Operation Barbarossa 335, 339, 343, 344, 348, 353, 360, 361, 363, 367–8, 371, 377, 380, 382, 462, 463, 466, 468, 469, 525, 566, 646; aim of 384; Barbarossa-Decree (13 May 1941) 357; and Bolshevism 387, 388, 389; ‘Commissar Order’ 357–9; Directive No.21 (‘Barbarossa Directive’) 335, 408; Directive No.34 410; escalating problems 419; German military leaders’ confidence 369; H provides the driving force 368–9; H’s intervention in military matters 407, 417, 419, 499; H’s letter to Mussolini 387–8; H’s proclamation 386, 387; initial reactions of the German people 422; initial territorial gains 398, 400; the invasion begins (22 June 1941) 393; and the invasion of Yugoslavia 365; the long front 579; operational plan fails 407, 417; partisan war 395, 405; postponed 362–3; Soviet captives 394–5; Soviet counter-attack begins (5 December 1941) 442; ‘special announcements’ 398; spiralling barbarization 395; ‘Study’ 413; ‘Supplement to Directive No.33’ 409, 410; Supplement to Directive No.34 411; toll on the German army and Luftwaffe 309; transport statistics 393; winter provisions for the troops 435, 439
Operation Blue 514–15, 523, 524, 526–8; Directive No.41 (5 April 1942) 528, 529
Operation Braunschweig 528; Directive No.45 (23 July 1942) 528–9
Operation Citadel 591, 592, 647; plans for 579–80; postponed 580, 587
Operation Cobra 718
Operation Dragoon 722
Operation Felix 348
Operation Gomorrha 597
Operation Magic Fire
Operation Marita 361, 364–5
Operation Market Garden 723
Operation Mercury 367
Operation North Wind 744, 745
Operation Overlord 641
Operation Panzerfaust (‘Bazooka’) 735
Operation Sealion 302–3, 310
Operation Thunderclap 545
Operation Typhoon 415, 431, 433, 436
Operation Valkyrie 668–9, 671, 675, 676, 690
Operation Watch on the Rhine 741
Oppeln, Upper Silesia 759, 788
Oppenheim 760
Oran, French Algeria 327, 539
Oranienburg 793
Orel 592, 596, 597
Orgaz y Yoldi, General 14
Orsha 647
Oscarsborg, straits of 288
Oshima, Ambassador Hiroshi 27, 383, 398, 443, 445, 449, 470, 729, 730, 732, 743
Oslo 288
Oster, Colonel Hans 157, 225, 262, 268, 270, 659, 667, 690
Osteria Bavaria restaurant, Munich 143, 512
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Ostrogoth Gau (Ostgotengau) 440
Ostrov, Poland 394, 690
Ott, General Eugen 443
Oven, Wilfried von 678
Owens, Jesse 6, 7
Pacific Ocean 728
Paderborn 172
Palestine 189, 530; Britain refuses entry for Jewish refugees 146; as a Jewish state 134, 321, 350
Pan-German League/pan-Germanism 65, 67
Panzer Corps ‘Grodeutschland’ 768–9
Panzer Group 4 359
Panzer Group West 641
Papen, Franz von 68, 226, 428, 732–3; Ambassador to Austria 66; and the Anschlué 76, 82, 83; Austrian Nazi plans to murder 69; on H 71–2; meets Schuschnigg 70; plans to topple Schuschnigg 45, 67, 69
‘paper war’ 566
Paris: H visits 299–300; H’s orders 722; liberated 722; lingering remnants of the German coup (1944) 683; Stülpnagel backs the insurrectionists (1944) 678
Party of National Concentration (
Pas de Calais 641
Pasewalk military hospital 754
Patton, General George S. 720, 744, 788
Paul, Prince, of Yugoslavia 360
Paulus, Field-Marshal Friedrich 497, 530, 533, 537, 543, 544, 545, 548–51
Pavelic, Ante 581
pax americana xviii
Payne Best, Captain S. 271
Pearl Harbor (1941) 364, 442, 444, 445, 446, 448, 486–7, 490
Peenemünde 622
Peloponnese 361
Pension Moritz (later the Platterhof), Obersalzberg 636
People’s Court
Perkowski, Tadeusz 202
Persian Gulf 276, 514
Petacci, Clara 826
Pétain, Marshal 297, 299, 328–32, 525, 542
Peter II, King of Yugoslavia 360
Petersberg Hotel, Bad Godesberg 113, 114
Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island), Havel 7
Pfeffer von Salomon, Franz 436
Philip of Hesse, Prince 76, 78, 600
Phipps, Sir Eric 25, 46
‘Phoney War’ (autumn and winter 1939–40) 274–5
physically handicapped 258–9
Picasso, Pablo,
Pillau 762
Pilsudski, Marshal 237
Pintsch, Karl-Heinz 371, 372
Pirow, Oswald 151
Pissia river 238
Platterhof hotel, Obersalzberg 636
Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration 709
Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort
Ploesti oilfields 332, 343, 635
Plön 820, 832
Plötzensee Prison, Berlin 693
