Dresden (65 page)

Lodz ghetto, 150–51, 306

Lohengrin
(Wagner), 36

London:

Blitz against, 92–93, 99, 100, 106–11, 117, 119, 197, 366, 387

bombings of (1917), 80–81

City of, 107–9

East End of, 375, 399

Jewish community in, 375

population of, 203

postwar reconstruction of, 399

V-1 and V-2 rocket attacks against, 169, 170, 171, 202–3, 216, 375, 403

London Daily Mail,
81

London Daily Mirror,
362

London Public Records Office, 216

Long Range Navigation (LoRaN), 242

Loschwitz, 231, 336

Loschwitz Bridge, 383–84

Louis XIV, King of France, 17

Lübeck bombing (1942), 125–26, 127, 128, 401

Ludendorff, Erich, 38, 81

Luftkrieg in Dresden, Der
(Bergander), 446–47

Luftwaffe:

air defense by, 4–5, 94–99, 131–32, 203

air superiority lost by, 94–99, 106, 366

bombing campaigns by, 76–78, 88–91, 95–96, 97, 98–99, 102–11, 119, 127, 366, 404, 411–14

fighter squadrons of, 96, 111, 131–32, 174, 178, 205, 208, 373, 413–14

fleet of, 143, 177

ground coordination with, 94

in Guernica bombing, 88–91

home bases of, 108, 127

incendiary bombing by, 102–9, 114, 115

military contracts for, 359

oil supplies for, 177

in Polish invasion, 76–78, 95, 96

radar defenses of, 131–32

strategic doctrines of, 94, 119, 127, 413–14

training for, 59, 177, 234

Luftwaffenhelfer,
204

Luise, Crown Princess of Saxony, 450

Lunghi, Hugh, 190–91, 212

Luther, Martin, vii, 16, 19, 24

Lutherans, 16

Luxembourg, 96

 

M-17 bomb canister, 329

Maastricht, 96

McAuliffe, C., 171

McKee, Alexander, xi, 407, 446

Madrid, 91

Magdeburg, 208, 221, 223, 241, 317, 319

Magdeburg fire (1631), 112

Magdeburg firestorm (1945), 205–6, 212–13

Maginot Line, 94

Manchester Guardian,
360, 363

Mandrel jamming screen, 4, 222, 275, 470
n

Manhattan Project, 365–66

Mann, Thomas, 125, 126

Mannheim bombing (1940), 113–14

Manteuffel, Hasso, Freiherr von, 171

Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The,
xi

Marienbrücke, 244, 248

Marshall, George C., 365–66

Martha Heinrich Acht
(Neutzner), xiii

Mätschke and Co., 74

Mattersdorf family, 74–75

Meissen, 14–15, 21, 22–23, 341, 415–16

Meissen porcelain, 21–23, 69, 275, 415–16

Meissner Landstrasse, 74

Mende, Otto Hermann, 152

Mendelssohn, Erich, 115

merchant shipping, 85

Merlin engine, 178

Merrick, Lt. Colonel, 362

Messerschmitt 109

fighter, 78, 140

Messerschmitt 110

bomber/fighter, 98, 243, 280–81

Messerschmitt 262

jet fighter, 208

Metz, 170

Meyer, Berthold, 290, 297–98

Middlebrook, Martin, 174

Mienert, Karl, 226

Military Defense District IV, 49, 142, 357, 415

“Millennium” code name, 128

Ministry for Armaments and War

Production, German, 202

Ministry of Aircraft Production, British, 114

Ministry of Economic Warfare, British, 176, 179

Minsk, 411

Mischling,
68–69, 157–59, 303

Misni, 14

Mockritz, 288, 289

Moravia, 59, 66, 160, 326

Mordgrundbrücke, 138, 165

Moritzburg, 313, 314, 315

Müller, Richard, 53

Münchner Platz, 236, 341

Munich, 409

Municipal Business School, 195

Münster, 321

Mussolini, Benito, 49, 85, 134, 235–36

Mutschmann, Martin:

air raid bunker of, 4, 138, 165, 263–64, 291

anti-Semitism of, 67, 73, 155, 156

in Dresden firebombing, 263–64, 391, 393, 409–10, 416, 424, 451, 473
n

as Gauleiter of Dresden, 4, 43, 46–54, 60–61, 138–39, 141, 142, 144, 145, 165, 196–99, 335, 383, 391, 409–10, 424

Hitler supported by, 46, 48, 55, 138, 383, 391

interrogation of, 409–10

in Night of the Long Knives, 46–49, 51, 52, 54

 

Nagasaki bombing, xii, 281, 389–90, 455, 456

Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 11, 31, 79

National Archives, U. S., 433, 438

National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV), 228, 229

naval blockades, 85

Nazis, Nazism:

absolute power of, 43–48, 57

anti-Semitism of, 65–75, 155, 156–57

building programs of, 59–61

communism opposed by, 42, 43–44

cultural repression by, 41, 47–48, 53–54, 367–68, 399

Dresden administration of, xii, 4, 41, 42, 43, 45–75, 138–39, 143–47, 153–60, 164–65, 196–97, 199, 227, 229, 261–64, 357, 381, 391, 397, 399, 423, 424

Dresden conference hall for (Gauforum), 60–61

economic policies of, 56–57

electoral victories of, 43

leadership of, 46, 93–94, 170, 366–67, 371, 379

legacy of, 419, 420–21, 424–25

opposition to, 45–46, 47, 49–54, 160–61

parades of, 55–56

political ideology of, 411, 412, 413

torture used by, 49–52, 53, 68, 159–60

Neill, A. S., 152

Nemedi, Gabor, 308

neo-Nazis, 419, 420–21, 424–25, 446

Netherlands, 95–96, 97, 98, 106, 366

Neubrig, Otto, 45–46

Neugebauer, Alfred, 460
n

Neumark, Ernst, 232

Neumarkt, 291, 339, 340, 421

Neuring, 40

Neustadt, 15, 24, 29, 58, 69, 155, 161, 163, 202, 245, 248, 255, 261, 303, 308–12, 325–26, 331, 347, 355–56, 396–97, 423

Neutzner, Matthias, xii–xiii, 229–30

New Town Hall, 59, 165, 296, 398, 420

Night of the Long Knives, 46–49, 51, 52, 54, 312

97th Bomber Squadron, British, 246

Nobel, Alfred, 79

Noble, Charles Adolf, 393–94, 449–54

Noble, John, 449–50, 452–54

Normandy invasion, 163, 169, 172, 173, 180, 214, 402

Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Lord, 81

Norway, 94

Nuremberg Trials, 372

Oboe navigation system, 137

Oder River, 15, 163, 228, 382 100

Group, British, 4, 208, 2759

13th Bomber Squadron, British, 96

149th Bomber Squadron, British, 274

Operational Training Groups, British, 128

Operation Autumn Mist, 171

Operation Bodenplatte, 320

Operation Gommorah,
see
Hamburg firebombing (1943)

Operation Market-Garden, 169

Operation Moonlight Sonata, 102–6

Operation Nickel, 93–94

Operation Overlord,

see
Normandy invasion Operation Thunderclap, 180–82, 183, 185, 186–87, 319, 454

Operation Wasserkante, 76–78

Orstgruppenleiter, 147 Örtliche Luftschutzleitung (ÖL), 242–44, 245, 275–76

Ostjuden,
65

Ostragehege Stadium, 244, 245, 248, 396

Overy, Richard, 403–4, 413–15

 

P-47 Thunderbolt fighter, 235, 329

Page, Leslie, 241

Paris, 426

Passchendaele, Battle of, 121

Paternoster Row area, 107–8

Patton, George S., 170

Pearl Harbor attack, 118

Peirse, Richard, 116–17, 119

Permoser, Balthasar, 23

Peshtigo, Wis. forest fire, 130–31, 132

Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, 18–19

Petri, Martin, 154

petroleum mines, 105

Pforzheim bombing (1945), 211, 373–74, 405–6, 408, 448

Phosphorbrandbombe,
113

Physikalische Blätter,
454

Picasso, Pablo, 90

Pirna, 307–8, 341, 385

Plan Position Indicator, 137

Plattenbauten, 398

Plauen, 272–73, 277, 328

Poland:

air force of, 76

Allied support for, 94

communist regime of, 189–90, 206

ethnic Germans in, 77–78, 95, 227

German invasion of, 59, 61, 76–78, 92, 94, 95, 100, 150, 161, 169

German occupation of, 160, 161, 253–54

Jewish population of, 69–70, 78, 150

monarchy of, 17–20, 29, 31, 59, 62

Poznan province of, 160

Pölitz synthetic oil plant, 207

Poniatowski, Stanislaw, 29

Pöppelmann, Matthäus Daniel, 23

Portal, Charles, 172–73, 176, 177, 181, 183, 185, 186, 187, 191, 211, 388

Postplatz, 288, 291, 397

Potsdam bombing raid (1945), 380

Prager Strasse
(Dix), 41

Prager Strasse area, 70–71, 161, 291–92, 421

Prague, 62, 322, 324, 332, 421, 433

Praktica cameras, 452

Praktiflex camera, 450

Press Association, 80

Provision Card for Air Damaged Citizens, 335

Prussia, 25–29, 31–32, 36–37, 63, 66

 

Quandt family, 465
n

Queen Maria,
31

 

Rabener, Gottlieb Wilhelm, 25–26, 28

radar, 4, 92, 123, 131–32, 137, 143, 194, 219, 277, 318, 321–22, 325, 338, 402, 403, 409

radio counter-measures (RCM), 208, 221–22

Radio-Mende, 57, 152–53, 415–16

Radio Paris, 362

radios, 41, 42, 57, 152–53

railways, 33, 34, 56, 81, 160–65, 183, 191, 198, 202, 217, 218, 229, 230, 231, 248, 254–55, 277, 286–87, 355–56, 380–81, 396, 441, 466
n,
479
n

Rath, Ernest vom, 70

Ravensbrück concentration camp, 150

reconnaissance missions, 79–80, 94, 323

Red Army, 12, 190, 206, 225, 228, 382–86, 406, 407, 410–11, 452, 455, 456

“Red Kingdom,” 36

“Reflections of Decay in Art,” 53

Reich,
184, 371, 443

Reich Association of German Jews, 232

Reich Committee for Air Raid Damage, 372

Reichert, Friedrich, 448

Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), 157

Reichstag, 36, 37, 43, 45, 160

Reich Theater Festival Week (1934), 55–56

Renaissance, 17, 23, 62

Repnin-Volokovski, Prince, 30

Reuters, 363

Rhenania Ossag synthetic oil plant, 146, 217

Rhineland, 211, 236

Rhine River, 169, 375

Rhodesia Regiment, 120

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 93

Richard Gäbel & Co., 149

Richthofen, Wolfram von, 88, 94

Rienzi
(Wagner), 36

Rigby, Alden, 320–21, 429, 437

Rigoletto
(Verdi), 47

Ring des Nibelungen, Der
(Wagner), 36

Rivels, Charly, 135

Rodenberger, Axel, 430, 431, 443

Roehm, Ernst, 48

Roman Empire, 1, 16

Romania, 49, 175

Rommel, Erwin, 118, 135

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 92, 96, 186, 189, 454–55

Rostock bombing (1942), 126–27, 401

Rotterdam bombing (1940), 95–96, 97, 98, 106, 366

Royal Air Force (RAF):

air bases of, 98–99, 130

aircraft lost by, 82, 96–99, 126, 129, 481
n
–82
n

Bomber

Command of,
see
Bomber Command, RAF

Churchill's views on, 83, 117, 118, 185, 375–79, 408

Coastal Command of, 118, 128, 137

effectiveness of, 82, 83, 92, 96–98

establishment of, 81, 83–84, 121–22

Fighter Command of, 98–99

film unit of, 281

leaflets dropped by, 93–94, 135, 402

offensive technology of, 123–30

press office of, 361–62

strategic doctrines of, 83–85, 122, 125, 129, 134, 336–37, 339, 365

training for, 123, 128, 177, 274

Royal Australian Air Force, 281

Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), 221, 276–77, 278, 281–82

Royal Flying Corps (RFC), 80, 120–21

Royal Warwickshire Hospital, 105, 265

Rudolf Hess Clinic, 265

Ruhland oil plant, 201, 203

Ruhr industrial area, 4, 6, 57, 97, 98, 116, 117, 124, 134, 137, 175, 194, 198, 205, 211, 222, 227, 374, 377, 379, 401, 415

Rumpf, Hans, 270–71, 430–31

Russell, Alan, 422

Rüstungsjuden,
155, 156

Rüstungskommando, 149

 

SA (Sturmabteilung), 43–44, 47–51, 55–56, 67, 71, 72, 78

Sachs, Max, 52

Sachsenburg concentration camp, 52

Sachsenwerk, 57, 148

St. Clement Danes (London), 422, 485
n

St. Michael's Cathedral (Coventry), 103, 104–5

St. Paul's Cathedral (London), 108, 109, 343

Sarrasani, Trude, 308, 310

Saundby, Robert, 192, 444

Saward, Dudley, 128

Saxony:

air raid defenses of, 135, 136, 139, 143, 380

bombing of, 135, 140–43, 183, 198, 238, 380, 458
n