Arctic Ocean
Ardeatine caves
Ardenne, Manfred von
Ardennes
Argentina
Argus (air-engine company)
aristocracy
Armaments, Reich Ministry for
armaments production
see also
‘wonder-weapons’
Arms Inspectorate
army, German
influence of Nazi ideology
courts-martial
atrocities in occupied Poland
antisemitism
atrocities in occupied east
unprepared for winter war in Soviet Union
Hitler takes complete command
purge of generals following defeat at Moscow
losses on Eastern Front
atrocities in occupied Yugoslavia
sequestering of goods from occupied countries
Generals required to reaffirm belief in Hitler
vandalism in Italy after defection
breakdown of discipline during retreat in Soviet Union
background and character of senior officers
Hitler’s distrust of
Hitler’s donations to senior officers
honours and medals
characteristics of junior officers and ordinary soldiers
and Military SS
and medical experimentation
army, German -
cont
.
military resistance
disintegration
deserters
suicides of generals
postwar lives of military commanders
Army Groups
A
B
Centre
North
North Ukraine
South
Army Sanitary Inspectorate
Arrow Cross
art
collecting
Reich Chamber for the Visual Arts
looting of artworks by Germans
looting of artworks by Soviets
restitution of expropriated artworks
artists
German war artists
in concentration camps
in postwar Germany
Aryanization
asbestos
‘asocials’
assassination attempts on Hitler 1943 1944
Astrakhan
asylums
see also
T-4 unit killing centres
Athens
Athens
(freighter)
Atlantic, Battle of the
‘Atlantic Charter’
Atlantic convoys
atomic bombs
Attlee, Clement
Aubin, Hermann
Augsburg
Aumeier, Hans
Auschwitz concentration camp
establishment and growth
methods of killing
escape attempts
camp life
prisoner labour
sub-camps
deportation of Jews from Western Europe to
deportation of Jews from Slovakia to
deportation of Jews from Italy to
deportation of Gypsies to
reports on mass murders
racial-biological research
medical experimentation
deportation of Jews from Hungary to
dismantling and evacuation
Soviet forces discover
trials of officers and guards
Australia
Austria
German occupation
population transfer programmes
Jewish emigration from
deportation of Jews from
deportation of Gypsies from
Schuschnigg dictatorship
confiscation of property
Allied and Soviet forces advance into
surrender of German forces
imprisonment of war criminals
postwar partisan resistance movement
Avela
Axmann, Arthur
Babi Yar
Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem
Backe, Herbert
Bad Aibling
Bad Nauheim
Bad Neuenahr
Baden
Bader, Paul
badges
Jewish yellow star
political prisoners’ red triangle
asocials’ black triangle
homosexuals’ pink triangle
Badoglio, Pietro
‘Baedeker raids’
Baer, Richard
Bagration, Operation
Bahamas
Baku
Baldin, Viktor
Balkan Wars
ball-bearings
Baltic Sea
Baltic States
see also
Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
Barbarossa, Operation
plans for
invasion launched
surprise and speed of attack
Red Army collapses in chaos181 -
popular German reaction to
loses momentum
optimism gives way to crisis
murderous policies implemented during
bars and hotels
bartering
Bart’k, B’la
Bary, L’szl’
Battle of Britain
Bauer, Fritz
Baum, Herbert
Bautzen
Bavaria
Bayer (pharmaceutical company)
Bayreuth
BBC
German service
Hungarian service
Be Fond of Me
(film)
Beck, Ludwig
Becker, Karl
Bedzin
beer-hall putsch (1923)
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Beger, Bruno
Beiglb̈ck, Wilhelm
Belarus
Hitler’s plans for ‘living-space’
General Commissariat
German army’s atrocities in
murder of political prisoners
killing of ‘useless eaters’
deportation of Jews from
partisan groups
German withdrawal
see also
Eastern Land, Reich Commissariat of the
Belarussians
in Poland
German hatred for
Belgium
German invasion
capitulation
deportation of Jews from
empire
sequestration of equipment and materials
exports to Germany
and the ‘New Order’
‘occupation costs’
rationing
Belgian civilian workers in Germany
political prisoners in concentration camps
administration during occupation
flying bomb and rocket attacks
see also
Flanders
Belgrade concentration camp
Below, Nicolaus von
Belzec
labour camps
extermination camp
Berchtesgaden
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergengruen, Werner
Berger, Gottlob
Berger, Oskar
Berghof
Berlin
Jewish population
plans for rebuilding
victory parade for conquest of France
Allied bombing raids
deportation of Jews from
Sports Palace
bomb attack on anti-Soviet exhibition (May 1942)
provision of air-raid shelters
repair of bomb damage
Moabit prison
caf’s and bars
evacuation of children from
Pl̈tzensee prison
rescue of Jews
Technical University
schools
resistance movements
Brandenburg Gate
Red Army advances on
final battle for
artworks plundered by Soviets
industrial machinery removed by Soviets
Red Army atrocities in
suicides in
memorial to Jewish victims of Nazism
Berlin Wall
Berliner, Meir
Bernadotte, Folke
Bernburg
Bertram, Adolf
Bessarabia
Best, Werner
Bethel Hospital
Bialystok
Bielefeld
Bielski brothers
Big Number, The
(film)
Birkenau (Brzezinka)
see also
Auschwitz concentration camp
birth rates
Bischoffshausen, Lothar von
Bismarck, Otto von
Bismarck
(battleship)
Black Corps, The
(newspaper)
black markets
in occupied Poland
in occupied western countries
in Germany
Black Sea
‘blackout’ regulations
Blankenburg, Werner
Blaskowitz, Johannes
Bletchley Park
blind people
Blitz
‘Baby Blitz’
see also
Britain, bombing raids on
Blitzkrieg
(’lightning war’)
Blobel, Paul
Blondi (Hitler’s dog)
Bl̈cher
(battle cruiser)
Blue Angel, The
(film)
Blue Danube
(Strauss)
Blum, L’on
Blumentritt, G̈nther
BMW
Bochum
Bochum Association
Bock, Fedor von
and military administration of occupied Poland
and invasion of France
and invasion of Soviet Union
and Hess’s mission to Britain
concern with treatment of Russian prisoners of war
and Soviet counter-attacks
and German push towards Moscow
collapse in health
Crimean campaign
relieved of command
background and career
death
Bodelschwingh, Friedrich von
Bodganovka
Boer War
Bohemia and Moravia (Reich Protectorate)
B̈hm, Karl
B̈hme, Franz
B̈hme, Hans-Joachim
Bohr, Niels
Bolshevism, Bolsheviks
‘Jewish’
Soviet
in Yugoslavia
and Christianity
anti-Bolshevik films
see also
Communists, Communism
Bolz, Eugen
Bomb Damage Committee, Inter-Ministerial 453
bombing raids
on Poland
on Allied forces in Norway
on Allied forces in Holland, Belgium and France
on Britain
on Germany
on Yugoslavia
on Soviet Union
on Bulgaria
on Italy
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Borbet, Walter
Bordeaux
Border Police School, Pretzsch
Boris, King of Bulgaria
Bormann, Martin
and Germanization programmes in Poland
and ‘euthanasia action’ programme
succeeds Hess
and Hess’s mission to Britain
noting down of Hitler’s monologues
and Fritz Sauckel
surveillance of foreign workers
in ‘Committee of Three’
appoined ‘Secretary of the Leader’
and judiciary
and population growth
anti-Christian policies
and Arno Breker
alliance with Goebbels
and ‘wonder-weapons’
Bormann, Martin -
cont
.
appeals for people’s will to stand firm
last days in the bunker
suicide
in Hitler’s Political Testament
in absentia
death sentence
Bormann, Martin (son)
Boryslaw
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Bouhler, Philipp
‘bouncing bombs’
Bousquet, Ren’
Brack, Viktor
Brackmann, Albert
Bradley, Omar
Brandenburg
Brandt, Karl
Bratislava
Brauchitsch, Walther von
Braun, Eva
Braun, Magnus von
Braun, Wernher von
Braune, Paul Gerhard
Br̈utigam, Otto
Brazil
Brecht, Bertolt
Breker, Arno
Bremen
Brenner Pass
Breslau
Brest-Litovsk
bribery
Britain
and German invasion of Poland
Hitler’s ‘peace offer’ to
and Jewish emigrants to Palestine
rearmament
declaration of war on Germany
and German invasion of Norway
supplies from USA
resignation of Chamberlain and appointment of Churchill
and German invasion of Holland, Belgium and France
Dunkirk evacuation
German plans for invasion
sinking of French ships at Mers-el-K’bir
Battle of Britain
bombing raids on
attacks on Italian ports
code-breaking
North Africa campaigns
Middle Eastern territories
expeditionary force in Greece
and German plans for invasion of Soviet Union
Hess’s mission to
‘lend-lease’ arrangements with USA
and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’
and assassination of Heydrich
Special Operations Executive
armaments production
oil supplies to
women in workforce
aircraft production
and Bulgarian neutrality
invasion of Italy
reports on Jewish genocide
anti-British films
pro-German propaganda
Normandy landings
and July 1944 bomb plot
Battle of the Bulge (1944-45)
flying bomb and rocket attacks
Allied forces advance through Germany
take over of concentration camps
and German surrender
postwar use of German military
technological equipment and expertise
see also
Royal Air Force; Royal Navy
British Empire
British Secret Service
Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)
brownshirts
see also
SA
Bruckner, Anton
Brunner, Alois
Brussels
Brzezany
Brzezinka (Birkenau)
see also
Auschwitz concentration camp
Bucharest
Buchenwald concentration camp
medical experimentation
resistance groups
‘Work Camp Dora’ sub-camp
B̈chner, Franz
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Bug, river
Bukovina
Bulgaria
Romanian territory ceded to
and German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece
annexation of Macedonia and Thrace
antisemitic legislation
and German invasion of Soviet Union
declares war on USA
deportation of Jews from
refusal to deport remainder of Jews
declares neutrality
declares war on Germany
Bulge, Battle of the (1944 -)
Bullenhuser Damm sub-camp
Bullock, Alan
Bumke, Erwin
buna (synthetic rubber)
B̈rckel, Josef
Burckhardt, Carl J.
Burckhardt, Ren’
Burgdorf, Wilhelm
Burgenland
Burma
Burmeister, Johann
Busch, Ernst
Byelaya Tserkow
Cairo
Calabria
Canada
Canaris, Wilhelm von