Read Crimes and Mercies Online
Authors: James Bacque
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infant mortality,
34–5
,
190
; see also children
Inter-Allied Committee: 1942 meeting,
136
International Committee of the Red Cross,
60
,
86
,
149
,
157
,
177
; see
also Red Cross
International Historical Statistics,
111
Israel,
178
Italy,
2
,
5
,
29
,
31
,
76
,
77
,
78
,
153–4
Japan,
19
,
28
,
29
,
68
,
81–3
,
126
,
170
,
205
Jehovah’s Witnesses,
132
Johnson, Edd,
34
Johnson, Monroe,
141
Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich,
72
,
133
,
205
Kaltenborn, H. V.,
190
Katyn massacre,
71–2
,
82
,
128
,
133
Kent, Martha (née Schulz),
103–4
Keynes, John Maynard,
27
KGB,
62–3
,
66
,
69
,
77
; accuracy of records,
79
King, Mackenzie,
17
,
135
,
142
,
143
,
151
,
153
,
159
,
181
; against British domination,
22
; sends food to Greece,
89
; speech on ‘law of peace, work and health’ (1945),
25
,
39
; on wheat prices,
140
Kirichenko, Alexei,
194–5
Kirsch, Joseph,
54
Kitchener, Lord (Horatio),
4
Klein-Mahlendorf,
112
Krefeld,
155
Krische, Ernst Richard,
46
Kuttlau,
113
labour: shortages,
148
,
149
; see also slave labour
Lambach,
45
Lamsdorf,
101
land confiscations,
91
,
94
,
147
,
176–7
Langer, William,
30–1
,
38
,
58
,
126
,
158
Lauben, Philip S.,
49
,
54–5
,
56
,
59
,
60
,
79
Legouest hospital,
54
Life,
20
Littmann, Horst,
45
Lorenz, Konrad,
70
Lorenz, Wilhelm,
152
Lossen,
113
Löwenstein, Prince zu,
90
Luck, Hans von,
80
Ludwigshafen,
155
Lutheran Church,
155
Mackenzie, William Lyon,
22
Magadan Gulag,
63
Maifritzdorf,
105
Maisky, Ivan,
166
Malik, Jakob,
82
Marburg,
167–8
Marburger Presse,
168
Marshall, George C.,
125
,
140
,
152
,
164
Marshall, Jennings B.,
55
Marshall Plan,
161
,
162–3
,
165
,
167
,
174
Marxism,
2
Maschke, Erich,
78–9
Medical History of the European Theater of Operations,
51
,
56
Meehan, Patricia,
130
Mennonites,
90
,
132
,
149
,
153–4
,
155
,
161
,
171
,
177
Middleton, Drew,
172–3
missing persons,
74–5
,
76–80
,
124
,
189–91
,
207–9
; Japanese,
82
Mission Militaire de Liaison
Administrative,
155
Molotov–Ribbentrop pact,
18
Moltke, Helmut von,
133
Monde, Le,
195
Morgenthau, Henry C.,
10
,
26
,
30
,
36
,
144–5
,
146
,
180
,
181
Morgenthau Plan,
25–32
,
92
,
120
,
152
,
164
,
169
,
174
; US senators’ opposition to,
30–2
,
37–8
Mückusch, Hermine,
98–9
Müller, Max,
50
Murphy, Robert,
117
,
126
,
147
,
159
; estimate of number of expellees,
191
; estimates of German death rate,
109
,
119–22
,
185–6
,
188–9
; on omission of prisoners from censuses,
209–10
; protests against conditions caused by expulsions,
177
Nazis,
175
; local resistance to,
128–33
; scientists,
131
Neisse,
101
Niederhermsdorf,
112
Niedersachsen,
157
nineteenth century,
1–2
Nitti, Francesco,
14
NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, USSR),
62–3
,
64
,
66
,
71–4
,
76
,
80
,
81
,
102
,
205–206
North Rhine province,
201
Nuremberg trials,
72–3
,
87–8
,
128
,
190
O’Brien, Conor Cruise,
177
O’Grady, Gerald B.,
165
OKW war diaries,
79
OMGUS (Office of the Military Governor, US),
165
,
169
,
210
; statistics,
108
,
109–11
,
114
,
119–20
‘Other Losses’,
56–7
Other Losses (Bacque),
51
,
52
,
55
,
75
,
191
,
193
,
194
,
196
,
204
Patterson, Brad,
117
Patterson, Robert,
9
,
165–6
,
175
; efforts to prevent famine,
125
,
138
,
139
,
140–1
,
143
,
152
,
158
; on US food surpluses,
141
,
142
,
147
; wish to release POWs from USA,
59
Perón, Juan,
142
Peters, Herbert,
50
Petrov, Ivan,
206
Pfalz,
202–3
Phillimore Report,
84
Pichler, Fred,
68–9
Plemper, Franz-Josef,
60
Poland: disputed territories,
94
,
176
; expulsions and atrocities,
20
,
98
,
101–2
,
105–6
,
123
,
150
,
190–1
; First World War aid to,
7
,
9
; invasions (1939),
17
,
18
; sacrificed by Allies,
24
,
25
; USSR and,
17
,
18
,
20
,
21
,
23
,
63
,
71
,
94
,
133
; see
also Katyn massacre; Silesia
Polanyi, Michael,
2
Poles, Free,
133
Poles, Lublin,
23
population, additions to,
187
postal service,
149
Potsdam agreements,
30
,
93
,
94
,
125
,
132
,
179
; Article XIII,
177
; condemned by Adenauer,
181
Potulitz (Potulice) camp,
103–5
Pradervand, Jean Pierre,
60
Pribram,
99
Price, Waterhouse and Company,
35
prices: policies,
139
,
140
; rises,
158
prisoner of war camps: conditions in French camps,
57–8
,
75
,
84
; conditions in US camps,
28–9
,
40–61
,
91
; death statistics,
56–7
,
75
; French takeover of US camps,
54–5
,
56
,
79
; Gulag,
62–71
,
130
; hospital deaths,
52–6
; in Poland,
102–4
; secrecy surrounding,
60–1
; three areas of death in,
52
,
56
prisoners of war: death rate (overall),
20
,
84
,
92
,
124
; death rate in US zone,
209–10
; First World War,
7–9
; France’s treatment of,
36
; Japanese,
40
,
68
,
82–3
; from non-German Axis countries,
63
,
77–8
,
207
; numbers captured by Allies,
40
; numbers captured by Americans,
78
,
79
; omitted from census data,
209–10
; in Poland,
102–4
; release of Poles in 1941,
63
; Soviet statistics,
73–4
,
78–81
,
84
,
102–3
; starvation of,
28–9
,
40–52
,
91
; surveys of,
74–5
,
76
; unaccounted for by US,
79
; White Russians,
72–3
,
133
; see also prisoner of war camps
propaganda,
171
protest movement, anti-famine,
93
public opinion,
180–1
Quebec Conference (1944),
27
Raabe, Herbert P.,
13–2
rail-car shortage, US,
140
Rasmus, Hugo,
105
Reckord, Milton A.,
79
Red Army,
71
,
80
,
81
; acts of kindness,
105
; archives,
73
,
77
; atrocities,
99
,
101
,
106
,
113
; reports,
205
Red Cross: German (Deutsche Rote Kreuz),
29
,
33
,
34
,
151
,
154
; International,
29
,
58
,
71
,
84
,
88
,
111
,
149
; Irish,
156
; Russian,
81
; surveys of camps,
207
,
208
; see also International Committee of the Red Cross
Remagen camp,
60
resistance movement, German: Allies’ attitude to,
129–33
Rheinberg camp,
50
Robertson, Norman,
135
,
140
,
159–60
,
161
,
175
Rommel, Erwin,
129
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
36
,
88
,
139
,
147
,
176
; on destruction of German nation,
129
; and Katyn massacre,
72
; and Morgenthau Plan,
27
,
28
; opposition to Hoover,
136
; and Polish territory,
94
; and USSR,
20
,
22
,
25