Year Zero (56 page)

Wilson, Edmund,
57
,
59
,
104
,
106
,
107
,
110
,
246
–47

Wilson, Harold,
271

Winwood, Major,
230

Wolf, Friedrich,
284

Wolf, Markus,
284

Wollheim, Richard,
31

Woman in Berlin, A,
42
,
83

women:

independence of,
8
,
23

voting rights for,
51
,
85
,
186

see also
sexuality

Worden, William L.,
295

world government,
309
–11,
327
,
329
–30

Atlantic Charter and,
314
–15,
323
,
324

atomic bomb and,
313

British Empire as model for,
310

League of Nations and,
9
,
308
,
309
,
314
,
316
,
318
,
322

United Nations and,
see
United Nations

Yalta Conference,
92
,
151
,
155
,
316
,
319
–20,
322
,
327
–29

Yamashita Tomoyuki,
40
,
212
–17,
218

Yank,
61
,
72
,
154
,
159
,
214
,
215
–16,
226
,
265
,
266
,
281
,
320

Yasuda,
187

Yediot Ahronot,
161

Young Hearts
(
Hatachi no Seishun
),
38

Yo Un-hong,
266

Yo Un-hyong,
263
–64,
266
,
267

Yugoslavia,
102
,
103
,
146
–50

Tito and Partisans in,
103
,
145
,
146
,
148
–51

Zaaijer, J.,
223

zaibatsu,
186
–87,
260
,
261

Zangen, Wilhelm,
182

zazous,
291

Zeineddine, Farid,
320

Zhukov, Georgy,
17
–18,
21
,
79

Zionism,
99
,
100
,
161
–68,
244

Zuckmayer, Carl,
40
,
60
,
71
,
179

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: Image bank WW2–Resistance Museum Amsterdam. VMA 113642.

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: © IWM (EA 65799).

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: Associated Press/Charles Gorry.

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: Image bank WW2–NIOD. NIOD 95246.

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: Associated Press/British Official Photo.

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: Nationaal Archief/Spaarnestad Photo/Wiel van der Randen.

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: © IWM (5467).

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: © IWM (69972).

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: © IWM (6674).

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: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-M1205-331.

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: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S74035.

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: With permission from the National Archives and Records Administration.

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: Associated Press.

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: Associated Press.

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: Associated Press/Peter J. Carroll.

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: © Bettmann/Corbis.

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: © Bettmann/Corbis.

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: AFP/Getty Images.

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: Nationaal Archief/Spaarnestad Photo/Photographer unknown.

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: Image bank WW2–Resistance Museum South Holland. VMZH 131931.

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: © IWM (CF 926).

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: Image bank WW2–NIOD. NIOD 61576.

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: Associated Press.

*
To avoid confusion, I should mention that Dutch Mennonites are very different from their American brethren. Dutch Mennonites tend to be rather progressive, open to other faiths, and not at all reclusive. The opposite tends to be true of American and German Mennonites, which caused a certain degree of awkwardness when bearded figures in old-fashioned black suits turned up on formal visits to my grandfather in Nijmegen.

*
In fact, the operation in its planning stages was commonly referred to as “the party.” One of the most famous officers in the Battle of Arnhem, Colonel John Frost, had even planned to bring his golf clubs to Holland.

*
In 1988, the mayor of Nagasaki, a Christian named Motoshima Hitoshi, stated that Emperor Hirohito should have borne some responsibility for the war. He became a target of the far right. Two years later, a hit man shot him in the back.

*
These buildings are still there. Their bombastic style appealed to the Chinese Communists. The transition seemed entirely natural: the former Kwantung Army building is now the Communist Party headquarters, and so on.

*
George Bancroft (1800–1891), American historian and statesman.

*
His chief aide was Brigadier John Profumo, the politician who was eventually brought down by his liaison with the call girl Christine Keeler.