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Italian Army
;
Polish Army
;
Red Army
;
US Army
Aschaffenburg
394
,
510
,
521
Aschersleben
424
,
426
Ashkenazis
313
Atlantic Charter (1941)
237
Augsburg (1944)
470
Augusta,
USS
237
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
71
,
244
,
252
,
255
,
257
,
298–9
,
474
,
515
,
565
; evacuation of prisoners (1945)
486–7
,
517
Austria
130
,
134
,
187
;
Anschluss
11
; and Bohemia and Moravia
25
; one conscientious objector
73
; deportation of Jews
244
; theatre as expression of nonconformity
409–10
; lynching of Allied pilots
505
; declaration of independence
565–6
; as victim of Nazis
566
; discussion of war crimes
2
;
see also
Linz
;
Vienna
Avignon (1944)
443
Avranches (1944)
442
Axmann, Artur
456
B., Rudolf
554–5
Babi Yar: massacre of Jews (1941)
182
,
281
Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem
289–90
Backe, Herbert
183–4
,
185
,
271
,
272
,
278
,
281
,
310
Bad Brückenau (1943)
375
Bad Neustadt (1941)
239
Bad Reichenhall (1940)
159
,
160
Bad Windsheim: surrender (1945)
531
Bader, Professor Karl
551
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro
374
,
381
Baku
322
Balkans, the
311
,
312
Baltic states: ethnic Germans
136–7
; Jews deported to
248
; Jews shot
252
; Germans welcomed
309
; liberated by Red Army
434
,
460
,
465
;
see also
Latvia
;
Lithuania
Bandera, Stepan
309
Bank of England
25
Baptism of Fire
(documentary film)
46
Barmen: bombing (1943)
350
; evacuees from
401
Barmen Confession
14
Barth, Karl
14
Bassewitz-Behr, Georg Henning Graf von
369
Bastian, Admiral Max
71
Bastogne (1945)
477
Bauditz, Alfred
488
Bauditz, Leonie
488–9
,
542
,
549
Bauditz, Winfried
488
Bavaria/Bavarians
15
; Protestants
32
; closure of monasteries
148
; Church–Party conflict
148–50
see also
Munich
Bayern Munich v. TSV 1860 (1945)
532
Bayeux (1944)
427
Bayreuth
400
,
521
BBC
79
,
247
,
250
; German service
4
,
251
,
256
,
300
,
511
,
563
; enlists Orwell
119
BDM
see
League of German Girls
Beauvoir, Simone de
312
Beck, Gerhard
264
Belaia Tserkov: shooting of Jewish orphans (1941)
173–4
Belgium: invasion
50
,
91
,
93–5
,
100
,
106
,
109
; occupation
132
,
279
; deportation of Jews
244
,
251
,
371
; prisoners of war
254
; coal mines
271
; strikes
271
; forced recruitment of labour
273
,
295
,
297
; hiding of returning workers
273
; food shortages
277
,
278
; and Waffen SS
313
; coastal fortifications
420
,
445
; and German retreat
454
,
469
,
478
Belgrade (1940)
137–8
Bell, George, Bishop of Chichester
560
Belorussia
173
,
235
,
310
,
420
; execution of Jews
258
; massacres
275
; German defeat (1944)
431–4
Beł
ec death camp
252
,
254
,
255
,
267
,
281
Benn, Gottfried
438
Berchtesgaden
160
,
541
Berensberg: conference of clergy (1942)
354
Berezhnova, Ekaterina
296
Bergen-Belsen death camp
516
Berlin: First World War civilian deaths
53–4
,
106
; Jewish community
57
; first air raid warning
30
; war rumoured to be over (1939)
48–9
; production of
Danton’s Death
50–51
; theatres
51
,
120
; milk shortages
56
; victory parades
106–7
,
110
; bombing (1940)
111
,
112–13
,
123
; civil defence towers
113
,
376
; evacuation of children
115
; flak battery
120
; Preysing’s sermons at St Hedwig’s Cathedral
144
,
146
; Jewish suicides
242
; deportation of Jews
244
,
262
,
263
; Jews in hiding
263–4
; black market
285
,
550
; AEG cable plant workers
298
; women wearing trousers
335
; bombing (1943)
351
; evacuation ordered by Goebbels
372
; bombing (1943–4)
387–90
,
391–3
,
469
,
470
; evacuees
396
,
399
,
403
; cinemas and theatres
408–9
,
410
,
452
; foreign workers
463–4
; celebration for counter-offensive
477
; bombing (1945)
494
,
498–9
,
530
; defence (1945)
1
,
529
,
530
,
532–4
,
546
; capitulation
534–5
; mass rape
535–7
; under Soviet military authority
542–3
; postwar views on National Socialism
564
; Holocaust Memorial
2–3
;
see also
Wilmersdorf
Berlin-Charlottenburg: Reich Military Tribunal
71–2
Berlin-Plötzensee prison
70
,
72
Berlin Charité
75
Berlin Special Court
78
Berman, Jakub
555
Bernadotte, Count Folke
522
Berning, Hermann Wilhelm, Bishop of Osnabrück
248
Bernotat, Fritz
84
Bertram, Cardinal Adolf, Archbishop of Breslau
15
,
144
,
151
,
248–9
,
260
,
488
Best, Werner
256
Bethel asylum
86
Bialystok: massacre of Jews (1941)
172
Biberach (1942)
286
Bielefeld: Communists (1939)
60
Big Hit, The
(film)
335
bigamy, postwar
551
Biggin Hill airfield, Kent (1940)
110–11
Binding, Karl, and Hoche, Alfred:
Permission for the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life
84
Binding, Rudolf Georg
465
Birgel, Willy
46
,
67
Bistritz: KVL camp
398–9
black market
133
,
284–90
,
550–51
Blaskowitz, General Johannes
35
,
36
,
42–3
,
174
,
443
,
444
,
445
,
454
,
455
,
503
,
505
,
510
Blohm, Rudolf
371
Blum, Léon
65
Blumentritt, General Günther
509
,
524
Bobruisk (1944)
433
,
449
Bochum
359
,
399
,
403
,
512
,
513
Bock, General Fedor von
38
,
50
,
175
,
176
,
199
,
201
,
205
,
222
,
451
Boeselager, Georg von
451
Boeselager, Philipp von
451
Bohemia and Moravia
25
,
60
,
131
,
275
,
409
; Jews
235
,
244
Böll, Heinrich
44
,
132
,
133
,
330
; ‘Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa’
568
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
13
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