Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany (41 page)
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Authors: Emma Craigie,Jonathan Mayo
Reid, Robert
276
Reisser, Hans
258
Reitsch, Hanna
after the war
308–9
arrives at Rechlin
58
awarded Iron Cross
51
Hitler gives her cyanide
49
interviews Himmler
75
leaves Berlin
51
Operation Suicide
51–2
Reston, James
282
Riefenstahl, Leni
309
Ritchie, Charles
106
Robinow, Lieutenant Wolfgang F.
240–1
,
243–4
,
309
Rodger, George
168
Rokycany, Czechoslovakia
85
Romanova, Antonina
238–9
Romilly, Giles
42
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin
63
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Yalta Conference
65–7
Rosenman, Judge Samuel I.
242
Ruffle, Corporal Bert
drinks beer
153
health
97
liberation
277–8
sent for materials in Brüx
96–7
,
128
stays in bed
193
Russian forces
advance on Berlin
26
,
32
,
43
,
44
,
72
,
95
,
100
,
280
assault on Reichstag
194–5
,
197
,
198
,
214
,
224
,
238
,
260
,
265
,
268
,
273
,
280
number of war deaths
79
River Elbe
77
Rzhevskaya, Yelena
95
,
160
,
162
,
229
,
309–10
,
314
Sachsenhausen
39
salt mine art storage
81
San Francisco
77–8
,
105
,
106
,
198
,
282
Scandinavian prisoners
216
Schellenberg, Walter
59–61
Schenck, Dr. Ernst
188–9
,
190
,
191
,
193–4
,
310
Schmöger, Anni Antonie
84
Schnee, Captain Adelbert
280–2
Scholl, Sophie
36
Schörner, Field Marshal Ferdinand
87
Schwägermann, Günther
295
Schwartz, John
246
Sellier, Claus
after the war
310
arrested by GIs
254–5
arrives in Traunstein
217
,
219
,
232–3
heads for Traunstein
95–6
,
102–3
,
114–15
,
153
,
157–8
,
178–9
,
204
,
212
listens to radio news
211–12
mission details
85–6
Reichenhall
130–1
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
226–7
,
233
,
238
,
245–6
Shatilov, General Vasily
195
,
198
,
260
Sheil, Brigadier Jerry
230
Shirley, John
100
Sippenhaft
law
62
Skodzensky, Lieutenant Heinrich
135
Smith, Harry ‘Shoe’
153
Smith, Lieutenant Marcus J.
203
,
206
,
210
,
223–4
,
243
‘snot break’
109
snow
188
sources for the book
27
Spalding, Betty
105
Spalding, Charles
199
Sparks, Lieutenant Colonel Felix L.
at Dachau
131–2
,
134
,
135–6
,
147–9
interviewed by Patton
136–7
SS
development in 1920s
21
Emil Maurice
110
execute German soldiers
115
mass executions in the Netherlands
226
at Stalag IV-C
153
at Villabassa
38–9
,
40–1
,
61
,
117–18
Stalag IV-C
174
Stalag IV-C, Wistritz
96
,
153
,
193
,
270
,
274
,
275
,
277
Stalag VII-A, Moosburg
76
,
93–4
,
126–7
,
132
,
174–5
,
207
Stalag VII-B
93
Stalin, Joseph
after the war
310–11
disbelief at Hitler’s death
314–15
informed of taking of Reichstag
198
learns of Hitler’s death
303
name
42
opinion on soldier brutality
88
plans for advance
78–9
Poland cable from Churchill
146–7
Yalta Conference
65–7
von Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus
62
Stettinus, Edward
283
Stevens, Major Richard
39
Stimpson, General William
313
Stirling, John
229
storm troopers
20
Stuttgart
82
Swaab, Jack
229–30
Sweden
216
telephone eavesdropping
100
Theresienstadt
107
Thomann, George
211
The Times
200–1
Tito, Marshal Josip Broz
65
,
146
,
161
,
270
,
271
Trenaman, Lieutenant J.
124
Trevor-Roper, Hugh
290–1
Truman, Harry
after the war
312
background
122
becomes President
122
character
123
at church service
155
letters to family
121–2
meeting with Judge Rosenman
242
meets with Joseph E. Davies
256–7
peace plans
77
Poland cable from Churchill
146–7
telegrams from Churchill
65
,
261
as Vice President
123
tulip bulbs
89
Tuskegee Institute Experiment
94
U-boats
143
,
162
,
163
,
179
,
182
,
280–2
United Nations
77–8
,
105
,
106–7
,
198–9
,
282
,
312
USAAF, black pilots
94
Ushijima, General Mitsuru
125–6
,
152
USS
Franklin D. Roosevelt
161
van Heemstra, Edda
see
Hepburn-Rushton, Audrey
van Maarsen, Jacqueline
247
Vassiltchikov, Missie
196
VE Day
81
Venice
123
,
130
,
154–5
,
236
,
254
,
259–60
,
270
Vienna
17
Vietinghof, General
67
Viney, Major Elliott
76
,
93–4
,
127
,
132
,
175
Vogt-Svendsen, Rev. Conrad
216
Volkssturm
164
Wagner, Walther
42
,
53
,
54
,
55–6
,
59
Wakefield, Yorkshire
287
Walsh, Lieutenant Bill
120
,
131
,
132
,
134
,
136
Wannop, Robert
90
War Cabinet meetings
264–5
war criminals
242–3
wedding rings
55
Wedgwood Benn, Anthony
192–3
Weidling, General Helmuth
199–200
,
227–8
,
260
,
268
,
312
Weimar
81
Weimar Republic
16
Weiss, Rudolf
drinking
112–13
escaping through Berlin
159
,
176
,
178
,
181
,
185
,
195
,
271
,
274
leaves bunker
133
plan to contact Wenck
125
Wenck, General Walther
103
,
113
,
176
,
313
Wermuth, Henry
266–7
‘When That Man Is Dead and Gone’
15
,
28
Whicker, Second Lieutenant Alan
99
,
115
,
132–3
,
313–14
‘White Buses’
216
White Rose group
36
Whitney, Terence ‘Lofty’
153
,
275
Wiedemann, Fritz
18
Wilhelm Gustloff
218
Windsor, Edward, Duke of
239
Wolff, Karl
144–5
Wollenhaupt, August
109
World Jewish Congress
24
Yahara, Colonel Hiromichi
126
Yalta Conference
65–7
Young, Gordon
209
Yugoslav Fourth Army
65
Zander, Wilhelm
87
,
119–20
,
158
,
190
,
272–3
,
299
,
300
Zevelyov, Pyotor
227
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