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Vital Speeches of the Day
,
169

Vlasov, Andrei,
18–19
,
114

Vlasov Army,
8
,
18–21
,
22
,
46
,
102
,
114
,
130

NTS and,
221

revisionist ideas about,
158
,
159
,
230

veterans of,
157
,
224
,
224
n
.,
225
n
.

Kennan and,
85
,
88
,
99
,
141
,
157

revival of,
85
,
87
,
99

U.S. military strategy and,
138
,
141

Voice of America,
89
,
90
,
101
,
104
,
108
,
134
,
237

Volga Germans,
77

von Bolshwing, Otto,
xiii
,
246
,
252–60
,
262

von Braun, Wernher,
30–31
,
32
,
33
,
37
,
38

von Manstein, Erich,
14
,
14
n
.

von Radetsky, Waldemar,
24

von Stauffenberg, Claus,
86

Vorkommando,
47

Waffen SS,
7
,
7
n
.–8
n
.,
18
,
20
,
24
,
43
,
130
,
136
,
162
,
206

veterans of,
157
,
204
,
207
,
229
,
270
,
280
,
285–86
,
287

in East German government,
19
n
.

NSC directives leading to immigration of,
201
,
202
,
203

ratline for Ukrainian legion of,
180
,
180
n
.–81
n
.

U.S. military and,
138
,
143
,
144
,
145
,
146–48
,
204
,
211
,
215

Waldheim, Kurt,
283

Wallace, DeWitt,
127

Wannsee Institute,
48
,
48
n
.,
50
,
50
n
.,
51

Poppe at,
119
,
122–23

War Department, U.S.,
33
,
34
,
35
,
37
,
56
,
82
,
195

Military Intelligence Service (MIS),
56
,
57

War Powers Act,
91

Warsaw Ghetto rebellion,
20

Washington Post
,
214
,
276

Wehrmacht (German army),
8
n
.,
17
,
18
,
19
n
.,
23
,
41
,
86
,
87
,
119
,
158

veterans of, in U.S. guerrilla force,
146–48
,
214

Werth, Alexander,
15
,
19

Western Europe,
59
,
190
,
244

Soviet military threat to,
55–56
,
57
,
59–63

U.S. covert operations in,
89–95

West Germany,
39
,
53
,
54
,
55
,
115–16
,
146
,
210–11
,
249

Defense Ministry,
14
n
.

intelligence service,
260
,
261–62

pressure to ease war criminal's sentences from,
190–91

Social Democratic party,
146
,
147
,
148

see also
East Germany; Germany

Wev, Bosquet,
6
,
36–37

Whitten, Les,
273

Wiesenthal, Simon,
288

Winant, John G.,
88–89

Wise Men, The
(Isaacson and Thomas),
218

Wisner, Frank,
5
,
8–9
,
42
,
42
n
.–43
n
.,
90
,
100–101

breakdown of,
288–89

as head of OPC,
103
,
104
,
126
,
132
,
145–46
,
149
,
171–72
,
194
,
195
,
249
,
263

Hungarian uprising and,
264
,
266
,
288

NSC directives expanding CIA power and,
199
,
201–202
,
203

Witsell, Edward,
213–14

Wolff, Karl,
40
,
92
,
94
n
.,
236

World Affairs
,
223

World Federation of Cossack National Liberation Movement of Cossackia,
274

World Latvian Association,
206

Wright Field (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base),
27

Yad Vashem archives,
163

Yale University Political Union,
169

Yalta agreements,
41
,
75
,
240
,
241

Yarrow, Bernard,
126

Ylitalo, Ray,
236
,
237
,
241

Yoroshilov, Kliment Y.,
152
n
.

Yugoslavia,
75
,
78
,
80
,
86
,
90
,
187
,
197
,
198
,
272

assassinations in wartime,
148
,
149

secret service,
197

see also
Ustachis

Yugoslavs,
212

Zannuck, Darryl,
126

Zegners, Janis L.,
143–44

Zeiss company,
31

Zenkl, Peter,
131

Zinnkann, Heinrich,
146

Zionism,
253
,
254

About the Author

Christopher Simpson is a veteran reporter, historian, and analyst who teaches at American University's School of Communication in Washington, DC. His work has won national awards for investigative journalism, history, and literature, and has been published in more than a dozen languages. Current study includes technology, democracy, revolution, and peer learning.

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