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First Army (WWI), 186
First Battle Group (Force 1), 223
First Heavy Artillery Regiment, 174
First Tank-Destroyer Company, 246
Third Battalion, 1st Assault Regiment, 137
Fourth Army (WWI), 186
Sixth Luftwaffe Field Division, 246
Sixth SS Mountain Division, 61, 65
Seventh Infantry Regiment, 112
Ninth Army Corps, 45
Twelfth Company of Infantry Regiment 84, 46
Twelfth Luftwaffe Field Division, 40
Sixteenth Infantry Division, 28
18th Infantry Regiment, 185
18th Panzer Division, 161
23rd Anti-Tank Regiment, 102–103
76th Infantry Regiment (Hamburg), 122
94th Kalmücken Grenadier Regiment, 70
176th Tank Abwehr Regiment, 102–103
193rd Artillery Regiment, 90
208th Infantry Division, 161
216th Infantry Division, 161
230th Infantry Regiment, 148
255th Infantry Division, 161
257th Tank Destroyer Brigade, 27, 29
403rd Security Division, 159
Aalborg, 37
Abortionists, 267
Abrahamsohn, Liesel, 130
Abwehr (German Secret Service), 51, 263, 265, 268
ADAC (German Automobile Club), 252
Adass Jewish High School, 60
Admiral Graf Spee (pocket battleship), 223
Aegean Coast, 37
Africa, 5
Ahava Orphanage, Berlin, 24
Ahnenpass (ancestry passport), 69
Air Force (German, WWI), 186
Aisne River, 148
Albert Leo Schlageter (training ship), 211
Alighieri, Dante, 266
Allenstein, Germany, 69
bombing of Germany, 54, 118, 129, 140, 181
invasion of North Africa in 1943, 61
planes, 140
All Quiet on the Western Front, 148, 229
Alplach, Austria, 122
Althaus, Paul, 168
America. See United States
American Ambulance Corps, 220
American Jews, 266
American legation in Riga, 261
Ammer, Paul, 244
Amsterdam, 151
Ansberg, Furst, 74
Anschluss (unification of Austria with Germany 1938), 1
Anti-Aircraft Flak Unit, 42
Anti-Hitler activities, 143
Anti-religion, 260
Anti-Semitism, 35, 55, 59, 64, 67–68, 109, 127–128, 130, 150–151, 153, 169
Ardennes, Nazi invasion of, 80
Armstrong, Karen, 267
Arnim, Colonel von, 52
Arnim, General Hans-Jürgen von, 85
Aryanization (Hitler’s declarations of exemptions), 9, 13, 171, 176, 188–189, 193–197, 202, 209, 211, 238, 263, 276
Aryanization of Jesus, 238
Aryan Paragraph (Arierparagraph), 79, 100, 126, 159, 207
“Aryans,” 5, 16, 36, 48, 52–53, 56, 62, 69, 79, 88, 95, 111, 129, 144, 151, 171, 176, 194, 250, 275
Astrakhan, 45
Athelking (British steamer), 218
Athens, 37
Atlantic Ocean, 215–216, 221, 266
Atlantis (surface raider), 211–233
Auerbach, Erna (née Moses), 248
Auerbach, Wilhelm, 248
Auschwitz death camp, ix, 15, 19, 43, 55, 76, 97, 138–139, 152, 163, 183, 188, 243, 245
Auschwitz tattoo, 76
Australia, 218
Australian troops, in battle for Crete, 137
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 15
Autobahn, 79
Automedon (British steamer), 218
Aviation Inspectorate, 186
Aviation Research Institute (Berlin), 150
Balzac (British steamer), 221
Barbarossa (Nazi invasion of Russia, 1941), 81
Barz-Mendelssohn, Eleonore, 257
Basel, Switzerland, 60
Basque Army, 191
Battle Group Rogge (Task Force 3), 225
Battle of Britain, 136
Bauer, Yehuda, 276
Bayerlein, General Fritz, 7, 126
Bayreuth, 203
Belorussia, 198
Benarty (British steamer), 218
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 39, 151–152
Berges, August, 127
Bergman, Dieter, 10–11, 15, 275
Berker, Erich, 37
Berlin, 23, 29–30, 32–33, 46, 47, 50, 52–53, 55, 60, 77, 89, 100, 106, 111, 117–119, 139, 145, 150, 185, 242, 252, 265
Bernau, Germany, 36
Besser, Rabbi Chaskel, 268
Bewährungsmänner, 139
Bible, 168
Bismarck, Otto von, 131
Black colonial French POWs, execution of, 103
Black Forest, 141
Black Reichswehr, 78
Bloch, Ernst, 172, 251, 263–273, 277
Blomberg, Minister of Defense General Werner von, 175, 179, 193
Blomberg-Fritsch Affair (1938), 191
B-Men (Bewährungsmänner), 139
Boehm, Admiral Hermann, 208
Bohemian Protectorate, 17
Boland, Henri, 61
Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, 4, 168
Borah, U.S. Senator William, 260
Borchardt, Robert, 197
Bordeaux shipyards, 257
Border Defense Corps, 174
Bouilly, France, 148
Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis, 261, 269, 273
Brandenburg, 148
Brandenburg Regiment 800, 115–117
Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von, 233–234
Brazil, 122
Bremen, 211
Breslau Jewish cemetery, 176
Brest-Litovsk, Poland, 126
Bris (Jewish ritual circumcision), 24
British blockade, 215
British Commander-in-Chief Far East, 218
British Empire, 218
British High Command, 220
British war cabinet, 218
Brown Shirts (SA), 112, 115, 155–156
Buckner, Colonel, 42
Buenos Aires, 47
Buna-Auschwitz, 138
Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM; Hitler Youth Organization for Girls), 46
Bundeswehr (postwar German military), 226, 243, 249
Burgdorf, General Wilhelm, 269
Burgstrasse, Nazi prison, 53–54
Calais, battle of, 80
Canada, 131
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm, 258, 263–264, 267, 270, 272
Catholics, 31
support for Hitler, 168
Champagne, battle of, 263
Charchov, Russia, 27
Chicago, 151
Chile, 36
China, 196
Chinese, murder by Japanese, 130–131
Chocianow, Poland, 158
Christianity, Aryanization of, 238
Christianity, Nazi version of, 4, 167–168
Christian-Jewish Solidarity Organization (Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit), 55
Christian Science Monitor, 80
Churchill, Winston, 6
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 83
Circumcision, 24–25, 61, 69, 75–76, 131, 244
City of Baghdad (British steamer), 218
Cohen, Benjamin, 261, 263, 273
Commissaire Ramel (French passenger ship), 218
Concentration camps, 18, 31–32, 69
Concordia, Kansas, 85
Conduct of Air Operations (Wilberg), 189
Confessional Church, 134
Conservative Judaism, 59
Conversions (Jewish and Christian), 15–17, 68, 87, 96, 111, 131–132, 155, 173–174, 192, 231–232, 252
Cooper, Gary, 55
Cropp, Dr., 138
Corum, James, 172, 175, 179, 182, 188–190
Coswig, Germany, 118
Croneiss, Theo, 176
Dachau concentration camp, 19, 182
Dante, 29
Danube River, 141
Danzig Technical University, 174
David, Dora (née Rosenbaum), 130
David, Heinemann, 130
Davidson, Camilla (Krüger), 108, 117, 119
Davidson, Ezekiel, 108
Davidson, Julius, 119
Davidson, Nati, 119
Davidson, Rebeka (née Stern), 108
Death Head SS, 65
De Gaulle, General Charles, 255–256
De Maizière, General Ulrich, 204
Deportation (Nazi), 105, 116–117, 151, 158, 251
Der Stürmer, 238
Deserters, Nazi treatment of, 106, 114, 118–119, 204
Deutschblütigkeitserklärungen, 9, 13, 89, 171–172, 193–197, 202, 209, 263–264
Deutsch Evern, Germany, 108, 117–119
Devonshire (British cruiser), 222
Dietl, General Eduard, 246
Doenitz, Grand Admiral Karl, 208, 222
Dolibois, John E., 176
Dorsetshire (British cruiser), 222
Down syndrome, 178
Dresden (supply ship), 221
Drottingholm (Swedish ocean liner), 266
Dünaburg, Latvia, 31
Dunkirk, battle of, 80
Durmitor (Yugoslav steamer), 218
Dutch Resistance, 151
Eagle (training ship), 211
East Asia, 218
Eastern Jews (Ostjuden), 113, 158
East Prussia, 37, 69, 93, 156, 158, 174, 224
Eberswalde, Germany, 35
Eckhardt, Hertha (Krüger), 112, 116–119
Eichmann, Adolf, 117, 130, 202–203
Eifel Region, 236
Einsatzgruppen (Nazi killing squads), 159
Einstein, Albert, 60
El Alamein, battle of, 84
Elbe, Josefine (Rosenbaum), 129
Elias, Bertha, 151
Elias, Markus, 151
Emigration, 88, 111, 133, 143, 145, 151–152, 255
Emperor of Japan, 219
Engel, Army Adjutant Gerhard, 196, 201
Erfurt, Germany, 121
Ericksen, Robert, 168
Euthanasia program (Nazi), 178
Evian Conference (1938), 262, 269
Executions, SS, 92, 103, 106, 159
Exemptions (for Mischlinge), 18, 126–127, 171–172, 192
Extermination camps (Nazi), 65
Falkenberg, Germany, 36
Falwell, Rev. Jerry, 267
Fanatical Islam, 67
Feminists, 267
Fichte, Klaus, 94
Fire bombing of Hamburg, July 1943, 129
Fisch, Lieutenant, 186
Fischer, Clara (née Hirschhorn), 231–237, 239–240
Fischer, Dieter, 99, 230–242, 250, 277–278
Fischer, Eberhart, 236
Fischer, Jürgen, 287
Fontainebleau (Wehrmacht base), 50
Forced labor (Nazi), 54, 72, 99
Foreign Jews, Nazi treatment of, 112–113
Fort Elatters, 60
Four Year Plan (Nazi), 262, 270
France, 2, 17–18, 25, 27, 37, 46, 48–50, 60, 62, 80, 116, 143, 187, 222, 242, 256
Franco, President Francisco, 190
Frank, Hans, 16
Frankfurt am Main, 141–142, 144, 145, 166, 231
Frankl, Victor, 273
Freienwalde, 37
Freikorps, 174
French, 66
poor showing as soldiers, 102–103, 126
French Colonial Troops, 103
French Foreign Legion, 60
French POWs, 183
Freud, Sigmund, 60
Frey, Commander Richard, 237
Frontline Probation Company, 237
Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, 128
Fürstenwalde, 245
Fuchs, Hugo, ix
Gablenz, General Karl-August von, 180, 183
Gays. See Homosexuals
Geist, Raymond, 262
Geitner, Horst, x, 99, 230, 242–250, 258, 274
General Government (Poland), 16, 158
General Staff Academy, 185
Georges, General Alphonse Joseph, 81
Gerlach, Heinz, 11
German Blood Declarations (Deutschblütigkeitserklärungen), 9, 13, 89, 171–172, 193–197, 202, 209, 263–264
German Labor Front, 112
German Military Police, 61
German POWs, 94
Germany
casualties during WWII, 19, 115–116
and outbreak of war, 80
views on Russia, 3
Gestapo, 32, 53, 73, 100, 105, 115, 128, 134, 181, 239–240, 251, 255
Geyer, Michael, 5
Ghettoization of Polish Jews, 262
God, 24
belief in, 132, 141, 222–223, 226, 241
nonexistence of, 31, 33, 67, 167
reverence for, 68
Goethe, Wolfgang von, 57
Goldenfels, 211
Golstein, Cäsilia (Weiss), 87–88
Göring, Hermann, 72, 83, 118, 136, 174–180, 182, 188–189, 191, 201, 219, 244, 245, 262, 270
Göteborg, Sweden, 266
Gottgläubig (believer in God without affiliation), 69
Goy (derogatory Yiddish word for gentile), 14, 23–24, 32, 121, 142
Gravelotte, battle of, 146
Graveyard, 148
Grenadier Regiment Neuhammer 1, 30
Grenacher family, 60
Gross, Walter, ix
Grossbeeren concentration camp, 54
Grosse Hamburger Strasse deportation center, 117
Grüber, Heinrich, 235
Guderian, General Heinz, 80, 82, 160
Guernica (Picasso, 191
Guetersloh (Luftwaffe base), 37
Günther, Gefreiter, 115
Günther, SS Major Rolf, 117
Gurary, Rabbi Hirsch, 264
Habakkuk (book of Bible), 76
Haehnelt, General Wilhelm, 194
Halakah (Jewish law), 13, 32, 95, 106–107, 152, 240
Halle, 108
Hallein, Germany, 61
Hamburg, 45–46, 51–52, 118, 121, 128, 167, 226, 248, 252, 257
Hamburg-Atlantik Line, 226
Hansa Line, 211
Hanstein, Eberhard von, 203
Harsch, Joseph, 80
Hasidic Jews, 158
Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment), 251–252, 257
Hebrew School, 59
Heidelberg, 108
Heilbronn, Germany, 157
Heimschuss, 246
Heine, Heinrich, 57, 59–60, 165
Hermann, SS General and Police President of Hagen Fritz Heinrich, 176
Hermann Lietz Boarding School, 121
Hermesweg, 234
Herzog, Rudolf, 148
Hesse, 141
Heydrich, SS General Reinhard, 13, 17
High Command of the Armed Forces (German), 234
Himmelfahrtskommandos (straight-to-heaven detachments), 237
Himmelheber, Erika, 47
Himmelheber, Käthe (Jacoby), 44, 47, 49, 50–52, 55
Himmelheber, Lisa, 47
Himmler, Heinrich, 13, 31, 130, 179, 182, 238, 269
Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von, 78–79
Hirschfeld, Paul-Ludwig (Pinchas), 20, 68–76, 98, 120, 141, 167, 270
Hirschfeld, Paul-Nathan, 73
Hirschfeld, Ruth (née Loeper), 73, 75
Hirschhorn, Clara (Fischer), 231–237, 239–240
Hitler, Adolf, 1–2, 4–6, 27, 32–33, 59, 60, 62, 65–68, 70, 75, 80–81, 100, 113–114, 120–121, 133, 148, 168, 175, 219, 255, 267, 270, 274
announces war with Russia, 159
birthday celebration, 124
bombing of Warsaw, 261
discharge of half-Jews, 114
on England, 2
exemptions for Mischlinge, 9, 13, 89, 171–172, 176, 188–189
killing his cousin Aloisia Veit, 178
killing Jews, 101
Mein Kampf (autobiography), 2, 101
and Milch, Field Marshal Erhard, 89, 175, 179–181
and Mischling policy, 9, 171, 235–236
Olympic Games, 89
on Russian leaders, 2
Stalin-Hitler Pact 1939, 113
on invasion of Russia, 82
view of war, 5
view of, by Wehrmacht officers, 42
Wehrmacht, 1
Hitze, Amtsrat, 194
Holocaust, 66–67, 72, 96–97, 204, 241, 258, 274–275, 277–278
Japan’s Holocaust, 130
knowledge of, 30, 42–43, 55–57, 66, 75, 85, 94, 106, 119, 130, 151–152, 166, 240–241, 248, 257, 270–271, 276
number of Polish Jews who died, 258
use of trains, 275
Homosexuals, 126–127, 231, 267
Honda, Katsuichi, 131
Hoover, President Herbert, 260
Horses, in Wehrmacht, 160
Hospital ships, 253
Hotel Columbus, 211
Hughes Aircraft, 153
Hull, Cordell, 261–262, 266, 269
Hungarian Jews, deportation to Auschwitz, 183
I. G. Farben, 166
Imperial Air Service, 174
Infantry Regiment 374, 70
Inferno (Dante), 266
Ingolstadt, Germany, 57
Insterburg, East Prussia, 20
Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influences on Christian Living, 238
Inter-Allied Military Control Commission, 188
Israel, 14, 24, 67, 88, 94, 106, 202, 241
name given to Jews by the Nazis, 52
War of Independence (1948), 14
Jacoby, Albert, 44
Jacoby, Alma (née Hirschmann), 44
Jacoby, Betty, 46
Jacoby, Christian, 55
Jacoby, Edgar, 19–20, 43–57, 60, 98, 184, 274
Jacoby, Käthe, 44, 47, 49, 50–52, 55
Jacoby, Klaus-Edgar, 47–48, 50
Jacoby, Marianne (née Guenther), 20, 46–47, 52–53, 56
Jaenecke, General Erwin, 190–192
extermination of Asians, 130–131
Rape of Nanking, 130
Jassy, Romania, 30
Jerusalem, 76
Nazi Aryanization of, 238
Jewish Community Center, Berlin, 24, 110, 265
Jewish Community Center, Munich, 66–67
Jewish emancipation, 257
Jewish forced labor, 116
Jewish hospital, Berlin, 42
Jewish hospital, Cologne, 158
Jewish identity, 110
Jewish star (Star of David), 12, 52, 158, 202
Jodl, General Alfred, 1
July 20, 1944, plot against Hitler, 181
Junkers-52 transports, 84, 136
Jutland, battle of, 206
Kadavergehorsam (slavish obedience), 12
Kaddish (Jewish prayer for the dead), 67
Kaiser, Helmut, 140
Kallmes, Alice (Rosenbaum), 129
Kansas, 85
Kaplan, Chaim, 16
Kaplan, Marion, 152
Karelia Forest, Finland, 62
Karinhall (Göring’s estate), 189, 245
Karlsruhe, 165
Karlsruhe University, 156, 165
Kauffmann, Kurt, 7
Kazan, Russian, 188
Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 2, 52, 195, 202, 234, 240
Keller, Gottfried, 59
Kelly Field, Texas, 45
Kemmendine (British passenger ship), 218
Kerguelen Islands, 220
Ketty Brövig (Norwegian tanker), 220
Kiel, Germany, 214
Kiev, battle of, 81
Kiev, Russia, 269
King City (British steamer), 218
Kirn (Russian disguise ship for Atlantis), 214
Kittel, Gerhard, 168
Klagenfurt, 42
Kleinkonitz, Prussia, 68
Klemperer, Victor, 17
Klotter, Karl, 150
Knickrehm, Gustav, 12
Knight of the Long Knives, 182
Koberger, Hella (Prager), 194, 197, 202
Koepke, Wolfgang, 112
Königsberg, Prussia, 87, 93, 174, 252
Kopp, Helmuth, x, 19–33, 43, 97, 98, 99, 120, 153, 168–169, 274, 276
Kopp, Judith, 23
Koran, 168
Kornrumpft, Olga (Pankraz), 139
Kotzenau, Germany, 158
Krasnaya Gora, Russia, 198
Krause, Obertruppführer, 122
Krohn, Johanna, 50
Kröncke, Wolfgang, 94
Kronstadt, Germany, 91
Krüger, Answald, 108, 112, 115, 117
Krüger, Brigitte, 108, 116–117
Krüger, Camilla (née Davidson), 108, 117, 119
Krüger, Helmut, 108–120, 134, 153, 169–170, 258, 274, 276–277
Krüger, Johann, 108
Krüger, Mathilde (née Leidenroth), 108
Krüger, Max, 108
Krummelanke Lake, Berlin, 101
Kulmbach, German, 192, 203–204
Kummetz, Admiral Oskar, 223
Kupke, Captain, 40
Kursk, Russia, 268
Kushner, Rabbi Harold, 268
Küstrin, 145
Ladach, Lieutenant, 245
Ladoga Lake, battle around, 138, 237–238
Lamm, Rabbi Norman, 268
Lammers, State Secretary Hans Heinrich, 194–196, 203
Landser (German soldier), 6–7, 19
Laqueur, Walter, 271
Latvia, 70
Lehmann-Willesbrock, Heinrich, 224
Lehrmann, Rabbi, 75
Leidenroth, Mathilde (Krüger), 108
Leipzig (German light cruiser), 225
Leo Baeck College, 267
Leopold, Ilse, 129
Lesbians, 267
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 154
Lessing Gymnasium, Frankfurt am Main, 144
Lessing Gymnasium, Stolp, Pomerania, 70
Ley, Robert, 112
Liebermann, Chaim, 264
Lindau, Admiral Eugen, 253
Lipetsk, Russia, 188
Lodz Ghetto, 130
Los Angeles, 153
Low Countries, 2
Lower Silesia, 158
Löwy, Arnold, 59
Löwy, Karl-Heinz, 20, 57–68, 76, 98, 170, 274
Lubin, 158
Ludendorff, General Erich, 78
Lugansk, Ukraine, 45
Lusitania, 220
Lutheran Church, 44
Lyden, Alexander (Mendelssohn), 253
Lyden, Ernst (Mendelssohn), 253
Lyon, France, 60
Maier, Karl-Heinz, 14
Mainz, Germany, 231
Mandasor (British steamer), 220
Mantelmacher, Moshe, 138
Marburg, 240
Mecklenburg (German state), 41
Mediterranean, 135
Meiser, Bishop Hans, 168
Meissen, Saxony, 118
Meissinger, Ernst, 141, 145–147, 149–151, 153
Meissinger, Friedrich, 146
Meissinger, Hans, 141–154, 169–170, 258, 274, 277
Meissinger, Hermann, 151
Meissinger, Karl August, 141, 143
Meissinger, Lilli, 141
Meissinger, Marlies, 141
Meissinger, Rosa (née Oppenheimer), 141–143, 147, 150
Memel, 224
Mendelssohn, Alexander (later Alexander Lyden), 253
Mendelssohn, Eleonore, 257
Mendelssohn, Ernst (later Ernst Lyden), 253
Mendelssohn, Eva-Irene, 253, 255
Mendelssohn, Felix, 140
Mendelssohn, Franz, 251–258, 272, 277
Mendelssohn family, 169
Mercury (operation for Nazi takeover of Crete), 136
Meseth, Thekla (Prager), 192, 205
Messerschmidt Airplane Development Company, 176
Mettenheim, Amelis von, 231, 287
Mettenheim, Clara von (née Hirschhorn), 231–237, 239–240
Mettenheim, Hans-Heinz von, 231–233, 236
Mettenheim, Heinrich von, 231, 239–240
Metz, battle of, 146
Metz, France, 249
Metzger, Hans, 148
Meuse River, France, 80
Middle East, 67
Milch, Clara (née Vetter), 173–174, 176, 178
Milch, Field Marshal Erhard, 89, 94, 99, 116, 171–183, 187–188, 192, 228, 274, 277
Aryanization, 176
Golden Party Badge, 179
and Hitler, 175
participation in Holocaust, 182
Milch, Helga, 178
Milch, Werner, 178
Mill, John Stuart, 10
Miltitz-Roitschen (OT forced labor camp), 118
Milwaukee, 155
Ministry of the Interior, Reich, 138, 193–194, 202
Mischlinge
application to marry Aryans, 112
deportation of, 129
discharge of, 90, 99, 104–105, 114, 275
exemptions for, 18
forced labor, 18
Holocaust, 97
Jesus giving half-Jews strength, 134
Jewish identity, 110
military service, 17–18, 89, 102
moving to protect identity, 111
Nazi harassment of, 110
Nazi plan for, 170
number in Wehrmacht, 9, 235–236
numbers in general, 14, 116, 143, 274
overcompensation for situation, 114
reenter Wehrmacht, 117
Missionaries, 221
Mixed marriages, 14, 20, 101, 111–112, 121, 134
Moder, Willy, 201
Moldavia, Romania, 30
Moltke (cruiser), 206
Moscow, 44–45, 81–82, 92, 115, 160, 190, 245
Moselle, 102
Moses, Erna (Auerbach), 248
Moses, Horst, 24
Moses, Sarah (Susi), 23–24, 31
Moses, Werner, 24
Muggenthaler, August Karl, 212
Müller-Thode, Werner, 253
Munich’s Jewish temple, 60
Münster, Germany, 108
Mussolini, Benito, 3, 5, 168, 220
Nantes, France, 223
Naples, 84
National Labor Service. See Reichsarbeitsdienst
National Socialist Flying Corps, 179
NATO, 226
Navy Supreme Headquarters, 252
Nazi bombing of Warsaw, 261
Nazi medical experiments, 182–183
Nazi Mother Cross, 92
Nazi Party, 111, 115, 175, 179, 252
Nazis as instruments of God’s will. See Schneersohn, Rebbe Joseph Issac
Nehls, Axel, 37
New Zealand, 218
Niemöller, Martin, 134
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 131
Night of Broken Glass (Reichskristallnacht), 112, 156
Nikolassee, Germany, 55
Noisseville, battle of, 146
Nordhausen concentration camp, 240
Nordwind (German operation), 65
Norwegian campaign of 1940, 180
NSF (National Socialist Women’s League, Nazi Frauenschaft), 49
Nuremberg Laws (Nazi racial laws), 10, 12–13, 35, 88, 144, 188, 232, 239
Second Nuremberg Trial, 183
Oath to Hitler, 79, 103, 111, 124, 271
October Revolution of 1917, 259
Oesterwitz, Lieutenant, 114
Office for Racial Research, 197
Officer of Jewish Affairs, 234
OKH (Oberkommando der Heeres, Army High Command), 52
OKW (Oberkommando des Wehrmacht, Wehrmacht High Command), 52, 237
Oldenburg, German, 248
Ole Jacob (Norwegian tanker), 218
Oppenfeld, Horst von, x, 20, 76–86, 98, 274, 276
Oppenfeld, Moritz von, 78
Oppenheimer, Erich, 151
Oppenheimer, Josephine, 151
Oppenheimer, Leopold, 150
Oppenheimer, Rosa (Meissinger), 141–143, 147, 150
Oppenheimer, Rudolf, 150
Oppenheimer, Seligmann, 143
Oppenheim family, 77
Organization for Jews in Germany, 129
Organization Todt (forced labor for Mischlinge), 18, 100, 105, 118, 139–140, 166, 170
Orthodox Synagogue, Fasanenstrasse, Berlin, 242
Ostjuden (Eastern Jews), 42, 59, 232, 287
OT-Men, 139
Pacific Ocean, 212
Pagans, 267
Palm, Alfred, 114
Pankraz, Olga (née Kornrumpft), 139
Panzer Lehr Division, 126
Paratroopers (Luftwaffe), 37, 39, 135–136
Partisans, 28–29, 31, 43, 163, 165
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich von, 84
Pearl Harbor, battle of, 219
Pell, Robert T., 261–265, 267, 269
Peltzer & Sussmann (Hamburg firm), 128
Perel, Shlomo, 57
Persecution of Jews (Nazi), 113
Pesta, Thekla, 205
Phony War (1 September 1939–9 May 1940), 60, 80, 114
Picasso, Pablo, 191
Pick, Johanna, 134
Pick, Paula (Techel), 132
Pinchas, Ben Elasar, 75
Pius XII, Pope, 168
Plorin, Frau, 150
Plorin, Sergeant, 150
Plötzensee in Tegel, 53
Poland, 2, 16–17, 37, 42, 143, 187, 191, 258, 260, 262, 264–265
invasion by Nazi Germany, 79, 113
Jews exterminated by Nazis, 152, 232, 258, 263
Polish POWs, 118
Polish tanks, 126
Pope, 270
Pottlitzer, Johanna (Sussmann), 134
Prager, Ernst, 99, 172, 185, 192–205, 226, 249, 274
trial after the war, 204
Prager, Felix, 192
Prager, Heinrich, 192–193, 202
Prager, Hella (née Koberger), 194, 197, 202
Prager, Thekla (née Meseth), 192, 205
Prager, Stephan, 193, 194, 196–197, 201–203
Priesterwald barracks, 157
Prinz Eugen (German heavy cruiser), 224–225
Privileged mixed marriages, 53, 239–240
Propaganda Company 696, 49
Propaganda Ministry, 48
Prostitutes, 26
Protestant churches (positive view of Hitler), 4
Proverbs (book of Bible), 59
Prut River, 30
Pskov, Russia, 246
Psalms (book of Bible), 76
Pursuit Plans Staff, 183
Python (German supply ship), 222
Rabaul (British steamer), 221
Radom, Poland, 112
Raeder, Grand Admiral Erich, 133, 208–209, 211, 254
Rape of Nanking, 130
Rascher, Dr. Sigmund, 182
Rassenschande (Nazi racial defilement), 30, 47, 116, 134, 239
Reform Temple, Oberstrasse, Hamburg, 121
Regulation 16 (manual written by General Wilberg), 190
Reich Ministry of the Interior (RMI), 138, 193–194, 202
Reich Office for Genealogy Research, 176
Reichsarbeitsdienst (Nazi National Labor Service), 25, 36, 102, 122–124, 134–135, 144, 170, 232, 255
Reichskristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), 112, 156
Reichstag, 174
Reichswehr, 78, 174–175, 187–188
Reinbeck, 226
Reinecke, Eberhardt, 95
Reinecke, General Hermann, 183, 234
Reiperstweiler, Germany, 65
Reiss, Richard, 6
Religion
during Third Reich, 97, 167–168
Reserve Battalion 15 (Berlin), 111
Reutlingen, Germany, 247
Rhineland reoccupation, 1
Rhoede, Max, 264–265, 267, 270
Riga, Latvia, 31, 36, 92, 129–130, 223–224, 261, 263, 265–266
Robertson, Pat, 267
Roehm, Ernst, 231
Roehm Putsch, 182
Rogge, Admiral Bernhard, 171, 185, 205–229, 274
awarded Knight’s Cross by Hitler, 223
Rogge, Anneliese, 209
Rogge, Bernhard, 205
Rogge, Elsbeth, 226
Romanian border, 236
Roman ruins, 142
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 5, 84, 126, 219
Roseman, Rabbi Ken, 267
Rosenbaum, Alice (née Kallmes), 129
Rosenbaum, Dora (David), 130
Rosenbaum, Josefine (née Elbe), 129
Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), 59
Rothschild, director of Ahava Orphanage, Berlin, 24
Ruhr region, 158
Russia, ix, 5–6, 19, 27–28, 37–40, 44–45, 70, 181
anti-religion campaign, 260
Russian-German War 1941–1945, 3–6, 19, 159–161, 237–238, 245, 268
Rust, Bernhard (education minister) 11, 138
SA (Nazi Brown Shirts), 112, 115, 155–156
Saar, 102
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, ix, 117, 181
Salla (battle of 1941), 63
Salomon, May, 241
Salzburg, Austria, 67
Samuel, Hermann, 130
Samuel, Olga (Ollie) Gertrud (Scholz), 121–128
Sans Souci palace, 103
Santa Claus, 219
Satan, 24
Satmar Hasidic Rebbe, 267
Saudi Arabia, 168
Scharnhorst (battleship), 209
Scheck, Raffael, 103
Scheffler, Georg, 95
Scheffler, Günther, 20, 86–95, 98, 99–100, 105, 107, 153, 169–170, 276–277
Scheffler, Helene (née Weiss), 87, 100–102, 107
Scheffler, Hubertus, 90, 100, 105
Scheffler, Jobst, 95
Scheffler, Karl-Heinz, 90–91, 95, 96, 100–108, 120, 153, 169, 277
Scheffler, Max, 87–89, 100–102, 104–105, 107, 153
Scheffler, Ursula, 88
Scheffler, Willy, 95
Schlesien (German battleship), 225
Schlesinger, Adolf, 155
Schlesinger, Friedrich, 97, 99, 120, 154–170
Schlesinger, Luise (née Stromberg), 154
Schlesinger, Wilhelm, 156, 163
Schlesremkämber, Lieutenant, 165
Schleswig-Holstein, 226
Schlüsselburg, Russia, 28
Schluz, Horst, 32
Schmidt, Heinz “Johnny”, 181
Schmidt, Helmut, 226
Schmidt, Joachim, ix
Schmundt, General Rudolf, 236
Schneersohn, Rebbe Joseph Isaac, 258–273
on God’s role in Holocaust, 266–268
Schoelein, Herr, 57
Schoen, U-boat officer, 224
Scholz, Eva Maria, 128
Scholz, Julius, 121–122, 127–128, 153
Scholz, Klaus-Peter, 120, 121–131, 153, 169, 274
Scholz, Olga (Ollie) Gertrud (née Samuel), 121–128
Schönewalde, 244
Schwarz (soldier), 94
Schwerin, Germany, 41
Secret Luftwaffe, 187
Seeckt, General Hans von, 187, 234
Self-propelled gun, 27
Shabbat, 143
Shadow Luftwaffe, 188
Shanghai, 134
Shema (Holy Jewish Prayer), 31–32, 62, 73–74
Shoah, 96–97. See also Holocaust
Siegelerschmidt, Helmut, 134
Siegert, Wilhelm, 186
Siegmundshof Orthodox Jewish School (Berlin), 23
Sielce, Poland, 112
Singapore’s fortifications, 218
Silesia (German province), 159
Sitzendorf (OT forced labor camp), 105
Sitzkrieg. See Phony War
Sivaplana (Norwegian ship), 221
Slave labor (Nazi), 183
Slavs, 81
Smolensk, 198
Somme, battle of, 263
Sonntag, Joachim, viii
South America, 31
South Westphalia, 154
Soviet navy, 214
Soviets, 271
Spandau, 139
Spanish Civil War, 190
Spanish Inquisition, 57
Spanish Nationalist Soldiers, 190
Special Staff W, 190
Speybank (British steamer), 220
Spitfires, 84
Spitz, Arno, 19, 33–43, 60, 76, 86, 98, 120
Spitz, Claire, 42
Spotted fever, 245
SS, 111–112, 117, 128, 156, 158, 245, 258, 262, 270
Headquarters, Berlin, 117
Police, 85
tattoo, 66
St. Nazaire, 257
St. Paul Prison, 61
Stahlhelm Youth Group, 155–156
Stalin, Josef, 2, 81, 113, 214
Stalingrad, battle for, 1942–1943, 5–7, 43, 84, 92, 94, 104, 180, 276
Stalin-Hitler Pact 1939, 113
Staraja Russa, battle of, 39
Star of David, 12, 52, 158, 202
Stauffenberg, Klaus Count von, 77, 84–85
Stein, Baron von, 226
Stein, Edith, 15
Steinhoff, General Johannes, 181
Stern, Rabbi, 131
Stern, Rebeka (Davidson), 108
Stolp, Pomerania, 70
Strantz, General, 231
Strauss, Defense Minister Franz-Josef, 226
Streicher, Julius, 238
Stromberg, Franz, 156
Stromberg, Hermann, 156
Stromberg, Luise (Schlesinger), 154
Stuka dive bombers, 136, 159, 199
Stuttgart, 151
Submarines. See U-boats
Sudetenland (unification with Germany), 1, 54
Suicide, 47, 99, 119, 134, 209, 225, 244, 248
Sukhinichi, Russia, 160
Supreme Labor Court of Baden-Wuerttemberg, 249
Sussmann, Irma, 134
Sussmann, Johanna (née Pottlitzer), 134
Sussmann, Ruth, 134
Swedish Lutheran Church, 188–119
Sydnor, Charles, 65
Synthetic gas refineries, 139
T-34 Russian tank, x, 82, 198, 247
Talleyrand (Norwegian ship), 218
Tannenbaum, Dr., 42
Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia), 45
Techel, Captain Arnold, 132
Techel, Hanns-Dieter, 133, 135, 144
Techel, Irmgard (née Wendlandt), 139–141
Techel, Karl-Arnd, 99, 120, 131–141, 144, 166–167, 169, 241–242, 249, 274
Techel, Paula (née Pick), 132
Technical University, Berlin, 144
Teddy (Norwegian tanker), 218–219
Telfilin (phylacteries), 59
Temple Emanuel (Montreal), 131
Tent, James, 133, 139, 258, 272–273
Teuke, Lieutenant, 115
Texas, 45
Theresienstadt concentration camp, 52, 55, 92, 105, 117–118, 128–130, 163, 166, 201
Thuringia, 105
Tirol, 122
Tobis Film Company, 53
Tojo, Prime Minister Hideki, 130
Torah (Five Books of Moses), 59, 266, 268
Torpedo boats, 253
Tottenham (British steamer), 221
Toul, battle of, 148
Trafalgar (British steamer), 221
Trendelburg, Germany, 129
TRW Space and Electronics, 153
Tsarkoye Selo, Russia, 28
Tunis, battle for, 84
Tyrol, 140
U-boat bunkers, 116
U-boats (German), 95, 126, 211, 215, 221, 252–253, 266
Udet, General Ernst, 37, 179–181
UFA (Universum Film AG), 47, 53
Ukrainian Nazi Guards, 118
United States, 4–6, 36, 46, 59, 85, 91, 111, 151–152, 155, 168, 181, 221, 257, 262
U.S. Air Force, 153, 220, 260, 265
U.S. Consul General in Berlin, 262
U.S. Military Cemetery, Hanover, 69, 72
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 226
U.S. State Department, 262, 265, 269
U.S. vice consul Riga, 262
Untermenschen (subhumans), 11
V-1 flying jet-bomb, 181
V-2 rocket, 240
Veit, Aloisia, 178
Velikiye Luke, Russia, 247
Verdun, battle of, 7, 103, 148, 174, 263
Versailles Treaty, 1, 34, 78–79, 179, 187, 207, 252, 254
Vetter, Clara (Milch), 173–174, 176, 178
Vichy regime, 60
Viktoria, Kasierin Auguste, 185
Villingen, Germany, 141
Vilna, 159
Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), 61
Vosges Mountains, 65
W. R. Grace Company, 167
Waffen-SS, 20, 37, 57–58, 61–66, 97–98
number of personnel, 61
Wagner, U.S. Senator Robert, 261
Wannsee, Berlin, 117
War College, 190
Warsaw Hebrew School, 16
Wartenburg concentration camp, 54
Wehlau Jewish family, 178
Wehrmacht’s High Command, 194, 203
Wehrunwürdig (unworthy of service), 148
Weimar Republic, 59, 78, 109, 188, 206, 263
Weisfogel, Rabbi Alex, 268
Weiss, Cäsilia (née Goldstein), 87–88
Weiss, Helene (Scheffler), 87, 100–102, 107
Wendlandt, Friedrich, 139
Werdohl, Germany, 154
West Prussia, 68
White House, 262
Wilberg, General Helmut, 99, 171, 174, 183–192, 228, 274
Conduct of Air Operations, author of, 189
developer of Blitzkrieg, 186–188
Special Staff W, 190
Wilhelmshaven, German, 132, 172
Wingen, 65
Wisconsin, 155
Wistrich, Robert, 178
Wittenberg family, 128
Wochenschau, 48
Wohlthat, Helmut, 262–263, 265, 270
Wolf, Commodore Ernst, 253
World Bank, 85
Wright B Flyer, 185
Wronsky, Martin, 174
Wuppermann AG, 50
Wuppertal, Germany, 232
Yasukuni Shrine (Tokyo), 130
Yeshiva University, 268
Yiddishkeit, 266
Ypres, battle of, 263
Yugoslavia, 3
Zalman, Rebbe Schneur, 259
Zam Zam (Egyptian steamer), 220–221
Zehlendorf, Germany, 106
Zeppelins, 252
Zimmerman telegram, 221
Zu Kaimberg, Baumbach, 47