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I
NDEX

accounting, false,
35
,
149
,
166

Acheson, Dean,
159

Adenauer, Konrad,
108
,
176
; on Berlin death rate,
199
; condemns expulsions,
181
; government’s surveys of missing persons,
74
,
77
,
124
,
188–9
,
207
; as Lord Mayor of Cologne,
167
; moderate statistics of,
107
,
113–14

Adourian, Alex,
66

agriculture, German: loss of farmlands,
91
,
94
; production,
148–9
,
150
,
158
,
203

Albrecht, Hans,
34
,
87

Aldington, Lord (Toby Low),
72
,
73

Algen, Aloyus,
161

Allard, Henry W.,
29
,
59–60

Allensworth, John,
46

Allied Control Council,
111
,
114
,
115
,
117

Alt-Wette,
112

Ambrose, Stephen E.,
78
,
80
,
175

American Relief Administration (ARA),
9
,
13
,
137

anarchy,
173

Andernach,
41
,
44

Anders, Wladyslaw,
71

Anderson, Clinton,
139
,
142
,
152
,
153

Anglo-Saxon militarism,
21
,
39

anti-Semitism,
10
,
104

ARA, see American Relief Administration

Arbeiterwohlfahrt,
151

archives, Soviet, see CSSA

archives, Western,
84
,
179

Argentina,
135
,
139
,
142
,
170

Asquith, Herbert,
3
,
4–5

Atlantic Charter,
127
,
170

atomic secrets,
180

Augsburg,
118
,
149
,
200

Aurich camp,
84

Ausschuß für Kriegsgefangenenfragen,
76
,
189
,
207–9

Aussig,
100

Australia,
135
,
139

Austria: complaint against Canadian troops,
84
; death rate,
118
,
198
; food rations,
143
,
152
; and Hoover’s food relief,
160
; mass graves,
45
,
103
; ‘transfer’ of prisoners to,
56–7
,
58

Bad Kreuznach,
198
,
203
; prison camp,
44–5
,
46
,
50
,
51
,
55

Baikal–Amur railway,
66

Balfour, A. J.,
12

BAM line,
66–7

Bavaria,
41
,
100
,
157

Behnke, Albert R.,
89
,
126

Beketovka Gulag,
64

Belgium,
152–3
,
154
; and First World War blockade,
3–6
,
139
; and Second World War blockade,
86–7

Beria, Lavrenty,
133
,
205–6

Berlin,
4
,
23
,
34–6
,
94
,
143
,
153
,
159
,
161
,
164
,
177
,
186
,
198
,
199
,
201–2

Berwick, Lee,
44
,
45
,
50–1

Bevin, Ernest,
158

Biebelsheim camp,
50

Birkenau,
106

birth rates,
109
,
116
,
118
,
122
,
185

Bitter, Dr Margarethe,
76–7
,
124
,
188
,
189
,
207
,
208

Bizone: feeding programme,
156

Blum, Léon,
153

Boehme, Kurt W.,
57
,
76
,
208

Bonhöffer, Dietrich,
133

Bonn,
46
,
157
,
198
,
200–1

Brandenburg,
94
,
190

Braun, Harry G.,
80

Brech, Martin,
41
,
44
,
45–6
,
194

Bretzenheim camp,
44–5
,
49–51
,
53
,
55–6
,
103
,
204

Brilon,
118–9
,
198
,
199

Britain: accusations against USSR,
76
; archives,
84
; army reports
201–2
; diplomacy between wars,
17
; food production,
144
; forced labour in,
58
; military power in 1945,
24
; official attitude to food parcels,
158
; post-war diet,
153
; power of,
21
; and re-education,
67
; relations with USSR,
17–18
,
21–2
,
23–4
; Select Committee on Estimates,
145–6
; and White Russians,
72–3
,
133

British zone of Germany: death rate in,
32–4
,
35
,
118
,
119
,
201–2
; food rations in,
110
,
119
,
143
; food relief in,
154–5
,
156
; refugees in,
115
; starvation in,
32–4
,
35
,
90
,
91

Browder, Dewey,
209

Buchal, Rudi,
49
,
50–1
,
53

Buchenwald camp,
131

Buglose-Labouheyre camp,
58

Buisson, Louis,
57–8
,
181
,
187

Canada: aid to Britain,
21
,
22
,
93
,
159–60
; army report on Brilon deaths,
118
; atomic secrets stolen,
23
,
170
; behaviour of troops in Austria,
84
; food production,
146–7
; and food relief,
88–9
,
135–6
,
139
,
140
,
142–3
,
159–60
; and Nazi scientists,
131
; and re- education,
67
; refuses troops for south-east Asia,
22
; report of Legation in Warsaw,
190–1
; and USSR,
18–19
,
23
, 1323–3,
170
; see
also King, Mackenzie

Canaris, Wilhelm,
129

cannibalism,
199

‘Canossa Republic’,
176
,
178

Capehart, Homer E.,
31
,
189

CARE (Co-operative for American Remittances to Europe),
151
,
152
,
160

CCE
27
(camp in France),
47–8

censuses,
114–16
,
117
,
119–20
,
122–3
; omission of prisoners,
209–11

charities,
151
,
152
,
153–6
,
157–8

Chekhov, Anton,
65
,
167

Chichester, Bishop of,
36

children: feeding programmes for,
150–1
,
154
,
155
,
157
; Irish

programme for,
156
; mortality,
124
,

142–3
,
151
; orphaned,
155
; see also infant mortality

China,
10
,
23
,
136

Christian Century,
37–8

church,
38
,
93
,
130
; Catholic bishops (USA),
190
; Lutherans,
155
; see
also priests

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer: and Dutch famine,
86
,
88–9
; First World War policies,
3
,
4–5
,
6
,

14–15
; and Katyn massacre,
72
; and Morgenthau Plan,
27
,
28
; persuades Free Poles to return,
133
; on plot to kill Hitler,
130–1
; and USSR,
18–19
,
20
,
21
,
25
,
65
,
166

civilians: estimated German deaths,
188–9
; information sources,
204
; prisoners in USSR,
74
,
80
,
206
; see
also expulsions

Clark, Mark,
56–7
,
58
,
59–60
,
118–9
,
201

Clark, Ramsey,
171

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