369–70
Kritchev prisoner-of-war camp
188–90
Krogmann, Carl, Mayor of Hamburg
368
Kroll, Werner
399
Krombach, Ernst
240–41
Kronstadt (1941)
194
Krüger, Paul
121
Krupp works, Essen
297
,
346
,
347
,
516
Kube, Wilhelm
310
Kühnel, Karl
70
Kühnel, Rose: Karl to
70
Kundera, Maria xviii
Küstrin
460
Kutno: ghetto
136
Kutrzeba, General Tadeusz
36
Kuznetsova, Maria
296
L., Gertrud
384
Laa an der Thaya, Austria
212
la Camp, Lothar de
375
Lammers, Hans
85
,
147
,
260
,
301–2
,
334
Lange, Professor Johannes
74
Langemarck cemetery
559
Latvia
169
,
454
,
465
; Jews
164
,
172
,
235
Lauterbach (1945)
502
,
510
,
512
,
569
League of German Girls (BDM)
9
,
52
,
53
,
116–17
,
239
,
291
,
295
,
356
,
397
,
457
Leander, Zarah
67
,
335
,
340
,
360
,
425
Leeb, Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von
50
,
185
Leers, Johann von
364–5
Lehmacher, Christa
358–9
Lehndorff-Steinort, Heinrich von
451
Leipzig: bombing (1944, 1945)
393
,
395
,
496
; and evacuees
487
; captured
521
Lemgo: deportation of Jews (1942)
249–50
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
236
,
268
Leningrad: siege of (1941–44)
184–6
,
226
,
388
,
465
Lenz, Rudolf
116
Ley, Robert
164
,
243
,
297
,
335
,
453–4
Lichtenberg, Georg
465
Lichtenfels
143
Lidice: massacre (1942)
275
Liebeneiner, Wolfgang:
I Accuse
146–7
,
257
Liegnitz (1945)
488
Linz, Austria
60
,
83
,
205
,
211
,
372
,
397
,
449
Lippisch, Alexander: ramjet
470
Lippstadt (1945)
512
List, Field Marshal Wilhelm
317
,
322
Lithuania: Communists
173
; murder of Jews
4
,
172–3
,
235
,
258
Łód
’
36
; Jewish ghetto
136
,
235
,
256
; murder of Jews
252
Loire: urban workers
277
London: air raids (1940)
111
,
117–18
,
120
,
121–2
; evacuation of children
114
; V-2 rocket attack (1944)
445
Lorient
449
,
541
Loslau (1945)
487
Love Me
(film)
335
Loyons (1944)
444
Lszkówko: massacre (1939)
41
Lublin
291
; ghettos
240
,
241
; death camp
see
Majdanek
; Russian arrest of Home Army units
435
Lübow: arrival of evacuees (1943)
399–400
Lüdinghausen: convent
148
Ludwigshafen (1943–44)
405
Luftwaffe, the: bombing of Polish cities
37
,
50
,
96
,
109
; bombs Freiburg
92
; bombs France, Belgium and Netherlands
95–6
,
99
,
100
,
101
,
103
,
109
; losses
101
,
118
,
326
; attacks on British convoys and airfields
110–11
; British planes shot down by
118
; bombing of London
111
,
117–18
,
120
,
121–2
; bombing of Russian cities
184
,
186
; fails to reach Baku
322
; and battle for Stalingrad
323
,
325
,
326
; planes destroyed at Tatsinskaya
327
; production of fighters
392
; effectively destroyed
470
; Breslau airlift (1945)
488
Lüneburg Heath
524
,
541–2
Lünen (1943)
403
Luther, Martin
29
,
76
Lutherans
12
,
14
,
42
,
47
,
76
,
171
,
189
,
382
,
386
,
399
Lüttwitz, General Smilo von
200
,
201
,
485
Lutze, Viktor, SA Commander
302
Luxembourg: invasion
93
,
95
,
98–9
,
148
; and desertion
215
; deportation of Jews
244
,
371
; evacuation (1944)
446
Lwów
310
,
325
; atrocities
163–4
,
291–2
; deportation of Jews
254
; liberation (1944)
434
M., Fritz
339
M., Gerhard
23
,
31
,
34–5
,
36
,
38
M., Hans Joachim
345
,
346
M., Maria
153–4
M., Ria
153–4
M., Sophie
153–4
Magdeburg: bombing (1944)
469
Maginot Line
49
,
97
,
98
,
102
Maikop oilfields
186
,
304
,
317
Main, River
510
,
530
Mainz (1941)
146
Maisky, Ivan
158
Maiwald, Franz
130
Majdanek death camp
255
,
473–4
Malkwitz, (1945)
488–9
Manchester Guardian
501
Mandel, Georges
65
Mann, Klaus
461
,
462
Mann, Thomas
247
Mannheim (1943–44)
405
Manstein, General Erich von
311
,
326
,
327
Manteuffel, General Hasso von
477
Marahrens, August, Bishop of Hanover
32
,
261
Marburg
374
,
412
,
413
,
467
; bombing (1945)
496–7
; Americans in
510–12
Mariendorf: Martin Luther Memorial Church
29
Marienthal asylum, nr Münster
145
Marquardt, Erna and Gerhard
516
Masur, Norbert
522
Matisse, Henri
312
Mauthausen concentration camp
78
,
449
Mauz, Friedrich
83
meat shortages
55–6
,
283
Megesheim: arrival of evacuees (1941)
116
Mehnert, General Karl
500
Mehrhoff, Pastor Johannes
401
Meiser, Dr Hans, Bishop of Bavaria
32
,
105–6
,
261
Melnyk, Andriy
309
Melzingen: looting (1945)
524
Memel peninsula (1944)
460
,
465
Mennecke, Friedrich
84
Mennonites
73
‘mercy killing’
84
Merz, Albert
73
Meuse, River
95
,
96
Meyer, Alfred, Gauleiter of Münster
145
Miedzyn: masacre (1939)
41
Mieste: massacre (1945)
516
Mikhailovka (1941)
195
,
198
Mikhailovna, Antonina
295–6
Milch, Erhard
326
,
392
military tribunals
71–2
,
73–4
milk shortages
55–6
,
283
Minden: Jews (1941)
235
,
236
,
238
Ministry for the Eastern Territories
310
Minsk: Jews
235
,
244
; opera house
290
; 1944
433
,
434
Mittelbau-Dora: prisoners
516
Mius, River
193
,
219
,
305
,
306
,
307
Mniszek: massacre (1939)
41
Model, Field Marshal Walter
444
,
478
,
483
,
503
,
510
,
520
Mogilev (1944)
433
,
449
Möhne dam, bombing of (1943)
349
,
361
,
378
Moldenhauer, Erika: Wilhelm to
179–80
Moldenhauer, Wilhelm
xviii
,
168
,
171
,
179–80