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Aachener Nachrichten
Abel, Gudrun (née Steinbrück)
Abel, Gustav
Abel, Herta (née Freese)
Abel, Ulrich: childhood and education; early career; marriage and family life; naval service prior to U-154; first mission under Kusch; evaluation by Kusch; second mission; political views; Nazi party membership; in Hamburg Firestorm; report and testimony against Kusch; C.O. training and assignment to U-193; death
Abitur
Abwehr
Africa Corps
air force, German. See Luftwaffe
air raids
aircraft, Allied
aircraft, German
Albania
Albert Leo Schlageter (Germany)
Albrecht, Traugott
Algiers
Allied Control Council Directive No.10
Allied control officers
Allies
Alps
Altenholz
Alter, Henry C.
Amazon River
America. See United States
Ancona (Italy)
Angers (France)
Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935)
Anjou
Anklam
Anschluss
anti-Semitism. See Jews
Antwerp
Aquitaine
Arctic Ocean
Ariernachweis
army, German. See Wehrmacht
Ascension Island
Atlantic. See also Arctic Ocean; Caribbean; Central Atlantic; Gulf of Mexico; North Atlantic; South Atlantic
Atlantic, Battle of the
Atlantis (Germany)
Auckland
Aumühle
Australia
Austria
Axis
Azores
Backschafter
Bad Segeberg
Baden-Württemberg
Bahia
Balkans
Baltic Command
Baltic Provinces
Baltic Sea
Barbarossa, Operation
Barcelona
Barents Sea
Bartelsen, Hermann
Bavaria
BDM (Bund Deutscher Mädel)
Belém
Belgium
Bergen
Berger, Dieter
Berlin; Charlottenburg; Dahlem; Gatow; Lichterfelde; Schöneberg; Spandau; Steglitz
Berlin, Operation
Berlin Blockade
Bermuda
Beyersdorff, Hans
Bielig, Gerhard
Billefjord
Bird, Keith
Biscay, Bay of
“Biscay Cross”
Bismarck (Germany)
“Black May” (1943)
Black Sea
Blätter für die Kunst
Bletchley Park
Blexen-Nordenham
Bloebaum, Dr.
Bonaparte, Joseph
Bonn
Bordeaux
Bordgericht. See court-martial
Boulogne
Brandenburg
Brazil
Breinig, Hans-Egon
Bremen (city)
Bremen (Germany)
Bremerhaven
Brenner Pass (Alps)
Brest
Britain, Battle of
Britain/British. See Great Britain
British Zeal (Britain)
Brittany
Brummer (German)
Buchheim, Lothar-Günther
Bund Deutscher Offiziere
Bundesmarine (West German Navy)
bündisch youth movement
Bündische Jugend. See bündisch youth movement; Südlegion
“Burk, Oskar” (pseud. Oskar Kusch)
Bürkner, Leopold
Byng
Cabo Sao Roque
California
“Camp Lemp” (Lorient)
Canaris, Wilhelm
Canary Islands
Cape Finisterre (Spain)
Cape Horn
Cape Town
Cape Verde
Cardinal Gibbons (U.S.)
Caribbean
Carossa, Hans
Casablanca
Catalina. See PBY-5 (Consolidated) flying boat
Catholic Church
Cayman Islands
Central Atlantic
central control room
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Channel, English
chief engineer. See also Druschel, Kurt; L.I.
Chile
Christianity
“citizen in uniform”
clemency
Coast Guard, U.S.
Cold War
Cologne
Columbus, Christopher
Combis, A.
communism
concentration camps
“confirmand”
Constitutional Court, West German
convoys; BT-14; ON-149; SL-126; TJ-12
court-martial
cowardice
Crew (German naval officer entry class of 19XX): Crew 07; Crew 24; Crew 25; Crew 26; Crew 29; Crew 30; Crew 34; Crew 35; Crew 36; Crew 37a; Crew 37b; Crew X/38; Crew XII/39; Crew X/41; Crew I/45; Crew IV/45, Crew 63
crimes against humanity
Croatan (U.S.)
Cuba
Cuxhaven
Czechoslovakia
“dairy cows”. See also U-tankers
damnatio memoriae (damnation of memory)
Dänholm
Danube River
Danzig (Gdansk)
Das Boot
“Das Karussel” (Kusch sketch)
defeatism
Delaware
Den Helder
denazification
Denmark
depth charges
desertion
Deutsche Freischar
Deutscher Pfadfinder-Bund
Diederichsen, Heinrich
Dientzenhofer, Johann
“Directive against Habitual Criticizers, Whiners and Complainers”
“Directive for the Protection of the German People”
“Directive Regarding the People’s Duty to Report”
Dittmers, Wolfgang
Dönitz, Karl; and Kusch case. See also Naval High Command; U-Boat Command
Dornier
Dover, Straits of
Drumbeat (Paukenschlag), Operation
Druschel, Alfred
Druschel, Kurt
Durban
Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
East Berlin
East Germany
East Prussia
Eastern Front
Eastern Seaboard
Ebert, Friedrich
Eckernförde
Egernsund
Eighth Army (British)
El Dos de Mayo (Goya painting)
El Ferrol
El Tres de Mayo (Goya painting)
Elbe River
Elmshorn
Emden (Germany)
Emmermann, Carl
Empire Oil (Britain)
England/English. See Great Britain
Enigma cipher
enlisted personnel (U-154)
equator
Erwin Wassner (Germany)
executions
Eyck, Claudia van
Eyck, Inge van. See Foris, Inge von
Eyck, Kristina van
Eyck, Peter van
Far East
Faroe Islands
FdU West. See Rösing, Hans-Rudolf
Filbinger, Hans
Finland, Gulf of
First Watch Officer. See I.W.O.
Fischer, Heinz
Flensburg
Flex, Walter
Flindt, Karl Otto (Karlo)
Florida
Florida (U.S.)
Fontane, Theodor
Ford, Ruth
Foris, Almuth (Klusemann) von
Foris, Amalie (“Mala”) von
Foris, Bernhard von
Foris, Henning von
Foris, Inge von
France
Franken, Wilhelm
Frankfurt (Main)
Frankfurt (Oder)
Frederick II (the Great)
free masonry
Freetown
Freiburg
Freisler, Roland
French East India Company
Frenzel, Ernst
Friedeburg, Hans-Georg von
Friedrich, Caspar David
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (Berlin)
Fröhlich, Horst
Frost (U.S.)
Führer. See Hitler, Adolf
Funchal
Funke, Arno
Galveston (Texas)
Gdingen, Gdynia. See Gotenhafen
General Naval Main Office (AMA)
Geneva
George, Stefan
Gerdes, Lieutenant
Gerichtsassessor
Gerichtsherr
Gerichtsreferendar
German Constitutional Court
German Cross in Gold
German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
German Minesweeping Administration (GMSA)
German Naval Officers Association (MOV)
German People’s Party
Germany. See Third Reich
Gestapo
Gibraltar
Gide, André
Godt, Eberhard
Gollnick, Kurt
Gomorrah, Operation. See Hamburg Firestorm
Gorch Fock (Germany)
Göring, Hermann
Gotenhafen (Gdingen, Gdynia)
gottgläubig
Göttingen
Goya, Francisco
Great Britain
Great Depression
Greece
Greifenberg
Greifswald
Grenoble
Grossherzogin Elisabeth (Germany)
“Group Oskar”. See also Südlegion
Gruchmann, Lothar
Guianas
Guinea, Gulf of
Gulf of Mexico
Gymnasium
Hagemann, Ilse
Hagemann, Karl-Heinrich; post-war trials against
Hamburg; Blankenese; Wandsbek
Hamburg Firestorm (Operation Gomorrah)
Hansen, Peter C.
“Happy Times”
Hartwig, Dieter
Heidelberg
Heinkel (aircraft)
Heinrich P. (Inge von Foris’ friend)
Helmholtz, Hermann von
Henke, Werner
Henry Stanley (British)
Heringsdorf
Hesse
high-frequency direction finding
Himmler, Heinrich
Hindenburg, Paul von
Hispaniola
historiography, postwar
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler Youth
Hoffmann, Karl
Hoffmann, Thomas-Michael
Hohenzollern-Gymnasium (Berlin)
Holstein (Germany)
homophobia
homosexuality
Hororata (Britain)
Horst Wessel (Germany)
Horta (Azores)
Huguenots
hunter-killer groups
Husumer Nachrichten
hydrophones
Iberian Peninsula
Iceland
Imperial Navy (German)
Inch (U.S.)
India
Indian Ocean
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
Innsbruck
International Military Tribunal
International Red Cross
Ireland (Republic of)
Iron Cross
Iron Curtain
Isensee, Kurt
Italy
I.W.O. (First Watch Officer)
II.W.O. (Second Watch Officer)
III.W.O. (Third Watch Officer)
Jahn, Werner
Janker, Hans
Janssen, Gustav-Adolf
Japan
Jena
Jews
John Worthington (U.S.)
Ju-52 (Junkers transport plane)
“Judas” (Kusch sketch)
judicial murder
Jungvolk
jurors (lay judges)
Kaiser. See William II
Kals, Ernst
kamikaze
Katz, Rudolf
Kempner, Robert W. M.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kernevel
Kéroman
Kiel; Gaarden; Heikendorf; Holtenau; Levensau; Wik
Kiel Canal
Kietz, Siegfried
“Kilian” (bunker)
Kirchammer, Hellmuth
Kirkenes
Klenck, Walter (Horst von Luttitz)
Klusemann, Walter
Knight’s Cross
Kölle, Walther
Köln (Germany)
Kongfjord
Kovalenko, Semyon I.
Kranzbühler, Otto
Kretschmer, Otto
Kriegsgericht. See court-martial; Kusch, Oskar
Kriegsmarine
Kristiansand
KSSVO (Kriegssonderstrafrechtsverordnung or Wartime Special Penal Code). See also subversion
Kuhlmann, Hans
Kusch, Erna (née Kohls, Oskar’s mother, remarried to Dr. Brockmann); death
Kusch, Oskar: childhood; adolescence and education; artistic talent and artwork; bündisch youth movement experience; RAD service; early naval career; service on U-103; C.O. U-154, first patrol; C.O. U-154, second patrol; evaluations; courtship and engagement to Inge von Foris; at Zürs; political views; pessimism about German victory; denunciation and arrest; court-martial; on death row; execution; postwar rehabilitation efforts; historiographical treatment; memorial; legacy
Kusch, Oskarheinz (father)
La Pallice
La Rochelle
La Spezia
Lähn, Curd
Lake Constance
Lämmchen, Ingeborg
Lampedusa
Lauenburg
“Law Annulling Verdicts Based on National Socialist Injustice”
lay judges. See Dittmers, Wolfgang; jurors; Westphalen, Otto Lehmann, Rudolf
Leigh Light
Leipzig
Lemp, Fritz-Julius
Lend-Lease Program
Leverenz, Bernhard
L.I. (Leitender Ingenieur). See also chief engineer; Druschel, Kurt
Liederbuch (1932). See Südlegion
Liverpool
Loire River
Lorient
Louis XIV (French king)
Low Countries. See also Netherlands
Lower Saxony
Lübeck
Lubmin
Lucht (chaplain)
Lüdmann, Heinrich
Luftwaffe
Lüth, Wolfgang
Luttitz, Horst von
M-1503 (Germany)
M-1705 (Germany)
Maceió
Madeira
Malaya
Malolo (U.S.)
Marine-Archiv
Marineforum
Marineschule Mürwik
Mariposa (U.S.)
Markworth, Friedrich
Marl, Peter
Mediterranean
Meinert, Ernst
Memel
merchant marine (Handelsmarine)
Messerschmidt, Manfred
Metox
Mexico City
Meyer, Heinrich (officer)
Meyer, Heinrich Adolph (merchant)
Meyer-Grieben, Clemens
Meyer-Grieben, Gerhard
Meyer-Grieben, Mrs.
Michelmann, Rolf Osker
Militärstrafgesetz (Military Penal Code)
mines
Minesweeper Flotillas: 5th; 15th; 17th
“Moloch” (Kusch sketch)
Montevideo
Morocco
“Mosel” (wolfpack)
Motocarline (Panama)
Mulligan, Timothy
Munch, Edvard
Munich
Murmansk
Mussolini, Benito
Napola
Napoleon I
Narvik
Nationalkommittee Freies Deutschland (NKFD)
naval academy, German. See Marineschule Mürwik
Naval Academy, U.S.
naval air force. See Seeluftwaffe
Naval Communications School
Naval Detention Center (M.U.G.)
naval grid square system
Naval High Command (OKM). See also Dönitz, Karl
naval justice officials: postwar continuity and solidarity; system
naval officers, German: classifications; corps spirit and camaraderie; ranks and promotion; recruitment and education. See also U-boat spirit
navy, German. See Bundesmarine; Imperial Navy; Kriegsmarine; Reichsmarine; Volksmarine
Navy, U.S.
Nazi ideology and regime. See also Hitler, Adolf; Third Reich
Nazi propaganda
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)
Nelson, Horatio
Netherlands
Neustadt (Holstein)
New Jersey
New World. See also Western Hemisphere
New York
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nieschling, Kay
Niestlé, Axel
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Niobe (Germany)
Normandy Invasion
North Africa
North Atlantic
North Cape, Battle of the
North Cemetery (Kiel)
North German Lloyd
North Sea
Northern Ireland
Norway
Nothdurft, Hans; postwar statements
NSFO (National Socialist Guidance Officer)
nulla poena sine lege
Nuremberg
Oak Leaves. See Knight’s Cross
Old Urn Cemetery (Kiel)
Oldenburg
Oran
Organisation Todt (O.T)
Ortsgruppenleiter (local Nazi Party official)
Oskar-Kusch-Strasse
otitis media
Otto, Paul
Pacific Ocean
Pallas, Rudolf (Rudi)
Panama
Pan-American Security Zone
Pantelleria
Paragraph 175. See homophobia; homosexuality
Paramaribo
Paris
Pauckstadt, Hans
Paulus, Friedrich
PBY-5 (Consolidated) flying boat
Pearl Harbor
“People’s Community” (Volksgemeinschaft)
People’s Tribunal (Volksgerichtshof)
Peter, Erwin
Peter, Karl H.
Petersen, Wolfgang
Pich, Hellmuth
Pillau
Pinder, Wilhelm
Plön
Poland
Polarny
Pomerania
Ponta Delgada (Azores)
Porsanger Fjord
Port-of-Spain (Trinidad)
Portugal
Posen (Poznan)
Prado (Madrid Museum)
Prien, Günther
Prinz Heinrich Bridge (Kiel)
Prome (Britain)
Prussia
radar
radio monitoring, foreign
Raeder, Erich
RAF (Royal Air Force)
Rau, Erwin
Recife
“Red Folder” (“Roter Esel”)
Rehder, Hermann
Reich Chancellery, Operation
Reich Supreme Court
Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD, Reich Labor Service)
Reichsmarine
Reinicke, Fritz
Rembrandt
Research Office for Military History (Freiburg)
resistance movement
Rhine River
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rio de Janeiro
Rodenwaldt, Gerhart
Rogge, Bernhard
Roland (Kusch’s friend)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
“Rose,” (code)
Rotterdam
Royal Navy
Rudolphi, Joachim
Rügen
Russia. See also Soviet Union
SA (Nazi Stormtroopers)
sabotage
Sachsenhausen (concentration camp)
Safi
Saint Nazaire
Salamis (Greece)
Salewski, Michael
“Saltzwedel” Flotilla. See U-Boat Flotillas: 2nd
Salzburg
Sandbostel
Santa Cruz (Azores)
Santos
Scharführer
Scharnhorst (German)
Schepke, Jochen
Schiffsstammabteilung (II.)
Schlesien (German)
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein (German)
Schlieffen Plan
Schmidt, Albrecht
Schmidt, Heinrich
Schnellboote (S-Boote)
Schöffen. See jurors
Schroeter, Horst von
Schuch, Heinrich
Schultze, Herbert
Schumann, Clara
Schurz, Carl
Schurz, Margarethe (née Meyer)
Schütze, Viktor
Schwinge, Erich
Scotland
Scott, Zachary
Sea Lion, Operation
Second Reich. See also William II
Second U-Boat Flotilla. See U-Boat Flotillas: 2nd
Second Watch Officer. See II.W.O.
Seeluftwaffe
Seemann, Karl-Hans
Seeoffiziere
Seven Years’ War (1756–63)
ShCh-403 (Soviet)
Sicily
Sieber, Karl Helmut
Sierra Leone
Sixth Army (German)
snorkels
sonar (asdic)
South Africa
South America
South Atlantic
Soviet Union. See also Russia
Spain
SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany)
Sperrbrecher (mine destroyers)
Spielschar
SS
Stalag X-B
Stalin, Joseph
Stalingrad
Starck, Wilhelm von
Stettin
“Störtebecker” (wolfpack)
Stralsund
Strelow, Otto
Stresemann, Gustav
Strippow (Pomerania)
submarines, German. See U-boats
subversion. See also KSSVO; Wehrkraftzersetzung
Südlegion. See also bündisch youth movement; “Group Oskar”
Suez Canal
Suhren, Reinhard
Supreme Court, British Occupation Zone
Sweden
Switzerland
Task Group 22.5 (U.S.)
Tasmania (Britain)
Tauchretter (underwater breathing device)
Teutonia (fraternity)
Thamm, Paul
The Scream (Munch)
Third Reich
Third Watch Officer. See III.W.O.
Tonnagekrieg (Tonnage War)
Topp, Erich
Torch, Operation
Torpedo School
torpedoes
Toulon
“Trauma of 1918”
“Treachery Act”
treason
Trinidad
Tromsö
Trondheim
Tunesia
Turing, Alan
U-22
U-25
U-26
U-30
U-37
U-38
U-48
U-103
U-105
U-110
U-123
U-126
U-137
U-146
U-154; attacks on. See also enlisted personnel
U-159
U-167
U-168
U-172
U-193
U-211
U-285
U-287
U-306
U-455
U-460
U-463
U-487
U-509
U-515
U-516
U-518
U-541
U-564
U-565
U-659
U-662
U-802
U-968
U-3501
U-3517
U-Boat Archives (Cuxhaven)
U-boat bunkers. See also Kéroman
U-Boat Command. See also Dönitz, Karl
U-Boat Flotillas: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th; 11th; 12th; 13th; 14th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; 29th
U-boat losses
U-boat numbering system
U-boat officer ranks, responsibilities
U-boat specifications, weaponry
U-boat spirit
U-boat successes
U-Boat Training (H.K.U.), Higher Command for
U-Boat Training Divisions: 1st; 2nd; 3rd
U-boats: Type IA; Type II; Type VII; Type IX; Type XIV; Type XXI; Type XXIII
Uebe, Friedrich
Ukraine
underwater telephony
United Kingdom. See Great Britain
United States
Usedom
U-tankers
Vause, Jordan
Venezuela
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Versailles, Treaty of
Vienna
Villa Forsteck
Volksmarine (East German Navy)
Voltaire
Wagner, Konstantin
Walle, Heinrich
Walmrath, Lothar
Wampen
“Wanderer between Both Worlds” (Kusch sketch)
Wandervogel. See bündisch youth movement
Warzecha, Walter
Wehrkraftzersetzung. See also KSSVO; subversion
Wehrmacht
Weimar Republic
Wellington bombers (British)
Wer das Schwert nimmt
Weser River
Weserübung, Operation
West Africa
West German Navy. See Bundesmarine
West Germany
West Indies
Western Hemisphere. See also New World
Westphalen, Otto
Wette, Wolfgang
Wetzlar
“White Rose”
Wiechert, Ernst
Wiemer, Kurt
Wiesbaden
Wilhelmshaven
William II (German Emperor)
Windward Islands
Windward Passage
Winter, Werner
Witte, Werner
Wolfskehl, Karl
World War I; naval mutinies
World War II
Yucatán Channel
Zentrale. See central control room
Zeppelin airships
Zürs (Austria)
“Zürser Bilderbogen” (Kusch sketch)