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Daladier, Édouard: promises aid to Finland, 2.1; favours cutting off German iron ore supplies from Sweden, 2.2; resigns, 2.3; criticises British, 3.1
Darby, Col. Bill
Darwin, Australia: bombed by Japanese
Das, Arangamohan
Dauntless dive-bombers (U.S.), 10.1, 10.2
Davidson, Maj. Basil
Davidson, Pvt. Ron
Davies, Bob
Davies, Norman
Davin, Lt. Dan
Davis, Pilot Officer Donald
Daw Sein
Dawley, Maj. Gen. Mike
D’Cruz, Emily
death camps (German), 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6; see also concentration camps
Deck, Josef
Decoux, Adm. Jean
decryption: of enemy messages, see also Ultra intercepts
Dees, Joe
Deng Yumin
Denmark: Germany occupies, 3.1; Jews protected from deportation, 16.1; agricultural supplies to Germany, 20.1; Allies protect from Russian advance, 24.1, 24.2
Dennis, First Lt. Alec
Denny, Chief Officer C. B.
Dentz, Gen. Henri
De Ruyter (Dutch cruiser), 9.1
Deseö, László
Desplats, Lt. Jacques
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (newspaper), 1.1
de Valera, Éamon, 16.1, 26.1
Devastators (U.S. torpedo bombers), 10.1, 10.2
Devers, Lt. Gen. Jake, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
Diadem, Operation, 21.1
Dick, Shirley Karp
Didier family (of Sainlez)
Dieppe: raid (1942)
Diercks, Lt. Lyman, 21.1, 24.1
Dill, Gen. Sir John
Diller, Pfc. Eric
Dior, Christian
displaced persons: at war’s end
Dixon, Lt. Cmdr. Bob
Djilas, Milovan, 18.1, 24.1, 24.2
Dnieper, river, Russia, 15.1, 15.2, 21.1
Dodecanese campaign (1943)
Doe, Bob
Don, river, 12.1, 15.1
Dönitz, Grand Adm. Karl, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 24.1
Doolittle, Col. James, 10.1, 17.1
Doorman, Adm. Karel
Dora (German heavy gun)
Dorfman, Harold, 19.1, 19.2
Dorman-Smith, Sir Reginald
Dose, Wolf
Douglas, Keith, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh, 4.1, 4.2
Doyle, Janet
Drake, Billy
Dresden: bombed, 19.1, 24.1; Red Army reaches, 24.2, 24.3
Dressler, Erich, 18.1, 18.2
Drobiński, Bolesław
Drummond, Irene
Dugan, Haynes
Dugdale, Blanche
Dunand, Jean-Louis
Dunkirk: evacuation (1940), 3.1, 3.2
Dunlop, Lt. Col. Edward (“Weary”)
Durham Light Infantry: in Sicily
Dutch East Indies: refugees from Singapore, 9.1; Japanese attack, 9.2; nationalist movement, 26.1; execution of Japanese war criminals, 26.2
Dworsky, Lt. Bertha
Dyess, Capt. William
East Solomons, Battle of (24 August 1943)
Eben Emael fort, Belgium
Ebisawa, Petty Officer Kisao
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon): sounds out army morale, 4.1; and Polish refugees, 20.1; meets Karski, 20.2; and Anders’s bitterness at war’s end, 26.1; and Stalin’s control, 26.2
Eder dam
Egypt: British position in, 5.1, 14.1; Italy attacks, 5.2; Wavell mounts offensive, 5.3; threatened by Rommel, 5.4, 5.5, 14.2; conditions, 5.6; anti-British sentiments, 16.1; see also Alexandria; Cairo
Ehrenburg, Ilya
Eichelberger, Lt. Gen. Robert, 10.1, 22.1
Eighth Army: in North Africa, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4; lacks confidence in higher commanders, 5.5; motivation and low morale, 14.1; Montgomery commands, 14.2, 14.3; Churchill demands offensive, 14.4; Alamein victory and advance westward, 14.5; in Italian campaign, 18.1
Einsatzgruppen (Nazi death squads)
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight: foresees U.S.A. entering war, 8.1; on Wainwright and MacArthur, 10.1; promoted to general, 13.1; negotiates ceasefire with Vichy French in North Africa, 14.1; command in North Africa, 14.2; reputation, 17.1; suppresses U.S. atrocity story in Sicily, 18.1; overrules Clark at Salerno, 18.2; approves bombing of French targets, 21.1; as Supreme Commander for invasion of Europe, 21.2; forces established in Normandy, 21.3; assumes operational command of Anglo-American forces, 21.4; military strength in Europe, 22.1, 24.1; over-optimism, 23.1; strategy in NW Europe, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4; competition among subordinates, 23.5; held up by weather, 23.6; manpower shortage, 23.7; winter conditions of armies, 23.8; restores front after Ardennes battle, 23.9; advance into Germany, 24.2, 24.3; entrusts final stages of campaign to Montgomery, 24.4; abandons Berlin as objective, 24.5; insists on unconditional German surrender, 24.6; qualities, 26.1
Eisymont, Vyacheslav
El Alamein: British defensive line, 5.1, 14.1; Montgomery’s victory at, 11.1; First Battle of (1 July 1942), 14.2; Second Battle of (October 1942), 14.3
Elbe, river
Elliott, Capt. David, 13.1, 13.2
el-Masri, Gen. Aziz
Engel, Col. Georg
Engelbrecht, Gen. Erich
Engineer, Miroo
England, Len, 5.1, 13.1, 20.1
Enigma: Allies capture from Germans
Enola Gay (B-29 Superfortress), 25.1
Eppler, Hans
Epsom, Operation, 21.1
Eriksen, Col. Birger
Eritrea
Esders, Wilhelm (“Doc”)
Esperance, Cape
Estonia: anti-Russian actions, 6.1; and extermination of Jews, 24.1
Europe: postwar settlement
euthanasia: as Nazi policy
evacuees (British)
Evans, Redd, and John Jacob Loeb: “Rosie the Riveter” (song)
Fahmy, Hikmet
Falaise Gap, Normandy, 21.1, 21.2
famines: in British Empire, 13.1, 16.1
Farouk, King of Egypt, 5.1, 16.1
Farrell, Capt. Charles
Farrow, Ernie
fascists: interned in Britain
Feiner, Staff Sgt. Harold
Feldt, Gen. Kurt
Felix, Charles
Fellers, Col. Bonner, 5.1, 22.1
Fenet, Henri
Fennema, Staff Sgt. Harold, 13.1, 13.2
Ferguson, George
Ferić, Mirosław
Fermi, Enrico
Fermi, Laura
Ferreira, Lt. Pedro
Fibikh-Savencho, Aleksandra
Finland: resists Russian invasion (1939–40), 2.1; armistice with Russia (1940), 2.2; receives help from Germany, 2.3; allies with Germany against Russia, 7.1; Russians advance into (1944), 21.1; armistice (1944), 21.2; casualties, 26.1
Finucane, Lt. Tony
First Army (British)
Fitch, Adm. Aubrey, USN
Fitt, Sgt. Bert
Flanner, Janet
Fleet Air Arm: weak performance, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Fletcher, Rear Adm. Frank, USN, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
Focke-Wulf 190 (German aircraft), 19.1, 19.2
Focke-Wulf Condor (German long-range aircraft)
Folcher, Gustave
Foley, Frank
Force Publique (Belgian Congo)
Formica, Lt. Vincenzo, 14.1, 14.2
Fortitude, Operation, 21.1
France: declares war on Germany, 1.1, 1.2; guarantees to Poland, 1.3; fails to support Poland, 1.4, 1.5; reluctance to take offensive against Germany, 1.6, 2.1; confronts Germany, 2.2; army demoralisation, 2.3; differences with Britain, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2; and Norway campaign, 3.3, 3.4; German advance in, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7; refugees from German advance, 3.8; soldiers evacuated at Dunkirk, 3.9; holds off Germans at Dunkirk, 3.10; defeat and surrender, 3.11; casualties, 3.12; Italy makes war on, 3.13; fleet bombarded by British, 4.1; servicemen repatriated by British, 4.2, 5.1; anti-Semitism, 4.3, 5.2, 16.1, 20.1, 26.1; resists British advances on territories, 4.4; Vichy government, 4.5; in Syria, 5.3; Vichy intervention in Iraq, 5.4; divided loyalties and anti-British sentiments, 5.5; Resistance movement, 5.6, 16.2; German naval bases in, 11.1; individual physical decline in war, 13.1; Vichy forces resist U.S. landings, 14.1, 16.3; gendarmes send Jews to death camps, 16.4; German sympathisers and collaborators in, 16.5; colonies, 16.6; Vichy naval forces fight Siamese, 16.7; dictatorship, 18.1; colonial troops commit atrocities in Italy, 18.2, 18.3; preinvasion bombing of, 19.1, 21.1; German economic exploitation, 20.2; Service de Travail Obligatoire (German forced labour), 20.3; Allied advance in, 21.2, 23.1; liberation, 23.2; Allied landings in south (August 1944), 23.3; postwar recriminations (l’épuration), 24.1, 26.2; maintains colonial rule in Indochina at war’s end, 26.3; antagonism to Britain, 26.4; enters war as act of principle, 26.5
Franco, Gen. Francisco, 5.1, 5.2
Frank, Anne
Frank, Hans
Frank, Richard
Fraser, Lt. David, 1.1, 13.1, 24.1
Fredendall, Lt. Gen. Lloyd
Freeman, Air Marshal Sir Wilfred
French Expeditionary Corps: in Italy
Freyberg, Gen. Bernard, VC
Friedmann, Lt. George
Friedrich, Ruth-Andreas
Friend, Midshipman Charles
Frier, J. R.
Fritsche, Hans
Fromm, Corp. Helmut, 24.1, 24.2
Frost, Lt. Col. John, 13.1, 23.1
Frunze, Mikhail
Frykman, Sven
Fuchida, Cmdr. Mitsuo
Fuchs, Karl, 6.1, 6.2
Fulton, Capt. Michael
Gabor, Edith
Gagliardi, Pfc. Eugene
Galland, Adolf
Gambia: recruits from
Gamble, Alan
Gamelin, Gen. Maurice: preparations for war, 1.1; confidence in Polish resistance, 1.2; proposes major offensive for 1941 or 1942, 2.1; on public demand for action, 2.2; on Reynaud’s proposed strategy, 2.3; and German advance, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3; on French soldiers’ behaviour, 3.4
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
Gariepy, Sgt. Leo
Garland (Polish destroyer), 11.1
Gaulle, Gen. Charles de: defends against German advance (1940), 3.1; forms “Free French” force, 4.1; wartime French hostility to, 5.1; Syrian French recruits, 5.2; recruits from colonies, 16.1
Gavin, Brig. Gen. James M.
Gay, George
Gazala Line (North Africa)
Gebel, Ursula
Gebfi, Kofi
Gehlen, Col. Reinhard, 12.1, 21.1
Gensoul, Adm. Marcel-Bruno
Georges, Gen. Joseph
Geresomo, Batison
German navy see Kriegsmarine
German Philharmonic Orchestra
Germany: bomber offensive against, itr.1, 8.1, 11.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 23.1, 26.1; Britain and France declare war on, 1.1, 1.2; invades Poland, 1.3; nonaggression pact with Soviet Russia, 1.4; attitude to outbreak of war, 1.5; annexes western Poland, 1.6; Allies blockade, 2.1; gives aid to Finland, 2.2; economic and industrial problems, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 19.4; military strength, 2.4; invades Norway, 2.5, 3.1, 8.2; casualties and losses in Norway, 3.2; advance into France, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; military efficiency, 3.6; casualties in 1940 campaign in France, 3.7, 3.8; and defeat of France, 3.9; triumphs in west, 3.10; invasion threat to Britain, 4.3, 4.4; intelligence weakness, 4.5, 4.6; aircraft production, 4.7, 12.1, 19.5, 19.6, 19.7; advantages from occupation of European countries, 4.8; military expansion (1940–41), 4.9; fuel shortages, 4.10, 6.1; incompetent administration of conquered lands, 4.11; invades and occupies Greece, 5.1; military victories, 5.2; invades Russia, 6.2, 6.3; behaviour in Soviet Russia, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 12.2, 15.1; material aid from Russia, 6.7; early advances in Russia, 6.8, 6.9, 7.2; casualties and losses against Russia, 6.10, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 15.2, 18.3, 24.1, 24.2; forces and equipment worn down in Russia, 6.11; physical difficulties in Russia, 6.12, 7.6; questions outcome of war, 6.13; Stalingrad defeat, 7.7, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 14.2; retreats before Soviet offensive, 7.8; troops’ suffering in Russia, 7.9, 7.10; underestimates Russian resources, 7.11; U.S. view of as enemy, 8.3; anticipates U.S. involvement in war, 8.4; recognised as priority enemy, 8.5, 10.1, 17.1, 22.1; surface raiders, 11.2; iron-ore imports from Norway, 11.3; renewed successes in Russia (1942), 12.6; armaments output, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 15.3, 19.8; advance on Stalingrad, 12.10, 12.11; manpower shortage, 12.12; setbacks in Russia, 12.13, 12.14; sentimentality over Christmas, 12.15; prisoners ill-treated in Russia, 12.16; cause of disasters in Russia, 12.17; retreat from Russia, 12.18; total casualties, 13.1, 26.2; fighting qualities, 13.2; deserters executed, 13.3; uses V-weapons against Britain, 13.4; civilians’ experiences, 13.5; food and consumer goods, 13.6; female workers, 13.7; codes broken, 14.3; defeats in Russia (1943), 15.4; army deserters in Russia, 15.5; recruits from subject nations, 16.1; defensive strategy in Italy and Sicily, 18.4, 21.1; superiority in wireless communications, 18.5; casualties in Italy, 18.6, 21.2; reprisals against Italians, 18.7; casualties from bombing raids, 19.9; effect of bombing on civilian morale, 19.10, 19.11; slave labour, 19.12; downed Allied aircrew killed by crowds, 19.13; looters shot, 19.14; forced deportations and labour, 20.1; Jews deported, 20.2; numbers in Russia, 21.3; and Russian deception methods, 21.4, 21.5; escapes from Russian encirclement and entrapment, 21.6; infantry weapons, 21.7; casualties in Normandy, 21.8, 21.9; continues to fight in face of defeat, 21.10; military executions, 21.11; expectation of defeat, 23.2; defensive actions against Allied advance in West, 23.3; soldiers’ behaviour in Belgium, 23.4; Western Allies’ advance in, 24.3, 24.4; Allied soldiers’ behaviour in, 24.5; condition of army at war’s end, 24.6; Russian army advances in, 24.7; refugees flee before Russians, 24.8; end-of-war massacres by Nazis, 24.9; Red Army behaviour in at war’s end, 24.10; Western Allies’ behaviour in at war’s end, 24.11; reaction to war’s end, 26.3; material damage, 26.4; strategic mistakes, 26.5; reaction to war, 26.6; war criminals, 26.7; see also Kriegsmarine; Luftwaffe; Nazism
Geyr von Schweppenburg, Gen. Leo, Baron, 21.1, 21.2
Gibraltar: Germans propose seizure of, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2; population evacuated, 5.3; bombed by Vichy aircraft, 5.4; and Malta convoys, 11.1
Gibson, Wing Cmdr. Guy, VC
Gilding, Walter
Gloan, Pierre le
Globocnik, SS-Brigadeführer Odilo
Glorieux (French submarine), 16.1
Gnade, Lt. Hartwig
Godau, Capt. Karl
Godfroy, Adm. René
Godłewski, Captain
Goebbels, Joseph: justifies attack on Poland, 1.1; on Russia, 6.1; disbelieves quick conclusion to war in Russia, 6.2; propaganda successes with young Germans, 12.1; on deportation of Jews, 20.1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gold Coast: recruits from, 16.1, 16.2
Goldberg, Szmulek, 1.1, 20.1
Goodwood, Operation, 21.1
Gordeev, Aleksandr, 12.1, 15.1
Göring, Hermann: anger at outbreak of war, 1.1; and Luftwaffe at Dunkirk, 3.1; and air attack on Britain, 4.1, 4.2; on exploitation of Soviet Russia, 6.1; on final solution of Jewish question, 6.2, 20.1; on Luftwaffe at Stalingrad, 12.1; on RAF’s bombing of Ruhr, 19.1; on use of Russians to build German aircraft, 20.2; qualities, 26.1
Gort, Gen. John Standish Surtees Vereker, 1.1st Viscount: commands BEF, 2.1; disbelieves French offensive, 3.1; and rescue of BEF, 3.2
Gothic Line (Italy)
Gourmet (magazine), 13.1
Govorov, Lt. Gen. Leonid
Grafton, Bob
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem see al-Husayni, Mohammad Amin
Grant tanks: in North Africa
Gray, Jimmy, 10.1, 10.2
Graziani, Marshal Rodolfo, 5.1, 5.2
Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Japanese)
Greece: Italy prepares to attack, 5.1; Axis advance in, 5.2; Mussolini invades, 5.3; British and Anzac forces sent to, 5.4; Germany invades, 5.5; British defeat and evacuation, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8; Germans occupy, 5.9; food shortages and starvation, 13.1; Germans evacuate (1944), 22.1; casualties, 26.1
Green, Muriel, 2.1, 4.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 23.1
Greer, Lt. Peter
Grensemann, Friedrike
Griffenberg, Maj. Gen. Hans von
Gros, Martha
Grossman, Vasily, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 24.1, 24.2
Grosz, Joseph, Bishop of Budapest
Groves, Maj. Gen. Leslie
Grumann, Lt. Kurt, 6.1, 7.1
Grunauer, Liselotte
Gryn, Hugo
Guadalcanal
Guam, 22.1, 22.2
Guderian, Gen. Heinz: in invasion of Poland, 1.1; in defeat of France, 3.1; dismissed in Russia, 7.1; interrogated over evacuation of Warsaw, 24.1; qualities, 26.1
Guernica
guerrillas see resistance groups and partisans
Guest, Lt. John
Gunther, Helmut
Gurkhas: qualities, 5.1, 17.1; in Malaya, 9.1; oppose Japanese, 17.2; at Monte Cassino, 18.1
Guzzoni, Gen. Alfredo
Gwynn-Browne, Arthur
gypsies: killed by Nazis
Haakon VII, King of Norway, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Haape, Heinrich
Haase, Maj. Karl-Günther von
Hachiro, Sasaki
Hahne, Dellie
Halder, Gen. Franz, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 12.1, 12.2
Halifax, Frederick Edward Lindley Wood, 1.1st Earl of, 2.1
Halsey, Vice Adm. William (“Bull”), 10.1, 10.2, 17.1, 22.1, 22.2, 25.1
Hamburg: bombed
Hamlin, Maj. Albrecht
Hanák, Capt. Sándor
Hando, Kazutoshi, 17.1, 22.1, 26.1
Hansell, Gen. Heywood
Hargreaves, Capt. Charles, 18.1, 18.2
Harnack, Helmut
Harper, Tim
Harris, Air Marshal Sir Arthur, 11.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 21.1, 23.1
Harrison, Earl
Hartmann, Hans-Jürgen, 6.1, 7.1
Haskil, Clara
Haslsti, Wolf
Hazra, Matongini
Headlam, Cuthbert, 1.1, 4.1
Heinemann (SS officer)
Heinrici, Gen. Gotthard, 7.1, 7.2, 24.1
Hellcat (U.S. fighter plane), 10.1, 22.1
Helli (Greek cruiser), 5.1
Henderson Field see Guadalcanal
Hennessy, Peter
Hermann Göring Division: ineptness in Sicily
Hersey, John
