constitution; adopts basic law; elections (August 1949)
Germans: minorities in non-German states; ordered to visit concentration camps; suicides after defeat; Czech atrocities against; expelled from central and eastern Europe; resettlement; in Poland; abducted to develop industry in Russia; work for Allies; expelled from Austria; property assets and restitution; disbelieve atrocity stories about Nazis
Germany: wartime casualties; and Atlantic Charter; divided between Allies; proposed division into small states; Allies demand unconditional surrender; destruction of towns and cities; evacuates prisons; industrial plant removed; forms interim government under Dönitz; surrenders (8 May 1945); communists in; Allied fraternising forbidden; policy in Czechoslovakia; internal deportations; Soviet administrative structure in; wine plundered; industrial survival; US policy on; currency reformed and stabilised; French changing policy on; Allied disputes over industrial activity; literary revival; Jews in; and collective guilt; starvation policy in; food riots and demonstrations; plague of wild boars; prisoners of war; military organisation and command; tries Nazi war criminals; lawyers absolved of Nazi crimes; dissolved as independent nation; discussed at Potsdam Conference; divided at Potsdam Conference; boundaries; severe winter (1946-7); Transitional Law passed (1947); split into East and West; economic recovery; proposed rearmament; effects of war and peace settlement on
Gernrode, Saxony
Gerö, Dr Joseph
Gertner, Wolfgang
Gessner, Adrienne
Gibson-Watt, Andrew
Gilbert, Felix
Gimborski, Cesaro
Gladow, Werner
Glasenbach, Austria
Glaser, Kurt
Glatz, Silesia
Gleiwitz, Silesia
Glum, Friedrich
Goebbels, Joseph: hopes for Western Allies to attack Russians; predicts rape by Red Army; on killing of Oppenhof; and behaviour of occupying Russians; body found; suicide; propaganda films; Rhineland origins; and Furtwängler; Attlee believes in Soviet hands; on ‘iron curtain’
Goebbels, Magda
Goedde, Petra: GIs and Germans
Gofman, K.
Gollancz, Sir Victor; The Ethics of Starvation ; In Darkest Germany
Gomułka, Władisław
Gorbatov, Colonel-General Boris
Gordow, General
Göring, Edda
Göring, Emmy
Göring, Hermann: four-year economic plan; and satire; protects Karajan; property houses Jewish DPs; art collection; capture and trial at Nuremberg; attitude to colleagues; suicide; and Winifred Wagner; on dissolution of Allied coalition
Görlitz
Gotthelft, Ille
Gottschee
Gouliga, Captain Alexander
Graf, Willi
Grass, Günter: xiii, 249; Im Krebsgang ; The Tin Drum
Graz
Great Escape (Stalag Luft III, Silesia)
Greece: population transfer with Turks; communists in; in US sphere of influence
Greene, Graham
Greene, Hugh Carleton
Gregor, Carl
Greifenberg
Greisser, Arthur
Grese, Irma
Griehsel, Max
Griessmann, Erika
Grillparzer, Franz
Grimm, Dr Carl
Grimm, Eduard
Grinberg, Zalman
Grisebach, August
Grisebach, Hanna
Gros, Professor (of France)
Grosz, George
Grotewohl, Otto
Group
Gruber, Karl
Gruenther, General Alfred
Grünberg, Lower Silesia
Gründgens, Gustaf
Grüssau monastery, Silesia
Grynspann, Herschel
Günsche, Otto
Günter, Prince von Schönburg-Waldenburg
Günther, Marianne
Gusen concentration camp
Gutmann, Rudolf
Guyot (French torturer)
Habe, Hans (Janos)
Habermas, Jürgen
Habsburg, Karl Ludwig von
Habsburg, Otto von
Habsburg, Robert von
Hackmüller (Baldur von Schirach’s secretary)
Haffner, Sebastian
Hague Conventions
Hahn, Otto
Halder, General Franz
Halem, Nikolaus von
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood t Earl of
Hamburg: destruction; British in; accommodation shortage
Hamelin
Hammerstein-Equord, Baron
Hammerstein-Equord, Colonel-General Kurt von
Hanke, Gauleiter Karl
Hanover; liberated and occupied
Harcourt, Robert d’
Hardenberg, Graf Carl-Hans von
Hardman, Rev. Leslie
Harriman, Averell
Harris, Air Marshal Sir Arthur
Hartheim concentration camp
Harwood,
Kit Tunstall, R.E. Saxton