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Authors: Gerhard L. Weinberg

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Berggrav, Eivind,
91

Berlin,
149
,
576
,
578
,
615
,
617
,
628
,
760
,
793

94
,
799
,
800
,
803
,
812
,
813

14
,
817
,
819

25
,
829
,
830

Berling, Zygmunt,
101n
,
486
,
708
,
964 n 232

Berling army,
529

Bernadotte, Folke,
824

Bessarabia,
99

100
,
136
,
265

Beveridge, William,
490

91

Bhamo,
80

Biak,
651
,
653

54
,
847

Bidault, Georges,
837

biological warfare,
559
,
560
,
876
,
885

Bismarck
,
64
,
69
,
175
,
235

36

Bismarck archipelago,
320

Bissell, Clayton,
883

Bizerta,
435
,
445
,
446

Black Sea,
99
,
137
,
406

7
,
420
,
457
,
606

7

Blamey, Thomas,
865

Blaskowitz, Johannes,
686
,
962 n 204

blockade and blockade-runners,
33
,
36
,
66
,
72
,
75
,
76
,
83
,
142
,
150
,
231
,
236
,
253
,
308
,
383
,
391

403
,
636
,
657

Bluecher
,
116

Blum, Léon,
19

Bobruisk,
704

bocage,
690

Bock, Fedor von,
110
,
421

“Bodyguard,”
679

81
,
686
,
692

Botticher, Friedrich von,
87
,
153

Boehm, Hermann,
510
,
953 n 71

Bohr, Niels,
569

“Bolero,”
359
354

Bolshevik revolution,
11

12

Bône,
435

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,
899

Bonin Islands,
657
,
844
,
866
,
867
,
869
;
see also
Iwo Jima

Bonnet, Georges,
42
,
91

Bonomi, Ivanoe,
726

27

Bordeaux
138
,
176

Boris, King,
219
,
464
,
522

Borislav-Drogobic oil fields,
60
,
61
,
63

Bor-Komorowski, Tadeusz,
711

12

Bonnann, Martin,
267
,
475
,
479
,
823

Borneo,
852
,
865

Bornholm,
902

Bose, Subhas Chandra,
198
,
231

32
,
325

26
,
345
,
498
,
500
,
641

42
,
685
,
873

Bothnia, Gulf of,
114

Bougainville,
644

46
,
865

Bradley, Omar,
443
,
595
,
689
,
693
,
694
,
768
,
810
,
811
,
834
,
918

Bratislava,
820

Brauchitsch, Walther von,
42
,
108
,
109

10
,
273
,
293
,
302
,
409
,
561

Bräuer, Curt,
115

Braun, Eva,
825

Brazil,
272
,
397
,
505

6
,
752
372

Bremen,
795
,
814
,
815
,
829

Bremerhaven,
829

Brenner Pass,
817
,
818
,
823

Brereton, Lewis,
312
,
313n
,
356

Breslau (Wroclaw),
801
,
820

Brest,
235
,
236
,
693
,
699
,
761

Brest–Litovsk, Treaty of,
11

12
,
17

Bretton Woods Conference,
739
,
742

43

“Bridge on the River Kwai,”
391
,
633
;
see also
Thailand-Burma railway

British Commonwealth Occupation Force,
892

British Expeditionary Force;
see under
Great Britain
, army

British Somaliland,
211
,
503

Brittany,
113
,
681
,
693

Brooke, Alan,
131
,
224
,
283
,
307
,
318
,
328n, 3340
,
351
,
357

58
361
,
438
,
517
,
592

93
,
600
,
612

14
,
627n
,
642
,
661

62
,
682
,
689
,
698
,
762
,
768
,
770
,
811n
,
813
,
830
,
860
,
883n
,
918
,
1043 n 85

Broz, Josip,
see
Tito

Brunei,
852

Brussels,
126

Bryansk,
296
,
608

“Buccaneer,”
628
,
630
,
631

Buchenwald,
834

Buckner, Simon B.,
879
,
882

Budapest,
716
,
758
,
798
,
799

“Büffel (Buffalo),”
459

Bug river,
51
,
61
,
671

Bukovina,
136

Bulgaria,
13
,
79
,
99
,
136

37
,
209
,
215
,
216
,
217
,
219
,
221
,
474
,
522

23
,
526
,
714

15
,
735
,
736
,
751
,
789
,
905
,
906
; and U.S.A.,
219
,
240
,
263
; and U.S.S.R.,
100
,
136

37
,
201

2
,
715

Bullitt, William C.,
84

Buna,
339

41

Burma,
3
,
80
,
166
,
168
,
248
,
319
,
320

22
,
323
,
339
,
340

41
,
438
,
440
,
493
,
497
,
628
,
631
,
633
,
635

36
,
637

42
,
651
,
859

60
,
883

Burma Road,
247

Busch, Ernst,
676
,
705

Bush, Vannevar,
244
,
571

Byrnes, James,
839
,
890

Caen,
613
,
689

Cairo Conference (Sextant),
625

28
,
630

31
,
649

50
,
807

Calabria,
599

California,
494

Cameroons,
160

62
,
177

Canada,
11
,
12
,
143
,
152
,
405
,
684
,
876
,
884
; Alaska Highway,
405

6
,
491

92
; army,
131
,
315
,
360
,
595
,
660
,
687
,
700
,
702
,
802
,
810

11
,
844
,
872
; 1st Canadian Army,
692
,
693
,
694
,
761
,
765
,
811
,
814
; and Germany,
40
,
65
; home front,
491

92
; and Japan,
3
; and Japanese-Canadians,
491

92
; navy,
376
,
382
,
389
; and U.S.A.,
158

59
,
242
,
491
; women,
1054 n 71

Canaris, Wilhelm,
190
,
298

Canary Islands,
177
,
178
,
207

Cape Bon,
446

Cape Gloucester,
646

Cape of Good Hope,
375
,
380

Cape Verde Islands,
177

Capra, Frank,
584

Caribbean,
378

“Carl” operation,
775

Carlson’s raiders,
647

Caroline Islands,
648
,
649

Carpathian mountains,
671
,
673
,
708
,
712
,
713
,
758
,
788

Carpatho-Ukraine,
52
,
787

88
,
791

“Cartwheel,”
643
,
646
;
see also
Rabaul

Casablanca Conference,
380

81
,
433
,
435
,
437ff
,
572
,
591
,
592
,
619

Caserta Agreement,
727

Caspian Sea,
421

Catania,
594

Carlos, Ferdinand,
712

Catroux, Georges,
980 n
187

Caucasus,
72
,
73
,
104
,
269
,
272
,
299
,
350
,
410
,
413
,
415

16
,
417
,
420ff
,
429
,
435
,
457

Central America,
88

Central Asia,
281

Cetniks,
424

25

Ceylon,
325
,
327
,
330
,
334

Chad,
160

62

Chamberlain, Neville,
2
,
27
,
39
,
41
,
46
,
58n
,
65
,
73
,
91
,
93
,
104n
,
118

19
,
123
,
143
,
145
,
559

60
,
947 n 33
,
959n
179

Ch’angsha,
640

Channel Islands,
176
,
205
,
697
,
721

chemical warfare,
see
poison gas

Chennault, Claire,
440
,
638

40

Cherkassy,
669

Cherbourg,
131
,
357
,
613
,
681
,
687
,
688

689
,
696
,
698
,
752
,
761

Cherwell, Lord,
419
,
564
,
586

Chiang Kai-shek,
79

81
,
166
,
168
,
169
,
244

45
,
248

49
,
287
,
320
,
438
,
500

501
,
585
,
624

25
,
628
,
630
,
631
,
637ff
,
807
,
846
,
858

59
,
888

Chicago Tribune
,
339

China,
4
,
366
,
620
,
624

25
,
628
,
630
,
631
,
637

42
,
649

51
,
656
,
842

43
,
846
,
858

59
,
867
,
891
,
911

12
; casualties,
849
; codes,
551
; Communists,
80
,
83
,
166
,
499

501
,
637
,
640n
,
807
,
858

59
; and Gennany,
79

80
; home front,
499

501
; and Japan,
2
,
6
,
79

81
,
166

67
; Nationalists (KMT),
79
,
80

81
,
166

67
,
249
,
441
,
499

501
,
637
,
640
,
807
,
842
,
858

59
,
888
; and U.S.A.,
80
,
82
,
244

45
,
356
,
646
; and U.S.S.R.,
81
,
166

67
,
249
,
287
,
500
,
888
,
911

12

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