Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying (72 page)

Caen

Caesar (sharpshooter)

Cairo,
8.1
,
app.1

Calais

camaraderie,
1.1
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
9.1

Cambridge

cameras

Camp Tracy

Canada, Canadians,
3.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
8.1
,
8.2

Canisy

cannibalism

cannons

Cap de la Hague

capos

Caputo, Philip

career opportunities

Carroll, Andrew

cars,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

Cassino

casualties,
6.1
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
11.1

     civilian,
3.1
,
3.2
,
11.1
,
12.1

     
Hitler’s view of

     Luftwaffe,
3.1
,
4.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

     POWs,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1

     
V weapons and

     Waffen SS and,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

Caucasus

Cavalry Brigade, SS

CBS Radio

censorship

change,
1.1
,
2.1

Channel Islands

Charchow Ksiezy

Charkov

Chelm

Chelmno

Cherbourg,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

     Battle of (1944),
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.1

children,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1

     concern for,
3.1
,
3.2

     crimes of parents and,
3.1
,
3.2

     Iraqi,
11.1
,
11.2

     Jewish,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
8.1
,
8.2

     outrage and,
4.1
,
4.2

     
punishment of

     sinking of ships carrying,
1.1
,
3.1

     
social duties and

     war crimes against,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
11.1

Choltitz, General von,
9.1

Christians, Christianity,
4.1
,
4.2
,
8.1

Chur

Churchill, Winston

City of Benares
(British passenger ship)

civilian roles, transferred to military context

civilians,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
12.1

     
in “Collateral Murder”

     gunning down of,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
9.1

     
spreading terror among

     as targets,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1

     war crimes against,
3.1
,
4.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
11.1
,
11.2

civilization

     
breakdown of

     violence as antithesis of,
2.2
,
2.3

Claunitzer (German POW)

Clausz, Bomber Gunner

Cleff, Herbert

Clermont, Private

Close-Combat Clasp

clothing,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
4.1
,
7.1

cognitive dissonance

collateral casualties,
3.1
,
11.1

“Collateral Murder” (video),
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC),
app.1
,
app.2

commercial work, war work compared with

communication

     
rumors and

     
two functions of

compensation

concentration camps,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2

     
dispositions and

     
doctors at

confidence,
2.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5

conformity,
1.1
,
2.1
,
4.1

consciousness,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
3.1

conscription, universal

Cossacks

cost-benefit analysis

courage,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1

covert surveillance

cowardice,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1

Cracow

Cramer, Hans,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2

Crete

Crimea

crimes

     
failure to offer assistance as

     
Germans blamed for

     against humanity,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
9.1

     interpretive paradigms and,
1.1
,
1.2

     racial,
1.1
,
3.1
,
5.1

     
SS founding and

     
see also
war crimes

“Crimes of the Wehrmacht” (exhibition)

Crüwell, Ludwig,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.1

culture

     frames of reference and,
1.1
,
1.2
,
10.1

     Germans as bearers of,
4.1
,
4.2

     
survival vs.

customs of war,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Czechoslovakia, Czechs,
4.1
,
5.1

Czerwenka, Sergeant

Czosnowski (German POW)

Danckworth, Wolf-Doetrich

Daniel, Ute

Daniels (German POW)

Darley, John

Daser, Lieutenant General,
9.1

Daugavpils,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Dautmergen concentration camp

Deal

death, dead

     for desertion,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

     
fear of

     German avoidance of word,
3.1
,
3.2

     with honor,
8.1
,
8.2

     
playing

     
see also
casualties

“Death’s Head” Standarte,
9.1
,
9.2

Deblin

decency,
1.1
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

deceptions

decision making,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
3.1
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
11.1

     
path dependencies and

     situations and,
1.1
,
1.2

     social duties and,
1.1
,
1.2

decorations,
see
medals and awards

delegation

delousing,
4.1
,
4.2

democracy,
2.1
,
4.1

Denmark, Danes

dependence,
1.1
,
1.2
,
7.1

deportations,
2.1
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

     
in France

desertion,
8.1
,
9.1

Des Forges, Alison

destiny,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
8.1

     
murder as

Destruction of the European Jews, The
(Hilberg)

Dette, Wilhelm,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

deviance,
1.1
,
2.1

Diekmann, Franz,
3.1
,
3.2

Dietmar, Otto

Dietrich, Willi

Dievenkorn (German POW)

discrimination,
1.1
,
2.1
,
4.1

     
see also
anti-Semitism

dispositions, personal,
1.1
,
10.1

Dock (Luftwaffe crew member)

doctors,
1.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

Doebele, Sergeant

Doetsch, Sergeant

Dold, Erwin and Mrs.

domestic violence,
3.1
,
3.2

Dönitz, Karl,
2.1
,
2.2
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
9.1

Dornier 217

dreams

Drosdowski, Alfred

Duckstein, First Sergeant

Dunkirk,
8.1
,
8.2

duties

     formal,
1.1
,
10.1

     military,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5

     social,
1.1
,
10.1

Dvinsk,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Dwinger, Edwin

Eastbourne

Eastern Army, German,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Eastern European Jews

Eastern Front,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
app.1

     Army Group Center on,
7.1
,
8.1

     
description of

     
fighting to the bitter end on

     German faith in victory and,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

     
letters sent home from

     Waffen SS on,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

East Galicia,
4.1
,
4.2

East Germany

Eberbach, Heinrich,
1.1
,
2.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

Eberding, Major General,
9.1

Ebert, Jens

E-boats,
3.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

economy, German

     improvement of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

     
POWs and

education, punishment and

Egypt,
3.1
,
8.1

Eichmann, Adolf

Eicke, Theodor

8th Army, British

8th Destroyer Flotilla

82nd Airborne Division, U.S.

Eisenhower, Dwight David

El Alamein,
8.1
,
8.2

election of 1936, German

Elfeldt, Otto

Elias, Norbert

Elias (German POW)

Elster, Botho

emotions,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
8.1

     
annihilation and

     
miracle weapons and

     
rumors and

     of war, absence of,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

empathy,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Enfidaville

Engel, Major

engineers, Jewish

England,
3.1
,
3.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1

     bombing of,
3.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

     expected occupation of,
3.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

     German faith in victory and,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

     
German navy vs.

     Jews and,
4.1
,
4.2
,
8.1
,
8.2

     miracle weapons and,
6.1
,
6.2

English Channel

entertainers, as voluntary killers

Enziel (German POW)

equality

Erdmenger, Hans

Erfurth (German POW),
7.1
,
8.1

Eschner (Luftwaffe crew member)

Estonians

Eugen, Prince

Ewald, Hans

execution tourism,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2