Hitler, Donitz, and the Baltic Sea (62 page)

     
OKH and,
54
,
58

     
at Panther Position,
7
,
12
,
18
,
22
,
24
,
27
,
41

     
Rendulic and,
89

     
Schörner and,
47
,
63
,
90
,
91
,
93
,
216

     
and Skl,
13
,
56
,
72

     
and Soviet forces,
1
,
3–5
,
7
,
9
,
13
,
22
,
23–46
,
48
,
51
,
53
,
60
,
65
,
107
,
111
,
135
,
137
,
211
,
215

     
supply lines of,
38–39
,
42
,
70
,
98
,
119
,
121
,
122

     
at Sworbe,
71
,
72

     
and Third Panzer Army,
39
,
57

     
troop strength of,
135
,
142

     
Voss and,
55

     
at Vyborg Bay,
31

     
Weiss and,
113

Army Group South,
3
,
23
,
89

Army Group South Ukraine,
90
,
92

Army Group Vistula,
107
,
113
,
119
,
142
,
215
.
See also
Vistula River

     
Heinrici and,
127

     
Himmler and,
114

     
Hitler and,
123
,
124
,
126

     
OKH and,
115
,
127

     
and Soviet forces,
116
,
135

     
troop strength of,
135

Artste Line,
68
,
80

Assman, Heinz,
xiii
,
12–13
,
16
,
21
,
32
,
35–36
,
38
,
41–42
,
43
,
59
,
122
,
190
,
206
,
207

“Aster,” code name,
48–50
,
53
,
58
,
59
,
62–63
,
64

Atlantic Wall,
33

Axis forces,
22
,
146

Bagramian, Ivan,
28

Balga Peninsula,
120
,
121

Baltic fronts.
See
First Baltic Front
;
Second Baltic Front
;
Third Baltic Front

Baltic Gap, closing of,
37
,
39
,
44

Baltic Isles.
See
Dagö
,
Ösel
,
Moon

Battle of the Bulge.
See
Ardennes Offensive

Bay of Biscay.
See
Biscay, Bay of

Bay of Danzig.
See
Danzig, Bay of

Belorussian fronts.
See
First Belorussian Front
;
Second Belorussian Front

Bird, Keith,
xxi
,
220

Biscay, Bay of,
10
,
175
,
204

Black Sea,
2
,
15
,
146
,
149
,
171
,
187
,
204

Blanc, Adalbert von,
xiii
,
73–74
,
77
,
100

“Blitz,” code name,
51
,
53

Boheman, Erik,
xiii
,
31

Böhmer, Kurt,
38

Bonin, Bogislaw von,
xiii
,
40
,
54
,
67
,
71
,
72

Bulgaria,
23
,
208
,
213

Burchardi, Theodor,
xiii
,
59
,
70–71
,
73
,
74
,
76
,
77
,
79
,
126–27
,
184–85

Cherkassy Pocket,
6

code breaking,
157
,
180

code names

     
“Aster.”
See
“Aster”

     
“Blitz,”
51

     
“Map Exercise Königsberg,”
47

     
“Rain,”
53

     
“Rotdorn,”
34
,
37

     
“Sunshine,”
53

     
“Tanne East,”
41–43
,
56
,
64
.
See also
Hogland island

     
“Tanne West,”
41–43
,
56
,
161
.
See also
Åland Islands

     
“Thunder,”
53

     
“Weissdorn,”
34
,
37

codes, Germany’s,
156
,
157
,
176

Conrady, Heinz-Dietrich von,
xiii
,
43
,
56
,
57
,
60
,
68
,
69

Courland,
xviii
,
xxii
,
81
,
87
,
220
.
See also
First Courland Battle
;
Second Courland Battle
;
Third Courland Battle
;
Fourth Courland Battle
;
Fifth Courland Battle
;
Sixth Courland Battle
;
Seventh Courland Battle

     
Army Group North at,
47–64
,
52
,
55
,
60
,
61
,
64
,
81
,
91
,
107
,
132
,
147
,
148
,
150
,
207

     
and OKH,
84
,
96
,
98
,
99
,
101
,
104
,
142

     
and OKW,
99

     
and Skl,
56
,
60
,
100
,
102
,
103

     
Stalin and,
86–87
,
140–41

Cranz,
111–13
,
112

Crimea,
9
,
63
,
70

     
Dönitz on,
198
,
204
,
208

     
Hitler strategy in,
40
,
140
,
141
,
146
,
150

Dagö island,
49
,
65–67
,
66
,
72
,
76
,
78

Danzig (city),
60
,
109
,
112
,
114
,
116
,
122
,
124
,
125
,
126
,
129
,
180
,
182

Danzig port,
xxi
,
115
,
120
,
122
,
127

     
shipyards,
173
,
177

Danzig, Bay of,
34
,
35
,
36
,
98
,
101
,
102
,
112
,
116
,
123
,
126
,
127
,
185
,
193

Danzig–Gdynia sector,
113
,
116
,
125
,
126
,
135
,
141
,
185
.
See also
Gdynia

decryption.
See
code breaking

Denmark, German occupation of,
153
,
154
,
157
,
158
,
159
,
163
,
165
,
188–89
,
191
,
197

Doblen,
51
,
53
,
82
,
84

Don River,
149
,
150

Dorpat,
26
,
29
,
30
,
40
,
48
,
50
,
63

Dülffer, Jost,
xxi

Düna River,
24
,
25
,
27
,
28
,
29
,
33
,
35
,
39
,
48
,
49
,
52
,
83

Dünaburg,
25
,
26
,
27
,
28

Durchhalt strategy, Hitler’s,
36
,
206–14
,
220
,
223

Dutch.
See
Holland

East Prussia,
1
,
34
,
95
,
96
,
112
,
115
,
122
,
128
,
130
,
140
,
187
,
201

     
Army Detachment Samland in,
113

     
Army Group A in,
110
,
111
,
135

     
Army Group Center in,
53
,
54
,
108
,
109
,
110
,
111
,
135
,
138

     
Army Group North in,
34–36
,
38
,
39
,
44
,
45
,
57
,
61
,
118–19
,
135

     
Army Group Vistula in,
135

     
Assmann strategy in,
35–36

     
Bargramian strategy in,
136

     
Bonin strategy in,
54

     
Cherniakovskii strategy in,
113

     
Dönitz strategy in,
34
,
36
,
38
,
45
,
53
,
118
,
121–24
,
126
,
128
,
201

     
Fifth Panzer Division in,
114

     
First Belorussian Front in,
136

     
Fourth Army in,
110–14
,
135

     
Gehlen strategy in,
135
,
137–41

     
German army in,
xviii
,
xxi–xxii
,
109–14

     
German forces isolated in,
45
,
60
,
61
,
62
,
100
,
104
,
111
,
114
,
118
,
138

     
German troop strength in,
135
,
136

     
Guderian strategy in,
59
,
60–62
,
116–17
,
128
,
137–41

     
Hitler strategy,
87–88
,
106
,
111
,
114
,
118
,
119
,
121
,
127
,
131
,
136
,
141
,
149
,
206

     
Reinhardt strategy in,
109
,
110
,
111

     
Rendulic strategy in,
89
,
112
,
113
,
134

     
Schörner meets Hitler in,
50
,
51

     
Schörner strategy in,
53
,
54
,
137–41

     
Second Army in,
110–11
,
113
,
135

     
Second Belorussian Front in,
109–10
,
136

     
Soviet offensives in,
23
,
28
,
54
,
57
,
59–62
,
80
,
87–88
,
94
,
107
,
108
,
109–14
,
134–36
,
137–41