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USSR: Allied aid 128, 174, 176, 194, 364–5, 366, 411, 551;
bombing of 105, 173, 174, 459;
conscription 156–7;
cruelties and inefficiencies of regime 163–4, 183–4, 590;
declaration of war on Japan 571, 577;
forced relocation of ethnic Germans 184;
German invasion see Barbarossa, Operation;
German occupation 522;
industrial base moved eastwards following German invasion 182–3;
Jews in 148, 222–3;
nationalism in 163–4;
Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939) 10, 25, 26, 29, 149, 151, 539, 603;
non-aggression pact with Japan (1941) 186, 382;
non-aggression treaty with Finland (1932) 30;
partisans 159–60, 599;
Russo-Japanese neutrality pact (1941) 268;
Soviet Information Buro (Sovinform) 524;
territorial gains 561–2;
Third Communist International 5;
total civilian losses 556–7;
Winter War with Finland (1939–40) 29–34, 114, 143, 154, 171, 323, 587; see also Red Army; Soviet Air Force; Soviet Navy
Utah beach 464, 467, 473, 474
V-1 flying bombs 110, 485, 498, 514–19, 595
V-2 rockets 110, 114, 485, 498, 514–19, 586, 595, 596
Valčik, Josef 242–3
Valenciennes 52
Valmontone 400, 401–2
Vandergrift, Major-General Alexander A. 257, 259
Vasilevsky, Marshal Alexandr 414, 539
Vatican 112, 388, 390–91; see also Catholic Church
Vatutin, General Nikolai 412, 414, 417, 418, 421, 529
Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford 395
VE Day (Victory in Europe Day; 8 May 1945) 520, 571, 604
Veldenstein Castle 438, 439
Venlo 348
Venomous, HMS 104
Verdun 72
Verdun, battle of (1916) 58, 80, 415
Verlaine, Paul 471
Vermork 117
Versailles Treaty (1919) 3, 4, 7, 18–19, 20, 37, 353
Viborg see Viipuri
Vichy 74
Vichy France: Anglophobia 84;
anti-Jewish measures 78, 81–2;
armed forces 81, 84, 92;
autonomy of 77–8;
death sentence on de Gaulle 72;
deferrence to Germany 80–81;
establishment of 74, 77;
German invasion 306;
internment of ‘enemies of the state’ 82;
Milice (paramilitary police) 81–2;
and North African campaigns 305–6, 307, 308–9, 311
Vickers Wellington (bomber) 438
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy 376, 600
Victorious, HMS 362
Vienna 7, 16, 180, 220, 549, 562
Vietinghoff, General Heinrich von 378, 382, 402, 404, 405, 591, 597
Vietnam War 435
Viipuri 30, 34, 171
Vilnius 226
Vincennes 56
Vincennes, USS 258
Vistula river 17, 230, 534, 544
Vitebsk 161, 533
Volga Fleet 329
Volga, River 315, 317, 319, 320, 321, 325, 329, 331, 335, 599
Volga–Archangel line 151, 315
Volga Canal 175
Volga Germans 184
Volgograd see Stalingrad
Volkhov Front 528
Völkischer Beobachter (Nazi Party newspaper) 3
Volkssturm (German home guard) 554, 607
Voltaire 24
Volturno river 383, 387
Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five 455–6
Voronezh 316
Voronezh Front 334, 412, 414, 418, 420, 424–5
Voroshilov, General Klementi 154, 161, 323
Vosges 503
Vyazma 171, 173
Waffen-SS (SS combat arm) 28–9, 177, 243, 419, 420, 537, 554, 590;
and battle for Berlin 553–4;
crushing of Warsaw Uprising (1944) 536, 537–8;
reprisals against French Resistance 479–80;
II SS Panzer Corps 421, 422, 424;
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich 419, 424, 479–80;
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler 64, 419, 424;
Totenkopf (Death’s Head) regiments 27, 28, 64, 419, 424, 480
Wagner, Cosima 220
Wagner, Richard 548
Wagner, Walter 559
Wajcblum, Ester 232
Wake Island 189, 191, 201
Wallenius, General Kurt 32
Wallwork, Staff Sergeant Jim 470–71
Wannsee conference (1942) 238–40
War of 1812 532
War Cabinet (British) 68–9, 122–3, 125, 207, 257, 308–9, 397, 417, 436–7, 452, 485–6, 501, 556, 557–8
War Department (United States) 246, 305, 465
War Office (British) 51, 69, 77, 117, 132, 203, 437
War Refugee Board (United States) 247, 248
Ward, Major-General Orlando 311
Ward, USS 185
Ward Price, G. 3
Warlimont, General Walter 62, 285, 328, 371, 584, 594
Warsaw 16;
bombing of 430;
German capture of 18, 19, 23–4, 26, 27, 61;
ghetto 221, 243–4, 536;
Russian takeover 538, 542, 544;
Uprising (1944) 245, 248, 489, 534, 536–9
Warspite, HMS 126
Warwickshire Yeomanry 296
Washington Conferences (1941–2) 134, 199, 214;
(1943; ‘Trident’) 375, 393, 440
Wasp, USS 189, 258