INDEX

Abwehr, Abyssinia. See Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aircraft

aerial photography

See also Bombing raids

(Allied); Gliders

Air raid sirens

Albania

Albergo Rifugio

Alfieri, Dino

Alto Adige

Ambrosio, Vittorio (General)

Anschluss

Antiaircraft guns

AntiSemitism

Anzio, Italy

Apennine Mountains

Armistice terms

See also

Unconditional surrender

Artillery

Assergi, Italy

Astrologers

Atrocities

AustriaSee also Anschluss

Automatic rifles

Axis conference in Tarvisio

Axis metaphor

Axis summit proposal

Axis war council at Bologna

Badoglio, Pietro (Marshal)

announcing Italy’s capitulation

and Army Group B in northern

Italy

background of

and Cavallero plot

exit from Rome

and first approach to Allies

kidnapping of,See also

Operation Student

letter from Mussolini to

and Rahn

repressive measures of

Balkans

Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of the Bulge

Bedell Smith, Walter (General)

Belgium, See also Eben Emael

Berio, Alberto

Berlepsch, Baron Otto von

(Lieutenant)

death of

Berlin

Big business

Bombing raids (Allied)

Berlin

Frascati

Hamburg

Italian cities

Rome

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Bormann, Martin

Bouquet of Violets (Dürer painting)

Bradley, Omar (General)

Braun, Eva

Braun, Wernher von

Brenner Pass

Bribery

Brindisi, Italy

Bullock, Alan

Butcher, Harry (Captain)

Campo Imperatore (ski resort/hotel)

raid on compared with Eben Emael

raid

surrender of

Canaris, Wilhelm (Admiral)

execution of

Carabinieri, See also

Soleti, Fernando

Carboni, Giacomo (General)

Casablanca Conference

Cassino, Italy

Castellano, Giuseppe (General)

(n)

Casualties

Cavallero, Ugo

Christian, Eckard (Colonel)

Churchill, Winston

and rescue of Mussolini

CIA

Ciano, Edda

Ciano, Galeazzo (Count)

execution of

flown to Germany by Nazis

memoirs of

Clairvoyants

Clark, Bruce (General)

Clark, Mark (General)

Clark, Martin

Communism

Concentration camps

Corsica

Crete

Croatia

Crowd, The (Le Bon)

Czechoslovakia.

D’Ajeta, Lanza

Deakin, F. W.

De Courten, Raffaele (Admiral)

Denmark

Dessauer (Aviation Engineer)

D’Este, Carlo

Disguises

Doenitz, Karl (Admiral)

Dollmann, Eugen,

Dulles, Allen

Eastern front

See also Russia, Nazi invasion of

Eben Emael (Belgian fort)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (General)

security measures for

Elba (island)

England

British commandos

Ethiopia

Executions

Faiola, Alberto (Lieutenant)

Fascism

See also Italy, Fascist Party in

Federzoni, Luigi

Feltre, Italy. See Hitler/Mussolini

relationship, conference at Feltre

Ferone, Ernesto (General)

FG automatic rifles

Firestorms

France

Franco, Francisco (General)

Frascati, Italy

air attack on

Frick, Wilhelm

F.R. (destroyer)

Gaeta, Italy

Galbiati, Enzo (General)

Gardner (Colonel)

Gargnano, Italy

Garibaldi brigades

Geraud, Andre

Gerlach, Heinrich (Captain)

German Institute for Gliding Research

(DFS)

German military

Army Group B

disarming/capturing Italian

soldiers

Friedenthal Battalion

German High Command

Military Intelligence

navy

See also Submarines

Tenth Army at Salerno

Third Panzergrenadier Division

See also Italy, German military forces

in/moved to; Luftwaffe; Sicily

German troops in; Waffen SS

Gliders

command of glider assault team

design of DFS gliders

Goebbels, Joseph

death of

and Mussolini letter to Badoglio

Goering, Hermann

Goose step

Gothic Line

Grand Council of Fascism

Grandi, Dino

Gran Sasso (mountain), See also

Campo Imperatore

Greece

Guariglia, Raffaele

Gueli, Giuseppe

Guensche, Otto (Lieutenant)

Gulf of Genoa region

Gustav Line

Hackett, Sir John (General)

Hamburg, Germany See Bombing

raids (Allied), Hamburg

Heinkel bomber

Henschel aircraft

Hess, Rudolf

Hewel, Walter

Hibbert, Christopher

Hidaka, Shinrokuro

Himmler, Heinrich

as Minister of Interior

Hitler, Adolf

addressing German people about

Italian question

assassination attempt on

characterized

and Edda Ciano

and Eva Braun

and Galeazzo Ciano

health of

and Italian coup

and Italian royal house

medals of

military headquarters of

See Wolf’s Lair

pitting subordinates against each

other

and proposed summit meeting

after coup

and retaliation for Allied bombing

raids

and Rommel/Kesselring rivalry

and secrecy

and Skorzeny

and Student

suicide of

suspicions of Badoglio regime

underground bunker in Berlin

and violence

See also Hitler/Mussolini

relationship

Hitler/Mussolini relationship

and Anschluss

common ground of

Hitler/Mussolini

conference at Feltre

and Czechoslovakia

Hitler’s affection/concern for

Mussolini

Hitler’s birthday gift to Mussolini

Hitler’s motives for rescuing

Mussolini

meeting in Berlin in

meeting in Venice in

and Mein Kampf

Mussolini as Hitler’s equal

Mussolini as junior partner

Mussolini’s attitude/feelings

concerning Hitler

in

and requested aid for Italy

reunion after Mussolini’s liberation

and summit of

Hoettl, Wilhelm

Holland, Hotel Imperatore. See Campo

Imperatore

Hunaeus, Helmut (naval Commander)

Hungary

Individualism

Intelligence issues

and Campo Imperatore raid

German intelligence organizations

Italian Military Intelligence Service

undercover operations on

La Maddalena

See also Reich Security Main Office

Israel

Italia (ship)

Italy

Abruzzi region

agriculture in

alliance with England/France

Allied bombing of cities

Allied invasion of

and Allied invasion of Balkans

Allied POWs in

army

civil war in

communications networks in

Fascist Party in

See also

Fascism; Grand Council

of Fascism

formal military alliance with

Germany

German invasion/occupation of

See also Rome, German

occupation of

German military forces in/moved to

industry in

Italian Empire

Italian High Command

as Italian Social Republic

navy

popular feeling after coup

Po Valley

provisional government in

racial laws in

as Salò Republic

sanctions against

and separate peace with Allies

See also Armistice

terms; Unconditional surrender

Servizio Informazione Militare

(SIM)

surrender of German forces in

troops in foreign lands

See also Rome

Japan

Jews

Jodl, Alfred (General)

Junge, Traudl

Junkers cargo plane

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst

Kamptz, Gerhard von (Captain)

Kappler, Herbert

Keitel, Wilhelm (Marshal)

Kesselring, Albert (Marshal)

and Rommel

and Salerno invasion

war crimes of

Krutoff, Leo

Lake Garda (Italy)

La Maddalena (island)

aerial photos of

Lamb, Richard

Langguth, Gerhard (Captain)

L’Aquila, Italy

La Spezia, Italy

Laurich, (Petty Officer)

League of Nations

Lebensraum

Le Bon, Gustave

Lisbon

Los Angeles Times,

Luftwaffe

attack on Belgrade

Second Parachute Division

See also Paratroopers

Mackensen, Hans Georg von

firing of

meeting with King Victor

Emmanuel

recalled to Germany

McRaven, William H.

Maddalena Island. See La Maddalena

Malta

Marini (SergeantMajor)

Masuria (East Prussia)

Maugeri, Franco (Admiral)

Media

Mein Kampf (Hitler)

Meyer, Elimar

Mezzasoma, Fernando

Milan, Italy

Mines

Monelli, Paolo

Montgomery, Sir Bernard (General)

Morell, Professor (Theodor)

Mors, Harold (Major)

Mossad

Munich, Germany

Munich peace conference of

Mussolini, Benito

affairs/mistresses of

and Anschluss

arrest of

See also Mussolini, Benito

after coup

at Campo Imperatore

characterized

after coup

See also

Campo Imperatore

crimes of

daughter of

death of

diary and papers of

German plan to rescue and

reinstate, See also

Operation Oak

health of

and Italian people

and Jews

on Nazism

rumors about after coup

sixtieth birthday of

suicide attempt of

trial of

and Victor Emmanuel

at Villa Feltrinelli

See also Hitler/Mussolini

relationship

Mussolini, Rachele (wife)

Mussolini, Vittorio (son)

Naples, Italy

Nationalism

Nebe, Arthur (General)

New York Times,

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Night of the Long Knives

North Africa

Norway

Oberbefehlshaber Sued (OB SUED)

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

(OKW)

Odessa network

Office of Strategic Services

(OSS)

OKW. See Oberkommando der

Wehrmacht

Olympic Games of

Operation Avalanche

Operation Axis (Achse)

See also Italy, German

invasion/occupation of

Operation Barbarossa, See also

Russia, Nazi invasion of

Operation Black (Schwarz)

Operation Citadel

Operation Dragoon

Operation Gomorrah

Operation Greif

Operation Oak (Eiche)

glider sequence in Campo

Imperatore raid

as jailbreak

mission planning and command

structure

and placing blame on Italian

Fascists

Operation Student

Osborne, Sir D’Arcy

OSS. See Office of Strategic Services

Owens, Jesse

Pact of Steel

Panthère (destroyer)

Paratroopers

battles fought in

Partisans

Passo Romano

Patricelli, Marco

Patton, George (General)

Pelaghi (Colonel)

Peron, Juan and Evita

Persefone (corvette)

Personality cult

Pertinax (French journalist)

Petacci, Claretta

Pirelli, Alberto

Plehwe, Friedrich von

Poison

Poison gas

Poland

Polito, Saverio (General)

Pontine and Sardinian Musings

(Mussolini)

Ponza (island)

Portugal, See also Lisbon

Pratica di Mare airfield

Priebke, Erich

Propaganda

Quebec conference (Allies)

Race issues

Radar

Radl, Karl (Lieutenant)

and Skorzeny

and Soleti

Rahn, Rudolf

Raised arm salute

Raw materials

Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)

Rhineland

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

memo regarding Italian situation

Ridgway, Matthew (General)

Rintelen, Enno von (General)

firing of

Roatta, Mario (General)

Roma (ship)

Rome

airfields near

Allied airborne insertion into

Allied bombing of

Allied capture of

carabinieri barracks in Via

Quintino Sella and Via Legnano

German occupation of

Jews in

march on Rome in

martial law in

popular feeling in after coup

Roman Empire

Roman resistance

See also Partisans

surrender of

University of Rome

Rommel, Erwin (Marshal)

and assassination attempt on

Hitler

and Kesselring

and La Spezia

Rommel Manfred (son)

Roon, Arnold von (Major)

Roosevelt, Franklin

RSHA. See Reich Security Main Office

Rumania, Rumors, . See also

Mussolini, Benito, rumors

about after coup

Russia

Kharkov

Kursk region

Nazi invasion of

See also Eastern front;

Operation Barbarossa

Taganrog

Sabotage

Salerno, Italy

Santo Stefano (island)

Sardinia

Schellenberg, Walter

Schmidt, Paul

Schulz, Max

Schutzstaffel (SS), See also

Waffen SS

Schwerdt (Lieutenant)

Secrecy

Semmler, Rudolf

Senise, Carmine

Shaped charges

Shortages, Sicily

Allied invasion of

and conflict between Italy and

Germany

fall of to Western Powers

German evacuation of

German troops in

SIM. See Italy, Servizio Informazione

Militare

Skorzeny, Otto (Captain)

and Campo Imperatore raid

death of

in detention camp and escape

exploits during World War II

and flight to Rome after Campo

Imperatore raid

medals awarded to

meetings with Hitler

and Mussolini

and paratroopers

and Radl

Smith, Denis Mack

Soleti, Fernando, (General)

South Tyrol

Spanish Civil War

Speer, Albert

SS. See Schutzstaffel

Stalingrad, Battle of

Steinbeck, John

Storch (Stork) aircraft

Stresa front

Strong, Kenneth W. D. (Brigadier)

Student, Kurt (General)

and Campo Imperatore

career of

death of

and paratroopers

Submarines

Summersby, Kay

Switzerland

Tangier

Tanks

Taranto, Italy

Tarvisio, Italy

Taylor, A.J.P.

Taylor, Maxwell (General)

Tazzari (LieutenantCommander)

Torpedo boats

Torture

Trettner, Heinz (General)

Unconditional surrender

See also Armistice terms

United Nations

Vatican

Ventotene Island

blockade of

radar station at

Versailles Treaty

Victor Emmanuel III (King)

and armistice terms

arrest of, See also Operation

Student

as banned from Italy

exit from Rome

and first approach to Allies

kidnapping of, See also

Operation Student

and leftwing radicals

meeting with Mackensen

Vienna, Austria

Vigna di Valle (Italian seaplane base)

Vigneri, Paolo (Captain)

Villa Savoia

Villa Torlonia

Waffen SS

Wansee group

War crimes

Warger, Robert

Warlimont, Walter (General)

Webber, James

Wehrmacht,See also German

military

Westphal, Siegfried (General)

Whiting, Charles

Wiskemann, Elizabeth

Wolff, Karl

Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze)

afternoon Fuehrer Conference at

last Axis summit at

meetings after Italian coup

Mussolini at

Sperrkreis I

World War I

Wulff, Wilhelm

YeoThomas, Forrest (Wing Commander)

Yugoslavia

Zanussi, Giacomo (General)