Index

Abganerovo, 33, 38, 42, 45, 48, 74

Abrusovka, 276

Acktuba, 307

Adam, Col. Wilhelm, 367–368, 372, 376–377, 396, 434

Ademeit, Lt. Gottfried, 51

Adenauer, Konrad, 435–437

A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), 15

Africa, see North Africa

Air Corps, German Eighth, 193

aircraft: bomber, 32, 40, 42, 44, 58, 60, 70, 91, 93, 134, 245; British, 88; German lost at Stalingrad, 303, 339; fighter, 346; reconnaissance, 53, 167; Russian, 136–137, 139, 162, 233; transport, 237, 297, 299, 351, 355, 399. See also He-111; Ju-52; Ju-88; Stuka

Air Fleet, German Fourth, 131

Air Force, Soviet Eighth, 54

airlift: German, 193, 199, 206–207, 213, 216, 217, 221–222, 229, 233, 237, 246, 247, 254, 302–303, 330, 336, 345; Russian, 162

air raids: Allied, 153; German, 32, 33, 57–60, 65–67. See also air strikes

air-raid shelters, 59, 60, 365

air strikes, tactical: German, 93; Russian, 77, 130–131

Akimovski, 114, 184, 189, 190

Aksai River, 213, 234, 243, 293

Albania, 15

Algeria, Allied landings in, 153

Alt, Capt., 341

Alter, Wilhelm, 115–116, 360, 405

ambushes: German, 40, 43, 264, 320; Russian, 44, 133

ammunition, German: brought into Stalingrad, 125–126; rationing of, 224; stockpiles, 164, 274; supplies exhausted, 240, 339, 355

amputations, 223, 305, 313

Anderson, Lale, 295

antiaircraft guns: German, 64; Soviet, 57–58, 233, 303

anti-Communism, 42, 78, 321

anti-Semitism, 10–11, 336, 398

antitank defenses, 9, 38, 45, 86; ditches, xv, 33, 54, 60. See also artillery, antitank

Antonescu, Marshal Ion, 213

Anzio, landing at, 401

artillery: antitank, 49, 137, 188, 194, 224, 240; German, 73, 79, 94, 101, 123, 125, 133, 335; Russian, 36, 39, 46, 104, 112, 151, 171–172, 306, 315; surrendered to Germans, 75. See also mortars

Asia, Russian expansion into, 29

Astrakhan, 3, 67

atrocities: German, 43, 143, 321, 436; Russian, 282, 321, 362

Austria, 151; troops, 224, 226, 334

autopsy, 318–319

Azov, Sea of, 3, 179, 203

Babi Yar, 436

Baburkin, 286, 304, 353

Badanov, Gen., 301, 302

Baden-Baden, 401

Bad Gotesburg, 396

Baku, 78

Balkan States, 13

Banco Nazionale del Lavore, 397

Barmantsak, Lake, 187

Barrikady Gun Factory, 36, 99, 123, 125, 135, 155, 156, 162, 208, 261, 270, 399, 400; battle for, 137, 138–142, 144, 150, 151, 186, 225–226, 242

Batov, Gen., 368

Batum, 78

Batyuk, Col. Nikolai, 103, 120, 127, 168, 396

Beaulieu, Col., 372

Beer Hall Putsch, 153

Behr, Capt. Winrich, 175, 176, 182, 185, 186, 299, 335–336, 340, 344–345, 356, 382, 396, 405

Beketovka, 67, 80, 149, 151, 171, 187, 241, 378, 390

Below, Col. Gunter von 100–101, 114–115, 329–330, 367, 396, 405

Below, Col. Nikolaus von, 100, 229, 335–336, 382, 396

Berlin, 118, 121, 398, 401, 402; airlift, 394

Bezditko, Lt. Ivan, 168

Big Saturn offensive, 229, 301

Billert, Oberleutnant, 353

Binder, Karl, 112, 142, 184, 189–190, 220–221, 288–289, 313–314, 333–334, 359–360, 387, 388–389, 396–397, 405

“Black Crows,” 11

Black Sea, 78, 147, 301

Blinov, 183, 185

blitzkrieg, 4, 76, 90, 118

Boblingen, 268, 288, 397

Bock, Gen. Fedor von, 8, 18, 19

BODO line, 48, 61, 83, 187

Boguchar, 282

Bolshe Nabotoff, 184, 189

Bolshevik Revolution, 29–30, 58–59, 83, 152

bombing, see air raids; Stuka aircraft

Boris, Oberleutnant, 339

Bormann, Martin, 206, 344

Bracci, Lt. Felice, 15, 262, 275–276, 281, 304–306, 327, 328, 390, 397, 405

Branco (Italian prisoner), 327

Brandt, Pvt. Willi, 133

Breining, Lt. Friedrich, 115, 166, 209, 405

Brezhnev, Leonid, 404

bridges, see Don River; Kalach

British Army, Eighth, 153

British Expeditionary Force, 4

Brunnert, Pvt. Ekkehart, 164–165, 239, 268–269, 288, 322–324, 397, 405

Brunnert, Irene, 288

Bulganin, Nikolai, 436, 437

Bund Deutsche Offiziere, 396

Bundeswehr, 401

Businovka, 192, 196, 247, 252

Byelorussia, 106

cannibalism, xiii, 390–392

Capone, Dr. Cristoforo, 15–16, 257–258, 259, 276–277, 329, 362, 390, 392–393, 397, 405

Caspian Sea, 3, 70, 78

casualties, xiv-xv; in air raids, 65–67; civilian, 61; German, 92, 111, 114, 131, 132, 145, 155, 157, 205, 229, 260, 280, 293, 309, 335, 344, 359; Italian, 259; among prisoners, 388, 389, 390; Rumanian, 201–202, 213; Russian, 40, 68, 82, 101, 105, 110, 120, 125, 135, 136, 150, 157, 171, 241, 285, 368

Catherine the Great, 29

Caucasus Mountains, 15, 19, 29, 44, 85, 86, 152, 183, 203, 214, 229, 266, 310; German headquarters in, 79; oil fields, objective in German offensive, 24, 78, 118, 119

cavalry, see horses

cemeteries, military, 6, 114, 314

censors, military, 311, 312–313, 361, 386–387

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 398

Changar, Capt. Ignacy, 143–145, 324–325, 387, 397, 405

Chekhov, Anatoli, 145

Chemist’s Shop, battle for, 155, 156

Chemnitz, 225

Chernova, Tania, 106–107, 122–123, 145–146, 235–236, 386, 397, 405

Chiang Kai-shek, 83

Chileko, 33

China, 83

Chir, 164, 165, 167, 190, 196, 198

Chir River, 192, 201

cholera, 29

Christiakov, Gen., 183

Christmas Eve, battlefield observances of, 283, 284, 286–290, 295

Chuikov, Valentina, 124

Chuikov, Gen. Vassili Ivanovich, xii, 83–85, 86–88, 159–160, 176, 218, 220, 243, 316; headquarters, 93–94, 99, 124, 126, 136, 150, 167–168, 204, 284, 368, 378–379, 386; intelligence organization, 132; orders given by, 96, 134–135; postwar career, 397–398; reinforcements requested, 136, 151; tactics adopted by 89–91, 234–235

Chungking, 83

Churchill, Winston, 48n, 88

CIA, 398

Circassians, 78

Clausius, Col., 354

clothing supplies, 164, 268, 352

Codre, Lt. Col., 113, 142

Cologne, xiii

Combat Groups, German: Engelke, 139; Fretter-Pico, 346; Hollidt, 228, 346; Hunersdorff, 240, 242–243; Krumpen, 63; Mieth, 346; Stahel, 346

commandos, Russian, 133; 134, 324, 387, 397

“Commissar Order,” 10, 12

Commissar’s House, battle for, 155, 156–157, 225

Communist party: members, 42, 83; Paulus and, 401; political agitators, 125, 172, 324, 393; Stalingrad Central Committee, 60. See also anti-Communism

concentration camps, German, 436

counterintelligence, 91–92, 97

courts martial, 353, 360

Crete, 210

Crimea, 20, 215

Croatians, regiment of, 220

Crome, Col., 371

Daniel, Edler von, 13, 366

Danilov (political agitator), 129

Danzig, 50

Dar Gova, 33, 54, 59, 97, 170, 285, 378, 385

Das Reich, 161

defectors: German, 367–368; Rumanian, 185; Russian Army, 165–166, 235, 268, 273; Russian civilian, 398

de Gaulle, Charles, xv

Deifel, Cpl. Franz, 167, 226–227, 348–349, 406

Demyansk, 311

Denikin, Gen. Anton, 20

Denisova (militiawoman), 59

Deriabin, Lt. Pyotr, 103, 104, 120–121, 135, 379–380, 398, 405

deserters: execution of, 43, 104, 125, 307, 380; German, 336; Russian, xv, 5, 48, 71, 108, 149, 380

Detrunina, Nina, 66

Dietzel, Lt. Gerhard, 197

Dimitrevka, 304, 334

Dingler, Oberst, 353

disease, 29, 364–365, 369, 389–390

dive-bombers, see Stuka aircraft

Dnieper River, 55

dogs, 79, 282; used as food, 238–239, 309

Dolgy Ravine, 104

“Dom Pavlov (Pavlov’s House),” battle for, 137, 146

Don-Chir Front, 214

Don Front, 45, 117, 174, 302

Don River, 3, 13, 15, 19, 28, 39, 183, 213; crossed by Germans, 48–49, 53, 75, 114, 118; in defense of Stalingrad, 25, 26, 73; German headquarters on, 111; positions on, 193; pontoon bridges over, 47, 55, 159; Russian positions on, 158. See also Kalach

Donets River, 19, 119

Donskaya-Tsaritsa River, 257

Dragan, Lt. Anton Kuzmich, 96, 100, 102, 103, 107–109, 398

Drebber, Gen., 367–368

Dresden, xi, 116, 401

Dumitrescu, Gen., 150

Dunkirk, evacuation at, 4, 7, 118

Dylo, Lev, 56

Dzerhezinsky, Felix, 124

Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works, 36–37, 53, 68, 127, 234, 285; evacuation of workers, 123–124; German attack on, 134; return of workers, 385, 390

East Germany, 394, 396, 401, 403

East Prussia, Nazi headquarters in, 71, 150, 199, 206, 245, 253, 271, 303, 310, 340, 356, 381

Egypt, 153

Eden, Anthony, 118

Eichlepp (aide to Paulus), 299, 345

Einsatzgruppen, 11, 400

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 398, 400

Eismann, Maj., 246–247, 248–249, 253, 273

El Alamein, 153, 232

Elininski, 121

Engineer Training School, Russian, 195

Englehardt, Karl, 165, 405

English Channel, proposed Allied invasion across, 20, 48n

entertainment of troops, 307–308

espionage, Russian, 23–24, 91–92, 158, 229, 398, 402, 422–423. See also intelligence

factory district, battle for, 110, 111, 123, 126, 130, 134–135, 138–142, 144–146, 150, 151, 155, 163

famine, see starvation

Far East Fleet, Soviet, 68, 121

Fasanotti (Italian prisoner), 327

Fascism, 14, 15, 88, 305, 306

Fiebig, Lt. Gen. Martin, 193, 216, 217, 229–230, 237, 280–281, 300, 351

field hospitals: German, 6, 63–64, 131, 229, 257, 304, 323, 370–371; Russian, 72

Fillipov, Lt. Col. Grigor, 194–195, 197

Fillipov, Sacha, 97, 170–171, 285–286, 385

Finland, Soviet attack on, 42, 83

food supply: failures, 238–239, 295, 297, 350, 360; German, 164, 184, 197, 220–221, 253, 278, 318, 334, 359–360; for prisoners, 328, 378, 392–393; rations cut, 220, 226, 233, 274, 298; Russian, 38, 124, 168, 171, 220, 265, 307

France, 20, 213, 329; occupation of, 7, 138, 193, 210, 215

Frankfurt on the Main, 7, 347, 393–394, 400

Frankfurt on the Oder, 394

frostbite, 275, 294, 305, 352, 357, 363

Frunze Military Academy, 83

fuel, shortage of, 20, 196, 242, 247, 249, 258–259, 267, 268, 278–279, 297–298

Furth, 114

Fusco, Franco, 281, 327

Gavrilovka, 75

Gebhardt, Capt., 340–341

Gehlen, Col. Reinhard, 182

Gehlert, Gunter, 323, 324

Gehres, Emil, 115–116

Georgia, 120

German Army, xv, 18, 243–244; Army Group A, 8, 19, 78, 79, 85, 203, 212, 214, 291, 310, 400; Army Group B, 8, 18, 19, 75, 111–112, 137, 191, 198–199, 201, 212; Army Group Don, 211, 228, 249, 250, 253, 266, 272, 274, 300, 320, 330, 338, 339, 346, 355–356, 384, 387

ARMIES: First Panzer, 8, 78, 310; Fourth Panzer, 8, 18, 19–21, 26, 41–42, 47, 79, 83, 132, 149, 190, 197, 370; Sixth, see entries under Sixth Army

CORPS: Eighth, 13, 370; Eleventh, 211, 370, 373–374; Fourteenth, 365, 369, 370; Seventeenth, 78, 310; Forty-eighth Panzer, 158–159, 172, 175, 183, 186, 188, 200–201, 399; Fifty-first, 354, 370; Fifty-seventh Armored, 251, 254, 274

DIVISIONS: Third, 343; Third Motorized, 50, 63, 73, 308, 334, 365; Sixth Panzer, 213–214, 229, 231, 236, 237, 241, 247, 250, 252, 253, 255, 257, 258, 260, 266, 274, 275, 278; Ninth Flak, 132, 337; Fourteenth Panzer, 102, 132, 210, 224; Sixteenth Armored, 294; Sixteenth Motorized, 114, 214, 228; Sixteenth Panzer, 13, 47, 49–52, 62, 73, 172, 173, 186, 193, 218, 292, 307; Seventeenth Panzer, 214, 228, 250; Twenty-second, 159, 188; Twenty-third Panzer, 214, 229, 243; Twenty-fourth Panzer, 190, 219, 308; Twenty-ninth Motorized, 75, 79, 132, 190, 219–220, 308, 334, 343, 365; Forty-fourth, 151, 218, 224, 343; Sixtieth Motorized, 50, 63, 73, 130–131, 219, 227, 294, 308, 343; Seventy-first, 46, 87, 92, 100, 107, 110, 220, 366, 367; Seventy-sixth, 114, 218, 334, 335, 343; Seventy-ninth, 220; Ninety-fourth, 116, 133, 204–205, 317; One Hundredth, 140, 220; One Hundred Thirteenth Infantry, 219, 225, 334, 343; One Hundred Ninety-fourth Infantry, 89; Two Hundred Eighty-ninth Infantry, 134; Two Hundred Ninety-fifth, 13, 87, 93, 100; Two Hundred Ninety-seventh, 220, 223, 279, 308, 309, 334, 343, 367; Three Hundred Fifth, 138, 220, 221, 284, 334; Three Hundred Thirty-sixth, 154–155, 163; Three Hundred Seventy-first, 220, 308; Three Hundred Seventy-sixth, 147, 334; Three Hundred Eighty-fourth, 219, 334, 343; Three Hundred Eighty-ninth, 220; Grossdeutschland Panzer, 20. See also Combat Groups; German High Command; Hoth; Operation Blue; Operation Thunderclap; Operation Winter Storm; Paulus; street fighting; supply lines

German Cross, 339

German Democratic Republic, see East Germany

German High Command (OKW), 4, 9, 12, 14, 75, 158, 192, 209, 211, 216, 229, 245, 274, 388, 400; Russian spies within, 24, 402

German Propaganda Company, 195

Germany: Third Reich, xvi, 152, 373, 396; Weimar Republic, 212. See also East Germany; West Germany

Gestapo, see secret police

Gibraltar, 153

Giebeler, Wilhelm, 154, 162–163, 405

Gilmore, Eddy, 336

Ginderling, Capt., 92

Giordano (Italian prisoner), 327

Goebbels, Joseph, 100, 161, 295–296, 361, 367, 384–385

Goering, Hermann, 132, 193, 199, 206, 304, 373–374

Gogol Street, 58

Goldstein, Mikhail, 307–308, 398

Golikov, Gen. F. I., 81

Golodny Island, 37, 67

Golubinka, German command center at, 49, 51, 99–100, 111, 113, 137, 148, 175, 181, 184, 186, 190

Gordov, Gen. A. V., 32, 34, 48, 117

Gorishny Col. V. A., 123, 150

Gorki Theater, 35, 110, 368, 375

Gorodische, 304

Gorokhov, Col. Semyon, 67–68

Goslar, 399

grain elevator, 142; battle for, 101–102

“Green Hats,” 43, 83

Grozny, 78, 85

guerrilla fighters, 143–145. See also commandos; partisans

Gurewicz, Lt. Hersch, 42–45, 142–143, 171, 187, 222–223, 386–387, 398, 405

Gumrak Airfield, 115, 190, 197, 203, 308, 334, 346, 347; command post at, 198, 200, 234, 246, 293, 299, 325, 330; hospital at, 323, 333, 349; radio transmitter at, 346; teleprinter at, 248, 249, 300

Gurov, Kuzma, 135, 176

Gurtiev, Col. L. N., 135, 136, 150

Haifa, xiii

Halder, Gen. Franz, 17–18, 19, 20–21, 79, 271, 398–399; fired by Hitler, 111

Halle, Cpl. Werner, 79–80

Hamburg, xiii, 12, 402

hand-to-hand fighting, 92, 150

Hannover, 404

Harriman, W. Averell, 48n, 405, 422

Hartmann, Gen. von, 366–367

Hauswald, Lina, 339

He-111 aircraft, 221–222, 229, 299

Heim, Lt. Gen. Ferdinand, 158, 183, 185, 186, 188, 190, 200, 399

Heitz, Gen. Walther, 13, 350, 371

Hemingway, Ernest, 15

Hero of the Soviet Union, decoration as, 94, 386, 400, 401, 402, 404

Heusinger, Gen. Adolf, 207, 232, 344, 403, 405

Hilfsfreiwilliger (Hiwis), see defectors, Russian Army

Himmler, Heinrich, 11

Hindenburg, Chancellor Paul Von, 13

Hitler, Adolf: aides to, 100, 206–207, 232, 299, 303, 304, 344, 345, 400; at anniversary of Third Reich, 153–154; at apogee of power, 82; attitude of commanders toward, 9, 245, 371; attitude of troops toward, 209, 225, 244, 312, 340, 341–342, 361; blunders in strategy, 19–20, 271–272; “Christmas Drive,” 244; destructive alliance with apolitical generals, 377; display of charm and self-control, 344–345; displays of temper, 78–79, 205, 423; fascination with enemy plans, 153; military conferences, 17–18, 78–79, 85, 232–233; military decisions, 8–9, 15, 19–20, 24, 78, 162, 183, 192–193, 199, 205–206, 207–208, 215, 217, 245, 246, 255, 333; military units shifted, 228; myth of invincibility, xvi, 4, 10; New Year’s message, 308; plans to overthrow, 17, 399, 402; reaction to surrender of Sixth Army, 381–382; refusal to permit retreat from Stalingrad, 246, 280; refusal to permit surrender, 330, 362; response to messengers from Sixth Army, 344–345, 356–357; retreat of First Panzer Army authorized, 310; reverses at Stalingrad acknowledged, 227; self-isolation, 79, 110–111, 118–119, 153; Stalingrad battle as contest of ego with Stalin, 157; tendency to underrate enemy, 18, 19, 21, 154, 182; thesis of racial supremacy, 10. See also Mainstein; Paulus

Holland, Capt., 64

horses, in Germany Sixth Army, 6, 116, 166, 201, 251, 273, 360; slaughtered for food, 221, 253, 299, 350

Horvath, Pvt. Michael, 388

Hoth, Gen. Hermann, 74, 75, 132, 320; advance of First Panzer Army on Stalingrad, 42; attempted pincer movement, 47–48, 76; drive to Volga, 79; forces split, 192, 196; regroupment attempted, 197; relief force to resupply Sixth Army, 246, 247, 252–253, 260, 268, 277, 290, 293, 294; withdrawal of armored division from, 291, 310

House of Specialists, capture of, 91

house-to-house fighting, 154–157, 225–227, 316–317, 361, 364; anticipated by Soviet command, 33

Hube, Gen. Hans, 13, 47, 63, 65, 67, 73, 329–330, 354, 382

“human-wave” tactics, 77

Humbert, Lt. Philip, 379

Hunersdorff, Col., 231, 240, 266

Hungarian Army, xiv, 8, 13, 14, 346

Hurricane aircraft, 88

ice packs, effect on battle, 151, 159, 160, 162, 168, 220, 243

Idar-Oberstein, 399

Ilyin, Col. Pyotr, 45–46, 75–76

industrial revolution, 29

infantry: German, 13, 89, 90, 138, 148, 253, 274, 322, 354; Russian, 4, 34, 77, 82. See also entries under German Army

Infantry Assault Badge, 130

intelligence, military: German, 8–9, 17, 20, 42, 114, 127, 147–148, 149, 150, 175, 182, 246, 292, 422; Russian, 74, 97, 132–133, 150–151, 158, 170–171, 422–423

Iron Cross, Knighthood of, 7, 13

Isonzo River, 15

Israel, xiii, 397, 398

Italian Army, xiv, 13, 150, 229, 232, 233, 245, 247, 275; Alpini, 14, 15, 391; Bersaglieri, 14, 262–264; Eighth, 14, 258, 259, 269, 275, 300, 304; Julia, 14; Torino, 14, 16; troops taken prisoner, 397

Ivan the Terrible, 22

Jaenecke, Gen. Erwin, 134, 354

Japan, 70, 217

Jeschonnek, Albert, 132, 154, 193, 199, 206, 217, 245

Jews, extermination of, 11–12, 15. See also anti-Semitism

Jodl, Gen. Albert, 79, 110, 232, 344

Ju-52 aircraft, 118, 216, 221, 229, 280, 355, 358

Ju-88 aircraft, 58, 60, 91

Kalach, 32, 46, 88, 175, 191, 194, 249, 254, 347; bridge at, 40, 45, 75–76, 114, 190, 192, 193, 195–196, 197–198, 202; German garrison at, 195

Kalmikoff, 262, 263, 264, 275, 328

Kalmucks, 42, 114

Kamenka, 254

Kamyshin, 104

Karinhall estate, 206

Karl Marx Gardens, 60–61

Karlsruhe, 403

Karmanov, Genn, 58, 97–98, 386

Karmanova, Katrina, 58–59, 97–98, 385–386

Karpovka, 286, 309, 338, 387

Karpovka River, 334

Karpovka Valley, 332, 333

Kasternoye, 346

Kästle, Lt. Hermann, 185, 322, 405

Kazakhs, attack on Red Army troops, 321

Kazakhstan, 3, 69, 120

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 9, 345, 381, 399

“Kessel, Der (The Cauldron),” 203, 204, 212–255 passim, 292, 296, 297, 303, 306, 308, 330, 332, 335

Khalkin Gol, 70, 217

Kharkov, 113, 164, 167, 436; German victory at, 12, 13, 68; refugees from, 34

Khoyzyanov, Lt. Andrei, 101, 102

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeeyvich, 231, 399, 400, 404, 437; orders given by, 82; rivalry with Malenkov, 68; and Stalin, 80–81; visit to battlefield, 172; and Yeremenko, 48, 54–55, 61, 83, 85, 172, 302

Kiev, 55, 387, 402, 404, 436

Kirchner Gen., 274, 278

Kletskaya, 14, 147, 149, 159, 161, 167, 179, 181, 184, 188, 201, 214

Kliagin, Vovo, 54, 60, 61

Kliagina, Nadia, 54, 60, 61

Kliagina, Vlasa, 54, 60–61

Klotz, Lt. Heinrich, 130–131, 319–320, 405

Kohler, Dr. Ottmar, 50–51, 63–65, 131, 227, 318–319, 370, 399, 405

Kolia (Russian child spy), 91–92

Komsomol, 66

Komsomolskaya Street, 61; battle for, 103, 109

Konings, Maj., 121, 127–130

Korfes, Gen. Otto, 366, 371, 379

Kornilov, Natasha, 98–99, 170, 317

Korshunov, Gen., 55

Kosygin, Alexei, 404

Kotelnikovo, 26, 213, 216, 229, 231; German capture of, 21, 33; recaptured by Russians, 320

Kotluban, 388

Kovalova, Olga, 69

Krasnaya Sloboda, 99, 307

Krasnoarmeysk, 79

Krasnodar, 44

Krasnofimsk, 103

Krasnopeterskaya Street, 103, 108

Krasny Zastava factory, 59

Kreiser, Lt. Wilhelm, 140–141, 209–210, 235, 399, 405

Krinovaya prison camp, 391, 392

Krugliakov, 33

Krupennikov, Maj. Gen. I. P., 264–266

Krupennikov, Yuri, 265

Krutoy Gully, 34, 36, 119, 120

Krylov, Gen. N. I., 87, 126, 316, 379, 399–400

Kuibyshev 104, 124, 234

Kulikov, Nikolai, 128, 129–130

Kunowski, Col. von, 298

Kuperosnoye, 79, 80

Kuzmichi, 63

Kwantung Army, 70, 217

labor camps, 165

Langkeit, Oberleutnant, 353

Lascar, Gen. Mihail, 201

Latashanka, 104, 171

Lazur Chemical Plant, 36, 104, 120, 121, 175

Leipzig, 199

Lelyushenko, Gen., 265

Lenin, V. I., 22

Leningrad, 18, 20, 29, 34, 70–72

Leyser, Gen. Ernst, 191, 343

Libya, 15

lice, 171, 188, 287, 304, 309, 312, 349, 364, 371

Likovitsa, 398

Linden, Maj. Joseph, 46, 155, 242, 303, 405

List, Field Marshal Sigmund Wilhelm, 8, 78

Little Saturn offensive, 228, 301

livestock, 32, 116, 186, 189, 190, 318; kept as pets, 49, 51, 318. See also horses

Loebbecke, Lt. Eberhard von, 193–194, 405

London, Jack, 35

Lopatin, Gen. A. I., 81, 82–83

Lubeck, 402

“Lucy” (Rudolph Rossler), 23, 24, 158, 228, 402, 422

Ludwig, Col. Gunter, 375–376

Luftwaffe, 33, 91, 183, 238; airfields, 47; drops by, 65, 222; losses at Stalingrad, 302–303, 339, 434; officers, xiii, 61, 148, 154, 206, 229, 347; Paulus and, 131–132, 148–149, 154, 163, 222, 229–230, 237, 254, 350–351; plea for intervention rejected by, 349. See also airlift; air raids

Lugansk, 3

Lutschinski, 221

Lyudnikov, Col. Ivan Ilyich, 150, 157, 159–160, 162, 186, 284, 400

Maginot Line, 215

Magnitogorsk, 121

Maikop, 78

Malaya Ivanovka, 77

Malaya Rossoshka, 54

Malenkov, Georgi, x, 68

Malinovsky, Gen. Rodion Yakolevich, 336–337, 400

Malygin, Maj., 168–169

Mamaev Hill, xii, 36, 37–38, 60, 68, 128, 133, 168, 169, 175, 325, 368; battle for, 93, 94, 101, 104, 109, 111, 120, 123, 137, 396; command post on, 86–87, 88; German positions on, 125, 227, 348, 378–379

Manchuria, 70, 217

Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von, 215, 400; as head of Army Group Don, 211–214, 228, 229, 230, 231, 242, 245–246, 290, 329–330, 347; Hitler and, 20, 246, 250–251, 272ߛ273, 274, 298, 310, 320, 362, 400; Paulus and, 233, 242, 248–250, 277–279, 298, 300; resignation offered, 320; retreat ordered by, 346. See also German Army (Army Group Don); Operation Thunderclap

manufacturing, 36–37

marines, Russian, 68, 101, 102, 123

Marinovka, 286, 334

Marsan, Lt. Veniero, 15

Martini (Italian prisoner), 327

Medevitskaya Street, 58

medical care: German, 6, 50, 131, 229, 313, 317, 325, 349, 365; Russian, 84, 110

medical supplies, 198, 229, 282, 370

Mediterranean Sea, 153

Medvedev, Viktor, 145

Meshkov, 263, 275

Messerschmidt aircraft, 346

Metzger, Lt. Emil, 7–8, 116–117, 167, 203, 228, 289–290, 347, 387, 389, 393–395, 400, 405

Metzger, Kaethe, 7–8, 116, 228, 289–290, 347, 389, 393–395, 400

Metzler, Pvt. Josef, 114, 208, 352, 405

Meunch, Capt. Gerhard, 46, 76, 89, 92–93, 113, 167, 243, 286–287, 324, 354–355, 400–401, 405

Mexico, 22

mice, 304; equipment damaged by, 159; used as food by troops, 238

Mikosch, Col., 195

Milch, Gen. Erhard, 347

military decorations, 353, 397–398. See also German Cross; Hero of the Soviet Union; Infantry Assault Badge; Iron Cross; Order of Lenin; Order of the Red Star; Ritter Kreuz

militia, workers’, 56–57, 63; organized for defense of Stalingrad, 90; replaced by regulars, 112

Millerovo, 263

minefields, deactivation of, 242

Mishkova River, 213, 232, 234, 237, 241, 243, 247, 250, 255, 257, 258, 273, 274, 275, 279, 290, 294, 300

Moabit Prison, 399

Modina, Anastasia, 66–67, 97

Mogilev, 42

Mokraya Mechetka River, 37, 56, 63, 68, 69

Mongols, 28–29, 115

Montgomery, Gen. Bernard, 153

morale, problems of: German, 112, 167, 185, 226, 297, 311–313, 340, 356; Russian, 42, 48, 71–72, 82

Moro airstrip, 302

Morocco, Allied landings in, 153

Morosovsk, 274

Morosovskaya, 67, 216, 274, 291

mortars: German, 6–7, 73, 80, 102, 105, 127, 203, 242; Russian, 120, 370–371

Moscow, xv, 18, 22, 29, 48n, 70, 149, 183; defense of, 71, 103

Moslems, 78

Mues, Capt., 172–173

Muller (Chief of Staff, 14th Corps). 369

Munich, 152, 153, 401

Mussolini, Benito, 14, 15, 305

mutiny, 244, 366, 369–370

Mutius, Lt., 221

nail factory, defense of, 100, 102

Napoleon Bonaparte, ix–x

Narvik, 295

Nazi party, 9, 153, 374, 401; fund-raising drive, 244; German opponents of, 402, 403

Nazi-Soviet pact, 23

nebelwerfers (German mortars), 6–7, 203

Neidhardt, Capt. Boris von, 372, 377

Neist, Heinz, 139–140, 208, 238–239, 359, 380–381, 405

Neiwig, Cpl., 387–388

Nekrassov, Lt. Viktor, 55–56

Nerozia, Pyotr, 56–57, 59

Neustadt, 339

New Year’s Eve, battlefield celebration of, 307–308

New York Times, 336

NKVD, 43, 67, 82, 90, 105, 117, 307, 399; prison, 66, 365–366, 369, 374, 375, 380; in street fighting, 91, 92

Normandy, occupation of, 13

North Africa, Allied invasion of, 48n, 154, 182, 232, 296

Novocherkassk, 212, 214, 228, 245, 248, 250, 273, 294, 310, 329, 339

Novosibirsk, 397

Odessa, 34

Oettl, Lt. Hans, 49–50, 51, 112, 203, 209, 308–309, 318, 383–384, 401, 405

oil fields, and German strategy, 18, 85, 118, 119

Operation Blue (German), 4, 8, 12, 18, 78, 422; details known to Stalin, 24

Operation Thunderclap (German), 246, 247, 253, 255, 257, 260, 267, 270, 271, 274, 277–278, 290, 400

Operation Torch (Allied), 48n

Operation Uranus (Soviet), 117, 162, 171, 172, 176, 183–184, 186–187

Operation Winter Storm (German), 228, 231, 233, 246, 247, 254, 255, 260, 268, 270

Oranki Prison, 363, 390

Order of Lenin, 145

Order of the Red Star, 169

Orlovka, 130, 131, 286

Ostarhild, Lt. Karl, 147, 148, 149, 150, 405

Ostrov, 39, 40

Pamir Mountains, 389

Panzer Army, First, see Hoth, Hermann; also entry under German Army

Parker, Ralph, 336

partisans, Russian, 106, 164

Paulus, Alexander von, 9, 401

Paulus, Elena Constance Rosetti-Solescu von, 9–10, 230, 247, 401

Paulus, Ernst von, xi, 9, 18, 20, 401, 405

Paulus, Gen. Friedrich von, x, xi, 12, 73, 74, 114, 336, 366, 396, 400–401, 402; actions as commander of Sixth Army, 9–13, 41, 52, 78, 172, 175, 182, 190, 330, 331; disaster foreshadowed, 65, 147–148, 175; failure to link with Fourth Panzer Army, 75, 76; and Halder, 111; and High Command, 210–211; and Hitler, 85, 192–193, 203, 204, 208, 246, 271–272, 274, 308, 340, 374, 376–377; and mutinous generals, 369–370; orders given and rescinded, 269, 270; pleas for assistance, 111–112, 132, 294; proclamation to troops, 198; retreat recommended by, 191–192, 197, 200, 211; tactics, 62, 130, 150–151; treatment of by Russians, 388; ultimatum received by, 325. See also Luftwaffe; Manstein; Sixth Army

Pavlov, Sgt. Jacob, 119–120, 137, 146, 401

Pavlovsk, 346

Pearl Harbor, bombing of, ix

Pelikan, Sgt. Wolf, 180, 182, 405

Pensenskaya Street, 35, 91, 119

Permskaya Street, 58

Peschanka, 309, 334

Peschanyy, 188

Peskatovka Depot, 165

Peskovatka, 210

pet animals, 59–60, 79; kept by soldiers, 49, 51, 112, 116, 166, 221, 282, 318, 360; used as food, 309 318

Petrakov Col., 91, 94

Petrov, Sgt. Alexei, 104–106, 171–172, 187, 241, 321, 401, 405

Pfeiffer, Gen., 339, 366, 367, 371, 379

Pflüger, Sgt. Albert, 208–209, 223–224, 279, 287, 309–310, 332–333, 334, 360–361, 372–374, 380, 401, 405

Piave River, 15

Pickert, Gen. Wolfgang, 196–197, 337–338, 339

Pigalev, Dmitri M., 35, 53

Pitomnik Airfield, 217, 222, 227, 229, 237, 255, 303, 304, 308, 310, 311, 317, 333, 337, 338, 339, 340, 345, 350; overrun by Russians, 346

Poland, 118; invasion of, 4, 7, 9, 210

politrook (Communist party agitators), 125, 172, 324, 393

Poltava, 18

Porsche auto factory, Stuttgart, 167, 227

Poskrebyshev (secretary to Stalin), 302

Powers, Francis Gary, 400

Pravda, 34–35, 58, 60, 68–69, 97, 103, 110, 369

prison camps, Soviet, xiii, 304, 363, 387, 389, 396, 435, 437; German survivors, 397

prisoners of war: casualties among, 388, 389, 390; German, 362, 364, 388, 394, 402, 435–437; guidelines on care of, 326–327; interrogation of, 133, 265; Italian, 264, 275, 277, 281, 300, 363; killing of, 10, 188, 189, 380, 381, 388, 399; political indoctrination of, 393; repatriation of, 394–395, 396, 397, 399, 401–402, 403, 435–437; rioting by, 363; Rumanian, 184, 187–188, 363; Russian, 5, 40, 41, 71, 184, 202, 327–329. See also cannibalism

propaganda: German, 161, 195, 295, 367; Soviet, 125, 149, 291, 305, 323, 324

prostitution, 169–170

Pugachev, Yemelyan, 29

Pugliese, Dr. Vincenzo, 392, 406

Pushkin Street, 58

Pushkinskaya Street, 30, 93

quartermasters, German, 112, 113, 142, 164, 184, 189, 238, 298, 352, 359–360

radio communications: German, 140, 184, 335, 346, 353–354, 355–356; monitoring of Soviet by Germans, 234; in spy network, 23; Soviet, 76, 126–127, 134, 175, 384

Radio Moscow, 39

Rado, Alexander, 23

railroads, 69, 113, 149. See also trains

Railroad Station Number One, 34, 54, 92, 96, 100

Rastenburg, Nazi headquarters at, 163, 192, 199, 200, 206, 207, 210, 232, 274, 299

rations, cutting of, 220, 226, 233

Razin, Stenka, 29

Red Army, xi, 4, 9, 19, 20, 22–23, 70, 71, 212, 229, 325–326, 378–379

ARMIES: First Guards, 71; First Tank, 4, 41; Second Guards, 232, 234, 258, 336; Third Guards, 264, 280; Fifth Tank, 179–180, 183; Twenty-first, 180, 183, 218; Twenty-fourth, 218; Sixty-second, 4, 39–40, 41, 73, 76, 80, 81, 125, 136, 146, 151, 176, 205–206, 218, 234, 284, 316, 386, 398

CORPS: Fourth Mechanized (Tank), 173, 174, 191, 202; Thirteenth Mechanized, 191; Twenty-fourth Tank, 301, 302

DIVISIONS: Thirteenth Guards, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96–97, 102, 104, 119–120, 368, 398, 402; Thirty-fifth Guards, 63, 82; Thirty-seventh Guards, 134, 136, 150; Thirty-ninth Guards, 123; Fifty-seventh, 218; Sixty-fourth, 72, 73, 84, 90, 218, 378; Sixty-fifth, 218, 368; Sixty-sixth, 72, 218; Eighty-seventh, 241; Ninety-fifth, 123, 150; One Hundred Twelfth, 123; One Hundred Eighteenth, 150, 159, 284; One Hundred Ninety-fourth, 123; Two Hundred Eighth, surrender of, 33, 75; Two Hundred Eighty-fourth Siberian, 103–104, 106, 120, 121, 122, 127, 150, 169, 396; Three Hundred Eighth, 123, 135, 150

BRIGADES: Fourteenth Motor Artillery, 194; Twentieth Motorized, 45; Twenty-sixth Armored, 196, 197–198

REGIMENTS: Fifty-third Mortar, 242; One Hundred Eighteenth, 157 See also Big Saturn; Little Saturn; Operation Uranus; STAVKA

Red Army High Command, 19, 151, 179, 187, 217–218

“Red House,” battle for, 155

Red October Plant, 36, 69, 99, 106, 122, 123, 125, 126, 128, 133, 175, 286, 287, 324, 386; battle for, 135, 137, 284

“Red Orchestra,” 23

Red Star, 121

refugees, xiii, xiv, 34, 165

Reichenau, Field Marshal Walther von, 10

Rentsch, Dr. Herbert, 116, 166, 221, 318, 360, 406

Rettenmaier, Maj. Eugen, 155, 186, 225–226, 261

Reuber, Dr. Kurt, 292–293

Reutlingen, 270, 271

Reymann, Lt. Georg, 339

Rhine River, 115

Richthofen, Gen. Freiherr von, 61, 131–132, 148, 154, 159, 163, 183, 193, 217, 245, 273, 280, 293, 295, 351

Rimsky-Korsakov School of Music, 42

Ritter Kreuz, Order of, 112

rockets, Russian, 138–139, 224, 276, 291, 315

Rodenburg, Gen. Carl, 114, 333, 335, 374, 401, 406

Rodimtsev, Gen. Alexander Ilyich, 89, 94–95, 108, 113, 119, 136, 146, 368, 385–386, 402

Rokossovsky, Gen. Konstantin, 117, 172, 203, 232, 234, 301–302, 316, 320, 325, 402

Rolik group, 160

Romanenko, Gen., 183

Rome, xiii, 305, 306

Rommel, Gen. Edwin, 153, 181, 232

Rosati, Col., 306

Rosenfeld, Col. Lothar, 303, 350

Roske, Gen., 376, 378

Rossler, Rudolf, 23–24, 402, 422–423. See also “Lucy”

Rossoshka, 49

Rostov, 3, 20, 78, 212, 214, 265, 281, 301, 310, 320, 400

Rudnia 43

Rumania, 9

Rumanian Army, xiv, 13, 14, 159, 175, 183, 186, 188, 189, 213, 220, 273, 309; Third, 14, 149, 179, 179–180, 182, 201; Fourth, 187, 201–202, 214; troops taken prisoner, 363, 393

Russia, Czarist, x, 28–29

Russian Civil War, 20, 30, 103

Rynok, 52, 124, 172–173, 186

Salsk, 291, 294

Sarayev, Col., 90

Sarpa Lake, 187

Sarpinsky Island, 37, 109

Sascha, Oberleutnant, 353

Sazakin (militiaman), 69

Schacty, 346

Scheibert, Lt. Horst, 236–237, 256

Schlömer, Gen., 366, 369

Schmidt, Gen. Arthur, 12, 114, 147, 190, 246, 300, 334, 336, 350, 354, 396, 406, 434; coolness noted, 175, 186, 193; on mutinous generals, 369; leadership of Sixth Army assumed by, 366, 402; on possible breakout, 196–197, 247, 249; secret inquiries on capitulation, 372; surrender negotiated, 375–376, 378; suspicions of Zitzewitz, 211, 303; teletype conversations with Army Group Don, 256–257, 259–261, 267–268, 269–270, 273–274, 290–291, 293–295; undue influence on Paulus alleged, 249, 402

Schmundt, Gen., 344, 356

Schröter, Heinz, 195, 196, 406

Schulz, Gen., 249, 256–257, 259–260, 267–268, 269–270, 273, 290–291, 293–295, 300

Schutzstaffeln (SS), 11, 291

Schwäbisch Gmünd, 314, 396

Schwarz, Grefreiter (Lance Cpl.), 342

secret police: German, 23, 43–44; Soviet, 398. See also NKVD

Seidel, Maj., 353

self-inflicted wounds, 353–354

Selle, Col. Herbert, 155, 157, 333, 334, 357–358, 402

Serafimovich, 14, 149, 158, 161, 179, 188, 214, 245, 262

Sety, 44, 45, 142

Sevastopol, 215, 379

“Severity Order,” 10–11, 12

Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Gen. Walther, 13, 190, 204, 205, 207, 208, 215–216, 311, 317, 366, 369, 371, 379–382, 403

sharpshooters, 121–122, 145, 403–404; German-Russian duel, 127–130. See also snipers

Shumilov, Gen. Mikhail, 83, 378

Siberia, 9, 103, 121; prison camps, xiii, 388, 400. See also Red Army (284th Siberian Division)

Sicherheitdienst (SD), 11

Sickenius, Col., 47, 353

Sixth Army, German, 4, 8, 47; breakdown of, 288, 349–350, 351; casualties, 111, 260; command, 9, 10–13, 49, 147–148, 163; control of Volga, 80, 110; discipline and organization, 229; encirclement of, 202, 217–218, 229, 308, 311; escapees after surrender, 387–388; failure to break out, 387; forebodings of failure, 114; headquarters, 137, 190, 352–353, 368–369; Hitler and refusal to permit withdrawal, 198–199, 205–206; official mourning for loss of, 384; orders to take Stalingrad, 9; quartermasters, 164; role in victory of Kharkov, 12; Russian counteroffensive against, 88; Russian ultimatum to, 325–326; surrender, x, xii, 372, 375–376, 377–380, 383–384; victory at Ostrov, 41; war diary entries, 51, 233, 258–259, 295, 340; withdrawal proposed, 191–192, 251–252. See also Paulus; Schmidt

Skudri Crossing, 124, 125

slave labor, 321, 403

Slotta, Sgt. Gottlieb, 166–167, 225, 324, 348, 406

Smekhotvorov, Gen. F. N., 135, 284

Smolensk, 71

snipers: German, 98, 140; Russian, 89, 139, 172, 235–236, 399; training of, 122. See also sharpshooters

Sogotskot, 243

Solechnaya Street, 36; battle for, xii, 119–120, 401

Sologub, Gen. Ivan Petrovich, 284

Sorge, Richard, 23

Southeast Front, 32, 117

Sovetsky, 198, 202

Soviet Union: losses at Stalingrad, xiv–xv, 61; Nazi invasion of, 4, 23, 42, 83, 106; writing of history, x–xi. See also Bolshevik Revolution; Red Army

Sovietskaya Street, 35, 160–161

Spangenburg, Oberstleutnant, 353

Spain, 153; Civil War, 94

Spartakovka, 68

Spitkovsky, Pvt. Abraham, 188, 406

Stalin, Josef, x, 4, 22–27, 30, 68, 232, 386, 403; address to Russian people, 152; battle as contest of egos with Hitler, 157; character, 22; cooperation with Weimar Republic, 212; military conferences, 85–86, 88, 117, 173; military decisions, 26, 48, 61, 89, 118, 202–203, 234, 245, 300, 301, 315; military strategy, 24–25; and NKVD, 43; order to hold Stalingrad, 39, 61; order to launch counterattack, 161–162; victory over White Army, 30; and Zhukov, 77–78

Stalingrad: advance by Germans on, 51, 56, 88; City Soviet, 35, 53, 60, 385; civilian volunteers, 54; climate, 3, 28, 33; command post at, 30, 32; death toll, xiv; decision to stand siege, 24–25; described, 30–38, 51; destruction, figures on, 385; entry of German troops, 88, 89; evacuation of civilians, xiv–xv, 34, 38, 56–57, 67, 97; evacuation of wounded, 110; first contact of Russian armies in and outside after siege, 368; geographical setting, 3; German headquarters in, 122–123; German losses, 343; German strategy of attack, 8–9, 13–14, 18; held by German troops, 220; history, 28–30; Hitler on taking of, 118–119, 154; naming of, 20, 30; newspaper reports of fall, 100; organization of militia, 90–91; population figures, xiv–xv, 30, 385; psychological importance of battle, xv–xvi; reconstruction of, xi–xii, 389–390; reinforcements brought into, 112, 124, 125; Russian Military Council at, 62–63; Russian plan of defense, 25–27; Russian counteroffensive, 88–89, 179, 182, 190; Russian losses, 368; survivors, xiii, 396–404; unattended wounded, German, 362; war memorial at, xii–xiii; wounded in battle, 386–387. See also casualties; factory district; street fighting; Tsaritsyn; weather; also names of streets, buildings, and locations, e.g. Mamaev Hill

Stalingrad Front, 26, 32, 151; renamed Don Front, 117

Stalingradski, 354; Flying School at, 122

Starobelsk, 191, 192

starvation, 30, 166, 229, 261, 320, 344, 363; autopsy showing, 318–319; mention of banned, 319; among prisoners, 390

State Bank Building, 91, 92

STAVKA (Soviet General Staff), 24–25, 32, 34, 48, 71, 158, 183, 187–188, 228, 234, 316, 423

Stefan Norman, 225

Steflea, Gen., 201–202

Steidle, Col., 372

Steinhilber, Sgt. Eugen, 198, 406

Stempel, Gen., 367

Stöck, Lt. Gerhard, 175, 182, 185, 186

“storm troops,” in defense of Stalingrad, 90–91

Strecker, Gen., 383

street fighting, 76, 79, 90, 91–93; anticipated by Russian command, 33; German experts, 154–155; training in, 195; at Voronezh, 18–19

Stuka aircraft, 32, 40, 42, 44, 58, 60, 70, 91, 93, 134 245

Stuttgart, 113, 226, 270, 314, 402

suicide, 367, 371, 372, 375, 384; Hitler on, 377, 382–383

supply lines, 20, 78, 113, 164

Susdal, prison camp at, 362, 390, 392

Sverdlovsk, 40

Swabia, 226

Switzerland, 23, 158, 228, 402

T-34 tanks, see Tanks, Russian

Taganrog, Army Group Don headquarters at, 346, 347, 352, 361, 384

Tambov, prison camp at, 363, 390

tanks: German, 5, 40, 146, 159; Russian, 36, 41, 63, 166–167, 180, 184, 188, 194, 202, 223, 224, 236, 240, 263, 315, 334. See also entries under German Army, e.g. First Panzer; also entries under Red Army, e.g. First Tank

Tashkent, 386

Tatsinskaya, 67, 216, 217, 274, 280, 281, 290, 295; airfield at, 300

Tazi airstrip, 302

Tel Aviv, 397

telephone communications: breakdown of Russian, 80, 89, 126, 134; cutting of German, 133, 248. See also BODO line

teletype communications, German, 248–250, 252–255, 256–257, 267–268, 269–270, 277–279, 290–291; cut off by Russians, 300

Terek River, 183

Thiel, Maj., 350, 351

Thuringia, 153

Till, Lt., 238–239

Toepke, Lt. Gunter, 205

Tomskuschin, Maj. Nikolai, 39–41, 403, 406

Tomskuschin, Vladimir, 41, 403

torture, 43–44, 117, 436

trains: Germans supplied by, 73; Russian, attacked by Germans, 63, 191; in transport of prisoners, 327–329

Trepper, Leonard, 23

Trotsky, Leon, 22

Tsaritsa, Gorge, 33–34, 55, 101, 234, 286, 365, 368, 378; command post under, 30–32, 36, 47, 54, 57, 80, 99; German assault on, 94, 99; removal of headquarters, 80–81; return of headquarters to, 88; siege of command post, 93–94

Tsaritsyn, 20, 29

Tunisia, 296

Turla, Don Guido, 391

typhus, 365, 369, 389–390

Tzatza lakes, 88, 149, 173, 174, 187

Ukraine, 4, 17, 85, 104, 106, 116, 118, 119, 120, 132, 143, 166, 221, 387, 436

Ulm, 399

United Press International, 336

Univermag Department Store, xii, 35, 102, 109–110, 368–369, 370, 378, 396; taken by Germans, 111

Upper Silesia, 210

Ural Mountains, 9, 40, 103, 121, 149, 387, 389

Uralsk, 57

Usenko, Capt., 368

Uzbekistan, 120, 389

Vadeneyeva, Maria, 102

Vasilevsky, Marshal Alexander Mikahilovich, 26, 85–86, 88, 117, 161–162, 173, 183, 203, 217, 228, 231–232, 233–234, 241

Vassilevska, 250, 258, 266, 273, 274, 279

Vatutin, Gen., 161, 183, 300, 301

Verkhne-Kumski, 237, 239, 240, 241, 243, 250, 253, 254

Verkhne-Tsaritsyn, 231

Vertaichy, 112, 388

Victor Emmanuel, King, 305

Viersen, xi

Vinnitsa, Nazi headquarters at, 17, 21, 79, 85, 110

Viskov, Constantin, 54, 59, 97

Vitebsk, 211

Vladimir prison camp, 390

vodka, rations of, 168–169, 324, 325

Vodolagin, Mikhail, 60, 68–69, 97

Volga River, xi, xv, 3, 8, 28, 36, 55–56 61; crossed by Mongols, 28; crossing points, 34, 69, 124–125; described, 32, 38; ferry landing on, 89, 91, 110; German moves toward, 20, 21, 24, 52, 91, 92, 111, 119, 141; ice bridge over, 220, 307; replacements ferried over, 112, 124, 125, 128; Russian defenses of, 9. See also ice packs

Volgograd Defense Museum, xii, 406

Volsky, Gen. Viktor T., 173–174, 191, 202

Voporonovo, 355

Voronezh, 154, 388, 422; battle at, 18–19, 24, 121, 155

Voronov, Gen. N. N., 315–316, 333,

Wagemann Capt. Eberhard, 354

Wagner, Gustav, 270, 271

war crimes, Germans accused of, 400, 436

Warsaw, 15

weapons, 14, 36, 95. See also artillery

weather, effect of on battle, 28, 33, 163–164, 183–184, 186, 194, 217, 222, 291, 303

Weichs, Gen. Freiherr von, 192, 200

Wenck, Col. Walter, 214, 228

Wendt, Siegfried, 198, 406

Werth, Alexander, 336

West Germany, 396, 399, 402, 403, 435; army of, 401. See also names of towns

wheat: harvest, 32; and Nazi objectives, 119; supplies, 102, 142

White Army, Russian, 20, 30

Wiedemann, Sgt., 195–196

Wiesbaden, 46

Willig, Capt., 325

Wirkner, Sgt. Hubert, 210, 224–225, 324, 338, 357–359, 365, 381, 403, 406

Wohlfahrt, Sgt. Ernst, 138–139, 156, 338, 351–352, 406

Wolfs Lair, see Rastenburg

workers, mobilization of, see militia

World War I, xiv, 15, 29, 212; veterans of, 12, 13, 130

wounds, self-inflicted, 353–354

Yamy, 80, 83, 84, 88

Yelchenko, Lt. Fyodor, 377–378, 379n

Yelin, Col., 92, 93, 102–103, 119

Yelshanka, 54, 60

Yeremenko, Gen. Andrei Ivanovich, 25–27, 30, 53, 151, 187, 192, 222, 403; demoted, 301–302, 320; given supreme responsibility for defense of Stalingrad, 48; orders given by, 54, 74, 75, 134; plan of defense, 32–38, 45, 47–48, 73–74; Stalin and, 61, 83, 88; visit to Chuikov command post, 135–136. See also Khrushchev

Young Fascist League, 15

Yugoslavia, 4

Zabolotnov, Lt., 119

Zaitsev, Vassili, 121–122, 127–130, 145–146, 236, 386, 397, 403–404

Zaitsevski Island, 243

Zeitzler, Gen. Kurt, 163, 199, 206–207, 210, 217, 232, 246, 271, 274, 277, 333, 356, 381–386

Zholudev, Gen. Victor, 123, 134, 136, 150, 285

Zhukov, Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich, x, 70–71, 77–78, 85, 86, 88, 117, 158, 217, 218, 228, 301–302, 404; plan for counterattack, 161–162, 171, 173–174, 404

Zitzewitz, Maj. Coelestin von, 210–211, 303–304, 354, 356–357, 404

Zybenko, 286, 334, 335