Ostkrieg (140 page)

Voroshilovgrad,
182

V-2 rockets,
335

Vyazma,
152
–57,
160
,
199
,
211
,
214
,
232

Waffen-SS,
xvii
,
103
,
384
,
399

Wagner, Adolf (Gauleiter of Bavaria),
137

Wagner, Eduard (General),
66
,
156
,
168
,
169
,
189

Walther, Gebhardt von,
59

Wannsee Conference,
180
–81,
219
,
236
,
505
n59,
522
n78

War Economy and Armaments Office,
59
,
83
,
165

Warlimont, Walter (General),
67
,
280
,
341

Warsaw,
22
,
272
,
405
,
408
,
418
,
441
,
449

fighting for,
418
–20,
422
,
429
–30,
444
–45

ghetto,
257
,
318
,
361

Uprising,
419
,
548
n24

Warthegau,
175
,
220
,

Wartheland,
20
,
177
,
476

Warthe River,
460

Washington,
40
,
268

weather,
27
,
39
,
73
,
116
,
118
–19,
126
,
129
,
142
,
144
,
150
,
155
,
157
–59,
162
,
163
,
168
,
170
,
183
,
185
,
219
,
261
,
297
,
308
,
310
,
312
,
318
,
383
,
387
,
389
–91,
437

Wehrkraftzersetzung
(undermining the war effort),
xvii
,
377
,
454

Wehrmacht.
See
German army; German navy; Luftwaffe; Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

Weichs, Maximilian von (General),
284
,
292
,
298
,
308
,
312

Weidling, Helmuth (General),
467

Weimar Republic,
254
,
427

Weizsäcker, Ernst von,
36
,
50

Wenck, Walter (General),
448

Werwolf
complex (Vinnitsa),
279

West Prussia,
20
,
255
,
449

Wetzel, Erhard,
256

White Russia,
37
–38.
See also
Belorussia

Wietersheim, Gustav von (General),
287

Wilhelm, Operation,
252
–53

Winter Relief,
296

Winter Storm, Operation (Wintergewitter),
xvii
,
313
,
315

Winter War,
36

Wirth, Christian,
177

Wöhler, Otto (General),
356
,
454

Wolf's Lair (Wolfsschanze),
xvii
,
263
,
311
,
430

wonder weapons,
426

“working toward the Führer,”
22
,
107

World War I,
1
–2,
6
,
37
,
124
,
138
,
238
,
337
,
377
,
383

American entry into,
194

Battle of the Marne,
183
,
190
,
192

Battle of Verdun,
192
,
293
,
298
,
300
,
322
,
325
,
345
,
411
,
420

blockade,
7
,
12
,
69

collapse of German home front,
328

exchange of populations,
478
–79

food shortages,
60
–61,
224
–25,
428

German encirclement in,
234

German surrender,
12

hunger,
12
,
69
,
171
,
317

influence on German generals,
9
,
26
,
29
,
81
,
98
,
125
,
399
,
480

influence on Hitler,
xxiii
,
4
–9,
12
,
16
–17,
63
,
104
–5,
170
–71,
178
–79,
194
,
206
,
208
–9,
218
,
234
,
254
,
280
,
317
,
328
,
401
,
411
,
476
–78

reparations,
12

“stab in the back” myth,
69
,
474
,
480
,
487

Treaty of Versailles,
2
,
4
,
10
,
12
,
18
,
57
,
194
,
439
,
473
,
476
,
482
,
484

trench war,
206
,
293
,
343
,
407
,
441

Wotan position,
366

Wriezen,
463
–64

Yakhroma,
191

Yalta Conference,
447

Yampol,
392
–94

Yaroslavl,
182

Yelnya,
133
,
141

Yugoslavia,
71
,
447

Yukhnov,
154
,
210
–12

Zamosc,
257
–59

Zaporozhye,
141
,
163
,
323
,
368
,
371
,
379

Zeitzler, Kurt (General)

appointed Chief of Staff, OKH,
280

attempts to resign,
397

and Bagration,
413
,
417

and Citadel,
340
,
342
,
351
,
366

dismissed,
417

and Hitler,
366
,
397
,
399

and Stalingrad,
305
,
307
–8,
312
–13,
316
,
319

Zentrale Planung
,
229

Zety,
288

Zhitomir,
141
,
380
,
387
–88

Zhukov, Georgi (Marshal)

and Berlin Operation,
461
–68,
551
n13

and Cherkassy pocket,
391

and counteroffensive (Moscow),
200
–201,
206
–7,
210
,
214

and defense of Leningrad,
142

and defense of Moscow,
156
–57,
161
,
186
–87

and defense of Stalingrad,
290
–92,
303
–4,
316

and Kursk,
347

and Operation Little Saturn,
316

and Operation Mars,
304

and Operation Uranus,
292

and preemptive strike against Germany,
80

and Stalin,
80
,
142
,
143
,
200
,
207
,
210
,
214
,
248
,
290
–92,
316
,
391
,
422
,
462
–63,
508
n17,
551
n13

and Stavka,
207
,
248

and summer campaign, 1942,
248

and summer offensive, 1944,
422

and Vistula-Oder offensive,
442
,
444
–449

and winter offensive, 1943–1944,
394
–98

Zossen,
464

Zubtsov,
211

Zvenigorodka,
388
–89

Zyklon-B,
177

Zymlyanskaya,
267