• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

By Root 1087 0

506–12, 514, 517–21; slaughtered in Russia, 153–4; denied sanctuary in Switzerland, 399; US suspicion of, 401; deported from France and Holland, 402–3; in Hungary, 506, 524, 601–2; confined to ghettos, 509; deported from Germany to east, 512–13; and extermination camps, 512–13; suicides, 513; fate little known in West, 517–18; ‘ordinary men’ as killers of, 521–2; protected by individual Germans, 523–4; total fatalities, 670; and Zionism, 673–4; see also anti-Semitism; Holocaust

Jodl, Gen. Alfred, 164, 630

Joest, Eleonore, 359

Joffe, Constantin, 68

Johnson, Gen. Hugh, 187

Johnson, Lyndon B., 187

Johnston, George, 266

Johnston, Richard, 654

Johnstone, Sandy, 88, 101

Joint Intelligence Committee (British), 444

Jones, Corp. James, 259, 333

Josefów, Poland: Jews massacred, 521

JU88 (German light bomber), 40

Juin, Gen. Alphonse, 456–7, 529

Juricka, Cdr. Stephen, USN, 637

Kabouky, Val, 202

Kageler, Georg, 521

Kahn, E.J., 330

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, Dahlem, 612

Kalinichenko, Evdokiya, 299–300, 356–7

Kalitov, Pavel, 303, 307–8, 311, 338

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 615

Kamenev, Lev, 162

Kameneva, Olga, 162

kamikaze tactics, 474, 636–7, 639, 641–3

Kampen, Elizabeth van, 499

Kappler, Lt.Col. Herbert, 460

Karski, Lt. Jan, 1, 516–17

Kasserine Pass, Battle of (1943), 378

Kathigasu, Sybil, 416

Katyn forest massacre (1940), 21–2

Katyusha rockets (Russian), 178

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm, 105

Kellas, Lt. Arthur, 30

Kelly, Lt. Robert, 235

Kemp, Peter, 406

Kennard, Sir Howard, 11

Kennedy, David, 189–90

Kennedy, Gen. Sir John, 215

Kennedy, Joseph, 30, 183

Kenney, George, 267–8

Kerr, Lt. Michael, 129, 541

Kershaw, Brigade-Maj. Anthony, 532, 539

Kershaw, Ian, 100

Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert: opposes assault on Britain, 81; commands in Italy, 444, 451–5, 457, 529; and Patton’s strategy in Sicily, 447; evacuates Sicily, 450; rule in Italy, 460; retreats before Alexander’s attacks, 529–30; succeeds Rundstedt, 610; qualities, 668

Key, Maj. Gen. Billy, 215

Khan, Shahnawaz, 214

Kharkov, 301, 304, 320, 322, 383, 392

Khoroshavin, Capt. Vasily, 171

Khrushchev, Nikita, 75

Kiernan, Alvin, 231, 241

Kiev, 395, 526

Kimmel, Adm. Husband, 196

Kimura, Lt.Gen. Hyotaro, 633–4

King, Cecil (ship’s clerk), 242, 658

King, Maj.Gen. Edward, 234

King, Adm. Ernest, USN, 254

King’s African Rifles (regiment), 410–11

Kinkaid, Adm. Thomas, 571–3

Kirby, Kay, 656

Kissinger, Henry, 402

Klaunzer family (Austria), 342

Klaw, Spencer, 186

Kleist, Field Marshal Ewald von, 526

Klemperer, Victor, 365, 448, 496, 535

Klopper, Maj.Gen. Hendrik, 137

Kluge, Field Marshal Günther von, 554, 557

Knirsch, Rita, 524

Knoke, Heinz, 101, 140, 145, 317

Koestler, Arthur, 36

Kohima, Battle of (1944), 324, 560–3

Kola Inlet, Russia, 292

Kollontai, Aleksandra, 51

Konada, Toshiharu, 657

Konev, Marshal Ivan, 525, 608, 615, 618, 623–5, 668

Konoe, Prince of Japan, 195

Kononov, Sgt. Victor, 153

Konovalov, Ivan, 146

Kops, Bernard, 94

Korea: casualties, 670

Kornicki, Franciszek, 5, 7, 27

Kossman, August, 524

Kotlowitz, Robert, 587–1

Kovalenko, Capt. Pavel, 328, 355, 360, 384, 386, 394, 442

Kowitz, Elfride, 616

Kozlov, Capt., 158

Krakauer, Max, 524

Kriegsmarine: weakness, 41, 100; naval building, 273; failure in Battle of Atlantic, 284

VESSELS: Altmark (supply ship), 41; Bismarck (battleship), 270, 285; Blücher (cruiser), 44; Gneisenau (battlecruiser), 270; Graf Spee (pocket-battleship), 38, 41, 271; Hipper (heavy cruiser), 287; Scharnhorst (battlecruiser), 52, 270, 293; Schleswig-Holstein (battleship), 4; Tirpitz (battleship), 270, 285, 287–8, 291; Widder (auxiliary cruiser), 276–7

Kronika, Jacob, 620

Krosigk, Lutz von see Schwerin von Krosigk, Johann Ludwig, Graf von

Kruczkiewicz, Adam, 6, 20

Krysk, Capt., 19

Kundera, Rudolf, 404

Kurita, Adm. Takeo, 571–3

Kursk, 320–1; Battle of, 387–92, 668; Germans withdraw from, 393

Kurylak, Stefan, 14–15, 145, 342

Kutuzov, Operation, 390

Kuusinen, Otto, 45

Kuznetsov, Stepan, 171

Laake, Gen. Kristian, 43–4, 46

Lachman, Feliks, 20, 497

Ladies’ Home