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Roslavl 171
Ross, James A. 397
Rostock 434
Rostov-on-Don 175, 176, 184, 299, 315, 316, 319, 334, 338, 540
Rothkirch und Trach, General Count Edwin von 496
Rothmund, Heinrich 113
Rotmistrov, General Pavel 421–2
Rotterdam 53, 55, 58, 430
Rouen 439
Roundup, Operation 302
Royal Air Force see RAF
Royal Artillery 579
Royal Australian Navy 565
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 454
Royal East Kent Regiment (Buffs) 579
Royal Navy: aircraft carriers 36, 37, 40, 43, 44, 126, 362;
and Allied Normandy landings 468–9;
Altmark incident 38;
Crete campaign 126–7;
Dunkirk evacuation 65, 66;
grant of American destroyers 87, 130;
Home Fleet 92, 99, 468–9;
Italian campaign 394, 396;
loss of naval bases in Ireland 115;
losses 37, 40, 43, 44, 65, 126, 203, 362, 373, 396;
North African campaigns 121, 285, 588;
Norway campaign 38–9, 40–41, 41–2;
Pacific campaign 203, 571;
relations with Army 42–3;
scuttling of Graf Spee 37, 358;
sinking of French fleet at Oran 77, 92, 306; see also Admiralty (British); Arctic convoys; Atlantic, battle of the
Royal Nepalese Army 271
Royal Norfolk Regiment 64
Royal Oak, HMS 36, 357
Royal Warwickshire Regiment 64, 282
Royal West Kent Regiment 271, 272
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry 296
RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) 90, 242
rubber 198, 213, 352
Ruge, Otto 41, 43
Ruhr 22, 432, 498, 502, 503, 504, 514;
bombing of 430, 432, 440, 441–2
Rumbula 226
Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von: and Allied invasion of Normandy 462–3, 472, 473, 476, 477, 479, 486, 594–5;
and Ardennes Offensive 503, 504, 507, 508, 510;
created field marshal 75;
and Hitler’s views on Britain 90;
invasion of France 60, 61, 62, 63, 586, 587;
invasion of Poland 18, 21, 410;
invasion of USSR 142, 143, 153, 159, 173, 175;
invasion of Vichy France 306;
relations with Hitler 175, 299, 479, 513–14, 540, 582, 595;
war crimes 227, 584;
Western Front 500–501, 540, 595, 596
Rupprecht, Prince of Bavaria 75
Russia see USSR
Russian Civil War (1917–23) 154, 163, 332
Russo-Japanese neutrality pact (1941) 268, 382
Russo-Polish War (1920–21) 25, 26, 154
Ruweisat Ridge 281, 282, 290
Ryder, Major-General Charles W. 306
Rye 65
Ryuku Islands 569
SA (Sturmabteilung; Brownshirts) 1, 28
Saarbrücken 53
Saarland 23, 499, 507
Sackar, Josef 230–31, 233, 234
Safirsztajn, Regina 232
St Paul’s School, London 451
St Vith 505, 596
Saint-Lô 486
Saint-Nazaire 72, 358, 587
Saint-Omer 60
Saint-Quentin 57
Saipan 260, 573
Saladin 146
Salerno landings (1943) 378–81, 395, 400, 403, 461
Salla 31
Salò, Republic of 405
Salzburg 147
Samara river 175
San Francisco 190
San Pietro Infine 385–8
San river 17
Sangro river 385
Sarajevo 124, 541
Saratoga, USS 189, 258
Sardinia 309, 346, 375, 376, 386
Sarmiento, Commander Antonio 347
Sartre, Jean-Paul 79
Sato, Lieutenant-General Kotoku 270, 271, 272, 273–4
Saturn, Operation 334
Sauckel, Fritz 138, 548
Saving Private Ryan (film) 474
Savo Island, battle of (1942) 258
Scalabre (French lieutenant) 72
Scapa Flow 36, 39, 357, 361
Schacht, Hjalmar 583
Schaefer, Lieutenant-General Hans 494–5
Scharnhorst (cruiser) 40, 41, 43, 44, 353, 354, 358, 359, 592;
sinking of 351, 364, 369
Scheldt, River 498, 499, 500, 503, 540
Schellenberg, Walter 90
Schepke, Lieutenant Joachim 357
Schiller, Friedrich 608
Schleswig Holstein (training ship) 21
Schlieffen, Count Alfred von 19, 48, 136–7, 167, 543
Schmid, Colonel ‘Beppo’ 98, 108, 587
Schmidt, General Arthur 342, 343
Schmidt, Hans Thilo 347, 369
Schmidt, Second Lieutenant Heinz Werner 292
Schmidt, Otto 6
Schmidt, Paul 15
Schmundt, General Rudolf 166, 482
Schörner, Field Marshal Ferdinand 492, 498, 531, 548, 553, 596
Schrecklichkeit policy 27
Schroeder, Christa 482, 590
Schulenburg, Count Friedrich Werner von der 155
Schuschnigg, Kurt von 10, 605
Schütte, Lieutenant Artur 415, 420
Schutzstaffel see SS
Schutzstaffeln, Die (SS brochure) 28
Schweinfurt 444
science 573–5, 608
Scoones, Lieutenant-General Geoffrey 269
Scotland 145
SD (Sicherheitsdienst; German security police) 28, 239, 242, 243
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