Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (90 page)

12

See Chapter 13, note 51, above.

13

Guardian
, 11 February 2005.

14

Philip Morgan, p. 231.

15

Jedlicki, p. 225.

16

Ibid., p. 227.

Index

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Aalborg
abortions
ACCs (Allied Control Commissions)
Acheson, Dean
Adams, Alicia
Adenauer, Konrad
Adler, Hans Guenther
Agriculture Ministry
AK (Armia Krajowa, Polish Home Army)
Akcja Wisła (Operation Vistula)
Albania

Chams
Communists
execution of Xoxe

alcohol
Aldea, Aurel
Allied armies

allowing revenge by Jewish camp survivors
attempts to feed the starving
cosmopolitan make-up
destruction caused by
in the face of vengeance on collaborators
and former slave labourers
and Greece
in Holland
and the landscape of chaos
liberation by
military control of displaced persons
and the myth of the communist ‘lost victory’
sexual violence
and the UN
vengeance excesses

Allied Control Commissions (ACCs)
Alsace, Natzweiler-Struthof camp
Alversdorf
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
amnesties

on revenge killings

Amsterdam
Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth
Andrzej C. (a Pole from Warsaw)
Angoulême
anti-Semitism
see
Jews: anti-Semitism, extermination and loss of
Antonescu, Ion
Antonicelli, Franco
anxiety
Arletty
Armia Krajowa (AK, Polish Home Army)
Arro, Kalev
Arrow Cross party, Hungary
assimilation, forced
Athens
Atlantic Charter
L’Aube
Auschwitz concentration camp
Aussig
Austria

Allied Control Commission
and the Bleiburg tragedy
collaborators of the Nazis
displaced persons camps
Slovenian Home Guards/National Army in
Soviet treatment of Austrian women
‘Avengers’

babies

born in foreign countries to a German father
‘foreign’ babies born to German women
violence and the killing of

Bacque, James
Bad Hersfeld camp
Bad Kreuznach camp
Badoglio, Pietro
Baedeker, Karl
Balsam, Harry
Baltic States
see also
Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania

battle of Kalniškës
ending of the war
‘Forest Brothers’ and their resistance to communism; end of the resistance
nationalist fighting
partisans
territorial losses and gains
ultra-nationalists

Baneth, Edith
Banija
Battaglia, Roberto
Battocchio, Republic of
Baue, Yehuda
Bavaria
Bayer, Zsolt
BBC
BDPS (General Democratic Resistance Movement, Lithuania)
beatings see torture
Bednarka
Belarus

death toll in war
destruction in
Jews
Minsk

Belgium/Belgians

collaborators of the Nazis
covering of ethnic problems
ejection of Communists
food rationing
Resistance
Walloons

Belunek, Jan
Beneš, Edvard
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Berlin

children’s drawings of a hanging
cosmopolitanism
crime
destruction in
foreign workers
looting
rape
vagrant children

Berlusconi, Silvio
Berman, Jakub
Bertaux, Pierre
Bevin, Ernest
Bezigrad camp
Bibo, István
Bielenberg, Christabel
Bielicka, Maria
Bivongi
Black Brigades
black market
Błaszczyk, Henryk
Bleiburg tragedy
Blitz
blood libel
blood thirst
see also
vengeance
Blunt, Roscoe
Bodn
ra
, Emil
Böhl camp
Bohm, Fred
Bomporto
Bonnet, Abel
Bormann, Martin
Bosnia
Bounin, Jacques
Bracker, Milton
Bradley Omar
Brasillach, Robert
bread
Breitburg, Victor
Breslau
see also
Wrocław
Brest-Litovsk
Brichah
Britain/the British

black market
and the Bleiburg tragedy
British war stories
conscription
cult of heroism
and the death camps
death toll in war
destruction in
and the expulsion of Germans from Poland
food shortages
German prisoners of war
and Greece
and the Jewish flight to Palestine
medical teams
Ministry of Information
myth-building
Nazi ideology mirrored in British press
Operation Swallow
postwar sphere of influence
prisoners of war
propaganda
and Romania
Second World War as a British national industry
social reform
soldiers allowing revenge by Jewish camp survivors
treatment of SS men
VE day celebrations

brotherhood
see also
national unity
Brussels
Bucharest
Buchenwald concentration camp

Ohrdruf camp

Budapest
Büderich camp
Buechner, Howard E.
Bulgaria/Bulgarians

Allied Control Commission
collaborators of the Nazis
Communists
expulsion of Turks and Gypsies
farmers
and Greeks; massacre of Greek communities
Jews
Justice Ministry
‘People’s Courts’
and Russia

Bushyhead,Jack
butter
Buxtehude
Byford-Jones, William

Caen
Calabria
Calitri
Calsteren, Eric van
Camini
cannibalism
Caransa, Ab
Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)
Cassation, Italian Court of
Castelbajac, Pierre de
Catholic Church

Catholic education
forced conversion to
in Romania
in Yugoslavia

Caulonia, Peasant Republic of
Cham Albanians
Channel Islands
Chełmno concentration camp
Chetniks
children

abduction of
babies
see
babies
born in foreign countries to a German father
displaced
see also
orphans; in prison camps after the war; in prisoner-of-war camps; unaccompanied German children expelled from Poland
gangs
German; in Czechoslovakia after the war; teenagers
juvenile delinquency
and morality
ostracism of
teenagers
vagrant
vengeance on
war orphans
youth crime

Christian Democrats
Church

Catholic
see
Catholic Church
Orthodox
Uniate

Churchill, Winston
cities, destruction in
civil war

Communist takeover of Romania
see
Romania /Romanians: communism
‘Forest Brothers’ and their resistance to communism
Greek
see
Greece/Greeks: civil war
and the ideological struggle of nationalism with communism
Poland/Ukraine
see
ethnic cleansing: of Poland and Ukraine
political violence in France and Italy
and the subjugation of Eastern Europe
wars within wars
Yugoslavia
see
Yugoslavia: ethnic conflict

Clay, Lucius D.
Cluj
Clydebank
Cognac
Cold War

polarization of Europe in
and the treatment of Communists by ‘democratic’ countries

The Colditz Story
collaborators of the Nazis

and the construction of convenient myths
dehumanization of
and the failure of the purge across Europe
Greek collaborationist Security Battalions
and the Italian purge
judicial punishment of; comparison table across countries
myth-building by
punishment for different categories of; women who had relationships with German soldiers
Ustashas
see
Ustashas
violence against
in Yugoslavia
see also
Ustashas

Cologne
Communist Information Bureau (Cominform)
Communists/communism

Albania
and Allied Control Commissions (ACCs)
anti-Communist resistance; ‘Forest Brothers’; ideological struggle of nationalism with communism; Ukraine
and Bulgaria
and civil war: France and Italy; Greece
see
Greece/Greeks: civil war; Romania
see
Romania/Romanians: communism; Yugoslavia
Cominform
Communist indoctrination

Communists/communism –
cont.

Communist resistance; Greece
and Czechoslovakia; Czech heroes
and the duty and opportunity of hatred
Francs-Tireurs et Partisans
French Communist Party
goal of
and Greece; defeat of communism in Greece; Greek Communist Party
and Hungary
Italian Communist Party
Italian partisans who freed German prisoners
and Jews
ministries targeted by
in Poland
postwar gains
in Romania
see
Romania/Romanians: communism
Soviet control over European Communist parties
Spanish
Stalin’s postwar regime
see also
Stalin, Joseph; Stalinization of Romania
and the subjugation of Eastern Europe
treatment of Communists by ‘democratic’ countries after the war
and the US; Truman Doctrine
use of Justice Ministry
violence as an opportunity for
Yugoslav Partisans

concentration camps
see also
slave-labour camps

archipelago of German camps
conditions; gradations of hardship; in Poland
death marches from
discovery of
liberation of
the new ‘extermination camps’ of Poland after the war
revenge of Jewish prisoners

conscription
Cooper, Duff
Cortés, Manuel
Cosenza
cosmopolitanism
Cossacks
Coventry
crime

looting
see
looting
sexual; rape
see
rape
theft
see also
looting
towards prisoners of war after the war

see also
vengeance: on German
prisoners of war

violent
see also
violence
youth crime

Crimea

Tatars

Crisp, Major R.
Croatia/Croatians
see also
Yugoslavia

and the Bleiburg tragedy
collaborators of the Nazis
and ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia
German-Croatian fighting after orders to surrender
massacres; in the Bleiburg-Maribor area
nationalists
Serbs vs Croats
ultra-nationalists
Ustashas
see
Ustashas

Croix-de-Feu
crucifixions
The Cruel Sea
Csákvár
Curierul
cynicism
Czechoslovakia/Czechs

animosity to Gypsies
black market
collaborators of the Nazis
and the Communists; Communist heroes
covering of ethnic problems
displaced persons
farmers
food rationing
Germans in Czechoslovakia after the war; expulsion
and Hungary
Interior Ministry
Jewish flight
Lidice massacre
and Marshall Aid
Ministry of Information
re-Slovakization
renaming of places and streets
resistance
rural changes
Theresienstadt

Cz
stochowa