Berlin at War (88 page)

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Petenati, Wolfgang Pickert, Elisabeth Poschinger, Lutz Rackow, Eva Reichel,

Christa Ronke, Kurt Roth, Ernst Schill, Paul Schmidt, Peter Schmidt, Ursula

Schmidt, Kurt Schulz, Dietrich Schwanke, Margit Siebner, Hans Soost, Gisela

Stange, Gerda Steinke, Klaus-Jürgen Ulandowski, Ulrich Walter, Gisela Weber.

published memoirs and diaries

Altner, Helmut,
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(Staplehurst, 2002)

Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth,
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(New York, 1947)

––
Der Schattenmann
(Frankfurt am Main, 2000)

Anonymous,
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(London, 2004)

Beck, Gad,
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select bibliography

419

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(29 vols, Munich, 1993–

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(London, 1953)

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(Munich, 1976)

Kempka, Erich,
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Knobloch, Heinz,
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(Berlin, 1999)

Kronika, Jacob,
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Leonhardt, Otto-Herbert,
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Linge, Heinz,
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Misch, Rochus,
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(London, 1990)

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Orbach, Larry,
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Russell, William,
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Schneider, Helga,
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Schroeder, Christa,
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von Schwanenflügel-Lawson, Dorothea,
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(Alexandria, VA, 1999)

Shirer, William,
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(London, 1997)

–– This Is Berlin
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Speer, Albert,
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Spitzy, Reinhard,
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Stange, Gisela,
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Domarus, Max,
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420

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Kempowski, Walter,
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Jahr
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secondary works

Aly, Götz,
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––
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–– (ed.),
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––
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Friedländer, Saul,
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––
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Ladd, Brian,
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––
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Spoerer, Mark,
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Welch, David,
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Zierenberg, Malte,
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Index

Aal, Jutta, 183

complaining about food, 90; on greed of

Abraham, Ruth, 297

rural farmers, 96; on air raids, 158, 159;

Adlon Hotel, 2, 77, 313, 345

receives letter from deported Jewish friend,

Adolf Hitler Platz, 108

173; hears rumours of the Holocaust, 174; on

AEG, 121

numbers of Jews claiming not to be Jewish,

AEL
see
work education camps

177; listens to foreign radio broadcasts, 209;

Affanasjewna, Lidia, 134

questioned by Gestapo, 232; on dangers of

Aimée
(play), 14

resisting regime, 277; and Stauffenberg

Air Ministry, 101, 102, 308

bomb plot, 282, 284; on Rosenstrasse

air raids: early false alarms, 22–3, 138; Roosevelt

‘collection camp’, 289; on Aryan help for

appeals against raids on civilians, 23;

Jews, 299; on air raids, 308, 324, 329, 332;

blackout measures in Berlin, 34–49; air-raid

decides to stay in Berlin despite air raids,

wardens, 37–8, 147; radar’s consequences for

320; on Goebbels’ ‘total war’ speech, 340–1;

Berlin, 48–9; RAF and Luftwaffe raids on

on spin put on news reports about the war,

military targets, 56–7; Berlin raids start in

345; on people’s will to survive, 345–6;

earnest, 67, 136–59; housing the bombed

partner’s method of avoiding conscription

out, 140, 331–2; Berlin’s defences, 146, 153–4,

to Home Guard, 351–2; on impending

309–13; shelters and bunkers, 146, 150, 310,

arrival of Red Army, 360; helps deserting

313–17, 327–9; air-raid procedures, 146–50;

German soldier, 374; reaction to SS during

sounds, 148–9, 152–3, 329; flak batteries, 153–4,

Battle for Berlin, 374; reaction to ceasefire,

155–6, 311–13; speed of repairs, 157; effect on

380; encounters with Soviet soldiers, 385

morale, 157–9, 318–20, 333–5; children

Der Angriff
(newspaper), 4, 105

returning from evacuation notice damage to

Anhalter Station, 184–5, 201–2

Berlin, 201–2; use of radio to warn of, 218,

architecture
see
building projects

219; raids resume in earnest in 1943, 307–9,

Arndt, Arthur, 180

317–25; ‘cookie’/‘blockbuster’ bombs, 308;

artillery: ‘eight-eight’ anti-aircraft gun, 311–12;

Berliners’ obsession with, 325–7; anecdotes

Soviet
Katyusha
rocket launcher, 373

about experiencing, 327–33; looking for

Ashrott family, 261

missing loved ones, 333; number of Berlin

Atlantic, Battle of the, 52, 56, 341–2

casualties, 333; fire-bombing of Hamburg,

Auschwitz-Birkenau, 172

343; USAAF daylight raids, 348–9, 356;
see

also
evacuation, child

Bachner, Kurt, 243

air travel, 203

Baeck, Leo, 161

aircraft, 155, 317

Bandur, Renate, 192

airports, 102

Baranowitschi, 172

Alexanderplatz, 97

Die barmherzige Lüge
(‘The Merciful Lie’; film),

Alexanderplatz Police HQ (‘Alex’), 229–30, 233–

13–14

4, 235

BASF chemical company, 36

Altner, Helmut, 369, 384, 388

bathhouses, 77

American Embassy, 77, 143, 308

Baum, Herbert, 269–71

Andersen, Lale, 215, 216

Baur, Hans, 358, 376

Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth: on Nazi rewriting of

BBC: German-language service, 208–14

carols, 54; reaction to Nazi celebration of

BdM
see
German Girls League

war, 61–2; on reaction to German invasion

Becker, Christa, 149, 150, 201

of Soviet Union, 72; on perils of

Becker, Rachel, 83, 263, 264, 291

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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 215, 250

Britain: orders general mobilisation, 23; last-

Bekennende Kirche see
Confessing Church

minute diplomacy with Germany, 24;