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surrender 521, 560, 570–71, 598;
total civilian losses 562;
Tripartite Pact (1940) 124, 193, 589–90
Germany First policy 130, 214, 302–3, 461, 564, 589, 605–6
Gerow, General Leonard 467, 475, 476, 505
Gertner, Ala 232
Gestapo 10, 83, 222, 242, 243, 348, 478, 544, 554, 557
Gibraltar 84, 149, 304, 305, 307, 351, 363, 417, 463–4, 588
Gibson, Wing Commander Guy 264, 441
Gide, André 84
Gilbert Islands 201
Gilbert, (Sir) Martin 464
Gipsy, HMS 36
Giraud, General Henri 53, 55, 309
Giraud, Marie-Louise 81
Giulino di Mezzegra 405
Glasfurd, Commander C. E. 43
Glasgow 35, 102, 103, 576
Glasgow, HMS 40, 468
Gleiwitz 10, 242
gliders 55, 126, 265, 266, 396, 405, 465, 470–71
Globocnik, Odilo 242
Glorious, HMS 40, 43, 44
Gneisenau (cruiser) 40, 41, 43, 44, 353, 354, 358, 359, 364, 592
Gockel, Franz 474
Goebbels, Joseph: and Allied bombing of German cities 444;
and Allied Normandy landings 472;
on Britain 379;
character 23;
Hitler’s birthday broadcast 514;
on Hitler’s military ‘genius’ 49–50, 416;
and Hitler’s tour of Paris 180;
and invasion of USSR 150, 160;
and ‘Jewish Question’ 224, 249;
last days in the bunker 562;
and Mussolini 405;
on North African campaigns 308;
at Obersalzberg 147;
propaganda machine 104, 416;
suicide 560, 562–3;
winter clothing appeal 177
Goebbels, Magda 563
Goerdeler, Carl 483, 484
gold 213
Gold beach 467, 476
Gold Standard 46
Goldensohn, Leon 497, 510
Golikov, General Filip 155
Gomel 166, 170
Gore, Lance-Corporal R. 579
Göring, Hermann: aircraft production 446;
and Allied bombing of Germany 432, 438–9, 445–6;
announcement of existence of Luftwaffe 4;
and battle of Britain 100, 103, 106;
and Blomberg–Fritsch affair 6;
and extermination of Jews 242;
failures of 587;
and Hitler’s plans for expansion in Europe 5;
house in Obersalzberg 146;
and invasion of France 61–2, 67, 587;
and invasion of Poland 24;
and July Bomb Plot 482, 485;
Karinhall (country house) 93, 106, 513;
as military strategist 93;
and naval war 355;
and planned invasion of Britain 92, 93, 100;
on possibility of losing war 15, 512–13;
and Stalingrad 335–6, 587;
trial 510;
views on Hitler’s military ‘genius’ 142
Gorishny, Colonel V. A. 331, 333
Gorodishche 158
Gorovets, Lieutenant Alexei 423
Gort, John Vereker, 6th Viscount 22, 53, 56, 60, 65
Gotenhafen (Gdynia) 360, 364, 549
Gothic Line 402, 403, 404
Gott, Lieutenant-General William ‘Strafer’ 122, 281–2
Goudy, Lieutenant Harry 277
Government Code and Cypher School see Bletchley Park
Govorov, General L. A. 528
Gracey, Major-General Douglas 571
Gradowski, Zalman 233
Graf Spee (battleship) 37, 353, 358
Grant (Allied tank) 198, 285, 295
Gravelines 60
Graziani, Major Rodolfo 120, 121, 123
Grazier, Able Seaman Colin 368
Great Britain see Britain
Great Depression 196, 214
Great War: Caporetto, battle of 59;
casualty rates 435;
Churchill and 46, 461, 499;
Eastern Front 148;
France in 48, 53, 54, 75, 76;
Gallipoli Expedition 46, 211, 301, 394, 461;
German generals’ service 20, 409–10;
German surrender 74;
Hitler’s service 15, 20, 607;
Marshall on 603;
Schlieffen plan 48, 136;
Somme, battles of 390, 393;
stab-in-the-back myth 484;
United States in 193–4;
Verdun, battle of 58, 80, 415;
war at sea 35, 94, 210, 361; see also Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918); Versailles Treaty (1919)
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 188, 206, 207–8
Greece: alliance with Britain 87;
anti-Communists 117;
deportation of Jews 228;
German invasion 9, 119, 125, 134, 140–41, 149, 150, 587, 602;
German occupation 127, 540–41;
Italian invasion 122–3, 123–4;
post-war 546, 562
Greenwood, Arthur 4
Grenadier Guards 395, 396
Gretton, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter 356, 370–71
Griffin, Corporal J. J. 579
Grigg, (Sir) James (P. J.) 51, 557
Grohé, Joseph 438–9
Grossdeutschland Division 416, 419, 424, 520
Grossman, Vasily 320–21, 322–3, 325, 326
Grot, SS Staff Sergeant Paul 234
Groves, General Leslie 573
Grozny 319, 527
Gruenther, Major-General Alfred M. 402
Gruhn, Margarethe 6
Guadalcanal campaign (1942