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surrender 73–4; see also Free French; French Resistance; Vichy France
Franco, General Francisco 4, 112–13, 347
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) 14, 53, 57, 74, 137, 227, 581
Frank, Anne 476
Frank, Hans 77
Frankfurt 444, 498
Frankl, Viktor 237, 238
Frankland, Noble 432
Fraser, Sir Bruce (later 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape) 577
Fraser, George MacDonald 212–13, 266, 572, 576;
Quartered Safe Out Here 213, 564, 566, 578
Fraser, Peter 126
Fredendall, Major-General Lloyd R. 306, 310, 311, 312
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor 146
Frederick II ‘the Great’, King of Prussia 14, 562, 586
Free French 72, 74, 81, 131, 134, 290, 389, 477, 488, 490
Free Greek Brigade 290
Freienwalde Castle 596
Freikorps (paramilitary militia) 20, 241
French Foreign Legion 43
French Indo-China 186, 190, 203, 207
French Resistance (Maquis) 79, 81, 82–3, 85, 117, 470, 471, 489;
reprisals against 479–80
Freud, Sigmund 91
Freyberg, Major-General Bernard (later 1st Baron Freyberg) 125, 126–7, 290, 296, 388, 389
Friedländer, Saul 249
Fritsch, General Werner von 5, 6, 7, 410
Fritzsche, Hans 583
Fromm, General Friedrich 196, 581–2
Fry, Richard 112
Fry, Stephen 441
Fuchida, Captain Mitsuo 185–6, 191, 192, 251, 253, 254, 255
Führer conferences, verbatim reports from 511–13
Führer Directives: No.16 93, 108;
No.17 94;
No.18 144–5;
No.21 145, 148, 151, 152–3, 154, 166, 601;
No.23 354, 355
Fuka 295, 297, 299, 301
Fuller, J. F. C. 343
Funk, Walther 151, 196, 548, 582
Furious, HMS 40
Furness, Lieutenant Dickie 65–6
FUSAG (First US Army Group) 463, 470
Gabčik, Josef 242–3
Gains, Private J. R. G. 579
Gajowoniczek, Franciszek 237
Galland, Colonel Adolf 95, 96, 101, 106, 445–6, 586, 600
Gallipoli Expedition (1915) 46, 211, 301, 394, 461
Gällivare 38, 39, 44
Gamelin, General Maurice 23, 55–6, 59, 76
Garby-Czerniawksi, Roman 470
García, Juan Pujol 470
Garda, Lake 405
Gargagno 405
Gari river 387
Garigliano river 385, 387
Garson, Greer 105
gas chambers 224, 226, 227, 228–32, 234, 236, 240, 495
Gatehouse, Major-General Alec 291
Gaulle, General Charles de:
appearance and character 71, 488;
and German invasion of France 59, 73;
head of Free French in London 72, 81, 488;
ingratitude to British 488;
and liberation of Paris 488, 489–90;
rivalry with Giraud 309;
on Stalingrad 345;
in Supreme War Council 71
Gavuth 257
Gazala 133–4
GCCS (Government Code and Cypher School) see Bletchley Park
Gda–sk see Danzig
Gdynia see Gotenhafen
Gee (radio-based navigational device) 447
Geheimschreiber (cipher machine) 347, 350
Gela 376
Genda, Commander Minoru 191, 192
General Strike (Britain; 1926) 46
Generalplan-Ost 240
Geneva Convention 25, 279, 582, 585
Gensoul, Admiral Marcel 92
George VI, King 46, 102, 104, 463, 600
Georges, General Alphonse 55, 56, 57
Georgia 164
German air force see Luftwaffe
German army: effectiveness of 24–5, 54, 548, 554, 599, 603;
executions for cowardice and desertion 553–4;
High Command see OKH;
Hitler’s expansion of 4;
losses 160, 175, 376, 426, 520, 532, 534, 548, 562, 603;
manpower shortages 529;
oath of loyalty to Hitler 2, 3, 9, 483;
purged following Fritsch affair 6–7, 410;
reorganization of divisions (1944) 529;
unprepared for winter crisis on Eastern Front (1941–2) 176, 177–80; see also Army Groups (German); individual field armies, divisions and regiments
German High Command see OKW
German navy see Kriegsmarine
Germany: Allied advance into 501–3, 513–14, 520, 596;
Allied bombing of 35, 103, 105, 106, 429–60, 503, 533, 586, 602;
Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935) 9;
Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) 5;
anti-Semitism in 220–21, 226;
compulsory military service adopted 4;
declaration of war on United States 176, 193–7, 589–90, 598;
economy 151, 432, 441–2, 459, 562;
emigration 221, 223, 574;
failure of close Axis alliance 140, 195, 589;
German–Polish non-aggression treaty (1934) 9, 17;
labour shortage 139;
Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939) 10, 25, 26, 29, 149, 151, 539, 603;
Pact of Steel with Italy (1939) 9;
post-war 383, 562, 578;
public morale 458, 459;
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