poland,
62
,
253
,
335

German occupation of,
87
–88

Germans falsely accused of having been Nazis in,
93
,
94

Germans forcibly returned to Germany from,
154
–60

Germans in former German lands in,
91
,
92

Jews in,
86
–90,
134
,
160
–62,
164
,
165
,
168

leaders of wartime underground in,
320
,
321
–22

persecution of Jews in,
86
–87

plunder of Jewish assets in,
89
–90

revenge against Germans in,
90
–95

Silesia and,
92
–93

Soviet Union and,
88
,
91
,
92
,
319
–22,
323
,
328

United Nations and,
319
–20

Polge, Madame,
85
–86

Populaire,
86

Potsdam Conference,
153
–55,
167
,
173
–74,
279
,
300
,
329

Powell, Michael,
248
–50

Prague,
96
,
158
–59

Pressburger, Emeric,
248
–50

Profumo, John,
296
n

prostitution,
24
–25,
28
,
33
,
48
,
49

in Germany,
42
–43

in Japan,
34
–38,
45

Prussia,
157
,
253

Prussianism,
171
,
173
,
175
,
182
,
279

Punch,
277

purges of wartime collaborators,
235

in France,
198
–201

in Germany,
172
–73,
176
–83,
279
,
293

in Japan,
172
–76,
183
–87

see also
trials

Pu'yi, Henry,
258
,
259

Quezon, Manuel,
188

Quwatli, Shukri al-,
323
–24

Radzilow,
88

Rainer, Friedrich,
146

Rákosi, Mátyás,
205

Ramadier, Paul,
57

rape,
38
,
39
,
42
,
84

of German women by Soviets,
83
–84

Rape of Nanking,
194
,
306

rationalist idealism,
311
–12

Recreation and Amusement Association (RAA),
34
–35

Red Bands of the Sabilillah,
113

reeducation,
276
–77

of Germany,
277
–95,
297

of Japan,
276
,
287
,
295
–306

see also
German culture; Japanese culture

religious universalism,
311
–12

Remarque, Erich Maria,
290

Renan, Ernest,
286

Renault, Louis,
200

Renault factories,
200
,
253

Rescue Committee for European Jewry,
165

resistance movements,
169
–72,
201

communism and,
102
–3,
109
,
175

in France,
170
–71,
199
,
201
,
252
,
253

as political force,
253
–54

revenge,
9
,
75
–80,
86
,
98

in Asia,
111
–13,
117
,
118

against Germans by Czechs,
95
–98

against Germans by Poles,
90
–95

against Germans by Soviets,
79
–80

in Italy,
105
,
106

against Japanese by Soviets,
80

against Jews,
90

by Jews,
98
,
99
–101

in Vietnam,
126

see also
trials

Rhee, Syngman,
267
,
269
,
270

Ribbentrop, Joachim von,
231

Richard, Marthe,
201

Richter, Erich,
331
–32

Richter, Helmut,
92

Ringers, J. A.,
257

Road to Serfdom, The
(Hayek),
250

Roberts, Owen J.,
313

Robertson, Brian,
278

Rockwell, Norman,
314

Romania,
62
,
154
,
159
,
253

Rome,
59

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
154
,
292
,
317
,
318
–20,
327
–28

Atlantic Charter and,
314
–15,
323

death of,
319

Four Freedoms of,
314
,
323

United Nations and,
316
–18,
319

Rosenfeld, Netty,
134

Rosensaft, Josef “Yossele,”
56
–57,
162
–63,
229

Rosensaft, Menachem,
57

Rossellini, Roberto,
40
,
242

Rossi, Ernesto,
311

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