Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany (41 page)

Reid, Robert
276

Reisser, Hans
258

Reitsch, Hanna

after the war
308–9

arrives at Rechlin
58

awarded Iron Cross
51

heads for Lübeck
62
,
67

heads for Plön Castle
72
,
74–5

Hitler gives her cyanide
49

interviews Himmler
75

leaves Berlin
51

leaves bunker
44
,
45

Operation Suicide
51–2

Reston, James
282

Riefenstahl, Leni
309

Ritchie, Charles
106

River Elbe
77
,
313

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, Eleanor
161
,
257

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

death
77
,
122

Yalta Conference
65–7

Rosenman, Judge Samuel I.
242

Ruffle, Corporal Bert

after the war
278
,
309

drinks beer
153

hard labour
174
,
187

health
97

hides in latrine
270
,
274
,
275

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

atrocities
88
,
165
,
180

in Königsberg
180
,
181

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

Schwebel, Ernst
90
,
226

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

von Schuschnigg, Kurt
40
,
255

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

Lofer, Austria
85–6
,
92

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

SMERSH
95
,
160
,
162
,
229

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

ordered to Dachau
97–8
,
120

Speer, Albert
22
,
24
,
32

SS

at Dachau
132
,
135–6

development in 1920s
21

Emil Maurice
110

execute German soldiers
115

mass executions in the Netherlands
226

at Stalag IV-C
153

at Stalag VII-A
76
,
132

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

Stimson, Henry
257
,
258

Stirling, John
229

storm troopers
20

Strauss, Richard
222–3
,
225

Stumpfegger, Dr Ludwig
272
,
292

Stuttgart
82

Sudetenland
96
,
174
,
187
,
288

Swaab, Jack
229–30

Sweden
216

T-Force
142
,
230–1
,
300–1

Talbot, Frank
96
,
128
,
153

telephone eavesdropping
100

Theresienstadt
107

Thomann, George
211

Tiergarten
44
,
51
,
176

The Times
200–1

Tito, Marshal Josip Broz
65
,
146
,
161
,
270
,
271

Tornow, Fritz
151–2
,
311

Traunstein
217
,
219

Trenaman, Lieutenant J.
124

Trevor-Roper, Hugh
290–1

Trieste
65
,
160–1
,
265
,
270–1

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

US
45
th Infantry Division
97–8

USAAF, black pilots
94

Ushijima, General Mitsuru
125–6
,
152

USS
Franklin D. Roosevelt
161

V2 rockets
50
,
208–10

van Heemstra, Edda
see
Hepburn-Rushton, Audrey

van Maarsen, Jacqueline
247

Vassiltchikov, Missie
196

Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford
69
,
81

VE Day
81

Venice
123
,
130
,
154–5
,
236
,
254
,
259–60
,
270

Vienna
17

Vietinghof, General
67

Villabassa
38–9
,
40
,
67
,
117–18

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 dresses
31
,
52–3
,
201

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

after the war
290
,
291

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

Wigan, Tony
106
,
107

Wilczek, Sisi
153–4
,
196

Wilhelm Gustloff
218

Windsor, Edward, Duke of
239

Wolff, Karl
144–5

Wollenhaupt, August
109

World Jewish Congress
24

Wulf (dog)
111
,
152

Wulff, Walther
59
,
60

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

Zhukov, General
273
,
303

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