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1.4; on ruthlessness of Polish invasion, 1.5; visits Warsaw, 1.6; Pope congratulates on escaping assassination attempt, 2.1; dominance, 2.2; invades Norway, 2.3; maintains large force in Norway, 3.1; restrains tanks at Dunkirk, 3.2; Mussolini’s view of, 3.3; misjudges state of Britain, 3.4; ambitions, 3.5; air assault on Britain, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 26.1; qualities, 4.5; and invasion threat to Britain, 4.6, 4.7; postpones invasion of Britain, 4.8; plans attack on Russia, 4.9, 5.1, 6.1; oratory and magnetism, 4.10; ambitions for African colonies, 5.2; Franco meets, 5.3; aims to seize Gibraltar, 5.4; and Mussolini’s attack on Greece, 5.5; abandons airborne operations after Crete, 5.6; meets Pétain, 5.7; invades Russia, 6.2, 6.3, 26.2; on German successes in Russia, 6.4, 6.5; plans for new empire, 6.6; conduct of war in Russia, 6.7, 6.8; and prospect of German defeat, 6.9, 7.1, 21.1; demands resistance to Russian offensive, 7.2; policy of starving Leningraders, 7.3; self-appointment as army C-in-C, 7.4; injunction against yielding ground in Russia, 7.5; military interventions, 7.6; indifference to sufferings in Russia, 7.7; war aims, 7.8; U.S. view of, 8.1; anticipates U.S. involvement in war, 8.2; reluctance to acknowledge Japanese as allies, 8.3; view of U.S.A., 8.4; declares war on U.S.A., 8.5; fears U.S. involvement in European war, 8.6; idolised by U-boat officers, 11.1; failure of campaign against British shipping, 11.2; demands capture of Sevastopol, 12.1; and renewed German successes in Russia, 12.2; orders advance on Caucasian oilfields, 12.3; diverts Fourth Panzer Army to Stalingrad, 12.4; and conduct of Stalingrad battle, 12.5; praises Manstein, 12.6; urges aggression on Afrika Korps, 14.1; sends Rommel reinforcements to Tunisia, 14.2, 14.3; agrees to withdrawal from Rzhev salient, 15.1; sends reinforcements to Russia, 15.2; and Battle of Kursk, 15.3; authorises withdrawal behind Dnieper, 15.4; rescues Mussolini after fall, 18.1; and German defence strategy in Italy, 18.2, 18.3; and German reprisals in Italy, 18.4; forces Yugoslavia to sign Tripartite Pact, 18.5; policy in Yugoslavia, 18.6; personal air raid shelters, 19.1; policy in conquered eastern lands, 20.1; anti-Jewish policy, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 26.3; refuses reinforcements to Eastern Front, 21.2; dismisses field marshals, 21.3; misjudges Russian offensive strategy, 21.4; accepts retreat in Italy, 21.5; and impending Allied invasion of Europe, 21.6; refuses to allow strategic withdrawal before Bagration, 21.7; and July bomb plot (1944), 21.8; orders counterattack in Normandy, 21.9; orders strategic withdrawal from Normandy, 21.10; and Soviet winter 1944 offensive, 23.1; final confrontation with Russia, 24.1; and Soviet assault on Berlin, 24.2; suicide, 24.3; anticipates conflict between Soviet Union and West, 26.4; errors of judgement, 26.5; see also Germany

Hodges, Gen. Courtney, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 24.1

Hoepner, Col. Gen. Erich, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2

Holland: attempts to remain neutral, 3.1; Germans invade and occupy, 3.2, 3.3; food shortages, 13.1; police collaborate with German occupiers, 16.1; maintains colonial rule in East Indies at war’s end, 26.1

Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea

Holocaust, itr.1, 6.1, 7.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 26.1

Home Guard (Britain)

Homma, Lt. Gen. Masaharu

Hong Kong: Japanese atrocities

Hopkinson, Capt. David

Hopkinson, Diana

Hore-Belisha, Leslie

Hormel, Jay

Hornes, Lance-Corporal, 1.1, 1.2

Hornor, Lt. Sam

Horsfall, John, 3.1, 3.2

Horton, Adm. Sir Max Kennedy, 11.1, 26.1

Hotblack, Maj. Gen. Frederick

Houffalize, Belgium, 21.1, 23.1

Howard, Lt. Michael, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 18.1, 26.1

Howe, Quincy: England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 8.1

Hube, Gen. Hans

Hudson, Brig. Charles

Huff, Wolfgang

Hughes, T. L.

Hungary: Jews in, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1; Russians advance on and occupy, 21.2, 24.1

Huntzinger, Gen. Charles

Hussein, Mustapha

Hutchinson, Charles

Hynes, Samuel

Ibbotson, Joan

Ichigo, Operation, 17.1

Ichizo, Hayashi

Ieronymos, Archbishop

Ignatov (Russian officer)

Iki, Cmdr. Haryushi

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