Index

Allied Forces 193–194

Amur River 102

antisemitism 4, 13–14, 17, 20–22

Asia 59, 61, 63, 106

Auschwitz 101, 171, 177, 179, 199, 210

Austria 42

Baltic Sea 55, 70, 79

Bashkiria 73

Bashkirtzi 170

Belarus 35, 44, 55–56, 72–73, 94, 165

Berlin 1, 3–4, 7, 25, 39–41, 43, 45, 50–51, 58, 61–62, 69, 80, 83–84, 86, 88, 92–94, 113, 117–121, 123–124, 126, 128, 136–139, 141, 143–152, 154–160, 163, 165, 167–171, 174–175, 177, 181–182, 184, 186, 188, 191–195, 197, 204–205, 212–213, 218, 227, 231

Bismarck, Otto von 50

Bohemia 42

Bolshevik 19, 152, 192, 221

Bormann, Martin 88, 163

Brandenburg 118, 156, 174, 181

Braun, Eva 163–164

Braunschweig 42

Breslau 160, 179

bunker 121, 140, 161–162, 164, 168, 182, 186

Burrough, Harold 193

Central Committee of Polish Jews, the 4, 63, 83, 209–210, 223

Chagall, Mark 6

Chernyakhovsky, Ivan Danilovich 55, 57, 70, 78

Christian 2, 21, 211

church 33, 48–50, 52, 58, 93, 105–107, 113, 121, 128, 130, 158

Ciechanow 20, 99

Committee 34

Communism 4, 154, 156, 175

Communist Party, the 3

concentration camps 21, 95, 120, 123, 156, 162, 169, 177, 221

Crimea 63

Danube River 91

Danzig 55, 89, 119

Darmstadt 88, 143, 145

De Lattre de Tassigny, Jean 194

Derben 42

Dnieper River 44, 102, 178, 197, 221

Don River 102, 175

Dragunsky, David Abramovich 171

Dudnikovo 110, 170

Elbe River 136, 145, 164–165, 181, 183, 188

Europe 65, 91, 95, 150, 172, 175, 193, 221

Eastern 119

First World War, the 17, 50, 61, 123

France 42, 88

Frankfurt 88, 103, 117

Friedeburg, Hans-Georg von 193–194

Führer 44, 118, 158, 161, 162, 163, 164, 166, 177. See also Hitler, Adolf

Germany 3, 5, 30, 40, 55, 85, 91, 94, 98, 103–104, 108–109, 118, 123, 136, 149, 154–155, 158–159, 164–165, 170–172, 175, 177–179, 182, 188, 192, 194–195, 207, 218

Gestapo, the 43, 88, 182

Ghetto 4, 20–21, 210, 212

Goebbels, Joseph 143–145, 156, 163

Gomel 38, 60, 102, 120

Gorki 14–15, 17

Great Britain 193

Günsche, Otto 161

headquarters 10–12, 14–15, 21, 41–43, 52, 55–56, 66, 70–71, 78, 80, 84–85, 88, 91–93, 97–98, 106, 113–115, 117–118, 123, 127, 136, 142–143, 145, 147, 151–152, 155, 157–158, 161–162, 167, 182, 184–185, 189, 191–192, 204, 213–214, 219, 228

Hitler, Adolf 1, 2, 42, 98, 121, 143, 144, 146, 152, 156, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 173, 175, 201. See also Führer

Holocaust, the 4–5

Hungary 21, 42

Informburo 28, 145

Israel 5, 7, 118

Jews 1–5, 9–10, 12, 14, 17–23, 33–35, 39, 48, 52, 61–63, 74, 83, 89, 96, 99–100, 102–103, 113–115, 121, 128, 130, 132, 136–137, 141, 144, 154, 156–157, 159–161, 163, 165, 167–170, 182–183, 185, 188–189, 198–199, 205, 209–212, 220–223

Keitel, Wilhelm 193–195

Kharkov 3

Kiev 51, 59–60, 62–63, 154, 171

kolkhoz 38, 44, 62, 69, 74, 113, 133, 164, 197

Komi 59, 73, 192

Krasny-yar 170

Kremenchug 62

Kremlin, the 48, 58–59, 61, 66–68, 78–80, 112, 145, 151, 153, 162, 166, 172–174, 191, 204, 213

Krivoshein, Semyon Moiseyevich 113, 117–118, 147, 171

labor 14, 20, 22, 38, 41, 60, 70, 72–73, 100, 150, 157, 190, 192, 212

Leningrad 105, 122, 187, 197

Leninism 27

Lermontovskaya Square 69–70

Linge, Heinz 161

Lithuania 55, 169

Lubyanka Prison 61

Magdeburg 42

Majdanek 101, 199

Mann, Zvi 5–7

Marxism 3, 188

military 13–14, 17, 25, 27–28, 35–36, 39–42, 51, 55–56, 58–59, 61, 64, 66, 68–69, 71, 75–77, 81, 84–85, 89–90, 92, 94, 98–100, 117, 120, 122–123, 136, 143, 147, 151, 154, 156–157, 164, 166, 168, 176, 184, 191–192, 196, 198, 203, 215, 218–219, 221, 227

Minsk 12–13, 30, 51, 59, 70, 120

Mlawa 20, 101

Moksha River 35, 44, 170

Moscow 1, 3, 9–15, 17–19, 26–32, 36, 48, 53, 55, 58–62, 64, 66, 68–70, 73, 86, 98, 111–112, 115, 118, 145, 151, 153, 162, 165–166, 171–172, 174, 182–184, 187, 190, 195–197, 199, 203, 211–215, 220–222, 229, 231

Murom 30, 110

Nazis 1, 9–11, 14, 55, 118, 123, 136, 142–145, 151–152, 154, 179, 194, 199

Nazism 152, 199, 222

Nieman River 157, 178

Nizhny 164

NKVD, the 2, 9–10, 13, 15, 26, 55, 61, 85, 96, 165, 182, 190–192

Obergruppenführer 99, 101, 111, 188

October Revolution, the 120, 171, 200, 222

Oder River 35, 40–45, 49, 53, 55, 88–91, 98, 101, 117, 119, 157, 178, 181, 221

Odessa 89

Oka River 109, 154, 181, 186

Orthodox 47–48

Otwock 83, 137, 209, 211–212, 216, 220, 222, 230

Pilau 55

Plonsk 2–3, 5, 20, 101, 140, 183

Poland 1–2, 4, 9, 13, 17, 20–21, 23, 28, 32, 36, 38, 40, 45, 47, 85, 94, 99, 101, 110, 140–141, 165, 169, 181, 183–184, 188–189, 213, 218–223, 226–227

Politburo 62–64

Politkommissar 10–11, 13–14, 18, 21, 27, 86, 115, 187, 204

Posen 38, 119, 197

Praga 20, 23, 25–26, 32, 34, 83, 190, 209

Pravda 27, 48, 63

prisoner 10–11, 13–14, 18, 20, 71, 91, 98–99, 104, 142–144, 155, 162, 165–166, 176, 182, 203

propaganda 3, 14, 22, 154

Prussia 20, 55, 71, 79, 88, 90, 100–101, 103, 117, 122–123, 157

Rattenhuber, Johann 161

Red Army, the 1–3, 9, 13, 18, 20–23, 25, 27, 29, 75, 149, 193, 196, 210

Red Square 58, 61, 64

Regensburg 4, 93

Reichskanzlei, the 118–119, 145, 152–153, 161–162, 164, 166, 168–169

Reichstag, the 84, 94, 118, 128, 146–148, 153, 155–156, 161, 166

revolution. See October Revolution, the

Rokossovksy, Konstantin Konstantinovich 21, 192

Russia 12, 18, 27, 30, 35, 46, 48, 62, 68, 72–73, 94, 102, 119, 150, 154, 164, 170–172, 181, 184, 188, 191–192, 199–200, 202, 221

Second World War, the 1

Serov, Ivan Aleksandrovich 151, 192, 197

Shpola 30

Siberia 28, 59, 75, 91, 94, 181, 192, 212, 218, 220

Simferopol 62

Smolensk 10, 15, 17–18, 20, 29, 181

Sochocin 2, 20, 99, 140

socialism 2, 164, 192

Soviet Union, the. See USSR

Sozh River 44

Spaatz, Carl 193–194

Spree River 118, 155, 183

SS 43, 55, 99, 101, 111, 120, 123, 154, 161–162, 169, 177, 181, 183, 188, 192

Stalingrad 61, 69

Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich 166

Stettin 42, 83

Stumpff, Hans-Jürgen 193–194

Sverdlovsk 73

swastika 98, 118, 156, 196

Tedder, Arthur 193–194

Tempelhof 101, 163, 193

Tengushay 9–11, 13–14, 17, 35, 110, 170, 184, 195

Tiergarten, the 118–119, 152–153, 164, 166, 182

Trotsky, Leon 48

Tuczyn 3

Tyrol 177

U-2 21, 56

Ukraine 4, 62, 72, 74, 82, 94, 165, 169

Ukra River 20

USA 5, 193

USSR 1–3, 9, 13–14, 21, 62, 66, 68, 70, 72, 80, 87, 164, 171, 192–193, 216, 221

Vasilev, Aleksandr Fyodorovich 193

Vasilevsky, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich 55

Vistula River 17, 20–23, 25–26, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37–38, 55, 83, 85–86, 88, 111, 136, 151, 157, 178, 197, 221

Vladivostok 58

Vlasov, Andrey Andreyevich 21–23, 45, 72, 85, 91, 151, 169, 183, 192, 221

Volga River 74, 89, 102, 176, 210

Volksstürmer 43, 89, 103

Wagner, Walter 163

Warsaw 3–4, 11, 17–18, 20–23, 25, 28, 30–31, 35, 37, 39–40, 47, 56, 58, 66, 137, 151, 156, 181, 184, 190, 209–210, 212–214, 218–219, 221–222, 224–225, 228–230

Warta River 49, 55

Weildling, Helmuth 148

Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich 77

Yiddish 1, 3–5, 11, 33, 53, 102, 136, 141, 189, 212

Zhukov, Georgy Konstantinovich 40, 89, 117, 126, 163, 177, 192, 194–195, 204