Czechoslovakia 43, 133, 163; armament plants 89; arsenal 165; and Austrian refugees 85; British reaction to the invasion 173–4; ‘Case Green’ 88, 101, 106, 109; central Europe’s last, betrayed, democracy 71; Communism in 88; Czechs’ alleged oppression of Sudeten Germans 91, 96–7, 107, 111, 114; deportation of Jews 488; Einsatzgruppen 241, 246; eliminating Czech resistance 487–8; ethnic minorities 88; founded (1918) 88; generals discuss a potential invasion 102–3; German army enters (1939) 171, 225; the German Protectorate 172; Η aims to destroy 87–8, 92, 93, 100, 116, 136, 158, 163–4; Hácha signs agreement 171; Hácha’s meeting with H 170–1; H’s ultimatum 116–17, 119; industrial base 88, 161, 164; industries 164–5; the Karlsbad demands 106, 108, 109; Keitel’s plan for military action 97, 101; mobilization (May 1938) 99, 111, 115, 190; mobilization plans against 51, 115, 120; name changed to Czecho-Slovakia 164; a potentially hostile neighbour xlv; proposed German expansion 49–50, 61; raw materials 89, 164; Slovakian demand for independence 168–9; strategic position 97, 165; Sudetenland 136, 157, 160, 161, 164, 172–3, 241, 251, 664; crisis (1938) 44, 46, 61, 86, 87, 91, 95, 105, 109, 110, 116, 118, 121, 123, 124, 132, 147, 158, 179, 190, 200, 205, 218, 262, 655; treaties with France and Soviet Union 95; weakened by the incorporation of Austria 84; the ‘Weekend Crisis’ 99–100
D-Day 641, 723
Dachau concentration camp 141, 274, 768
DAF
Dahlem 7
Dahlems, Birger 215, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222–3, 226, 379
Dakar 329, 331
Daladier, Edouard 112, 121, 122, 175, 216
Danish navy 288
Dannecker, Theo 322, 352
Danube region 777
Danube river 79, 169, 434, 723, 757, 787
Danzig (Gdansk) 67, 165, 166, 172, 177, 178, 179, 181, 190, 200–3, 216, 219–22, 225, 236, 238, 247, 788; Customs Office 201
Danzig Question 158, 177
Danzig-West Prussia 239, 250, 316, 837
Daranowski, Gerda 235, 396–7
Darían, Admiral Jean François 542
Darmstadt 788
Darré, Richard Walther 10, 162, 187, 374
Davos 136
Delp, Pater Alfred
democracy: attack on xlii; central Europe’s last, betrayed, democracy 71
Denmark 287, 288, 405, 603–4, 834
Dessau 137
Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF; German Labour Front) xl, 836
Deutsche Bank 132
Deutschkron, Inge 474–5
‘Deutschland, Deutschland über alles’ (German national anthem) 561
Dienststelle Ribbentrop 26
Dieppe 536, 660
Dietrich, Otto 32, 78, 170, 294, 373, 396, 623, 678
Dietrich, SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp 32, 743, 757, 787, 803, 817
Dirlewanger Brigade 725
Dirschau 222
Disraeli, Benjamin 123
Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire 370
Djibouti 328
Dnieper river 346, 410, 413, 434, 597, 599, 602, 603, 616, 617, 618, 629
Dniester river 463, 630
Dobbin 826
Dohnanyi, Hans von 262, 268, 659, 667
Dollfué, Engelbert 65,
Dollmann, General Friedrich 638
Don river 416, 526, 529, 530, 538, 546
Donald, Major Graham 370
Donets Basin 410, 413, 415, 578, 600
Dönitz, Grand-Admiral Karl 585, 631, 650, 684, 719, 757, 774, 779, 792, 798, 800, 804, 808, 813, 815, 817, 820, 823, 825, 832, 834, 835, 837
Dorpmüller, Julius 800
Dorsch, Xaver 634
Dortmund 587, 761
Dresden 511, 761, 764–5, 779; Jews in 766
Dresdner Bank 132
Duisburg 535, 587, 792
Dulles, Allen 834
Dünaburg 398
Dunkirk 295–7, 321
Düsseldorf 142, 535, 587, 760, 840
Dutch East Indies 326
Eagle’s Nest
East Prussia 158, 239, 261, 334, 414, 420, 432, 437, 483, 501, 527, 546, 565, 595, 614, 650, 651, 715, 719, 740, 741, 749, 756, 758, 759, 762, 763, 769, 779
‘East-West Axis’ 183, 184
eastern expansion xliv, 188, 203;
Eastern Question 334
‘Eastern Wall’ 403
Ebermannstadt, Upper Franconia 221
Eberswalde 793
Echtmann, Fritz 831
Economic Staff for the East: Agricultural Group 406
Ecuador 134, 320
Edelweié Pirates 704
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon): and Bishop Bell 663; and the Heé affair 379–80; and H’s ‘peace plan’ 3–4; resignation 73
Edward VIII, King (later Duke of Windsor) 24, 302
Egypt 189, 350, 523
Eichmann, Adolf: deportations to the Nisko district 318; favours a Jewish state in Palestine 134; forces the emigration of Viennese Jews 131; hanged 837; and the ‘Madagascar solution’ 322, 324; runs the ‘Jewish Section’ of the SD 42; suggests pogroms 136; the Wannsee Conference 492, 493
Eicken, Professor Karl von 694
Eifel 741
Einsatzgruppe A 463
Einsatzgruppe Β 463, 466
Einsatzgruppe C 463, 468
Einsatzgruppen (‘task groups’): Czechoslovakia 241; Poland 241, 243, 244, 246; reports of slaughter in Russia sent to Η 520; Soviet Union 381–2, 461, 463–9, 477
Einsatzkommando 3 463, 468
Einsatzkommando 4a 468
Einsatzkommandos (‘task forces’) 382, 485
Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 722, 745, 760, 819, 835, 836
El Alamein 534, 538
Elbe river 802, 805, 809, 810
Elberfeld 587
Elbrus mountain 530
‘elections’ (29 March 1936) xxi, 3
Elisabeth, Czarina 791
