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(Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1974)
—— (ed.),
Two Peacemakers in Paris: The Hoover–Wilson Post- Armistice
Letters, 1918–1920
(College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1978)
Overy, Richard,
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(London: Macmillan, 1989)
Proudfoot, Malcolm,
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(Bramsche: Rasch, 1991)
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(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984)
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956
(translated by Thomas P. Whitney – New York: Harper and Row, 1974–76)
——,
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(translated by Robert Conquest – New York:
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Sorge, Martin,
The Other Price of Hitler’s War
(New York: Greenwood Press, 1986)
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Bevölkerung und Kultur
, Reihe 2:
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(Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1966)
——,
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(Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1972)
Stimson, Henry L., and Bundy, McGeorge.,
On Active Service in Peace
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(New York: Harper, 1948)
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(New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948)
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Ernährungslage in der britischen Zone Deutschlands, insbesondere in
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(Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz, 1984)
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(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977)
——,
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In the Name of Christ: A History of the Mennonite
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(Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1952)
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(Memmingen: Selbstverlag, 1951)
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Ziemke, Earl F.,
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(Washington: Center of Military History, US Army, 1975)
Acheson, Dean,
159
Adenauer, Konrad,
108
,
176
; on Berlin death rate,
199
; condemns expulsions,
181
; government’s surveys of missing persons,
74
,
77
,
124
,
188–9
,
207
; as Lord Mayor of Cologne,
167
; moderate statistics of,
107
,
113–14
Adourian, Alex,
66
agriculture, German: loss of farmlands,
91
,
94
; production,
148–9
,
150
,
158
,
203
Aldington, Lord (Toby Low),
72
,
73
Algen, Aloyus,
161
Allensworth, John,
46
Allied Control Council,
111
,
114
,
115
,
117
Alt-Wette,
112
American Relief Administration (ARA),
9
,
13
,
137
anarchy,
173
Anders, Wladyslaw,
71
Anderson, Clinton,
139
,
142
,
152
,
153
ARA, see American Relief Administration
Arbeiterwohlfahrt,
151
archives, Soviet, see CSSA
atomic secrets,
180
Aurich camp,
84
Ausschuß für Kriegsgefangenenfragen,
76
,
189
,
207–9
Aussig,
100
Austria: complaint against Canadian troops,
84
; death rate,
118
,
198
; food rations,
143
,
152
; and Hoover’s food relief,
160
; mass graves,
45
,
103
; ‘transfer’ of prisoners to,
56–7
,
58
Bad Kreuznach,
198
,
203
; prison camp,
44–5
,
46
,
50
,
51
,
55
Baikal–Amur railway,
66
Balfour, A. J.,
12
BAM line,
66–7
Beketovka Gulag,
64
Belgium,
152–3
,
154
; and First World War blockade,
3–6
,
139
; and Second World War blockade,
86–7
Berlin,
4
,
23
,
34–6
,
94
,
143
,
153
,
159
,
161
,
164
,
177
,
186
,
198
,
199
,
201–2
Bevin, Ernest,
158
Biebelsheim camp,
50
Birkenau,
106
birth rates,
109
,
116
,
118
,
122
,
185
Bitter, Dr Margarethe,
76–7
,
124
,
188
,
189
,
207
,
208
Bizone: feeding programme,
156
Blum, Léon,
153
Bonhöffer, Dietrich,
133
Braun, Harry G.,
80
Bretzenheim camp,
44–5
,
49–51
,
53
,
55–6
,
103
,
204
Britain: accusations against USSR,
76
; archives,
84
; army reports
201–2
; diplomacy between wars,
17
; food production,
144
; forced labour in,
58
; military power in 1945,
24
; official attitude to food parcels,
158
; post-war diet,
153
; power of,
21
; and re-education,
67
; relations with USSR,
17–18
,
21–2
,
23–4
; Select Committee on Estimates,
145–6
; and White Russians,
72–3
,
133
British zone of Germany: death rate in,
32–4
,
35
,
118
,
119
,
201–2
; food rations in,
110
,
119
,
143
; food relief in,
154–5
,
156
; refugees in,
115
; starvation in,
32–4
,
35
,
90
,
91
Browder, Dewey,
209
Buchenwald camp,
131
Buglose-Labouheyre camp,
58
Canada: aid to Britain,
21
,
22
,
93
,
159–60
; army report on Brilon deaths,
118
; atomic secrets stolen,
23
,
170
; behaviour of troops in Austria,
84
; food production,
146–7
; and food relief,
88–9
,
135–6
,
139
,
140
,
142–3
,
159–60
; and Nazi scientists,
131
; and re- education,
67
; refuses troops for south-east Asia,
22
; report of Legation in Warsaw,
190–1
; and USSR,
18–19
,
23
, 1323–3,
170
; see
also King, Mackenzie
Canaris, Wilhelm,
129
cannibalism,
199
CARE (Co-operative for American Remittances to Europe),
151
,
152
,
160
censuses,
114–16
,
117
,
119–20
,
122–3
; omission of prisoners,
209–11
Chichester, Bishop of,
36
children: feeding programmes for,
150–1
,
154
,
155
,
157
; Irish
programme for,
156
; mortality,
124
,
142–3
,
151
; orphaned,
155
; see also infant mortality
Christian Century,
37–8
church,
38
,
93
,
130
; Catholic bishops (USA),
190
; Lutherans,
155
; see
also priests
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer: and Dutch famine,
86
,
88–9
; First World War policies,
3
,
4–5
,
6
,
14–15
; and Katyn massacre,
72
; and Morgenthau Plan,
27
,
28
; persuades Free Poles to return,
133
; on plot to kill Hitler,
130–1
; and USSR,
18–19
,
20
,
21
,
25
,
65
,
166
civilians: estimated German deaths,
188–9
; information sources,
204
; prisoners in USSR,
74
,
80
,
206
; see
also expulsions
Clark, Mark,
56–7
,
58
,
59–60
,
118–9
,
201
Clark, Ramsey,
171