- Abwehr, 1, 2
- Abyssinia, 1
- Acheson, Dean, 1
- Adelboden, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Adler (German train), 1, 2, 3
- A-4 rocket, see V-2 rocket
- Aga Khan, 1
- Ain, 1
- Albania, 1
- Albertville, 1
- Alexander, Field Marshal Harold:
- appeal for resistance in Italian Alps, 1, 2, 3;
- Clark replaces in Italy, 1;
- and Cuneo impasse, 1;
- ends campaigning for winter, 1, 2;
- and German surrender in Italy, 1;
- on Italian partisans, 1;
- requests JANL withdrawal from Carinthia, 1
- Algiers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Allied Forces Headquarters, Caserta (AFHQ), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT), 1, 2, 3, 4
- Alpenfestung (Alpine Fortress):
- Allied forces converge on, 1;
- Dulles’s belief in, 1;
- Göring on, 1;
- Himmler’s planning for, 1;
- lack of intelligence on, 1;
- Pfeiffer’s order, 1;
- replaces Berlin as Allied focus, 1;
- SHAEF on, 1, 2;
- US War Department warning, 1
- ‘Alpine cure’, 1, 2
- Alps, see Austrian Alps; Bavarian Alps; French Alps; Italian Alps; Swiss Alps; Yugoslavia
- Altaussee, 1
- Anderson, Captain Harry, 1
- A-9/A-10 rocket, 1
- Anjot, Capitaine Maurice, 1, 2
- Annecy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Annemasse, 1
- Antwerp, 1, 2
- Apennines: Alexander’s difficulties in, 1;
- Gothic Line, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
- Marzabotto massacre, 1;
- partisans in, 1;
- Mussolini rescue, 1
- Ardennes offensive, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Arnold, Matthew, 1
- Arnold-Baker, Richard, 1
- Aron, Robert, 1
- Arosa, 1
- Ascona, 1
- Ashenden (Maugham), 1
- Ashford-Russell, Major Brian, 1
- Astier de la Vigerie, Emmanuel d’, 1, 2
- Augsburg, 1, 2, 3, 4
- Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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- Austria: Anschluss, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
- concentration camps, 1;
- expulsion of Jews, 1;
- as fascist state, 1;
- in Great Depression, 1;
- and Grossdeutsches Reich, 1, 2;
- Hitler’s Vienna speech, 1;
- murder of Dollfuss, 1;
- partition at war’s end, 1;
- as potential Soviet state, 1;
- regains independence, 1
- Austrian Alps: Allies enter Innsbruck, 1;
- British–Yugoslav face-off in Carinthia, 1;
- Churchill’s post-war plans, 1;
- following Anschluss, 1;
- and ‘Fortress Europe’ idea, 1;
- French forces advance into, 1, 2;
- Mauthausen subcamps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
- post-Depression flourishing of resorts, 1;
- under AMGOT rule, 1;
- underground industrial production, 1;
- ‘Werewolves’ in, 1;
- White Rose leaflets, 1;
- see also Alpenfestung
- Austrian resistance: announces armistice, 1;
- formation of O5, 1;
- leads de Lattre’s forces in Alps, 1;
- Molden meets Dulles, 1, 2, 3;
- O5 cells, 1;
- Provisorisches Österreichisches Nationalkommitee (POEN), 1, 2;
- seizes Wehrmacht Innsbruck HQ, 1;
- Vienna protest, 1, 2